Breaking Off Relations / The Evil God's Whispers

However, when it was released into the air, the destruction it caused was nowhere near as powerful as it was underwater.

This showed that the air had a very strong dissipating effect on this energy.

Moreover, the damage caused by this energy release was equally fatal to the Talokan people.

Therefore, when deploying this weapon, the other Talokan people would hide in waters dozens of nautical miles away from the detonation point, while Namor activated it with a delay.

After setting the timer, Namor would leave the water and watch the sea surface explode from the sky.

Only after the explosion would he dive back in to retrieve it.

So Ivan wondered whether it might be possible to create a layer of vacuum around the drone's outer shell before the Talokan weapon erupted.

Without a medium to transmit through, the weapon would be unable to do anything to the drone.

After each burst, the Talokan weapon required a brief cooldown period. That would be enough time for the drones to capture the enemy's weapon.

The problem was how to stop Namor from taking it back.

Judging from Namor's performance on the battlefield, ordinary Hammer drones were no match for him.

The most troublesome thing about Namor was his agility and his ability to operate across sea, land, and air. The drones looked incredibly clumsy before him and could not even catch up to him.

Once they captured a Talokan weapon, Namor would immediately abandon his entanglement with the drones and make reclaiming the Little Sun his top priority.

So, to carry out this strategy, they first needed to restrict Namor's movements.

Namor's greatest weakness was that he could not become too dry, but at sea, that weakness was practically nonexistent.

Yet Ivan Vanko had still devised a vicious plan specifically