At the moment the metals compressed together, an ear-splitting scream tore through the air.
It was the sound of steel being violently crushed and fused together under unimaginable pressure. The friction between the layers of metal produced a high-frequency shriek that rippled through the surrounding air like expanding waves.
The vibrations spread outward in all directions.
For ordinary people, the sound alone would have caused intense nausea and chest tightness. The pressure from the sound waves was enough to make someone feel as though their organs were shaking inside their body.
Mutants, however, were naturally far more resilient.
Ethan's face remained hidden behind the strange mask, so no one could see his expression. His eyes rested calmly on Magneto.
Magneto's expression had changed yet again.
The calm confidence he had shown earlier was slowly being replaced by something heavier. The more he witnessed Ethan's abilities, the more a sense of unease crept into his mind.
With a casual wave of his hand, Ethan sent the massive metal sphere flying away.
Even after being compressed, the gigantic ball of metal remained enormous. It shot through the air before crashing into the ocean in the distance.
"Boom!"
The metal sphere measured more than thirty meters across. When such a dense mass slammed into the sea, the impact was like the detonation of a massive bomb.
A colossal wave exploded upward.
Water surged into the sky more than a hundred meters high, forming a towering wall of spray before crashing back down. Rolling waves spread outward across the ocean's surface as the sea churned violently.
The scale of the disturbance rivaled—if not surpassed—the destruction Magneto had just caused by ripping metal from the entire town.
Ethan turned his gaze back toward Magneto.
"Now that there's no metal left here," he said calmly, "what other tricks do you have?"
The moment he finished speaking, his figure vanished.
In the next instant, he appeared directly in front of Magneto.
The sudden movement shocked Magneto. Instinctively, he retreated backward at high speed. Yet no matter how quickly he moved, Ethan remained right in front of him, matching his motion perfectly.
Magneto reacted immediately.
He expanded his electromagnetic force field.
An invisible barrier formed between them, and Ethan suddenly felt resistance pressing against him. His movement slowed sharply, as if he had plunged into thick mud.
The air itself seemed to resist him.
"Hm," Ethan murmured softly. "You're quite skilled with electromagnetic force."
Magneto suddenly raised both hands high into the air.
The night sky above them was dark, but a faint layer of electrical light began flickering across his body.
Behind the mask, Ethan raised an eyebrow.
He could clearly feel the surrounding magnetic field shifting. Electromagnetic forces were moving rapidly, colliding and grinding against each other.
Tiny sparks appeared throughout the air.
As the magnetic energy intensified, those sparks gradually gathered together.
"Crackle!"
"Crackle!"
Sharp snapping sounds echoed through the air.
Several bolts of lightning formed instantly, twisting and writhing like electric serpents. With Magneto at the center, the lightning spread outward before quickly converging again.
In the next moment, the bolts shot directly toward Ethan.
The lightning exploded against his body with terrifying force.
The effect was almost identical to being struck by lightning during a storm. Enormous voltage surged through the air, carrying enough energy to incinerate flesh instantly.
Unfortunately for Magneto, Ethan had been protected the entire time.
An invisible psychic barrier surrounded him constantly.
Although the lightning appeared to strike his body, it actually collided with that barrier instead. The energy dispersed harmlessly before it could reach him.
To outside observers, however, the barrier remained invisible.
When the lightning finally faded, Ethan was still hovering calmly in the air.
Not a single mark had appeared on his body.
Magneto stared in disbelief.
"Impossible!"
His expression turned fierce.
The magnetic field around him suddenly exploded outward again. Invisible forces twisted violently through the air as new arcs of electricity began forming out of nothing.
The magnetic energy forced the currents together, shaping them into massive arcs of lightning that twisted wildly above the battlefield.
Ethan watched quietly.
He raised one hand again.
A pale crimson glow flowed along his palm before expanding outward. The energy surged forward and wrapped around the thick arcs of lightning that had already gathered.
Then Ethan waved his hand sharply.
The enormous arc formed by thousands of lightning bolts was torn apart instantly.
It was as though an invisible claw had ripped through the energy itself. The thick lightning shattered into countless tiny sparks that scattered harmlessly through the sky.
Magneto's horror deepened.
"No… impossible!"
He could not comprehend what he had just seen.
To tear apart such a high-energy electromagnetic arc with sheer power alone was beyond anything he could imagine. It directly challenged everything he believed about the limits of ability.
"There's nothing impossible," Ethan said calmly.
Before Magneto could react, Ethan's figure appeared in front of him once again.
A hand slowly extended toward him.
From Magneto's perspective, that hand seemed to grow larger and larger.
He attempted to escape.
But suddenly he realized something terrifying.
The space around him had become rigid.
It felt as though the air itself had turned into solid steel. Even the gas he needed to breathe seemed frozen in place.
He was completely immobilized.
Not only his body, but everything around him had been locked in place. A faint reddish glow surrounded him, sealing him inside an invisible prison.
Magneto could not move even a single finger.
Ethan's hand reached his head.
With a casual motion, he removed Magneto's helmet.
The strange mask—half crying, half laughing—loomed directly in front of him, radiating a chilling sense of mystery.
"Welcome," Ethan said calmly.
"You're going to be my next experiment."
As soon as the words ended, Ethan snapped his fingers.
Without the helmet that blocked telepathic influence, Magneto's mind was completely exposed.
In an instant, Ethan's psychic power struck.
Magneto lost consciousness immediately.
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