Chapter 240: Fighting the Snake (Part Two)
"Although I don't like that guy Ivan Vanko, I have to admit, using the Arc Reactor as a bomb is quite effective!"
Tony Stark hovered in mid-air, looking at the Yamata no Orochi injured by his Iron Man armor's self-detonation. The slight gloom in his heart completely dissipated.
In recent years, Tony Stark had encountered many magical, even mythical creatures.
The Aesir of the Asgardians, the Dark Elves of the Nine Realms, giant dragons, and also werewolves, vampires, mutants, aliens. In Tony Stark's eyes, these so-called magical creatures, mythical creatures, could all be explained by science.
As a top scientist, even when facing a god, Tony Stark dared to collect data and formulate a response.
Gods were nothing more than powerful aliens.
Among his Iron Man armor, there were two suits specifically designed as insulated armor using high technology, targeting Thor, this "god"! Tony Stark had no doubt about the authority of science. He absolutely believed in his Iron Man armor, because he manufactured them himself.
Tony Stark believed in science, and he believed in himself.
But the monster below was simply too large.
The weapons he developed for his armor couldn't cause any damage to this thick-skinned and tough-fleshed giant beast, which undoubtedly dealt a blow to Tony Stark's confidence.
After learning from Ivan Vanko and directly using the self-detonation tactic to blow off one of the eight heads of this monster, Tony Stark let out a long sigh.
"There's no carbon-based life that firepower can't solve. If there is, just increase the yield!"
"J.A.R.V.I.S., prepare for a family party! We're celebrating Christmas early!"
Seeing the Hulkbuster Armor achieve success, the wealthy and powerful Tony Stark waved his hand grandly, planning to use these Iron Man armor, each costing tens of millions of US dollars, as disposable bombs.
It should be known that although Ivan Vanko also put on fireworks, the Iron Soldiers he manufactured used materials that were saved wherever possible.
Except for the elite version supplied to Boss Tang, which had an extra layer of Adamantium on the outside, the other Iron Soldiers sold used normal alloy.
Including the Arc Reactor, the cost price of each Iron Soldier was compressed to 1.5 million US dollars.
Among this, the Arc Reactor was the largest part, accounting for 80% of the cost. Of the remaining 20%, 90% was the price of the combat software within the Iron Soldier.
Other equipped weapons like Cigar Missiles and Heavy Machine Guns added up to no more than 50,000 US dollars.
Of course, the price sold to the Federal Military and other Northern European countries was 6 million US dollars per unit.
The profit exceeded 200%, but the Federal Military and several NATO countries had no choice. Before Tony Stark completely released his Iron Suit technology, Tang Group's Iron Soldiers were an exclusive business.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
Just as Tony Stark had regained his confidence, the Yamata no Orochi's massive snake body suddenly coiled into a huge snake formation, its seven snake heads hissing towards the sky in unison.
The giant snake's hiss created a white air blast in mid-air. Amidst the hissing, its severed snake neck swayed continuously, and flesh and blood rapidly grew at the severed neck in the blink of an eye.
Tony Stark watched the scene of the Yamata no Orochi regrowing its severed head, his relaxed look immediately vanished, becoming solemn again.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.! Analyze its severed neck regeneration speed—"
"Yes, sir!" J.A.R.V.I.S.'s voice paused for two seconds before quickly responding: "The speed from severed neck to the snake head regrowing is one minute and seventeen seconds. If calculated from the energy reaction gathering at the giant snake's severed neck, its severed neck regeneration speed is thirty-four seconds!"
"Thirty-four seconds?! Do we have to blow off all eight of its snake heads at once! Oh, I wonder if our family party is enough for a frenzy!"
"J.A.R.V.I.S., initiate the frenzy party!"
With Tony Stark's command, J.A.R.V.I.S. controlled over forty Iron Man armor in the sky to charge towards the Yamata no Orochi, coiled in its snake formation, from various directions.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
"Hiss hiss—"
The Yamata no Orochi had suffered losses from these little things before. Without waiting for the Iron Man armor to get close, its eight snake heads simultaneously spewed yellowish-green venom, crimson lava, and blue energy breath. "Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Dozens of Iron Man armor, facing the Yamata no Orochi's overwhelming breath attack, even with an artificial intelligence like J.A.R.V.I.S. controlling them, multi-line operation inevitably had some vulnerabilities.
Although the Yamata no Orochi's body was massive, its speed was not slow, especially the short-distance burst force between its snake heads spitting and launching. It was completely comparable to the flying Iron Man armor.
Five or six armor that couldn't dodge in time were directly hit by the breath attack from several snake heads.
Not all of Tony Stark's Iron Man armor were made of Vibranium. A streamlined armor was enveloped by yellowish-green venom. The outer space alloy on the armor's surface came into contact with this highly corrosive venom.
It was like peeing hot urine on snow, instantly becoming wet over a large area.
*Hiss hiss hiss hiss!*
The venom corroded through the armor's surface, and the internal circuits of the armor hissed and sparked, then plummeted from high altitude.
When the armor went out of control, J.A.R.V.I.S. promptly detonated the armor's core Arc Reactor.
*Boom!* Mushroom clouds exploded above the Yamata no Orochi one after another. After the roaring sound of firelight soaring into the sky, this titan giant beast was blasted until its skin split and flesh was torn. Black snake scales were blown off and scattered everywhere. Bright red snake blood continuously flowed out from the wounds on the snake body.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
The Yamata no Orochi's snake heads were held high, shaking their heads. In its hissing, Tony Stark even heard a hint of provocation.
Just at the moment of the explosion, these eight snake heads had curled up within the snake formation. The impact generated by the Arc Reactor's explosion surprisingly didn't cause them any damage.
Moreover, the Yamata no Orochi's snake body, injured by the Iron Man armor, quickly healed and regrew scales.
"Continue the attack! I refuse to believe this giant snake doesn't have to follow the Law of Conservation of Energy. Its healing factor definitely consumes the body's energy!" Tony Stark called out to J.A.R.V.I.S. to continue his Iron Man armor frenzy party.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Just as Tony Stark was helpless against this thick-skinned and tough-fleshed titan giant beast, four twin-rotor multi-engine attack helicopters entered the battlefield.
The cabin doors of the four attack helicopters were wide open. In front of each cabin door stood a Black-clothed Big Man holding a Vulcan Cannon.
The gun barrels of the Vulcan Cannons held by these Black-clothed Big Men were longer than those of ordinary six-barrel Gatling Guns. They also didn't have long metal ammunition belts. At the location of the conventional ammunition belt, an embedded blue energy crystal magazine was installed.
As these Black-clothed Big Men pulled the trigger, tens of thousands of blue plasma energy beams per minute covered the Yamata no Orochi below like raindrops. These plasma energy beams landed on the scales of the Yamata no Orochi's snake body, instantly leaving patches of pockmarks on these scales.
Four Vulcan Cannons continuously sprayed fire at the Yamata no Orochi's snake body. *Click click!* Except for changing to spare energy magazines in between, the four Vulcan Cannons didn't stop for a moment.
Under this dense firepower attack, a few scales on the Yamata no Orochi's body shattered into a pile of dust under the dense back-and-forth spray fire, revealing the snake skin beneath the scales.
A few Black-clothed Big Men rotated the Vulcan Cannons to aim at this weak spot on the Yamata no Orochi and began to focus fire.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Without the protection of snake scales, the dense plasma energy beams instantly penetrated the snake skin at this spot. In less than half a minute, this exposed snake skin of the Yamata no Orochi began to break apart, spraying snake blood outwards.
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
The Yamata no Orochi, in pain, suddenly shot one snake head out from the snake formation. It opened its large mouth, revealing four venomous fangs, and spat a lava fireball about ten meters in size towards the helicopter in mid-air.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.!" Tony Stark quickly called out to J.A.R.V.I.S., controlling the nearest Iron Man armor to intercept the lava fireball spat out by the giant snake.
But a figure was even faster than the Iron Man armor controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S..
Frank's entire body seemed enveloped in long hair made of red flames. From a distance, he looked like a long-haired baboon, a crimson flame monkey covered in flames.
Frank stepped on air, blocking in front of the lava fireball that was like a wall. He threw a straight punch directly towards the lava wall in front of him, which was ten times his size.
The red energy flames manifested by the Strength of Zhu Yan grew larger with the wind in Frank's punch. By the time the red punch wind reached the lava fireball, it had directly transformed into a scorching storm no less powerful than it.
"Boom!"
In a violent explosion sound, the lava fireball was directly smashed into countless sparks scattering in all directions by Frank's punch.
"Continue!"
Frank looked back at his Subordinates who were stunned and forgot to shoot, frowning and reprimanding them.
"Oh oh, yes! Officer!"
The Black-clothed Big Men came back to their senses, quickly turned the muzzles of the Vulcan Cannons, and continued to pull the trigger towards the giant beast below.
The airborne Vulcan Cannons on the four attack helicopters continuously outputted blue plasma energy streams, which were like four long whips lashing down from high above towards the Yamata no Orochi below.
Lash after lash struck, leaving the scales on the Yamata no Orochi's snake body full of whip marks.
Frank, enveloped in crimson flames, acted as a firefighter, continuously intercepting the venom and lava attacks spat out by the Yamata no Orochi.
For lava attacks, Frank finished them with a single punch. As for the highly corrosive venom spat out by some of the Yamata no Orochi's snake heads,
Although in the past two years, Boss had continuously supplied him with Blood Essence refined from the White Bone Banner, and his God-Demon Transformation, according to Boss, had condensed the True Body of Zhu Yan, Frank didn't want to try if his Zhu Yan True Body could withstand the corrosion of this venom that could easily corrode space alloy.
Facing the venom spat out by the Yamata no Orochi like a torrent of rain, Frank directly crushed the Gale Talisman in his palm.
The gale howled. A gale comparable to a tornado rolled back, directly rolling these sticky, disgusting venom back towards the Yamata no Orochi.
*Hiss! Hiss hiss hiss—*
These venom landed on the Yamata no Orochi's snake body, and its scales instantly emitted white thick smoke.
"Mark 46, engineering armor, try its super alloy drill bit!"
While controlling the armor to attack the Yamata no Orochi, Tony Stark was also curiously having J.A.R.V.I.S. record Frank's attack pattern,
Seeing a few scales on the Yamata no Orochi's back being corroded by its own venom and falling off, he quickly seized this opportunity and had J.A.R.V.I.S. launch an attack.
An Iron Man armor slightly smaller in size than the Hulkbuster Armor extended its two mechanical arms forward, clasped them together, and crossed them. Then, a series of clicking mechanical sounds came. Its two arms directly twisted, forming the shape of a sharp threaded drill bit.
*Click click*, after the drill bit transformation was successful, immediately after, a series of mechanical sounds rang out throughout this Iron Man armor's entire body. Dozens of mechanical parts transformed forward, arming the drill bit in front. In less than ten seconds, this Iron Man armor directly transformed into a streamlined spiral drill bit over two meters long.
As the thrusters at the bottom of the drill bit spewed plasma flames, this drill bit maintained ultra-high rotation at a speed invisible to the naked eye while shooting towards the Yamata no Orochi's back at several times the speed of sound.
*Pfft!* The super alloy drill bit plunged headfirst into the back of the Yamata no Orochi's snake body where scales were missing. The huge thruster behind the drill bit, coupled with the huge spiral force of the super alloy drill bit, instantly drilled through the Yamata no Orochi's back snake skin, drilling towards the flesh and blood inside.
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
The pain of a foreign object drilling in instantly made the Yamata no Orochi's snake heads let out sounds of painful hissing.
A black scale snake head raised its neck, looking at the bulge rapidly moving under the snake skin. It opened its big mouth and bit towards its own snake body.
With this bite, it directly tore off a large piece of its own snake body, skin and flesh included.
Unfortunately, under J.A.R.V.I.S.'s operation, the super alloy drill bit, transformed from the engineering armor, had already drilled towards the flesh and blood deeper inside it.
*Hiss hiss hiss*
The intense pain made this black scale snake head act ruthlessly towards its own snake body. It took another bite. With this bite, it even saw the dense snake bones under the flesh and blood.
Unfortunately, unfortunately, this bite still didn't hit the continuously moving drill bit.
Just as this black scale snake head was about to continue biting, a snake head from its side suddenly extended over and bit it.
The black scale snake head had its lower jaw bitten. The intense pain made it start shaking its body wildly, continuously spraying venom outwards.
The conflict between the two snake heads quickly involved the other few snake heads. The few snake heads were like twisted rope, wrestling and tearing at each other in a tangled mess.
"Looks like this move is effective!"
Tony Stark made his left hand into a palm and clenched his right hand into a fist, clapping for his own cleverness.
What he didn't notice was that while the other few snake heads were fighting and biting each other, one snake head, mixed among them, had blue radiance ready to be unleashed in its slightly open snake mouth! "Hiss!"
A blue light beam over ten meters thick pierced through the Yamata no Orochi's snake body, annihilating both the flesh and blood of the snake body and the rapidly moving super alloy drill bit.
The snake body, pierced through by a single strike, was transparent from front to back. Tony Stark and Frank, one using the armor's long-range vision function, the other relying on super strong eyesight, could both see that the flesh and blood inside the great snake's snake body had been carbonized.
Through this large hole in the snake body, they could even clearly see that the scales on the second layer of the Yamata no Orochi's body, coiled in the snake formation, had also been scorched.
The black scale snake head that had just spewed out this blue breath held its head high. With its hiss, the few snake heads biting each other also stopped moving.
The Yamata no Orochi's eight snake heads all turned simultaneously, looking towards the foot of the mountain. Then, they ignored the attacks in mid-air, dispersed the snake formation, and their huge bodies rapidly crawled towards the foot of the mountain.
(end of chapter)