Self-Destruction

"Clack, clack, clack, clack."

The handle Da Vinci had pulled earlier began making strange metallic scraping sounds, while blue smoke started billowing around the slowly rising platform.

For some reason, those fluorescent blue clouds gradually formed the image of an eagle spreading its wings in the sky. Anyone in the city only needed to look up to see it.

But then a violent explosion sounded below. Leo immediately ran to the edge of the platform and looked down.

"Hmm. This will gather all the Immortals in Immortal City. They will stand before the High Council and the Sacred Relic. We should pass through That Door and return as well. I have something to say to them."

"Wait, there was an explosion down there!" Leo pointed below and shouted over his shoulder as he lay against the platform's edge.

Da Vinci showed no panic whatsoever. Stroking The Big Mustache, he said, "Just as the prophecy said, there would be an explosion after our arrival. It seems your father is indeed rather unhappy about returning to Holy Shield."

"Dad..."

Inside the building beneath them, Tesla was chasing Howard and Nathaniel into a frantic scramble.

The electrical energy coursing through his body seemed inexhaustible. Not only could it accelerate his movements, but it could also launch attacks in all sorts of inconceivable forms.

Lightning whips, lightning arrows, ball lightning, Electromagnetic Pulses, ion energy cannons, and more.

Several cables connected to his spine and brain. This suit of armor employed highly mature Nerve Conduction technology.

There were no computers or artificial intelligence in this era, so he directly used his own brain in their place, amplifying the bioelectricity conducted through his nerves to control the armor as easily as his own limbs.

Under his relentless attacks, explosions kept erupting as Howard and Nathaniel were