Divine Dragon Appears

"Damn Loki, damn Coulson!"

Rumlow, who had been "healed," cursed repeatedly. Luckily, his identity had not been exposed, or Hydra would have been in danger. He flew into the air and said, "I’ll go down and help!"

Damon also said, "I’m going with you! Hell Demons are a much greater threat than aliens!"

After the two left, Wind Demon said to Absorbing Man, "Carl Creel, you have two choices. One, go back to S.H.I.E.L.D. and remain a prisoner. Two, I hire you on behalf of my boss, and you work for him!"

Absorbing Man asked arrogantly, "Who’s your boss?"

"The chairman of the Osborn Corporation and Blood God Group, the richest man in all of America!"

Wind Demon said, "This is your only chance to latch onto someone powerful. Want it or not?"

"The richest man in America?"

Absorbing Man’s eyes lit up. He asked, "Can he help me get all kinds of rare materials?"

Wind Demon said, "Of course. For example, he has Vibranium!"

"Then that’s great. I’ll follow him!"

Absorbing Man nodded repeatedly. Thinking of something, he turned to Tony and said disdainfully, "Following him is better than following someone who can’t even afford Vibranium!"

Tony nearly spat blood. Was it that he could not afford Vibranium? There simply was no Vibranium to buy, all right?

Did this count as getting shot while lying down? Tony cursed, "Low-IQ idiot, get lost already. Don’t affect our performance!"

Wind Demon scoffed, swept Absorbing Man up, and flew downward. They were urgently needed at Hell Gate!

Because of Mephisto’s scheme, Hell Gate was much larger than the Space Vortex in the sky. This meant there were far more Hell Demons than Chitauri bio-soldiers! Although Hulk and the others were fighting desperately, there were too few of them, and they could only hold back part of the enemy. Many demons had rushed into Manhattan, and some citizens who had not escaped in time unfortunately became the demons’ food!

That was right, demons ate people. They ate not only their bodies, but their souls as well!

"Hulk!"

Hulk roared and smashed his fist at the Minotaur before him. The Minotaur blocked with both fists. With a boom, the ground beneath their feet cracked apart! "I like the color on your body. I think we’re a perfect match!"

The Minotaur laughed heartily and began trading blow after blow with Hulk, not falling behind at all. He was one of Mephisto’s commanding generals!

Electro blasted an eight-legged demon away with an Electromagnetic Railgun and said while panting, "These demons are much harder to deal with than aliens!"

Damon swung his flaming chain, setting an entire group of demons ablaze, and shouted, "Hard or not, we have to deal with them! Manhattan can only rely on us now!"

While piloting the Black Widow armor and harvesting demons’ lives, Natasha shouted through the communicator, "We have to close the portal as soon as possible. Tony, have you handled things over there?"

"No. Dr. Selvig said that if we want to stop the device, we have to use the Mind Scepter!"

Tony said irritably, "The Mind Scepter disappeared with that demon from before. We have no idea where it is now!"

Steve asked, "Is there no other way? Like destroying Stark Tower?"

"Why do all of you want to destroy my Stark Tower? What did it ever do to you?"

Tony shouted unhappily. Ivan could not be bothered to waste words and directly bombarded the platform on Stark Tower’s roof. Boom, boom, boom—the platform shattered and fell downward!

But to everyone’s disappointment, the portal device floated in the air, completely unaffected!

Ivan shook his head. "Looks like that won’t work."

"I already said it wouldn’t work. Could you use your brain before bombing it?"

Tony snapped, grabbing Dr. Selvig in time to keep him from falling.

"Practice is the only criterion for truth! Too bad the firepower wasn’t enough, or I’d have blown up Stark Industries directly!"

Ivan said as he flew upward, "Thor can’t hold on much longer. I’m going up to help!"

Tony sent Dr. Selvig to a bar, then followed him. Thinking of something, he asked, "By the way, what’s with your Osborn Corporation? Only ten suits of Drone Armor?"

"You’ve got the nerve to ask?"

Ivan snapped, "Who was it that blew up the armor production base and kept those Drone Armor suits from flying out?"

Tony remembered what had happened and was suddenly a little embarrassed. He snorted. "Who told your defenses to be so weak?"

Ivan snorted. "Keep talking tough. Bert will settle the score with you. Oh, and you killed several pilots earlier. Once this war is over, the military definitely won’t let you off!"

Tony’s teeth ached. "I was under control. People under control aren’t responsible for anything!"

"I hope the military and Bert accept your explanation!"

The two bickered as they teamed up against the Chitauri, but as more and more bio-soldiers and Leviathans poured in, the situation gradually began to worsen!…

Wakanda’s king, T’Chaka, was watching the battle in Manhattan through satellite footage with a group of elders. Prince T’Challa, who had just been recalled, could not help saying, "I think we can send troops to support America!"

An elder said with great dissatisfaction, "Send troops to support America? Have you forgotten that they are preparing to invade us?"

The other elders also looked at T’Challa with displeasure. T’Challa forced himself to say, "Helping at a time like this would not only put righteousness on our side, but also let us display our strength and eliminate the threat of war!"

"What nonsense! Wakanda has no tradition of offering its right cheek after being struck on the left!"

"That’s right. Wakanda will not help its enemies! And this violates our principle of isolation!"

"When America’s Fifth Fleet attacks, they will naturally learn of our strength!"

"Even if we help America, they won’t stop trying to invade us. T’Challa, you are too naive!"

"Wakanda has no need to care what others think!"

The elders unanimously opposed him. T’Chaka coughed and said, "Keep watching. This is America’s affair. It has nothing to do with us!"

The elders all nodded. T’Challa could not help sighing. If so, war would be unavoidable!…

"Time is on my side!"

Within the Mirror Dimension, Mephisto said smugly, "You are being held back by me, and Blood God is trapped by Maze Demon. Without the two of you, humanity cannot stop the Hell Demons and the Chitauri. Before long, Manhattan will become a ruin, and this is only the beginning!"

Ancient One said without changing expression, "I have confidence in Blood God! Maze Demon cannot hold him back. Once he gets out, these demons will be nothing!"

"Maze Demon can’t hold him back?"

Mephisto laughed loudly. "One Maze Demon certainly cannot hold him back, but I sent ten of them. Ancient One, I, Mephisto, will not fall into the same pit twice!"

"Ten Maze Demons?"

Ancient One was somewhat surprised, then shook her head. "So what? Even ten Maze Demons still cannot hold him back!"

"You really do have faith in him!"

Mephisto snorted. "In that case, I’ll give you another great gift! I have prepared everything for today. Even if humanity launches nuclear missiles, I can stop them!"

Following Mephisto’s voice, a huge mass of blazing fire burst out of Hell Gate. Even Damon was startled and quickly retreated!

The flames flew upward, swelling continuously, while the surrounding office buildings rapidly caught fire. In the blink of an eye, several enormous torches had appeared in Manhattan, an astonishing sight! Then, the flames spread wings in the air, revealing a gigantic Hellfire Raven. It laughed loudly, and countless Little Fire Crows flew from its wings, cawing as they scattered in all directions.

As they flew, these little crows fired small fireballs downward. The fireballs exploded across buildings and streets with booming blasts, like grenades! In no time at all, the surrounding area had become a sea of flames! "We can’t let these crows get away! Stop them!"

Damon was horrified and hurried into the sky. Just then, a chain suddenly wrapped around his ankle and forcibly yanked him down from the air. He slammed into the ground with a bang! The one attacking Damon was a demon covered from head to toe in chains. It said viciously, "Ghost Rider, Lord Mephisto sends his regards!"

As it spoke, the Chain Demon controlled more than ten spiked chains and viciously thrust them at Damon. Damon shouted and fired missiles at the Chain Demon, then flipped himself upright and cut through the chain around his ankle with a slash of his sword.

As Damon fought the Chain Demon, Peacemaker, Black Widow, Steve, and the other flying Super Heroes all flew into the sky. Ivan and Tony also hurried over to help!

These Little Fire Crows were practically bombers. If they reached the dock district or the bridge district, the consequences would be unthinkable!

"The sky belongs to me!"

The Hellfire Raven forcefully flapped its wings, sending densely packed flaming feather arrows flooding toward the Super Heroes who had flown into the air.

The Super Heroes hurriedly dodged and counterattacked, but the flaming feather arrows were simply too dense. Even they were battered into a miserable state and had no choice but to retreat to the ground! The demons immediately rushed forward and tightly entangled them, preventing them from stopping the little crows! Without the Super Heroes blocking them, the Little Fire Crows bombarded Manhattan all the way through. In only a short time, nearly half of Manhattan had become a sea of flames. Countless innocent civilians were blown to death or burned alive! Worse still, a group of Little Fire Crows discovered a large number of humans in the dock district and excitedly flew over! Danny Rand, who was holding back the demons with the police and soldiers to buy civilians time to escape, saw this and shouted in despair, "It’s over!"

"No!"

Daredevil roared unwillingly, but he could do nothing because he could not fly!

Even the Super Heroes were like this, let alone ordinary people. Many soldiers fired wildly into the sky, but it was useless. Their range was insufficient!

"Hahaha! Blow this entire place to pieces! I like this place. From now on, it’s mine!"

The Hellfire Raven laughed wildly in the sky. The scent of death, the scent of souls—it intoxicated it beyond measure!

At that moment, a majestic voice suddenly resounded throughout Manhattan. "Yours? Did you ask me?"

Along with the voice, a crimson Divine Dragon over a thousand meters long appeared out of nowhere above Manhattan. At first it was merely a phantom, but it quickly solidified, like a true Divine Dragon soaring through the sky!

Then, the crimson Divine Dragon flapped wings that nearly covered the sky and raised its head with a Dragon Roar that shook all of Manhattan. The Little Fire Crows fell to the ground in terror, no longer daring to fly! The sky was the Divine Dragon’s territory! The danger in the dock district was instantly lifted! "A dragon!"

Unlike last time, when no one else could see the Divine Dragon, this time everyone witnessed the Divine Dragon Appears with their own eyes, leaving them utterly shocked. There was actually such a noble, sacred, powerful Divine Dragon in this world? Some native Manhattan residents stared at the Divine Dragon in the sky and, for some reason, suddenly burst into tears of joy, as if they had seen a family member who had always protected them.

"Where did this Divine Dragon come from?"

Tony was stunned. Ivan glanced at the Divine Dragon, pointed to the Osborn Corporation emblem, and asked, "Don’t you think it looks very similar to that?"

"Bert summoned this?"

Tony was dumbfounded. That guy was too terrifying, wasn’t he? He could even summon a Divine Dragon like this? Was he going to leave anyone else a chance to live?

"I am the king of the skies!"

Seeing that its subordinates no longer dared to take flight, the Hellfire Raven erupted with rage and immediately charged at the Divine Dragon. Before the raven arrived, densely packed fireballs were already whistling toward it!

"Before me, who gave you the courage to call yourself king?"

The Divine Dragon smiled disdainfully and swept its tail. Whether fireballs or the Earth Fire Crows, all of them were sent flying.

The Hellfire Raven crashed into a skyscraper with a bang, nearly breaking it in half. It flapped its wings and flew back up, shouting in disbelief, "How can you be so powerful?"

"How could the power accumulated by Manhattan over thousands of years not be strong?"

The Divine Dragon could not be bothered to answer the Hellfire Raven. It opened its mouth and inhaled forcefully, drawing the surrounding flames into its mouth.

Then, the Divine Dragon spewed a sky-covering breath of Dragon Fire at Hell Gate below. The demons around Hell Gate were instantly wiped out—they had been burned into ashes by the Dragon Fire! However, Hell Gate was completely undamaged. Whatever material it was made from, it did not fear Dragon Fire at all! "Watch it, don’t burn us!"

Natasha hurriedly backed away. Hulk and the Minotaur, who were locked in battle nearby, as well as Damon and the Chain Demon, also quickly shifted their battlefield. The one in the sky was far too dangerous! The Divine Dragon’s eyes remained fixed on the area around Hell Gate, searching for Maze Demon’s location. It didn’t burn it out. Where exactly is Maze Demon’s true body? Could it be outside this world? That would be troublesome!

"Damn it!"

Seeing the Divine Dragon completely ignore it, the Earth Fire Crows flew into a rage, transforming into a huge fireball and smashing viciously toward the Divine Dragon. The Divine Dragon snorted. Its mouth suddenly expanded, and with a single bite as if swallowing heaven and earth, it swallowed the Hellfire Raven whole, then chewed continuously! A moment later, the Divine Dragon spat out a ball of fire and said, "Crunchy, tastes like chicken!"

Seeing the Hellfire Raven swallowed alive, the demons were terrified and hurriedly fled toward areas where the Divine Dragon was not present. The Little Fire Crows on the ground also fled outward like chicks in a panic! "This Divine Dragon is too powerful, isn’t it? I never expected Manhattan to have such an expert!"

Coulson exclaimed, "We’re safe now!"

"Iron Fist. He’s Iron Fist!"

Danny smiled bitterly. Compared to last time, he was clearly much stronger!

"Iron Fist? An Iron Fist like you?"

Coulson was stunned. He asked, "Danny, that can’t be possible, can it? No offense, but the gap between you and him is about as vast as the gap between heaven and earth!"

"Though it’s hard to believe, he really is an Iron Fist just like me!"

Danny said bitterly, "Even a hundred of me couldn’t defeat one of him!"

At that moment, an old woman walked over shakily with a young woman, leaning on a cane. As she walked, she said, "If I were you, I would give up the identity of Iron Fist. Before him, you are not qualified to call yourself Iron Fist!"