The Great War Approaches

His dream of a financial empire had shattered.

It had shattered so completely, so ridiculously.

Xiao Han slowly withdrew his hand, turned around, and could not even be bothered to spare the man who had become an empty shell another glance.

"Let's go."

He spoke to the four women beside him in an even tone.

"The warm-up is over."

"Now comes the truly interesting part."

Wanda took a deep look at Tony, sprawled on the floor, but ultimately said nothing.

Kara curled her lip, seemingly dissatisfied by such an anticlimactic victory without a fight.

Koo Ja-yoon watched the rain of banknotes outside with great interest, as if admiring a work of art.

Diana, meanwhile, wore a thoughtful expression. The power Xiao Han had displayed was almost like a law of nature.

It had shaken everything she thought she knew.

Just as they had appeared, the five figures vanished silently from the office once more.

Only Tony Stark remained behind in the office, utterly lost and despondent.

Outside was a sky full of falling money, and a city consumed by a new kind of madness.

In Tony's eyes, an era had ended in an absurd fashion.

And an even greater chaos had only just begun.

Xiao Han and the others vanished from the top of Stark Tower.

They had not left this universe.

Xiao Han's gaze pierced through the clouds and crossed the vast ocean.

Their consciousnesses descended upon the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in an instant, like an omnipresent god's perspective.

Above a desolate island forgotten by history.

This had once been a military ruin left behind by some war.

But now, it was becoming the cradle of a new era.

The starting point that would soon announce its birth to the world through blood and fury.

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