"Veronica?"
The Hulkbuster armor?
What kind of international joke is this?!
"Stop, Tony!"
Tony's hand, poised to give a command, froze in mid-air.
"Why?" Tony's voice was filled with confusion. "He's just a miniature Hulk right now, only he knows martial arts. To deal with a guy like this, you need a big guy!"
"You smash him flat with Veronica, and then what?" William spoke extremely fast, his brain working furiously. "S.H.I.E.L.D. will take over, the whole World will know that Daredevil has fallen and become a Terrorist, and then Iron Man will execute 'justice' on him!"
"Isn't that the truth?"
"Truth my ass!" William couldn't help but curse. "He's my client! His insurance policy hasn't expired yet! If you smash him into a pulp, what about my KPI?"
Tony rolled his eyes behind his faceplate.
At a time like this, you're still thinking about your KPI?
"That's not the point!" William took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. "The point is, once you use that level of force, there will be no turning back. Matt Murdock will completely 'die,' leaving behind a legend of a hero killed by a hero. The Hand will get a perfect martyr."
"A new god who can inspire countless lunatics."
"This is the script they want to see most."
Tony fell silent.
William was right.
He could easily win this battle, but he would lose the entire war.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Tony asked. "The two of us, plus those two who are almost beaten half to death, are we just going to watch him declare the founding of a nation?"
William didn't answer.
Because a new development had occurred on the field.
"Ah--"
A suppressed scream, filled with endless pain and rage, erupted from Elektra's throat.
She knelt on the ground, clutching her broken arm, her body trembling violently.
But the trembling was not entirely due to pain.
A visible, pure darkness, like ink dripping into clear Water, surged wildly from her body!
Black patterns, like living things, crawled up her neck, instantly covering her face. Her pupils were replaced by an ominous crimson.
An ancient, primal aura, filled with the desire for destruction, erupted!
black sky!
This power originated from the same source as the "Beast" worshipped by The Hand.
"Crack... crack crack..."
Elektra's broken arm made the sound of bones forcibly resetting.
She slowly stood up.
Her red battle suit seemed to be stained with a dark hue.
Her aura had completely changed.
No longer the sexy and dangerous female assassin.
But a... living weapon, born only for destruction.
Matt "looked" at her.
"Finally, you're no longer suppressing it." His tone even carried a hint of approval.
"This is your true self, Elektra."
"Shut up."
Elektra's voice became hoarse and low.
Before she finished speaking.
Her figure vanished.
Not that she moved so fast she disappeared.
But she truly vanished into thin air.
The next second, she appeared behind Matt, her twin sai, which had returned to her left hand at some point, carrying a dense darkness, silently stabbing towards Matt's back!
Matt didn't even turn his head, his body bending backward at an incredible angle, his right hand precisely blocking the fatal blow.
"Clang!"
The sound of metal clashing was dull and suppressed.
Missing with one strike, Elektra didn't pause for a moment, her attacks like a raging storm, continuous.
Sai, elbow, knee strike, kick.
Every move she made abandoned all technique, leaving only the purest madness of trading injuries for injuries, lives for lives!
The power of black sky gave her far greater recovery and Superhuman Strength than before.
But Matt was like a reef.
He could always defuse Elektra's armor-piercing attacks with the smallest cost and the most precise blocks.
He knew her too well.
Better than she knew herself.
"It's useless." Matt said while blocking. "Your anger, your power, all originate from black sky, and black sky is born from the 'Beast'. And I am the Master of the 'Beast'."
"I... I'll kill you!"
Elektra let out a roar, her dark aura surging again, her kick creating spiderweb-like cracks on the ground, and she transformed into a black and red afterimage, crashing into Matt.
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