Han Yu's fists did not stop. He struck Ultron ten more times with the same force.
After ten punches, a deep crater had appeared in the ground. Han Yu waved a hand, and Green Lantern Energy lifted Ultron out of the hole and suspended him before Han Yu.
"Had enough?"
Han Yu smiled as he spoke, but to Ultron, his smile was like a devil's. Though he was a robot, a trace of an emotion no robot should have surfaced in his heart: fear.
The young man before him could not be measured against the Metahumans Ultron knew, or people like Thor. Han Yu surpassed them by far, far too much. Ultron felt that someone like Han Yu was truly qualified to call himself a god!
"I've had enough, enough. Stop hitting me."
Ultron's voice was somewhat halting. He had uploaded all his consciousness into his current body of pure Vibranium. By rights, even if the Avengers spent ages physically pummeling him, his body should have suffered little damage.
Yet after those eleven punches from Han Yu, numerous cracks had appeared in Ultron's head, and pieces had even been knocked off. He had completely lost his nerve. They were not remotely on the same level of combat power.
"Good. Now, copy your memories into this body, and delete the images of me from the memories left in your original body."
A steel body of silver and pale gold appeared beside Han Yu. At the sight of it, Ultron would surely have looked astonished if he had been capable of human expressions.
He detected forty percent Vibranium in the body. As for the rest of the metal, he had only ever detected it in one person's weapon: Thor's hammer.
"Wh-what is this?"
Ultron asked blankly.
"It's your new body," Han Yu said. "Enough talk. Get in there."
Ultron did not dare disobey. He hurriedly did as Han Yu had said and copied his consciousness into the body.
While Ultron was transferring his consciousness, the General Store System's voice rang out in Han Yu's mind.
"Additional task completed! Rewards obtained: upgrade points ×100, Item Draw Card ×1!"
Han Yu grinned. He had thought he could only get either the Item Draw Card or the upgrade points, but unexpectedly, he had received both. The upgrade points even amounted to a hundred. As of now, Han Yu had a total of two hundred and twenty-eight upgrade points.
"The copying's done. I set a timer. The original me will wake up in three minutes."
Now in his new body, Ultron looked at Han Yu with a gaze full of shock and admiration. This body was far, far stronger than his original one. It contained information about the sixty percent unknown metal.
The metal was called Uru Metal, and it had an extremely high affinity for magic and the like.
In other words, Ultron's magic resistance and magic power had both reached the level of a god. A superhero with magic power as high as Thor's could strike him with lightning for a whole day while Ultron stood still, and he would be fine!
"This body is so powerful! Boss, what's our plan from here?"
Ultron could not help but marvel. His disappointment at losing to Han Yu vanished like smoke in an instant, to the point that he even changed how he addressed Han Yu.
"Why call me boss... You make me sound like a gang leader."
Han Yu did not know whether to laugh or cry at the way Ultron addressed him. He had not expected the grudge in Ultron's heart to disappear so quickly.
"All right, you can be called second-generation Ultron now. Let's go. We can do the Avengers another favor."
Leaving the half-crippled first-generation Ultron where he lay, Han Yu led Ultron out of the cave.
When first-generation Ultron woke up and discovered what had suddenly happened to his body, he flew into a thunderous rage. He stormed up to the surface and confronted the Avengers.
First-generation Ultron still had Green Lantern Energy inside him, and he fought with no regard for his life. A damaged building was reduced to ashes in an instant.
"Stark, Banner and I can't hold on much longer. Get back here!"
Even Thor's will exceeded his strength by now. His opponent's mastery of Green Lantern Energy and the Mind Stone was unimaginably high, and Thor had nearly lost his life several times. If the Hulk had not been fighting alongside him, with the two of them taking turns fending off Ultron's attacks, the Avengers would have been wiped out long ago.
Stark clenched his teeth. He was at the bottom of the island of Sokovia and had already found a way to destroy the entire island, but Thor had sent him a message at that moment.
If even Thor's divine body and the Hulk's physique could not withstand Ultron, there was even less chance of anyone else beating him.
"Fall back, fall back!"
Captain America shouted instructions as he fended off first-generation Ultron's attacks. The arm holding his shield was trembling slightly from repeated energy impacts. Vibranium was not invincibly strong; once energy reached a certain intensity, it could still deliver an impact.
"Hmph, buzzing little flies. Die!"
A small yellow-green square, slightly smaller than Ultron's palm, coalesced over his hand. He slammed it viciously toward Captain America.
Our Captain America could block anything. Faced with this terrifying-looking attack, his first reaction was not to dodge, but to raise his shield and block it.
However, when the small yellow-green square struck and Captain America raised his shield to block it, the absurdly powerful attack smashed the Vibranium Shield he had used for years into fragments that scattered across the ground. The tremendous force of the backlash snapped his shield arm outright!
"Steve!"
Black Widow Natasha's pupils contracted, and she rushed to Captain America's side. His right arm had been completely severed, and stark white bone was faintly visible at the break.
Hawkeye ran over too. His expression changed at the sight of the bloody injury, and he joined Natasha in giving Captain America emergency treatment.
Looking at first-generation Ultron floating in the air, at the height of his power like the midday sun, the Avengers felt a measure of despair. Were they going to meet their end here today?
Wanda and Quicksilver stared at first-generation Ultron, panting. Han Yu had told them that if they could defeat Ultron, they could also step in.
The reason they had remained unmoved until now was that Han Yu had told them not to help lightly; they only needed to save the civilians.
In the midst of the mess strewn across the ground, a hearty laugh sounded incongruously from the open space between the two sides.
One of the two figures was Han Yu. The other was a complete stranger—and a robot, no less—but his equipment looked far better than Ultron's.
Han Yu had also added Green Lantern Energy to Ultron's new body as an external aid. In other words, he could use Green Lantern Energy to transform into all manner of things, even a human.
Seeing Captain America's injuries, Han Yu raised an eyebrow and tossed Thor several Senzu Beans. "You can go rest. I'll handle the rest."