The Fading Scent of Death on the Battlefield

And so, with development of the Extremis Virus deadlocked, Tony Stark and the others began studying the Flame Bio-Android. Of course, fully digesting the Chitauri's weapons technology was not that difficult, but thoroughly researching the Chitauri, a race of bio-androids, was not nearly so simple.

The Avengers Base currently had no research data or equipment related to bio-androids whatsoever. Although, in theory, directly replicating a Chitauri body with cloning technology posed no difficulty at all, that clearly was not the path of bio-androids, so Tony Stark and the others had to start their research from scratch.

Fortunately, researching bio-androids was clearly somewhat easier than creating a perfect Extremis Virus, and there would be no unseen restriction holding them back. As long as they spent enough time on it, they could slowly develop results.

Meanwhile, the battlefield on the African Continent had already reached a white-hot stage. Both sides had truly suffered severe casualties in this war, and America's losses were even somewhat heavier.

After all, when all was said and done, Wakanda's Vibranium technology and weapons were still stronger than the Chitauri weapons America had only just obtained and developed. Especially since America had no understanding at all of the biotechnology behind the Chitauri Leviathan Warships, America's current destructive weapons simply had no way to beat Wakanda's.

Unless America was prepared to launch an old-era nuclear war!

Even at the dawn of this new era, nuclear weapons remained an enormous threat. Setting aside their terrifying destructive power, their pollution alone was enough to make many people deeply wary.

Thus, even if Chitauri-tech weapons could reach the destructive power of nuclear weapons once their energy was stacked to a certain level, their threat level still could not compare to nukes. Especially now that the battlefield was on the African Continent, already