Chapter 82: Task completed

Chapter 82: 

Even steel wasn’t enough to withstand Bruce’s punch, not to mention a mere Dr. Killian who had simply undergone a modification with the help of the biological virus.

At this moment, he fell to the ground in pain, leaving only his upper body wriggling on the ground.

“Ah! Who the hell are you?” The red flames on Dr. Killian’s body still did not dissipate.

This kind of flame was able to regenerate and reconstruct the body’s cells in a short period of time. In reality, this was a different type of regeneration ability that could regrow limbs, hence making it extremely powerful.

However, this kind of ability was also limited. If one was regenerating a severed limb, it would take a relatively long time. So as of now, Dr. Killian had been completely crippled by Bruce.

Killian raised his head to look at Bruce, whose power was beyond his wildest expectations. He was able to destroy his lower limbs merely with his physical strength alone.

“You don’t need to know. Mandarin, don’t make any unnecessary efforts, you won’t be able to escape.” While Bruce was talking to Dr. Killian, Mandarin was slowly crawling on the ground, trying to sneak out.

Mandarin was truly hopeless at this point, and that was his only shot of surviving his current predicament. After all, the power Bruce had revealed was not something a ‘human’ could have.

The Mandarin’s face turned pale. After receiving Bruce’s warning, he sat on the ground blankly. 

The flames on Dr. Killian were burning a bit stronger than before, and his lower limbs were slowly recovering. But, it was impossible for him to return to normal in a short amount of time, no matter much he struggled. 

Bruce slowly squatted down next to him, pinching Dr. Killian’s neck directly using his hand. The flames produced with the help of the biological virus simply had no effect on Bruce, which made Killian sink even further into despair.

Right as Bruce came into contact with Dr. Killian’s body, his information immediately appeared in front of him. 

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[Name]: Aldrich Killian.

[Identity]: Scientist.

[Ability]: Top-grade fighting technique (200 mb), Extremis virus (energy value: 50), Firearms proficiency (300mb)

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Upon looking at his abilities, Dr. Killian seemed extremely weak, at least at first glance. The reason he was so powerful, was exactly because he had the Extremis virus ability, which made him way more powerful than he should be.

It was precisely this ability that allowed the originally somewhat disabled Killian to morph into his current appearance. Although the required energy value was not much, this was still not a bad ability.

During their previous battle, Bruce had obtained a few points of energy value, which was enough for him to download Kirian’s Extremis virus.

Such an ability was not very useful to the current Bruce, but what he needed now, were various types of special abilities so he could further upgrade his abilities.

For example, this Extremis virus could completely merge into his God Bloodline, thereby making his God Bloodline become more powerful.

Bruce’s current goal was to download various special abilities, so that he could constantly be integrating them into his main three abilities, or perhaps even into a new one.

Regardless, the more abilities he obtained, the more powerful the integrated ability would become. However, with that said, the ordinary abilities were no longer in the scope of Bruce’s consideration.

Without hesitation, Bruce directly chose to one-click download it.

“Beep, download complete!”

“Beep, congratulations, you’ve obtained the Extremis virus ability!”

In fact, Bruce could just inject this biological virus into himself, but his body had far surpassed humans already, and if he injected it directly, it would not have any effect on his body.

Thus, he could only download it.

After doing all of this, Dr. Killian was no longer of any use to Bruce, so after a split second, a flash of lighting began surging in Bruce’s hands.

This lightning began pouring into Killian’s body like countless little snakes, destroying every cell in his body.

“AH!!!”

Finally, under that powerful lightning force, Killian’s body began to collapse.

“Boom!”

The next moment, Killian’s body, or at least what was left of it, exploded. Dying just like that.

After killing Aldrich, Bruce began slowly walking towards Mandarin. While Mandarin was only a puppet, and could be said to be innocent in some regards, Bruce didn’t care. Mandarin was just one of the targets the system had asked him to kill, nothing more nothing less.

“I was just a temporary puppet, I am innocent!” Mandarin’s face became very pale, but when he looked at Bruce’s ice cold gaze, his entire body trembled as he pleaded for himself.

However, Bruce couldn’t care less about him. Whether he was actually guilty or not, didn’t matter to Bruce. Furthermore, in the various terror activities that Ten Rings had previously done, this temporary puppet Mandarin was at least somewhat involved. 

The lightning on Bruce’s body raged and surged forward once again.

Bruce had previously checked Mandarin, and he was just an ordinary person without any special abilities at all, making him somewhat skeptical if this was the real Mandarin or not. 

While he wasn’t sure if it was his real target, there was one surefire way to find out, and Bruce would rather kill an innocent by mistake then potentially let his target escape.

Under the powerful lightning that surged into his body, the so-called Mandarin’s body was completely destroyed.

“Beep, congratulations, you have killed Dr. Killian and Mandarin!” 

“Beep, congratulations, you have completed the mission and have gained a total of 3,000 points of energy value!”

The sound of the system sounded out just as Bruce killed Mandarin, making him positive that he killed the right target. 

It was just, Bruce had never expected that the task reward this time around had actually netted him three thousand points of energy value! This was equivalent to half of what he harvested during the New York War!

Originally Bruce was still worried about getting more energy value, but he didn’t expect that the reward for this mission was such a ridiculous amount. 

To the current Bruce, energy value was everything. And this time around, he was quite satisfied with his gains.

“Beep, new mission has been issued. The host is to obtain the trust of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch within three months.”

A new mission had been given to him, and it was actually regarding Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch! This had really pleasantly surprised Bruce.

He had already been preparing, and had even gained Pierce’s trust. Through him, he could pretty easily access the European Secret Base of HYDRA. 

According to the timeline, during the next few days the twin siblings would become superheroes with the help of the Mind gem. And whether it be the abilities of Quicksilver or the Scarlet Witch, Bruce had his designs on both of them. 

Scarlet Witch’s abilities were especially a priority, as she possessed inconceivable power. The only slight issue was that even she hadn’t totally grasped that power, much less someone else.

But with the system’s help, Bruce didn’t have to worry about that at all.

Quicksilver on the other hand, although he was not the same as the Superior Quicksilver from the books, his speed had still definitely surpassed all of the Avengers.

The new mission had required him to obtain the trust of these two twin siblings. While that would be somewhat difficult for him previously, that was not the case anymore. All he had to do was repeat what he had done with Parker.

However it wasn’t all going to be easy, as he still had to find a way to enter HYDRA’s base. Even if he knew its location, entering was another thing, and all of this had to be done within three months.

The plot was progressing much faster than what Bruce had expected.

After that, Bruce began cleaning up everything here. Especially those surveillance videos, Bruce destroyed them all. He didn’t want his abilities to be fully exposed yet, and definitely not in such a manner.

After completing all of this, Bruce once again put on his armor and returned to the Avengers Base.

This time around, he had single handedly killed Mandarin and Killian, which meant that the plot of Iron Man III was officially over.