Tony and Snake Cap, who were watching the scene in the conference room, were stunned and pointed at themselves.
Why were they being involved?
And what was that about the Avengers?
Tony and Snake Cap had no thoughts on the matter at all.
After all, this World already had a Superhero team, so why would they need to start another one?
Wouldn't it be better to just relax and take it easy under Ryan's protection?
Besides, it wasn't like only Spider-Men could join the Spider Family; non-Spider-Man superpowered individuals like them could join the Spider Family too.
Miguel stared blankly at Ryan, not quite understanding his meaning. "What do you mean?"
Ryan looked at Miguel and said calmly, "I am now appointing you as the deputy leader of the Spider-Alliance. You will be responsible for its normal operation while I am away."
Hearing this, Miguel suddenly understood and smiled bitterly. "No, you don't actually need to give me authority. I would have maintained the Web System's operation of the web of life and destiny anyway. After all, I created the Web System; it's my life's work."
In Miguel's view, Ryan giving him power again was nothing more than to maintain the stability of the Web System.
However, Ryan's next words immediately shattered Miguel's assumption.
Ryan smiled disdainfully. "The Web System? Are you still thinking about your tragedy-filled web of life and destiny? Don't be stupid, Miguel. Once I take over the Spider-Alliance, my first order will be to smash that so-called Web System. That piece of crap has no reason to exist other than causing tragedies for Spider-Men!"
Hearing Ryan's words, not only was Miguel shocked, but everyone else in the Spider-Alliance was also stunned.
Although they all disliked the tragedies that every Spider-Man had to experience in the web of life and destiny, they also knew that without it as a stable fulcrum for all Spider-Man Universes, it would inevitably lead to more chain-reaction tragedies or even World-ending disasters!
Therefore, the members of the Spider-Alliance were naturally and resolutely opposed to Ryan's decision, which could bring catastrophe to the Multiverse.
The death of one loved one versus the deaths of countless innocent people—as Spider-Men who lived by 'with great power comes great responsibility,' they could clearly distinguish which was more important...
Looking at the agitated Spider-Alliance members due to his decision, Ryan didn't argue but instead raised his hand and clapped.
*Click—*
The next moment, someone pushed open the conference room door and walked in.
And this person was actually... Karn of the Inheritor Family!
Seeing that there was still an Inheritor alive, the Spider-Men of the Spider-Alliance in the conference room all erupted.
They had thought that after Ryan read Karn's memories earlier, he had taken him away to be humanely destroyed!
They didn't expect Karn to still be alive and well!
In an instant, fear and anger toward the Inheritors once again occupied the minds of the Spider-Alliance's Spider-Men.
"Quiet."
It wasn't until Ryan called for silence again that the conference room became quiet once more.
Ryan looked at Karn and gestured for him to sit at the end of the long conference table, opposite him.
This also signaled to the other Spider-Men how much Ryan valued Karn.
After all, that seat was usually reserved for either the second-in-command or an honored guest!
Ryan first glanced at the Spider-Men of the Spider-Alliance and said calmly, "First of all, although Karn is an Inheritor, he is not our enemy. On the contrary, he is actually one of us..."
The Spider-Alliance members:?
You're saying that one of our natural enemies is actually on our side, right?
How is this any different from saying that President is a spy from enemy country?
Ignoring their shock and doubt, Ryan looked at Karn, who had remained silent after sitting down, and said, "I've already given you all of Morlun's memories. You should understand now what kind of lies you've been living in, right?"
Karn carried a heavy aura of death, his voice sorrowful. "They lied to me. They didn't care about Mother's death at all. They even thought it was good that Mother, the only one I was close to, died..."
"The reason they hated me wasn't because of Mother's death, but because they rejected me from the very beginning, in their very bones. They had wanted to expel me from the family for a long time..."
After deciding to keep Karn, Ryan had used the power of the Mind Stone to instill all of Morlun's memories, which he had absorbed, into the unconscious Karn's mind.
This allowed him, while asleep, to learn the truth that his entire life had been a scam of being a tragic tool...
Then, with a flick of his hand, another small golden sphere appeared in Ryan's palm, and he flicked it across the conference table toward Karn.
Karn instinctively reached out to stop the rolling golden sphere and looked up at Ryan. "What is this?"
Ryan crossed his arms and leaned back in his chair, his tone mysterious. "This is the whole truth, and the responsibility that the past you left for the present you..."
That's right; that golden sphere, just like Morlun's soul sphere, contained the soul of Solus.
But besides Solus's soul, there was another soul inside—the soul of the Master Weaver!
Having lost all will to live, Karn naturally wasn't afraid that Ryan would harm him. Or rather, dying like this might even be a relief for Karn's tragic life.
With this mindset, Karn resolutely swallowed the golden sphere in his hand.
In an instant, the memories of Solus and the Master Weaver, along with both their powers, flooded into Karn's head and body.
This caused a soft golden light to emanate from Karn's mouth and nose, making all the Spider-Men feel a sense of 'holiness' and 'familiarity'!
That was... the light of the Web of Destiny!
At this moment, Karn understood everything, from beginning to end!
From the start, he was the chosen Guardian of the Web of Destiny. It was also his past self, as the Master Weaver, who had killed his own mother in front of him, thereby exposing the truth that the rest of the Inheritor Family already loathed him.
According to the historical experience of being the Master Weaver, he should have been expelled from the family by the other Inheritors after that incident, forcing Karn to devour countless Spider-Men's souls in atonement and accumulate the power of countless spider totems in his body.
Until, having devoured countless spider totems throughout the river of time, he would be assimilated into the spider totem itself, then succeed his previous self who was about to burn out, becoming the new Master Weaver to continue guarding the Web of Destiny!
But because of Kang's subversive appearance, he ruled the entire Multiverse single-handedly, making all timelines from then on mere side-runners for the single sacred timeline, eliminating all 'erroneous' existences that might cause the sacred timeline to go wrong—including the Inheritor Family.
This caused things to differ from the Master Weaver's original plan, preventing Karn from devouring countless spider totems in the river of time.
If things continued under Kang's absolute rule, once the previous Master Weaver burned out and died, there would be no one to take over the protection and maintenance of the Web of Destiny.
Then the unguarded Web of Destiny would likely collapse, resulting in there never being another Spider-Man in this Multiverse again!
When that happened, the artificial Web System created by Spider-Man 2099 would be absolutely useless!
But the Web of Destiny ultimately found a way out for itself. At a stage when Kang had not yet completely solidified his rule over the Multiverse and a loophole still existed in the river of time, it used most of its power to generate a special Destiny Spider and cast it into a World outside the Multiverse through that loophole!
And that Destiny Spider eventually landed on its chosen person, who was...
Karn, now the new Master Weaver, turned his eyes—which were radiating the golden light of the Web of Destiny—toward Ryan. He also saw the phantom of the large tricolored spider behind Ryan and opened his mouth. "So you are that... Destiny Spider that broke free from the Web of Destiny..."