The Symbiote race's fear of fire and high-frequency sound waves is etched into their DNA.
Therefore, almost the instant they saw flames ignite on Peter's hands and feet, the Symbiotes sensed that things were going south.
Influenced by the personalities of their different hosts, their reactions varied.
Riot still wanted to put up a fight, thinking that without the Symbiote's enhancement, Peter's speed and strength were ordinary, and he should be able to complete a counter-kill before the opponent released the flames.
Meanwhile, Shriek, Lasher, and Phage were already no match for Peter. Now, seeing that Peter could actually use fire abilities, the three of them looked at each other and decisively chose to become 'cowardly lizards'.
Ignoring the trio of Lasher and the others who were trying to escape, Peter watched Riot, who was advancing instead of retreating, and couldn't help but curl his lips into a smirk.
"Ho? You're not running away, but instead approaching me proactively?"
"Then..."
Peter let out a cold laugh, then flicked the hem of his battle suit and struck a charging pose.
"Now~ it's show time!"
As Riot rushed close, Peter forced him back with a kick, then leaped into mid-air, striking a classic Rider Kick pose.
A crimson magic circle appeared in front of Peter. As his body passed through the magic circle, the speed of his kick toward Riot accelerated once again, giving Riot no chance to dodge at all.
This move, this move is Accel Synchro~!
Before Riot even had time to realize what was happening, he felt a terrifying heat pierce through his chest.
Disappeared? Where is he?
Riot instinctively looked around but couldn't find Peter anywhere, until Peter's cold voice came from behind him:
"Omae wa mou, shindeiru~ (You are already dead.)"
"Nani?!"
Riot was struck with terror. He instinctively looked down, only to find that a large hole had been opened in his and Cletus's chests at some unknown point.
This moment, just like that moment!
Almost the instant Riot realized this, the terrifying fire magic within his body suddenly erupted.
The explosion kicked up an intense blaze, completely separating Riot and Cletus within the flames.
Because of the terrifying high temperature, Riot was burned and condensed into a lump, while Cletus was completely incinerated into ashes amidst his screams.
Hiss~
The fleeing trio of Lasher, Shriek, and Phage saw this scene and were so scared they immediately sucked in a breath of scorched air.
Ahhh, faster, faster~!
That guy is going to catch up!
"As for you all..."
Peter looked at the three who were still trying to escape. After a cold laugh, he raised his hand and quickly condensed a large, high-speed rotating fireball in his palm.
Eat my Explosive Flame Rasengan!
With a gesture similar to a baseball pitch, Peter threw the Rasengan out.
The high-speed rotating Rasengan seemed to have eyes as it locked onto the slowest-running Phage.
Boom~!
The Rasengan exploded the moment it hit Phage's back. A terrifying heatwave erupted instantly, covering an area of several hundred meters in a sea of fire like a Rasenshuriken.
The horror of that high temperature even caused the surrounding Rocket wreckage to faintly melt into molten iron.
The fate of the three Symbiotes and their hosts swallowed by these flames was naturally predictable.
Amidst bursts of shrill screams, Phage, Shriek, and Lasher, under the scorching of the flames, had their bodies twist and melt crazily like wax statues doused in hot water, making a "sizzling" sound.
The three villains who lost their protection were charred immediately upon being exposed to the air.
The tragic deaths of the three hosts also completely cut off the Symbiotes' hope of escaping alive.
They could only struggle incessantly in the sea of fire until they finally curled into lumps like Riot, quietly awaiting the arrival of death.
A moment later, with a snap of Peter's fingers, the flames slowly dissipated.
On the scorched open ground, only four lumps of Symbiote tissue that had almost completely lost their vitality remained.
Peter originally thought he would need to wait a while for the little broken watch's CD to end before he could devour and sacrifice these four one by one.
But the fact was that, being able to ignore fire, he had underestimated the temperature of his own fire magic.
As soon as his fingers touched those four lumps of charred Symbiote, the system prompt sounded in his ear:
[Detected Deep Blue Rare Item: Riot Fragment... Sacrificing!]
[Detected Deep Green Rare Item: Shriek Fragment... Sacrificing!]
[Detected Deep Green Rare Item: Phage Fragment... Sacrificing!]
[Detected Deep Green Rare Item: Lasher Fragment... Sacrificing!]
As Peter expected, among the four Symbiotes, except for Riot, who was rated blue because he was the big boss villain from Venom 1...
...the other three Symbiotes were only judged as deep green grade by the system because they were too much like background characters.
Even so, the four Symbiotes contributed 4,400 sacrifice points to Peter.
[Current Remaining sacrifice points: 11,200 points.]
Eleven thousand two hundred points!
Quite a harvest~
Just as Peter was thinking this in his heart... buzz~ buzz~
The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
Peter pulled out his phone and saw that the caller ID was "Colonel Rhodes."
He raised an eyebrow and answered the call.
"Mr. Punisher! Where are you now?"
As soon as the call connected, Rhodes' voice, anxious to the point of cracking, came through the receiver, with the background noise mixed with the terrified screams of the crowd and the roar of some monster.
Hearing this voice, Peter knew things had gone bad.
Most likely, that idiot General Ross, after having his face slapped by Peter last time, wanted to secretly cause more trouble.
As a result, he had lifted a stone only to drop it on his own foot, just like in the original story.
Sure enough, before Peter could even speak, he heard Colonel Rhodes recount at a rapid-fire pace:
"Brooklyn is out of control!"
"Besides the Hulk, two other big guys have popped up. Now the three of them are fighting each other, and the scene is a total mess! Even Tony, Ghost-Spider, and that Ms. nightingale can't control them."
Three big guys?
Which unit is this third big guy from?
Although he wasn't clear on exactly what was going on, Peter was almost certain that this was likely another butterfly effect caused by his disruption of the Web Event.
Probably, seeing that it couldn't deal with him, the spider totem was preparing to take Gwen's other relatives as "substitute sacrifices."
If nothing went wrong, without him showing up to save the day, his father-in-law would likely meet a tragic end on the spot.
However... although your plan is clever, for every foot the devil advances, the way forward grows by ten, little brother~
"Wait for me for a few minutes, I'll be there right away."
After responding to Rhodes like that, Peter hung up the phone, turned to look at his system mall, and ordered:
"System, purchase Secret Art: Stand United!"
With the deduction of 2,000 sacrifice points, a massive and profound stream of information instantly flooded into Peter's mind.
Immediately following that, Peter found that his system panel had changed.
In the lower-left corner of the panel, a row of avatar frames similar to a game's party interface quietly emerged.
Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Gwen, Felicia, George, Tony, Harry, and others were all listed... next to each avatar was a small dot representing their life status.
The status dots for the vast majority of people were green, except for the dot next to Felicia's avatar, which appeared orange-yellow.
Clearly, Felicia was injured!
The moment he noticed this, Peter didn't hesitate for a second, his gaze instantly locking onto Felicia's avatar:
"Teleport!"