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Chapter 25 - Find a small vulnerability

Clark has no immediate plans to rescue Tony Stark.

It was easy to help Tony Stark escape.

However, getting Tony Stark to build a prototype of the Mark and move towards becoming Iron Man will not be easy.

This experience has changed Tony Stark's destiny, and perhaps his entire future will be altered.

Iron Man may disappear.

Without Iron Man, the Avengers might not even have been formed.

Even if it's established, it's useless. An organization without a core leader cannot function for long.

As one of the original two giants of the Avengers, Tony Stark's importance was subtly greater than Captain America's.

Clark isn't particularly interested in the Avengers for the time being; he's more interested in Iron Man himself!

"Little Spider already has the qualifications to be a hero. As long as he becomes Spider-Man, I can get the Spider-Sense ability!"

"Spider-Man is a hero, and Tony Stark is a hero too!"

"After Tony Stark successfully becomes Iron Man, I'll use a little trick to get him back to St. Kent Academy for a refresher course, then let him graduate. That way, I'll get a superhero-exclusive gift package, right?"

This is a vulnerability that Clark found.

He discovered the loophole by carefully considering the rules of the principal system.

Tony Stark becoming Iron Man has nothing to do with Clark Kent; he was a graduate from a previous class, and the Principal System wouldn't recognize his identity after graduation.

But it's okay.

Clark is now the principal, and he's suggesting that Tony Stark return to school for further studies, to relive his past academic life. He believes Tony Stark will "happily" agree.

After all, Tony was a studious and diligent student.

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"I've already pre-ordered the spider-sense on Spider-Man!"

"As for Iron Man... what unique skills does Iron Man possess that I would particularly need? A genius inventor? Superb hands-on creative abilities? Or just give me a Mark armor set?"

While Tony Stark is still clutching his dead heart and battery, Clark is already dreaming of a future bounty.

The ancients once said, "Having gained Long, one desires Shu."

However, Clark's current situation is that he hasn't even gotten his hands on Longxi yet, let alone Shu.

However, changes soon occurred inside the cave.

Tony and Ethan talked for a while, but before they could really warm up to each other...

He personally led his men into the cave, bringing all sorts of raw materials, and ordered Tony to manufacture the latest type of missile.

It's the same new type of missile that was demonstrated at the military base!

Given Tony Stark's bad temper, he would definitely be reluctant to do it.

Without further ado, he proceeded with severe torture, giving Tony a taste of the harsh realities of life.

Throughout his life, Tony has never experienced the harsh realities of society; even his father, Howard, never hit him!

According to Clark's estimation, if he hadn't sent Tony Stark a life-saving force beforehand, Tony Stark might have been completely finished off after that beating from society!

The Phoenix Force is really powerful.

Other mutants' abilities have a maximum score of 100, but the Phoenix Force can be rated 100 because the test only has 100-point questions.

Clark even suspected that the Phoenix Force might actually be a mutant ability brought about by the X-gene, since this power far exceeded ordinary abilities.

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After this friendly exchange and Ethan's persuasion, Tony finally lowered his arrogant head and recognized his current identity.

He was no longer the billionaire Mr. Stark, but an ordinary person who had been kidnapped.

Ben was very satisfied that Tony accepted his terms, and left with a message:

"I'll let you go once you've built the missile!" he said, and then he left.

After confirming that the kidnappers had left, Tony, with a grim face, said to Ethan beside him:

"He won't let us go, even if he builds missiles, he still won't let us leave!"

Ethan was also certain of this:

"Yes, once we are no longer of value, he would rather kill us than let us leave."

Finally, Tony Stark said emphatically:

"We have to find a way to save ourselves!"

He took out a lot of draft paper and started writing and drawing. Finally, he pieced the draft paper together, and the figure of a steel warrior leaped out!

This is the prototype of the future Iron Man!

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Seeing that everything was going as planned, Clark nodded in satisfaction.

After surveying the cave, he left behind a monitoring device before returning to base and leaving.

As a good principal who educates students, Clark felt that he was quite competent, and even if he was halfway around the world, he would rush back to handle college affairs.

As for Tony Stark's situation, it was monitored by surveillance cameras.

This monitor was specially developed by Gear and has ultra-long-range satellite information transmission capabilities.

Even if they are halfway around the world apart, the time difference in image transmission will not exceed three seconds.

If anything happens here at Tony Stark, Clark will notice it within three seconds.

Then...

Clark can arrive in four seconds and resolve all the trouble.

Information transmission takes three seconds.

It took Clark one second to travel from the other side of the Earth to this side after discovering the situation.

It takes a total of four seconds.

With Tony Stark's abilities, even if he were to falter, he should be able to hold out for four seconds!

Keep it up, Tony. For a better future, you'll have to put up with the hardship in the cave for a while!

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