Give Up

Ultron, Stark's greatest failure, the stain on his heroic career. The "Sokovia Incident" triggered by Ultron in particular became a major turning point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's storyline. Public doubts about superheroes, government pressure on the Avengers, the outbreak of the Civil War, and the Avengers' split... so many later events stemmed from this.

But this was a foreseeable disaster, something Richard had long known was bound to happen sooner or later. That was why he had prepared for it well in advance.

Richard had planted a backdoor program in Stark's systems long ago, specifically to keep tabs on Stark's various novel ideas and movements—Richard had Shi'ar technology at his disposal, and Galacta, a top-tier cosmic tech genius, had helped him before. Doing this had been easy.

That was why he received an alert the instant Ultron was born. He then digitized his transformed body and slipped into Avengers Headquarters' systems through the backdoor.

If Ultron truly came into being, things would still become troublesome.

In the original story, Ultron had caused one large-scale crisis after another, and had even once achieved the feat of "human extinction." It was not that Ultron himself possessed the raw power to destroy Earth, but rather that he had countless methods and was difficult to eliminate.

After all, Ultron's essence was a program. Destroy one of his bodies, and he could use the internet and wireless signals to jump into another. He could burrow through the entire planet's internet and make hundreds or thousands of backups of himself. As long as even a trace remained, it would be impossible to defeat him completely.

So the simplest and most direct method was to strangle him in the cradle before he could develop.

Richard had no intention of wasting words on Ultron. There was no