He was selling gashapon toys in Marvel Studios, and at the beginning, Tony turned into Kuuga.

"Fuck, one-sixteenth?!"

Tony swore.

He could feel his body getting heavier.

It's not a problem with gravity, it's time itself that's dragging him down.

Every movement became sluggish, and the muscles' feedback signals were delayed by a beat.

My brain was still working at high speed, but my limbs felt like they were filled with lead.

"Pepper! Back up!"

Tony yelled, but his voice sounded different when it got out.

In the deceleration field, even sound waves are stretched and distorted.

"I...have...withdrawn..."

Pepper's voice trailed off several times, and her movements visibly slowed down.

"Sir, the force field is still expanding, and its radius has reached eighty meters."

Jarvis's voice, however, was unaffected.

"The current force field boundary is approaching the Milan!"

"Damn it!"

The rocket failed to escape and was not far from the edge of the force field.

"What the hell is this? My hands feel like an old lady knitting a sweater!"

He was three seconds slow in pulling the trigger.

By the time the bullet left the barrel, the surviving TVA agents had already changed positions.

"I am Groot!"

Standing outside the circle, Groot dropped the game console and frantically reached out with both hands, trying to grab the people inside the circle.

But his vines are also slowing down, and the growth rate has changed from instantaneous to a visible wriggling.

"Nebula, come help!"

The rocket roared in the direction of the Milan.

Outside the force field, the three surviving TVA agents regrouped.

The female agent who had been knocked away by Tony's hammer actually stood up again. Her wound was sealed with an unknown gel, and blood was trickling from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes remained firm.

"The time anchor has been activated. The force field will reach its maximum radius within thirty seconds."

She spoke into the communicator and then pulled out a cutting stick from her waist.

"Target has entered the deceleration zone. Execute clearance."

The three began to move into the force field, and they were unaffected.

"That's unfair!" Rocket's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when he saw this. "They're unaffected? What kind of rogue technology is this!"

"This is not technology."

Li Ang's voice suddenly drifted over from the side.

He stood at the edge of the force field, hands in his pockets, with an interesting expression on his face.

"It is the authority of time."

"They exist outside the normal flow of time, so they are unaffected by their own weapons."

"It's easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering!" Rocket bared his teeth at him.

"Please help!"

"Weren't all those capabilities you bought with money precisely for dealing with situations like this?"

Li Ang took half a step back, exiting the force field's range.

"Believe in yourself, believe in your partners, and I will step in when necessary!"

"asshole!"

Within the force field, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

The Mantis Woman was the first to give out.

She wasn't a combat type to begin with, and her physique was the worst among the Guardians of the Galaxy.

As time slowed down, she almost froze, with only her eyes slowly moving and her lips opening and closing but unable to make a sound.

"Mantis!" Drax roared, turning to pull her away.

But he himself wasn't much better off.

This muscular destroyer's movements at this moment looked as if they were being played at 0.25x speed.

His outstretched hand moved only ten centimeters in five seconds.

"Damn it..."

Drax's voice was drawn into a low hum.

Only then did he regret not having tried to draw a gashapon capsule.

Three agents had already entered the force field, and the orange light from the tip of the cutting rod was particularly dazzling in the dim light.

The leading female agent headed straight for Mantis Woman.

The cutting stick is raised.

Three meters away.

Two meters.

"Groot!!!"

A loud shout tore through the stagnation within the force field.

Everyone turned their heads at the same time.

Although Groot's speed was also affected by the force field, he was at least ten times faster than the others.

The tree-like beings have a completely different physical structure from carbon-based life forms.

The time-slowing effect on his woody cells was diminished.

Groot slammed his hands on the ground.

"Wood Release: Multiple Wood Clone Technique!"

Upon hearing this, Rocket nearly dropped his gun.

"When did you learn to call out the names of your moves?!"

The ground exploded.

More than a dozen thick tree roots burst forth from Groot's torso, each of them rapidly expanding, deforming, and sprouting limbs and a face at its tip.

Within three seconds, eight more Groots appeared in the force field.

Wood clone.

Eight Groots acted simultaneously; some lunged at Mantis, some charged at Drax, and three stood between the agent and the target.

"Get out of the way!" The female agent swung her bat down.

The cutting stick struck the torso of the foremost wooden clone.

Orange light spread across the wood fibers, and the clone's body began to disintegrate from the point of contact, shattering into orange light spots that drifted away.

But just as it disappeared, a second clone emerged from underground.

With its wooden arms crossed, it erected a two-meter-high, thick wooden wall in front of the Mantis Woman.

boom! boom! boom!

The other two agents drew their energy pistols and fired repeatedly at the wooden wall.

The beam of light struck the wooden wall, blasting out charred craters and scattering sawdust everywhere. But with each blast, new branches grew wildly from the gap, filling the hole once more.

"You can't break through it."

The rocket finally completed the trigger pull that had been delayed for half a day, and an energy blast flew out, trailing a blue flame.

Although the speed was much slower inside the force field, the power of the cannonball was not diminished.

boom!

The explosion knocked an agent off his feet, sending him tumbling five or six meters with his baton.

"Groot! Drag Mantis and Drax out of the force field!" Rocket roared.

"Groot!"

The two clones grabbed the Mantis Woman's arms and began dragging her towards the outer edge of the force field.

The other two worked together to push Drax, that mountain of flesh, outwards.

"Let...me... go..." Drax struggled in slow motion. "I'm going to...kill...them..."

"At your current speed, you can't even beat a tortoise!" Rocket said bluntly.

The female agent got up from the ground, her armor shattered so badly that only a few pieces remained on her body.

She glanced at the retreating wooden clones, then at the metal cylinder stuck in the ground.

"Increase"

She pressed a button on the top of the cylinder.

hum!

The low-frequency vibrations suddenly intensified, and the force field expanded again.

Groot's wooden clones moved noticeably slower, and fine cracks even began to appear on the surface of the bark.

"The force field has been amplified! The radius is 120 meters!" Jarvis's voice was unusually urgent.

"Sir, at the current rate of diffusion, the Milan will be completely covered in twenty seconds! At that time, the spaceship's engines will be unable to start!"

"I don't need you to remind me!"

Tony gripped the steel hammer tightly.

He is now also within the force field, and every movement he makes is noticeably sluggish.

The Amadam Stone within his body had awakened at some point and began to operate wildly, its scorching energy flowing along his meridians into his limbs.

The symbiote formed a thin white film in Thor's form, resonating with the energy of the spirit stone.

"Jarvis, what is the frequency of the time field?"

"47.3 Hz, continuing to oscillate."

"What about the frequency of black hole particles?"

"Theoretically, reverse interference can be created, but it requires extremely high energy density..."

"Don't give me theories." The veins on the back of Tony's hand, gripping the hammer, bulged. "Calculate how much energy you need, now."

"Calculation complete, sir. You need to increase the output of the Iron Hammer to three hundred percent."

"side effect?"

"The hammer runes may cause irreversible damage."

"The runes may break, but they can be reforged, Jarvis. Turn the tide!"