Starlight, Blast Them!

The best thing about being young was that you could close your eyes, open them, and a whole day had passed~

By the time Leon woke up, another day had gone by.

At his bedside,

Tony was sitting backward on a chair, leaning his arms against its back. He watched Leon with those pretty doll-like eyes while drinking a glass of shit-green vegetable juice.

"Hey, skinny little boy, you're finally awake."

"Do you know you just set a Guinness World Record?"

Seeing Leon awake, Tony drained the remaining vegetable juice from his oversized beer mug, then pulled out an ultra-thin tablet and quickly tapped away at it. He showed Leon a heart rate chart more thrilling than a roller coaster.

"Peak heart rate: 315. Kid, you're invincible."

"And your weight is a little abnormal too. You're already over 200 kilos. I guarantee no girl would still be willing to let you press her beneath you after hearing that number."

"I nearly worked my old nose off trying to carry you into the medical bay."

"Can you tell me what happened?"

Tony asked as he watched Leon get dressed.

"I just did a little superpower test. It was nothing serious."

"Anyway, I got stronger again."

Leon answered with a relaxed expression, then quickly changed the subject.

"By the way, if I weigh over 200 kilos now, how could you possibly carry me with those skinny arms and legs of yours?"

"Hmph, good question!"

Tony automatically filtered out Leon's slander and eagerly led him down to his workshop.

However.

"Careful..."

Bang!!!

They had barely crossed the living room when Leon took two steps.

"Fuck!"

With a startled cry, Leon stepped into empty air and crashed heavily downward.

"...There's a hole there."

Tony's belated reminder made Leon laugh in anger.

"To~ny~ Have you awakened some kind of husky instinct and started tearing the house apart or what? Why is there such a huge hole here? And you even covered it with cardboard! Why, thank you so much!"

"Just like you, I only did a tiny little test."

Tony made a flamboyant gesture with his fingertips, imitating Leon's earlier tone as he shrugged with a mischievous grin.

"Damn it!"

"You definitely did that on purpose!"

"I'll remember this!"

After having JARVIS write the incident down in the little black book, Leon dusted himself off, got up, and looked around.

The first thing that entered his sight was the silver-white Iron Man armor surrounded by dozens of mechanical arms in the distance—Mark 2.

It was worth mentioning that

Tony's first creation—Mark 1—was also displayed in a transparent case against the wall. JARVIS had brought it back while controlling the Jet Glider.

Since Leon had chosen to fly with Tony instead of riding his beloved little motorcycle, the Jet Glider's cockpit had remained empty.

"Well?"

Tony looked excitedly, with a hint of smugness, at Leon, who was stroking his chin as he circled Mark 2.

"Although the technology is more or less the same, the performance gap between Mark 2 and Mark 1 is like heaven and earth."

"Most importantly, the flight function has been perfected. I'll fly one for you."

After saying that,

Tony walked over without waiting for Leon's reply. With the help of those dozens of mechanical arms, he began putting on the armor piece by piece.

But once he was finished,

With a whoosh—bang!

Tony took off, and Tony crashed.

There was another hole in the ceiling.

Watching Tony flatten yet another multimillion-dollar sports car, Leon's mouth twisted slightly as he said disdainfully, "That's it? This is why you didn't patch up the hole and made me fall through it?"

"Uh..."

"That was just an accident."

Tony awkwardly scratched the nonexistent nose on his helmet, then asked JARVIS, "JARVIS, where's the flight assistance system?"

"Sir, you disabled the flight assistance system yourself during your first test flight."

"Uh, fine."

"Looks like the flight control system still needs some optimization. The high-altitude icing problem we encountered before also needs to be resolved."

Tony tugged at the corner of his mouth and lay there on the wreckage of the sports car, thinking through solutions to the problems the armor had encountered during its test run.

Leon could only sigh helplessly, but he did not disturb Tony. Tony was always like this—when he encountered a problem, he solved it. Half the time, he even forgot what he had been doing in the first place.

Perhaps

this was what being a genius meant?

Leon thought.

Then he silently placed a hand on Mark 2's armor and touched it.

[Question: Would you like to perform today's check-in?]

System, hungry, food.

[Ding! Today's check-in has been completed. Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the "Starlight Template."]

[Starlight Template: Superhuman physical attributes, focused on defense and endurance; energy absorption, energy conversion, and energy release. The extent of its capabilities depends entirely on the user's physical qualities and proficiency.]

[Description: Good child, if you're hungry, eat more energy. Recharge yourself or something.]

"Oh-ho!"

When luck came knocking, nothing could stop it.

He really got exactly what he needed.

This check-in not only strengthened Leon's physical abilities once more and made him tougher, but also reinforced the greatest weakness of the Soldier Boy Template—its inability to fly—with the addition of the Starlight Template.

No one knew whether he could fly fast, but at least he could float now.

(P.S. The protagonist had just finished the final episode of Season Three when he immediately got run over by a truck, so he had not seen Starlight's midair second-stage acceleration flight in the final episode of Season Four. He did not know that Starlight could not only fly, but fly very fast.)

Besides, based on Starlight's performance in the final episode of Season Three, where she unleashed her ultimate move to suppress Soldier Boy, even though it was a total flop, it had already clearly hinted that she could fly.

Magnificent.

No further words were needed.

By the way.

[Soldier Boy Template: Superhuman physical attributes, strengthened in nearly every aspect, but more focused on strength, defense, endurance, and resistance. At his peak, his strength, defense, endurance, and resistance all steadily surpassed Homelander's.

I am the nuclear bomb. The body itself is equivalent to a mobile nuclear reactor. The chest can release an enormous blast of light, heat, and radiation with terrifying power. It can temporarily silence or even completely erase the superpowers of superpowered individuals, but only those whose abilities were acquired through mutation. This effect is ineffective against naturally born superpowered individuals.]

[Description: Even among superhumans, there are differences. You're a superpowered individual too, right?]

Host: Leon Stark

Abilities: Soldier Boy Template, Super Self-Regeneration, Adamantium Skeleton, Starlight Template

Items: Soldier Boy Set, Desert Eagle with Unlimited Bullets (Quality: Never Wears Out)

Compared with the pain of strengthening the Adamantium Skeleton, Leon felt almost nothing while merging with the Starlight Template this time.

He grabbed it in one go and refined it instantly!

After roughly glancing over his current status panel, Leon slapped Tony, who had fallen deep into thought, awake. Then he said eagerly:

Smack!

"Bro, look!"

"I'll put on a show for you!"

"What??"

Before Tony could react, Leon had already begun absorbing the electricity around him.

Because his physical qualities were far stronger than Starlight's, Leon's use of the same superpower was also much more powerful than hers.

He devoured the electrical energy in the surrounding environment almost like a whale swallowing the sea.

He even did not spare Mark 2's power supply. The miniature Arc Reactor on Tony's chest was already being drained to the point of overload, crackling with arcs of electricity.

Tony was shocked until he was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. His mouth twitched so hard that he could not speak, much less stop Leon.

As the energy was replenished and converted, golden light appeared in Leon's eyes, and the same glow gathered in both his palms.

Then he planted both palms downward. Propelled in reverse, his body slowly floated up, swaying as he rose higher as though he might fall at any moment.

At that sight,

Tony was dumbfounded.

What the hell was this??

Wasn't this exactly the scene from his test flight yesterday??

When the hell did Leon learn how to fly? A superpower like this was far more convenient than an Iron Man suit that had to be assembled piece by piece!

It was almost identical to Tony's test flight with Mark 2.

Since it was his first time flying, Leon could not control the directions he moved in. He staggered through the air with gritted teeth the entire time.

It was a little like squatting on the toilet and trying to find the perfect angle and height to avoid getting splashed in the ass.

Under the guidance of Tony, a veteran of two crashes, Leon slowly began to get a feel for controlling his direction.

After all, he was flying with his own superpower rather than relying on a high-tech armored suit. Without the extra assistance of an electronic system, Leon could only improve through practice.

Beep—

Fingerprint password unlocked.

Pepper, dressed in a secretary's OL outfit and black stockings, pushed open the door while carrying two cups of coffee.

"You two..."

Before her eyes could even focus,

she heard two bangs!

As expected,

another two multimillion-dollar sports cars were crushed into two lumps.

Leon, who weighed over 200 kilos, and Tony, who weighed nearly 190 kilos together with Mark 2, lay on their backs atop their respective "chairs."

The two brothers exchanged a look and smiled, their laughter gradually growing louder.

"Hahahahahaha!" ×2

Only Pepper, whose coffee had been startled out of her hands and spilled all over the floor, remained utterly confused about what the two brothers were laughing so foolishly about.