Chapter 337: S:Glorious Big Event (XVII)
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Updated : Oct 11th, 2025
Chapter 337: S:Glorious Big Event (XVII)
Hours later, when Charles arrived at Stark Tower to pick up his students, he saw that Stark had hung a sign saying "Mutants not allowed" on his laboratory door.
Charles, who knew the whole story, was also helpless. As a highly educated mutant, he could understand Stark's anger. Whenever he communicated with these second-generation mutants, it was like talking to a wall because they had never received any formal education.
Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was supposed to be a school, but it was more like a retirement home. The school taught students how to control and develop their powers, not knowledge. This resulted in these mutants, who should have been in college, having empty heads and not knowing anything.
To be honest, the students at Xavier's School were considered good. At least Iceman could follow Banner's instructions and produce results that were almost satisfactory. Mutants like Polaris, who had no education and had a bad temper, were especially impatient. They could really drive a scholar-type personality crazy.
Charles knew better than anyone that this was not a solution. When everyone was on Earth, whether or not they learned knowledge didn't matter much because their abilities were already powerful enough. But when humans entered the Space Age, knowledge became the first productive force. The average education level of mutants was only equivalent to that of a fetus. This was only because Charles had raised the average level. When they really entered the Space Age, one or two powerful mutants would not be enough. Improving basic education for mutants was imperative.
But promoting basic education in any region or race was extremely difficult. Charles thought about it all night and had no results, so he went to drink with Schiller.
It wasn't to drown his sorrows in alcohol, but he hoped to hear Schiller's new ideas. After all, he keenly felt that Schiller didn't have the same hatred for mutants as ordinary people did. Perhaps from a different perspective, he could find a new way.
"Charles, can I call you that? I think the problem is that your moral standards are too high."
"What do you mean?"
In Schiller's thinking hall, Charles asked while holding a glass of wine. Schiller shook his head and said, "You don't want to do bad things with your abilities, and I understand that because you do have a noble character."
"But just because your abilities are so powerful, why give up using them completely when doing good things? When you use them for good, why do you have to consider how powerful they are?"
Charles seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Are you saying..."
"You want to promote education and teach them knowledge so that they can keep up with the times. This is a good thing."
"Even if they don't use the knowledge they learn, it won't hurt to keep it in their minds. From any perspective, it's not harmful to them. So why can't you take advantage of the advantage of your abilities?"
"I know that the difficulty of promoting basic education among mutants lies in the fact that their positions are not consistent. You can't completely convince Magneto, nor can you make him disband the Brotherhood. But you want to teach his subordinates knowledge. You want to strengthen them. Why would he refuse?"
"More importantly, this doesn't take up their daytime. They can do whatever they want during the day, play, fall in love, and just need to dream at night to learn the essence of human knowledge. What could be better than this?"
"If I had such a good thing when I was studying, I would wake up laughing from my dreams. I think you would too, right?"
Charles gradually relaxed his eyebrows and said, "There is another problem. Even if I can instill knowledge in them, if I don't understand this knowledge myself, I can't teach it."
"And, the output and input of human thinking both have limits. I can't cram so much knowledge into their minds at once, or it will cause them to have a mental breakdown."
Schiller smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "I think you can create a school in the consciousness space and pull their consciousness in to let them learn."
Because this was indeed doing a good thing, Charles had no psychological burden of abusing his power. Everyone realized that it was best to listen obediently.
As Schiller had predicted, although Magneto never took off his helmet and guarded against Charles like a thief, when he heard that Charles was going to send Polaris to study, he did not object. He even let him take Wanda and Quicksilver with him.
Originally, Wanda and Quicksilver were supposed to come, but Wanda was not on Earth at the moment, so only Quicksilver came.
Magneto had a bad relationship with his children, but because his relationship with Wanda and Quicksilver was worse, his relationship with Polaris was okay.
Polaris had the same temper as Magneto, and when she learned that she was going to be forced to study at school, she chose to run away from home decisively. She even wanted to persuade Shockwave and Iceman to leave with her.
Unfortunately, in this regard, Magneto and Charles reached a consensus. When these two mutant leaders reached a consensus, there was nothing in this world that could stop them. So, Polaris was still brought over.
At this time, she was biting her pen, propping her head with one hand, and tapping the table with the other. She looked at the sky, the ground, and the table, but not the blackboard. Sometimes she turned her head to chat with Shockwave, and sometimes she whispered to Quicksilver.
Banner was giving a lecture above, and when he saw Polaris's small movements, he didn't care. As a professor, he had seen too many students like this, who didn't listen in class, didn't turn in homework, and prayed to the gods and buddhas when it came to final exams.
Banner was just invited to give a lecture. He was not a mutant, so he was not responsible for the future of mutants, so he didn't care whether these students listened or not.
But Charles frowned and was somewhat dissatisfied with the situation in the classroom.
In fact, the knowledge Banner was teaching was not difficult. He started with the basics of physics. But it seemed that these mutant students had not developed good study habits, so even if they were trying to listen carefully, they were habitually distracted.
During the day, Charles stayed in his office, thinking about how to reverse this situation and improve the students' enthusiasm. It was at this time that he received a call from Stark. Before Stark could speak, Charles said:
"I'm really sorry, Mr. Stark. It's true that they didn't control their temper well, which caused the exploration work to fail..."
"Oh, no, I called to say that I misunderstood mutants a bit. My attitude was not good before. Your students did a really good job this time..."
Charles was a little confused. He said, "What? What did they do so well?"
He thought Stark was being sarcastic, but Stark's tone revealed genuine excitement. He said, "It's the kids you sent to work with Spider-Man before. Do you know what they did?"
"...What?"
"They directly brought back a Kree warship! It's now parked on the edge of the Solar System!"
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