Inside Stark's seaside villa, Tony, Happy, and Pepper are testing their strength in the gym.
"Our strength has all exceeded one ton." Tony's eyes gleamed with excitement.
"In other words, our physical abilities are now at least ten times that of an average person. This is simply unbelievable. I've become Female Superman."
"With the added bonuses from equipment, its destructive power is beyond imagination."
"We're only level 4 or 5 right now. Even without any special skills, our strength is limited solely by the power gained from leveling up..."
" JARVIS..." Tony shouted into the air.
A gentle, middle-aged male voice rang out in the gym.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, I did not detect any energy field during the 9 minutes and 34 seconds you were gone."
Tony raised his wrist, revealing a black, coin-sized, five-pointed star-shaped tattoo— the Player Mark.
"Scan this."
"It's just a tattoo; I didn't detect any special energy," JARVIS said calmly.
"Continue monitoring!"
As Tony spoke, his figure suddenly vanished. Happy and Pepper both knew that Tony had entered the game's instance world.
In less than a few seconds, Tony reappeared out of thin air.
JARVIS...
"I'm sorry, sir."
"Okay!" Tony wasn't too disappointed; this was within his expectations. After all, the being that created that game instance world was likely a "god" or a "demon."
But Tony didn't give up either; he believed that one day he would be able to crack this so-called game instance.
" Tony!" Pepper was worried; although they had gained power, they were still extremely anxious.
What is unknown is what is truly frightening.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, and Pepper, a business genius, understood this very well.
"I know, but no matter what, we can't waste any of our daily game time. We can't change anything now, so let's accept it, understand it, crack it, and take control of it," Tony said confidently.
Tony's words made Pepper and Happy nod vigorously. Tony was still the same Tony. His intelligence was one thing, but more importantly, he still had that never-give-up spirit.
"Oh, by the way, there's a deal tomorrow that requires your personal attendance."
"Walter?"
"This is a document you personally signed. The company has been too busy; Obadiah nor I have had time to go. Once this deal is finalized, Stark Industries ' profits will increase by 0.3 percentage points this year."
0.3 may not sound like much, but this is Stark Industries. Converted into cash, 0.3 would be an unimaginable fortune for most people.
"Alright, now... let's level up. Get to level 10 first, learn the class skills, and then we'll talk."
The three of them ate a little something, and then disappeared from the villa at the same time.
Two hours and fifty minutes later, the three figures reappeared.
Compared to before, the Aura emanating from the three of them was now much stronger.
In the real world, it takes about three hours, but in the game world, it takes about half a month.
However, the three of them only reached level 10.
"Upgrading is too difficult," Happy complained.
Neither Pepper nor Tony said anything; the experience required to level up was too much.
Can you believe that the experience points increased 50 times from level 9 to level 10? That's simply outrageous.
In the earlier levels, the experience required for each level was twice that of the previous level, but after reaching level 9, the required experience points skyrocketed to 50 times.
The three of them, along with Steve and Hawkeye, spent almost every day teaming up to grind in the Stony Field; they were practically sick of it.
They knew there must be other Map, but the game's instance Map were too large, and they hadn't found a way to enter the next Map in the past two weeks.
However, everyone also gained a great deal in the past two weeks.
Not only did they acquire a lot of powerful equipment, but more importantly, they all mastered their respective class skills.
Steve chose the Knight, Hawkeye unsurprisingly chose the Amazon Archer, Pepper chose the Assassin, Happy chose the Barbarian, and Tony chose the Mage.
They were ordinary players and naturally did not have the extra privileges that Ling Yi, the host, possessed.
Therefore, at level 10, they can only choose a skill tree of one type.
Furthermore, you need to reach the required level to activate the next level of skills.
Tony chose ice-based skills and currently only knows two skills: Ice Bolt and Frozen Armor.
But this still made them very excited.
This was truly Transcendent power; from that moment on, they were no longer A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.
Meanwhile, far away in the Arctic icebergs, Steve wakes up in a cramped space.
He was brought into the game world along with the surrounding ice blocks, so when he returned, he had this space where he could move around a little.
Otherwise, even if Steve leaves the game instance world, he would probably still be frozen in ice.
" Nick is late!" Steve felt a bit annoyed and looked around. He was still inside the same plane from before.
However, the entire plane was frozen solid at that moment.
Although Nick and his team didn't arrive on time, he couldn't just wait around doing nothing.
With a thought, a set of hard leather armor appeared on his body, a blue-quality longsword in his left hand, and a gold-quality shield in his right.
" Holy Fire!" Steve shouted, and a scorching Aura appeared out of thin air.
This is a Knight's Spiritual Qi -based skill: Holy Fire!
Holy Fire Lv3: When activated, periodically emits Huoyan that damage surrounding enemies. Radius: 15 meters. Huoyan damage: 12-24. Huoyan resistance: +18%.
24 points of damage; an average person probably wouldn't last more than two hits before dying.
This is an area-of-effect attack, which is very useful for clearing out regular monsters in the game.
In reality, this skill is even more powerful. Crucially, because Manifestation, it is controllable and not an indiscriminate attack.
Steve concentrated his Huoyan power and scorched it upwards.
About half an hour later, Steve finally emerged from the iceberg, steaming hot, looking as if he had just come out of a sauna.
At the same time, three armed helicopters Yinyin in his line of sight...
Nick, wearing a black trench coat, stepped off the plane and couldn't help but smile when he saw the steaming Steve.
Meanwhile, Coulson and Natasha also disembarked from two other helicopters.
Since we were already quite familiar with each other from our time in the game, there wasn't much small talk.
"Why are there only three of you?" Steve asked, looking at the three helicopters with a puzzled expression.
"Because they are people I trust. As for the three helicopters, they are my private property."
"Boss, you embezzled." Natasha laughed.
Nick nodded. "It's never a bad thing to be prepared."
"It seems you, this so-called director, can't control everything." Steve immediately figured something out and said with a frown.
"Therefore, your appearance cannot be made public for the time being. What we need to do now is to increase our strength."
"Competitors, or tactics from above?" Steve asked inexplicably, leaving Natasha and Coulson somewhat puzzled.
But Nick understood what Steve meant.
He shook his head and said, "I know nothing about it, so it's not an official force."
That's really bad.
Nick waved his hand, and the three helicopters vanished into thin air. This was a new feature Nick had discovered: he could put real-world items into his game inventory.
"This is..."
"It's a game backpack, but you can't bring real-world items into the game. They'll be automatically thrown out of your backpack when you enter the game," Nick explained, while using a return scroll.
A blue, oval-shaped portal of light appeared before the four of them.
"Let's go, you need to get familiar with this new world."
Hell's Kitchen...
Ling Yi Invisibility Teleportation of his house, glanced around, and immediately spotted several suspicious figures.
Several of them were still quite familiar to Ling Yi.
They are members of the Pigeon Gang, a gang with similar strength to the Timberwolf Gang, where Ling Yi currently belongs, except that the Pigeon Gang does different things.
The Pigeon Gang's main source of income is surveillance, information gathering, and information selling.
But whether it's the Pigeon Gang or the Timberwolf Gang, in Hell's Kitchen, they all need to obey Kingpin Group's orders and hand over a large portion of their gang profits to Kingpin Group every year.
Normally, Kingpin Group's top management rarely contact these smaller gangs.
After all, compared to Kingpin Group, these small gangs are nothing but ants in their eyes, easily wiped out or replaced by new forces that can be easily established.
In Ling Yi's view, Brock's death was most likely a case of gang warfare among these small gangs.
However, as Ling Yi's investigation deepened, he discovered that things were not so simple.
The goods he and Brock were delivering this time were for a minor boss in the Kingpin Group.
In other words, someone dared to steal the goods and make Ling Yi and Brock take the blame.
Ling Yi and Brock are both minor figures, and it's difficult for them to meet people in high-level circles.
Speculation is meaningless.
So... Ling Yi decides to be direct.
The Timberwolf Gang ' headquarters were located on the third floor of a nightclub.
The gang leader was a tall, bearded white man nicknamed "The Beast," whose real Babuke Neil.
It's said he used to fight in underground boxing matches, and he's quite Combat.
Of course, this is not weak, but only for the average person.
"Varker, who are you?" Nick clutched his right arm in anguish with his left hand.
His right forearm was charred black. When Ling Yi first appeared, this guy tried to shoot Ling Yi without saying a word, but Ling Yi burned his right forearm to ashes.
"My name is Ling Pals!" Ling Yi was completely Entanglement Huoyan, making his face impossible to see.
Babuke Neil was terrified; he was just a small gang leader and had never seen anything like it before.
Upon hearing the name Ling Pals, NieR instantly understood what was going on.
"You, you..."
"So, you were indeed involved in this. Who else was besides you?"
NieR offered no resistance whatsoever and readily recounted everything.
"Someone wants to give Kingpin a warning: this shipment is only part of the plan."
"They are Sakura-chan people, like ninjas in movies, appearing and disappearing Shadowless trace. I have no Jade Emperor to resist and can only obey their orders."
"They demanded that we take the shipment, but they didn't specify how."
"We don't want to offend those ninjas, but we don't want to offend Kingpin, so..."
"So, Brock and I are the scapegoats?" Ling Yi frowned.
In the Marvel Universe, ninjas... well, that only the Hand!