Retch (Part 1)

As summer fades, the nights in New York begin to cool. When the clear daytime sky is shrouded in darkness, the stars become exceptionally bright. Amidst the twinkling starlight, the brilliance of thousands of aircraft, like a surging tide, sweeps towards the earth.

Steve lowered his shield, looked at the seemingly endless mechanical creations in the sky, and swallowed hard.

To be honest, he hadn't expected Stark to take this form; he thought the magical reactor would at most create a larger version of Iron Man.

The New York night sky was gradually obscured, and the mechanical constructs in the sky were denser than the layers of dark clouds before a storm. The moving machines, like a huge school of fish, swept towards the battlefield.

As Peter jumped from the air, a spinning aircraft flew past him. He muttered, "This should be the 23rd generation. It's more agile than before, and the airflow is less..."

Countless shuttle-shaped robots passed by him, Peter's hair was blown by the airflow, and he looked up as if he could sense that Stark was watching him.

Peter stood on the rooftop of the tall building, the wind howling around him. He involuntarily reached out his hand, and the Demon God in the sky responded to his call. A storm of metal parts descended, and countless parts swirled and gathered from the sky.

The parts surrounded Peter's Spider-Man suit, slowly covering his body. Peter was lifted into the air by them. With the "click" of the parts meshing together, the armor plates shimmered like fish scales. As the plates flipped, the metal limbs on his back stretched out layer by layer, lifting Peter's body. When he stood up, a giant Iron Spider appeared in the sky above New York.

At the same time, Steve was also enhanced; mechanical parts formed a massive hand cannon on his arm, the one not holding the shield. With a wave of Steve hand, a powerful beam of light shot towards the Riot tentacles, which were scattered like waves. Steve shouted, "Effective attack! Continue!"

Peter then leaped up, his magically glowing limbs tearing through the darkness, his armored fists causing Riot stumble.

The armor fused onto Spider-Man and Captain America both originated from Stark's magical reactor, thus enabling them to effectively damage Riot's chaotic power, unlike previous physical attacks which were merely symbolic and unable to get close.

Other heroes on the battlefield received similar enhancements, and with Stark's mechanical army becoming increasingly agile, Riot almost completely collapsed, and the power of Chaos was suppressed to a range of about ten meters around him.

As the wind picked up, a huge white figure appeared in the sky above the Earth, but it was not Iron Man, or rather, it was an aggregate of countless machines forming Iron God.

Countless fortress-like mechanical nests filled the night sky. Accompanied by the roar of machinery, endless mechanical creations poured out of the fortress nests, forming a gigantic white Demon God.

It is no longer an individual mech, but an aggregate composed of thousands of mechs. Even with Peter's eyesight, he cannot fully see the process of those machines self-replicating, producing, and modifying themselves.

Only when Stark's wisdom was materialized into reality through magic could people directly feel the immense power generated by that boundless wisdom. When he was finally no longer confined to the fragile human body and his mind was infinitely liberated, Stark saw the Truth of the Multiverse.

He saw that the universe before him had turned into colorful glass beads, rolling on the ground, and within each glass bead were countless tiny Single Universe.

He could even see those versions of himself in the universes thinking at an experimental table, or flying over New York in mechs. Their lives, Destiny, and endings turned into streams of light and were stored in the steel-fused consciousness.

This view lasted only a moment. Stark felt that the magical energy in his chest was being consumed at an unexpected rate, forcing him to suppress his curiosity and turn his gaze back to Earth.

With the return of Stark's mindset, the swarms no longer spread blindly and infinitely, but instead undergo human design, selection, and upgrading. Countless mechanical fortresses are merged and assembled, and on the mechanical production line, the sub-units of various swarms complete several iterations in just a few seconds.

Nick Fury walked out of the S.H.I.E.L.D.. office, looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but curse, because the Earth was completely enveloped by Stark's mechanical army.

In Asgard's Asgard Palace, Loki stood beside Odin, Strange stood beside the Ancient One. As the mechanical roar echoed throughout Asgard, Tock's voice came from the red vortex. "He has ascended... become... the One..."

Nothing that happens in the Nine Realms can escape the eyes of the All-Father. Odin saw Stark descend in his Iron God form and felt the power that allowed him to break through the barrier of Single Universe in that instant.

Mephisto also spoke up, "... Was that the deposit we submitted earlier?"

"Humans are indeed a race with limitless potential. They were actually able to use this power to break through the barriers of the universe and elevate themselves to the status of the One..."

At this moment, the Cosmic Demons within the Asgard Palace were all preoccupied with their own thoughts. Clearly, they had not expected that humanity truly possessed the power to confront Knull, which calmed down many of the Demon God who were itching to act.

"Alright..." the Ancient One's somewhat indifferent voice rang out. He glanced back at Strange and then said, "Get to your positions."

Different colored streams of light flew out from Asgard's Asgard Palace, entered various dimensions, and began to absorb the surging chaotic power of the universe into their bodies.

The Ancient One and Odin both chose good positions for themselves, and everything went incredibly smoothly, just as they had predicted. In order to control the Riot, Knull began to continuously send his power through the opened channels.

But things soon took an unexpected turn.

Above Greenwich Village, Peter engaged in a chaotic Riot when he heard a familiar voice. "Good evening."

Peter turned around, looked at Schiller, and said in surprise, "Doctor, what are you doing here? This is dangerous!"

"It's okay, I just came to take a look."

Just as Peter was about to speak, the enormous Lizard Doctor jumped over and said to Peter, "You go and coordinate with that flaming skull. I'll take care of things here."

Peter glanced at Schiller with some unease, but seeing his calm expression, he left.

Schiller asked the Gray Mist in his mind, "Is this distance enough? Will it allow him to detect you?"

"A little closer."

Schiller then teleported to a building closer to the Riot, his entire being enveloped in the chaotic power surrounding the Riot.

Steve, who was on a rooftop a little further away, was using his shield to fight back against the wildly flailing tentacles when he saw the Riot entity in the air suddenly stiffen.

Then, layers upon layers of black tide surged forth, and with a roar of Riot, he went mad.

The countless tentacles, imbued with dense Dark Force, began to sweep across the area without restraint, turning all the buildings in the area into dust.

Schiller had turned into a cloud of gray mist, floating very close to the Riot. But perhaps because it was so close, the Riot went berserk for a long time before realizing that what they were looking for was right under his feet.

When Riot turned his gaze toward them, Schiller suddenly vanished. Riot was stunned, as was Knull, who was controlling Riot's invasion of Earth from the distant Klyntar planet.

Suddenly, Schiller appeared from another direction. Riot turned around and found Schiller waving at him. From deep space came Knull's angry roar, who thought the insect was toying with him.

Knull recognized the Gray Mist on Schiller's body as the special Symbiote that had suddenly disappeared. It was the culmination of his efforts during his imprisonment for thousands of years, and his hope for breaking free from the cage.

Riot reached out and struck, but just as the hand, imbued with the Chaos Force, landed, Schiller vanished once more.

The signals emanating from the special Symbiote made Knull increasingly impatient. What he wanted was right under his nose, within easy reach with a wave of his hand. But Riot tried several times, whether attacking with his main body or sweeping with his tentacles, Schiller would always appear, disappear, and reappear. None of these attacks could harm him.

Knull was unusually furious. His mind, filled with chaos, prevented him from thinking. This current situation was precisely caused by the special abilities he had given to the Gray Mist.

Knull created the Gray Mist for the purpose of escaping from prison. He chose the form of fog to give the Symbiote excellent speed and the ability to be attacked by enemies.

As a result, he can no longer attack the Symbiote himself.

If Knull were to descend now, he could still use the Black Death Sword to attack, as this sword is the weakness of all Symbiote and can effectively kill them.

But now, Knull is still trapped deep within Klyntar planet. He's like a Player controlling a character with a controller. Even though his real-life body is a fighting Champion and a sword master, it doesn't affect his inability to catch a tiny bug on the screen.

Just then, Stark, the Deus Ex machina, also began to act. Countless swarms of machines entered the sky one after another, and the mechanical fortresses, shining with magical light, operated at overload. The massive mechanical army, beyond anyone's imagination, was like an endless swarm of insects, enveloping the Riot.

Perhaps influenced by Schiller's advice, Stark, the Iron God, is not a complete individual, but a collective consciousness composed of countless machine groups. This gives him a superdimensional perspective, allowing him to be precise down to each individual component, and also to command the mechanical army as the Brood Mother consciousness.

Mechs seemed to have little effect on the chaos Riot controlled by Knull, and that was indeed the case initially. The first wave of mechs to approach the chaos were quickly corrupted by its power, and their parts began to age and decay rapidly. However, only the second wave of mechs that followed them possessed chaos resistance.

The third wave of machines targeted the tentacles, increasing their speed and allowing them to weave nimbly between the waving tentacles, directly exploding in the face of the Riot. The fourth wave of machines extended the freezing properties; although they could not affect the chaotic forces, the combined freezing explosions caused by hundreds of machines made it almost impossible for the Riot's entity to move.

After several probing attacks, the real mechanical onslaught arrived. Riot faced an all-encompassing, relentless attack. The various mechanical forms, like a gaping maw of Abyss, enveloped Riot and his dark energy.

After the Demon God took action, Knull discovered that his power to control the Riot was weakening, while the Iron God Stark was growing stronger.

But the thing Knull was looking for was right under his nose, and he began to get increasingly impatient. His anxiety and restlessness ignited his chaotic nature, and he began to recklessly channel his power into the Earth.

As Knull's anger intensified, Schiller reverted to human form and retreated to a slightly more distant location.

Then, he opened the chat system, scrolled down without hesitation, found Knull's avatar, clicked on the Celestial Realm, and after confirming the connection, Knull, far away on the Klyntar planet in Andromeda, heard that familiar voice:

"Hello, are you there, Nattaru?"