The Avengers were locked in a bitter fight.
"Stark, you've got a lot of tailgaters on your ass!"
Hawkeye Barton was up on a rooftop vantage point. With his wide view, he noticed Tony nearby had fallen into a passive situation.
A flying motorcycle squad had locked onto Tony and was relentlessly chasing him down.
["I'm trying to shake them off!"]
On the display in front of Tony, who kept changing positions in midair, JARVIS showed at least fifteen flying vehicles right behind him.
["I think their turning is really bad."]
Tony's eyes darted around as he multitasked, dodging attacks while analyzing the data JARVIS was feeding him. Gradually, he found a weakness in the enemy's aircraft.
"Find a corner and turn!"
Watching the direction Tony was flying, Barton raised his hand and fired a blind shot.
The enemy that was about to fly past Barton's position exploded on the spot. Barton didn't even turn his head, cool as hell.
["Hey, hey! You two don't rush! Leave it to me!"]
At that moment, Corin's voice came through the comms.
Watching Barton drop a flying vehicle with a single arrow, clean and efficient, made Corin's heart bleed.
Those were all his precious account balance.
One set was worth 1.5 billion.
A few minutes earlier, when Corin realized that closing the portal required finding Loki and taking the Mind Scepter, his eyes had swept across the battlefield.
To his delight, he discovered that several enemy flying squads were still intact. His eyes lit up, and he temporarily stopped looking for Loki.
"Making money comes first!"
Just then, he heard Tony and Barton talking. He quickly locked onto Tony's position, opened a portal, and arrived on top of the building Tony was about to pass through.
Hum!
Locking onto the pursuing squad behind Tony, Corin raised his hand and remotely released a magnetic field, freezing those dozen or so flying vehicles along with the weapons in the enemies' hands in place.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The enemy flying speed was extremely fast, and they were about to catch up to Tony ahead.
Just as the slippery target entered firing range, the mounts beneath the Chitauri soldiers suddenly vanished.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The chains used to secure their bodies to the vehicles snapped cleanly.
Dozens of alien soldiers shot forward under the force of inertia.
The weapons in their hands vanished as well.
Everything happened too fast. These unlucky Chitauri soldiers suddenly lost all support in midair.
Smack!
Screaming wildly, they slammed into solid walls one after another, all turning into flat shapes.
"Exchange!"
[Exchange successful! +24 billion USD. Account balance: 352 billion USD]
"Ahh, satisfying."
After successfully harvesting this wave of enemies, Corin made a nice profit and nodded in satisfaction.
"Nice work! What's next?"
With the danger gone, Tony kept flying without slowing down. He had already seen Corin's freakish methods and didn't make a fuss.
"The hell?"
Realizing that Corin had wiped out an entire squad in an instant, Hawkeye Barton subconsciously reached back and touched his quiver.
There weren't many arrows left inside.
He never missed, but even one arrow, at best triggering a chain explosion, could only take out three to five enemies.
And it still cost him an arrow, plus a long time to aim.
Barehanded, Silver Duke just wiped out a whole group.
"The gap is way too big!"
Without comparison, there's no damage.
Even Barton, usually proud and unyielding, had to admit at this moment that he was jealous.
After spacing out for a moment and hearing Tony speak, he suddenly remembered his duty.
"Thor is fighting a squad on Sixth Street."
He quickly shared the battle situation.
"Right! I'm a sniper and observer. This scale of battle doesn't suit me."
Constantly comforting himself, Barton drew his bow again and fired, precisely taking out one enemy.
Touching his ever-dwindling arrows, Hawkeye Barton looked at Corin with a sour gaze.
"This guy didn't even invite me?"
Tony's fighting spirit was soaring. With Silver Duke backing him up, he felt unusually strong.
He sped off to support his teammates, excitement written all over his face.
———
The scene shifted.
A Leviathan was roaming through the streets, seemingly slow but actually very fast.
Its massive size meant that even office workers looking through floor-to-ceiling windows couldn't see its whole body.
The Leviathan's terrifying gaze was drawn by the panicked screams of the white-collar workers.
It turned its huge head and was about to charge over.
At that moment, footsteps sounded from the other end of the open office floor.
As the ground shook and office equipment shattered everywhere, a green figure ran barefoot toward it.
It was the Hulk.
He leapt high toward the Leviathan, grabbed its lower jaw, and with the inertia of his body, forcibly made the Leviathan turn around.
He successfully saved the lives of hundreds of people on that floor.
Natasha was shoved onto a car hood by a Chitauri infantryman.
Her pistol ammo had long been depleted, leaving her to fight hand-to-hand.
Just as the Chitauri infantryman was about to pierce the ugly creature in front of him with his spear,
Natasha used her signature skill, jiu-jitsu.
She wrapped her legs around and locked the enemy's arms, and Black Widow forcibly tore out the connection at the back of the enemy's neck, then used the enemy's weapon to shoot him down.
The gap in combat power among the Avengers was clearly shown here.
That's why Hawkeye Barton was better suited to team up with Natasha. At least it wouldn't hurt his pride.
Captain America appeared behind Natasha at this moment, nearly being mistaken for an enemy by her combat instincts.
Seeing Captain Rogers, the panting Natasha finally relaxed a bit.
"Captain, if the portal isn't closed, they'll never stop coming!"
"None of our weapons are working!"
Rogers said helplessly.
The two of them looked up at the portal in the sky at the same time.
This kind of fight wasn't something a simple "git gud" could solve. [T/N: Lol! Hollow Knight reference, in this economy?]
Just taking down a few enemies had already left Agent Natasha physically and mentally exhausted.
So the weakest in combat power, Natasha, started thinking hard.
"Maybe it has nothing to do with weapons."
Rogers realized that Agent Natasha wanted to get to the Tesseract.
"But we don't have a vehicle."
Natasha stared straight at the alien war vehicles that occasionally flew past and came up with an idea.
"I do have a vehicle."
As she spoke, she stepped a few paces away from Colonel Rogers.
"But I need some help!"
Captain America instantly understood her plan.
She was going to hijack an enemy vehicle.
At the same time, he gained new respect for the woman in front of him. He stepped back in sync with her.
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yes! It'll definitely be fun."
Natasha kept calculating the approach speed of the flying vehicle. As soon as she finished speaking, she took a running start, used the height of a car to jump onto Captain Rogers' shield.
With Captain America lifting her up, she sprang into the air and grabbed a passing flying motorcycle.
Whoosh!
Her figure flashed by as Natasha flew off into the distance with the war vehicle.
After Natasha left, Colonel Rogers was once again surrounded by enemies.
At this moment, the picky Corin spotted the flying vehicle Natasha was on.
That's right. Before finding Loki, the only things Corin cared about were these enemy flying war vehicles.
Natasha stabbed her dual weapons into the driver's shoulders, turning the flight direction toward the rooftop of Stark Tower.
At this moment, another enemy war vehicle appeared behind her.
"A mosquito is still meat no matter how small."
Just as Corin was about to use his ability to take down the vehicle chasing Natasha, Tony appeared beside them and blasted it out of the sky.
"Damn!! That was mine!"
Corin froze slightly as a familiar feeling returned.
Kill steal.
"You're welcome, Silver Duke."
Tony smugly turned his body to glance at Corin, then accelerated toward the ground to support Colonel Rogers.
The two of them pulled off a spectacular combo.
Tony continuously fired energy beams from both hands, redirecting them through Colonel Rogers' shield to wipe out a small cluster of enemies.
Seeing their explosive combo move, Corin's eyes lit up.
'If we're talking beams, I've got those too.'
"I'm joining in too, Captain! Catch this!"
Before Captain Rogers could react, bright heat vision shot out from the eye holes of Corin's mask, heading straight for Rogers.
Captain Rogers had just heard Corin's voice when he felt a wave of heat rushing toward him.
Instinctively, he turned his shield to catch it.
"Oh shit! That's hot—"
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