Harry Potter The Mutant Obscurus Gamer - Chapter 67

*Ping*

[New Quest: Steal the Ultimate Nullifier

-Travel to the Eye of Infinity Past the Celestial Barrier of the Region of Unlife.

*Do not touch the Heavy Anti-Electro Matter Cloud or you will die.*

-Acquire the Ultimate Nullifier within the seventh chamber in the seventh level of Galactus’s Home World.

*Do not make contact with any surface within Galactus’s Home World or you will cease to exist.*

-Have Fantastic Four Stall Galactus to buy more time.

*The longer he is stalled, the more likely he is to reduce them to their molecular essence.*]

Harry immediately Paused just so he could confirm that he read what he thought he had just read. This looked like an over the top Dungeons and Dragons Quest thought up by a Dungeon Master with a penchant for the dramatic. Eye of Infinity? Celestial Barrier of Unlife? And what the fuċk was Heavy Anti-Electro Matter?!

The Quest had a target which meant it had a target pointer. So Harry knew the direction of the target. The problem though was making a portal to a region he’d never been to required six dimensional coordinates he couldn’t get from a map pointer.

Harry stared at the quest and sighed. He knew what this was. The Living Tribunal or whoever gave him these quests could not help him and could not give him a quest to do something he had no knowledge of which was why he only got it after Norrin told him about the thingy at Galactus’s house.

A map pointer was all he’d get. But that was fine. It wasn’t difficult to think of a few ways to derive the six dimensional coordinates, he just needed more directions. Harry took his time crafting an integration formula which could use the map pointer at different coordinates to point to where the target was.

Once finished, Harry unpased and asked the Silver Surfer, “You wouldn’t happen to be able to take me to Galactus’s Home World would you?”

“I am sorry. I cannot go there myself, much less take another. I do not know where it even is.”

Ben asked with some anger, “Then what good is that gonna do for us?”

Harry shrugged and said, “Worth a shot, I’ll find it myself,” before walking over to the middle of the room. He then created silver ring after silver ring in rapid succession, five or six every second which came into existence and showed a brief sight of the space beyond before collapsing to be replaced by another ring showing a different space. Each lead to a region of empty space in the vast Universe and Harry’s map pointer adjusted accordingly using the new position on the portal’s other side.

Of course, a place named the ‘Eye of Infinity Past the Celestial Barrier of the Region of Unlife’ didn’t sound like a place you could drive to on the way to IHOP. Harry doubted it was in this plane of the Universe so many of the Portals created by Harry went to different realms and other dimensions. With each portal Harry was halving the possible locations of his Home World, but the Universe was immense and only after making just over a thousand portals did Harry narrow down the search and find it.

Harry used magic to release the binds on Norrin Radd and sat down in the ground, completely exhausted. “Does that look like it?”

The unbound Surfer walked over to examine the portal that remained after the other portals vanished. Harry was catching his bearings and used his Settings to remove his sense of taste before he took out several nasty potions from his inventory he used to refill his magic capacity.

Beyond the portal was the darkness of space and further out was a massive sphere of swirling, dark gases, spinning around. Some parts of the swirling gases opened and closed showing that under the sphere was a metallic planetoid.

It was difficult to gauge the size from the distance and perspective, but Harry could tell that the sphere of dark gases was larger than Jupiter and the metal planet under the sphere was many times larger than Earth.

The Surfer remarked, “Incredible.” He wasn’t shocked by the portal, but by Harry’s ability to locate Galactus’s Home World in only a few moments.

Reed examined it and asked, “What are those clouds?”

Most gases in space only remained gases because they were hot and glowing or because they were a part of Gas Giants which were highly reflective. Dark, nonreflective clouds in space didn’t make any sense unless it was particulate matter but those clouds were clearly gaseous, not particulate.

Harry said, “Oh, those? Why those are clouds of Heavy Anti-Electro Matter. Touch them and you will instantly die.” He decided to shamelessly pretend he knew what those were and didn’t learn of its existence a few moments ago.

The Surfer stated, “He is correct. They form a barrier which separates Galactus’s Home World from the rest of the Universe.”

Susan shouted from the terminal, “Reed! Galactus’s sphere is almost repaired!”

Harry said, “I’ll get the Ultimate Nullifier. If I found the planet and I can find the Nullifier too. You guys need to stall Galactus until I get back. Be careful though, if you piss off Galactus too much, someone with that much power will probably reduce you to your molecular essence.”

The Surfer said, “Again. He is correct. For returning me my memories, I will help this world. But do hurry, we do not have much time.”

Harry nodded and flew directly into the portal before it closed.

Once Harry was on the other side and away from prying eyes, he opened his inventory and got out a Time Turner. Though he had a plan A, a Plan B would be quite nice as well.

Harry turned it back five hours and returned to earth.

The Map Pointer was disabled since the quest had not been issued yet. It would be re-enabled once the timeline caught up to the point the quest was given. Harry couldn’t search for and grab the Ultimate Nullifier early either since he used it in the present to find its location. If he nabbed it in the past, it wouldn’t be there when the present caught up and would create a paradox since it wouldn’t be there for him to search for.

Still, there were two things Harry could do with five extra hours. He could map out Galactus’s Home World and send an SOS as a Plan B.

Five hours wasn’t enough time to do much else and even if he had more, his options were limited. Why’d he get a Quest to Steal the Ultimate Nullifier and not a Quest to Drive Away or Kill Galactus? There were only two answers.

The first was that it was impossible to succeed without doing great harm to the planet. Harry certainly considered making a new bomb and setting it off in Galactus’s ship, but the ship was in a field that reduced its size by 10,000 times. If damaging the ship removed that field, the ship returning to its normal size would destroy the planet anyways.

The second reason he may not have been given a Quest to do so was that there would have been terrible consequences for succeeding, so the Living Tribunal did not ask it of him. Harry decided to put some trust in the opinion of the being who judges all of reality so he wouldn’t waste time trying to find a way to drive back or kill Galactus without the Ultimate Nullifier, instead he’d just do everything he could to make its acquisition as fast and efficient as possible.

Still, a Plan B wasn’t a bad idea. Harry found an empty field in New York and created a massive sigil circle filled with Norse Runes. Harry empowered it with energy until it discharged which was a sign the message Harry inscribed had been sent. ‘In Five hours time, Galactus the Devourer of Worlds will descend on Midgard to devour it. Please send help.’

Harry hoped it would work, but he wasn’t going to hold his breath. There was no Quest given to call Asgard for aid. If this message went right to Odin or even Heimdall, that’d be great, but Harry had a nagging feeling the message went to a drop box the Asgardians probably checked once every couple of decades if they were feeling generous. The last time Midgard called for aid was during the 14th century when Frost giants from Jotunheim invaded and tried to freeze the world. Modern Historians call that period the Mini Ice Age though they guessed that phenomenon was caused by fluctuations in the sun.

Still, it was worth a try. Once finished, Harry returned via portal to the Celestial Barrier of Unlife which apparently separated the Eye of Infinity from the rest of the universe. Harry already confirmed that this Barrier of swirling dark clouds somehow scrambled the coordinates of the space within so even though Harry could see the other side through the gaps, he couldn’t make a portal into it and would have to traverse the cloud manually.

The dark swirling clouds apparently made of Heavy Anti-Electro Matter had gaps and openings which opened and closed randomly with the flowing rotation of the clouds themselves. The cloud itself over the planetoid was incredibly thick and one wrong move traveling through it and it was apparently instant death. Harry could have sworn he had Instant Death Immunity from a Perk, but the fact that the Quest said it meant that he probably couldn’t rely on it for something of this level.

Still, he wasn’t worried. Harry got out something from his inventory which looked almost like the chassis of a motorbike but sleeker, lacking in wheels, and made of wood with a form reminiscent of a speeder bike from Star Wars. This was the latest prototype Harry had come up with for an Ultimate Broomstick. Harry didn’t feel he’d reached the limit yet but this thing’s top speed would tear the flesh off a normal witch or wizard and go at speeds which made a jet plane cry.

Harry sped directly into the closest gap and through the storm of dark swirling clouds like lightning bolt. The field of clouds, this Celestial Barrier of the Region of Unlife, was tens of thousands of miles deep and the gaps that randomly formed between the clouds were bȧrėly large enough for a bus to squeeze through. Considering that contact with the clouds meant instant death, it wasn’t a walk in the park.

Harry hadn’t had so much fun in years.

Though Harry would deny being an adrenaline junkie, that was simply because he did not actively search for opportunities to feel alive. Of course, his excuse for not looking for them was because there weren’t any places that could give him such a feeling. His fights against Selene, Apocalypse, the Black Dragon, and Voldemort’s flunkies all had their ups and downs but it never felt like he was in real danger because he could still come back. The only thing that came close was his encounter with Chthon, but that wasn’t devoid of excitement and was instead filled with desperation.

Without the quest pointer Harry did in fact get surrounded and reach a dead end, but that didn’t stop him from making a portal out of the gas and starting over. The gas destroyed the portal if touched so making it too soon or too late would cause his death as easily as riding into the cloud itself.

After about a half hour and a dozen attempts filled with racing through unmappable paths forwards, backwards, and all around, Harry was able to pierce through the clouds intact and made his way to the Death Star looking Planetoid.

The space within felt nothing like the space in the rest of the universe. In fact it felt like it was encrypted. Harry was confident while inside the space he could make portals within the space and even make portals exiting the space, but if he left, he wouldn’t be able to make another portal back in without traversing the Celestial Barrier of Unlife once more.

Though Harry couldn’t find the Ultimate Nullifier until the quest popped up in a little over four hours, Harry wasn’t going to sit there and twiddle his thumbs. It was time to do some mapping.

Even without the pointer, the Quest said it was in the seventh chamber in the seventh level. So first Harry had to find the entrance and from there do some counting. Harry said aloud to no one in particular, “Now where’s an exhaust port when you need one?”

Harry used his broom to fly to the surface of the planetoid and was thankful he had his broom. The magic of the broom was internal meaning it could not be tracked which also meant it did not emit anything that could disrupt other systems and give away his position. Harry spent an hour circling the surface of the planetoid at several multiples the speed of sound to map the various entrances and found five that looked slightly larger than the others. Having nothing else to compare them to, he asked himself, “But is it bigger than a womp rat?”

He picked one and flew into it and then flew seven levels down and mapped the region. He explored a few rooms but didn’t see anything that looked like it could be an Ultimate Nullifier but then again, he didn’t know what an Ultimate Nullifier looked like. After spending thirty minutes expanding his map, he made a portal to the surface and found another entrance and went another seven levels down before he started mapping once more.

In this way, Harry spent the next four hours mapping the planetoid and exploring various regions.

The planetoid was by a wide margin, the most advanced thing Harry had ever seen, exceeding even the tech used by Apocalypse by a wide margin. Harry wasn’t afraid of death but he was fond of existing so he didn’t touch anything nor interact with anything using magic or technopathy. Because of this, every system was rather confusing. Despite having an understanding of Block Transfer Computation acquired from a ship that traveled through time and space, having an understanding of Material Alteration Physics from his studies on the Sonic Screwdriver, and having an understanding on most forms of energy and magic to the point he created a new branch of science, nothing in the Planetoid made even the smallest bit of sense.

He felt like a caveman walking through the heart of CERN. His best guess was that much of the systems used Power Cosmic in the same way Earth used Electricity meaning the systems could automatically derive specific forms of energy needed for their function from the Power Cosmic fed into them. A system which used a single source of energy to derive many others which all used it for various purposes reminded Harry of a Biosphere powered by sunlight. Though the planet was metal, it was as diverse as Earth in form and function. It was also likely many millions if not billions of times more efficient.

Probably the thing which made the least sense about the planetoid however was that it was empty. Since this was the pat, Harry didn’t know if Galactus was home, but he didn’t encounter any living creatures or personnel. Of course, the paths he flew through on his broom weren’t exactly hallways with doors. They were simply jagged open spaces filled with things built at random angles built between various sections of strange gizmos. It was like the planetoid was built from millions of spaceships which had been brought together and built into a single object.

There were still many spaces between the various structures which were impossible to traverse without being able to fly. Harry suspected there might have been hallways in other parts of the planetoid, but Harry wouldn’t try to find any until the quest popped up and he knew Galactus had left the building.

Eventually the past caught up to the present and the Quest became active, giving the map pointer something to look at.

Harry made a dozen portals around the superstructure and used the pointer to determine which was closest to the Ultimate Nullifier. When used however, Harry realized that whatever the map pointer was pointing to was moving.

Harry used a portal to head into the mapped out region closest to wherever the pointer was directing him to and flew in the direction of the Nullifier. After passing though another layer, he found a region his map hadn’t filled out before meaning it wasn’t open before. Harry flew in and found an entrance to a spinning hallway. Once Harry entered, he realized the interior core of the Planetoid apparently spun within the exterior shell. The so-called Seventh Level he thought he found through each opening was wrong. The true seventh level was actually the divide between the exterior shell and the interior core.

Once Harry was standing within the core, he didn’t fly in the direction of the Nullifier. Instead, he flew perpendicular to the direction it was pointing and mapped out the angle the pointer changed to triangulate the position.

He wasn’t just going to fly to the Nullifier, this core was still larger than the Earth and he didn’t have time to take the direct route.

Once Harry calculated the approximate location of this so-called Seventh Room, Harry directly made a portal to it and the map pointer proved his calculations true.

Harry flew inside and found a normal looking room with a strange looking device placed on a pedestal. It looked like a cross between a camcorder and a water filter with two protrusions sticking out from one end and a rounded semi-circle on the other end with no place to hold it. It certainly did not look like a weapon and was quite small for something with Ultimate in its name, but Harry’s pointer was showing it as the Ultimate Nullifier so Harry wouldn’t question it.

Harry flew closer on his broom to get a good look but didn’t touch it. Instead, Harry made three portals. He made one to the left of the Nullifier, one to the right of it, and the last next to himself. Harry passed through the portal next to him which brought him to a park in New York.

The dark clouds overhead were cracking with dangerous sounds and lights. Near the Baxter Building were the echoes of explosions and the unmistakable sound of combat.

Near where Harry exited were two other portals next to each other, one to the left and right of the Ultimate Nullifer’s position.

Harry grabbed and broke off a long tree branch off a nearby tree and used it to give the Ultimate Nullifier a harsh jab through one of the portals. The tree branch disintegrated into nothingness and the tree Harry plucked it off vanished from existence. The jab however pushed the Ultimate Nullifier off the pedestal into the opposite portal where Harry grabbed it.

The room beyond the portal flashed red and all three portals both shattered.

*Ping*

[Quest Completed: Steal the Ultimate Nullifier

Reward: Manual for the Ultimate Nullifier]

Harry Paused and took a metaphorical breath.

He had his suspicions about how to steal something in a place where touching anything could negate your existence and he was right to be cautious. He was also pleased with the Reward. If he couldn’t use the thing, he couldn’t threaten Galactus with it and his lesson with the Darkhold taught him the dangers of putting strange things in his Inventory.

Harry went through the Manual and quickly got a headache. This was going to take a while. It wasn’t as long as the Big Book of Time and Space but it wasn’t a short read either.

Some indeterminable amount of time later, Harry finished his readings and shook his head. This thing was ridiculous. The manual didn’t describe how the thing was made but it did describe how it worked and how to use it. This thing was probably the most dangerous weapon in the universe and Harry could understand why Galactus would be concerned over it.

It was basically a Delete Key. It completely and utterly violated the law of conservation of mass and would remove the existence of a target from reality. It seemed to have other features as well, but they were far too advanced for Harry to understand and he would simply memorize them to ponder another time.

What was dangerous about this weapon was that it was not aimed by pointing it, but aimed using the holder’s mind, will power, and understanding of the target to be Nullified. If the user tried to Nullify something beyond their understanding, they would instead be Nullified.

Harry was confident if needed, he could use this to Nullify Galactus, but he wasn’t confident he understood enough about Galactus to withstand the feedback meaning it would probably kill him too. Thankfully as long as Harry demonstrated he knew how it worked, that should be enough of a threat for Galactus to skedaddle.

Harry took a moment to ponder if there was anything he wanted to use the Nullifier on before going over there. The Manual made it clear this device was as much a part of Galactus as his heart and could be recalled. Harry felt he could fire it if Galactus tried to take it from him but he couldn’t keep it after Galactus left.

He could fire it at the five Great Garbage Patches floating in the various oceans and rid the world of much of its trash. He could fire it at the sky and remove the accumulated greenhouse gases, resetting the climate changes and bringing the air quality back to how it was before the industrial revolution.

After considering it for a while, Harry decided not to use it like that. Harry may have been a hero on occasion as a hobby, but he was not a janitor. Solving all of the Earth’s problems would not stop the people of the Earth from committing them again so there was no point in doing so.

However, there was one thing that he could Delete that the earth could do without.

Harry unpaused and took out a corked glass vial containing a bateria suspended in water and threw it into the air. Harry turned off the Safety on the Nullifier and fired it at the vial, causing it to glow for a moment before it stopped glowing and fell back down into Harry’s hand, Bacteria free.

Harry felt a bit of the recoil, but he was fully away of exactly what was in that vial and had no problems Deleting it.

The Ultimate Nullifier did not simply remove the existence of that Bacteria from the vial. Harry simply used the Vial as a sample and used the power of the Nullifier to remove that Bacteria’s existence from the universe.

This Bacteria is, or was, called Sublime. It was an annoying piece of work Harry discovered while researching how the Friends of Humanity were funding the Mutant Weapons Programs like the Weapons Plus Program Harry and Wolverine raided in Canada.

The Bacteria originated from a single life form that could sustain its existence through a concentration of this Bacteria within a suitably infected host. A large percent of the humans on earth, especially in first and second world countries, had been infected with Sublime through contaminated water systems and Sublime could influence anyone who was lightly infected, manipulate anyone with a moderate infection, and directly control those highly infected.

For some reason however, humans with an awakened X-Gene were immune to Sublime’s infection and control. Because of this, the irrational fear and hatred many had towards mutants was in fact generated through Sublime’s influence and control.

Harry had been working on ways to negate Sublime’s influence but hadn’t figured out a way to remove Sublime from the planet in any realistic way.

But since he happened to run across an unrealistic way of Deleting it, why not? Those influenced by Sublime would feel a light headache with the bacteria’s Nullification. Those manipulated by it would feel a strong headache. Those directly controlled by Sublime would probably lose consciousness and when they woke up, they might not even have memories from when they were controlled.

Thankfully there was a massive, scary looking cloud over the planet and everyone would blame that for anything caused by Sublime’s removal.

Honestly speaking, Harry didn’t care that much for Sublime. Harry’s business partners weren’t human and Sublime apparently didn’t infect them. Not that it couldn’t, it just didn’t, so the Bacteria wouldn’t be able to do much to Harry.

The reason Harry targeted it for oblivion in the first place and Nullified it the moment he had a chance was that Sublime was Jean’s enemy.

Harry knew all of this because he basically hacked into Sublime’s channel using invisible magic. Sublime apparently existed through a massive psionic field over the planet which connected all the Sublime Bacteria together. Somehow, it not only knew of the existence of the Phoenix Force, but knew Jean was the Avatar of it and had targeted her for death. If not for Harry warding the New York University against Sublime’s influence, there would have been a few incidents already.

Now however it was no more. Harry hadn’t told anyone about Sublime yet because he didn’t want Sublime to know he was onto him. The Bacteria certainly suspected, but it didn’t know. Once everything was settled, Harry would speak with Charles and Erik on the matter. The latter had given up a lot to protect the earth this time and Harry would do what he could to make it up to him.

After catching the vial, Harry put it back into his inventory to confirm Sublime was gone and made a portal to the top of the Baxter Building.

Once he was out, he Paused to take a look around. There were a number of things which stood out.

First, the Fantastic Four were fighting two other beings. Reed and Ben were fighting a stone grey skinned Barbarian looking dude with a red vest and a massive axe. Susan and Johnny were going against Johnny’s brother, or so it appeared. Like Johnny, this guy was also covered in flames but he had a long staff with flames at both ends and was using it as a weapon.

The Silver Surfer was overhead, though not on his surfboard. It seemed he had just been swatted and was soaring backwards through the air. His surfboard was in the air next to an enormous purple and red armored man wearing a tall metallic hat with upwards pointing spikes

The man was standing on a platform which was extending from the planetship out, beyond the range of the 10,000x reduction field.

Harry didn’t have to be a genius to know who that was.

At the moment Harry stepped through the portal, everyone except for the batted away surfer looked over at him with a look of relief. Harry was glad they had not been reduced to their molecular essence yet.

Harry unpaused and said aloud, “Galactus, does this look familiar?”

Having just exited a silver portal, Harry’s presence did in fact garner enough interest for Galactus to turn his head just a bit to look in his direction. His uncaring expression however did not survive seeing what Harry was holding in his hand.

In a deep voice, the purple titan shouted, “The Ultimate Nullifier! Where did you get that? Give it to me you fool before you reduce the entire galaxy into subatomic particles!”

Harry pointed it up and fired. The dark clouds overhead quickly broke apart and the sky was revealed. Harry Nullified the system cooking the planet in such a way that the very act of cooking the planet had been reversed. If Galactus wanted to cook it again, he’d had to start over from scratch.

Harry then pointed it at Galactus and said, “I want you to give up on Devouring this world.”

Galactus froze for a moment. A flash of real fear crossed his eyes. He asked, “How do you know how to use that?”

Harry pulled out the manual from his inventory and banished it toward Galactus who easily caught it. Harry said, “I am a Chosen of the Living Tribunal, Eternity, Infinity, Lady Death, and the Phoenix Force. The Living Tribunal showed me where to find your Nullifier and gave me that Manual on how to use it to protect my world from you.”

All true, though it gave the wrong message when strung together like that. Still, it gave Galactus much to think about. Galactus’s eyes glowed for a moment and so did the manual. He’d read it in an instant and the frown he displayed showed that he hadn’t doubted Harry’s words.

None of the Fantastic Four knew any of the terms Harry used but the Barbarian and Fire Guy Number Two both displayed traces of fear at the names Harry dropped.

Galactus looked beyond the sky’s horizon and growled in frustration. He looked down at Harry and said, “Return to me my Nullifier. This lowly planet is not worth the time and effort I have expended. I shall pursue its life energy no longer.”

Ben walked over and asked, “Is he serious?”

The Surfer, who apparently controlled his board to fly over and catch him, flew down and said, “Galactus has never gone back on his word.”

Johnny said, “No way, you should totally keep it.”

Ben said, “Use it on him anyways, make sure he won’t come back.”

Galactus growled and Harry felt the Nullifier being irresistibly pulled away. Harry released it without struggle and allowed it to fly into Galactus’s hand.

Galactus said, “Terrax, Firelord, return to the Sphere.”

“”As you command,”” they answered in unison.

Galactus turned to face the Surfer and said, “And you my once and former Herald. I hereby exile you to the planet you have saved. No longer shall you soar the endless skyways for the rest of your days. I condemn you to this minor galaxy.”

A beam of purple light shot from Galactus’s finger to the Surfer’s Board, but didn’t seem to cause any other effects.

As the Devourer of Worlds turned back, Harry shouted, “Since I denied you a meal, before you go, here’s a snack.”

Harry took out a crystal containing a large amount of pure life force derived from Phoenix Flame. This was the lifeforce obtained from burning a small plane of Hell’s worth of Demons back when the X-Men rescued those kidnapped kids. Next, he took out a Golden Apple.

With a flash of light, the Apple and crystal vanished and became a massive apple pie far larger than Harry himself.

Harry used magic to deliver the pie to Galactus who only took it because he could in fact sense some meagre amount of life force within. Obviously not a planet’s worth, or even a continent or city’s, but at least a town’s worth and better than nothing.

Harry then conjured a small apple pie in front of him and said, “This is the traditional Earth way to eat Apple Pie.” Harry then smashed himself in the face with the pie pan. A moment later he removed it and started picking pieces off his face to eat.

Galactus stared at him for a few moments before looking back at the pie in his hand. The incredulous looks of the Fantastic Four were ignored because Galactus didn’t pay attention to beings on that level. Harry on the other hand had confirmed he was not on the level of insects, thus had a bit more of his attention.

After considering it for a moment, Galactus smashed the pie into his own face which caused the Fantastic Four to openly gap at the impossible spectacle.

Galactus then removed the pie pan and picked some pieces of the pie off his face and proceeded to eat them. The lifeforce was meagre, but the taste was certainly not bad. It was better than empty calories at least. Galactus turned back and started walking back to his ship while eating more of the pie off his face.

The conjured pie on Harry’s face vanished and Johnny was the first to break the silence. “Did you just prank a World Devouring monster into pieing himself in the face?”

Harry smiled proudly at Johnny but didn’t answer back. The Apple returned to his inventory since it was bound to him. The Apple hadn’t been eaten, he simply used its magic to change the form of the life force into a giant pie to be used for a prank.

Harry said, “Alright, time for a debrief. I’m sure you all have questions.”

Reed smiled and said, “I can certainly think of one or two.”

Susan rolled her eyes and said, “I’m surprised smoke isn’t coming out of your ears from all the questions you probably have.”

Norrin Radd said, “I believe it is time for me to go. Though I have lost the freedom of the stars, I do not regret my choice. And now I must see what this Galaxy has to offer.”

Susan asked, “What did he do to your board?”

The Surfer answered, “I can no longer traverse the gaps between Galaxies. I am bound roam this Galaxy alone.”

Harry walked over to the surfboard and placed a hand on it. Though dangerous for others to do so, the Surfer did not stop Harry as he did not feel Harry would do something that would endanger him.

One aspect of Sorcery Harry never used was the ability to drain energy. Mordo and the Ancient One could do it but neither ever would. Draining energy tainted the body and would change you. Drain too much and the person you were was dead and standing in your shoes was someone else, someone with your face but a different mindset, a corrupted mindset. Plus, even if Harry drained energy, he could only use it to add a temporary expansion to his magic reserves. He couldn’t absorb it to level up without Combat or Battle Meditation.

Harry sensed the energy of the board and found that the pure Power Cosmic within had been removed. The rest of it was converted Power Cosmic, similar to the Power Cosmic fused into the Fantastic Four. Converted Power Cosmic was obviously less powerful and had less potential than normal power cosmic.

Harry took a sphere of store Power Cosmic from his inventory and directly drained it before pushing it into the Surfer’s board.

Doing so was not easy. Harry was not skilled enough to do so in combat but since the world was saved, he could put all his focus into this.

Once done, Harry confirmed the effect and said, “I’ve planted a seed of what was taken back into the board. It will take a long time, a very long time, but that seed will grow and what was taken will eventually be restored.” Since Power Cosmic could absorb other forms of energy and convert them into Power Cosmic, this small seed would eventually restore the Board’s full power.

The Surfer took his board and said, “I have seen more miracles this day than in the many years I have served Galactus. Well was their Champion chosen.”

Harry smiled but wouldn’t correct the misunderstanding. Besides, a vain part of him liked the street cred.

As the Surfer got back on his board, Susan asked, “Will we ever see you again?”

The Surfer smiled back and answered, “I believe you will. Until then, take care.” His board rose into the air and with a streak of light, vanished into the horizon. Harry looked over at the four and wondered how many times he could break them during the upcoming Q & A. He looked forward to it.

*Author’s Note*

Ok, now that I’ve done the stuff I wanted to do with this fic, I’ll finally start with the MCU. Iron Man will be kidnapped soon so we’re finally kicking off the stuff everyone is looking forward to.

The idea of Harry using the Ultimate Nullifier was a random thought that came to me while writing this and dealing with Sublime was the only thing I felt was worth the weapon’s use that Harry knew of.. Dealing with him will also let me focus on the MCU stuff without having to throw in violent X-Men stuff to mess with the timeline.