[A middle-aged man stood up from the audience seats in the courtroom.]
[He walked up to the judge and quickly persuaded her.]
[This middle-aged man then took Loki out of the courtroom and into the corridor.]
[Although he had narrowly escaped death, Loki was still full of complaints, grumbling as he walked:]
["Damn it, one day I'll burn this hellhole to ashes."]
[The middle-aged man chuckled and said:]
["Let me show you where my desk is, you can start burning from there. Heh…"]
[Loki, clearly displeased, was about to retort, but his attention was suddenly drawn to the scenery outside the corridor.]
[Beyond the hallway stretched an unimaginably vast high-tech futuristic city.]
[Loki's face was filled with shock: "I thought you said there was no magic here."]
["There isn't," the middle-aged man replied casually.]
["This… this isn't real."]
[Loki stared, his eyes wide, instinctively trying to deny everything before him.]
["Unfortunately, all of this is real—just like my paperwork," the middle-aged man said, shaking his head with a self-deprecating tone.]
[Loki still hadn't fully recovered, muttering in a daze:]
["This place is a nightmare."]
["Nightmare?"]
[Mobius M. Mobius replied: "That's another department. If you like, I can help you burn that one down too."]
Watching the two of them step into the elevator on screen, Tony Stark finally couldn't hold back.
He turned to glance at Loki and immediately switched into full-on sarcasm mode:
"You actually mistake advanced tech for magic? Just how much of a backwater god are you?"
"What did you say?"
Loki's face instantly darkened, and he answered coldly:
"Only a foolish mortal like you would believe that place in the video runs on technology."
In Loki's view, if the Time Variance Authority truly had the power to toy with time itself, then behind them must be gods—so powerful as to defy imagination!
So even now, just like in the video, he would demand equal, god-to-god dialogue with those so-called Time Keepers!
Because Loki refused to submit!
Why should those so-called gods get to decide what events were meant to happen, and what events were not?
In the video, the Avengers had traveled through time!
Yet they weren't treated as Variants!
But his future self—simply for using the Space Stone to teleport through space—was judged as guilty and sentenced to "reset"?
What a joke!
This was far too unfair!
Looking at Loki's furious, doubtful expression, Tony shrugged, his face full of regret:
"From the livestream I saw you aliens piloting spaceships, so I thought maybe I could talk technology with you."
"But it turns out… you're nothing more than a bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well."
"What? You damn mortal!"
Seeing Loki's fury about to explode, Tony chuckled lightly, his face brimming with confidence as he said:
"Since you don't get it, let me explain to you what kind of tech that so-called Time Variance Authority, or 'TVA,' is actually using."
Tony gestured with both hands, imitating the batons wielded by the TVA's armed guards:
"I saw it very clearly. This weapon has two modes."
"When the tip of the baton glows purple, the effect is slowing down and controlling the flow of time."
Loki's expression shifted slightly as he listened.
He remembered it vividly—on screen, when Hunter B-15 struck his future self, his entire face distorted bizarrely, and he hung suspended in midair for several seconds.
"And when the baton glows yellow—that's the annihilation mode!"
Tony's voice suddenly turned icy:
"That foolish kid from the Goldman family was struck by the yellow baton, and then he was gone—turned to ashes."
Sizing Loki up, Tony suddenly added another remark:
"The robot in the elevator that stripped your clothes—it was also using yellow light."
"What?"
Loki's face blanched with horror.
If that was true, then his future self… wasn't he just a hair's breadth away from being turned to dust along with his clothes?
"And combined with that collar that controls an individual's timeline, I can now say with certainty—the Time Variance Authority is an organization that relies on advanced technology to manipulate time and space!"
The more Tony spoke, the more excited he became. Finally, he even thrust out his fist and waved it in the air.
"This is the power of science!"
The cross-world livestream room fell utterly silent, every gaze locked onto Tony Stark. Even young Wanda's expression had changed slightly.
This Stark might be sinful, arrogant, and unbearably conceited—
But… when it came to science, the confidence he radiated was enough to overshadow even the gods!
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