The underground space remained dark.
Tony was holding Alexandra and the others at bay.
Earlier, when Leon had rushed onto the altar, the woman who had been trading blows with him suddenly became much stronger. Caught off guard, Tony had nearly suffered badly.
As the only normal human present who relied on technology rather than mutation, Tony still retained a shred of an ordinary person's rational understanding of the world.
So when a woman who looked to be around forty said she was actually five hundred years old, even though Tony knew it was true, he still could not accept it rationally.
It was just that his calmness had temporarily deceived him.
And so, when the battle had remained a martial arts master fighting an iron-clad man for several minutes, it was understandable that he had been caught off guard when the martial arts master suddenly unleashed her qi.
"JARVIS, report the armor damage."
As he held back the woman who had suddenly powered up, Tony finally began taking his current identity seriously and faced reality: his life was no longer filled solely with ordinary people.
Unlike Leon, the one who had surpassed humanity this time was his enemy, not his friend.
"The exterior of the shoulder armor has been damaged. The shoulder-mounted micro-cluster infrared bombs are disabled. All other functions are operational."
He had taken a blow to the shoulder from something like an air cannon. Fortunately, the armor's outer frame was larger than his body, so that attack had only struck the external plating, costing him a few bombs meant for clearing mobs.
It had not affected him at all.
Still, armor made of titanium alloy and aerospace aluminum alloy had been damaged by a woman's palm strike. It seemed Leon's earlier words had not been baseless after