Powered Armor, Storage Ring

At the foot of the mountain.

Dr. Phil came to a stop on a zip line in a clearing deep within the forest.

He had barely unclipped himself when he heard the sound of air tearing apart in the sky behind him.

Turning around, he immediately spotted that familiar figure chasing after him.

"Motherfucker!"

After letting out a furious curse, Dr. Phil hurried into a wooden house in the clearing.

A moment later.

An off-road vehicle roared out from inside. After a sharp drift, it sped off in the direction opposite Xu Mo.

Seeing the rapidly approaching figure in his rearview mirror, Dr. Phil anxiously floored the accelerator. But no matter how good the vehicle's performance was, it could not possibly outrun something that could fly over this terrain.

By then, Xu Mo was less than fifty meters away.

Dr. Phil grabbed a pistol from inside the car, extended his left hand holding it out the window, and fired at Xu Mo in the sky.

Unfortunately, pistol bullets posed no threat whatsoever to Xu Mo now.

Xu Mo easily dodged every bullet.

Meanwhile, distracted by the shooting, Dr. Phil failed to notice a fallen tree lying across the road ahead.

By the time he saw it and tried to evade, it was already too late.

Thunk!

Traveling at nearly one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, the vehicle slammed directly into the tree and took off.

After rolling several times, the vehicle flew toward the dense woods beside the road.

In the end, it ended up suspended on a large tree nearby.

Dr. Phil shook his head hard, trying to clear his dizzy mind.

Just then, Xu Mo caught up from behind.

He slowly hovered in front of the vehicle.

Xu Mo looked at Dr. Phil, whose face was covered in blood inside the driver's seat, and the corner of his mouth curled upward.

"Sir, this isn't a very good place to park!"

With that, he delivered a flying kick and knocked the vehicle off the tree.

"No!!"

Feeling weightless, the doctor screamed in terror.

The vehicle was at least seven or eight meters above the ground. If it landed badly, he might very well die right there.

However, just as the vehicle was about to hit the ground, it was caught by an invisible force.

Xu Mo used Psychic Force to slowly lower the vehicle onto the ground.

He stepped forward, tore off the deformed door, dragged the other man out of the driver's seat, and casually threw him onto the ground nearby.

"Are you going to introduce yourself now, or wait until I torture you first?"

"I'll talk, I'll talk!!"

After that string of shocks, Dr. Phil was already on the verge of collapse.

He hurriedly began introducing himself.

As he spoke, Xu Mo came to understand the man's identity.

His name was Phil Andrew, and he had once been a researcher under Stryker.

During the battle that destroyed Alkali Lake, he had escaped disaster because he had not been at the base.

Over the years, he had secretly developed a technique capable of transferring Sabretooth's healing factor.

Afterward, he had arranged to capture Sabretooth, then used the last of his control serum to control him. His goal had been to transfer Sabretooth's healing factor into his own body.

This transfer technique required Adamantium.

He did have the formula for Adamantium.

But he lacked its most important ingredient.

Vibranium!

After extensive investigation, he had finally traced it to Ulysses.

That was what had led to everything that happened earlier.

"You have the formula for Adamantium?"

"That's right!"

"And I've already gathered the other metals needed to synthesize Adamantium. They're in the previous laboratory. As long as we have Vibranium, we can immediately synthesize Adamantium!"

The man hastily explained.

He was clearly hoping to demonstrate his value and convince Xu Mo to spare his life.

Xu Mo's lips curved slightly.

Although his judgment had been wrong and he had not encountered the mind-control-type Mutant he expected, gaining points—

Obtaining the Adamantium formula still meant his time had not been wasted.

He immediately called Avril and instructed her to bring over the Vibranium left on the private jet.

Then, carrying Phil in one hand, he flew toward the location of the previous laboratory.

The next day.

An aircraft slowly rose from the Appalachian Mountains before vanishing into the sky at high speed.

A moment later, a violent explosion sounded from the same location.

Inside the cabin, Xu Mo examined the complete set of Powered Armor forged from Adamantium and Vibranium before him.

Unlike Tony's set.

His equipment, forged entirely from Vibranium, was more appropriately called a suit of armor.

The armor was entirely dark black and streamlined in shape, with no electronic components inside.

After all, with Psychic Force, he had no need for any power-assist systems. The Powered Armor's main purpose was protection and making it easier for him to control with Psychic Force.

Sixteen Adamantium throwing knives were arranged along the sides of the armor's legs and arms.

Besides the throwing knives, he had also forged a combat blade for close quarters.

The blade was likewise forged from Adamantium, and a special sheath had been designed on the back of the armor to hold it.

He opened the system store.

After all the fighting, his points had now reached twenty-seven thousand.

He first searched the store for storage equipment.

A list soon appeared before his eyes.

[Storage Ring (F-rank): Contains 1,000 cubic meters of space. Points required: 3,000.]

[Storage Ring (E-rank): Contains 1,000,000 cubic meters of space. Points required: 20,000.]

...

[Storage Ring (SS-rank): Contains 1,000,000 cubic kilometers of space. Points required: 300,000.]

[World Lord World (D-rank): Refined from a World Lord's small world. Space diameter: 100,000 kilometers. Can store living beings. Points required: 1,000,000.]

...

[Divine Kingdom Crystal (D-rank): Refined from the divine kingdom of an ordinary Immortal after death. Contains a space with a diameter of 1,000,000 kilometers. Points required: 10,000,000.]

...

The various storage items on the list made Xu Mo's eyes burn with desire.

Leaving aside everything else, the D-rank World Lord World alone could hold the entire Earth.

After all, Earth's diameter was only a little over ten thousand kilometers.

But the points required for those later items quickly calmed Xu Mo down.

After thinking it over, he only exchanged for an F-rank Storage Ring.

His points were limited for now and should be used to improve his strength. Besides, items exchanged through the system could be stored in the system space, so one thousand cubic meters of storage was temporarily enough for him.

The space was ten meters in length, width, and height.

It could hold over a hundred ordinary family sedans.

"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained an F-rank Storage Ring. Points consumed: 3,000!"