It turned out that during the one-sided beating just now, Tony had not simply sat there and taken it.
He had secretly used his few remaining floating cannons, the entire arena as his canvas, and crystal dust as conductive lines to cleverly draw a massive magical circuit board amid the dense dust cloud!
"Checkmate," Tony said calmly.
"JARVIS, switch to the conventional power source. Activate the Rune Protocol!"
Click.
The Ark reactor in his chest flickered off and on as it completed the energy conversion.
Dazzling rune-light lit up from Tony's chest.
A vast amount of magical energy surged forth, shooting straight toward the magical array in midair.
Boom!
The entire Crystal Maze Valley suddenly lit up as countless runes resonated in midair.
Rune Spell: Dagaz Reversal! Activate!
Dagaz represented dawn, awakening, and the reversal of polarity.
Amplified by the rune array, the spell's power had increased by more than tenfold!
An invisible magical ripple swept over Steel Judge's entire body in the blink of an eye.
The polarity of his energy gradually reversed.
The Hellfire on his body, which seemed as though it could never be extinguished, underwent a qualitative transformation under the effects of the polarity-reversal spell.
The scorching inferno of Hellfire turned into frigid, bone-chilling frost.
Crack, crack, crack!
Ice spread at a visible rate, firmly freezing Steel Judge's limbs and torso.
And under the instant alternation between extreme heat and extreme cold, Steel Judge's indestructible Hell armor had become exceptionally brittle.
Tony released Steel Judge and slowly rose to his feet.
"Goodbye, pal." He walked over to Steel Judge, who had been frozen into an ice sculpture, and sneered.
His repulsor cannon finished charging again.
"Take your heap of scrap metal back to Hell."
Bang!
A high-energy pulse blasted into Steel Judge's faceplate.
Crack—
The already