CH 32: Master Mold

The group made their way through the facility and towards the underground area. Everywhere they walked, there would be the unconscious or dead bodies of Trask forces along the hallways. Some of the X-Men and Brotherhood members shot looks toward Ruler but he just ignored them.

Everyone then proceeded down a large staircase and had to walk for over 10 minutes before they reached the underground facility. There were 15 meter tall and sturdy metal doors that stood before the group.

Cyclops and Havok each unleashed a blast of pure concussive energy that blew the large door off its hinges and onto several armed men who were guarding the other side. Any Trask guard who was not crushed by the door was swiftly eliminated by the mutant forces.

The coalition made their way through the facility attacking any Sentinel or guard that stood in their way. With the X-Men present, fewer guards died that if it was just the Neo or Brotherhood but that still didn't stop the deaths from occurring.

The X-Men swore silently in their hearts to never work with the Neo again due to their violence and indifference to human life.

Suddenly, a Trask guard appeared out of nowhere and stabbed toward Ruler. Most were too surprised to react. But when the blade met Ruler's clothes, it did not pierce past his skin.

Ruler turned his head toward the guard who lost all of his courage and was currently had nothing but fear in his eyes. Before anyone could react, the guards head was instantly twisted at an unnatural angle.

It looked like the head twisted (super)naturally but those with better vision could see a small black line or cord was attached to the guard's neck for a moment before moving fast and twisting his neck. They could also see that the cord was connected to Ruler and that it was actually a tail.

If others weren't giving Ruler a suspicious or wary look before, they were definitely now. He killed the guard without any hesitation and could have obviously subdued them without killing or maybe even harming them with the way the knife was unable to even pierce Ruler's skin.

The group soon arrived at Area XVN where the Master Mold was supposed to be located. The group made their ways through the entrance but the moment they entered, they were met with the sight of over 50 sentinels but no giant sentinel factory.

Seeing that their target was not there, frustrated most because they knew how dangerous the Master Mold was.

"They had somehow found out about the plan and must have moved it at least 3 days ago because we have had Ruler on recon for that long," stated Domina before leading the Neo to charge at the sentinels.

"X-Men! Attack!" yelled Cyclops as he fired optic blast after optic blast.

Most of the mutants present did not have powerful skills for taking out a large number of opponents and were more suited to taking out a single target fast with teamwork. Seeing that almost everyone else was struggling, frustrated Ruler.

He pulled out a golden card with red highlights before crushing it.

"Let's end this, Rider."

The red-head and burly young man appeared before Ruler with his blade to his side.

"Hey, Boss. I'm guessing I need to take out those sentinels again?" questioned the over 2-meter tall man with a smile on his face.

Ruler simply nodded wordlessly. Seeing that he had the right targets, Ruler decided to end the battle swiftly since the opponents did not seem strong and he had faced them several times before.

Rider cut the air in front of him and out walked 2 large black bulls that were pulling an extravagant war chariot with blades on either side of it. The bottom of the chariot and the bulls were clad in lighting.

This was Rider's mount, the Gordius Wheel. Both the chariot and the bulls were said to be blessed by bulls and able to trample on anything that stood in their way. Rider was said to use this in his conquest to create the largest empire ever.

Those who had a moment to breathe looked at the Gordius Wheel in amazement. They were divine gifts after all and that gave them a certain air about them.

Rider hopped on the back of the chariot before yelling, "Light is at the other end of the world — conquer! Via Expugnatio!" The chariot and bulls became fully covered in lightning before disappearing.

No one saw what happened to most of the sentinels. The group in the center was flying around and shooting bullets, energy blasts, and missiles one moment while in the next, they were gone. Rider could be seen sitting in his Gordius Wheel with the bulls whining and huffing with pride.

Thirty-six of the remaining 42 sentinels were destroyed by Rider's noble phantasm. This was Rider's powerful noble phantasm. Anything that stood in his way was destroyed without leaving any trace of what was there before behind. The only weakness of the noble phantasm was the 'small' area of effect.

Rider rode the chariot around and swiftly dealt with the sentinels without activating the full effect of his noble phantasm. Even without using its full power, Rider was able to easily get rid of all the opponents.

All the mutants just looked at Rider in shock. While they had seen him in action before, seeing the Servant able to deal with large numbers of enemies they had to struggle hard to take out a single one of, still shocked them.

The groups soon came out of their shock before deciding to split up and look for any information they could gather on the possible next location of Master Mold.

After rans... searching the place for over 30 minutes, they were unable to find anything. The groups decided to split up and let their leaders work out what the next plan was.

The green mist of Junction appeared in front of the Neo everyone else enter before, Ruler felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to see the familiar blue woman.

"What do you want, Mystique?" Ruler asked. He did not mean to come off as rude. He had a decent relationship and thought highly of Magneto's number 2. But after all his time with the Neo, some of their traits rubbed off on him.

"Magneto is planning to speak with your Warclan about joining us on Genosha. I figured you were the one least likely to outright refuse so just wanted to give to a heads up. He will be meeting with you all soon."

Ruler nodded at her words. It would not be the first time Magneto had suggested it but it would be the first time he would seriously discuss it with the Neo.

'The world is getting more dangerous for mutants and Neo. I guess I need to talk to Domina so she at least does not kill the metal head.'

Ruler waved goodbye before entering the mist and disappearing.