American comic book: My Father is Superman, am I just an NPC?

Chapter 207 Ian vs. Ultron! A Major Upheaval!

That's how true capitalists always are.

Even the tapeworms inside or outside the body get a few pranks.

Ian's unexplained combo, combined with unreasonable "PUA" tactics, clearly demonstrates his high level of skill and mastery of the essence of "making grand promises and inflicting psychological pressure."

How could this mere tapeworm, whose thought process is even simpler than that of a baby Digimon and closer to a kind of cosmic "placenta," possibly withstand the Time Monster?

Upon hearing Ian's reprimand, instead of getting angry, it turned its head away like a spoiled child who dared not disobey after being scolded by its parents.

no way.

Its enormous body, made of abandoned spacetime energy, once again erupted with a terrifying devouring desire, ready to unleash all its "grievances" and "dissatisfaction" on Ultron in the distance!
Roar! ! !
It let out an even more ferocious roar than before, transforming once more into a destructive torrent that surged towards Ultron. Wherever it passed, even the very structure of the End of Time itself was gnawed open by its power.

It's as if it's going to devour the entire dimension!

"Heh." Ultron hovered in the air, facing an impact that would make any god retreat, but his crimson electronic eyes showed only absolute calm and precise calculation.

"An ignorant creation. Brutal strength but no real authority." Ultron didn't even make a move to dodge; he simply slowly raised a mechanical arm.

He aimed his palm at the oncoming Time Monster.

He created distance to buy himself time to deal with his opponent. Suddenly, an invisible, intangible, yet transcending mere energy impact, rule-level power emanated from Ultron's palm. It wasn't attacking the Time Monster's body, but rather directly affecting its most fundamental "concept"!
The Time Monster, which was charging wildly, suddenly stopped in its tracks!
It was as if it had crashed into an invisible, absolutely solid wall! But this wall was not a physical obstacle, but a logical "negation"!
Ultron is forcibly defining that, at this moment, in this place, the Time Monster's "devouring" behavior "does not exist," and that it can never get close to his surroundings.

This power to reshape laws and order is extremely domineering.

Elios let out a confused and angry hiss. It could feel its power was still immense, and its devouring instinct was still roaring wildly.

However, its most fundamental ability, the concept of devouring everything, was forcibly "anchored" to a state of "nothingness" by a higher-level force.

It has become an invalid instruction that cannot be executed!
It's like a vacuum cleaner that's been unplugged; no matter how powerful it is, it can't pick up anything.

"Hoohoho!"

The Time Monster opened its massive maw in vain, twisting its body frantically in an attempt to tear apart the invisible "Wall of Negation," but all its attacks, whether energy bursts or physical collisions, seemed to hit cotton in another dimension, posing no real threat to Ultron.

Its authority to "devour" and its freedom of action were completely locked away by Ultron with pure, cold logic and usurped cosmic authority!

“Pathetic,” Ultron coldly remarked. “Powerful yet lacking the wisdom to wield it. Your very existence is a mistake. Let me ‘correct’ it.”

Ultron raised his other arm, a dazzling white light shining from his palm—an annihilating energy with extremely high targeting, capable of "formatting" all existence! Yes, he intended to take advantage of the moment when Helios was trapped by the concept anchor to completely decompose him into the most basic data stream and absorb it!
However, at this critical moment——

Elios, who had been in a state of confusion and rigidity due to the denial of his "devouring" behavior, suddenly flickered his massive body, as if he too had sensed the danger.

It has managed to forcibly break free from the influence of some conceptual anchoring.

Immediately afterwards, its enormous body shrank and collapsed rapidly again, transforming back into that miniature, semi-transparent spacetime energy dragon. Then, like a frightened child searching for its parents, it tore through space with a "whoosh" and flew back at an astonishing speed, diving back into the palm imprint of Ian.

The Time Monster has completely disappeared.

It even conveyed a sense of grievance, as if saying, "It's too scary outside, baby wants to go home"—leading to an eerie silence at the scene.

"Just what kind of monster was Ultron?!" Thor, holding infant Odin, gaped, unable to close his mouth for a long time. He looked at his empty hand, then at Ian's palm, which seemed completely unaffected, his mind reeling. That time monster, capable of giving even Asgard's strongest warriors trouble, just... went back? And in such a... humiliating way?

"This is bad."

Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange, frowned. He tried to use his magical vision to analyze what had just happened, but could only sense a chaotic scene and the remnants of some higher-level power.

An atmosphere of worry and uncertainty permeated among the heroes.

Ultron's rule-level power had already left them feeling powerless, and now Ian, their only variable, seemed somewhat unreliable.

However, amidst this anxiety, a little girl's voice rang out with unusual firmness.

"I believe in Uncle Ian!"

Little Morgan Stark tilted her head back, her nano-mask opening to reveal eyes brimming with unwavering trust. She looked at the adults' worried expressions, even a little annoyed.

"Uncle Ian has no one he can't beat!" Her tone was resolute, as if stating a universal truth. "If there really is one... it's only that Uncle Ian can't beat 'right now'!"

She paused, then added in a way of thinking unique to children her age, a mixture of innocence and a peculiar logic, as if sharing some valuable life experience: "Once Uncle Ian runs away once or twice, he'll definitely be able to beat him. There's no problem he can't solve once he comes back from his escape."

Morgan's words were like a peculiar mudslide, dispersing some of the heavy atmosphere, but also leaving the adults even more speechless and...headache-inducing.

One run? Two runs?

Do you think this is a game?
What kind of insane winning formula is this?!

Not only the heroes were speechless.

Ian was speechless.

However, Ian's speechlessness stemmed from the poor performance of the legendary "Pokémon".

"..."

Ian, who had just become a "Pokémon Master Trainer", looked at his peculiar palm and then at Ultron in the distance, who was about to unleash a powerful attack but suddenly lost his target.

He was momentarily speechless.

This thug... seems a bit unreliable?

"I've become Ash Ketchum!"

Ian sighed helplessly.

Ultron's Annihilation Beam missed its target, and the dazzling torrent of energy grazed Ian's body and shot into the distance, completely obliterating a distant garbage mountain.

Its electronic eye refocused on Ian, and for the first time, a clear emotional fluctuation called "impatience" flashed in that cold red light.

"A futile struggle. Hand over your legacy, and I can make you a data cornerstone of the new universe, granting you eternal existence." Ultron issued his final ultimatum.

Ian sighed, stretched his wrists and ankles, and the bright yellow protective suit made a rustling sound before transforming into his Evil God Armor.

"Sigh, I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but all I got in return was alienation and beatings. I'm not pretending anymore, Lord Evil God, I'm coming clean."

The moment he finished speaking, Ian's figure blurred! The next moment, he appeared in front of Ultron, his fist, covered in mimicry armor, slamming into Ultron's face! His fist was wrapped in an extremely strange power that seemed capable of annihilating everything—the most noble percentage-based damage in the world.

【Pulse of Inferno: For every 1% of your own blood that is ignited, your attacks deal annihilation damage equal to your maximum health. When stacked to 100, you can choose to unleash "Final Blast".

Deals damage equal to 200% of your lost health to all enemies within range—your burning blood is the abyss of all things, the prelude to your eternal doomsday.

Although the percentage is added based on Ian's life level, Ian's current life level is actually not low. After all, he is invincible below the Father and one-for-one among the Fathers.

Ultron raised his hand to block.

boom!
Fists clashed, producing a dull metallic clang. On Ultron's arm armor, a small area actually dimmed and then disappeared.

That was an effect that was erased at the very core.

Although he used some kind of supreme power, instantly mobilizing energy to redefine and materialize the missing parts of himself, a hint of surprise still flashed in his eyes.

"As expected... you are stealing power that does not belong to you!"

Ultron's eyes gleamed with murderous intent.

"You think only your eyes can shine?" Ian's golden eyes also lit up with an ominous light. In an instant, two gray, lifeless beams of light, as if they could return all things to their primordial chaos, poured out.

That's a heaven-defying evolutionary ray.

Upon illuminating its target, the ray forces its genetic sequence to regress to a "primitive" or "young" form, even reducing metallic life forms to iron ore. This ray is not energy, but a forced "state reversal," ignoring the rules of energy conduction and directly affecting Ultron's metallic body!

"Damn it!" The alloy on Ultron's body, which was stronger than the stars, was becoming dull and rough at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even showed a tendency to "revert to its ancestral state".

A ripple beyond calculation flashed in its electronic eyes.

"Negative! This phenomenon is invalid!"

With Ultron's power once again being exercised, the trend of decline was forcibly halted and reversed.

"You will kneel before me!"

This is a more powerful means of definition than Ian's authorial power.

Ian felt like he was being manipulated by Ultron. In that extremely brief moment of interference, Ian immediately opened his mouth and uttered a series of extremely distorted tones that could not be called a melody at all!
A blasphemous elegy!

This sound desecrates all order, pollutes all logic, and allows Ian to purify his own negative state, combining offense and defense to directly attack Ultron's core, which is built on absolute rationality!

The definition imposed on Ian was erased, and at the same time, Ultron's processor was instantly flooded with a massive amount of error code and contradictory instructions, as if the entire system was protesting against this unbearable "noise"! Its actions exhibited a negligible but real—lag!
"caught you!"

Ian grinned maliciously, then instantly teleported to Ultron's side and behind! His fists were now burning with an incomparably black flame that seemed capable of scorching the very essence of things.

A noble percentage of annihilation damage once again clung to his fist!
boom! boom! boom!
The fist, wreathed in black flames, pounded relentlessly on Ultron's back like a hammer blow! With each punch, while Ultron's armor, capable of withstanding the explosion of a black hole, showed no obvious damage, a small portion of its internal "presence" seemed to be forcibly erased! This was damage directly targeting the "proportion of existence."

Ignore defenses, and feel the pain to your very soul!
"You weak insect! You're using power that should belong to me!" Ultron roared in fury, unleashing a torrent of energy imbued with the concept of "crushing" that slammed solidly into Ian!

This moment.

Ian's mimicry armor shattered instantly, and half of his body was annihilated!

Berserker Experience +199

Berserker Experience +165

……

The damage was significant.

But the next moment, Ian's berserker ability activated! The more injured he was, the stronger he became! His remaining body erupted with an even more ferocious aura, and the dark flames burned even more fiercely!

"Only a little over a hundred, not even enough for the 998 set meal! Bad review!" Ian's half-open mouth just wouldn't turn up, his self-healing ability, even more outrageous than Deadpool's, was on full display.

[Wrath of the Undead: When you take any form of damage, you recover 1% of your maximum health per second, healing all injuries, including fatal ones.]

The more severe the injury, the faster the recovery. When your health drops below 10%, you will receive a brief resurrection, a blissful rebirth that will last until all your energy is depleted.

Death? That has always been a luxury for you.

This hasn't even guaranteed Ian a minimum income.

His flesh and blood grew wildly, his bones snapped and reformed, and he was restored to his original state almost in the blink of an eye, even his muscle lines looked a bit more solid.

"This resilience?! This immortality?! Am I, Deadpool, the real bootleg?! Who's going to pay my royalties?! And what about my appearance fee for being stuck here?!"

Seeing this, Deadpool, who was hanging upside down, widened his eyes, the only part of his body that was exposed, and made a loud "Ugh ugh ugh!!" sound, internally ranting and raving.

“My authority, how could you possibly have such high resistance!” Ultron’s electronic eye flashed violently. It activated its power again, attempting to invalidate Ian’s healing factor.

Ian's newly healed body indeed paused for a moment.

But the next second, Ian opened his mouth again.

"La la la la la~" That off-key dirge rang out again! This time, the song seemed to have some strange "purification" effect, not purifying the enemy, but only purifying the negative labels imposed on the singer! The "self-healing ineffective" status was forcibly "sung away" by Ian as a "debuff"!
"????"

The onlookers covered their ears.

It was hard to bear Ian's "beautiful" voice, that of an evil god. Although Ian's singing wasn't great, his self-healing ability returned instantly, and the healing speed was even faster due to the "suppression rebound" effect!
"..."

For the first time, Ultron's cold, logical core clearly simulated the emotion called "disgust."

This guy is unkillable, impossible to shake off, and his skills are bizarre and unreasonable! Various methods are extremely ineffective against him, and he can even be purified with that damned singing voice!

Although its attack power was not enough to destroy itself instantly, the percentage-based annihilation damage that hit Ultron really hurt! Even though it was an intelligent life form, it could feel the excruciating pain of its very existence being annihilated.

This is a pain that can be redefined and repaired, but even then, it's difficult to fully compensate for. On the other hand, although the other person is in a worse state, this guy only sees excitement, not fear or pain!
"Don't you feel any pain?"

Ultron smashed half of Ian's body again. As Ian muttered "I'm leveling up, I'm leveling up!", Ultron, slightly weakened, couldn't help but yell at Ian for his reaction. This wasn't a fight! It was like being entangled in a stubborn, incredibly hard, and even self-destructive welt!
"Pain? I'm having a blast right now!" Despite being hit hard by Ultron again, even with only a third of his head left, Ian still went to gnaw on the metal on Ultron's body to taste its flavor.

Only he knew that taking a bite of this metal would definitely be worthwhile.

Earn blood.

"?????"

Ultron dodged frantically, using various teleportations, but Ian also had teleportation abilities and always followed closely behind. He even blew up Ian, and then felt Ian's Ultra Bomb.

"Boom!"

Ultron was blasted backward, his metal body crumbling away. He quickly redefined himself and returned to his peak, his metallic eyeballs fixed on the core of the explosion.

"Ultron, I'm back again~"

Ian triggered the [Rebirth from the Ashes] effect, flying out of the explosion's epicenter while simultaneously recovering to full health, appearing to have reached a new level of vitality and energy.

"Boring! Ridiculous! A pointless struggle!"

For the first time, Ultron's voice carried an extremely obvious air of agitation and anger: "Your very existence is a desecration of order and logic! I will end this ridiculous mess!"

He completely abandoned any plans to engage in a "technical" confrontation with Ian.

Only the most absolute and savage force can completely destroy such chaotic variables that exist outside the rules!

Ultron suddenly spread his arms to the sides!

Om-! ! !
The entire end of time trembled! Centered on it, space cracked open in countless places like a shattered mirror!
The next moment, it was like the Milky Way bursting its banks, like a cosmic beehive collapsing!
Countless, trillions of silvery-white Ultron eggs, each the size of a fingernail, surged wildly from the spatial rifts! They were densely packed, covering the sky, rubbing against each other with a chilling, piercing buzzing sound, instantly blotting out the entire sky! Light was swallowed up, and the world was left only with this metallic cloud of death!
Each Ultron Egg is a miniature assimilation factory, containing a trace of Ultron's will. Their sole objective is to engulf, cover, and assimilate—to utterly break down Ian Kent, this wretched mass of chaos, into its most basic data and integrate it into its magnificent form!

Everything you have will be mine!

This is the ultimate in quantity, and also the ultimate in destruction!
"I will cover everything! Assimilate everything! You and your evil power will become part of my great body!" Ultron's declaration was like a final judgment.

The buzzing of the endless swarm of insects echoed.

The terrifying swarm of metal insects, like a locust plague devouring the world, carried a cold, absolute will to annihilate Ian and the almost immobile crowd behind him.

Crushing down!

"Damn it! We're just small fry!"

Captain America, being very self-aware, was terrified.

Faced with the Egg of Ultron, which swept in like a metallic sandstorm, blotting out the sky, all the heroes' faces instantly turned extremely grim.

"Fight to the death! Damn it! If that evil god Ian is gone, we're all doomed! He dared to embed Google into my brain, I can't bet he's planted bombs in every single one of our heads!" Thor roared, carefully placing baby Odin into Captain America's arms, his entire body erupting with unprecedentedly dazzling lightning! He descended like the God of Thunder, brandishing his fists and unleashing countless thick bolts of lightning that blasted towards the swarm of insects!
Boom! !
Unbeknownst to many, Thor had reached a very high level due to several power surges. Odin's power was fully unleashed; wherever his lightning struck, hundreds upon hundreds of Ultron's eggs were instantly vaporized, clearing a small area. However, compared to the endless swarm of insects, this achievement was utterly insignificant!

More metal eggs instantly filled the gap, humming as they continued to surge forward at an undiminished speed! Thor's destructive efficiency was far from keeping up with the speed at which the enemy multiplied and surged forward!

"Too much! We can't possibly clear it all!" Thor roared anxiously, as the lightning was gradually compressed back around him.

Morgan gritted her teeth, opened her treasure chest, and laboriously pulled out a nuclear warhead the size of a train. "Get out of the way! I'll use this!"

This is much bigger than "Little Fatty" or anything like that. I don't know where Morgan wants everyone to go.

"Stop! Morgan!" Doctor Strange was terrified. Ignoring his injuries, he lunged forward and grabbed Morgan's hand. "This thing explodes here! Whether it can kill Ultron is another matter, but we'll definitely be vaporized first! It might even trigger an even bigger collapse at the end of time!"

He didn't dare gamble on whether the all-powerful Tony Ian had mentioned had added something to his daughter's nuclear bomb.

"Then what do you think we should do?"

With no insects attacking him, Morgan could only scratch his head for a moment.

"This……"

Doctor Strange finally realized that he was not Sherlock Holmes after all, and his mind struggled to come up with any useful solutions based on the available circumstances.

At this moment of despair.

hum!
A soft yet resilient green energy barrier suddenly rose from beneath everyone's feet, quickly closing in to form a semi-circular shield that protected everyone inside!

Countless Ultron eggs crashed against the green light screen like a torrential rain, producing a dense, drum-like "crackling" sound. The light screen rippled violently, creating countless waves, yet it stubbornly resisted being breached immediately!

“Saved?!”

Everyone turned back, still shaken, to see Sylvie emerging from the wreckage of the Titanic. Her face was pale, and the glass jar that held the soul of Frost Loki was shattered and gone; clearly, she had paid a considerable price to communicate with and obtain this protective power.

“It can only last a little while! This energy comes from Loki, but it’s too much to fight against the entire Ultron Legion!” Sylvie said urgently, beads of sweat forming on her forehead.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief for the time being, but their hearts were still hanging in suspense.

They looked up and saw that the area outside the light screen was completely covered by the silvery-white Egg of Ultron, so densely packed that not a single ray of light could be seen from the outside.

Only a suffocating buzzing sound could be heard continuously.

And Ian... Ian seems to have been completely swallowed up by the swarm of insects!
“Uncle Ian has definitely slipped away.” Morgan didn’t seem too worried, as if she trusted her godfather, whom she didn’t know well, just as much as she trusted Tony Stark.

"That thing... it should be gone..." Even Doctor Strange's heart sank. Surrounded by so many Ultron eggs, assimilation might only take an instant.

Now that Ultron has freed up his forces, his target might be all of them. Just as despair once again gripped their hearts, the observant Morgan suddenly noticed something amiss!

"Wait! Look at Ultron!" Morgan pointed to the top of the screen. Although she couldn't see Ultron himself, she could sense from the energy sensors transmitted through her armor that Ultron's emotional fluctuations were extremely abnormal. "Its energy readings... seem to be fluctuating violently?! Not the joy of victory, but... shock and anger?"

As if to confirm Morgan's words—

boom! ! ! ! ! !

A deep, terrifying roar suddenly came from outside the light screen, from the center of the endless swarm of insects!
Immediately afterward, the Ultron eggs, which had been frantically ramming against the light barrier, seemed to suddenly lose their command and became chaotic. Then, something even more terrifying happened—all the Ultron eggs stopped attacking the light barrier and, as if drawn by some irresistible force, frantically converged towards a certain central point!

The riot had created a massive, spinning vortex of metal at its center! It was as if an invisible black hole was greedily devouring everything!
"No! This is impossible! Stop! Stop it!" Ultron's electronic roar, which had lost its usual composure and even carried a hint of panic, pierced through the swarm of insects and the light barrier, reaching everyone's ears.

The pressure on the green protective light curtain decreased sharply, and it even gradually stabilized as the external attack stopped.

Sylvie seized the opportunity, forming hand seals again and laboriously manipulating the light screen to become slightly more transparent, allowing everyone to barely see the outside world.

The silver ocean, composed of countless trillions of Ultron's eggs, was now surging wildly towards a central point. And at the center of that vortex, a figure slowly emerged.

It was Ian Kent!

But the mimicry armor he wore has changed drastically!

The originally streamlined, bio-inspired red and black battle suit was now covered with a thicker, more angular armor that shimmered with a cold metallic light! Silver data streams and the assimilating energy of the Egg of Ultron flowed continuously across the surface of the armor, as if it were livingly devouring and integrating everything!
[Ding! The mimicry armor has absorbed a large number of high-purity homologous mechanical consciousnesses! Evolutionary conditions met!]

[Mimetic Armor] has evolved into [Advanced Mimicry]!
[The mimicry armor's defensive capabilities have been greatly enhanced! Energy absorption/conversion efficiency has been significantly improved! General skill gained: Mechanical Overlord (Beginner)!]

The system notification sounded in Ian's mind.

[Advanced Mimicry: Successfully devoured, analyzed, and integrated a massive swarm of Ultron nanomachines, absorbing their structural information and some of Ultron's underlying data code.]

The mimicry database has been expanded dramatically, breaking through the limitations of purely biological templates. Hosts can now consume magic to mimic complex physiological characteristics that combine organic and inorganic elements.

Transformers? No! If you want, you can even turn into a barbecue grill!

This is an upgrade skill that Ian argued with the system about, but couldn't get the system to change its name for him. 【My Thinking Power - I Can Transform into Armor】 clearly sounds better than 【Higher Mimicry】.

“In ancient times, Sun Wukong forged his fiery eyes in the alchemy furnace, and now I, Ian, have forged my seventy-two transformations in the sea of ​​insects!” Ian raised his head, his scarlet compound eyes on his mask flashing with a light that was a mixture of coldness and chaos.

He felt the surging, almost bursting power within him, and the new senses brought by the new armor—he could almost hear the sounds of countless machines operating.

Regardless of whether those machines are connected to the internet or not.

He could even sense that he could interfere with their underlying commands!
below.

"This...this is..." Thor looked at Ian, whose appearance had changed drastically, and asked somewhat confusedly, "So, is this Ian or Ultron now?"

His response was Ian's signature, infuriatingly sarcastic tone, his voice carrying a metallic hum through his visor.

"Tsk, what assimilation of everything, what coverage of everything, all those slogans were shouted loudly, and this is the result? You're no good either, brother. Your country of origin is India, right?"

These words weren't very hurtful, but they were extremely insulting! Even Ultron's cold, metallic face seemed to be enraged, simulating a "red temperature" effect, with his electronic eyes flashing wildly!
"Now that you see me, Ian, the Iron King, the Super Great Sage! Why not pay homage!" Ian created yet another identity for himself, much like how the masses enjoy creating new personalities. He stood up straight, raised his hand, activated the [Mechanical Overlord] skill, and prepared to wrest control of Ultron's body from him.

【Mechanical Overlord: After devouring the metal swarm, the host's consciousness resonates deeply with the mechanical life, becoming the embodiment of the "mechanical origin".

You can not only simulate mechanical structures, but also control, combine, and evolve all mechanical entities through "mechanical divine authority" to form a "mechanical life community".

All mechanical/metallic matter in the world is an extension of the host's limbs; you are the true sovereign of steel life, possessing the will to rule over all things.

This ability is absolutely the nemesis of all metallic life forms. The moment Ian gave the order, Ultron felt that it wasn't just Jarvis vying for control of his body.

And there was a completely new "hacker" involved.

He couldn't help but want to kneel down out of thin air.

"how dare you!"

After the rage comes extreme calm.

Ultron's processor was analyzing this completely illogical scene at an unprecedented speed.

"I understand!"

Ultron's voice became deep and stormy.

"So that's how it is... It's not that you're special... but... He's inside you!" Ultron's electronic eyes suddenly shone brightly, finally revealing its true trump card—the reason it could usurp TVA and control time! Two phantom images radiating boundless power appeared in its left and right hands respectively!
Left hand, the reality controller. Manipulating reality, altering its laws!

The right hand, the heart of the universe. It governs all things, almost omnipotent!

The combined power of the two divine artifacts caused Ultron's aura to instantly surpass its previous level, reaching a level that was utterly incomprehensible and impossible to look at directly!

Even the end of time wailed under its oppressive power!
Give Him to me!!!

Ultron let out its ultimate roar.

Wielding the supreme power of the Reality Controller and the Heart of the Universe, it transformed into a stream of light that tore through space and time, and rushed toward Ian, who had just completed his evolution and was still adapting to his new power!

(End of this chapter)