Wanda descended, annihilation through Chaos Magic
Lynn leaned back in the solid wood chair, his retina reflecting the shocking crimson.
The night wind blowing in from outside the window had a different smell. The pungent smell of gunpowder was completely expelled, replaced by a magical fluctuation that was extremely oppressive and carried a cloyingly bloody odor. This fluctuation forcefully compressed the air above Manhattan, making one's lungs ache slightly.
On the screen, the pale blue anti- Mutants shield erected by Sentry 02 looked like a soap bubble that could burst at the slightest touch, against the backdrop of the red glow filling the sky.
"Boom--!"
The thick cumulus clouds were completely torn apart.
Wanda descended from the sky. She wasn't wearing her battle attire, but only a dark red velvet nightgown, large expanses of her snow-white skin faintly visible in the night breeze. Yet, absolutely no one dared to harbor even the slightest impudent thought towards her.
The Scarlet Particles surrounding her were like a swarm of hungry piranhas, frantically devouring the surrounding air. Wherever they passed, even light was distorted and swallowed up.
She hovered above the Stark Shares Building, looking down at Susan had just made a splash.
"It's not a good habit to jump the gun, old woman." Wanda's voice wasn't loud, but it resonated clearly through the magical resonance into the secret communication channel.
A morbid fanaticism surged in her eyes as she stared intently at Susan, but her peripheral vision was fixed on Lynn's location off-screen. Even through the Surveillance Camera, Lynn could feel that obsessive possessiveness that seemed to want to meld him into its very bones.
"You think you can break the rules set by Lynn so easily?" Wanda's lips curled into a neurotic sneer as she toyed with a ball of dense, blood-red Chaos Magic between her fingertips.
Susan stood in mid-air, Invisible Force Field rippling around her, pressing down her disheveled blonde hair.
"Rules? All I know is that I'm the one who got ten points right now." Susan retorted without backing down, her deep blue eyes full of provocation. "What, are you jealous, little girl? If you're too slow, you won't be getting a seat in the bedroom tonight."
Wanda's eye twitched violently.
She hated it most when someone stole Lynn's thunder. Especially this woman who tried to take over the "mistress" position and dared to use such despicable means to seduce Lynn. Her territorial instincts were completely ignited at this moment, and her violent killing intent almost materialized.
Just as the two women were about to clash, the ignored Sentry No. 02 below issued a piercing red alert.
The inverted triangular mechanical eyes flashed wildly, locking onto Wanda in mid-air. This masterpiece of Trask Industries was operating at high speed, its underlying combat logic running at breakneck speed. The eerie blue energy network on its surface instantly pushed its power to the limit, attempting to decipher the unknown energy frequency that had appeared out of nowhere.
"Analysis?"
Wanda turned her head to look at the ten-meter-tall steel Beast, her eyes as if she were looking at a pile of foul-smelling garbage.
"Who gave you permission... to look directly into his territory?"
She slowly raised her hands, her ten fingers spreading out gracefully as if playing the piano.
There were no lengthy incantations, no tedious power-building.
Wanda ripped it open with both hands!
Sizzle--!
A sharp, piercing crack came through the communication channel. It wasn't the sound of metal breaking physically, but rather a mournful cry as some kind of common sense was forcibly ripped apart.
Sentry 02's supposedly anti- Mutants shield, capable of absorbing and deflecting high-energy strikes, couldn't even withstand a fraction of a second. The Scarlet Chaos Particles sliced through the dark blue energy net as easily as a hot knife through butter.
The shield collapsed instantly, turning into countless scattered specks of light.
Next came the armor.
The Special Alloy that the military was so proud of were rendered non-existent by the Chaos Magic; they disintegrated directly at the molecular level. The hard metal shell, the thick hydraulic transmission rods, and the intricate internal wiring all turned into countless tiny red particles the moment they came into contact with the red light.
The core processing unit within the Sentry was generating a series of errors.
"Warning! Armor integrity below 10%..."
"Warning! Underlying Logic has been overwritten by unknown code..."
"Try to activate the backup..."
Before the cold, mechanical synthesized voice could finish broadcasting, red light had already flowed back into its core Chip along the circuitry.
Chaos Magic never operates on physical logic; it alters reality itself.
The underlying control code, composed of 0s and 1s, was forcibly erased at the logical level. This weapon of war not only lost its physical body, but even the "concept" of its existence was forcibly stripped away.
Less than two seconds.
Sentry No. 02, who stood ten meters tall, vanished into thin air.
No wreckage landed, no engine exploded, not even a drop of black oil remained. Only a wisp of red mist dissipated in the air, proving that a colossal creature had once existed there.
The entire neighborhood fell into a deathly silence.
Even the civilians who were screaming and fleeing in the distance stopped in their tracks, staring blankly at the terrifying Scarlet in the night sky.
Lynn sat in his Throne -like office chair, swirling the wine glass in his hand. The remaining red wine slowly slid down the glass, resembling fresh blood.
"Well done." Lynn tapped the table, his voice coming through the microphone, "Twenty points."
He enjoyed this feeling.
Stryker, deep inside the Pentagon's underground bunker, is probably scared out of his wits right now. His ultimate trump card, built with the resources he'd poured into it, is utterly worthless in the face of true Skyfather-level power. That's the allure of Dimensionality-Reduction Strike.
Wanda's slightly breathless chuckle came through the communication headset.
Hearing Lynn's praise, the ferocity in her eyes instantly transformed into extreme infatuation and obedience. She blew a charming kiss towards the Surveillance Camera through the air, then glanced at Susan provocatively.
"Did you see that clearly? This is the efficiency of cleaning up trash." Wanda licked her red lips, and Scarlet light gathered again at her fingertips as she fixed her gaze on the last remaining Sentry, 03.
Susan snorted coldly, her Invisible Force Field compressing wildly in her palm, clearly indicating she had no intention of handing over the last head to someone else.
Just as the two women were about to fight over the remaining points, Sentry No. 03 below showed some unusual behavior.
Its Logic Center has completely crashed.
Having witnessed Number 01 being crushed into an iron ball and Number 02 being wiped out, this emotionless killing machine reached the only conclusion in its computational career: the target is invincible, and conventional weapons are ineffective.
The red mechanical eye stopped flashing and turned a lifeless dark red.
"Initiate final self-destruct protocol."
The cold, mechanical sound echoed in the night sky.
Sentry 03's chest armor suddenly sprang open, revealing the miniature nuclear reactor inside, which was operating at overload. A blinding White Light instantly illuminated half of Manhattan, and terrifying radiation levels soared exponentially.
It will drag the Stark Shares Building and several surrounding blocks down with it.
Wanda frowned slightly, preparing to use magic to forcefully suppress the nuclear explosion.
Lynn squinted in front of the screen.
At this critical moment, the thick armor plate on the back of the Sentry's neck twisted strangely without warning.
A white afterimage, like a weightless ghost, silently tore through the optical camouflage and clung tightly to the back of the steel Beast's neck.
The Silk Dagger in Gwen Stacy's hand, tempered with a high-voltage Bioelectric Charge powerful enough to paralyze an elephant, revealed its deadly fangs.