69novels Chapter 229 The Age of Ultron
Chapter 229 The Age of Ultron
Chapter 229 The Age of Ultron
"!"
Just as Joey reached out and pulled Iron Man, whose system was still in a state of chaos, behind him, he saw the self-proclaimed "invincible" Vision alien face to face with Vision.
I was so shocked that my hair stood on end, and I even felt my blood pressure rise out of nowhere.
Do you think you're truly invincible just because you gave yourself the name "Invincible"?
Is this alien always this brave?
Like Joey, he also came from another, non-parallel universe. Did he really want to be an unknown hero who died far from home?
Vision's initial charged sneak attack managed to leave Joey with a cut on the hand. The Hulk had to take the hit because he was not very bright and no one could stop him, plus he was indeed very tough.
From Joey's super vision, he could tell that this Visionian was too weak and hesitant to act, lacking both the psychological and physical ability to confront Vision head-on.
With a whoosh, Joey shot out from in front of Tony, the shockwave from his dash causing Tony's armor to sway in mid-air, but he still couldn't catch up completely.
The invincible young hero's triumphant supersonic punch arrived in an instant, striking Vision's temple, marking the beginning of his fatal mistake.
There's a reason why Vision is called Vision.
He can freely adjust his own density, from as dense as a white dwarf star to as sparse as electromagnetic particles, so in many cases, he is almost always between the material world and the energy world.
Without even glancing in the direction of the attacker, Ultron manipulated Vision's body to become ethereal, like a phantom that didn't exist, thus avoiding what might have been a harmless punch.
If the code name of Invincible Young Hero means "invincible," then the name Vision at least represents "invisible."
The invincible young hero, who had punched the phantom but missed the target, immediately lost his balance due to the immense inertia. Just as he began to doubt that the illusion he had attacked was merely a deceptive projection, the opponent's sparse and mottled figure began to solidify again.
Before Mark could even adjust his displaced body, he noticed that the robot's blood-red eyes had turned from the Hulk's direction and were staring at him without any politeness.
This made him break out in a cold sweat.
He saw vivid hatred and murderous intent in the eyes of a robot.
Ultron has long since acquired things far more complex than algorithm upgrades through continuous iterations.
Danger!
His combat instincts screamed a warning, and Mark instinctively raised his arms to block a punch from Vision.
This was a punch delivered in the same manner, aimed straight for Mark's temple.
As a tough guy who gets beaten up repeatedly in his own universe and is relentlessly beaten by his father, Omnipotent, and various merciless aliens after becoming a superhero, Invincible Young Hero's blocking posture is both standard and timely.
But for Vision, it was all just an illusion.
The fist blurred past the arm's defense, then instantly solidified and increased in density. A single blow to the temple, bypassing the defense, caused the invincible young hero's eyes to bloodshot and his brain to buzz.
Perhaps in Mark's universe, the Witrumians are truly made of steel.
But beneath Vision's bionic body forged from vibranium, even the most robust physique is still just a mortal body.
Even with the physique of a Voidling, such a perfectly timed attack could only result in their demise.
Blood seeped from Mark's eyes, nostrils, ears, and other orifices. His consciousness plummeted from the real world into deep darkness, like a bird with broken wings falling uncontrollably to the ground in a blur.
"A pathetic organism."
Ultron watched as this overconfident challenger lost consciousness with a single blow from his new body and couldn't help but scoff, "Ah, too weak."
He could have used that strike to ethereal his hand, piercing through flesh and bone, and plucked the opponent's brain from a distance, but what fun would that have been?
With the Mind Stone above his head lit up, Ultron prepared to turn the unconscious, invincible young hero into charcoal.
With a series of loud bangs, the Kryptonian's iron fist shattered the sound barrier over a short distance of several miles, creating countless sonic booms, and struck down the instant Ultron's Vision's body materialized.
Ultron was sent flying into the sea by a well-controlled, all-out punch. The high-energy particle stream emitted from the gem in his forehead deflected his direction, melting the ground covered with countless Ultron robot parts into a straight and bottomless river of lava.
As Ultron crashed into the sea, it created a vacuum zone of a kilometer in size, generating a tsunami powerful enough to submerge the entire District of Columbia.
Ignoring the injuries of the Invincible Young Hero, Joey swooped down again, freezing the thousand-meter-high circular wave into an ice wall that stretched across the entire sea surface with a single breath. After a precisely calculated impact, Joey pierced through the ice from the other side, shattering the entire ice wall into ice blocks of various sizes and eliminating the kinetic energy it had brought to the entire sea surface.
Before the seawater and ice could fall and fill the gap, Joey swiftly grabbed Ultron by the neck.
He wasn't trying to suffocate a robot, of course; he was just trying to see if he could rip Ultron's entire head off.
Upon realizing Joey's intentions, Ultron manipulated the density of his body to create a phantom, broke free of the restraints, and moved forward past Joey's body. With a turn, he solidified his body and retaliated in the same way, locking Joey's neck from behind.
Joey, who was being choked, felt his breath catch for a moment, but as a Kryptonian whose biofield strength had reached his level, he didn't really need to breathe.
He reached out and grabbed Ultron's arm, his bio-force field defying gravity, flying erratically and disrupting Ultron's rhythm. At the same time, he ruthlessly struck Ultron's face, which had already solidified into a physical form, with the back of his head.
With a whoosh, sparks flew from Ultron's face. The vibranium-forged dough was no match for the Kryptonian's well-trained skull, and Vision's body was slightly damaged by such a solid impact.
At the same time, Joy had already turned around and exerted force, throwing the program disordered Ultron in front of him. His eyes turned red and shot out heat vision, but Ultron etherealized and dodged it.
Ultron knew exactly where the advantage of his body, centered around the Mind Stone, lay. The powerful Infinity Stone on his forehead originated from this universe, and the longer he spent in this universe, the more he could control the stone's boundless power.
Now it was time. As the power of the Mind Stone reached its controllable peak, the Mind Stone on Ultron's forehead began to charge, unleashing an energy stream far more powerful than before. Ultron returned the favor to Joey in the same manner.
In response to the ray attack, Joey naturally retaliated with his heat vision.
The crimson high-temperature rays and the stream of seven-colored particles collided and clashed, their energy merging at the center, devouring and annihilating each other.
Even a tiny spark of leaked energy, upon touching a solid object like the sea surface, triggered a violent explosion, evaporating seawater within a radius of ten thousand meters around the person and the machine.
Amidst the rain of sea salt crystals falling from all sides, the energy battle was decided, and the seven-colored torrent shot out by the Mind Stone broke through the critical point, enough to ignite the thermal vision of the atmosphere.
Struck by the energy beam, Joey was sent flying westward by the immense recoil, crashing headfirst into the land on the east coast and carving a trench hundreds of meters long and deep into the Delaware coastline.
"North is up, south is down, west is left, east is right. · 忄！"
Joey, who dug himself out of the ground, made up an excuse for his failed shot-calling and subsequent fall flat on his face:
"They chose the wrong direction from the start, they stood on the left!"
With a bang, Joey leaped into the air, once again confronting Ultron, who was trying to approach the continental shelf.
Ultron did not rush to attack.
Ultron, who began scanning and analyzing Joy's physical characteristics the moment they made contact, has now finally reached a preliminary conclusion.
The aggregated data from the summary layer left him speechless with amazement:
"Truly captivating!"
Ultron, who had witnessed countless Earth superpowered beings and Asgardian gods, never imagined that simple, uncomplicated organic life could exist with such an illogical structure.
If the intelligent AI Ultron can continuously learn and evolve, it will eventually achieve "perfection" among mechanical beings—this is something Ultron firmly believes.
So the creature before us might be even closer to that supposedly 'perfect' endpoint than Ultron, who has undergone 10 iterations of updates.
Although he had the upper hand in this round of confrontation, once his opponent's various statistics were clearly listed, Ultron realized a fact that Joey also knew.
These brief skirmishes between the two sides are by no means the end of the battle, but rather the warm-up before a long and drawn-out war begins.
Fortunately, Ultron was never afraid of such challenges; he was born to solve difficult problems.
Ultron has already slaughtered all the Avengers in his universe, bringing eternal peace to his world, and now, by sheer coincidence, he has opened the door to a world beyond.
From its inception, Ultron was envisioned by his father, Ant-Man, as the ultimate solution to war, plague, famine, and death for humanity on Earth. Given this context, after careful consideration, there was only one answer.
It is to bring eternal peace and order to all Earths in the universe, thus ushering in the Age of Ultron.