No one could blame Tony for looking as though the world had made a fool of him.
What had happened before his eyes was simply too strange.
It was like a nuclear bomb exploding, only to precisely kill a single person in a crowd.
Even the people rubbing shoulders with the victim escaped unscathed.
That was no exaggeration.
According to JARVIS's scans, every bolt of lightning that struck contained an absurd amount of energy.
But however much Tony refused to believe it, all of this had already happened, and was still happening.
Perhaps none of the survivors in the city would ever forget what they had seen today.
Lightning fell like rain, while the aliens that had been scurrying through the city like insects, destroying and killing everywhere, were wiped out one after another as though they had met their nemesis.
Even the mechanical whales, so enormous that merely rolling over could kill hundreds, had lightning bolts specifically meting out judgment to them.
Before that thunderous power, nothing else mattered.
The rain of lightning actually lasted only a few short seconds.
But those who experienced this rain of destruction felt as though a century had passed.
Because once the lightning vanished, all the noise disappeared.
Gone. The Chitauri that had been everywhere throughout the city were all gone!
They stared blankly at the blackened, cracked ground, including superheroes like Tony.
Before this, other people had always been the ones marveling at their power.
They had never imagined that one day, someone else's power would frighten them.
Even Nick Fury fell silent.
Power like this left even him feeling a trace of helplessness.
He narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on the giant that had yet to disappear from the screen.
Now, it all depended on what this unknown being would