Stark in Action

Is that so?

Before the Hogwarts opening banquet even began, Tony Stark, at the new S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters in Stark Tower in Manhattan, New York, received news that another version of himself had appeared at Hogwarts, as well as Shang-Chi's message from Carter.

As he pondered, the gold and red chair suspended in mid-air flashed with blue arcs of electricity, enveloping him and connecting his thoughts to the most powerful supercomputer on Earth beneath his office.

What used to take Nick Fury a month to process, he now processes in a microsecond.

His projections also appeared in various S.H.I.E.L.D.. locations, communicating and issuing commands.

When Tony Stark opened his eyes again, he had already completed all his tasks as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D..

To make this huge machine run smoothly.

At the same time, he investigated everything related to Shang-Chi and made numerous contingency plans for it.

"Ten Rings".

"Xu Wenwu".

"Ying Li".

"The Mandarin."

"Xu Xialing".

"Tarros".

"Jia Ya."

"And Nick Fury."

The fingers that were tapping the table stopped abruptly, and azure energy flowed upwards from the fingers, with lines shimmering with blue light spreading across his entire body.

Buzz!

A blinding blue light flashed by.

The figure on the gold and red chair had vanished, and as the blue light entered the network, it instantly traveled to the other side of the Earth along with the messages.

At the horse farm, a middle-aged man gallops atop a gleaming black horse.

"Whoa~"

The man, who appeared to be practicing Iron Wire Fist, stopped his horse. The iron rings on his arms glowed with a cobalt blue light, and upon closer inspection, they revealed glowing runes hidden within them.

He sensed the arrival of a powerful being.

"Have you been plotting anything that could harm the world lately, Ip Man of Wing Chun?" The man who emerged from the electric light of the telephone pole said quipped. "Nick Fury has his eye on your son."

"Tony Stark." The man's face was extremely grim.

He wasn't angry because of the nickname Tony gave him.

Rather, it was because Nick Fury took a liking to his son's behavior.

He did indeed have a plan: to retrieve the necklace from the son who had escaped to Hogsmeade, and then enter Tarot Village to rescue his wife.

Even though he lives here, he knows Nick Fury's name and his peculiar eye for talent.

Nick Fury's belief in his son means his son will become a key figure in a highly dangerous event.

Considering that his son was just an unambitious hotel doorman, it can be concluded that this major event was related to him.

He simply went to a remote village to resurrect his wife.

Could it be that he has truly been bewitched by some being, and that his wife's soul is not actually inside the gate deep within Tarot Village?

If Shang-Chi himself knew that his father, whom he had spent most of the series trying to persuade, was now doubting whether he was being used simply because of the name Nick Fury, Shang-Chi's expression would be priceless.

"You really have a plan?" Stark noticed Xu Wenwu's undisguised expression, his feelings extremely complicated at the moment. "I knew it, you're more likely."

He was pleased because he had guessed the key.

He was speechless, because Nick Fury's judgment had been proven right once again.

He had a headache. The Thanos issue wasn't resolved yet, and now Xu Wenwu had appeared, a fact confirmed by Nick Fury's uncanny insight.

"Is it related to the Tarot Dimension?"

"Dimension?" Xu Wenwu's expression changed, his previous gloom vanishing.

Xu Wenwu, an ambitious man, was naturally a frequent visitor to the Duel Arena.

Although both he and Tony are honored Duel Master, Tony is closer to the Hall of Fame than him.

This is also the main reason why he wasn't angry about Tony giving him a nickname.

Because Tony is a strong person, he sees it as normal for a strong person to tease a weak person.

At the same time, because he had learned magic, he was not completely ignorant of the Dimensional Demon God.

"I knew it; it wasn't a simple village."

Everything about the beings in this dimension, including their souls, belongs to the dimensional lord.

Therefore, Ying Li's soul does indeed exist in Tarot Village.

The dimensional master of Ta Lo might be the dragon worshipped by Tarot Person, or the being behind the stone door deep within the Ta Lo.

Yes, based on his understanding of dimensions and Talo Village, Xu Wenwu speculates that Ta Lo does not have a true dimensional master.

Or rather, two exist simultaneously.

The dragon is in charge of the realm of the living.

The entity behind the stone gate is in charge of the realm of the dead.

The former defeated the latter, sealing the latter and the king's kingdom behind the stone gate.

The latter may be more evil.

This is how Nick Fury's insight is proven.

Perhaps it was because of his desire to revive Ying Li that the being behind the stone gate became a true dimensional lord, invading Earth and causing a crisis.

However, he didn't care, as long as Ying Li's soul was truly behind the stone gate.

His only concern was how to deceive the man in front of him, and after finding Ying Li, how to close that door and seal away the evil entity.

So he quickly composed himself. "All of this is indeed related to the Tarot Dimension. There is a door deep within the Ta Lo, and the sealed entity inside is about to break through the blockade, endangering Tarot Village and life on Earth."

"And the key to the map to the Ta Lo is on my son."

"He took them all to Hogsmeade."

While everyone thought Nick Fury was sinister, Stark caught on to Xu Wenwu's train of thought, "Because your son was protected by Nick Fury, you couldn't get the key from your son, which prevented you from reinforcing the seal in time. The being behind the stone gate broke through the seal and endangered the Earth?"

"But there is another possibility. Because of Fury, you obtained the key from your son, found Tarot Village, and released the being behind the door."

"Yes," Xu Wenwu said frankly, "There is the latter possibility. But it could also be the former, right? Aren't you curious why I can live for a thousand years?" He directly raised the Ten Rings on his arms, "It's all because of them."

"My wife Ying Li, comes from Ta Lo. She guards the entrance to Tarot Village and is a contractor of the Dragon Power."

"After she relinquished her position and the Dragon Power, she was killed by my enemies who came looking for her."

Xu Wenwu was not confident in hiding his past in front of Stark, so he chose to lay it all out, only adding some arguments to help him make his point at key points.

"Upon contact with her corpse—the dissipated soul energy of the Tarot Dimension Dragon Blood — the Ten Rings were further activated."

"But unfortunately, for a long time I was consumed by hatred."

"It wasn't until after I took my revenge that my mind cleared and I received the message that the Ten Rings wanted to tell me."

"After finding my daughter and collecting the key from her, I learned about the origin of the Ten Rings and the potential crisis my wife's hometown might be facing."

"But I was turned away by the Ta Lo because of my bloodstained past."

"The people of Tarot Village don't believe me either. For four thousand years, the records of the Ten Rings have disappeared."

"And my son ran away and smuggled himself into Hogsmeade."

"I investigated you before I came here, as well as the Tarot Dimension (from Kamar-Taj, which is also connected to the internet and has a partnership with S.H.I.E.L.D.. in this universe)," Stark said. "Everything you said fits together, except for the Ten Rings."

"Its material is something I've never seen before, and its construction is completely different from any technology I've ever seen or understood."

"It also does not match any artifacts of the Kamar-Taj Code."

"Its thermoluminescence suggests that it may be older than this planet."

Listening to Stark's words, Wenwu was secretly alarmed by the Ten Rings on his arm.

Tony Stark is a genius in both science and magic. After becoming the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.., he also dabbled in alien technology and gained extensive knowledge of mysterious and supernatural creatures and prehistoric artifacts through Kamar-Taj.

In other words, even such an authoritative figure, who is deeply knowledgeable in the fields of magic, earth science, and extraterrestrial science, could not determine the origin of the Ten Rings.

Could this be Dimensional Demon God?

Like the Darkhold, it is a beacon for Dimensional Demon God to invade reality.

Could it be that his love for Ying Li, and Ying Li's death, were all due to the influence of the Dimensional Demon God after the Ten Rings, just to plunge him into darkness and make him be controlled again?

The thought that Ying Li died after he had lost Ten Rings made Wenwu feel terrible.

The more you know, the more you think.

"You're going to take it?" Wenwu thought that if he had thought of that, Stark would have thought of it too.

Such dangerous things will naturally be banned.

"Your body is perfectly suited to it; your aura and your magic are the perfect vessel to contain it and prevent it from sending information into the Multiverse," Stark analyzed, his pupils shimmering with a mysterious blue light.

"Perhaps that's why you were born."

"You can take it off, but you must never let anyone else take it away to activate it."

"Perhaps, that crisis has nothing to do with the Tarot Dimension."

"It was either Shang-Chi, who had Fury's support, who took away or inherited your Ten Rings, which led to the invasion of the Multiverse."

Wenwu believed it, but his goal was to break down the door of the Ta Lo and rescue Ying Li's soul.

"Ying Li once briefly stole my Ten Rings with the Dragon Power and used them to fight back against me."

"This confirms what I said and your guess."

"The compatibility between the Dragon Power and it proves that the gate forged from the Dragon Scales is the perfect place to place the Ten Rings."

Stark extended his right hand, his five fingers flashing with blue light. Wenwu was surprised to find that the five rings on his right arm responded and flew to Stark's side, circling around him while emitting blue light.

Then it lost its luster and fell to the ground.

Stark calmly replied, "With more advanced technology and greater energy, we can take it away from you just the same way."

Wenwu was secretly shocked. He knew that Tony Stark was stronger than him, but they were in the same league. He did not expect that Tony Stark would be so much stronger than him and could easily disable his biggest trump card.

"So," Stark continued, "You can't prove that the Dragon's power is more perfect than yours."

"Furthermore, as long as the whole is not taken away, taking away a part like I did will not activate its information transmission device."

"Ying Li has taken everything away." Wenwu tried to continue his efforts.

"That could also be because we are in a dimensional space," Stark said. "The material universe is more stable, but from a magical perspective, it is more prone to information leakage. Even though Earth is protected by the three Great Sanctum Sanctorum, it can only defend against Dimensional Demon God from the outside. As for information emitted from within, we can only detect it, but we cannot intercept it."

"Because the Sanctum Sanctorum itself requires the power of the Dimensional Demon God, this is an unavoidable flaw."

Seeing that Wenwu wanted to continue trying, Stark said impatiently, "Ta Lo, I'll take you there. Whether you're lying or not."

Having learned his place in the universe through the Duel Arena, Tony Stark, who possesses magical abilities and has developed abnormally, is not afraid of any Dimensional Demon God.

In the material universe, the limit of power exhibited by life is at the level of a single universe.

Dimensional Demon God have broken free from the universe and left their mark on multiple universes, some of whom are so powerful as to be Multiverse- level, exhibit inconsistent levels of strength in the material universe depending on the clarity of the 'signals' they leave behind.

There is only one Sorcerer Supreme, a unique Dimensional Demon God.

If Wenwu is lying, it's the former.

At worst, Wenwu was bewitched by a weak Dimensional Demon God.

He can handle it on his own.

If it's the latter, he has even less reason not to do so.

By eliminating the potential threat of the Ten Rings, and incidentally sealing away a Dimensional Demon God that is likely to be evil.

Why not?

"This is the address," Stark said, extending his hand. A message entered Wenwu's mind, "And it's also a marker. I will be monitoring you at all times."

"I should take care of other things too. Fortunately, my visa for Merlin Dimension has been processed."

The moment he finished speaking, his figure vanished from the spot.

A middle-aged man wearing a navy blue suit and sporting a distinctive mustache emerged from the Floo Network's hearth outside the main gate of Hogwarts Castle.

Stark, who was talking to Peter, turned his head and asked, "J.A.R.V.I.S.?"

Ron was unaware of what was happening. He had already taken his seat in the incredibly spacious Great Hall, near the entrance, and was fiddling with the tablet embedded in the table, selecting the dishes he would use for the opening banquet that evening.

At the same time, this tablet also served as a prop for them to watch the opening banquet.

Yes, even in the Great Hall, most students at the back had to use tablets to fully experience the entire Sorting Ceremony.

Because

The Great Hall at Hogwarts in this world is enormous.

Even with loud incantations and projection magic.

This experience is not suitable for students sitting near the High Table.

And so, this situation arose.

Ron was now completely absorbed in the menu, planning to have a good meal tonight, go to Hogsmeade tomorrow to inquire about Shang-Chi, figure out his habits and commute, and then find an opportunity to make his move.

Even Tony Stark, whom they had met before at the space station, appeared in the Great Hall, and no one paid any attention Peter him or Peter.

Until

"Oh my god! It's Professor Granger!"

"He finally, finally, was willing to leave the Headmaster's Office!"

"Will we hear him speak tonight?"

"Of course, even Tony Stark showed up!"

Peter so lucky!

Ron quickly looked up and saw Peter two companions surrounded by a group of people. Among them, Basil was the most eye-catching, followed by Tony Stark.