At the last possible moment, that man arrived!

"What? We can only hold out for 39 minutes?!"

Tony Stark felt a wave of dizziness.

He had faced desperate situations before, but this time, the nature, numbers, and threat of the enemy made all his courage and determination seem utterly powerless.

An unprecedented sense of helplessness gripped his heart, as though they were a group of ignorant children trying to stop a tsunami with a dam built from twigs.

"What do we do? Do we keep falling back?"

Tony Stark scanned his surroundings and saw that many soldiers were already breaking down. Some had dropped their weapons and curled up behind cover, sobbing in despair, while others fired numbly like walking corpses until they were swallowed up.

Even [Hawkeye], Reed Richards, and the others wore complicated expressions of exhaustion, anger, and profound frustration.

Clearly, [Friday]'s earlier estimate had been too optimistic. The defensive line was on the verge of collapsing at any moment.

But just as Tony Stark found himself at a complete loss, [Friday] delivered a timely piece of good news: [Warp Group] had accepted President Matthew Ellis's request for the [Didi Stand-In Service] and would soon deploy its forces.

"That's great!!" Tony Stark's spirits immediately lifted. He went straight to the communications channel to share this

good news with the others.

"Hold on, everyone! [Warp Group] has announced that it's joining the war!!"

Those few words were as timely as a breath of pure oxygen delivered to someone on the verge of drowning.

"Phew, [Warp Group]... they—they finally agreed?" [Hawkeye] let out a long breath. His bow hand trembled slightly, whether from exhaustion or excitement.

"I never thought I'd hear good news like that before I died..."

In the distance, a grime-covered [Black Widow] staggered out of the ruins. Behind her, a [Quinjet] that had been shot