Revival of an Era

Three days later.

Over the past few days, Kyle had been staying temporarily at Tony’s villa. Tony was busy designing and manufacturing the Iron Man Armor and had no time to repay that massive hundred-billion-dollar debt, so he tacitly accepted Kyle living in his home. Whenever he ordered takeout, he would even have Jarvis order two portions.

Kyle did not urge him or bring up the debt. Occasionally, he went out to stroll through the streets of New York, adapting to the new era of the twenty-first century.

The two of them seemed to have reached an unspoken agreement, living together without interfering in each other’s business.

When Little Pepper Pepper came to the villa and discovered this, she was utterly stunned and found it incredibly strange.

Playboy Tony had holed himself up at home and actually begun working hard. He even allowed someone other than women to come and go freely from his house.

Of course, once Pepper learned that the other party was Mr. Karr, her surprise lessened considerably.

From the very first glance, she had felt that the young man called Mr. Karr possessed an air of mystery and familiarity.

At Tony’s request, Pepper came to the villa, replaced the energy core in his chest, and left again.

Meanwhile, Tony worked even more diligently in the villa’s basement, forging the Iron Man Armor. After days of constant testing involving energy blasts, flight control, steel plating, and more, the initial Mark II armor finally began to take shape.

Kyle had not been idle either. While checking on Tony’s progress in building the Iron Man Armor these past few days, he had Viss search the internet for crucial refined information, filling in the gaps in his knowledge of Earth’s sixty-three years of history.

Among it were several pieces of information that caught Kyle’s attention.

First, in 1985, a gigantic alien monster the size of a mountain appeared in the mountain range beside Mount Fuji in Tokyo, Japan. It resembled a lizard and walked on two legs. The media suspected it was a lizard mutated by nuclear radiation and fearfully dubbed it "Godzilla."

Japan mobilized its armed forces to suppress it. After passing through and destroying four small cities, Godzilla vanished into the vast ocean. Various factions and scientists searched for it, but found nothing.

Second, from the end of World War II until 2000, a region deep within the Atlantic became a new Devil’s Triangle. Fishing boats repeatedly strayed into it, where they saw Tornado Storms and volcanic islands amid the sea fog. There were even vague traces of flying monsters and dinosaurs. None who ventured deeper ever made it out alive.

After 2000, investigators used all kinds of automated reconnaissance aircraft and satellites to inspect the area, only to discover that the thirty-kilometer radius of sea was completely empty. None of those strange things existed.

And that was not all. There were reports of Professor Banner having been missing for four years, a street camera capturing an invisible person, a frozen fighter jet being salvaged from the Atlantic, mysterious robed figures battling in the streets before vanishing into thin air, and more.

The occurrence of all these events seemed to herald one thing—the era was changing. After being frozen and dormant for more than half a century, that best and worst of eras would finally arrive!

Everything forgotten, unknown, and bizarre would erupt one after another in an explosive surge!

It was once again an era where the times created heroes—the darkest and most chaotic era, but also the one in which people could shine most brilliantly and illuminate the night sky.

Kyle understood that very clearly. He had been the light of the previous dark era!

Even so, he did not dare claim with absolute confidence that he could smoothly take control of the twenty-first century. The battles and enemies awaiting him would be on such a massive scale that World War II would seem like the difference between ordinary difficulty and hell difficulty!

"Luckily, I achieved a Divine Body. Otherwise, with the Super Soldier physique I had back then, I really would have been nothing more than bottom-tier cannon fodder."

Kyle sat in the computer chair, lost in thought, when Viss suddenly issued an alert.

He looked toward the computer screen and saw that Tony had actually put on the hastily completed Mark II Iron Armor. Light blazed from his palms and soles as laser flames erupted, propelling him through the underground garage passage toward the outside world.

"This guy really did inherit Howard’s brains, but he gets carried away far too easily and lacks a little steadiness." Kyle shook his head with a sigh, decisively opened the guest room’s floor-to-ceiling window, and jumped straight out from the villa’s second floor.

In midair, a dark biological keratinous membrane rapidly emerged from Kyle’s body, covering him from head to toe and forming a tall, sturdy humanoid demon body. A pair of wings patterned with dragon scales spread from his back.

With a powerful downward flap, a hurricane flattened the garden’s shrubs and flowering trees. Kyle shot into the sky, flying concealed within the night as he chased after the iron man glowing with engine light.

Venom, full coverage, flight mode!

After possessing the Black Dragon alien lifeform on the Ancient Battlefield last time, Venom’s gliding ability had finally advanced into high-speed flight!

It could be said that Kyle in Venom’s full-coverage form was now far more versatile than his Iron Form combined with Viss. His combat power was only lower than his Fire God Form with his divine power fully unleashed.

The Fire God Form was powerful, but unfortunately, without a divine artifact, its combat methods were too limited. Its inability to fly freely was also a fatal flaw.

Venom’s full coverage and Fire God Divine Power at full output could not coexist. As for why, Venom was afraid of fire—if he failed to burn the enemy and burned Venom instead, that would be awkward.

A thousand meters above New York City.

Tony wore the Iron Armor and flew in circles as if playing. Behind him, an undetectable black shadow followed closely. Whether at supersonic or hypersonic speeds, he could not shake it off in the slightest.

Immersed in the exhilaration of flight, Tony suddenly shot toward the night sky above. His limbs lowered parallel to his body as his speed climbed steadily, like a miniature Rocket.

"Hoo…" Kyle abruptly came to a stop in midair. The night wind tousled his silver hair, and his demon wings trembled lightly. He looked up at the iron man climbing into the sky but did not continue following him.

Viss, transformed into a watch on his wrist, asked in surprise, "Master, why aren’t you continuing to follow him?"

"There’s no need. He’ll be coming down soon enough." Kyle shrugged and said cryptically.

A short while later, an iron man with a gold-and-red painted shell covered in frost and an engine fire fell rigidly from the sky. Tony’s drawn-out wail trailed through the air behind him.

"See? Just as I said." Kyle smiled calmly. Golden Divine Flame flashed in his eyes as he activated his stealth skill and approached. The black keratinous membrane on his left palm had already receded to his forearm.

"Jarvis, hurry and get the ice off the shell! Jarvis, are you there?!"

The powerless Iron Armor fell ever closer to the bustling streets below. Tony shouted anxiously, fumbling around the armor’s buttons and controls with both hands.

Suddenly, a strange hot wind swept in from the side. The frost on the iron man’s shell melted away at a visible speed, as though it had encountered its natural enemy.

Tony’s eyes widened in astonishment. With the frost gone, the engine suddenly restarted and generated downward thrust. The iron man braked sharply and hovered in midair.

He scanned his surroundings. The armor’s auxiliary scanner swept the empty sky three hundred meters up, finding nothing at all, as if that moment had merely been an illusion.

"Jarvis, did you detect anything unusual just now?" Tony asked with a frown.

"Sir, the Iron Man Armor froze over just now, and the equipment failed. I did not detect anything."

Jarvis’s well-intentioned lie sounded even more natural.

Directly above the iron man, fifty meters higher in the sky, Kyle floated in midair as the golden Divine Flame on his left palm faded away.

Kyle gazed impassively down at him and murmured, "Grow up soon, Iron Man. In the war to come, I’ll need your help!"