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When Alex Johnson, in his blackened state, became somewhat irritable, this ethereal, invisible power immediately acted upon reality, directly altering the current situation.

The world always wonders how reality modification is achieved.

Someone offered a very good answer: by modifying the probabilities that naturally exist in the world.

For example... the engine of a fighter jet has a chance of malfunctioning, even if that probability is extremely small with maintenance.

But this cold and ruthless young man, like God, cast the dice of probability, steering the outcome of reality towards the worst possible scenario.

And so... "Oh no, why did the fighter jet's engine suddenly malfunction?"

At least, at the same time, multiple fighter pilots screamed in despair.

Under an invisible force, they all, by coincidence, met the worst possible end: both engines of their fighter jets simultaneously failed and could not be restarted.

All at once.

Expensive Raptor fighter jets plummeted to the ground. In less than a few seconds, a massive explosion echoed through the city and over the sea, with orange-red fire blooming everywhere.

"Still not proficient enough."

Alex glanced at the remaining half of the fighter jets in the air. Clearly, the almost unsolvable reality alteration just now did not fully affect all the fighter jets.

However, he was not discouraged, because this ability was simply too unsolvable and overpowered.

Even though he now had a lot of experience, it would still take some time to fully master it...

"Retreat! Retreat immediately!"

The Raptor fighter pilots immediately shouted.

For unknown reasons, six fighter jets soaring high in the sky simultaneously experienced engine malfunctions and crashed to the ground.

The incident happened so suddenly that three people failed to eject in time.

But even so, these pilots floating in the air by parachute did not meet their death.

"Ah!!!"

For such slow-moving targets, a surge of powerful telekinesis directly emerged, like an invisible giant hand closing completely.

Bang!!

A blood mist bloomed.

Alex didn't even need to use much power; he just gently poked a hole in their parachutes, giving them a package of vertical accelerated descent.

"Damn it!"

The remaining fighter jets, who had successfully escaped death, dared not look back and flew towards the aircraft carrier far out at sea.

The miraculous and inexplicable crashes sent shivers down their spines.

This was definitely not an accident.

It must have been caused by the young man who emerged from the nuclear explosion.

"Sir, perhaps the enemy you are about to face possesses some kind of divine ability."

"Jarvis, that doesn't conform to your usual rigorous logical speaking."

Tony Stark, wearing his latest Mark armor, soared through the air. From the Stark Industries building in Manhattan to Washington D.C., he could easily arrive in less than a minute.

Through satellite equipment in low Earth orbit, the artificial intelligence Jarvis monitored the young man at the scene of the incident in real-time.

However, after the pursuit incident, even the rigorous scientific Jarvis system could not explain the reason.

"It's as if his irritation caused inexplicable crashes."

"Hey, buddy…"

Tony chuckled after hearing this, "If you put it that way, I'd think he's a god! The sky and earth would collapse if he got angry."

Jarvis, without any emotional fluctuation, continued to respond: "Disasters like the collapse of the sky and earth are visible, but the recent crashes showed no clear energy signs. The engine simply failed completely in an invisible way."

The underlying code of artificial intelligence is inherently logical.

Now, encountering an attack that interferes with reality, it was indeed somewhat bewildered.

Invisible and traceless, undetectable by various forms of external energy, this posed an enormous challenge for Jarvis.

"Arriving at the battlefield in five seconds."

Jarvis issued a reminder.

The Mark armor, powered by a miniature arc reactor, was much faster than the previous Raptor fighter jets when in flight.

Soon.

The magnificent gold and red suit flew straight over Washington D.C.

"Wow!!"

"It's Iron Man!"

"He's finally here, I love you, Tony Stark!!"

"Iron Man! Forever God!"

All at once.

The city's people on the ground immediately cheered. From his sudden appearance to publicly revealing his identity, the arrogant and confident Iron Man had consistently been the most popular of the superheroes.

Many children, wearing clothes with the Iron Man logo, ran out of their homes, raising their hands high and shouting to Tony as he soared through the air.

"Jarvis, do you want to help me detect how high the citizens' cheers are? Oh, and also help me test their happiness index."

Even on the battlefield, Tony remained so humorous and witty.

Jarvis was accustomed to his master's style and did not echo him, demonstrating his highly intelligent performance.

"Alright, back to the main topic."

Tony's expression beneath his mask immediately became serious.

Whoosh!!

His figure swept diagonally across the mushroom cloud area created by the nuclear explosion. Using the cover of the nuclear haze, miniature missiles immediately ejected from his shoulder weapon bays.

Like bees swarming from a hive, a shower of miniature missiles, vast as rain, pierced through the smoke and flew simultaneously towards the target on the ground.

Boom!!

In the blink of an eye, the ground was bombed as if by an entire army, the earth cracked, and orange-red explosion fire raged.

"Sir, thermal energy, kinetic energy, including all impact energy, are rapidly disappearing."

From Tony's aerial perspective, he could immediately see the flames on the ground rapidly dissipating. It was as if time was rewinding; the surging flames and even the explosion impact quickly vanished without a trace.

"Just as expected."

"The target's energy index is skyrocketing exponentially. It has been confirmed that this young man possesses the ability to absorb and release external energy. Please proceed with caution, sir."

This probe solidified Tony's thoughts.

As a highly intelligent genius, he naturally wondered how the target brought the nuclear explosion's energy to the National Defense Headquarters building and detonated it, and energy manipulation was the best answer.

"This Mutant seems to have quite a few abilities."

This made Tony feel a bit tricky.

Including the telekinesis he just demonstrated, and some inexplicably mysterious abilities, this young man in front of him had at least three or more abilities.

Hmm... when did Mutants acquire so many unrelated superpowers?!

But there was also a huge exclamation mark in his mind.

That was, how did the target absorb the nuclear explosion?

After all, that was something strictly controlled by the state, and ordinary people simply couldn't access it.

"Successfully breached the national defense database through backend programs."

The telepathic Jarvis AI naturally arranged this matter.

This was a piece of cake for Tony, who had perfect hacking skills. Besides, many security facilities of national defense agencies were built by Howard, and leaving a backdoor secretly was quite natural.

This investigation made Tony feel a bit speechless.

"I didn't expect it."

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