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"Don’t worry, I’ll find Ultron soon."

Old Tony said, "Mr. Phastos, because of what you did this time, all your permissions are revoked. I want you and the other Eternals to stay in the office and await my orders. I’ll take you to destroy Ultron."

Phastos shouted indignantly, "Mr. Stark, we are not your subordinates."

"If you’re unhappy, you can leave whenever you want. I’ve never stopped you."

Old Tony said. Over the past half month, the Eternals had used every method imaginable to find Ultron, yet they had failed to locate even a single screw of his. Since that was the case, there was no need to force them to stay.

Besides, Old Tony had already obtained all the Eternals’ information on the Deviants. That was one reason he cared so little about the Eternals.

"Tony Stark, you really are a capitalist. Once you’ve finished using us, you kick us out."

Phastos snorted and said, "We won’t leave. We want to see Ultron die with our own eyes."

"Fine. That day won’t be far off."

Old Tony said, "Once Ultron is destroyed, you must leave Earth immediately. Earth does not welcome you Eternals—or rather, Earth does not welcome any aliens. A peaceful Earth should not have aliens."

"Earth doesn’t welcome arrogant maniacs like you either."

Phastos cursed, then asked, "What are you planning to do about the Celestial Group deep within the Earth? You should know perfectly well how powerful It is."

"You don’t need to worry about that. I’ve already figured out how to deal with It. No one can treat humans as food."

After saying that, Old Tony directly cut off the communication. Phastos shook his head repeatedly. Tony Stark was far too arrogant.

"Forget it. This is ultimately Earth’s business."

Phastos sighed, sent Ultron’s body back to the warehouse, then returned to the office and informed Druig and the others of their failure.

In Wakanda, Druig relayed the news to everyone. "We failed. Tony Stark tampered with the mechanical body, so Phastos couldn’t bring it out."

"As expected."

Tony said, "Tony Stark isn’t that easy to deal with."

Everyone stared at Tony speechlessly. This guy’s skin was unbelievably thick.

"It’s not a big problem. Just like Little Tony said, this was expected."

Sersi said with a smile. Tony gave Sersi a suspicious look and asked, "Bert, did you possess Sersi again?"

Everyone looked at Sersi in shock. Sersi spread her hands, and then Wang Bert stepped out of her body and said, "Couldn’t be helped. I had to borrow her abilities to rebuild the Domo."

"The Domo?"

Everyone was a little surprised. Black Widow asked, "Didn’t you say rebuilding it would take too long?"

"It did take quite a while. It took more than half a month to finish rebuilding it. Mainly because I don’t know much about alien technology, so I got a lot of the parts wrong."

Wang Bert smiled. "From the first day onward, Sersi and I had been rebuilding the Domo together. We finished it successfully today. In other words, even without Ultron’s body, we can still find Ultron."

"Really?"

Everyone was overjoyed. Tony shouted, "Bert, why didn’t you tell us about something like this sooner?"

Wang Bert said, "On one hand, I didn’t want to leak the secret. On the other, it took too long, so there was no need to say anything too early."

Sersi said, "We didn’t expect that we’d keep failing to find Ultron."

"There are two possibilities for why we haven’t found Ultron after so long. One is that Ultron is only consuming a small amount of food, so naturally we can’t find him."

Tony said, "If that’s the case, Ultron isn’t much of a threat. What worries me is the other possibility: someone is shielding him, perhaps even helping him acquire a large amount of food.

"If that’s the case, we’ll be facing a massive force and an army of Deviants."

Spider-Man asked in disbelief, "It can’t be the latter, right? Ultron’s food is us humans."

Tony said, "Ultron has the Mind Stone. It’s perfectly normal for him to control other forces. During this time, Black Panther has been visiting other countries precisely to investigate this."

Thor could not help shaking his head. "The Infinity Stones again. Whenever they appear, nothing good happens."

"No matter which situation it is, we prepare for the worst."

Wang Bert clapped his hands. "Gather everyone we can gather. We’ll take the Domo to find Ultron."

"Okay."

Everyone nodded. Very soon, Wakanda began mobilizing. Black Panther, the Dora Milaje, the Super Heroes, the Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Eternals all prepared to set out.

Meanwhile, at the underground Experiment Base, Loki emerged from the Time Room looking haggard. She complained, "I actually spent a full half year doing experiments. If my old teachers knew about this, they’d probably be scared to death.

"Ah, I’m no longer that handsome, dashing, carefree Loki from back then."

"People have to grow up eventually, Loki. Is the magic complete?"

Old Tony asked impatiently. Loki nodded and said, "Of course it’s complete. Why else would I come out? But Asgard is gone, so I can’t guarantee this spell’s success rate."

Old Tony was puzzled. "What does this spell have to do with Asgard?"

"You can think of Asgard as an amplifier."

Loki looked somewhat sorrowful. She did not say more and asked, "Tony, should I cast the spell right away?"

Old Tony nodded. "Of course. I’m ready."

"Fine."

Loki stopped wasting words. She took out a pile of unknown powder from her clothes, then scattered it into the air. The powder ignited on its own, forming a strange rune in the sky.

"Rune magic, tracking spell."

Loki poured magic into the rune. With a whoosh, the rune turned into a ball of fire. Then several blurry images appeared within the flames. Just as Loki and Old Tony prepared to inspect them closely, the images suddenly vanished.

Old Tony hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

"The distance is too great. I can’t track it. Ah, if Asgard still existed, this spell’s effect could cover the Nine Realms."

Loki sighed and said, "Now, it can’t even cover a single Earth."

Old Tony shouted, "Damn it, Loki! Is this spell completely useless? During this time, you spent tens of millions of dollars on materials alone."

"It’s still useful."

Loki continued casting the spell. A moment later, images reappeared in the flames, gradually changing from blurry to clear.

Old Tony stared at the images and carefully identified them. "Passageways, rooms, a Training Ground, tanks… Huh, this seems to be a military base? Loki, are these images related to Ultron?"

"Ultron once stayed at this military base. His aura is there."

Loki answered. At that moment, the flames vanished with a whoosh, signaling the official end of the spell.

"Just as I expected, a major force is protecting Ultron."

Old Tony cursed and asked, "Where exactly is that military base?"

Loki answered, "In a forest somewhere in Great Canada. I don’t know what it’s called, but I can take you there."

"Good. We leave immediately."

Old Tony said at once, "Since Ultron stayed there, they definitely have information about him. If we capture them, we can find Ultron."

Loki said, "Ultron may be somewhere very far away."

"No matter where he is, I’ll destroy him. Since I could create him, I can naturally destroy him."

Old Tony did not waste any words. He immediately had Friday prepare the spacecraft and notified the Eternals to act together.

Over the past half month, Old Tony had not been sitting around doing nothing. Besides researching the Anti-Blood God Armor, he had also built a new spacecraft with extraordinary performance.

On a planet somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy, Ultron flew through the sky, stabbing hundreds of tentacles into the bodies of more than a hundred intelligent beings below. Moments later, all of them became dried corpses, and Ultron wore a look of exhilaration.

This was only the beginning. Next, Ultron began devouring other intelligent beings. Their eyes were dull, and they did not resist at all, obediently becoming Ultron’s food.

It was worth mentioning that there were over a hundred thousand intelligent beings beneath Ultron. They were all residents of this city. A day ago, they had still been living normal lives, but now, every one of them had become Ultron’s food.

"This scene really sends a chill down the spine. The Mind Stone is far too powerful."

Corvus Glaive, one of the Black Order, sighed. "If we’d had the Mind Stone back then, we wouldn’t have needed to go through so much trouble when killing half and sparing half."

Ebony Maw said, "The Infinity Stones are naturally powerful. It’s a pity we were too rushed in the past. Otherwise, we should have taken a few Infinity Stones with us."

Proxima Midnight shook her head. "They aren’t easy to seize. For example, no one knows where the Infinity Stones are in my universe. Even if we wanted to steal them, we couldn’t."

"The Infinity Stones are located differently in different universes. That is one reason Lord Thanos did not specifically search for them."

Corvus Glaive said, "Another reason is that the Infinity Stones in the Main Universe were perfectly intact. Even if we had Infinity Stones, they would have been useless.

"We could not have anticipated that we would be trapped in this universe."

"Yes, who could have imagined it?"

Everyone nodded. Ebony Maw said, "Fortunately, we’ll be able to leave soon. Once we obtain the thing on Iron Man, Thanos will surely defeat the Blood God and fulfill his destiny."

Corvus Glaive asked curiously, "Ebony Maw, is that Blood God really so powerful? Lord Thanos is a Creator God!"

"I’ve never met the Blood God, but any enemy Thanos takes so seriously must be extraordinary."

Ebony Maw smiled. "I hope he doesn’t disappoint us. We’ve made a great many preparations to defeat him."

"That’s right."

Everyone nodded. At this moment, Ultron had "eaten his fill." He flew over to the ranks of Drone Armor and spat out one lump of flesh after another, each filled with Deviant genes.

After the flesh lumps flew out, they automatically stuck to the Drone Armor. Then they rapidly multiplied, completely wrapping the Drone Armor and forming what looked like flesh cocoons.

"Send our new brethren into the Time Room."

Ultron ordered the Deviant Machines. That was right: Deviant Machines, possessing human appearances, mechanical skeletons, and feeding on intelligent beings.

"Yes, King."

The Deviant Machines answered loudly. Then they carried the Drone Armor back to the Time Room aboard the spacecraft so the Drone Armor could transform into Deviant Machines faster.

"Ultron, when are you planning to attack Earth?"

Ebony Maw asked, "You’ve nearly eaten this planet clean."

This planet was not very large and had only several million inhabitants. Those millions had all become Ultron’s food. Ultron’s strength had increased greatly because of it, and he had also created an army.

"The Super Heroes on Earth aren’t easy to deal with. The more troops we have, the better."

Ultron said, "After we finish eating this planet, we’ll eat other planets. Thanos doesn’t lack even that much patience, does he?"

Ebony Maw said, "Lord Thanos has plenty of patience, but we should not make him wait too long. That would be disrespectful to him."

"Don’t worry, it won’t take long. I miss Earth too. Earthlings taste much better than aliens."

Ultron grinned. "Tony Stark once told me that Earth was the center of the universe. I didn’t believe him before, but now I do, because Earthlings are the most delicious."

"Isn’t there something wrong with the basis for that judgment?"

Ebony Maw complained. He said, "Enough of this. Keep eating. Once you finish this batch, we’ll go to the next planet."

"Fine."

Ultron did not waste words and once again used his tentacles to feed. The populations of these planets were generally not large. The real feast was still Earth.

Aboard the Domo, Wang Bert controlled the spacecraft toward Great Canada. He asked Tony, "Is your cloaking system reliable? Don’t let Old Tony discover us halfway there."

Tony said arrogantly, "Relax. He definitely won’t discover us."

Wang Bert nodded and said to Sprite, "Good. Sprite, once we reach the destination, create a large illusion to cover the scene so Old Tony’s satellites don’t detect us. Any problem?"

"I’ll do my best."

Sprite answered in low spirits. Ikaris’s death had left her incomparably grief-stricken. What made her even sadder was that she did not even have the right to confess her feelings to him.

Wang Bert said, "Pull yourself together. If you perform well, I’ll help you grow up."

Sprite raised her head and asked in astonishment, "You can help me grow up?"

Wang Bert only smiled. Black Widow immediately saw what Wang Bert was thinking and pointed at him as she introduced, "Though many people don’t believe it, the person standing before you really is a noble Creator God. Helping you grow up would be effortless for him."

"Well done."

Wang Bert was very satisfied. Black Widow was good in every way, except that she had far too many boyfriends. If someone made her the female lead in a novel, they would be easily cursed at.

"A Creator God?"

Sprite looked deeply skeptical. If Black Widow had said he was an ancient god, she might have believed it, but a Creator God? That was far too outrageous.

Who didn’t know that the universe had only Five Creator Gods? Moreover, Creator Gods were beings even greater than the Celestial Group.

Wang Bert did not explain further. Proving his identity would not be difficult for him at all. He said, "I’ve given you the opportunity. Whether you can seize it depends on you."

Sprite hesitated. A moment later, she nodded fiercely and said, "I’ll work hard and perform well."

If she lost the bet, at worst she would be disappointed once more. But if she won, she could escape the curse of being unable to grow up.