And that was the true controller of this body now, the most powerful Scarlet Witch in the Multiverse, Wanda of the Sacred Timeline!
However, she was not in this Universe right now, but in another Universe.
In a Universe where another Dr. Strange had already died.
Wanda of that Universe opened her eyes, her eyes and face filled with tenderness: "Wait for me, children, we will truly reunite very soon. Once I gain the ability to truly and limitlessly travel the Multiverse, rather than relying on unreliable external forces, no one will ever be able to separate us again..."
Wanda looked at the Multiverse travel bracelet worn on her left wrist with a complicated expression.
During that epic battle between Ryan and the Celestials, she was actually watching from the sidelines.
She was searching for her children across various Universes and happened to find the Universe where Ryan was at that time.
She sensed Ryan's familiar and powerful aura.
Therefore, out of curiosity, she went over and, from a distance closer than anyone else, watched this battle that almost shattered her worldview.
That day, she witnessed countless Planet-destroying entities, immeasurably stronger than Thanos, appear just to deal with Ryan alone.
That day, she saw with her own eyes Ryan, alone and with a single sword, wearing a suit of silver armor, single-handedly fighting those colossal beings the size of Planets!
That day, even though she was hiding in the realm of chaos, the occasional aftermath of destructive combat sweeping past still made Wanda's skin prickle with pain.
Facing the sea-of-people tactics of those giants, no matter how strong Ryan was, two fists could ultimately not defeat a thousand foes. His silver armor burst apart, and even the Infinity Stones embedded on the silver armor shattered into fragments of various colors, piercing deeply into Ryan's flesh. The all-black the necrosword, which had severed the heads of countless giants, also snapped into two halves.
Not to mention the travel bracelet on Ryan's hand, which was the same model as hers, it had long since shattered into dust.
As for Ryan himself, he was practically dyed into a bloody human statue!
Yet even so, Wanda, hiding in the realm of chaos, could still feel Ryan's arrogant and unbridled, violent aura.
He held the broken sword, pointing at the red giant who had never made a move.
It was as if he was issuing an invitation for a final battle to Him!
And the red giant accepted his invitation!
In the end, two blood-red figures collided together.
That single blow shattered the entire stellar region, tearing space into cotton-like strips and filling the entire star system with spatial storms generated by the collision of that final blow.
Finally, when the aftermath dissipated, Wanda could no longer find Ryan's figure, leaving only the figure of the red giant with a broken sword stuck in its chest.
Ultimately, after glancing in her direction, the red giant vanished into a black hole.
And Wanda left that Universe with lingering fear.
Originally, she thought Ryan had died at the hands of the red giant in that epic battle.
Until a year after her 'family-searching' journey, she met a girl who had also traveled across dimensions in a certain Universe.
A girl who had no variants whatsoever, yet possessed the ability to freely travel the Multiverse!
Having witnessed that relying on external forces to travel was ultimately unreliable and that travel devices could be destroyed, the moment she saw this girl, Wanda made up her mind to acquire her ability!
Only by obtaining this girl's power could she ensure she would never lose the power to travel the Multiverse!
Therefore, she used the darkhold obtained from Agatha, summoning dark creatures from the Multiverse to capture this girl, chasing her across several Worlds!
But precisely because she used the power of the darkhold, when she was about to catch the girl in a certain Universe, she was detected by that Universe's Dr. Strange, who came out to spoil her good deed and protected the girl once again!
Finally, after holding back several times due to their past camaraderie as fellow Avengers, seeing that this Dr. Strange was about to obtain the Book of the Vishanti, which countered the darkhold, and wanted to seize the girl's abilities first, Wanda could no longer tolerate it and killed that annoying Dr. Strange!
But just as she controlled the dark creatures to grab the girl and prepared to seize her powers, the girl's out-of-control traveling ability activated once again.
To make matters worse, that damned Dr. Strange used his last breath to activate the magic gear, severing the tentacles of the dark creatures she controlled, allowing the girl to escape by the skin of her teeth and travel to a new Universe once again.
She immediately summoned the dark creatures closest to that Universe to hunt down the girl, thinking that this time it was finally foolproof, but she never expected someone completely unexpected to pop up midway!
That was Ryan Parker!
That guy she thought had died in the battle a year ago!
However, this Ryan Parker seemed a bit different from the one in her impression.
Although he was still very strong, he lacked that aloof sense of oppression, and instead had a sort of... liveliness and approachability that only a true Spider-Man possessed?
It was as if this was a variant of Ryan Parker.
But could an existence like Ryan Parker truly have a variant?
At least ever since she had traveled through so many Universes looking for her children, she had seen variants of many different people, but before this, she had never seen a single variant of Ryan in over a year.
Therefore...
Wanda planned to go test the waters herself.
Most importantly, if that girl was still by Ryan's side, she had to get close to him first in order to find an opportunity to strike!
And now she had discovered a brilliant opportunity!
Wanda entered the coordinates on her travel bracelet, and a red-glowing spider-web portal instantly appeared in front of her.
Wanda stepped inside gracefully, arriving in a cozy room.
"It's you~" She picked up a photo frame on the desk, her red lips curving into an eerie arc.
In the photo within the frame, a tall and handsome man was standing together with a bright and sunny girl.
However, this photo was clearly cropped, enlarged, and printed from a large group photo.
Because beside the man and the girl, other people's hands could still be clearly seen.
It was most likely cropped from a class group photo.
"Who are you? Put it down!"
Right at this moment, a cold shout came from behind Wanda.
Wanda turned around slowly, looking at the blonde girl standing at the doorway watching her with vigilant eyes.
It was precisely the girl in the photo, Gwen Stacy.
Wanda smiled slightly, lifting the photo frame in her hand: "Gwen, rather than having a secret crush, why not boldly express your feelings to him, just as bold as you are in another Universe..."
Hearing this, Gwen's gaze sharpened: "I don't understand what you're talking about, but put it down right now. My father is a Police officer, and he's right outside. The moment I shout, he'll come right over!"
Hearing the threat, Wanda's smile deepened: "Oh really, if you can manage to shout out ~"
"Mmph? Mmm-mmph-mmph!!!" Gwen immediately wanted to cry out, but the moment she opened her mouth, she realized something was wrong. Feeling around her mouth, she discovered it had become completely flat!
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