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Chapter 26 - Chapter 26 Apocalypse

Jean and I quietly returned home and to our company a few times a month. I set up personal workstations at Xavier Institute and started development of an Office software suite, leveraging my future knowledge. After six months of development with my inner universe employees, I released it along with new data formats and web-based mail system called 'E-mail.' While it was well-received, I foresaw storage issues as usage grew. Using my sage mind, I made plans to optimize hardware, increasing efficiency by 500%.

After delegating the paperwork to my staff at Phoenix Company, I returned to Xavier's School.

Using reality manipulation, I redirected money and land from various sources, making it appear as donations or legitimate transactions. I also secured funds by borrowing from the company and Xavier's personal investment, in exchange for membership interests and a preferential hiring agreement for mutants with potential. Together, we raised enough capital to build a medium-sized server farm.

The construction was completed within six months, with significant help from the mutants. I had already planned the entire setup, and once we obtained the necessary licensing and approvals, I paused the equipment installation. Using my sage mind and reality-warping abilities, I upgraded the internal systems—HVAC, backup generators, and more—boosting their efficiency by nearly 500%. I applied the same enhancements to the equipment itself, pushing computing power and storage capabilities to a staggering 3000% improvement. Although I could push these limits further, I realized I needed more knowledge in this field.

Feeling confident, I replicated the computing hardware to match the originally purchased units, down to the ID numbers in each chip, and installed them with Jean Grey's help. Some of the old hardware was sold on the black market after altering some identification numbers, with the remaining units sent to the company warehouse. As we hadn't manufactured devices ourselves, other companies quickly began producing similar hardware. Our operating system and software packages were soon licensed extensively for personal computers, office setups, and server infrastructures across the U.S. market.

Slowly but steadily, demand grew. We also transitioned to Phoenix Solutions Corporation, retaining our original company as a subsidiary LLC. According to our reports, the military had begun heavily utilizing our open-source solutions.

By 1983, Scott Summers joined the school. He was reserved and tactical. As I absorbed cosmic energy and other forms of energy into my inner universe, my strength increased during these years. My shield could now cover more than half of the Earth. Through my divine sense, I detected Magneto's energy signature following the tragic death of his daughter. I extracted both souls and protected their bodies in a time field after Magneto buried them and sought vengeance. After healing them, I returned the souls, and it was quite amusing to see them emerge from the mud (with a little help from me). I transported them to my ring world, where time was frozen.

A day later, I sensed Apocalypse and his three Horsemen appear at a factory. I teleported just outside his detection range, froze time, and casually approached to extract his genetic data and memory of celestial technology. I did the same but also sensed this pervert's consciousness stirring and quickly released the time freeze before he noticed.

"Weird... I felt like I was in a daze for a moment. What about you, my children? Did you sense anything? No?..... Well then, Erik Lehnsherr, do you seek revenge?" Apocalypse continued, oblivious to what had transpired.

The powers obtained from En Sabur Nur include multiple abilities including Telepathy, Telekinesis, Technopathy, Molecular manipulation, power augmentation, Size manipulation, consciousness transfer, energy projection etc. Only molecular manipulation and Technopathy I am concerned about. The good thing is that it doesn't need much of calculation in mind as it just happens if I wish to perform it and my body remembers the conditions of transformations needed and is purely based on physique. I don't need to make use of laws to attain the same effect. Interestingly, if I am not in physical form it won't work. My body already changed the power source for this action to innate energy in addition to ambient cosmic power and dimensional energies. The technology of celestials really helped. These included some next level stuff. But I may need to go to find his celestial device and either activate divine sense or technopathy on it. That's exactly what I did next after teleporting to Egypt. Technopathy has a weird feeling as my mind transforms to information particles which transforms again to meet the same as the technology of the device making me sort of an AI complemented with my sage mind.

I left. The next day, Mystique came to the campus to report Erik's death. a few days later Charles and Moira, a CIA officer, headed toward Cerebro. That was my cue to leave the building. Jean had already left for a party. Using my divine sense, I monitored everything. Apocalypse had located Cerebro and invaded the mansion, kidnapping Xavier. Havoc unleashed an energy beam that caused a massive explosion from Cerebro. I quickly contained the blast with a telekinetic shield but realized the mansion's structural integrity was compromised. As it began to collapse, I reinforced it temporarily while Quicksilver arrived (quite the coincidence) and evacuated everyone safely. I then telekinetically reversed the damage and materials, but the mansion was still unsafe in some areas.

I already got Quick silvers genetic information from a handshake I have given him for supporting my actions.

Jean and her group returned moments later. Not long after, William Stryker arrived.(talk about coincidence) Anticipating his actions, I immediately controlled his mind breaching his mind protection devices in force as soon as he stepped out. I commanded him and his men to leave and release Wolverine.

"Return, there's no problem here..." he ordered.

"Aye, sir..." They complied and left as swiftly as they came. With my divine sense covering the entire area, Stryker remained under my control. An hour later, Wolverine was freed. Everyone in the base had been killed by then. Once Wolverine entered my shield, my psychic power augmented, allowing me to connect with his mind. I restored all his memories and watched, observing myself from afar.

I was eventually invited to join the fight against Apocalypse. We boarded the jet, and Jean used her telekinesis to accelerate us to nearly Mach 10, protecting everyone from the force of the speed. When we arrived, Jean and I took a leisurely approach, toying with Storm as we strolled around. Jean soon left to confront Apocalypse directly, but Storm grew frustrated with my casual attitude. Seeing the ease at which I am blocking her power the black beauty asked me "Are you not concerned for your friends at all? you are playing with me."

"What is there to concern about, obviously villains fail every time. Besides, if he really known what Jean is capable of, he would have minded his own business other than to rule the world with that pitiful strength. " I replied.

I already brought out Magneto's daughter and mother near his field in secret. Magneto was stunned and even lost his control for a moment. He moved them to safe place obviously dumbfounded at their answers of "We weren't dead, yet you buried me and when we finally crawled out, we are in a battlefield."

Xavier already entered apocalypse mind to fight, seeing this Jean already did her thing by unleashing restrained phoenix force, which was multiple times stronger, even vaporized sand and formed silica glass layer below then disintegrated everything in its path.

No one received answer to why magneto's family returned from death. I already shown Jean the outcome of the event by great expanse divine Dao ability, so she finished the fight early. We went back. The mansion was rebuilt quickly. We resumed our classes. I didn't interfere when Apocalypse launched the nuclear warheads into space—quite a spectacle, really. In the aftermath, President Reagan congratulated Xavier and his team on saving the world and in destroying the enemy and stuff. Days passed since then.

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