Simultaneous traversal: All Abyss difficulty.

Chapter 698 The Red Knight of Apocalypse!
The underground fortress conference room of the Ugly Kingdom's War Department was now like a boiling pot of oil.

Smoke billowed, dishes were scattered everywhere, and the usually arrogant generals and bureaucrats were red-faced and arguing so loudly they almost lifted the reinforced concrete roof off.

Delivery orders from nearby pizza shops have increased tenfold!
The screen displayed horrific images of Manhattan's devastation and the ruins of Xavier's School of the Rising Sun, resembling a painting of hell.

"Take the initiative! We must take the initiative!" General MacArthur, a five-star general, slammed his fist on the table, spitting as he spoke. "We can't just sit and wait for these monsters to set their next target as peanut stew! What about the results of the defense industry? Bring them out! Use the fastest blade to chop off their heads!"

"Agreed! What kind of 'knights' are they? They're nothing but scrap metal in the face of overwhelming firepower!" another hawk chimed in. "Send out our most elite armored formations! Let the navy's carrier-based aircraft and the air force's Raptors tear them apart!"

The debate was quickly pushed to a consensus by fear and arrogance: immediate armed intervention.

The combat orders were issued swiftly.

In New Jersey, a vast, relatively desolate suburb became the battlefield.

America's strongest steel torrent has gathered here, its target the point where an abnormal energy signal has been detected—the Red Knight, clad in dark red armor and hovering in mid-air, who is none other than Iron Man corrupted by Apocalypse.

On the horizon, the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tank kicks up clouds of dust as its 120mm smoothbore gun locks firmly onto its target.

In the sky, the contrails of the F-22 Raptor ripped through the air as it swooped down first, followed by the F-35B Lightning II vertical takeoff and landing variants which nimbly took up attack positions, their cannons roaring and the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) being fired.

On the accompanying Stryker armored vehicle, a Javelin anti-tank missile streaked with white smoke as it hurtled straight toward the Red Knight!
The deafening roar of war enveloped the small figure in a storm of scorching metal.

The explosion instantly engulfed the Red Knight's location, and smoke and dust billowed out.

The generals held their breath in the command center, awaiting the outcome.

The next second, the smoke and dust were dispersed by an invisible force.

The Red Knight hovered in place, his dark red armor without a single dent.

He raised a hand, and a cold, metallic, and utterly Tony Stark-esque synthesized voice rang out: "Tactical value: zero, threat level: none."

A flash of red light appeared at the fingertip.

Several thin, hair-like crimson beams shot out from the gaps in the armor, incredibly precise, exploding in the air into three dazzling flowers of death, instantly disintegrating and detonating the three F-22s!
The main battle tanks on the ground were like butter cans sliced ​​open with a hot knife; their thick armor was neatly split open in the middle, and the fireballs from the explosions engulfed the surrounding infantry and armored vehicles.

This attack, which brought together the most advanced military technology in the United States, was like a child's toy to the Red Knights. It was wiped out in less than a minute, leaving only wreckage and death.

"Oh, look at you all." A twisted mockery seemed to emanate from beneath the Red Knight's visor. "Always doing useless work, huh? Here comes a level 1 danger grunt."

Before the words were even finished, a golden-red meteor tore through the sky, accompanied by a deafening roar of the thrusters. The real Iron Man, piloting the "Flying Swallow Suit" which he and Stephen Fang had modified together with the blueprints, made a powerful entrance!
"Damn imposter, try this first!" Tony roared, as the hatch on the back of his suit slid open, revealing a uniquely designed missile launch port!

This missile is inspired by the "Flying Swallow" fighter jet from Ultraman Tiga, which comes from another world!

"Flying Swallow Missile, launch!" Tony shouted.

With a buzzing sound, several oddly shaped missiles roared out. They weren't simply pursuing high speed; instead, they traced bizarre and precise spiral trajectories in the air, their tracking algorithms far surpassing Jarvis's conventional system!

The Red Knight tried to evade, but the missile changed direction instantly, like a shadow following it!

boom!
boom! boom! boom!
The violent explosion completely engulfed the Red Knight.

Unlike the explosive impact of conventional weapons, the "monster-level destructive power" of the Feiyan missile's core generates highly penetrating energy shockwaves!
The Red Knight's indestructible corrupted armor trembled violently for the first time. The dark red energy shield flickered under the fierce impact. He was hit repeatedly as if by an invisible hammer, tumbling in the air and even losing control and falling at one point!
"Haha! Did you feel that? That's my greeting!" Tony was invigorated when he saw his attack had worked. "But this is just the beginning! Jarvis, command 'Swarm Matrix'!"

Red Knight steadied himself, his visor locking onto Tony: "Danger Level Three."

Just then, a series of whooshing sounds came from the distant sky.

Dozens of automated combat Mark suit delivery pods, released from a secret base in New Mexico, rapidly arrived over the battlefield!
These high-tech destruction angels disintegrated in mid-air, unfolding into a diverse army of Mark nanotech armors.

They all turned their cannons towards the Red Knight, who seemed to be at a disadvantage due to being suppressed by the Flying Swallow missiles!
"Initiate full-scale suppression!" Tony waved his hand, preparing to use numerical superiority and overwhelming firepower to eliminate the target.

However, a sudden change occurred!

The light from all the floating Mark armor engines suddenly changed from golden-red to a dangerous dark red!

In perfect unison, they abruptly turned their gun muzzles, cannon muzzles, and palm-sized cannons around!
The target is no longer the Red Knights, but their creator, Tony Stark!
"What the?!" Tony's exclamation was drowned out by the sudden burst of intense firepower!

Countless laser beams, missiles, and pulse cannons wove a web of death, raining down on the completely unprepared Iron Man!

The energy shield of the gold and red suit overloaded instantly, sending fragments flying everywhere. Tony was blasted away by the massive shockwave like a kite with a broken string!

The battlefield situation reversed in an instant!
One second the Iron Legion was besieging the Red Knights, the next second they became a deadly threat to Tony!
The piercing energy overload alarm filled Tony's helmet, and the shockwave from the explosion made his blood boil.

He stared incredulously at the Mark Army, which surrounded him and whose cannons were constantly firing, his eyes filled with shock and bewilderment.

In mid-air, the Red Knight slowly pushed aside the smoke, his cold electronic voice now filled with naked mockery and ridicule:
“Tony Stark, a fool.” The Red Knight paused deliberately, as if savoring the word. “Such a simple lock. You dare to set it? Really, quite amusing.”

Iron Man was stunned.

His proud intelligent control system, which he regarded as an extension of his power, was completely countered by the opponent in an instant.

He suddenly recalled Stephen Fang's warning: do not fall into the fog of the Steel Legion. Now it seemed that this was indeed true.

The Red Knight's mockery was like a cold awl, piercing Tony Stark's pride as an inventor, leaving him only with a chilling heart and fear of unknown technology.

He was suspended in mid-air, facing a deadly encirclement formed by his most powerful creations.

Just as the Red Knight was about to kill Iron Man in one fell swoop, it suddenly looked up and read out the parameters in an electronic voice mixed with shock: "Danger level: ten!"

(End of this chapter)