A pale blue spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared high above New York, and rapidly expanded outward.
A tens-of-thousands-of-meters-long dark-red sky fracture flashed and vanished instantly.
In New York City, a few citizens who happened to be lucky enough to capture the scene on camera looked at their recording devices in excitement and astonishment a moment later, eager to admire this stunning footage.
Yet as a silver wave of electricity swept across their storage devices...
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Their recording devices exploded instantly.
"Ah!!!"
Those lucky few shrieked, hurriedly tossing aside their beloved phones or cameras and retreating back and forth to put some distance between them.
Fortunately, the blast had limited power, destroying only those recording devices while leaving their owners completely unharmed.
Yet the owners of those phones or cameras certainly did not think so!
They believed that what they had lost was not merely a phone or a camera, but a major life-changing opportunity that could have made them famous overnight and elevated them above ordinary people!
Therefore, those few lucky souls wore expressions as though their parents had died, clutching their heads and wailing in agony one after another.
On the other side, having annihilated the attackers with a single strike, the Glory turned her bow around, instantly accelerated out of Earth's atmosphere, and flew into outer space.
Tony Stark looked up at the cloudless high altitude, lazily stretched his back, and issued a less-than-enthusiastic invitation to Strucker, Kaecilius, and the others.
"The exploration team has finally set off. Everyone, how about we grab a drink together to celebrate?"
Strucker smiled and refused.
"Apologies, Mr. Stark, I still have many matters to handle. Another day."
Adele and Thomas, who usually blended into the background like minor transparents, saw that even the High Priestess had declined and naturally