Black filamentous matter surged from the gaps between the bones and muscles in Tony's fingertips, arms, and back.
Like flowing liquid, it spread smoothly across Tony's body, covering him completely.
The Arc Reactor in his chest lit up at the same time.
An electric current connected to some terminal.
The filamentous matter instantly solidified, becoming armor as smooth as a mirror.
The entire suit was pitch-black.
Though composed of filamentous matter, it still possessed a metallic sheen.
At last, lights lit up in the armor's eye slots, and new energy cannons formed over its hands.
"What the hell?"
Not just the Ten-Ring Gang—even Leon was dumbfounded.
What the hell was this? Was a biological suit of armor supposed to work like this?
And hadn't all the E-Mold been left behind in the Resident Evil world? What were these black filaments?
He instinctively activated X-Ray Vision and scanned Tony's entire body.
Beneath that streamlined suit of armor,
countless filaments connected the armor to Tony's body.
They extended into his subcutaneous tissue, passed through the gaps between cells, and led into Tony's bones.
Within the gaps in his bones, Leon saw extremely precise electronic metal circuits.
He could tell that the material of those circuits contained trace amounts of Vibranium.
And that tiny amount of Vibranium served as the crucial medium.
Billions of filaments were wrapped around it.
They densely connected all the way to the Arc Reactor in his chest.
There, cold nuclear power was converted into bioelectricity, continuously supplying endless filamentous matter with energy.
Leon understood.
Tony had implanted some kind of fungus and the armor's core components into the gaps in his bones.
The SS3 Enhancement Serum had granted him Mycelial Control and Bloodline Parasitic Control.
Now, under the Arc Reactor's power supply,
they had combined perfectly with the