"I was only a few seconds late, and the battle was already over. Ryan is truly terrifying... It's a good thing he's on our side, otherwise we might as well just slit our throats..."
Strange let out a heartfelt sigh.
After extracting two souls, Ryan grabbed the sleeping soul of Norman. After injecting an orange light into it, he threw it right back into Norman's body.
Seeing this, the Green Goblin realized something was amiss and also tried to dive back into a body.
But Ryan was not Batman. Facing a clown like the Green Goblin, he wouldn't let it go time and time again.
Therefore, with his left hand covered in orange light, Ryan slapped directly across, blowing the Green Goblin's soul to smithereens!
If the original Green Goblin antidote still left a possibility for the Green Goblin personality to recur inside Norman in the future...
Then Ryan's approach of directly shattering the Green Goblin's soul completely resolved the source together, eliminating any possibility of recurrence.
Furthermore, unlike the antidote made by the original which cleared the Green Goblin personality by directly stripping away the human enhancer abilities Norman injected into himself,
Ryan's slap not only killed Norman's Green Goblin personality, but even preserved Norman's body enhanced by the human enhancer!
"You are..."
At this moment, Norman, whose soul was awakened after being injected with a trace of soul power by Ryan, also woke up from the ground.
He looked somewhat dazedly at Ryan before him, not understanding who he was.
"Mr. Osborn..."
At this moment, a familiar voice sounded behind Norman.
Norman's whole body stiffened, and he slowly turned his head to see the person walking up from behind.
It was the original.
Norman's look towards the original was filled with complexity: "Peter..."
He looked at the original, his fists tightening and loosening, loosening and tightening.
He hated that Harry died because of Peter, but he also felt guilty for all the harm he did to Peter under the Green Goblin personality.
Looking at Norman, Peter's heart was also filled with tears of guilt.
Because in a sense, both father and son of the Osborn family died because of him.
Seeing the real Norman once again, Peter could no longer hold back and hugged Norman.
Norman raised his hand, wanting to push Peter away, but ultimately didn't push Peter away.
And Peter slowly told Norman the whole process he hadn't had time to say before, why Harry died.
"Harry is a hero. He let go of his hatred; he saved me, saved Mary Jane, saved everyone!"
"Harry, my good boy, I failed him. I didn't set a good example for him. I also failed you, Peter, I hurt you, May, Mary Jane!"
After listening to Peter's complete narration, Norman also wept bitterly.
He learned that Harry was not killed by Peter, but died as a hero. After finding closure, he apologized to the original.
Watching the two embracing and crying.
Ryan, standing nearby exuding an invincible aura, seemed completely out of place with the two of them.
The place he appeared should be a battle scene, not this kind of emotional melodrama scene...
So Ryan chose to directly interrupt the two's emotional moment: "Alright, stop crying, it's time to part ways!"
Hearing Ryan's words, indeed neither of them cried anymore.
The original had a smile on his face: "Mr. Osborn, you can finally go home!"
Norman didn't know what he was thinking; his face wasn't all that happy.
After all... he already had nothing left in his own Universe.
"No, Norman has to come with me." Ryan suddenly spoke up.
"Ah? Why?" The original was a bit dazed.
"Because he is already dead in that Universe of yours. You don't really think that as long as he loses the Green Goblin personality, he can normally return to your World, right?" Ryan said faintly.
"Isn't that so?" The original was stunned.
Ryan said indifferently: "Of course not. Strange's understanding of the Multiverse is also half-baked. Norman doesn't belong to your time node. If he returns to your Universe, he will only return to the time node where he originally died, and then..."
Saying this, Ryan held up two fingers: "Then your timeline will be split in two, turning from one parallel timeline at two time nodes into two branches."
"Uh, meaning Mr. Osborn of my Universe isn't resurrected, but a brand new altered timeline will be generated, right?" The original guessed.
Then the original was somewhat happy: "Isn't that pretty good too? Although I still won't be able to see Mr. Osborn and Harry, at least they are still alive in another timeline!"
"Naïve!" Ryan sneered, sweeping his gaze not only towards the original, but also towards The Amazing, as well as the newly awakened Peter, and Strange: "Time is not played with like that. Do you think that if you play with time, time won't play with you?"
"You only think of the good side, but have you ever thought about the bad side?"
Hearing this, everyone's heart skipped a beat.
They really had subconsciously ignored one of the bad possibilities.
Ryan's tone became increasingly cold: "You must know that the normal time stream that a timeline can accommodate is always only one!"
"And if two different time branches are generated on a single timeline, there is only one result!"
"That is, the timeline will self-correct, eventually causing the two different time branches to collide with each other, ultimately leaving only one to survive, or even perishing together, thereby directly destroying this timeline and making it cease to exist!"
"This is the consequence of Norman returning to his Death node!"
Hearing this, everyone's blood ran cold.
If they let Norman and the others return to the normal timeline, they wouldn't be saving them, but destroying two Universes!
Thinking about it, both the original and The Amazing felt their scalps tingle.
They had almost made a huge mistake again!
"Then... what should happen to them?"
The original and The Amazing couldn't help but panic somewhat.
Ryan's lips curved slightly: "Rest assured, I'll handle it. I will bring them to my Universe. They don't belong to my Universe, so even going to my Universe won't cause a time branch. At most, they'll just be considered abnormal Universe visitors. I can still handle a small trouble like this."
"Except for Norman, actually The Lizard, Electro, and Sandman have already been sent by me to my Universe for proper onboarding... Cough cough, I mean properly accommodated."
"Now, there are only Norman and Dr. Octopus left. You two come with me, no objections, right?"
Hearing this, Norman nodded, indicating no objections.
Anyway, returning to his own Universe couldn't change anything except bringing sorrow, and it would also lead to the destruction of the entire Universe, so it was better to simply go to another Universe and check out a new World.
Dr. Octopus didn't have any objections either.
He and Norman came from the same Universe. If he returned to the time node where he died, the consequence would be the same as Norman returning. He was also unwilling to cause the destruction of the original's Universe because of himself.
"OK, a heartwarming American-style wrapped dumpling ending!" Seeing that the two had no objections, Ryan clapped his hands, feeling quite happy.
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