George Stacy genuinely cared about and admired Lynn.
Though he always acted rough toward him, whenever Lynn got into trouble, George was more anxious than anyone.
Because he knew—despite Lynn's lazy and flirtatious exterior—his character was better than ninety percent of the people he'd ever met.
That was why he didn't want Lynn to get dragged into danger, and why he even reached out to connections he hadn't touched in decades.
Unfortunately, it still amounted to nothing.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark was also showing his own kind of "concern" for Lynn.
...
After taking the sobering potion and calming his anxiety and panic, Tony sat on the floor and asked, "I've always been curious—what kind of magic or sorcery does a… uh, necromancer like you practice? Is it dangerous to you?"
"What I mean is, I had Jarvis dig up all the records and research on magic around the world."
"And a lot of them say sorcery backfires. Some even require sacrifices."
Lynn took a bite of an apple and replied casually, "I don't know about the others, but mine doesn't need any of that. Also—"
Before he could finish, the space around them suddenly distorted with a powerful fluctuation.
Sensing danger instantly, Lynn grabbed Stark and yanked him back several steps.
Boom!
A split second later, the sofa Tony had been leaning on was struck by an energy blast and exploded into pieces.
A spatial portal tore open, and two aliens in green armor—wielding longswords and energy emitters—stepped through.
Tony immediately summoned his armor.
The sensors grafted into his arm activated, and the suit shot across the room, attaching itself to him piece by piece.
The leader, a green-skinned alien with octopus-like tentacles on his face, spoke in a language Lynn couldn't understand at all.
"What's he saying?" Fully suited up, Tony frowned.
"I don't know, but it looks like they came to kill you," Lynn replied.
"Hey, green octopus guy—who the hell are you? I don't remember offending you!"
Tony raised his hand, repulsors charging and ready to fire.
The alien leader tapped a device on his arm. When he spoke again, the strange language transformed into English.
"Cold-blooded destroyer, you wiped out our home planet. We have crossed time itself to avenge the tens of millions who died!"
"After we kill you, we will destroy this primitive planet and use its billions of people to mourn our fallen!"
The moment he finished, the leading alien raised his energy gun and fired at Tony Stark.
The other alien charged toward Lynn, raising his long blade and slashing down.
A razor-sharp gust of blade wind tore toward Lynn.
He dodged with a sidestep, and just as he prepared to counter, the alien suddenly opened its mouth—Woosh!
A powerful beam of green energy blasted straight at him.
Sensing the deadly danger, Lynn instantly raised a Bone Shield.
The green beam slammed into it, spiderwebbing cracks across the shield before shattering it outright. The impact sent Lynn flying.
Bang!
He crashed into the wall, the force rattling his insides as if his organs had shifted.
The alien leapt high, blade raised for a killing strike.
Lynn's eyes flashed fiercely. "Damn it, you green octopus freak—you think you're the only one who can fire energy blasts?!"
The next second, two blazing beams of heat vision erupted from Lynn's eyes.
The alien still mid-air was blasted away by Lynn's heat vision before it could even bring its blade down.
Lynn didn't give it a chance to recover.
Before the alien hit the ground, Lynn closed the distance in a blur and unleashed a storm of punches.
Crack!
Crack!
Armor shattered again and again. The alien tried multiple times to counterattack, but each attempt ended with Lynn kicking it away—only for him to rush forward and pummel it again.
When the alien finally lost all strength and collapsed, Lynn stepped hard on its chest.
A surge of violent heat vision burst from his eyes, aimed directly at the creature's face.
Amid its desperate struggles and roars, there was a loud Squelch—and the alien's head exploded like a watermelon.
With that enemy down, Lynn immediately turned toward the other side of the room.
The area was in complete chaos—and Tony Stark was getting hammered by the other alien.
This alien wasn't just agile and armed with powerful technological weaponry…
It could also break its body into fragments whenever Tony tried to strike it, causing Tony's attacks to pass straight through. Then it would instantly reform behind him and launch another assault.
If not for the protection of his armor, Tony Stark would've been in serious trouble already.
Even with it, he was barely hanging on.
The green-skinned alien teleported to Tony's right, kicked him aside, then unleashed a surge of green magical energy from its hands, suspending Tony helplessly in midair.
The iconic red-and-gold armor began to corrode and crack under the assault of the green magic.
With Jarvis's alarms blaring nonstop in his helmet, Tony was seconds away from disaster—Swish!
When a long blade suddenly pierced straight through the alien's chest and lifted it into the air.
Freed from the magical grip, Tony dropped to the ground. His palm repulsor fired automatically on impact, blasting a hole through the alien's torso.
"Hah.. Phew…"
After Jarvis confirmed that the creature had no remaining signs of life, Tony sat back and let out a long sigh of relief.
Staring at the cracks spreading across his armor from the magical corrosion, he forced a wry smile.
"Jarvis… I think we just figured out the direction for our next armor upgrade. Urg.. It definitely needs to withstand whatever that green energy was."
"Sir, I've already recorded the fluctuation pattern of that energy."
Jarvis responded immediately, understanding exactly what Tony meant.
"Well done."
Tony pushed himself to his feet, bracing his hands on his knees. He watched Lynn toss the alien's corpse and the long blade onto the ground, then disengaged his armor as he spoke.
"Buddy, I really owe you for this one. If you hadn't stepped in, I might've actually…"
"But how did those two aliens have the same spatial teleportation ability as Elsa Bloodstone? And when he said 'cold-blooded Destroyer'—was he talking about me?"
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