Peter stood up again. His eyes were full of determination, and there was a bit more steadiness in his voice.
Seeing that Peter had adjusted his mindset, Corin knew his effort hadn't been for nothing.
He nodded in relief.
From now on, the little spider wouldn't ignore the important people in his life just because he was busy fighting. Maybe he would even be happier in the future.
"Oh~ Gwen!"
Peter saw Gwen sitting on the ground, looking at him with bright, lively eyes and a smile. He rushed over and pulled her into a hug.
Gwen's feet, treated earlier with Corin's cold aura, were already fine. Looking at the knight who had risked his life to protect her, something soft in her heart was stirred.
She hugged Peter tightly.
"I thought I'd never see you again…"
Clang!
Stuffed full of dog food, Corin decisively turned around. His armor clashed with a sharp metallic sound.
"I seriously can't deal with this. The lines are way too cliche."
The two young lovers were all lovey-dovey right in front of him. The air around them instantly turned pink. Corin couldn't take it.
At that moment, Gwen, drawn by the sound of the armor, suddenly remembered something.
After hugging Peter for just a few seconds, she pushed him away. Copying Corin's tone, she pretended to be angry.
"So this is how you save the person you love?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into laughter, shaking with it.
Peter turned bright red, rubbed his nose, and felt deeply ashamed.
But in the next second, his expression turned firm again. He looked at Gwen seriously.
"I'll never let you be in danger again."
Corin suddenly remembered that Gwen was also the reckless type. He turned around, pointed at her, and frowned.
"You too. Yes, I'm talking about you, Gwen."
"If something's dangerous, stay far away. Don't just charge forward like that, got it?"
"In this city, besides Spider-Man, there are the Avengers too. It's not your turn, a regular person, to play hero."
Gwen looked at the hero who had saved the whole city and her father, her idol, the Crimson Silver Duke, standing right in front of her.
Listening to him lecture her like an old dad, she felt a warm feeling in her heart.
Then she looked at the exquisite, carefully crafted, mighty armor on Corin. Her eyes instantly lit up with little stars. She turned into a curious baby.
"Wow~ Mr. Silver Duke, your armor is so cool!"
"Then?"
"What about your red suit?"
"Where's your mask?"
"Are you going to appear in this new look from now on?"
"Wow, this armor is seriously cool."
She completely ignored Corin's lecture.
As expected of a spirited girl.
Corin couldn't help but look at Peter. The two of them saw the same helplessness in each other's eyes, then broke into smiles.
Gwen was safe. What could be more comforting than that?
Under Gwen's influence, Peter's curiosity was stirred up too.
The young couple chattered around Corin, asking this and that, making him truly experience what it felt like to be treated like an idol.
'There are only two of them and it's already this noisy. No wonder celebrities go out fully covered.'
Gwen invited Corin to her house for dinner. Her whole family wanted to properly express their thanks.
Peter even specifically told Corin to make sure to bring the beautiful sister they had met before, Alyssa.
Corin agreed without even thinking.
He had been here for quite a while and had eaten at all kinds of restaurants, but he had never joined this kind of family gathering.
Back then, he had eaten barbecue once with the Avengers team.
Everyone had their own thoughts at the time, and he had been starving. The atmosphere was extremely awkward.
So Corin was very curious and looking forward to this family dinner.
After setting a time to meet the next day, Peter hugged Gwen, shot out a web, and left the power plant.
Corin was in a good mood too. He released a magnetic field and turned into a streak of silver light that disappeared into the horizon.
———
[Some Abandoned Factory]
Jane Foster's date with a certain high-quality man had just been successfully ruined by Darcy.
Led by Erik Selvig, several scientists had developed a device that could detect energy fluctuations.
Recently, that device had started giving off alarms.
As for where Erik was, he had been taken away by the police.
When the science fanatic Erik discovered something unusual with the equipment, he concluded that another alien invasion type event would definitely happen again.
Holding his homemade energy detection device, he went to the vicinity of Stonehenge.
To make sure his clothes wouldn't interfere with the device at all, Erik stripped himself completely naked and walked in circles around Stonehenge while observing the readings.
This move successfully caught the attention of the police and even made the news headlines.
To be fair, white skin really is white. Just very hairy.
Following the device's guidance, Jane and Darcy brought along their intern to an abandoned factory.
They met a few kids. After explaining that they were scientists, the kids decided to share the secret they had recently discovered.
A boy stood on the stairs and threw a bottle down through the atrium. The next second, the bottle disappeared into thin air.
Jane, Darcy, and the intern were stunned.
Then the bottle fell from above again, disappeared once more, and kept repeating like that in an endless loop.
"Oh my god!"
This phenomenon, far beyond common sense, ignited Jane's scientific soul. She casually picked up a soda can and threw it down.
Strangely, the soda can didn't reappear.
The intern, amazed, couldn't help but toss the car keys in his hand down as well. The three of them stared up at the air with their mouths open, waiting for the keys to fall.
Darcy said, "You just… threw my keys, didn't you?"
At that moment, the instrument in Jane's hand showed abnormalities again. The numbers on it were rising continuously.
The last time something like this had happened was when Thor had come to Earth.
Following the direction indicated by the device, Jane walked down a corridor. Suddenly, a mysterious force pulled her into another space.
It looked like a dark altar. In the center lay a strange massive stone, with faint red light seeping out from the cracks.
Curious, Jane stepped forward and boldly reached her hand inside.
The next second, the red light, carrying a mysterious power, rushed entirely into Jane's body. Before she could even react to what had happened, she collapsed and fainted.
Thud!
———
Back in his room, Corin reshaped his armor into a large Golden Cudgel figurine and placed it in the corner of the wall.
He casually tore off his tattered bathrobe and happily lay down in the bathtub.
"Ah! So comfortable."
Soaking in the bath and thinking about everything that had happened recently, Corin knew that an exciting adventure was slowly unfolding.
And he seemed to be having quite a good time. It felt like he had taken a successful first step in playing through Marvel.
Only the fact that he had almost failed to return from space still bothered him.
It was time for a full upgrade.
Corin first began analyzing his talents.
In terms of offense: heat vision, freezing breath, and the magnetic field all seemed to consume a lot of energy. But now that he had found a solution, it wasn't really a problem. The attack effects looked pretty good so far.
In terms of defense: the demigod body seemed to have shown the ability to tear space apart, but he still couldn't control it freely. He would set that aside for now.
The steel body was hard as hell and could withstand strategic-level attacks, meaning he could tank nuclear weapons. Logically speaking, that was already solid enough.
But Corin knew that even though he currently possessed abilities that seemed very powerful, in front of true top-tier powerhouses, he was still in a position where he could be slaughtered at will.
After all, in the Marvel world, there was almost no such thing as evenly matched battles. It was almost always one-sided crushing.
Standing before Odin, Corin had felt completely unable to resist.
After all, that was the God King.
Thinking of the God King, Corin opened the system and clicked on the upgrade interface.
[Demigod Body → God King Body. 1 trillion USD + one strand of Infinity Energy 2/6]
"Damn!"
The corner of his mouth twitched.
Upgrading the Demigod Body further actually required not just money, but also collecting six types of Infinity Energy.
'In other words, does that mean I need the energy of six Infinity Stones?'
'2/6 meant that I have already collected two types of Infinity Energy?'
'The Tesseract and the Mind Stone?'
Corin had just wanted to complain that Infinity Stones were hard to get, but the progress displayed by the system kept reminding him that maybe they weren't that hard after all.
'Looking at it this way, making money is actually harder.'
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