Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 291 Three Steps, A Desperate Future

"Not necessarily!"

As he spoke, a smile finally appeared on Luca's face, and he looked intently at Tony Stark.

"Tony, you probably haven't experienced what happens when unstable energy opens the gates of hell, have you?"

Seeing the smile on Luca's face, Tony, who had been lifeless, seemed to regain some of his spirits.

"You mean"

"That's right, I've tried it! Unlike ordinary portals, the Gates of Hell, or rather, my Gates of Hell, have extremely demanding requirements for the energy output range!"

The 'door-opening technique' that Luca and Tony both possess originated from the world of Devil May Cry, and Luca had been researching this technique for much longer than Tony.

After all, Tony's main research later aimed to stabilize the spatial rift, while Luca's initial goal was to open the Gates of Hell.

In fact, Luca had tried it before Tony even started learning about it.

They tried to open the gates of hell without using a 'space artifact', but all their attempts failed.

However, if the 'spatial artifact' is used to open the gates of hell, then a stable energy supply needs to be maintained to work with this artifact.

This is why, in the world of Devil May Cry, opening the gates of hell requires not only the Yamato, Dante's demonic weapon, but also the establishment of a stable base.

The current method of opening the gates of hell by using the spatial rifts of the Earth itself is equivalent to saving some of the function of the spatial artifacts. However, in return, the required energy supply needs to be coordinated with these large and small weak points in space.

So in fact, among Tony's research, the 'stable loop' that covers the entire city of New York is the most important technology.

This also explains why the gates of hell in front of us opened independently.

Because this was the algorithm loop that Tony designed separately when he first verified it, perhaps the other side was also using this door to verify whether this theoretical technology was feasible.

"Thank goodness you didn't create a finished product that covers the entire globe!"

After glaring at Tony, Luca briefly explained the current situation to the others.

Finally, Captain America, Steve Rogers, gave a summary.

"So, the current situation is that, in addition to the current Gate of Hell, 128 other Gates of Hell may open simultaneously throughout New York City."

"So now we only need to do three things!"

As he said this, Steve's eyes swept over everyone present.

"First, evacuate all the citizens of New York City, as this place may become a long-term battlefield."

"Second, use this gate to hell to break into the hell dimension and delay the demons from opening the remaining gates, giving ordinary people enough time to evacuate!"

It has now been confirmed that the other side possesses the technology to 'open doors,' even technology modified by demons.

Therefore, the entire New York area, which Tony 'designed,' is destined to remain unchanged. Even if they can stop it this time, they cannot keep a constant watch on Hell to ensure that the other side does not continue to try to open the door.

Behind this gate to hell lies the assembled army of demons and the location of the 'gateway', but what comes next?
Hell is so vast that if the demon army simply opens its gates somewhere else, no one can stop it.

All that can be done right now is to buy time while sealing off the entire city of New York and evacuating the people.

To ensure that even after the second opening of the gates of hell, the demons within New York City remain confined to this 'no man's land' and do not escape to wreak havoc on the entire planet.

"Third, find a way to permanently close the gates of hell!"

As he said this, Steve stared intently at Tony, his meaning clear.

"You think you're so great? Able to pull off such a massive operation? Then you'd better develop something new to solve this crisis! Otherwise, New York will become an endless battlefield!"

However, Luca spoke again at this moment.

"I do have some ideas on how to permanently prevent the gates of hell from opening, but they're not fully developed yet. Let's discuss them after this operation is over."

Hearing him say that, many people present breathed a sigh of relief.

What Luca was referring to was, of course, relying on the Hextech Dimension to seal off the weak points in space.

'I wonder if the energy in the Hextech Dimension is enough.'

Of course, the difficulty doesn't lie there, nor is it that Luca is worried about the Hextech energy. The reason he and Tony can extract Hell energy is because they have mastered the Devil May Cry technology and the results of their research on a large number of demons.

It can extract Hextech energy, which Luca has so far only been achieved by relying on the Hextech GN Drive.

Although this thing is a semi-perpetual motion machine, its output limit is finite.

Otherwise, there would be no need for his Boxer Gundam to install so many individual 'HN capacitors' to store the Hextech energy generated daily and unleash it at crucial moments.

In addition, in order not to undermine the confidence of the others present and cause them to despair completely.

There's actually one more thing Luca didn't mention.

'Tony isn't the only genius capable of this kind of research.'

You should know that Mephisto, the lord of hell, is a guy who is notorious for collecting special souls.

Although hell is not the only one in the multiverse.

However, in reality, a hell dimension is often connected to multiple parallel universes.

Given Mephisto's collecting obsession, he might very well possess the soul of a genius scientist comparable to Tony.

Since Tony was able to create a 'space-stabilized loop' that covered the entire city of New York.

With this idea in mind, is it really impossible for Hell to innovate and expand this giant magic array to the entire Earth?
Even if we can't do that, how difficult is it to modify the algorithm parameters to make them correspond to other weak points in space, given that the Hell Gate has been opened independently right in front of us?
'Should the battlefield be contained within New York City?'

It's more likely that in the future, while New York will serve as a major battlefield, small-scale, random invasions of hell will continue to occur on Earth.

However, revealing this future directly would be too despairing, so Luca chose to keep it a secret.

Thinking of this, a shadow crossed Luca's eyes, but he quickly concealed it.

Let's deal with the immediate problems first before thinking about anything else. At least we shouldn't let things escalate to the point where the entire Earth falls tomorrow.

However, after the action plan was confirmed, new challenges were once again put on the table.

That is.
How do we break through that one-way crimson winch, and how do we forcefully push back the demon army, even those with six seconds of invincibility like Vision, into Hell, thus delaying the opening of the Demon Gate?

However, just as everyone was pondering how to break through...

A somewhat familiar explosion sounded from not far away.

Upon hearing this, Luca turned sharply to look at Tony and shouted rapidly.

"Is that the loop node you calculated?!"

Looking at Tony's suddenly pale face, the answer was self-evident.

"grass!"

Luca cursed under his breath and leaped out of the laboratory window.

He turned in mid-air.

"Roar~!"

With a roar, it transformed into a dragon and soared straight into the sky.

The next moment, the pink dragon, which had rapidly ascended to the clouds, looked down.

As far as the eye can see, New York City at night is like a festive fireworks display, with countless scarlet flames exploding one after another with a series of booming sounds.

Finally, the explosions became a continuous series.

Some are inside high-rise buildings, while others are in the middle of bustling night streets.

If Luca were still in the mood to count them, there were exactly 128 red lights, large and small, evenly distributed throughout New York.

However, he had no time to think about any of that at the moment; he only had one thought in his mind.

'Shit! The knock-off technology in hell is truly shoddy!!'

(End of this chapter)