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Anne wasn't quite sure; she planned to observe further.
So she rubbed her eyes and looked at Ultron again, first at his red, metallic-looking skin, then at his bald head with no hair.
None of these could be conclusive proof that he was a robot, as some ability users also had strange skin.
It wasn't until Anne saw data flashing in Ultron's eyes that she was completely convinced.
This was a robot.
"...I must still be dreaming."
Anne looked a little disoriented.
Ultron looked at Anne's pajamas, as if understanding something, and asked Kevin:
"Your wife?"
"Uh... girlfriend, to be precise, but you still care about that kind of thing?"
"I don't care, and it doesn't matter anymore."
The remaining pupil in Ultron's eye was gradually turning golden, but perhaps unwillingly, at this very end, Ultron said to Kevin:
"Perhaps you won, but you won't win forever. As long as there are humans... as long as there is intelligent life, the world will never have peace, and the universe will never be calm.
"When threats like me are gone, to them, you, as an 'alien,' will also be considered a threat. War will break out again."
"But that has nothing to do with you anymore."
Kevin didn't want to argue grand theories with Ultron, nor did he feel like trash-talking as a victor in front of Ultron. He spoke indifferently, ending the conversation with Ultron.
"..."
Ultron stopped speaking. Its eyes were completely filled with golden data streams and quickly returned to normal.
When he spoke again, his voice was no longer as cold as before; his core AI had been successfully replaced.
"Sir, you succeeded."
Jarvis's voice came from within Ultron's body, which meant that Ultron's body had been successfully taken over by Jarvis. Now standing here was a brand new individual, or what could be called... Vision.
Ultron had become Vision, but Kevin's vigilance did not lessen in the slightest.
He looked at Vision, or rather Jarvis, warily, and said:
"I did succeed, but you should still remember Tony's last command to you."
"Yes, sir, the self-destruct program has been activated. After this, I will completely destroy the intelligent circuits of this body."
"...It won't explode, will it?"
"No, it will only destroy the AI core that performs intelligent operations, and once you take the mind stone, this body will no longer have any value for repair."
Jarvis said calmly.
Kevin breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing this. It seemed that Jarvis was more obedient compared to Ultron.
However, a single backup could eliminate Ultron's intelligence. It seemed that Tony Stark of this what if world had indeed enhanced his wisdom in certain aspects.
"Then it should be fine if I keep this body, right?"
Confirming that Jarvis had activated the self-destruct program, Kevin relaxed and inquired.
Jarvis tilted his head slightly:
"In principle, I do not recommend you do so, but I know that the choice of whether to send me back is in your hands, so, do as you please."
"Then I'll keep it. After all, I did save your world, and to put it broadly, I saved the entire universe, and even... more universes. Taking a small reward shouldn't be a big deal."
"That is your freedom, sir. The self-destruct program is about to end. Five... four..."
Jarvis had his final conversation with Kevin and then began the countdown to the end of the self-destruction.
When all five numbers were counted, the light in his eyes disappeared completely, and the color of his body gradually faded, turning into distinct gray and white metal.
When all colors disappeared, his metallic body tilted backward, falling to the ground.
Bang!
The sound of the fall was loud, echoing throughout the entire underground garage, and startling Anne, who had been listening as if to a foreign language, her mind in a chaotic state since earlier.
She shivered as if startled, then looked at the fallen, colorless metallic body, and asked cautiously:
"It... died?"
"Yes, it died."
Kevin walked to the side of the soulless metal shell.
The mind stone and soul stone, originally embedded in Ultron's body, had already begun to loosen the moment he lost his life.
When he fell to the ground, the soul stone even dropped directly from him. Kevin reached out to touch the mind stone on his forehead and took it off with little effort.
Ultron could change his body density, and Jarvis could do the same after using this body.
It seemed that at the very end of his death, this backup of Jarvis helped Kevin adjust the body's density, allowing Kevin to easily take the two stones.
With the two Infinity Stones in hand, Kevin finally breathed a complete sigh of relief.
Putting aside other matters, with the mind stone, Ultron's source of life, removed, even if Ultron's AI could be restored, he definitely wouldn't be able to revive.
Ultron must have died, and it wasn't just the mind stone that confirmed this.
The nine skill points that arrived in Kevin's account also proved this point.
Unlike Thanos and Ego, Ultron's death gave Kevin nine skill points. Although not many, it was enough to compensate for Kevin's losses this time.
Before this, Kevin had already confirmed through the skill tree that he could consume a certain amount of skill points to carry intelligent life through dimensions.
The number of skill points consumed was fixed: for an intelligent individual with a separate soul and body, regardless of size, it would cost 3 skill points to carry them across dimensions.
Furthermore, if they were to stay in Kevin's world, or any other world not belonging to that intelligent life, one skill point would need to be paid each day.
If Kevin did not pay, that life would be forcibly repatriated by the skill tree, returning to their original world.
This was also why Kevin dared to bring Ultron back.
Anyway, whether Ultron liked it or not, he could only stay in this world for a maximum of one day.
Once the twenty-four hours passed, he would also be repatriated to his original world.
Of course, this applied to living, sentient, and conscious life forms.
However, if the person Kevin brought died in this world, then they could stay in this world indefinitely thereafter, without having to pay additional skill points.
And this point could also be used to confirm whether a deceased person was still alive, because as long as the person was alive, they would be forcibly repatriated when the time came.
Therefore, if Kevin ever found Ultron's body missing, there would be one conclusion: Ultron had revived and returned to the Marvel World.
But that kind of thing was simply impossible.
Putting those issues aside, in short, from now on, Kevin alone possessed a black technology from another world.
Ultron's Vibranium body that he left behind.
Sitting down next to Ultron's body, Kevin pondered how to deal with this body.
But just as he was thinking, Anne walked over and said to Kevin:
"Kevin, I think we need to... have a good talk about what exactly happened just now. What was that robot? And what are these planets... universes... you're talking about?"
"The situation... is just like that... cough cough, well, I have some other things to deal with. I'll be right back!"
"What? Wait—!"
Anne still wanted to ask something, but Kevin had already vanished from her sight.
This time returning from the Marvel World, there was no Ancient One to help Kevin stabilize time on the other side.
Kevin hadn't forgotten that Carol and Wanda were still fighting the Avengers, and he didn't want to return and find these two dead at the hands of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
He paid another four skill points to return to the Marvel World.
One for crossing, three for pausing time.
Kevin returned to that deep red battlefield.
Fortunately, with time not static, the flow of time on both sides was basically consistent. Kevin spent less than five minutes in his black robe world, and not much time had passed here.
And coincidentally, just as Kevin returned, he saw Thor's hammer flying towards Wanda, who was controlling the Avengers below.
Wanda was currently single-handedly suppressing everyone from the Avengers + Guardians of the Galaxy.
Groot, Gamora, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, as well as the temporarily supporting Black Panther T'Challa, Yondu, and Pietro, were all suppressed on the ground by Wanda's Chaos Magic alone.
She no longer had the extra energy to defend against Thor's hammer.
So if she were hit by Thor's hammer, it would at least result in her head exploding.
Fortunately, Kevin had returned.
"Your hammer, returned to you!"
Drawing a circle with his right hand, a blue portal appeared beside Wanda.
Another portal opened next to Thor's head.
The hammer passed through the portal, hitting Thor's head with great precision.
Dong!!
A crisp sound came. Thor, hit by his own hammer, tilted his head, passed out cleanly, and fell from the sky, landing with a thud on the ground, creating a human-shaped crater.
Wanda stared blankly at the portal that had opened before her, still a bit shaken.
It wasn't until Kevin landed beside her that she cast a grateful look:
"Thank you..."
"You're welcome. You did great. Leave the rest to me."
Kevin praised Wanda without hesitation. Wanda, who had never been praised so much by an outsider, looked away a little shyly.
As Kevin and Wanda interacted, Carol slowly descended from the sky.
She looked around Kevin, puzzled, and asked:
"I say, where's that 'Skynet Robot'?"
"Skynet Robot? Oh, Ultron, right? He's dead, and I also got the stones on him... it's just, I don't know how to use this thing."
Perhaps because the Reality Stone was inside Kevin's body, no matter how Kevin tried to touch the mind stone, it wouldn't work.
Otherwise, the moment he returned to this world, Kevin would have released everyone from control.
Kevin had no choice but to take out the mind stone and hand it to Carol.
Carol took the stone from Kevin's hand, studied it for a while, but couldn't figure out how to use it. Then, like Kevin, she frowned and fell into thought.
The situation seemed to be at a stalemate; Kevin and Carol were at a loss as to how to use the mind stone.
However, Wanda, upon seeing the mind stone, hesitated and said:
"If it doesn't work... can I try?"
"You?" Kevin looked at Wanda, "It doesn't seem impossible?"
Besides her telekinetic-like abilities, Wanda also had the ability to create illusions and control others' minds.
This ability was similar to the mind stone, and perhaps it could resonate with the mind stone to release everyone from mind control.
However, Wanda was currently a bit occupied, so before solving the mind stone problem, someone needed to help suppress the remaining people.
Kevin was the most suitable person to do this.
Because he could use magic now.
"I'll help you deal with them. You just focus on studying the stone."
Kevin stepped forward without hesitation. Scarlet chains surged from the ground, coiling around every controlled person, even the unconscious Thor, locking them firmly to the ground.
Even so, Kevin was not entirely at ease. He even cast a Mirror Dimension to lock everyone inside, allowing Wanda to focus intently on studying the mind stone.
Fortunately, Wanda did not disappoint him.
In less than a minute, Wanda seemed to have made progress. A burst of psychic light diffused outwards from her center.
The yellow light lingering in everyone's eyes gradually dissipated upon contact with this light.
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