Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 220 Your experiment is too dangerous, you must...
"Soul? Magic? Experiment?"

Tony stared blankly at Luca, unable to understand how he had connected those words together.

However, because of Luca's consistent performance, Tony did not conclude that there was something wrong with him just because the scene resembled an evil ritual.

Although I was a little worried that Luca had gone the wrong way, I was still prepared to listen to his explanation.

However, Tony never expected that Luca's explanation would be so... crude.

"Six cups, let Tony perform for you, hmm, show him a few different kinds."

As he spoke, Luca casually waved to the cup beside him, then calmly crossed his arms and looked at Tony.

And in the next ten minutes or so.

Under Tony's watchful gaze, Si Bei 'performed' a series of ninjutsu abilities, including breathing water and fire, transformation, summoning, sealing, and illusion.

Although it is not actually magic, the ninjutsu in Naruto can be seen by outsiders as not much different from real magic.

Tony, who had just emerged from the illusion of the 'Naraku-sight Technique,' was sweating profusely and panting heavily.

Luca then handed him a cup of hot cocoa and offered a perfunctory word of comfort.

"Alright, alright, it's not like we haven't seen Thor and Loki use divine power and magic before, there's no need to make such a fuss, is there?"

However, Tony, who had subconsciously accepted the hot cocoa, still looked at the Si Cup, which stood quietly in the distance with a poker face, with lingering fear upon hearing Luca's words.

Although he hadn't initially thought Loki was just a sorcerer who could only project images, after Sibei 'performed' the first few ninjutsu, he realized that this guy did indeed seem to be a sorcerer.

But what truly sent chills down his spine was the scene he witnessed in the final illusion technique known as the 'Naraku Sight Technique'.

Luca, unaware of what Tony had seen in the illusion, continued explaining along the previous lines once Tony seemed to have calmed down somewhat.

"The reason for conducting this experiment is actually..."

He briefly explained his mother Gina's current situation, as well as the things between hell, demons, and souls.

However, Luca did not explicitly state that he lured Justin Hammer to his door because he wanted the spatial artifact to try to open the gates of hell.

Instead, the order was reversed, saying that Justin Hammer attacked him with a magical artifact first, and he then killed him and obtained the Crimson Cloak. It was only by observing and testing this magical item that he noticed the reason for Gina's abnormality.

As for other magical knowledge, Luca mostly attributed it to Sibei, the wandering magician whose life he had 'saved'.

"To put it bluntly, whether it's magic or the soul, it's just another path of science."

"Besides, Tony, there must be someone you'd like to see again, right?"

Looking into Lucan's sincere eyes, Tony vaguely sensed a flaw in his story.

But knowing that it was to save his mother, Tony only nodded with a complicated expression and didn't insist on getting to the bottom of it.

just.

"Magic is magic, but are you sure hell and souls really exist?"

Unexpectedly, after hearing Tony's question, Luca turned his gaze to a metal wall in the laboratory.

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

The next moment, the metal wall slowly parted to both sides.

Immediately following was a series of crackling electrical bursts, followed by muffled roars and crashing sounds from behind. Tony was only astonished to find out when the metal curtain wall was fully opened.

After that, they even imprisoned a small, red-skinned demon with a hideous appearance.

At this moment, the little demon with two horns on its head, less than 1 meter tall, and a long, thin tail dragging behind it, was furiously and frantically ramming against the glass cage in front of it.

However, whenever it was about to crash into the glass cage, the runes engraved on the glass wall would immediately light up and combine to form a scarlet electric net, which would shock the little devil and bounce it back to the center of the cage.

However, it's unclear whether it was because Luca's lab was too well soundproofed, or because the imp hadn't been continuously ramming the wall before the metal door was opened.

This is why Tony hadn't noticed anything amiss inside.

"This this."

Tony stretched out his finger, trembling, pointing at the grotesque little devil who was frantically banging against the wall. He was stunned for a moment, unable to utter a complete sentence.

Seeing this, Luca scratched his head somewhat awkwardly and explained in a low voice.

"Well, I've already figured out the technology to drag demons from hell."

"However, we can't send a reconnaissance robot there right now, so we can't confirm the situation there."

“I thought that instead of risking going deep into hell, it would be better to try directional anchoring and bring the soul out of hell.”

Even if he could actually send someone to the Hell dimension, Luca wasn't planning on taking the risk right now.

Mephisto, as the lord of hell, is nearly invincible in his own territory.

However, the Hell dimension, as a complete world, is far too vast in scale.

Whether from the perspective of strength or the difficulty of finding it, actively venturing into Hell to explore is the worst possible choice.

Luca's so-called "soul positioning and traction" is essentially a combination of the technique of opening the gates of hell and summoning demons brought back from the world of Devil May Cry, and the "Impure World Reincarnation" mastered by Sibei. It attempts to directly bring the soul of the "dead" back from hell by relying on the connection between the body and the soul.

After hearing Luca's explanation, Tony's eyes flickered uncertainly. After a long while, he spoke again in a somewhat stiff tone.

What you're about to do is too dangerous!

"The problem of parallel world invasions hasn't been solved yet; what if we create an invasion from a hellish dimension as well?"

Although Tony didn't continue speaking, his eyes revealed an indescribable determination.

However, just as Luca was about to continue explaining...
"Therefore, I must keep an eye on you! We'll conduct the next experiment together! Just in case you accidentally cause any big trouble!"

"Uh, this"

Although he originally intended to ask Tony for help, for some reason, after hearing his unquestionable words, Luca inexplicably felt a desire to learn some kind of 'percussion instrument'.

"Let's begin! What are you all standing there for?!"

A week later.

Having just returned to New York, Gwen reluctantly changed into her Ghost Spider suit and climbed the exterior wall of the Orange Industrial Building.

They started knocking on the glass.

“Hey, Mr. Stark, you were supposed to come and get Lucara out of the lab, but Miss Potts told me you haven’t replied to her messages for a week!”

(End of this chapter)