Chapter 54 Restoring the Dragon Talisman
Chapter 54 Restoring the Dragon Talisman
"Who are you? What did I do?" Tony's voice came from behind the mask, his voice crackling with static.
"What did you do?" Wanda repeated the question, her cold voice tinged with sarcasm.
Wanda's face contorted at Tony's question, and dark red energy exploded from her chest, spreading outwards.
Tony was struck by the force and thrown into the air, eventually becoming embedded in the wall.
Tony coughed violently, spurting a large amount of blood from his mouth that pooled inside his mask, obstructing his vision, followed by the sound of approaching footsteps.
"Okay, ma'am, I may have offended you somewhere, but could you give me a hint? After all, I've offended too many people." Tony's voice was barely audible, but Wanda heard it clearly.
"Wanda, before we deal with Tony, I can offer you a little toy."
The mocking voice of the Holy Lord came from afar. Tony couldn't make out what the Holy Lord's so-called toy was, but could barely make out its outline, which looked like a woman.
"Tony, Tony!" the woman screamed. "Let me go, you monsters!"
Tony listened to the woman's words, his eyes bloodshot, but the whites of his eyes disappeared completely in a moment: "Pepper, what are you doing here!"
"Pepper?"
Wanda looked at the woman being strangled in her arms, and the words of the Holy Lord echoed in her mind: "Pepper is Tony's lover."
Upon hearing this news, Wanda's lips curled up uncontrollably once again. If Tony could see it at this moment, he would find that Wanda's smile had now reached her ears, a level that seemed completely inhuman.
A surge of intense excitement rushed into her brain, and a drop of blood flowed from her nose, but Wanda paid no attention to it, not even noticing it.
"Tony, you just asked me how we became enemies, right?" Wanda's voice was laced with excitement. "It's simple, because your surname is Stark. As an arms dealer, you'll never understand how tragic the deaths of those who died in the firepower you provide are."
"And you, the perpetrator, have become a hero, a vengeful figure. How laughable."
Tony didn't hear Wanda's words clearly. From the moment he heard Pepper's voice, he had no mind to care about anything else: "You, you let her go first."
"Let her go?" Wanda raised her hand, her hand swirling with chaotic magic as she crushed Tony's mask.
The mask was crushed, and Tony's vision returned. He saw Wanda's inhuman smile and Pepper's suffocating expression.
Chaos magic swirled around Wanda, instantly raising the surrounding temperature and causing Pepper's face to turn bright red from the heat.
"That's more like it, that's what a happy expression looks like." Wanda was very satisfied with Pepper's expression now.
She looked at the Holy Lord sitting on the throne in the distance: "Master, thank you for giving me this opportunity to take revenge."
Tony could feel his vision and hearing suddenly amplified; he could now clearly feel Pepper's panting and her suffocating expression.
"Don't worry, Mr. Stark, she won't die so easily," Wanda said, channeling a wisp of chaos magic into Pepper's heart. "I will control her heart."
Then, the Holy Lord sat on the throne and saw Tony's expression gradually becoming ferocious, constantly letting out angry roars.
Wanda turned and gave the Lord a standard bow, her voice echoing through the surrounding space through chaos magic: "Next, the final performance will be given to the Master by Mr. Stark."
Tony could feel the restraints on his body disappear, but he couldn't control his body. He raised his right palm cannon and aimed it at Pepper, who was being tortured beyond recognition.
"Tony, thank you." These were Pepper's last words as the palm cannon pierced through her skull.
Wanda looked at Tony, who was lying on the ground holding Pepper's body and crying uncontrollably, with a smile on her face: "Your voice sounds beautiful right now."
Tony stared intently at Wanda: "Jarvis, activate self-destruct mode."
"Received, sir."
The reactor on Tony's chest hummed, and blinding light emanated from it. In an instant, Tony was sucked into a dried-up corpse by the reactor.
"You don't think your final counterattack will hurt me, do you?"
Chaos magic surged toward the reactor in Tony's chest, suppressing the energy that was about to explode in an instant.
Tony's last-ditch effort only accomplished the first part.
The Holy Lord rose, and a dragon talisman appeared in his hand: "Next, it's time to recover some power."
The awe-inspiring nuclear bomb ripped through the dark clouds over New York, hurtling straight down from the horizon toward Tony's body.
The Holy Lord looked at the two nuclear bombs, his face filled with longing. The walls split apart and transformed into stairs, paving the way for the Holy Lord to ascend.
The first nuclear bomb exploded at an altitude of 300 meters above the ground.
The shock wave, which should have torn the atmosphere apart, instead struck an invisible wall during its propagation.
The flames and radiation that should have been raging and spreading stopped instantly, without even forming a mushroom cloud.
All the energy and heat were gathered into a ball by an unseen hand, transforming into a sphere of light no more than ten centimeters in diameter, which fell into the Holy Lord's hand.
When he first arrived in this world, he only had the Rat Talisman, and his omnipotence in fire was incomplete. He could only try to stop the nuclear bomb.
But things are different now. With the return of the Dragon Talisman, the Fire Demon has regained all his fire powers. This explosion is merely a tonic for Shendu.
"Mr. Stark, I am satisfied with your final counterattack." The Holy Lord put the ball of light into the Dragon Talisman, and a glimmer of light appeared on the originally dim talisman.
The power of the dragon talisman has been restored somewhat.
Then came the second nuclear bomb. The Holy Lord absorbed it again.
Wanda stood still, crimson chaos magic still swirling around her, and looked up at Shendu's movements.
"Owner……"
Wanda watched the Holy Lord's actions with fascination, her eyes overflowing with awe and admiration, like a fanatical fan seeing their idol, a stark contrast to the person who had dealt with Tony before.
"A few more were launched from Tony's private warehouse and will take some time to arrive here."
The Holy Lord turned his head to look down: "Some of the rats are starting to notice."
In a secluded room, a portal appeared, and the King emerged from it. He frowned as he looked at the Holy Lord above: "What kind of ability is this, magic?"
The king then saw Wanda behind Shendu, looking at him with an expression of worship: "Chaos magic? According to the Time Stone's previous calculations, it shouldn't be appearing at this time."
Another nuclear missile has been launched here, and this time Wang clearly saw the entire process of the Holy Lord absorbing the energy from the nuclear missile.
"This, how is this possible? There is absolutely no record of this in any known magic system."
Wang felt that his knowledge of the magical system had been completely overturned, and now the Ancient One was guarding the magical dimension and not interfering in the battles between mortals.
The other mages are not yet fully developed, and now it is up to him to make a decision.
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