Dealing with these infectious monsters was indeed difficult. Not to mention Spider-Man, who was now treasured by every faction—no one was willing to let even superheroes of lesser strategic importance risk being driven mad by infection just to trade punches with these monsters.
So in the initial battle plan, aside from using the lifeless Undead Army to suppress the vanguard's assault, they intended to manufacture robots in bulk—or rather, release all the robot stockpiles Stark had stored away.
But robots were ultimately different from humans. The combat-focused robots designed by Stark carried powerful destructive weapons, and like Magneto, they could keep these superpowered monster heroes in a state of "constantly dying."
But that was no long-term solution either. So they had prepared another plan to capture them alive: using Time Variance Authority agents and the temporal weapons every one of them was equipped with.
This small device, somewhat like a portable terminal, did not look like a weapon, but it possessed absurdly powerful capabilities. With a single sweep of light, the target's timeline would be completely frozen. It did not matter how much madness or infection there was—if time was not moving, no amount of infection could spread.
Time was the answer to every problem. That saying was especially fitting for the current situation. Once the fully armed Time Variance Authority agents entered the field, they pulled the trigger at the sight of any living thing. Countless beams flashed, and statue after statue with frozen time was hauled into storage by robots.
The first wave of attackers slowed as they poured from the portals. Once the rush had passed, the mages stopped supplying the portals with energy, cutting off the flow and bringing this operation to a temporary end.
"That's it?" Shadowcat Kitty asked incredulously. "So their large-scale attack is