The Destroyer was embedded in a cracked crater, trembling incessantly with a "clack-clack" like a malfunctioning machine. Orange energy gradually began to glow from within it.
He-El furrowed his brow slightly. The sleek Atomic Armor floated backward as lightly as if in Zero Gravity, moving away from it.
Even after enduring such a tremendous impact, the Destroyer still showed no signs of falling apart or shutting down. Though it seemed to be going "clack-clack-clack-clack-clack..." as if it were malfunctioning, it was actually recovering, rebooting, and adjusting itself.
Since its internal metal structure had not been directly destroyed, there was still an enormous amount of energy within its metal body that it could use to recover.
Made from metal from Asgard, it clearly possessed strength and resilience far beyond any metal Earth could produce. It could not be destroyed through sheer physical impact alone. Even He-El's powerful impact created by manipulating Earth's magnetic field was not enough.
The impact He-El had created was powerful, but not powerful enough to shatter the Destroyer's metal armor in one blow.
Inside the Mark II Armor, Tony Stark watched He-El rise into the air as though floating in Zero Gravity without using propulsion. He threw aside all thoughts of He-El being Stark Industries' second-largest shareholder, leaving behind only fierce envy.
This method of flight using gravity and Earth's magnetic field was a path he had never considered. Yet it worked so exceptionally well.
Tony Stark had witnessed every strike He-El dealt the Destroyer and could imagine the principles behind them. It was precisely because he could imagine those principles that he envied him so intensely.
Even he had no way, for the moment, to perfectly use gravity and geomagnetism for this kind of flight. This showed that He-El possessed a refined and complete technology for