Iron Man's Worldview Collapsed!

"The Chitauri dared to run wild on Earth?"

Killing intent flashed in Ren's eyes.

"Vishanti Chains!"

He flicked one hand, and a gleaming golden rope appeared out of thin air.

At first glance, it looked like ordinary hemp rope, just a little thicker. Nothing remarkable.

The alien grunts facing him paid the shabby rope no attention. They sprayed gunfire and shrieked harshly, as though daring him to do something.

Ren didn't bother with words. He snapped his wrist.

The golden chain swelled in the wind!

In an instant, it became a long, slender golden scythe that swept through the air.

The strand sliced low across the ground, shaving a layer off the hard asphalt.

Hum!

The air gave a muffled thrum, like an engine cutting out. It was as if someone had pressed pause on everything around him.

Hundreds of Chitauri soldiers froze in the middle of firing.

The Leviathan about to dive from above stopped in midair.

Crack!

A sharp metallic snap broke the silence.

The hundred-meter-long alien beast shifted apart at the middle, broke in two with a crash, and rained wreckage onto the street.

At the same moment, hundreds of alien soldiers on the ground split into pieces and fell where they stood.

Foul-smelling fluids instantly stained the ground red.

The noisy district went utterly silent. Ren alone stood tall amid the carnage.

Ding!

Vishanti Chains instantly killed more than one hundred targets.

Skill level automatically increased!

The System Notifications chimed crisply.

Ren withdrew his magic, and his familiar bashful smile returned.

But the medical sorcerers behind him had completely lost their composure.

The apprentices spent their days studying medical texts in the rear. When had they ever seen a slaughterhouse this brutal?

Their legs gave way, and they dropped onto their backsides.

Carter was far steadier. He was a veteran who had seen the front lines, after all.

Yet the old sorcerer still drew a sharp breath at the sight of bodies strewn everywhere and the ferocity of Ren's attack.

He'd gone berserk!

What baffled Carter even more was the spell Ren had used.

Unless his eyes had deceived him, that had been Vishanti Chains!

A purely auxiliary binding spell!

Master Hamir had developed it specifically to capture multiple enemies quickly.

To bind as many targets as possible, the spell sacrificed all offensive power. A hit from it was weaker than an ordinary beam of light.

So how was anyone supposed to explain what had just happened?

That had been an aerial landing ship from the Chitauri army!

Its armor was made of advanced cosmic alloy. Even a stripped-down landing ship could withstand main-cannon fire from most interstellar civilizations.

How could a magic rope meant for tying people up slice through an alien warship and everyone aboard like butter?!

Carter stared at the smooth cut through the armor, too stunned to react.

It wasn't that the alien warship had been flimsy.

Ren was simply monstrous!

He was barely human!

The old sorcerer even began to wonder whether the Sorcerer Supreme could have done anything so outrageous.

A support chain with no offensive power had instantly killed over a hundred elite alien soldiers and an interstellar warship.

It was like watching a god descend.

Carter suddenly realized he might have trained a monster destined to become a legend in Kamar-Taj's history!

Even among the grandmasters of past generations, Ren would not have looked out of place.

"That kid is a freak."

Carter shook his head. One support spell had caused destruction on that scale.

He suddenly wanted to retire. How was he supposed to keep practicing sorcery after this?

Comparison was enough to drive a man mad.

With the same spell, Ren could scour the streets like a nuclear bomb. Carter's version would barely make a pop.

What was the point of studying magic anymore?

While the old sorcerer questioned his entire life, two more Leviathans flew into view.

Hulk was rampaging across the back of one beast, but its alien armor was too thick. He couldn't reach its power core.

On the other ship, blue electricity crackled around Thor, but its glow was fading. Chitauri soldiers swarmed over him like ants.

Ren sighed and prepared to clear the field again.

Unlike the effortless slaughter in the movies, the real Avengers were getting battered.

The alien landing ships had fierce firepower and came packed with Bio-Armies.

There was a reason Thanos could use them to conquer the universe.

Of the Avengers, only Thor, Hulk, and Stark could even scratch a warship.

And even those three were close to their limits.

Thor had already vanished beneath a tide of alien soldiers.

"Thor, need a hand?"

Tony's flippant voice came over the comms.

"Stark, this is no time for jokes!"

Thor panted heavily.

He roared, unleashing the divine power within him. Dozens of alien soldiers went flying.

But more monsters surged forward to replace them.

Thor didn't even have time to swear before he was dragged back into the fight. Fortunately, his godly body was tough enough that Chitauri guns couldn't pierce it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A string of small missiles exploded across the Leviathan's back.

Thor rose, covered in soot and dust.

"No need to thank me!"

The red-and-gold armor streaked past him.

Then the dense rows of cannons along the ship's back locked onto Iron Man.

Bang! Bang!

Several high-energy lasers struck home.

Tony went flying and slammed into the ruins of a nearby skyscraper.

If his armor's advanced shock absorbers hadn't held up, the impact would have killed him.

"Damn it, we have to take down those things in the sky."

"Bad news. Another one just came through!"

Steve's voice sounded over the channel.

"Fuck!"

The entire Avengers team erupted in curses over the comms.

They hadn't dealt with the first two, and now there was another?

Were they supposed to stand a chance?

Fortunately, the Portal seemed to have reached its limit. No more ships emerged.

"Thor, can you take Hulk and bring one down first?" Steve shouted.

"I'll try!"

Thor gritted his teeth and wrung every last bit of divine power from his body.

But his body felt unbearably heavy.

He couldn't squeeze out another drop of strength.

"No... I'm at my limit. I need a moment to breathe."

Thor's voice was heavy with helplessness.

The words sent a chill through the Avengers.

If even their strongest fighter was spent, they might truly die here today.

Once the beasts spread out, New York would be flattened.

Ordinary armies couldn't even penetrate their armor!

What could they do?

Just as despair seized them all, a blinding golden flash swept across their vision.

Time around them seemed to stop.

Apart from Hulk, who kept smashing away without a care, the whole world suddenly fell quiet.

Then—

The Leviathan beneath Hulk's feet split silently in two.

With nothing left to stand on, Hulk flailed as he plunged toward the ground.

The warship before Thor shattered too, scattering steel wreckage across the sky.

"What happened?" Thor asked, hammer in hand and utterly bewildered.

"A highly compressed energy weapon."

Tony stared at the holographic display inside his armor, his voice trembling. "That energy reading... It's... It's unbelievable!"

Warnings flashed across his armor's detection system. The energy reading had gone off the scale!

According to the figures racing across his display, the golden flash that had crossed the sky would have produced enough instantaneous power to match ten Arc Reactors overloading at once if converted into electricity!

Tony stared at the display and forgot to breathe.

What the hell was that thing?

His reactor could output three billion joules every second!

It could easily supply all the electricity a major city needed!

In other words, if the strike that had cleaved the warships were converted into electricity, it could power the entire United States for months!

The numbers were beyond absurd!

One impossibility after another shattered every ounce of the technological genius's pride.