Luca's simple phrase, 'School is about to start,' silenced everyone present.
This was clearly an answer no one had expected beforehand.
Nick Fury really wanted to say something.
'What kind of school is that? Is it more important than saving the World?'
But seeing Tony Stark staring at him with a slightly warning gaze, he ultimately chose not to argue over such a small matter.
After that, things became much simpler.
Dr. Erik and Dr. Jane Foster, both astrophysicists, were arranged to work with Tony and Banner to figure out how to send Gwen, the visitor from another World, back, and how to precisely locate more interdimensional visitors to prevent any potential harm they might cause.
Had someone already forgotten that the cause of this incident was actually Gwen, the parallel World visitor?
In fact, after closing the portal connecting the Nine Realms, everyone discovered that the spatial fluctuations that had previously appeared worldwide had not completely disappeared; their active frequency had merely decreased.
Even after examining the instrument Loki used to activate the portal, it was found that there was no information about activating interdimensional teleportation in the device.
Luca strongly suspected that the so-called interdimensional teleportation was just a side effect of Loki recklessly activating the Tesseract.
After all, whether it was the Frost Giant or the Dark Elves, both could only be considered 'aliens' to the current Earth.
They were completely different from 'parallel World invaders' like Gwen.
But it was precisely this side effect, which might have been unintentionally created, that made it even harder to solve.
Luca couldn't help with such matters, so he naturally went home obediently.
Of course, this did not mean that the aftermath of this incident had nothing to do with Luca.
Tony 'arranged' a job for Luca to assess the danger level of alien wreckage later on.
The reason given was that Tony didn't have time, and Luca had a good understanding of weapon technology and aliens.
However, the actual reason didn't matter.
Luca knew that Tony was actually helping him secure the right to share in the spoils of war.
There was nothing special about the primitive society of the Frost Giant, but among the weapons and equipment left behind by the Dark Elves, there were indeed many good things.
Orange Industries was a weapons company, and even obtaining just a few usable technologies from it would be a good improvement for the company as a whole.
Luca was naturally happy to accept this job.
Inside the Connecticut Villa.
For Luca, who hadn't been home for several days, there wasn't much change here.
Although Connecticut was not far from New York, the war did not spread here this time.
Instead, it was the Orange Family family's duplex apartment in Manhattan.
It had just been redecorated not long ago, but because it was too close to the Avengers Tower, it had been completely reduced to ruins this time.
It's unknown how long it will take to rebuild New York, given the extent of the destruction this time.
"Half of Manhattan, most of Brooklyn… two districts completely ruined. Will New York never recover from this?
Just clearing out that Dark Elf warship will take a while, but I still need to go check it out later. Maybe I can find some overlooked treasures.
Anyway, Luca himself didn't plan to move back to New York.
Connecticut was nice and not far from New York.
And because there were many wealthy people, the supporting facilities were also very good.
Even a couple of the Orange Family family's neighbors, who rarely stayed in the area, had moved back. They were probably wealthy individuals who decided to flee after witnessing the second Battle of New York yesterday.
As for the company headquarters still being in Manhattan, Luca didn't care much.
Anyway, the factories were all in Tennessee. Besides an office building and some experimental equipment, the headquarters didn't have too many heavy assets. It was located in the Lower East Side, so if it was unlucky enough to be affected, he would accept it.
After this great battle, New York's housing prices are estimated to drop significantly. At that time, the location of the new company…
"Hmm, the most important thing is to avoid that eyebrow pencil, Stark!"
Thinking about these future arrangements, Luca had already walked into the study.
And Samira was already waiting there.
Seeing Luca push the door open and enter, she quickly took two steps forward.
"Young Master, your Watch!"
Looking at the Transformation Watch in Samira's hand, Luca smiled and casually asked.
"How was it? Killing a god, did you have any novel feelings?"
Listening to Luca's question, Samira showed a puzzled expression on her face.
"Young Master, I don't understand what you're saying. I just went out and retrieved your lost Watch!"
Luca was stunned for a moment, then gave Samira a satisfied thumbs up.
"That's right, just like that!"
After taking the Watch and signaling Samira to leave, Luca, who had a smile on his face, was now quietly frozen in place.
"No? What's going on now?"
Looking at the Transformation Watch in his hand, which was glowing white again, and the golden finger panel that popped up on it.
[Omnitrix]
[Ben 10 World 1/5]
[Creator: Azmuth]
[Core Component: Transformation Watch]
[Synthesis Materials: 9 different alien scan data, 1 DNA collection and analysis device]
[Item Description: The Omnitrix, commonly known as the broken watch. A high-tech Transformation Watch that allows the wearer to transform into intelligent alien beings and gain their corresponding abilities. Its original purpose was to promote friendly communication between civilizations in the Universe, but due to its powerful abilities, it is often used as a weapon. It has the ability to record intelligent biological DNA information, but in fact, whether it is a carbon-based life form or not, the broken watch can record it and perform transformations.]
[Friendly Reminder: Due to the emergency program in the broken watch's system that protects the wearer, sometimes it may not be so obedient and will only transform into the most suitable form to deal with the current crisis.]
"This…"
At this moment, Luca was left with a head full of question marks.
He hadn't expected that the Transformation Watch, which had already been synthesized, had once again become a 'core component!'
Or rather, could it be that all items can become core components after experiencing certain conditions?"
Luca was very sure that before he gave the Transformation Watch to Samira, this thing wasn't glowing.
Even looking at the 'synthesis materials' information on the panel this time, he had already guessed what this item had gone through to cause the change.
Compared to before Luca gave the Watch, there were two new transformation data sets inside. One of them, needless to say, was just an ordinary human corpse.
And the other was precisely the appearance information of the Dark Elf soldier, an alien!
So, was this the surprise hinted at on the panel before the Transformation Watch was synthesized?