Marvel: Saint Seiya Starting with the Reality Stone

Chapter 123 The Birth of Ultron!

Sokovia.

This small, landlocked country in Eastern Europe has been plagued by war for years, with one side constantly taking turns fighting. War has become the norm in this small country.

Even the Sokovians, who had seen many storms and were able to continue working without flinching even when shells landed beside them, never imagined that the wars they had experienced before were just minor skirmishes.

Compared to the events unfolding in Sokovia, the battles fought by those warlords before were practically insignificant.

Without him.

Sokovia was in complete chaos at that moment.

It's a mess.

Various steel robots were flying erratically in the sky above Sokovia.

Ultron's robots and Tony Stark's robots were locked in a fierce battle in the skies above Sokovia, with robot debris exploding and falling like meteors into the city of Novigrad, the capital of Sokovia, every now and then.

They were like a meteor shower falling over Sokovia.

boom!

An 18th-century opera house that Mike and Wanda visited during Mike's time in Sokovia was struck head-on by a meteorite and turned into ruins.

boom!

A street that Mike and Wanda once walked on was instantly cratered when it was hit by the wreckage of a falling machine, with debris and splashing flames flying in all directions.

But the Sokovians did not scream.

Because screaming means taking time, and the last thing they need right now is to waste time, they just run instinctively.

They ran desperately towards their cellars and towards the outskirts of the city, trying to escape this city that had been completely turned into a battlefield.

All of this started with the Avengers obtaining the data on the Hydra Fortress in Sokovia.

Mike's worries turned out to be unnecessary.

He originally thought that since he had already quickly cleared the Hydra fortress in Sokovia, the villain Ultron from the original Avengers 2 storyline should not have had a chance to be born.

But Ultron arrived as promised.

Vision's creation stemmed from the Mind Stone, but Ultron's did not.

The birth of Ultron had nothing to do with Mike, nor even with Baron Strucker or the Hydra fortress in Sokovia.

Its origins lie in the Avengers, or more precisely, in Iron Man Tony Stark.

Well known.

Iron Man Tony Stark had already developed some psychological issues after the Battle of New York, a fact that was confirmed in Iron Man 2.

Although this problem was eventually resolved.

But deep down, Tony Stark still harbored a shadow of unease about his safety, a shadow cast by the Battle of New York.

In fact, as early as after the Battle of New York, Tony Stark had already conceived of a global defense agreement based on world security.

The concept behind this agreement is actually not much different from Hydra's Insight Project.

The core of Project Insight is to nip all threats in the bud, and this security defense protocol of Tony Stark...

Its core purpose is to be able to respond as quickly as possible the moment danger occurs, and to deal with the threat before it escalates into a global crisis.

But this plan requires the use of a real artificial intelligence to take charge.

Jarvis won't do.

Although Jarvis behaves like a real artificial intelligence, it is not a real artificial intelligence, even though it comes very close.

The strong are always lonely, because they prefer to keep all the problems to themselves and never place their hopes on anyone else.

So Tony Stark didn't tell anyone about this.

Even Pepper Potts didn't have that.

Over the past two years, Tony has spent his spare time researching this topic, aiming to create a truly intelligent system that is compatible with global defense protocols.

But this kind of thing is no less difficult than creating a soul out of thin air, since having self-awareness is equivalent to having one's own soul.

So even someone as powerful as Tony Stark had no choice.

The turning point came when Commander Victoria Hand transferred all of Hydra's intelligence to the Avengers.

Rear.

After analyzing the Hydra intelligence that had been handed over, Jarvis accurately found the relevant research data that Commander Victoria Hand had collected from the Hydra fortress in Sokovia.

This refers to Dr. Lister's research on the existence of a core of self-awareness within the Mind Stone.

In the original storyline, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, and others created Ultron directly from the Mind Stone.

But once again.

Both Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are intelligent people, and among the most intelligent people in the world.

As it turns out, even without the Mind Stone, they were still able to create Ultron using only Dr. Lister's research data and audio/video recordings on the Mind Stone, only it took them a month or two longer than in the original storyline.

However, whether it was based on the Mind Stone or Dr. Lister's research data, Ultron was essentially developed based on the Mind Stone.

The Mind Stone has extremely terrifying side effects.

It's one thing to lack self-awareness, but once self-awareness is acquired, one will be eroded by the terrible side effects of the Mind Gem.

Ultron was initially created with the goal of "protecting the world," but the moment Ultron was born, its consciousness, created based on the Mind Stone, was instantly corrupted by the Mind Stone's side effects.

After developing self-awareness, it came to an alternative answer.

To achieve lasting global peace, the root causes of conflict must be eliminated.

That is, human beings themselves.

Simply put, between solving the problem and dealing with the person who raised the problem, Ultron chose the latter.

All problems that could disrupt peace are caused by humans. Therefore, if we eliminate humans, all problems will cease to exist.

Simply perfect.

So while Mike was on his way to the afterlife, Ultron, who had successfully escaped, had already reopened his eyes in a secret base beneath the Hydra fortress in Sokovia, a base that had not been found by Commander Victoria Hand, and had used the tools available there to rebuild a body for himself.

While Michael was having tea with the Ancient One in the snowy mountains, Ultron also found Wanda and Pietro, just like in the original storyline.

The story between Mike and Wanda is between the two of them and has nothing to do with Wanda and Pietro's original goals.

The two men participated in Hydra's experiments for two reasons: first, to seek revenge against Tony Stark; and second, to bring peace to their country, Sokovia.

So when Ultron said he could grant them both wishes, just like in the original story, Wanda and Pietro chose the answer.

Therefore, when Michael set off for Wakanda to find materials to forge his Cloth, Wanda and Pietro were also working towards their goal alongside Ultron.

As a result, the two of them were deceived.

one more time!

After all, whether it was Wanda or Pietro, in their rage, they only thought about tearing Tony Stark to pieces. They never thought about inflicting such anger on America, such as sinking America, let alone destroying all of humanity.

The most important thing.

Does this scope of destruction for all humanity include their fellow human beings, namely the Sokovians?

The answer is self-evident.

But simply destroying all of humanity was not Ultron's whole plan.

This is also when Wanda and Pietro arrive at the peninsula and see Helen Zhao's new humanoid vibranium body, which she created using vibranium and the Cradle Project under the threat of Ultron.

The humanoid vibranium body isn't the main point; the main point is that there's a hole in the forehead of this body.

The entrance to the cave is small and diamond-shaped.

It was at that moment that Ultron revealed to Wanda and Pietro his true purpose in searching for them.

He sought out Wanda and Pietro not only because they could be his protectors before he matured and help him fend off attacks from the Avengers.

Ultron also came for the Mind Stone.

Although its consciousness was born because of Tony Stark, fundamentally, its consciousness also comes from the Mind Stone. Ultron believes that only by completely merging its consciousness with the Mind Stone can it become him.

But it didn't know the whereabouts of the Mind Stone.

Ultron had no idea who had the Mind Stone, neither the Avengers nor anywhere else; it had not been able to find any information about its current whereabouts online.

Commander Victoria Hand did know who had the Mind Stone.

However, Commander Hand did not keep any record of the events concerning Sokovia, leaving no written or electronic documentation.

But it desperately needs the Heart Gem.

So Ultron had to find another way, and that way was Wanda and Pietro.

Although neither Wanda nor Pietro were left with any written records by Commander Victoria Hand, even the records left by Hydra only mentioned two successful cases of Sokovia participating in mind experiments, without mentioning any names.

But Ultron still sensed a kindred spirit in Wanda and Pietro.

The lingering scent of the Mind Gem.

Wanda even had a stronger aura of the Mind Stone on her, leading Ultron to conclude that if anyone knew the whereabouts of the Mind Stone, Wanda must be one of them.