Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 221 Red Skull with Permed Hair

Just as Gwen's tapping on the glass became increasingly impatient, her spider-sense suddenly issued a warning.

'wrong! ’

No time to think too much.

Following her inner spider instincts, Gwen suddenly exerted force with both feet.

She, who was originally clinging to the glass wall on all fours, suddenly leaped into the air.

next moment.

"boom--"

The explosion occurred without warning, and the shockwave instantly shattered all the glass on the top floor.

A pale red explosion flashed, carrying with it a large number of glass shards that flew in all directions.

Meanwhile, Gwen, who had quickly shot out spider silk to stick to the building's pillars and then swung back to the exterior wall, watched this scene with great fear.

If I had been even a fraction of a second slower in dodging, the oncoming explosion and shards of glass would have been far worse.
However, her own safety only flashed through her mind for a moment.

Immediately, she realized that Luca and Tony might still be caught in the explosion.

Gwen's heart immediately tightened.

Without giving it much thought, he covered his head with one hand, pulled the spider web taut with the other, and leaped into the top-floor laboratory, braving the remaining glass shards and the sweltering heat.

However, after Gwen rushed into the experiment regardless of her own safety.

What they found was a messy laboratory, behind a strangely bright, earthen wall, where two men, one big and one small, covered in dust and dirt, were arguing heatedly and obliviously.

"I told you! We need to perfect the pseudo-solar furnace first! Only by combining the GN particle's ability to connect people's hearts and spread energy with the soul positioning of the Impure World Reincarnation can we have a chance to directly lock onto a specific soul! You insist on adding some calling parameters? Call my foot!"

"Bullshit! Your theory is flawed. The Arc Reactor can completely replace energy and signal transmission! The explosion must have been caused by its poor energy conversion efficiency!"

"Is this still not enough? With the conversion pathway you designed, any stronger and it would have blown us both to the heavens!"

"What do you know?! It was because of insufficient conversion efficiency that the energy was blocked, which caused the explosion! And if there was no call for location, how could your Edo Tensei (Impure World Reincarnation) locate and select a soul?"

"This is a magical ritual! You must believe in magic!"

"First of all! This is a scientific experiment! You must believe in science!"

Gwen, who was initially a little nervous, looked at the two people in front of her who were chattering away non-stop, and her expression was completely blank.

His eyes were wide open and his lips were slightly parted.

It took him quite a while to finally manage to pull his chin back down.

At this moment, Sibei, who had already noticed Gwen's entry, first casually dispersed the earthen wall with snake heads that he had released, and then silently appeared beside her.

"Miss Gwen, are you here to see Lord Luca?"

She glanced at the white-haired man in a butler's uniform who had appeared out of nowhere beside her.

Before Gwen could say anything, Luca, who was arguing, exclaimed in surprise first.

"Gwen? When did you get here?"

"Huh? Spider Sister is here too?"

Stark also turned around.

However, just as the three of them were staring at each other, none of them knowing what to say next.

Gwen, who had been looking at Luca and Tony with a speechless expression, suddenly widened her eyes and her pupils contracted.

His gaze passed between the two men, fixed intently on what lay behind them.

At the same time, Si Bei, who was standing next to Gwen just a second ago, suddenly disappeared. Immediately afterwards, Luca and Tony heard the rattling of chains behind them, followed by a sharp clang.

Only then did two warnings and exclamations sound simultaneously from in front of and behind the two.

"careful!"

Luca turned around in astonishment.

On the Hell Gate stone tablet, which had previously calmed down, a hideous and twisted scarlet crack had somehow been torn open once more.

Within this rift, an iron chain covered in eerie flames was being rapidly parried and knocked away by Si Bei, who was wielding a long sword.

It's easy to imagine that if Si Bai hadn't reacted quickly enough, this red-hot chain might have already wrapped around Luca's or Tony's body.

At that moment, from the other end of the fiery chains, from the suddenly opened gates of hell, a low, hoarse voice, like the friction of metal, came from within.

"Evil mage who attempted to steal the power of demons, your judgment has come!"

Tony: "Trial? That's it?"

Gwen: "This guy doesn't seem like a good person."

Luca: "What a weak Ghost Rider."

The laboratory had returned to calm.

However, Luca's last words...

Tony and Gwen, who were curiously observing the skeleton monster that had been sealed away by Sibei in a few moves, turned around to look at Luca, who had spoken.

"Do you know this strange man?"

Upon hearing Tony's question, Luca pondered for a moment but did not choose to hide it.

"Judging from his appearance, he should be the legendary Ghost Rider. Well, you can roughly understand him as a super-powered minion created by the Lord of Hell by combining evil spirits and humans."

However, Luca had only just begun to speak.

The skeleton, which had already been subjected to various sealing spells by the Sibei and could only stand obediently in place, suddenly began to burst into flames, and its body began to tremble incessantly.

Unfortunately, the seemingly violent flames on his body were immediately absorbed and sealed by an ordinary sealing scroll in Si Bei's hand, and disappeared again.

"No! Mephisto's men!!"

The flames surged and were absorbed, but the skeleton managed to get through to the end, albeit intermittently, what it wanted to say.

Seeing this, Luca could only shrug helplessly.

"I haven't finished yet. Although the Lord of Hell seems to have created Ghost Riders more than once, most of the Ghost Riders eventually chose to defect and become the vanguard in the fight against demons."

At this point, the skeleton seemed to stop struggling.

As if to verify what Luca had said, after the flames completely subsided, the original skull face returned to its original appearance, becoming that of an ordinary person.

'It's not the horse-faced guy after all; it really isn't the original Johnny?'

'However, even with so many seals restraining him, he can still struggle a bit, so he doesn't seem as weak as I imagined.'

Thinking back to what just happened, it seemed like the opponent had barely shown its head when it was hit by my 'slowing field'.

Then Si Bei unleashed a barrage of random sealing techniques, including "Fire Sealing," "Evil Sealing," "Self-Karma Curse Binding," and "Four Symbols Sealing," which is why the guy immediately knelt down.

However, while Luca was still thinking about these random things, Tony, after hearing his explanation, coughed lightly twice, looking slightly embarrassed.

"So, this perm-haired red skull is actually a good guy?"

(End of this chapter)