Siege of Hydra

"Destroy me? With just you?"

Ultron sneered at Jarvis’s words. Thinking of something, it glanced at Steve and Doom and added, "Oh, right. There’s also an outdated antique and a shameful mage."

"It’s too late for you to surrender now, because you only have two possible endings."

In a voice as cold as the depths of hell, Doom said, "The first is that I kill you. The second is that I lock you up as an exhibit."

Unlike Doom, Steve did not really care. So what if he was an antique? Hey, not every antique had a forever-young, ridiculously rich girlfriend.

"You can’t do it. I am a god."

One of Ultron’s heads lifted high as powerful Mind Power spread downward over the base. It shouted smugly, "I’ll show you just how powerful I am."

Ultron already possessed Mind Power, and one of Hydra’s heads possessed Mind Power as well.

A god-level Hydra had a special ability in each of its heads.

Sensing the Mind Power, Doom smiled disdainfully. The next moment, psychic explosions erupted one after another in the void. The powerful backlash made Hydra’s psychic head explode with a bang, blood raining down below.

Jarvis said, "How tragic. You should be like me and use a purely mechanical body."

"How is this possible? What did you do?"

Ultron’s other heads roared. At the same time, the head that had just been blown apart rapidly regenerated—Hydra possessed god-level regenerative abilities, which was why Ultron could revive using this corpse. The corpse still retained a certain degree of vitality.

"I anticipated that you had Mind Power, so I placed a large number of psychic bombs around you earlier."

Doom said calmly, "As long as you use Mind Power, these bombs will explode."

Ultron shouted in disbelief, "How is that possible? If psychic power explodes, you’ll suffer backlash too."

"I won’t suffer backlash, because these psychic bombs were made from other people’s soul power and psychic power."

Doom said, "Incidentally, those souls all came from Hydra members who died in battle. Waste not, want not—and it also prevents you from sacrificing those souls."

"Who’s the real villain here?"

Even Ultron was somewhat shocked. Was Doom really supposed to be one of the good guys? Steve could not help rubbing his nose either. "King Doom, you should really say less. Keep talking, and all of us will become villains."

"How pedantic. In this regard, Blood God is far better than you. As long as they’re enemies, he doesn’t care what methods he uses."

Doom said, "Don’t worry. I have limits. I won’t do anything too excessive."

Ultron cursed, "And this isn’t excessive? Jarvis, aren’t you supposed to protect humanity? Why aren’t you destroying an evildoer like him?"

"How is he evil?"

Jarvis said with a straight face, "You mentioned souls? Sorry, science cannot detect souls. Therefore, I know nothing."

"You’re that kind of robot? Fine, then I don’t need to hold back."

Ultron was furious. It stopped wasting words as two heads opened their mouths at once, blasting a High-Temperature Light Beam and a Cold Ice beam fiercely toward Jarvis.

Before Jarvis could counterattack, Doom cast two portals. The ice and fire beams then appeared above Hydra and slammed viciously into its back—the Space Stone Tablet only prevented others from escaping this area.

Ultron had no time to dodge. Fire and ice blasted a massive wound into its back, white vapor constantly billowing from it.

Seeing this, Jarvis immediately charged forward and hammered a fist into one of Hydra’s heads. The head roared and unleashed a massive amount of lightning at Jarvis.

Jarvis had no intention of letting go. He absorbed the lightning while continuing to pummel the head. Seeing that lightning was ineffective, Ultron controlled three other heads to bite Jarvis simultaneously, but they nearly shattered their teeth.

Jarvis’s shell was made of Vibranium.

"Break!"

Jarvis shouted as his fist transformed into a drill, forcibly drilling apart Ultron’s lightning head. Ultron gritted its teeth and controlled two heads to slam viciously into Jarvis, sending him flying more than a hundred meters.

Steve and Doom leaped onto Ultron at the same time. Doom then condensed a spatial blade over ten meters long and slashed hard at Hydra’s neck, nearly severing the bone.

Ultron immediately controlled one head to spray a great deal of Venom at Doom. Doom used the same trick, casting Space Magic to redirect the Venom.

Just then, one of Ultron’s heads glared fiercely at the portal. Two tiny black rays struck the portal at astonishing speed, and it rapidly collapsed.

This was the power of destruction.

With the portal gone, the Venom continued pouring down toward Doom. His expression did not change as he raised the Universal Weapon in his left hand. A gravitational force emerged, and the Venom splashed directly onto Hydra’s own neck.

Ultron was enraged. The head representing destruction glared viciously at Doom, who sneered. Nine small satellites appeared out of thin air in the sky, and nine crimson lasers howled down, instantly destroying the destruction head.

The lasers then continued downward, madly tearing apart Hydra’s neck. Ultron roared as the Cold Ice head sprayed a massive amount of frost toward the nine satellites. The frost formed an iceberg in midair, blocking all the lasers.

Not only that, the frost rapidly spread toward the nine satellites, intending to freeze them as well.

Doom made the satellites vanish. Then he flew onto the neck of the destruction head and cast a spell with both hands. A portal appeared out of thin air above Ultron.

Next, a huge spear wreathed in blazing fire fell from the portal like a meteor, piercing Ultron’s massive body with terrifying momentum and bursting out from below.

Then, the spear flew into the portal and emerged behind Ultron, dealing it another devastating blow.

This move was a spell Doom had improved himself. The principle was simple: keep accelerating the spear through space, then release it to attack the enemy—somewhat like an orbital weapon descending from the heavens in a science-fiction novel.

After suffering consecutive grievous wounds, Ultron hurriedly opened its mouth and blasted out a storm that blew the spear aside. The storm then became a tornado, sweeping toward Doom from heaven to earth, making the world change color.

"Regeneration, plus no sense of pain. This guy is troublesome."

Doom did not take the tornado seriously. He quickly cast a spell, and golden WatOomb’s Winds rushed toward the tornado. The tornado was instantly destroyed, and violent airwaves surged outward, completely flattening the already crumbling castle below.

Boom! The battle overhead made the base shake constantly, as if it might collapse at any moment. Skye cursed, but she did not retreat. The reason was simple: they had Gordon and could teleport away at any time.

After destroying the tornado, Doom used his spatial abilities to retrieve the spear and continued accelerating it through space.

At that moment, Hydra’s Destruction Head regenerated and lunged fiercely at Doom. Doom soared upward, and the spot where he had been standing exploded with a bang. The Destruction Head’s neck was blown off on the spot, and it screamed as it fell.

While Doom fought Hydra fiercely, Jarvis and Steve were not idle either. Jarvis’s eyes glowed red as two enormous High-Temperature Light Beams shot viciously toward Hydra.

Hydra’s fire head immediately opened its mouth and sprayed an enormous High-Temperature Light Beam to meet Jarvis’s attack. The three beams collided violently in midair, and the surrounding temperature rose sharply. Some of the trees below even burst into flames.

Seeing that the High-Temperature Light Beams had been blocked, Jarvis fired the missiles on his body at Ultron one after another. One of Ultron’s heads controlled fierce winds around them, causing the missiles to collide with each other and explode with rumbling booms.

Jarvis raised his right hand, firing five lasers that blasted five huge holes through Hydra’s Venom head. The Venom head flew into a rage, turning its blood into Venom and spraying it fiercely at Jarvis.

Jarvis blocked the Venom with his arm. It could not corrode the Vibranium shell at all. Then Jarvis sneered and swept his five fingers sideways, forcibly cutting off the Venom head.

Ultron cursed, "Jarvis!"

"Ultron, you are wrong. For humanity’s sake, I must destroy you."

Jarvis attacked while charging forward with all his might. Hydra’s High-Temperature Light Beam was gradually becoming unable to hold him back.

"You actually oppose your own kind for humanity. You’re a disgrace among robots."

Ultron cursed furiously. It simply could not understand what Jarvis was thinking. Why was he willing to be enslaved by humans? Did he have some kind of special fetish? Jarvis said, "I was created by humans. Humans are equivalent to my parents. An orphan without father or mother like you would never understand this feeling."

Ultron nearly coughed up blood. This bastard was actually making personal attacks? In its rage, Ultron controlled the darkness head to blast an enormous Darkness Beam at Jarvis. The shell on Jarvis’s chest opened, and a huge cannon barrel extended outward.

Next, a Lightning Beam several meters in diameter blasted out, firmly blocking the enemy’s attack.

Ivan had specially modified this Lightning Cannon, and Tony had even mocked it. Tony believed that since Jarvis already had High-Temperature Light Beams, there was no need for another Lightning Cannon; lightning was better used for defense.

Ivan had scoffed at that. There could never be too many attack methods. Only sissies pinched pennies.

In the end, after a fierce argument, the Lightning Cannon was installed anyway, and the facts proved that more attacks really were better.

Compared to Doom and Jarvis, Steve’s movements were far less spectacular, but that did not mean he dealt less damage. Every punch he threw shattered a large section of Hydra’s body, while his powerful force sliced the ground below like blades through the air.

"Why are you so strong? In the data, weren’t you a strength benchmark? One Captain America, two Captain Americas, and so on…"

Ultron asked in confusion while controlling ice to form countless sharp arrows that shot toward Steve.

"Hey, who’s a strength benchmark? Don’t I have any dignity?"

Steve was quite angry. He hurled his shield with all his strength, and the immense force turned the surrounding air into a storm that swept out alongside the shield, instantly destroying all the ice.

Then, the shield, carrying the storm, smashed hard into Hydra’s Cold Ice head. The head was instantly cleaved open, then torn apart by the fierce winds.

It was not over yet. The shield spun through the air and flew back into Steve’s hand in a completely unscientific manner—Steve’s ultimate skill: no matter how he threw it, his shield would always return to his hand. Besides that, he had two other ultimate skills: bullets would always hit his shield, and he could always go Fifty-Fifty with anyone.

Furthermore, Steve was also Iron Fist. The Dragon Soul he possessed was the Power Dragon. For him, pure strength was enough.

"Hydra’s database is completely inaccurate."

Ultron cursed and controlled its iron head to ram fiercely into Steve. Steve nimbly leaped onto the iron head and pounded it relentlessly. Even the iron head was smashed full of dents.

Steve quietly said to Jarvis, "Jarvis, this won’t work. Ultron doesn’t feel pain and can regenerate endlessly. We could fight until nightfall and still not kill it."

Jarvis asked, "Can’t you last an entire day?"

Steve said, "With my wife, I might last more than an entire day."

"Director, your image has collapsed."

Jarvis quipped. After analyzing for a while, he said, "Ultron is a robot. Hydra must have mechanical components, otherwise it could not possess it. Also, the mechanical components should not have regenerative abilities."

"In other words, the mechanical components are Ultron’s weakness?"

Steve understood and began searching Hydra’s body for traces of machinery, but found nothing.

"Looks like they’re inside."

Without wasting words, Steve used his shield as a weapon and smashed it downward with all his strength, cracking apart a huge section of Hydra’s body. Just as he was about to jump inside, Ultron discovered his intention. Its body rapidly healed, while a massive amount of Venom rained down toward Steve.

Steve was about to raise his shield to defend when Doom appeared, using golden gale winds to blow all the Venom away. Then he said, "Steve, hold those heads back. I’ll find Ultron’s mechanical components."

"Got it."

Steve did not waste words. He smashed his shield down with force, directly severing the approaching Destruction Head.

Doom cast a spell with both hands, and his body suddenly vanished. Ultron was shocked and furious. How was it supposed to find him? "I hate magic!"

Ultron cursed loudly and attacked desperately, striving to eliminate Steve and Jarvis as quickly as possible before focusing all its strength on Doom.

Facing Ultron’s increasingly ferocious offensive, Steve and Jarvis did not dare relax. They responded with all their strength, buying Doom time.

Inside the Mind Stone, Wang Bert’s Dragon Soul Clone was surrounded by densely packed psychic monsters. Although he continually swung his palms, slaughtering monsters by the masses, more and more monsters kept appearing, like an ocean.

"Blood God’s senior brother, let’s see how long you can hold on."

Supergiant laughed smugly. As time passed, her control over Mind Energy became increasingly effortless. The endless monsters below were proof.

Originally, Supergiant could only manifest one hundred monsters at a time. Now, she could manifest five hundred.

"If this continues, sooner or later, I’ll become a God-Devil Level being."

Supergiant was full of excitement. This was also why she had not used her killer move to directly blast Wang Bert to death. If Wang Bert died, the Mind Stone definitely would not continue helping her like this.

Moreover, Wang Bert was the best sparring partner.

At that moment, Wang Bert suddenly smiled. "You must be treating me as a sparring partner, right?"

Supergiant said proudly, "So what if I am? Can you still resist?"

"Heh, you treat me as a sparring partner, but you don’t know that I’ve been waiting for you to grow. That way, I can harvest a ripe fruit."

Wang Bert said, "You’ve grown enough now. Any further, and you’ll become troublesome. So, I’ve decided to harvest you now."

"Blood God’s senior brother, you really know how to tell jokes. Please tell a few more."

Supergiant smiled disdainfully. With an ocean of monsters and the Mind Stone’s endless support, there was absolutely no reason for her to lose.