20demayo Chapter 46 I Know You Better Than You Do
Chapter 46 I Know You Better Than You Do
"Interesting. You used my blood to develop a weapon that targets me." The Holy Lord's tone was devoid of any emotion.
"That's not all."
The Iron Legion behind Tony simultaneously raised their arms, and countless energy cannons aimed at the Holy Lord.
"I've discovered a special energy resonance frequency in your blood, which I call the 'Dragon Blood Factor.' By creating a frequency that resonates with it, I can render your own regenerative and defensive abilities ineffective."
The Holy Lord narrowed his eyes: "Was that attack just now a test of my regeneration speed?"
"Smart," Tony's provocative voice came from inside the armor. "That was just a warm-up. You'd better hold back next time."
All the Iron Man suits were charging simultaneously, looking like a miniature sun from below.
"I'll show you what human intelligence is."
The Holy Lord's figure disappeared the instant the cannon fire erupted.
Snake Talisman, Invisibility.
Tony lost sight of Shendu in an instant, but there was no sign of panic on his face.
The pressure sensor data is displayed on the armor's visor.
"left!"
Tony dodged to the side, and a flame swept past where he had just been, turning the wall behind him into lava.
Tony squinted; he hadn't expected Shendu to be able to control flames.
The figure of the Holy Lord appeared in the flames. As the Demon of Fire, he was very satisfied with this long-lost environment of being surrounded by flames.
"You are indeed smarter than I thought, but you seem to have forgotten one thing."
The Holy Lord's figure vanished once more, and his voice echoed from all directions: "My abilities extend beyond controlling inanimate objects."
Tony quickly brought up the thermal imaging scan, but the Holy Lord's current temperature was exactly the same as the surroundings, so the thermal imaging could not be of any use.
The sonar detection also failed; the target had completely merged into the air.
"Jarvis, switch to stress mesh analysis," Tony commanded.
"Analyzing... Sir, he's moving too fast on the ground, and the pressure changes are making it impossible to pinpoint the target accurately."
Within Tony's mask, a completely two-dimensional grid-like diagram of the room unfolded before his eyes, with numerous lights flashing within the grid: "It's not that the speed is too fast, it's that a large number of creatures have suddenly appeared in the room!"
Tony quickly came to a conclusion and, without any hesitation, unleashed an energy blast downwards with both hands.
"Since we can't catch you inside the room, we'll force you out!"
High in the sky, Tony kept scanning the rooftops below: "Come out. Hiding like this isn't like you."
The figure of Shendu slowly appeared on the rooftop, looking up at Tony and the Iron Legion below: "You think you're safe just because you're flying in the sky?"
The Holy Lord raised his hand, and the power of the Rat Talisman rippled in his palm. The fragments on the ground flew up out of thin air, and flames appeared on them as they flew. The flames grew larger and eventually turned into fireballs.
Tony and the Iron Legion fired beams of light from the air, shattering the fireballs.
"Give up. For someone like you who can't fly, I'm invincible." Tony's mocking voice came from above.
Upon hearing Tony's mocking voice, Shendu suddenly burst into laughter, as if he had heard some incredible joke.
"Tony Stark, you are indeed a genius, but do you know what the biggest problem with geniuses is?"
Tony frowned: "Pretentious."
The Holy Lord continued, "The biggest problem with geniuses is that they are too confident in their own logic."
Tony didn't waste any more words, and hundreds of beams of light shot towards the Holy Lord.
The light faded, and the Holy Lord's figure disappeared once more.
"Jarvis, scan."
"Sir, an error has occurred. A large number of life signs have been detected. They are..." Jarvis's voice abruptly stopped.
Tony looked down at Stark Tower, and now he felt that the building was very unfamiliar to him, as if it had come to life.
Another familiar energy suddenly came from another corner, where the figure of the Holy Lord appeared.
Tony found it hard to believe the energy analysis displayed on the mask.
[Source of Energy: Mind Gem]
A thunderbolt exploded in Tony's mind: what two hearts? What was being out of control?
The Mind Stone was absorbed by the Holy Lord; how could he possibly be controlled by a contract tampered with by Fury?
"You're the one who caused Fury's strange behavior!" Tony thought of Fury, who had suddenly become a different person recently.
The Lord did not respond. The Observer's restrictions on him caused him immense pain, but he was completely indifferent to it at the moment.
The power formed by the combination of the Rat Talisman and the Mind Stone gave him an unprecedented sense of control.
"Tony, my ability isn't to control inanimate objects, but to give them life!" Shendu's words exploded in Tony's ears.
The Holy Lord slammed his palm down on the ground.
The building came to life.
Tony immediately ordered, "Everyone take off!"
The steel legion rapidly increased its height, but the building reacted even faster.
Hundreds of steel bars pierced out of the building. Tony couldn't dodge in time and was grazed by one of the bars, causing the surface of his armor to shatter instantly.
"Damn it!" Tony steadied himself and blasted the steel bar flying towards him with a backhand shot.
The Holy Lord stood in the center of the twisted ruins, the surrounding rooftops now transformed into a realm of living building materials.
A suit of armor was entangled in steel bars, and Tony tried to cut its core remotely, but Shendu was faster.
The armor was pierced by steel bars, and its energy core was precisely pierced out, tracing an arc in the air before landing in the Holy Lord's hands.
"Not bad toy." The Holy Lord crushed the core in his hand into dust.
Tony broke out in a cold sweat. He had underestimated Shendu's power, or rather, he was completely unaware of Shendu's abilities.
"You've developed a weapon specifically designed to counter me."
The Holy Lord walked slowly forward, steel bars forming a staircase beneath his feet: "But you never considered that I know you better than you know yourself."
"I noticed you when you built your first suit of armor out of a pile of scrap in a cave in Afghanistan."
Tony's pupils contracted sharply. He hadn't told anyone about this, so how did Shendu know?
"You always believe that as long as you have enough data and enough parameters, you can control everything."
"Weapons need aerodynamics, and to defeat the enemy, you need to find their weaknesses."
"What do you want to say?" Tony said coldly.
The Holy Lord raised his hand, and a steel bar silently pierced Tony from the side: "There is a fatal flaw in your logic; the rules are stable."
Tony dodged to the side and shattered the steel bar with a palm strike.
Tony didn't respond to Shendu's taunt; his attention was completely elsewhere. Shendu's previous statement was: "How did you know? I didn't tell anyone about the armor research. The military didn't know, the media didn't know, not even Pepper knew."
The Holy Lord did not answer. He knew everything about the Marvel universe and there was absolutely no need to explain.