American Comics: Starting with Muggle Wizards

Chapter 190 Lunar Explosion

As time goes by, the Avengers, X-Men, and the clone army have less and less of an advantage.

With Ultron's army achieving victory after victory, they are poised to become the next Hydra to rule the world.

With the situation turning against him, Nick Fury was forced to do something he had done before.

That means withdrawing from the solar system, gathering strength, and then fighting back.

After all, he has already succeeded once; at worst, he can just endure the humiliation and try again.

Before this evacuation, he ordered the destruction of nuclear facilities around the world, and even if Ultron could rebuild nuclear weapons, it would take a considerable amount of time.

After all, the black-plated egg also took away a large number of precision machine tools and high-end manufacturing technologies.

These technologies are stored in a physically isolated manner, which is why Ultron was able to avoid learning them.

Even if Ultron could use its near-infinite computing power to deduce advanced manufacturing technology, it would still take eight to ten years.

That's enough time for the Heavenly Sword Bureau to make a comeback.

As long as Ultron doesn't have the technology to build spaceships, Egg can trap it within the solar system, and once it has accumulated enough power, it can return to fight back.

However, this time, differing opinions arose within the Heavenly Sword Bureau.

Some high-ranking human leaders believe that Earth is an ominous place, and even if they have accumulated enough power, there is no need for them to fight back.

After all, Earth is just a remote and underdeveloped planet in the Milky Way galaxy.

There is no irreplaceable resource.

Even vibranium, while a scarce resource in the Milky Way, is not irreplaceable.

Therefore, the higher-ups in humanity felt there was no need to return to the birthplace of humankind.

The most sensible choice is to go out into the Milky Way and grow stronger.

This strategy was immediately approved by most of the human leadership.

But the Avengers, known for their sense of justice, think differently.

When Hydra first withdrew from the solar system, its goal was to rule all of humanity, not to carry out mass killings.

But if they evacuate this time, Ultron will kill all of humanity; his goal is to cleanse the entire planet.

Humans are the pollutant that Ultron hates the most; it wishes it could wipe out every single person in the world.

Therefore, the members of the Avengers and the X-Men disagreed on leaving the solar system.

Even with experience and more space transport ships during the second evacuation, it's impossible to take away 30 billion people.

If the Avengers choose to evacuate, the number of humans who can safely leave the solar system will be at most one hundred million.

The remaining 29 billion humans will definitely be slaughtered by Ultron.

Steve, who has a strong sense of justice, declared that he would live and die with humanity on Earth.

The remaining Avengers and X-Men could not bear to see humanity being slaughtered by Ultron and disagreed with evacuating.

Unable to persuade these stubborn champions of justice, Nick Fury had no choice but to lead 100 million humans to evacuate the solar system and head to their new home in the Beta system to continue "accumulating strength."

After most of the Avengers' agents withdrew, the remaining Avengers and X-Men struggled to hold out.

Ultron's intelligent armored army is developing at an exponential rate.

There are only a handful of Avengers and X-Men who are willing to stay on Earth and live and die alongside humanity.

2015 October.

The second month after the Ultron disaster.

Luke, the weakest of the three, bravely sacrificed himself.

Over the next month, members of the Defenders, X-Men, Avengers, and other groups continued to sacrifice themselves.

When the Earth's resistance force was less than ten people, the moon suddenly and inexplicably broke apart, and large fragments of meteorites fell to Earth.

The meteor shower that streaked across the sky finally caught Harvey's attention.

A manor house in the northern suburbs of New York.

Harvey has been adapting to the surge in magical power after fusing with the four Infinity Stones.

When he noticed the earth shaking, he quickly left the meditation room and went to the lawn of the manor to observe the situation.

The clear, cloudless sky was dyed fiery red as meteorite fireballs, some several kilometers or even tens of kilometers in size, streaked across the sky.

When these lunar fragments hit the ground, the earth-shaking sensation can be felt from afar.

His face turned very pale.

"Holy crap! I was in seclusion for a few months, how did the moon explode?"

Hermione, Cho Chang, Ginny, Wanda, Lorna, and the other two women also arrived at the lawn one after another.

Hermione stared at the massive meteorite streaking across the sky. Even with her current strength at the level of a sub-father, she felt that such a catastrophe would be difficult to contend with.

"Honey, where did this meteorite come from?"

Harvey has been in seclusion recently and knows very little about the outside world. He turned to Cho Chang and Ginny, who often go out shopping, and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

Qiu Zhang said with a serious expression, "Perhaps...it's because of Ultron?"

Upon hearing the name Ultron, Harvey paused, "Ultron, an artificial intelligence? Who created that?"

Qiu Zhang whispered, "I heard it was created unintentionally by Tony Stark, a sinner against humanity."

Harvey stared at Cho Chang so intently that she felt uneasy, and even made the other woman blush.

Why didn't you tell me such important information sooner?

Qiu Zhang said, looking aggrieved, "Didn't you threaten that nothing, no matter how important, could distract you from improving your strength?"

Harvey's face darkened.

"Did I say that?"

"Did I say this?"

"Even if I really said it, Ultron slaughtered all of humanity, isn't that a huge deal?"

Cho Chang was shocked by Harvey's shamelessness. "But... I mentioned the information about Ultron fighting the Avengers a month ago when we were having dinner!"

Harvey recalled for a few seconds.

At the time, he seemed to be so focused on persuading Lorna to join the "harmonious and loving" family that he didn't listen carefully to Qiu Zhang's reminder.

So, is it all my fault?

"Ahem..." Harvey said shamelessly, "Forget it, there's no point in arguing about who's responsible now. I plan to take you back to Hogwarts for refuge, and we'll consider whether to come back after the Ultron incident."

Qiu Zhang's lips twitched, and she glanced at this shameless bastard with her beautiful eyes.

"Alright, but your two little sweethearts from those island nations have been having a tough time lately. Do you want to take them with you?"

When Hermione heard about the two young lovers, she couldn't help but interject, "No way, I won't allow you to bring those two little vixens with you!"

Ginny, Wanda, and even Lorna realized what was happening and all supported the Empress's opinion.

Five women can hardly eat their fill every day, so what would happen if two more came along? Wouldn't they be constantly hungry?

Harvey was worried about upsetting the women, so he had no choice but to verbally agree.

"Alright, alright, I'll take you back to your home in Hogsmeade Village first. It's been months since we've been back, so it's time to go back and stock up on potion ingredients and drinks."

After saying that, he opened the interdimensional portal.

Aside from Lorna, who was still somewhat surprised, the other four women had seen interdimensional portals before.

Chapter 191 The Shocking Change in New York

Harvey led the five girls to the house in Hogsmeade.

In the Harry Potter world, almost three years have passed since Voldemort wreaked havoc in the wizarding world.

Hogsmeade, once home to hundreds of wizards, is unlikely to ever return to its former bustling state.

In a sparsely populated wizard village, Harvey, after settling the juicer at home, was preparing to return to the Marvel Universe to check on Ultron's situation.

Lorna, however, suggested that she go back with him.

Harvey considered it for a while. With the magnetic force that Lorna had developed, she was almost as powerful as a middle-aged Magneto.

Although it can't help me, at least it won't hold me back.

"Alright, Miss Lorna, stay close to me and don't make any rash moves."

As he spoke, he opened the interdimensional portal again.

He led Lorna back to the manor in the northern suburbs of New York.

Stepping out of the villa, he took out the Holy Element Magic Wand.

The moment the thought arose, the entire person floated into the air.

Lorna also manipulated a ten-kilogram training iron block, squeezing and deforming it into a one-meter-circular iron sheet, which she stepped on and levitated.

Harvey flew with Lorna to a low altitude of one thousand meters, heading towards S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

To accommodate the green-haired little girl Lorna, he deliberately slowed down, flying at a leisurely pace while observing the situation throughout New York.

As he flew along, he found that the whole of New York was in chaos, with large swathes of rice and wheat fields on the outskirts burning and billowing black smoke.

Furthermore, drones carrying incendiary bombs are conducting suicide attacks on these farmlands.

Although it sounds absurd, Ultron's army of armored warriors was too small.

Even if a precision manufacturing plant's assembly line can produce a thousand youth-version intelligent robots every day.

It could have a population of over two billion.

Even if Ultron were to send out his entire robot army of 10,000 armored robots and kill 10,000 people per second, the killing efficiency would still be too slow.

Therefore, Ultron set its sights on humanity's food supply.