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At some point, all sorts of strange things had begun appearing on the streets of America.
For example, there was a man in a tight red-and-blue suit swinging through the skies of New York, or a giant robot in the streets of Los Angeles that was tearing through the ground and crawling out from beneath the earth.
Coulson had brought his subordinates to search for Obadiah, but instead, they encountered Pepper.
From Pepper, he learned that Tony had ordered her to investigate Obadiah.
Pepper had actually uncovered quite a lot, including evidence that Obadiah was involved with a terrorist group and had plotted Tony’s assassination.
Therefore, without knowing that Obadiah had built an armored suit, they went to Stark Industries headquarters to arrest him.
Instead, they found themselves facing Obadiah, who had taken the reactor from Tony and put on his armor.
Riding his armored suit, Obadiah immediately began hunting down Coulson and his team.
The people who had originally come to arrest the culprit instantly became the ones running for their lives.
The Iron Monger stood four meters tall, making it resemble a giant.
Its massive size made it difficult to move around inside the building, so it had even torn through the structure of Stark Industries headquarters from below to break out onto the streets.
Outside Stark Industries headquarters, the Iron Monger had single-handedly cornered six S.H.I.E.L.D.
agents, including Coulson and Pepper, who had led them there.
Having obtained such a powerful weapon, Obadiah laughed gleefully from inside his armor.
“Oh, my darlings, where do you think you’re going?
Don’t tell me you’re planning to run away?”
The Iron Monger was equipped with various weapons, one of them being a Gatling gun mounted on its arm.
Pointing the Gatling gun at them, Obadiah’s expression inside the armor was positively radiant.
“But unfortunately, you’re not going anywhere.
You’re going to die here for interfering with my business.”
The Gatling gun began spinning faster and faster, clearly about to unleash a barrage of bullets.
“Hey!
Look up here!”
A voice suddenly coming from the sky made Obadiah look upward.
His Gatling gun was also raised toward the sky, immediately unleashing a furious barrage of gunfire.
However, because he had no clear target to aim at, every bullet from the machine gun missed.
Meanwhile, a red point of light in the sky shot downward at tremendous speed, slamming hard into Obadiah’s armored suit.
The armored giant blocking everyone’s path was instantly sent flying by the tremendous impact, freeing the people who had been under threat from danger.
Turning his attention toward the battlefield, Obadiah, who had been thrown aside, was unharmed thanks to the protection of his armor.
He quickly rose from the ground and looked at the red armored suit that was also crawling back to its feet not far in front of him.
He immediately realized that it was Tony.
Although its appearance was completely different from his own armored suit, there was no doubt that it was Tony.
“Oh~ Tony, you really surprised me.
You didn’t drown after all.
Looks like God really does love you.”
Obadiah’s mocking voice came from inside the armor, but his tone suddenly changed.
Raising his right arm, he aimed the Gatling gun mounted on it at Tony.
The Gatling gun began spinning faster and faster.
Tony, who had already gotten back to his feet, watched Obadiah’s movements without rushing to act.
Instead, he was communicating with Jarvis.
“Jarvis, how much energy do we have left?”
“Sir, less than ten minutes of operational energy remain.
The flight here consumed a considerable portion of the available energy.”
“The total energy capacity of this reactor is too low.
It can’t sustain the armor for long.
The armor’s power requirements are simply too high…”
“Just tell me how much longer it can last.”
Tony had no interest in listening to Jarvis’s lengthy analysis.
He only wanted the result.
“Five minutes at most.”
“Shit!
That’s half as long as ten minutes!”
Jarvis’s final result, which was half the duration of his previous report, immediately made Tony curse.
“Sir, the design of this device cannot store a large amount of energy, so that is the maximum operating duration.”
“Forget it, I know.
Jarvis, initiate overload operation immediately.
Obadiah has too many weapons, and we don’t have enough energy.
There’s no point wasting time.
Let’s finish this battle as quickly as possible and drag him out of there.”
“But, Sir, if you do that, it will only last for one minute at most.
Furthermore, because this design does not have threshold control, there is a possibility that it could explode midway.”
“Stop talking and follow my orders!
Obadiah has already started firing!”
While Tony and Jarvis were talking, the machine gun in Obadiah’s hand had already begun firing.
Tony hurriedly rolled behind a car for cover.
At the same time, he gave Jarvis a firm command.
“Yes, Sir.
Initiating overload operation.”
The reactor, whose remaining energy was already running low, began operating at five times its normal overload capacity.
The light in Tony’s chest blazed brilliantly, the entire armor began glowing red, and a 59-second countdown timer appeared on his monitor.
“Okay, let’s begin.”
Tony swung his right arm, and the GN Sword concealed behind the armor of his right arm instantly snapped into place.
Tony immediately burst out from behind the car, which had been riddled with bullet holes and reduced to little more than a wreck, transforming into a streak of red light as he sped toward Obadiah.
His speed was so high that Obadiah had no time to react.
By the time Obadiah realized Tony had emerged, Tony was already beside him, swinging his GN Sword and cleanly severing the machine gun mounted on Obadiah’s right arm. The source of this chapter is novelping.com.
With the machine gun destroyed, the armored giant was instantly silenced and forced to switch from ranged fire to close combat.
However, Obadiah’s armored suit stood four meters tall and had a massive frame.
Although its power output was sufficient thanks to Tony’s new reactor, its enormous size meant its movements and reflexes were still nowhere near as fast as Tony’s two-meter-tall Exia armor.
On top of that, Tony had activated overload to maintain three times his normal speed.
Against Tony, the giant monster had absolutely no means of fighting back.
Tony, who was not carrying many weapons, moved in circles around Obadiah.
Relying on the sword in his right hand, he immediately sliced off Obadiah’s right arm, then destroyed several of the weapons and components mounted on his body.
Within a mere dozen seconds, the Iron Monger was already partially disabled.
However, just as Tony circled around Obadiah and prepared to sever his left arm as well, the reactor in his chest suddenly shut down.
Tony, who had been moving at tremendous speed, came to an abrupt stop and crashed onto the ground, landing directly to Obadiah’s left, where Obadiah immediately seized him.
The situation instantly reversed.
“Damn it, why did it have to malfunction now?!
There are still twenty seconds left!”
Tony knew exactly what had happened.
Jarvis had already warned him that the old reactor lacked threshold control and could malfunction, but he had never expected the problem to occur at such a critical moment.
Using his remaining left hand to grab Tony, Obadiah lifted him from the ground and held him directly in front of his face.
He opened the armor’s faceplate, exposing his true face to the outside.
“Oh~ Tony, you really are a genius.
What you did just now genuinely surprised me.”
“You know, for a moment, I even thought I might lose.
But unfortunately, God is on my side this time.
What happened just now gave me a tremendous inspiration.”
“Don’t worry.
Once you’re dead, I’ll perfect this armor of mine.
Thank you for giving me such a wonderful gift before your death.”
His expression and demeanor made it seem as though he had already achieved absolute victory.
Tony opened his own faceplate.
Breathing heavily, he stared at Obadiah with an expression full of regret.
“No, no, no, Obadiah.
I’m not going to die, and you’re the one who’s going to lose.
Do you know why I built this armor?”
Tony’s sudden question left Obadiah somewhat confused.
What did he mean, why had he built the armor?
Wasn’t it to escape from the terrorists?
“You must think I built it so I could escape from the terrorists.
That was how it started, but that’s not what it was for afterward.
I built this armor to beat the hell out of a man who also wears a full suit of armor from head to toe.”
At this point, the corners of Tony’s lips curled into a smile.
“Listen.
That man is here.”
In the distance, the thunderous roar of a heavy motorcycle engine could already be heard.