Originally, before the major event with Apocalypse, Adam had planned to conceal his Shadow Clone ability, intending to use Shadow Clones for some secret and unknown matters in the future.
But now, he had changed his mind.
On one hand, it was because Apocalypse's strength was too great. Apocalypse possessed thousands of abilities, and had only displayed a few so far. If he didn't kill him quickly, he might be ambushed and killed by one of his abilities later.
On the other hand, he felt that after this incident, the League of Heroes's global standing would experience a leapfrog surge. In the later stages, there would be no need to hide too much to accomplish certain things.
Instead, it would be better to take advantage of this global live broadcast to make a statement, showcasing sufficiently powerful strength, letting everyone know of his power and the power of the League of Heroes.
Only then could the best publicity effect be achieved.
Therefore, what he needed to do now was to show off in the most impressive and coolest way possible, preferably turning most of humanity into his crazy fans.
"What... what is going on?"
The two sides, who were currently in a chaotic battle below, stopped fighting and froze in place as they looked at the dense multitude of Adams above.
Cloning abilities were not unheard of among Mutants; there was one person in the Brotherhood who could create hundreds of clones, and after being enhanced by Apocalypse, he could now create over a thousand clones.
However, that Mutant had no other abilities besides cloning, and his clones were just ordinary people.
But Adam was different. With Adam's strength, how could they fight if he suddenly created five thousand clones?
At this moment, even Mystique's resolve was wavering.
If there were truly five thousand Adams, then their plan could not possibly succeed. No matter how powerful Apocalypse was, he couldn't defeat five thousand Adams.
At that point, they wouldn't be facing a Adam who was severely injured after a life-and-death struggle with Apocalypse, but thousands of Adams who were mostly at full strength. Even the current Magneto plus all Brotherhood members...
could not possibly win.
"Perhaps these are all illusions, not real!"
At this moment, Mystique thought to herself.
On the other side, Magneto, floating in the air and controlling Earth's magnetic field, felt a chill in his heart as he looked at the dense multitude of Adams in the sky. His thoughts were similar to Mystique's.
And at this moment, everyone watching the live broadcast, upon seeing the sky filled with Adams, had mixed feelings of joy and worry.
The joyful ones were the ordinary people; Adam had given them hope for victory, hope for survival.
The worried ones were the enemies who intended to scheme against the League of Heroes.
"Avada Kedavra!"
Five thousand green lights shot out simultaneously, aimed directly at Apocalypse.
However, a closer look would reveal that one of them was exceptionally green, while the others were merely light green.
Over the past few years, Adam had never slackened in his research and practice of magic, and had always been attempting wandless casting.
Now, he could barely manage to cast magic without the aid of a wand.
However, a wand was not only a stabilizer but also an amplifier of magic power. The effect of magic cast wandlessly was much weaker than that cast with a wand.
The Shadow Clones he had created at this time did not have wand amplification, so the power of the Curse of Slaying they cast was naturally much smaller than when he cast it with his magic ring and adamantium alloy staff.
But even if the power was much weaker, if five thousand attacks hit simultaneously, he believed Apocalypse would definitely not survive.
Seeing the dense green lights shooting towards him, Apocalypse, who had always been arrogant, also had his pupils contract at this moment.
His powerful mental intuition told him that even he, if struck by so many soul-damaging green energies, would perish on the spot.
But with so many attacks, covering all the space around him, even if he activated his super reaction, he would definitely not be able to dodge them.
Fortunately, he had enough abilities, and instantly thought of a way to deal with it.
Suddenly, a spatial wormhole appeared behind him, and then with a step back, he directly disappeared from his original spot, causing all the Curses of Slaying to miss.
"I almost forgot this guy can open wormholes. This is troublesome now!"
Seeing Apocalypse disappear, Adam's expression also changed.
Space-related abilities were something that gave him a huge headache, because if the opponent wanted to escape, he currently had no way to stop him.
He hadn't learned Goku's Instant Transmission yet, which allows one to pursue by locking onto the opponent's ki.
Nor could he create magic arrays like those in Hogwarts that could prevent spatial movement. Perhaps Lord Voldemort's remnant soul had them, but he hadn't dealt with that remnant soul yet.
"How dare you injure me! I will kill you!"
Apocalypse reappeared, already at the tip of the Pyramid.
He roared in anger, his eyes turning white, and he fully activated his sand control ability.
In an instant, tens of millions of tons of the Pyramid disintegrated, turning into a sky full of sand particles that overwhelmingly pressed down on the five thousand Adam Shadow Clones.
"Damn, Gaara's Sand Tsunami Funeral?!"
Looking at the sky full of flying sand, Adam immediately thought of Gaara's Ninjutsu.
However, Apocalypse's scale was dozens of times larger than Gaara's.
The weakness of Shadow Clones was that they basically had no defense. If they were covered by this sandstorm, they would probably all disappear instantly.
And while the Curse of Slaying could ignore most energy defenses, it could be physically blocked. At this moment, even if he used the Curse of Slaying again, it wouldn't be able to penetrate the sky full of flying sand.
"Let's retreat!"
Seeing that the battle between Adam and Apocalypse in the air had completely exceeded their level, Mystique immediately led the Brotherhood Mutants out of the battlefield and retreated towards Magneto.
They were originally just putting on a show to prevent Apocalypse from suspecting them. Now, staying here would only get them caught in the crossfire, so retreating was logical.
Storm and the others saw Mystique and her group retreat, and quickly gathered, intending to activate their abilities to see if they could help Adam.
"Don't worry about me, you go after Mystique and them. First, find a way to interrupt Magneto's current actions. We can't let him completely control Earth's magnetic field. I can handle Apocalypse here!"
After discovering the situation below, Adam immediately instructed Storm and the others.
He vaguely felt that the mastermind of this incident seemed to be the cunning Magneto, rather than Apocalypse.
So the priority now was to stop Magneto from continuing to control Earth's magnetic field, otherwise, before he could deal with Apocalypse, Earth's civilization would already be destroyed.
Hearing Adam's command, Storm and the others gritted their teeth and quickly chased after Mystique and her group.
"Just a bit of flying sand, watch me break you!"
Five thousand Shadow Clones simultaneously struck the Turtle Hermit Style pose:
"Kamehameha!"
Five thousand ki blasts instantly illuminated the entire Cairo, breaking through the sky full of flying sand, and converging towards Apocalypse, who was controlling the sand.