Xia Yu walked into the Royal Council Chamber with an arrogant, leisurely pace.
King T'Chaka stared intently at the Asian youth before him. While his right hand stroked his necklace, his left hand secretly pressed the alarm button beneath the table.
"No need to press it, King of Wakanda. How could I come here alone without making any preparations?"
Xia Yu wagged his finger, and the projection screens in the council chamber instantly went dark. This scene sent a cold wind down T'Chaka's spine, chilling his heart.
"Who are you, and what do you want with me?"
Xia Yu didn't answer immediately. Instead, he looked around the council chamber, clicking his tongue in wonder. "Truly magnificent. As expected of a royal meeting place. Since it's a place for business, the soundproofing should be excellent, right?"
Hearing these words that sounded like a threat, T'Chaka tapped his necklace with his right hand. A purple glow instantly spread across his body, and a black, form-fitting battle suit appeared.
The black panther suit. Every king was both a ruler and a Guardian. They wore the black panther suit to protect their land, serving as the Guardians of Wakanda for generations.
"King, I advise you not to act rashly. You wouldn't want your guards to get hurt, would you?"
Looking at the poised Black Panther, Xia Yu spoke casually. Of course, he only said this to disturb the Black Panther's state of mind.
Nothing had happened to those guards; Xia Yu had simply used his mental abilities to let them have a good sleep. Anyway, once he enslaved the King, those guards would become his subordinates as well.
"We, the people of Wakanda, do not fear death! They are all excellent warriors, and I will use your blood to honor them!"
T'Chaka ignored the mind-disturbing words and crossed his hands over his chest. With a *shring*, black claws popped out from his fingertips.
"Tsk tsk, I wonder if Wolverine would come looking for royalty fees if he knew you were copying his classic move."
T'Chaka ignored Xia Yu's trash talk. Pushing off the ground, his figure moved like a swift black panther, arriving before Xia Yu in an instant as his claws tore through the air.
Facing the attack, Xia Yu didn't panic at all; he even felt like laughing. This feeling was just like Peter Parker facing Flash Thompson's attacks—not only could he react, but he could clearly see every strike.
His mental strength granted him extreme reaction speed, and his physical enhancement allowed him to keep up with those reactions. There would be no situation where his brain reacted but his body couldn't.
"Swish, swish, swish—!"
Xia Yu dodged every air-tearing attack from T'Chaka by mere millimeters. The more he attacked, the more powerless T'Chaka felt.
If an enemy engaged him, he could take the opportunity to gauge their strength and devise a strategy to win. But now, the enemy didn't even deign to trade blows with him.
He wouldn't even expend extra effort on dodging, moving only a few millimeters each time. From this point alone, it was clear the enemy's strength was definitely above his own.
"Swish—!"
With another sidestep, T'Chaka didn't attack again. Instead, he leaped backward, away from Xia Yu.
"What's wrong? Does Your Majesty not want to play anymore?"
The word 'play' almost made T'Chaka choke. Looking at the enemy who still wasn't even breathing hard, he couldn't help but feel a wave of discouragement.
He couldn't win. He simply couldn't win.
"What do you want?"
Even though he couldn't win, T'Chaka didn't give up. He talked to keep the enemy occupied while thinking about how to escape the council chamber and notify the Dora Milaje.
He didn't believe that if he couldn't win alone, he couldn't win with a group!
"I've come for vibranium. To be precise, for the vibranium vein—the one brought by that meteorite."
T'Chaka's heart turned cold. The other party not only knew about the vibranium vein but also about the meteorite. This was something only the high-ranking officials of Wakanda knew. Was there a traitor among them?
"I don't know what you mean. If it's vibranium, I can sell it to you, but meteorites and such are nonsense..."
"Tsk, still trying to hide it, huh!"
Xia Yu's figure flickered and suddenly disappeared. Before T'Chaka could react, a massive force suddenly struck his neck, slamming his body hard onto the floor.
With a bang, the floor was unharmed. The vibranium in the black panther suit absorbed all the impact. But before T'Chaka could release that kinetic energy, Xia Yu grabbed the necklace on the chest of the suit.
"...!"
He gave it a tug, but the necklace didn't budge. Xia Yu, holding the necklace, fell silent, and T'Chaka fell silent too.
"Fuck..."
Xia Yu let go of the necklace. As if nothing had happened, he grabbed T'Chaka's head and forced it straight.
"Look into my eyes..."
The moment he heard this, T'Chaka's eyes behind the mask snapped shut. But in the next second, a consciousness that didn't belong to him forcibly invaded his mental world.
Mental intrusion didn't actually require looking into the eyes. Xia Yu just thought that line sounded cool, so he said it casually.
The more determined a person's will, the harder it was to invade their mind. But Xia Yu wasn't just using mental intrusion; he was mixing in soul intrusion as well.
With a two-pronged approach, even someone with extraordinary mental fortitude like T'Chaka gradually had his defenses breached. Xia Yu invaded bit by bit.
Just as Xia Yu was about to complete the intrusion, his own consciousness was suddenly pulled into a desolate space. Under a grey sky was a scene of war, and he appeared on a high cliff.
"..."
Suddenly arriving in an unknown place, Xia Yu didn't panic. He immediately opened the Chat Group, and only after confirming it still worked did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"Outsider, welcome to the Ancestral Plane of Wakanda."
While Xia Yu was surveying the area, a female voice suddenly came from beside him, and a figure slowly stepped forward.
It was a Black woman dressed in a long black dress, exuding an aura of nobility and glory. She wore an Ancient Egyptian jackal-eared headpiece, both magnificent and elegant.
Her arms were covered in golden Egyptian hieroglyphic tattoos, and her right hand held an Ankh, the symbol of the key of life.
The sudden appearance of the woman made Xia Yu's whole body tense up. He hadn't sensed her arrival at all.
"I am Bast, the Panther God, the Guardian of Wakanda."
"!!!"
Holy shit? Wakanda has a god!!!
Xia Yu took a sharp breath. It was over; he had kicked a steel plate. If he had known, he would have started with friendly cooperation.
[marvel]: Brothers, there's a Panther God in Wakanda. A god, ahhhh!!!
[dark souls i]:!!!
[elden ring]:!!!
[Genshin Impact]:!!!
[nier: automata]:!!!
[dark souls iii]: Smash the repeaters! How can there be a god in Wakanda? Are we going to slay a god now? We don't have the power to slay gods yet!
[resident evil]: Are you facing the Panther God right now? Leave through the Chat Group quickly. Come back and kill her when you're stronger!
[marvel]: Not yet. The Panther God doesn't seem to have any hostility, otherwise I would've been gone just now.
Other Xia Yus:...Fuck! If you're fine, why are you screaming like a stuck pig! Scared the hell out of us.
After spreading his fright to the other Xia Yus, Marvel Xia Yu's racing heart slowed down. At that moment, the Panther God Bast spoke again.