Inside Hydra's base, Lu Xi sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, using Lorelei's Voice Enchantment to assist the contract had still ended in failure.
Fortunately, this attempt had not been entirely fruitless. Lu Xi had gained some deeper insights.
He realized that it was not that Lorelei's Voice Enchantment had no effect.
Rather, the method he used to contract souls was simply too high-level within the rules of the Universe.
Lu Xi had a feeling that even with the Mind Stone's power as assistance, as long as the other party did not enter the contract voluntarily, it would ultimately remain invalid.
Put simply, his contract was like a piece of code with an extremely high priority within the rules of the Universe.
Even the rule code represented by the Infinity Stones could not override it.
This discovery only made Lu Xi look forward even more to how his authority would transform after he contracted his first protagonist-level soul.
Among the protagonist-level souls he had encountered so far, his good buddies Thor and Iron Man Tony had not yet presented suitable opportunities.
However, there was plenty he could do with fifty-fifty Captain Steve and the future Doctor Strange.
For example, Bucky Barnes, who stood before him right now, was one of Steve's greatest weaknesses.
Lu Xi's thoughts stirred, and through that Divine Power business card, his consciousness directly locked onto Steve's location.
Inside one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s bases, bright lights illuminated the entire room.
All sorts of sophisticated instruments flashed with indicator lights and emitted faint hums.
Steve Rogers stood anxiously before the console, his eyes fixed tightly on the constantly shifting data and intelligence on the screen.
Waking up to find that several decades had passed and the world had undergone earth-shaking changes had already filled Steve with sorrow.
But he had