pertwk Chapter 179 The Destruction of 2099
Chapter 179 The Destruction of 2099
Chapter 179 The Destruction of 2099
The Ancient One cast a spell, and green magical light emanated from Tony's body. The armor system, which had been destroyed by Doctor Doom, was instantly restored to its original state, and all systems re-checked and went online.
Even the pain from the high temperature burning his lips had completely disappeared, as if it had never existed.
"How exactly did they do that?"
Despite having witnessed magical techniques before, Tony, who was mentally prepared, still felt a sense of novelty:
"What's the principle behind this healing magic? Is it achieved through nanobots or something similar?"
The Ancient One smiled slightly, watching Tony's excitement at having touched the door to a new world: "Want to learn? I'll teach you..."
"No!"
Upon hearing this, Joey immediately stood up.
"No! That won't do!"
While the Ancient One was examining the tea, he finally had a chance to calm down and think carefully about what had happened recently.
After the Fantastic Four from the future appeared and revealed the identity of Doctor Doom from the future, things continued to develop in this direction in a chaotic yet controllable manner.
From sharing the Amorecian Core with Tony, to the appearance of the Heirs, the two embarked on a journey through the multiverse, and then encountered the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme. In the future, Doctor Doom possessed a massive army of Amorecian robots, capable of traversing the multiverse and proficient in magical spells.
Tony is currently on such a path; he possesses the Amozzo Core and has personally opened the gates to the multiverse.
Joey had no doubt about Tony Stark's intelligence; he was like a loaded bullet, ready to go, except for the trigger called "magic."
Now, the Ancient One, the guardian of the magical side of this universe, the Sorcerer Supreme who knows everything about the past and the future, is preparing to personally fire this bullet that is destined to cause endless casualties in the future.
Joey was somewhat confused: "Why? Don't play dumb, you absolutely know what the future holds!"
"Everything has a cause, and everything has an effect. I wasn't the one who gave him the Amagor Core and led him to open the gates of the multiverse."
Faced with Joey's questioning, Gu Yi simply picked up her Jian kiln black-glazed teacup, which she had acquired during the Song Dynasty, and took a small sip.
He refuted Joey's unfounded accusations in a lighthearted manner:
"You can't just think about hitting the brakes when things are going your way, and it's not always a good thing to nip bad things in the bud before they happen."
Gu Yi placed the teacup back on the table, tapped the surface lightly with his finger, and looked at Joey meaningfully.
"You surely know this better than I do, you Kryptonians from another universe."
She knew far more than Joey imagined.
"If something bad is destined to happen, then it will happen. I think you've already experienced that firsthand in your universe."
That's absolutely true; Joey certainly understands it all too well.
The Flashpoint universe is a universe without any hope and destined for destruction.
Even after stopping Wonder Woman and Aquaman, the continuous apocalyptic crises have already overwhelmed Joey.
If he cannot gain enough power and support in the upcoming war between Krypton and Oa, the aftermath of the battle could cause irreparable harm to Earth.
Moreover, the spirit of existence lurking deep within the Earth is related to the survival of the entire universe. Without its power, the Flashpoint universe would not be able to survive the darkest night to come.
"Joey is right."
Listening to their conversation, Tony figured out the key point:
"Why are you teaching me? Just because I'm a genius?"
Iron Man and Doctor Doom—Tony pondered that the only difference between his current self and that dangerous, villainous future version of himself was the lack of magic.
The mysterious woman named "Ancient One" before them seemed to have appeared specifically to make up for this flaw.
This made Tony suspicious.
"If I learn your magic, I won't end up like those villains in some second-rate horror movies, controlled by the power and suddenly turning evil, starting to conquer infinite universes or something, right?"
"No, Tony, power itself is not scary; what's scary is its master."
In the Ancient One's view, the cycle of fate had already begun with Tony's first meeting with the future Doctor Doom.
Tony Stark's acquisition of magical powers was inevitable; the only question was where he would find them.
"This time, you won by cheating and protected the universe in 2099, but without reversing the power of those spells, you will not be able to win next time."
In the time that follows, Tony will encounter Doctor Doom multiple times, growing stronger with each battle and seeking the power to defeat him, until finally, "Wait a minute, you win?"
Tony glanced instinctively at his pristine armor.
Just minutes before, it was a pile of scrap metal; Destroyer destroyed the armor with a single finger.
"We were beaten so badly we were practically crawling on our stomachs before we ran back!"
"Don't drag me into this! You're the one who got beaten to a pulp!"
This made Joey unhappy:
"Don't have pulled me back then, I could have at least dismantled all the Amozzo robots on site!"
The Amozzo robot has a significant weakness: it gains weakness along with its ability to mimic, and its ability to mimic slowly disappears as the imitated robot leaves.
With the Kryptonite Ring in hand and no other superhumans besides the Kryptonians present who were too powerful to handle, Joey was 90% confident he could wipe out all the Amozzo robots that had entered Universe 2099.
He just didn't know if he could handle Doctor Doom himself.
"Oh no!"
Speaking of the battle with Doctor Doom, the two, who were enjoying tea together, both thought of something important:
"Universe 2099!"
While the two of them were chatting and joking with the Ancient One, Doctor Doom was still deploying his massive Amozzo army, which was as dense as an ant colony, in Universe 2099!
Four hundred old ladies piloting the cosmic robot Leo Patton were expelled from space, and the Spider-Men present were no match for this level of threat!
If the two of them don't step in and withstand the pressure, those Spider-Men and their universe are likely in grave danger.
Seeing the two people in a panic, the Ancient One casually swiped her hand and opened a portal to Stark Tower:
"Good luck to you."
Watching the two leave in a hurry, the Ancient One, with a calm expression, fell into deep thought.
In the past and future she glimpsed, this first encounter in the 2099 universe should have been a narrow victory for the Kryptonians.
They destroyed Doctor Doom's entire robot army, forced him to retreat, and temporarily preserved that parallel universe.
Now, however, the established history has deviated slightly, and a paradox has been born at this moment.
In the deserted New York Sanctum, a sigh came from the Ancient One: "You are much smarter than I thought, Tony."
"Jarvis, give me power!"
The two, in a flurry of activity, had just passed through the portal opened by the Ancient One when they began to repair the overloaded teleportation matrix from their departure and to calibrate their cosmic coordinates.
A red and blue whirlwind swept through the room, and within three seconds, Joey had fixed all the hardware issues, leaving only the coordinate analysis problem:
"This time, be more careful, Tony. I don't want to get half-dead from some celestial body again without any preparation!"
"Don't worry, there definitely won't be any more mistakes...."
Tony, who was recalculating and verifying the coordinates of both universes, made sure to reassure Joey, but he was soon stunned.
As a parallel universe very similar to its own, the corresponding teleportation coordinates of universe 2099 should be extremely easy to calculate.
However, after calculating three times at the teleportation matrix control panel, he obtained a very unusual result—'null'.
Invalid null value.
"Something's wrong, Joey!"
"I know, Tony!"
Even without Tony's reminder, Joey knew that something had probably changed in the other universe, 2099, because his superhuman vision had already seen the anomaly above Stark Tower through the ceiling:
"Prepare for the impact!"
Before Tony could even ask what kind of impact it was, a huge portal had already opened up in the sky.
Boom!
Missing a shoulder and sparking with electricity, the battle-damaged giant robot Leopardon had already fallen from the portal.
The robot's wreckage smashed the huge "Stark" light-polluting sign on Stark Tower to pieces.
Joey burst through the wall and flew up to lift the robot, which weighed tens of thousands of tons and whose downward momentum was not slowing down, preventing it from crushing the entire Stark Tower.
The portal that had just opened did not close immediately after Leopardon crashed, and people continued to fall through it like raindrops.
That was the Spider-Man army that fought the Heirs in Universe 2099 just now, assembled by Miguel O'Hara.
Their mass exodus here can only prove one thing: "What happened, Spider-Man?"
Besides Takuya Yamashiro, Joey's question also received responses from almost all of Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy, and other Spider-Men present:
"My God, sir, in the half hour you were gone, Miguel's hometown has been destroyed by that madman!"