"I'll handle this."
Tony's voice came from beneath his faceplate, devoid of its usual flippancy.
He took a step forward, hovering in mid-air, facing Matt across from the church.
"Jarvis, analyze target combat mode, find weaknesses."
"Sir, insufficient data. The combat techniques displayed by the target show a 97% deviation from the 'Daredevil' file in the database. He… has evolved."
"Then create data."
Before he finished speaking, two scorching energy beams erupted from the Palm Arc Pulse of the Iron Man Suit, tearing through the night sky and shooting directly at Daredevil.
Facing this high-energy attack, potent enough to melt steel plates, Daredevil simply made a simple movement.
He sidestepped.
The energy beams grazed his body, slamming into the church wall behind him, blasting out two huge charred craters.
Rubble flew.
"Too slow, Stark."
William's pupils contracted sharply.
He saw it clearly.
Matt wasn't dodging.
The moment the energy beams were fired, he "listened" to the flow of energy and the change in temperature in the air, predicting the trajectory in advance.
His body merely executed the most energy-efficient and effective evasive maneuver.
"Your technology is like a noisy infant."
Daredevil continued, picking up a stone dislodged by the explosion from the ground.
"Full of light and heat, but utterly without precision."
He flicked his wrist.
That inconspicuous stone transformed into a gray lightning bolt, whistling towards Iron Man in mid-air.
The target wasn't his chest plate, nor his head.
Instead, it was a tiny transmission structure connection point at the right shoulder joint of the Iron Man Suit.
"Ding!"
A crisp sound.
Tony felt his right arm suddenly stiffen.
"Warning, sir. Shoulder A-3 driveshaft hit, 3% performance degradation," Jarvis's alarm immediately sounded.
Tony's expression darkened.
This was absolutely no coincidence.
A lucky guess?
Impossible.
"Do you think by wearing that iron shell, you can judge the World?"
Daredevil's voice carried a hint of mockery.
"You fly in the sky, looking down on all beings. But you have never truly seen the wounds of this World."
"You and your weapons have created countless orphans and widows across the World, and then you transform into a hero protecting them."
"What a satirical script, Tony Stark."
"You are the biggest source of chaos in this World."
Tony fell silent.
The miniature missile launchers on his shoulder slid open, and dozens of small missiles locked onto Daredevil.
"Boom boom boom boom—!"
Dense explosions instantly engulfed Daredevil's position.
Flames shot into the sky, and smoke filled the air.
But William's heart sank to rock bottom.
Matt's figure had already vanished from his original spot zero point zero one seconds before the explosion occurred.
He was like a feather, lightly gliding along the blast wave, skimming the ground for more than ten meters, completely unharmed.
The smoke cleared.
Matt still stood there, not even a wrinkle on his clothes.
"Anger solves nothing, Stark."
"It only makes you as much of a Beast as what you're trying to destroy."
Just then, William moved.
He couldn't wait any longer.
Phase Shift!
His body instantly blurred, transforming into an elusive Shadow that couldn't be caught by conventional senses, appearing silently behind Matt!
Palm Arc Pulse!
William's palm glowed with a faint blue-white electric light, condensing into a point, like a venomous snake's fangs, accurately piercing towards Matt's posterior neck nerve plexus!
This was his strongest control skill currently.
Enough to instantly paralyze an elephant's nervous system.
However.
Just as the electric light was about to touch the skin.
William's sure-fire strike missed.
At the same time, Matt's elbow struck backwards towards William's chest.
Fast!
Too fast!
William's pupils suddenly contracted, Danger Prediction screaming wildly!
He had no time to dodge, so he could only instantly channel his strength into his arms, crossing them over his chest.
William felt an indescribable immense force coming from the opponent's elbow.
That wasn't pure strength.
Rather, it was a spiraling, layered, insidious force that seemed capable of penetrating anything!
His arms throbbed with intense pain, and he was uncontrollably forced back several steps.
He looked down at his left arm.
A clear dent had appeared on the sturdy titanium alloy armor of the "foolproof plan."
Just one strike.
"Interesting."
Daredevil finally slowly turned around, facing William directly.
This was the first time he had "looked" at William properly tonight.
"There's a Beast hidden within your body too."
He could feel it.
The recoil from that collision, transmitted back through his elbow, far exceeded the normal human range.
It was a pure, utterly unreasonable physical force.
"But you, like Stark, are just children with strength and nothing else."
Daredevil took a step forward.
"You don't understand the true meaning of order."
"And you…" His "gaze" locked onto William, "William Rodriguez."
"Broker of risks, profiteer of chaos."
"You put a price on everything, turning life and safety into commodities that can be traded."
"What you represent is the old World I intend to destroy."
"In my new order, safety is not a privilege, but the norm. Peace is not a commodity, but a commandment."
"There will be no place for people like you to survive there."
Daredevil spread his arms, as if embracing the entire night.
"I will grant this city Eternal tranquility."
"With fear, with an iron fist, with absolute justice."
"All evil will be eradicated, all weakness will be eliminated."
"This is true salvation!"
On the rooftop, Tony's Iron Man Suit had been repaired.
He looked at the god-like figure below, listening to the mad and fanatical declaration, and felt a chill rise from the bottom of his heart.
This wasn't brainwashing.
This was… transfigured.
Matt Murdock, in his own way, had found a "sacred" core for The Hand's dark doctrine.
"William!" Tony's voice rang out in the comms channel, "I'm going to use Veronica! Pin him down for me!"
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