This Is Not a Mutant, This Is Art!

"What... is that thing?"

Inside an armed helicopter several hundred meters away, General Ross gripped the cabin door handle tightly. Through his binoculars, he clearly saw the burning figure suspended in mid-air.

That was no human.

It didn't even need fuel; it was a walking nuclear reactor!

"General! Thermal imaging shows the target's core temperature is still rising!" the adjutant's voice trembled. "If he unleashes his full power, these blocks will turn into an oven!"

"Whether it's a mutant or some new toy of Stark's..." General Ross's face turned ashen. "It has completely ruined my capture plan!"

At the center of the battlefield.

Abomination was also stunned by this sudden turn of events.

As a monster who had just successfully evolved after injecting the serum, Emil Blonsky was currently in a state of extreme arrogance. He felt like a god, an invincible existence capable of tearing tanks apart with his bare hands.

Yet, this "matchstick" in front of him had instantly melted the multi-ton car he had thrown?

"ROAR--!!"

Abomination let out a deafening roar, his foul-smelling breath spraying several meters away. His turbid yellow eyes stared fixedly at Jiang Li, a cruel smile appearing on his face.

"Are you a friend of the Hulk? Or some circus performer who ran away?"

Abomination's voice sounded like it was rubbing against sandpaper, filled with mockery. "Whoever you are, since you want to be a hero, get ready to be turned into mush!"

Facing the terrifying killing intent rushing toward him, Jiang Li appeared unusually calm.

This was the change brought by the Omnitrix. The Pyronite race was naturally confident and hot-headed.

Jiang Li tilted his burning head, raised his hand, and crooked his finger in extreme provocation, a few sparks falling from his fingertips.

"Big guy, your breath is heavier than your foot odor. If you want to fight, you'd better go brush your teeth first."

"You're courting death!!"

Abomination was instantly enraged. He hated it most when others mocked his appearance!

"BOOM!"

The ground shattered instantly.

The terrifying muscles in Abomination's thighs exerted force, and his entire body shot forward like a cannonball, charging at Jiang Li with the momentum to crush everything! Abandoned vehicles along the way were sent flying, just like pins hit by a bowling ball.

The speed of this strike was too fast, too fast for the naked eye of an ordinary person to capture.

So fast!

Jiang Li's heart tightened. Although he possessed the combat instincts of an alien, he was currently facing one of the power ceilings of the early Marvel era.

If he were in his ordinary human state, he would have already been smashed into a pulp.

But now, he was Heatblast!

"Take off!"

With a thought from Jiang Li, two violent streams of flame erupted from the soles of his feet.

"WHOOSH--!"

Just like Iron Man activating his thrusters, Jiang Li's body shot upward at the critical moment. In this world where Newton's coffin lid could not be held down, he carved a beautiful arc of fire and soared straight into the sky!

Abomination's heavy punch slammed into the spot where Jiang Li had been standing.

"CRASH!!"

The ground in that small area collapsed, and the shockwave shattered all the surrounding shop windows.

"He ran?"

Abomination looked up in anger, but only saw a trail of fire circling in the air.

Jiang Li hovered in mid-air; this was another god-tier skill of Heatblast—flight!

This perspective... it's just too awesome!

Jiang Li looked down at the ruins below and the monster raging in incompetence, his adrenaline surging.

"Courtesy demands reciprocity, take this from me too!"

Jiang Li pushed his hands downward violently, the flame patterns on his palms glowing to the extreme.

Two pillars of fire, like high-pressure water cannons, descended from the sky with destructive heat, striking precisely on Abomination's broad back.

"HISSSSSS--!!"

This was true high-temperature burning!

Abomination's tough skin, which could withstand bullets and even small-caliber shells, actually made a sound like roasting meat in front of Heatblast's flames, even emitting wisps of black smoke.

"AHHH! Hot! Damn bug!"

Abomination howled in pain. Although his defensive power was astonishing, that didn't mean he couldn't feel pain.

He rolled frantically on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his back, but this was alien fire—it could burn even in water, so how could it be extinguished so easily?

"It's not over yet!"

Since Jiang Li held the air superiority, he would not give his opponent a chance to catch their breath. He held his hands in a hollow embrace before his chest, and a massive fireball over two meters in diameter rapidly took shape in his grasp.

"Flame Meteor!"

Jiang Li swung his arms with force.

The enormous fireball trailed a long tail of flames, whistling as it smashed toward the Abomination, who had just climbed to his feet.

"BOOM—!!!"

The violent explosion sent a small mushroom cloud rising over the streets of Harlem. Rolling waves of heat swept across a hundred-meter radius.

However, as the smoke and dust cleared, that figure had not fallen.

Although the Abomination was scorched black, in a wretched state, and even suffered from large-scale skin ulceration, his vitality remained outrageously tenacious. The intense pain only served to fully ignite his ferocity.

"I'm going to tear you to pieces!!"

The Abomination went mad. He grabbed the wreckage of a bus nearby and hurled it with all his might at Jiang Li in the sky.

This is troublesome.

Jiang Li banked to the side in mid-air, narrowly dodging the incoming bus.

He furrowed his brows.

While the attacks of Heatblast were flashy, they were essentially just scratching the surface against a gamma monster like the Abomination, who had maxed out his magic resistance and possessed rapid regeneration. If he didn't break the creature's bones, this guy could keep fighting forever.

[System Notification: Target's physical defense detected as extremely high; elemental damage efficiency decreased.]

[Suggested Tactic: Physical suppression.]

"Just what I was thinking."

Jiang Li looked down at the Abomination, who was frantically tearing apart the surroundings in an attempt to find something to knock him out of the sky, and a cold smirk curled his lips.

"Then let's have a real man's fight, head-on!"

He dove down from the sky, and when he was ten meters from the ground, he pressed his right index finger onto the Omnitrix badge on his chest once more.

"Want to compare strength? Then let me show you what true violent aesthetics are!"

"Quick Change!"

Zzz—Pop!

This time, the green light was more intense than any previous instance.

Jiang Li's body, wrapped in flames, did not shrink; instead, it expanded once more!

The original streamlined magma physique vanished in an instant, replaced by red, rock-hard, bulging muscles.

His bones crackled and popped as his height climbed, instantly breaking the three-and-a-half-meter mark!

Even more terrifyingly, with the sound of tearing muscle, two more incredibly thick arms sprouted from beneath his ribs!

Four eyes snapped open, flashing with a golden light.

At that moment, the Abomination lunged over, raising his massive fists to deliver a fatal blow to the landing "Heatblast."

However, he was not met with fragile flames.

Instead, he was met by four massive hands, each like a hydraulic clamp!

"BANG!"

A dull thud echoed.

Jiang Li's upper two hands caught the Abomination's incoming fists.

The immense impact caused the ground beneath Jiang Li to shatter instantly. His legs plowed two deep trenches into the earth, and he slid back several meters before barely coming to a stop.

What incredible strength! Jiang Li was secretly shocked. The Abomination was, after all, a monster capable of suppressing even the Hulk; this raw power was truly terrifying.

"W-what?"

The Abomination was also stunned. His punch, which had enough force to smash through a building, had actually been caught?

And how could this red monster have four arms?

"Surprised? You ugly freak."

A savage grin appeared on Jiang Li's rugged red face. His voice was no longer the crackling, burning sound of Heatblast, but had become deep and heavy, like the rolling of muffled thunder.

"Tetramand, Four Arms!"

"See, I have four hands."

In the Abomination's terrified gaze, while Jiang Li used his upper two hands to lock the opponent in place, his lower two free hands had already finished charging up.

His muscles tightened, veins bulged, and with a punch strong enough to pierce steel plating, he slammed his fist into the Abomination's defenseless abdomen!

"ORA!!"

"Pfft—!"

The Abomination's massive body instantly bent into the shape of a shrimp, and a mouthful of green acid spewed out. Although his strength was greater, under the tactical suppression of four arms, he had absolutely no chance to defend!

The massive impact lifted the creature's feet off the ground, sending him flying through the air to crash heavily into an abandoned building!

On the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.

A deathly silence descended.

Every agent forgot to breathe. They had watched with their own eyes as an elemental creature capable of controlling fire transformed, in less than a second, into a purely strength-based red giant.

This completely violated the law of conservation of energy!

This completely violated the common sense of biology!

Nick Fury's face, already as dark as charcoal, seemed to darken even further. He stared fixedly at the screen, his eyes flashing with the shrewdness and greed unique to the king of spies.

"This is no simple mutation... this is nothing short of a perfect piece of biological weapon art."

He pressed his communicator: "Natasha, there is no need to rush the attack. I want him alive."