Loki grabbed Tony by the throat and flung him aside.
"JARVIS, activate!"
At this moment, Tony no longer had the calm he'd shown earlier while trash talking Loki. Without his armor, he was nothing but a weakling in front of Loki.
The usually responsive JARVIS, however, gave no reply at all.
"You will all kneel before me!"
Facing an unarmored Tony, Loki's presence soared. He grabbed Tony by the throat again and hurled him straight out the window.
Crash!
Tony's flying body smashed through the high-rise glass and plummeted rapidly from over a hundred meters in the air.
"JARVIS! What are you waiting for?"
The wind roared past Tony's ears. Without the protection of his armor, he was just an ordinary human now.
This bungee jump with zero safety measures was crazily shaking his heart.
Tony could only place his hopes on the Mark 7 activating smoothly. He struggled to adjust his posture midair so he could be properly fitted with the armor.
BOOM!
At this moment, a projectile-shaped object smashed through the door not far behind Loki and chased after Tony along his falling path.
In the air, the missile pod formed from the folded Mark 7 armor rapidly caught up to Tony in free fall.
Red scanning beams immediately identified Tony's smart wristbands and locked onto them.
The next second, the missile pod transformed midair, slowly wrapping around Tony's body.
By the moment the helmet sealed shut, Tony was less than five meters away from the pedestrians on the ground.
The system activated. Tony instantly raised both hands as the thrusters blasted flames to provide power, lifting him back into the air at the very last moment before he would have hit the ground.
At the spot where Tony had just fallen, Loki leaned out and looked down. He wanted to see this madman who dared provoke him smash into a pile of flesh.
"You also pissed off one more person. Agent Coulson..."
Before Loki could make out what was happening below, a voice sounded beside his ear.
Iron Man, Tony Stark, clad in the Mark 7 armor, reappeared in front of him and, without another word, returned the favor with a palm repulsor blast.
"Ah!"
Loki, who had been smug for only a few seconds, was once again sent crashing down in a sorry state.
———
[Stark Tower, Rooftop]
Hum!
A thick blue-white beam of light shot straight into the sky from the device encasing the Tesseract.
Enormous energy opened a folded space gateway high above.
The Chitauri army, having waited a long time, began pouring madly into the portal from somewhere in the universe.
The Chitauri soldiers' bodies were a fusion of organic life and mechanical enhancements. Their skin was gray-green and dark gray, covered with armor-like hardened layers.
Metal masks hid their faces, their eyes glowing with cold blue light.
From their distinctive appearance alone, their combat power was obvious. The high-tech energy weapons in their hands were equally formidable.
Whether long rifles or melee spears, both could fire blue pulse energy, easily breaking through any ordinary defense.
There were also highly mobile flying vehicles, similar to airborne motorcycles, that made them even more dangerous.
The Chitauri soldiers streamed shoulder to shoulder through the portal. From afar, they looked like tiny insects swarming around a streetlamp on a summer night.
"Come on, army!"
Watching the endless enemies above, Tony charged in first.
The aircraft Corin was riding was actually quite fast. Stark Tower had already entered their field of view, but compared to Tony and the God of Thunder, it was still noticeably slower.
Thor was already fighting his brother on the rooftop of Stark Tower.
"Stark, we're here, on your right, northeast—"
Before Captain America finished speaking, a powerful gust suddenly filled the aircraft.
Turning his head, he saw that the cabin door had been opened, and a crimson figure was rapidly shrinking in the distance.
Enemies that Iron Man couldn't cover with his firepower began diving toward the densely populated ground, firing irregular pulse shots.
Taxis along the roads were blasted by the pulses like paper. They shattered cleanly and burned fiercely.
Police on the streets, shop attendants, and office workers all looked up in shock, staring blankly at the changes above Stark Tower.
"What the f**k?"
"Mom, what am I looking at?"
"Aliens are really invading Earth?"
"Iron Man is fighting them alone?"
"No, there are others…"
"Look! The Crimson Silver Duke is here too!"
When most civilians encountered such a world-shaking event, their instinct was to take shelter. But once they found cover and confirmed they were temporarily safe, they immediately turned into spectators, excitedly discussing everything.
The moment Corin saw the energy beam soaring into the sky above Stark Tower, he opened the aircraft door, activated magnetic control, and flew over at top speed.
In the air, Corin grabbed a Chitauri soldier. As the alien stared at him in confusion:
"Exchange!"
[Target is a living organism. Exchange failed!]
"Tch, figured as much…"
After getting the system's feedback, Corin confirmed that aliens couldn't be exchanged for money. That made things simple.
He raised his hand and casually threw a punch straight into the alien's face.
The unknown metal mask, along with biological tissue and strangely colored fluids, exploded instantly under that single blow.
The alien's body went limp and fell from the sky within one second…
Grabbing the alien flying vehicle, Corin held the handlebars and initiated appraisal:
[Chitauri War Suit -> Appraised value: 1.5 billion USD]
A smile appeared on Corin's face, "Yeah, now this is the right pace!"
At this moment, a money-making plan gradually took shape in Corin's mind…
"Did you come here on an ox cart or something?"
In the middle of the fight, Tony saw that he couldn't control the situation by himself and felt both love and hate toward the late-arriving Colonel Rogers.
"Head to Parker Avenue. I'll draw them over."
Just then, Tony noticed that all the aliens around him had frozen in place.
"Huh? What's going on?"
Tony immediately had JARVIS analyze the cause of this strange situation.
While JARVIS was still processing, a dazzling golden beam of light pierced the sky.
["Analysis complete! It's your teammate, Mr. Silver Duke."]
"Alright, I already know…"
In Tony's view, less than five hundred meters away in another part of the sky, Corin was standing on an alien motorcycle. His gaze had turned into bright yellow golden light, seemingly firing randomly at the invaders.
But through JARVIS's zoomed-in visual analysis, Tony was shocked to discover that what looked like blind attacks were actually the ultimate display of efficiency and speed.
After dealing with the first Chitauri soldier, Corin reached a conclusion:
'Aliens aren't worth money. Kill them.'
'Vehicles and equipment are valuable. Keep them.'
So Corin first used a spiked magnetic field to lock all the Chitauri soldiers in his line of sight in place.
Their bodies were full of metal. In the powerful magnetic field, they could only move their eyelids, the only parts without metal.
Then, at maximum output, heat vision precisely pierced through the heads of every nearby alien.
Headless corpses fell from the sky like rain, delivering an overwhelming visual impact to Tony.
"JARVIS, analyze how many enemies Silver Duke took out with that move."
["Yes, Mr. Stark… according to calculations, the number of enemies eliminated by Mr. Silver Duke this time is 68."]
"…"
Tony had been the first to enter the battlefield and the first to engage the enemy. Yet even after emptying the micro-missile pods on his shoulders, he had only taken out 29 enemies.
And that was when the spatial gateway had just opened and hadn't fully expanded.
With that single move, Corin had almost wiped out the newly arrived wave of enemies. Tony had even been thinking of luring them to the other side to coordinate with the Captain. Looks like there was no need now.
Just as Tony was about to take advantage of the opening Corin created to catch his breath, an even more outrageous scene appeared.
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