Outside Deep Well Base, Tianyi's Shadow Clone hovered in the night sky, with the smoking ruins behind him.
Through his Magnet Release Sensory, he detected dozens of rapidly approaching points of light—cruise missiles flying low to penetrate the defenses.
The Shadow Clone raised his hands, fully unleashing Magnet Release. The ground trembled as rebar, pipelines, and metal debris within the ruins erupted simultaneously, transforming into countless silver threads that rose into the air.
Under the Shadow Clone's control, they rapidly wove together, spun, and condensed, forming a massive metal ring around him.
The ring was over five hundred meters in diameter, formed from tens of thousands of rebars and metal fragments connected end to end. It spun at high speed, producing a piercing metallic screech.
The first Tomahawk Missile appeared around the bend in the valley, trailing a white exhaust plume as it hurtled toward the base entrance.
The metal ring abruptly contracted, and a steel bar shot out like an arrow, precisely piercing the missile's warhead.
Boom! A fireball erupted, scattering fragments everywhere. Then came the second, third, and fourth missiles—the Shadow Clone waved both hands in rapid succession, and steel bars poured forth like a torrential rain, blasting those multimillion-dollar cruise missiles out of the sky one after another.
Orange-red fireballs bloomed continuously throughout the valley, illuminating the entire night sky.
Burning wreckage rained down, smashing onto the ruins, the forest, and the military vehicles that had already lost their combat capability. The Shadow Clone hovered amid the fireballs, his robes snapping in the shockwaves, completely unscathed.
At the Pentagon, the scene on the massive screen made everyone hold their breath.
That superpowered being had intercepted all twelve Tomahawk Missiles with nothing more than a metal ring.
The president's face was so dark it seemed ready to drip