My Stand-in is Steve
Chapter 16

You Call This an MC Player?

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No... you call this an MC player?

Honestly, Obadiah was starting to panic.

He had always been an ordinary person. At most, he dealt with some of Stark Industries' high-tech inventions. He had absolutely no concept of something as bizarre as Witchcraft.

In that respect, Obadiah and Stark were actually the same kind of people. They were both fanatical believers in science.

The difference was that Stark had personally witnessed Fang Mo slaughtering terrorists. Those heavily armed terrorists had not even had a chance to resist before they were wiped out in less than a few minutes. Fang Mo had even taken a bullet to the head without so much as a scratch. After seeing all those bizarre things with his own eyes, Stark's worldview had long since been shattered and rebuilt. He realized there were still many things in this world that he did not understand.

Obadiah, on the other hand, had only heard rumors. He had merely heard that Stark had been saved by a Wizard.

In his eyes, Wizards were nothing more than people who liked to put on a show. They performed little tricks for everyone, like turning water into oil or shooting fireballs. But no matter how impressive you were, could you really withstand bullets?

What Obadiah had not expected was that they fucking could...

So how could he not panic?

Seeing that Fang Mo could even stop bullets, Obadiah immediately pressed another button. Iron Monger's shoulder armor suddenly opened, and a missile slowly emerged from within.

"Bullets won't work, so you're using missiles now?"

Fang Mo glanced at Obadiah and casually waved his hand. The crane on the left side of the laboratory was suddenly yanked violently into the air before crashing heavily onto Obadiah.

The more-than-ten-ton crane smashed directly into his face. Even Iron Monger was forced to take a step back.

Then, with a deafening boom, flames instantly swallowed his figure.

That was right. The missile on Iron Monger's shoulder had not even had time to launch before it was struck by the heavy object. Of course it exploded. The blast was rather terrifying, sending Iron Monger crashing backward, while the shockwave blew a huge pile of parts everywhere.

"Huh... urrgh..."

Seeing Iron Monger knocked over by the explosion, Tony hurriedly tried to make a sound, hoping to draw Fang Mo's attention. He really was about to die, after all. He needed Fang Mo to hook him back up as soon as possible.

"Oh, right. I almost forgot about you."

Seeing Stark desperately crawling around on the floor to get his attention, Fang Mo finally remembered. He quickly pulled out the prototype Arc Reactor from his pocket. "How do you install this thing? Do I just stick the light in like Ultraman?"

"Please... let... me..."

As Fang Mo was studying it, a woman's voice suddenly came from nearby. Turning around, he saw Pepper Potts. She could not stand either, but she was gritting her teeth and slowly crawling toward Stark. "I've helped... Tony install... this before..."

"Alright, you do it."

Fang Mo nodded and handed her the Arc Reactor.

Just then, Obadiah stood back up as well. The missile's explosion had indeed been powerful, but Iron Monger's armor was truly thick. An attack of that caliber had not injured Obadiah inside.

"Wizard, I did underestimate you."

Perhaps Iron Monger's thick armor had given Obadiah a strong sense of security. He no longer looked as panicked as before. "But here at Stark Industries, the power of technology is far greater than you imagine!"

"Oh, really?"

Fang Mo smiled dismissively. "Then it looks like I need to broaden your horizons."

The next second, before Obadiah could react, Fang Mo's palm lit up with a faint purple glow as he made a downward slashing gesture through the air.

Obadiah froze when he saw that. He truly could not understand this inexplicable dark sorcery, but the next second, his armor suddenly sounded an alarm. He instinctively looked up, only to discover that the entire ceiling was collapsing.

At the same moment the ceiling came down, a burst of footsteps suddenly sounded at the entrance. Coulson then rushed in with several agents.

"Hm? Where's Fury?"

Fang Mo turned to look, but did not see Nick Fury.

"The Director had other matters to handle and left first. He sent us to deal with things here." Coulson raised his pistol and asked, "Where's the enemy? Did he escape, or has he already been dealt with?"

"Not yet, but soon."

Fang Mo pointed at Stark and Pepper Potts on the ground. "Anyway, get these two out first. Otherwise, they might get caught in the crossfire later..."

"This..."

Coulson hesitated, seemingly considering whether he should obey Fang Mo's orders.

"I'm already S.H.I.E.L.D.'s technical consultant. Technically, that makes me your superior, so hurry up and listen." Fang Mo urged him. "Otherwise, I'll fire you."

"..." Coulson opened his mouth. He really wanted to argue and explain that a technical consultant was not some high-ranking official, but seeing Fang Mo's smug expression, he wisely closed his mouth in the end and waved his hand. "...Take Mr. Stark and Miss Potts out of here."

Before long, the agents took Stark and Pepper Potts out of the underground laboratory.

Obadiah also crawled out of the rubble once again.

"Wizard, you can't hurt me..."

Being knocked back twice in a row had enraged Obadiah. The moment he crawled out of the rubble, he could not help roaring, but before he could finish, a massive machine suddenly flew straight at him.

Obadiah immediately raised both hands in front of himself. He did not want to be knocked flat again. He had to find a way to block this attack. Yet after holding that stance for a while, he did not feel any heavy object crashing into him. Confused, he looked up.

To his surprise, the massive machine was floating in midair.

Meanwhile, Fang Mo stood some distance away with a stunned expression on his face.

"Hm?"

Seeing this, Obadiah was also a little confused. Had Fang Mo finally realized how powerful Iron Monger's armor was and run out of ideas? The thought made Obadiah secretly excited. As expected, Tony's Iron Armor was the strongest. He had made the right bet this time.

So the question was.

Was Fang Mo really afraid of Obadiah's mech?

No matter how powerful this piece of junk was, it couldn't possibly be stronger than a real monster like Abomination, right?

System Prompt: New mod feature detected. Download permission may be obtained after research.

What truly surprised Fang Mo was that notification.

"What... is going on?"

Honestly, when Fang Mo first heard the notification, even he was stunned, because he had no idea where this new mod feature had come from.

If it was a new mod rewarded for defeating a boss...

Then why hadn't the electronic voice sounded when he first attacked Obadiah?

"Could it be this damn machine?"

Fang Mo suspiciously glanced at the large instrument being tugged into the air by the Ender Field. To be honest, he had no idea what this thing was for, but from the looks of it, it seemed to be what had triggered the new mod feature.

With that in mind, Fang Mo planned to pull the machine over and examine it.

However, before he could make a move, Obadiah suddenly attacked. After realizing that Fang Mo couldn't hurt him, he had clearly grown cocky. He raised his hand and smashed the machine in front of him, instantly tearing it into a pile of fragments, then accelerated toward Fang Mo.

"Fuck!"

The moment he saw the strange machine get smashed, Fang Mo flew into a rage.

After all, frantically loading mods and drawing rewards was his only hope of returning to the MC world. Now Obadiah had destroyed the machine—given Fang Mo's temper, how could he not be furious?

"You fucking bastard, looking to die?"

Fang Mo's eyes narrowed dangerously. He had originally only intended to capture Obadiah, but he had clearly changed his mind now. With a thought, Stand-in Steve wordlessly pulled out Cobblestone and began placing it on the ground. In the blink of an eye, countless one-meter blocks of rock had appeared around Fang Mo.

The next second, he made an upward motion with his hand.

The stone blocks slowly rose into the air, then shot toward Obadiah like cannonballs.

Obadiah roared as he dodged the first block of Cobblestone, then knocked the second aside with both fists. But the third slammed heavily into his chest. Before he could regain his balance, the fourth, the fifth—every block of Cobblestone came crashing down on him, instantly sending Iron Monger's massive body flying.

But it wasn't over yet.

Fang Mo raised his hand and made a pulling motion.

Iron Monger suddenly stopped in midair, then flew rapidly toward Fang Mo.

"You think your iron shell is cool, huh?"

After dragging Iron Monger in front of him, Fang Mo smiled at Obadiah inside. "The Ender Field can't directly affect living creatures, so when I fought Abomination earlier, I had to slowly chip away at his health bit by bit. But you idiot went and prepared the most fucking awesome coffin for yourself..."

As he spoke, Fang Mo waved his hand again, and Iron Monger was smashed into the nearby ruins like trash.

"You..."

Obadiah struggled to his feet from the rubble and was just about to speak when he saw Fang Mo suddenly raise both hands. In an instant, system alarms blared.

He hurriedly looked around, only to find that two Stone Walls had appeared on either side of him at some point.

"Wha—"

"See you in hell."

As Fang Mo spoke, he brought his hands together with a clap.

The two Stone Walls suddenly shone with purple light, then rapidly crushed inward. The next second, they slammed together with a deafening boom. Countless clouds of dust erupted, and the entire basement shook violently, as though it might collapse at any moment.

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