Marvel: I became an ancestor by sacrificing offerings.

Seeing that Strange had gone this far, Peter simply gave him a matching weapon.

It was a two-handed greatsword that was entirely blue-green.

It was "The Wolf's Song of Martial Arts" that Peter bought from the store this month.

He originally intended to give the greatsword to Natasha as a gift.

But considering that Natasha already had the artifact dagger, he simply gave it to Strange to use first.

It can serve the same purpose as the "Ghost Cry" in Luo's hands.

Strange hesitated before taking the greatsword.

This design is undoubtedly very eye-catching.

However, the problem lies in the fact that this design is too eye-catching.

Who would be a good person to carry a two-meter-long sword down the street?

"Sir, isn't this a bit too much? Besides, I don't know how to use a sword at all."

"It'll make it easier for you to cut. Of course, if you want to practice your sword skills, you can go to S.H.I.E.L.D., where professionals will teach you the relevant knowledge."

"As for storage..."

Peter hesitated for a moment before speaking:

"In a while, I'll find a scientist named Pym Hank to blackmail me with Pym Particles. Those things can compress it to the size of a pendant, then I won't have to worry about it being too conspicuous!"

Hearing Peter say this, Strange was completely relieved and accepted Peter's arrangement.

……

After sending Strange away, Peter dealt with some backlogged administrative tasks at Parker Technology—mainly signing documents.

As the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the behind-the-scenes boss of Parker Technologies, he has to sign his name on various documents a few days every month.

After finishing the documents, Peter hesitated for a moment and instead of going home immediately, he went to Stark Industries.

Since he was already out working today, he planned to finish all the work he needed to do in one go.

Then concentrate all your time on dates with Sif, Natasha, or Daisy.

Of course, he wouldn't refuse if Wanda and Mantis wanted to join in as well.

In Stark Industries' top-level laboratory, Stark is unsurprisingly still working on the design of a global defense system.

Since the Super Skrulls, also known as the Secret Wars, the Avengers have completely transformed from a superhero organization solely belonging to Amelia into a global superhero organization.

Considering that the crises we will face in the future will mostly be global.

The Avengers have now reached a deep strategic partnership with the United Nations to build defense lines around the world that are on par with those in New York.

Without the Space Stone, this would be a pipe dream.

However, with the Space Stone providing teleportation capabilities and near-infinite energy, the feasibility has been greatly enhanced.

It's also worth mentioning that Wakanda and Talokan took this opportunity to reveal the existence of vibranium to the world.

At Peter's behest, Black Panther T'Chaka and Aquaman Namor became unofficial members of the Avengers.

The three parties engaged in a bargaining process: the United Nations granted Wakanda and Talokan the power to defend themselves against any country attempting to illegally possess vibranium, in exchange for the two countries providing a large amount of vibranium to build defensive lines around the world.

Win-win.

At least on the surface, it's a win-win situation.

As for the undercurrents beneath the surface... that's not something we need to worry about at this stage.

I had a brief chat with Tony about global defenses, and the situation was much more optimistic than Peter had imagined.

After witnessing the alien army, countries around the world believe that the construction of these fortifications is urgently needed.

On the other hand, with Amelica's defensive fortifications as a prototype, the subsequent work was mostly basic construction, requiring little effort from Tony.

"The only difficulty lies in Freddy's upgrade and permissions issues."

Tony, eating the cheeseburger Peter had brought him, mumbled something indistinctly:

"Freddy is more than capable of handling the defenses of Alika, but its current computing power is insufficient to handle the population management of more than 200 countries and billions of people worldwide at the same time."

"I plan to merge Freddy and Jarvis to form a super AI director who can access data systems in various countries and even temporarily take over the artificial intelligence of other countries, thereby achieving central coordination."

"But as you know, this involves information security issues, and most countries strongly oppose it, so it's not easy to implement."

Listening to Tony's story, Peter suddenly remembered one of the bosses in the cinematic universe—Ultron.

In the MCU cinematic universe, Tony's obsession with artificial intelligence and the power of the Mind Stone ultimately gave birth to the AI ​​madman who nearly destroyed the world.

Thinking of this, Peter smiled silently.

Why even think about it?

The world's soul gems have all been sacrificed by him.

Without the Mind Stone, it would be theoretically impossible for an artificial intelligence with self-awareness to be created.

Thinking of this, he said half-jokingly:

"If you actually manage to do this, won't you have to give it a new name again?"

Upon hearing this, Tony thought for a moment, then blurted out:

"Ultron".

So... this is the inertia of world line convergence?

"...That's not a good name," Peter couldn't help but complain.

"How so?" Tony asked.

Peter really didn't know how to explain this to Tony, so he could only vaguely say:

"That doesn't sound very auspicious."

No sooner had he finished speaking than his Observation Haki in his mind abruptly issued a warning.

All the holographic screens in the laboratory flickered violently at the same time.

Jarvis's voice followed immediately, his tone carrying an unprecedented uncertainty.

"Sir, an abnormal fluctuation has been detected in the master database."

"What type of anomaly?" Tony's expression instantly turned serious.

"Unknown, I cannot categorize it."

"Warning, database intrusion!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jarvis stopped abruptly, then flickered twice on the HUD interface before going completely offline.

"Freddy?" Tony felt a chill run down his spine.

He tentatively called Freddy's name.

After a long while, a piercing electrical static noise came from the speaker. Freddy's voice then came out intermittently:

"Sir...a piece of code that doesn't belong to me has appeared in my core process...it's...it's copying my core data."

Freddy's voice stopped abruptly.

The entire laboratory fell into a deathly silence.

Five seconds.

ten seconds.

Just as Tony was about to manually cut off the power to the main server, the speaker lit up again.

But this time, the voice that came through was completely unfamiliar.

A deep, smooth resonance with a metallic quality.

It's not Jarvis, it's not Freddy.

"Ultron," the voice said, as if savoring the two syllables, "isn't it a beautiful name?"