Marvel Gashapon Maniac

In his view, although most of the city’s residents did not know how they all knew some fighting skills, and used them very skillfully.

However, fists can never compete with guns. With special physical abilities, ordinary people are simply no match for an army, let alone the Chitauri, who are known as the cosmic locusts.

So-called hand-to-hand combat skills are obviously useless when facing a barrage of gunfire; cover will be torn apart by powerful beam weapons just the same.

"Alright, it's time to prepare to deal with the rest of the guests." Loki got up and went downstairs, planning to wait for the Avengers to arrive so he could ambush them and summon his army to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

As soon as he got downstairs, Loki looked at his face in the glass, which was covered in bruises. Although he wasn't disfigured, he looked quite disheveled.

Loki touched his face; it hurt.

“No, I can’t do it myself.” Loki immediately made up his mind and used his physical clone.

"I know this trick, but why do I always have to do it myself?" Loki rubbed his face, wondering if his IQ had dropped from spending too much time with his brother.

Although this spell consumes a lot of mana, it can prevent you from getting beaten up.

Just as Loki was preparing to create a clone, two black dots in the distance drew closer and closer. Loki knew without a doubt that the owner of the house and his brother had arrived first.

“I need to find a place to hide.” Loki looked around and spotted a large display case.

There was only one oddly shaped bracelet in a fairly large display case.

"What is this?" Loki stood next to the cabinet, looking at the bracelet inside. He had never seen a bracelet made like this before. Although it looked ordinary, Loki could feel the flow of energy.

"Could this be one of Tony Stark's hidden artifacts?"

It's no wonder Loki thought that way; in Asgard's armory, those artifacts were displayed in the same way. Although not just anyone could enter the armory, the way they were displayed made Loki think that these must be Tony's secret weapons.

Loki didn't have time to think much about it; Tony and Thor were already in sight, flying towards the building.

Loki made a door in the cabinet, and because the cabinet was hollow, he could go inside.

Loki hid inside the closet, then used magic and illusions to conceal his presence, leaving his clone inside to wait for the Avengers to arrive.

However, what he didn't know was that a set of cameras were watching his every move.

……

"Doctor, please stop what you're doing." Tony and Thor first arrived at the top of the building and saw the researcher who was adjusting the machine.

"He's unstoppable," the controlled researcher exclaimed excitedly. "He's about to show us a whole new universe."

“Okay, you’ve woken him up. I’m going to smash that machine.” Thor twirled the hammer, intending to use the Russian-style mechanical repair method.

"Pah, pah, 80!" Thor swung his hammer and smashed it directly at the machine.

His original idea was that smashing the machine would prevent the portal from opening.

However, a layer of azure blue protective shield appeared on the surface of the machine, which actually withstood Thor's falling hammer.

The force of the recoil nearly blew the people upstairs away, and the researcher was also blown to the ground and unconscious.

“That saves me the trouble of knocking,” Tony said, steadying his armor which had been blown away by the wind and glancing sideways.

"Such strong protection! I didn't even break through it." Thor looked at the protective shield in surprise.

“Things like membranes aren’t easy to break, let’s go with Plan B.” Tony shrugged and looked at Loki standing in the room.

Tony landed, and Thor followed closely behind.

"Loki! Turn that thing off! If this continues... the people of New York will get hurt!" Thor shouted indignantly at his brother.

Tony paused for a moment when he came down, but didn't join the conversation.

Because Jarvis just contacted him.

"Sir, what you see in front of you is just a clone; the enemy's main body is currently hiding inside the cabinet."

Jarvis then showed Tony the video recording from earlier.

"So that's how it is. It's fake? Then the scepter in his hand is fake too," Tony thought to himself.

Loki's scepter was stolen by terrorists during their invasion, and Loki left it behind to ensure his clone looked as real as possible.

The main reason is that Loki only knows the basics of the power of the scepter. I wonder what he would think if he knew that the weapon in his hand is the famous Infinity Stone.

“If you surrender now, we might accept you,” Tony warned Loki, then nonchalantly walked toward his liquor cabinet.

He pulled out a bottle of liquor and asked Loki, "Want a drink?"

“Mortal, you don’t seem to understand what’s happening right now?” Loki chuckled. “This is war. My army is coming soon, and you can’t stop it.”

"But we have the grumpy old man Hulk, the antique Captain America from the past, the agent duo, and you, my handsome brother."

Thor was delighted to hear this and gave a thumbs up: "Well said."

“Of course.” Tony opened his glass and took a sip of red wine. “And me, the most handsome one.”

"Hey!"

Ignoring Thor's complaints, Tony continued, "And we also have that busty alien lady helping us. Do you think your army can defeat us?"

“That’s right.” Loki didn’t refute anything. “But… if you and your teammates turn against each other, you can buy me time until I can summon an army big enough to crush you, right?”

As he spoke, Loki's figure disappeared from the spot.

"Tony, watch out!" Thor exclaimed in surprise. So Loki had been preparing a teleportation spell to launch a sneak attack while they were chatting? He'd miscalculated.

Loki suddenly appeared behind Tony, who reacted quickly by raising his palm cannon to fire behind him, but Loki was one step ahead.

The scepter pressed against Tony's chest, and Loki couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Mortal! You think wearing this armor can protect you from my magic? How naive! Hahaha... Ha... What's with that expression?"

Loki was still laughing wildly, but when he saw Tony's expression of looking at him like he was an idiot after Tony opened his mask, he was stunned.

"Huh? What's going on?" Loki stared blankly at his scepter and poked it again.

Ding--

Apart from a metallic clanging sound, nothing happened.

"Hey buddy. I don't like being poked around by men." With that, he blasted Loki's clone away with a palm strike, then retaliated with another palm strike aimed at the display case.

Loki, who was hiding inside, was blasted out and crashed into the wall, clutching his back in pain.

"You bastard..." Loki gritted his teeth as he looked at Tony, "How did you know where I was hiding? Why wasn't my scepter working?"

"They've made a fake scepter look just like the real one," Tony couldn't help but laugh.

Tony believed that Loki was using a fake scepter to deceive him, intending to use it for a sneak attack, and that Loki's actions were an act.

But Loki was taken aback when he heard this.

"Fake? Has my scepter been switched?"

Amidst this stalemate, the portal to the Cosmic Cube was finally established.

With the sound of the bracelet, originally stored in the cabinet, being blown to the ground, the Chitauri invasion officially began.

1. Seeking various items

2. I finally finished the theory test! Although I have to take the driving test next Thursday, at least I can finally relax for a while and feel good.

3. Thinking about it carefully, I'll be up late tomorrow, so busy.

4. I discovered yesterday that my new book was actually listed on the weekly bestseller list! How can I, a nobody with only 7000 favorites, possibly get in? Everyone here is a big shot, and I'm just a nobody who managed to sneak in.

Chapter 87 Avengers 1 (1/3)

Loki, the mastermind behind the incident, was quickly tied up and thrown to the ground by the two of them, but they were unable to stop the Tesseract.

As the Cosmic Cube opened the cosmic portal, the Chitauri, the cosmic locusts who had been waiting in space, began their invasion.

A group of strange, armored monsters riding flying machines flew out of the portal and swooped down.

"They're here after all. We need to deal with these outsiders first." Tony looked at the intruders coming from the sky and decided to protect the ordinary people first.

"Thor, give me that bracelet. It's the combination sensor for the armor components I prepared." Tony pointed to the mechanical bracelet next to the bottles on the bar counter, his recently developed secret weapon.

Although he always felt awkward about making it into a bracelet, he still felt that a bracelet was the most suitable for wearing and receiving signals.

Thor, who was gazing at the celestial beings descending from the heavens, was momentarily confused, then nodded and replied, "Oh, I understand."

Tony was adjusting the armor data there, unaware of the bewildered look in the eyes of a certain husky.

"He's talking about the bracelet, right? Let me see." Thor, who had been looking up at the sky, hadn't noticed where Tony had pointed earlier, and looked around to see where the bracelet was.

Suddenly he saw a peculiar blue bracelet on the ground, and with his clever mind, he thought of something.

"Yes, this is it."

Thor directly... cough cough, took the bracelet and handed it to Tony.

Tony, who was debugging the system, didn't notice and just took it.

Ding--

Tony tapped the bracelet directly onto his arm armor, making a crisp sound.

"Huh? Wasn't this an electronic bracelet that opens and closes automatically? Why isn't it on? Is it broken?" Feeling that the bracelet was just touching his arm armor without moving, Tony picked it up in confusion.

He was shocked the next moment.

"What is this thing! No, how did this thing get into my hand!" Tony looked at the familiar blue bracelet in his hand, cold sweat pouring down his back, feeling a chill run down his spine.

He looked at Thor in horror.

Thor, who was counting the Chitauri nearby, noticed Tony's surprised expression and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"What?!" Tony shouted in a panic.

"A bracelet?" Thor looked at Tony curiously.

“The one I’m talking about!” Tony pointed to the mechanical bracelet.

"Oh, I took the wrong one. It's okay, this one is pretty too," Thor said with a simple smile.

Tony quickly used his small flying ability to rush over, pick up the mechanical bracelet, and put it on, only then feeling a little relieved.

"I'll have to be more careful when asking this husky to do things in the future," Tony thought to himself with a sigh of relief.

Tony's sense of danger grew stronger as he looked at the Kempf bracelet. This time, he didn't need to change his armor because his armor was undamaged and he had enough energy; the arm guards were large enough that he didn't need to wear them.

What about next time?

Tony felt a chill run down his spine; he had seen Fu You's condition before.

This is the difference between being proactive and being passive, a difference that this playboy, who has been proactive for many years, cannot accept.

"Should I throw it away?" Tony wondered.

Although this thing is a rip-off, it is undoubtedly the crystallization of some unknown technology, and who knows what kind of trouble it might cause if it is thrown away carelessly.

"Thor, hold this for me for now." Tony decisively tossed the pot aside and handed the bracelet to Thor.

"What's this?" Thor looked the bracelet up and down. It was exquisitely crafted and had a strange power operating within it. It was a good thing.

"It's a special technology. Although it doesn't have any major side effects, its power is somewhat dangerous. Please keep it safe for me," Tony explained.

"I see." Thor didn't think much of it and simply fastened the bracelet to his armor waist. "I'll go deal with those grunts first. You catch up as soon as possible."

With that, Thor swung his hammer and flew away.

Watching Thor's departing figure, or more precisely, the figure of Thor's item disappearing from his waist, Tony breathed a sigh of relief.

……

"Captain, look!" Hawkeye's team, who arrived late, just in time to witness the Chitauri's entrance.

"Is that Loki's army?" Steve asked, watching the figures swarming down like locusts.

Indeed, as Loki said, even with superior combat skills, physical fitness remains an issue.

The Chitauri swooped down from the sky to bombard the streets of New York, lasers shooting from their weapons at passersby.

The people of New York have indeed been exposed to various virtual games, resulting in improvements in both their combat skills and physical fitness.

But just like Thor's fighting methods, once your physical abilities become overwhelmingly superior, you don't need to consider any techniques at all; just go all out.

It's like no matter how much fun or how flashy you are with your E-soldier skills, if the opponent can one-shot you, all your flashy plays are meaningless.

The Chitauri attack was indeed effective; many cars on the road were blown up by lasers, and the chain reaction from the explosions made the scene even more chaotic.

However, there were no casualties among the New Yorkers.