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Crossbones Rumlow curled up, trembling on the ground. Lionel's kick had broken at least three or four of his ribs, but it also saved him from cosplaying Louis XVI.
"Good thing I made it in time, I almost had to start over!"
Lionel, wearing frameless glasses, looked with interest at the bronze armor in front of him, which was over two meters tall. The armor had distinct Greek characteristics, clearly the armor mentioned by Ancient One as one of the three tools forged by Hephaestus at Zeus's command.
It seemed this armor was meant to kill Crossbones and initiate another restart, treating Crossbones as a second Sisyphus. Its duty should be to initiate restarts at regular intervals, allowing the chosen person to endure eternal torment.
"Do you have intelligence?" Lionel was a "polite" person and wouldn't casually attack innocent armor.
The bronze armor didn't answer Lionel's question, nor did it even acknowledge him. Its helmet, flickering with blue energy flames, turned towards Crossbones Rumlow, who had been kicked away. Its goal had always been singular: to initiate a restart. Unless someone interfered with its mission, it wouldn't attack targets outside of its primary objective.
The bronze armor moved extremely fast, reaching Crossbones Rumlow in a few breaths, intending to once again give Crossbones Rumlow the same treatment as the French King.
"So stubborn."
Lionel imbued his right arm with Armament Haki and chi, raising his hand to slap the falling greatsword. With physical strength surpassing Captain America, augmented by Armament Haki and chi, the greatsword was directly knocked away by Lionel. Then, Lionel followed up with a kick, sending the bronze armor several meters away.
"It didn't break." Lionel became curious about the sword's material. The force he used just now was enough to pierce through Tony Stark's armor, yet it hadn't broken the greatsword.
"Is it a special material similar to Uru metal? Since they are both God Kings, Zeus has no reason not to have similar or identical metals. If so, this material would be very valuable."
The reason Lionel didn't use Mystic Eyes of Death Perception earlier was that he wanted to keep this armor, as it was a treasure crafted by the God of Craftsmen. Now, the greatsword's toughness further confirmed this for Lionel.
Blue light flashed on the surface of the bronze armor and the greatsword. The next moment, the greatsword instantly teleported into the armor's hand.
"Hey! Was that Space Stone energy just now? What did this idiot do with the Space Stone's energy?"
Lionel glanced at Crossbones, who was playing dead on the ground, not daring to move.
"You stay there for now!"
Lionel raised his right hand, and a peculiar wave of energy erupted from his body, formless and intangible, yet the constantly flickering streetlights around him revealed the influence of this energy.
Soul Power.
This was a method Lionel had developed for using the Soul Power he had acquired: using Soul Power to create a tangible pressure in a certain space around him, which was especially effective against living beings.
The bronze armor's movements became extremely slow, as if it had fallen into an incredibly viscous mire; everything was in slow motion.
Having briefly restrained the bronze armor, Lionel came to Crossbones, who was playing dead on the ground.
Crossbones Rumlow, sensing that the danger had temporarily subsided, quietly opened his eyes and saw a rather handsome young man standing before him—the one who had just saved him.
"Is he a superhero like Spider-Man? I'm quite lucky," Crossbones thought.
"I'm an Agent from the FBI, and I encountered a Terrorist attack. Thank you so much for saving me."
Crossbones immediately brought out his FBI cover. This was the favorite cover for S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and the HYDRA Agents mixed among them, as the FBI is very well-known, almost universally recognized.
Lionel ignored him, squatted down, and punched Crossbones in the face. The effect of [Knocked Out Cold] wasn't triggered; it seemed his luck wasn't that good.
Crossbones was stunned. Was this guy crazy? Did he save him just to punch him in the face?
"Sorry, bear with it. A few more times will do."
Lionel didn't explain much, punching Crossbones in the face again. This time, the sleep effect of [Knocked Out Cold] was triggered, and Crossbones instantly fell unconscious.
"That's more like it." Lionel placed his hand on Crossbones again, and the instantly collapsed Crossbones vanished, sent to ten minutes into the future.
[Entry]—[Temporal Returner]: You can send things to the future.
Through his attempts, Lionel learned that this Entry's ability could be used on objects and on unconscious living beings.
Knocking Crossbones out was to make him lose consciousness and then send him to the future, to prevent this unlucky fellow from being accidentally killed in the subsequent battle, which would cause the World to restart again, and that would be very troublesome.
Having dealt with the hidden danger, Lionel released the pressure brought by his Soul Power. The surrounding streetlights immediately stopped flickering and returned to normal, while the bronze armor, having lost its target, momentarily froze in place, seemingly pondering why its target had disappeared.
Then, the armor locked its "gaze" onto Lionel. This human was the last one to touch the target; the target's disappearance must be related to him.
Switch target, prioritize dealing with this human.
A powerful blue energy erupted around the bronze armor, and it charged towards Lionel, slashing with its longsword.
Looking at the bronze armor, which was erupting with Space Stone energy around it, Lionel raised an eyebrow.
According to Ancient One, this armor itself did not possess Space Stone energy. The energy it was now using was all from when Crossbones, that idiot, had struck the armor with an energy gun containing the Space Stone, who knows how many cycles ago.
Was it a coincidence, or could this armor be compatible with various different energies?
These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. Lionel felt the whistling wind brought by the approaching bronze armor, and reached into his pocket to pull out a 25-cent coin with Washington's likeness.
With his right thumb, he flicked the Washington coin. Powerful blue electric currents appeared around Lionel in a swirling manner, with the most dazzling current converging on Lionel's right arm. The powerful current formed a strong magnetic field. Before the Washington coin landed back in his right hand, Lionel used his thumb again to give the Washington coin a forward push.
Accelerated by the magnetic field, the Washington coin shot out at supersonic speed, then began to melt due to air friction, leaving a brilliant arc of light in the air. But before it completely melted, the coin had already heavily impacted the bronze armor's chest.
With a heavy thud, the bronze armor was violently flung back by the coin's impact.
Clang!
The bronze armor crashed into the black Chevrolet, which was already split in half, completely flattening the black Chevrolet into a metal pancake.
[Entry]—[Railgun]: You will possess the abilities of an Electromaster, capable of manipulating electric current, electromagnetic waves, and magnetic force. Upgradeable, current level Lv3.
Lionel obtained this Entry from Electro Max. After Electro was dominated by Makima, he was deemed to be dominated by Lionel, so Lionel acquired the [Railgun] Entry from him.