bookbashuk Chapter 320 Superman vs. Doctor Doom
Chapter 320 Superman vs. Doctor Doom
Chapter 320 Superman vs. Doctor Doom
Within the mirror dimension, Doctor Doom continued to overwhelm the Ancient One and Joey with overwhelming firepower.
The combination of Sorcerer Supreme-level magic and Iron Man-level technology results in an effect that is almost unimaginable.
Even though the mirror dimension, which originated from the real world, had already been shattered by the battle between these two great gods, the endless sea of robots quickly smashed this world to pieces.
Stars were obliterated, planets were crushed, and Jupiter was ignited into a super torch that blazed briefly but fiercely.
The Destroyer hides within the manifested Thousand Destroyed Robot, which is a common tactic of his.
In the mirror dimension, a space already bizarre and fantastical, both magic and technology provide cover, making it impossible for either the Ancient One or Joey to truly discern the other's true form.
Joey, who was constantly helping the Ancient One absorb the damage, was getting anxious: "Great Sage, if you have any other ideas, you'd better hurry!"
It's not that Joey can't hold on; he said he can hold on for a whole day, so he definitely won't lose even a second.
But there's no need to keep getting beaten up like this, is there?
Joey, surrounded by a hail of bullets, felt like Doomsday's passive resistance was about to be maxed out, and they hadn't even touched the hem of Doctor Doom's clothes yet. If this continued, everyone would be in red-hot condition.
Just as Joey was feeling frustrated at not being able to punch Doctor Doom a couple of times to vent his anger, he heard the Ancient One's voice in his mind:
"It's almost time, get ready."
After obtaining the decryption code for the Amager Core while inside the Time Stone's loop, Tony quickly activated his armor and reached the missile in its descent.
This was a malicious injection disguised as energy radiation. After waiting for the missile to explode again in the core, Tony found himself and the missile intact after a second, and time and space had not yet restarted.
Realizing the bomb hadn't been activated, the Amozzo shell had stopped working, and the backdoor code Batman had given him was indeed effective, Tony couldn't help but curse Batman hundreds more times:
"Damn Batman!"
While he was enjoying his verbal sparring, his hands didn't stop either. He started dissecting the missile's outer shell, exposing the internal detonation core.
"This is surprisingly simple."
After hundreds of iterations, each time failing at the first step, Tony never imagined that once he crossed that threshold, the road ahead would be smooth sailing.
He had expected to be protected by some incomprehensible magical runes, and that he would soon return to the loop to prepare to solve the second puzzle related to magic!
Unexpectedly, the core of the bomb used to detonate the entire universe was so simple and straightforward that it was obvious at a glance: an antimatter bomb with an extremely terrifying yield.
Although it's unknown how Doctor Doom extracted such a massive amount of antimatter, it's more than enough to annihilate the entire solar system.
However, the detonator inside the missile is not Tony's main concern, because the detonator is usually the most stable part of the entire missile, so stable that if Tony punches it when it is not in the launch state, it is highly unlikely to detonate.
A tidbit from a former arms dealer: If you want to turn a missile into a dud, the most effective way is to work on the fuse system directly, rather than struggling with the detonator, which is essentially safe in non-combat situations.
Of course, dismantling a missile's fuse system is definitely not like the "cut the red wire or the blue wire" scenario depicted in police dramas, where it's all based on risky guesswork.
If that's really the case, it's actually easier to solve—after all, the one thing Tony has in abundance right now is life.
To dismantle a fuse system, the first thing to understand is the designer's design philosophy, including whether any anti-write mechanisms or traps were included at the detonation unit.
That was what Tony had been thinking, until he saw the inside of the missile with his own eyes, and for a moment he was somewhat dazed:
"This, could this be..."
Tony was so familiar with the missile's fuse system that it was unbelievable.
This is exactly what the inside of those missiles that arms dealer Tony Stark would have made a year ago would look like, with almost no changes.
Has my other self really been living like a dog all these years?
With unlimited room for error as a foundation, Tony, without a shred of suspicion, immediately began dismantling the structure, not forgetting to make a few disparaging remarks about his future self:
"A guy who hasn't made any progress!"
Hey~
After a sharp crack, the fuse system went offline, and the entire missile was reduced to a pile of scrap metal.
Tony, who should have been sweating profusely and overjoyed during the bomb disposal process, appeared completely calm; the countless restarts had exhausted his fear.
He even pulled out the most valuable antimatter bomb core from the missile with his bare hands, intending to use this extremely dangerous concoction as experimental material for future experiments: "It's mine!"
The loop has ended.
A green light surged from the reactor in Tony's chest armor, and the Time Stone of the same color leaped out, shattering into mirror shards in the air before disappearing.
Within the mirror dimension, the Ancient One raised her hand and swept it across the void, grasping the Time Stone in her hand:
"It's time."
The light from the Time Stone transformed into a straight, emerald-green chain, pointing directly from the Ancient One's hand to Doctor Doom's true form, binding the two together in the name of time.
Tony Stark overused the Time Stone, creating a strong connection between him and the stone, a connection that was naturally inherited by Doctor Doom in the future.
"This is impossible!" came Doctor Doom's furious roar from the other end of the time chain. "I exist outside the causal chain!"
Just as he said before, he shouldn't have been influenced by his past self. Even if Tony were killed now, it wouldn't trigger a crisis for Doctor Doom's existence in the future.
Anything is possible.
Although, causally speaking, the Ancient One hasn't taught Tony anything at all, what the Ancient One can see goes beyond this superficial cause and effect:
"You still have a lot to learn, my apprentice."
After locating Doctor Doom by following the traces of time, the Vishanti Guardian Charm took shape in the Ancient One's hand, encircling Doctor Doom from sixteen directions until they joined together to form a small cage of a regular hexahedron.
With his movements restricted, Doctor Doom's first thought was naturally to cast a spell to break the curse, but he had to deal with more than just the Ancient One.
Before the spell in his hand could take shape, the red cloak appeared from the shrinking protective spell cage, and Joey ruthlessly slapped away the spell in Doctor Doom's hand.
On the outside, the Ancient One manipulated the hexahedral cage to shrink continuously until the space was so small that it could barely fit Superman and Doctor Doom.
The two people in the room were practically participating in an octagonal cage duel, with only simple close-quarters combat available.
This is undoubtedly Joey's forte: "Finally!"
After enduring the beating for so long, Joey, finally able to vent his anger, slapped Doctor Doom away, sending him flying and crashing into the outer edge of the cage. Even the indestructible Vishanti protective charm dimmed slightly under the impact of such kinetic energy.
"Until I beat you so badly that even Jarvis won't recognize you."
Joey reached out and grabbed Doctor Doom's head, slamming his face against the wall, extinguishing Doctor Doom's last vestige of hope in casting a spell with a simple, unassuming gesture:
"Tony from the future, is there anything else you want to explain?"
"I'm tired of explaining to you."
After mimicking the Kryptonian abilities, Doctor Doom punched Joey in the waist, causing Joey, who was still trying to press his advantage, to stumble.
"You'll always be a fool who can't see reality!"
Caught off guard and dazed by the punch, Joey increased the force of her blow and returned the favor, shattering Doctor Doom's visor.
"I'll return that favor; now you're the one getting beaten up, not me!"
Discarding all irrelevant functions and focusing all power on the Amozzo core, Doctor Doom pushed his simulated Kryptonian abilities to their limit, delivering a full-speed punch to Joey's chin: "Is that so!"
The impact of the collision between the two steel bodies forced the Ancient One, who was on the outer layer, to repeatedly reinforce the strength of the protective spell.
"Pah!" After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Joey's instantly heated gaze forced Doctor Doom back. She then swung out a claw, scratching five dents into the indestructible Amozzo suit.
Doctor Doom is at least the future Tony. In the previous few times, Joey rarely used a killing move, but since he is unwilling to reason with people now, we can only talk about physics.
What's more, Joey was even more curious about what exactly happened in the future that could turn Tony into such a villain who would wipe out an entire universe at the drop of a hat.
"Regarding the future, there is only one thing I can tell you—Doctor Doom's body glowed green. After being hit by the Kryptonian's iron fist, he realized that it was unlikely to defeat Joey numerically, so he began to think of ways to break free from the Ancient One's restraints and seek a way to escape."
Before that, there was one more thing he needed to do:
"That means from now until the future, you will never be able to bring your adoptive parents back!"
Ever since his failed attempt to travel through time using Deadpool's watch, Joey, who has been chased by various crises, has not actively recalled his original self for a long time.
He intended to use a time trick to take his adoptive parents to the future just before their deaths, but unexpectedly, he ended up far from his home universe and getting further and further away from his initial goal along the way.
This old wound has been buried deep in my heart, and now, the Destroyer Doctor has mentioned it again and again, always giving the worst possible omen.
Enraged, Joey's biofield frequency began to malfunction, and his emotions lost the calmness and restraint he had shown when he first engaged in battle, and he began to slide back into the abyss of initial destruction.
Emotionally swayed by Doctor Doom, Joey's eyes began to redden. For the first time, she attacked without restraint, leaving Doctor Doom's already less-than-pleasing face a bloody mess, even under the protection of magic.
"You're asking for it!"
After that punch, Joey, in his rage, seemed to fall into a strange flashback illusion.
He witnessed the interweaving of space and time, the collision of two Earths, and the destruction of countless parallel universes in pairs, centered on the universe that triggered the Age of Ultron.
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