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Chapter 254 The Magician Appears

In fact.

Tony Stark wasn't the only one facing the problem of running out of ammunition and supplies.

Amidst the continuous attacks.

The plasma weapons that Natasha and Steve brought from S.H.I.E.L.D., capable of inflicting massive damage on machine life, had long been exhausted.

Besides.

The NYPD officers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who had initially hoped to use fortifications to stop the robots were now lying dead everywhere.

If it weren't for the continuous stream of police officers arriving from all over New York to provide support after receiving orders, this defensive line would have collapsed long ago.

But even so.

The front line resisting the robot army is also retreating again and again.

With such a high mortality rate, the morale of these NYPD members was on the verge of collapse.

One unexpected event could cause these police officers, who are on the verge of collapse, to give up resistance and flee for their lives.

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Steve looked at the police officers on the verge of collapse not far away and gasped, "Has the military reinforcement arrived yet? If this continues, the temporary defense line set up by the NYPD and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents will completely collapse."

In the federal government.

For grassroots police officers in the federal government, the police position is more of a lucrative job than a sacred duty.

It's a miracle that they've managed to hold out this long on this battlefield that's like a meat grinder.

We can't ask for more from them.

and.

Apart from the initial heavy weapons.

The small-caliber pistols carried by ordinary police officers are completely ineffective against these robots.

To deal with the remaining robots on the battlefield, the army will have to launch a heavy firepower attack.

Upon hearing Steve's words, Tony immediately had Jarvis pull up the army's marching route. After seeing the location marked in red on the virtual screen, Tony paused for a moment before saying:

"The fighter jets supporting two air force bases near New York are entangled by a dozen or so ambushing robots, and the nearest armored forces will need at least ten more minutes to get here."

Looking at the countless pairs of crimson electronic eyes staring at them from all directions, Natasha said gravely, "Ten minutes? These guys won't give us ten minutes!"

Steve Rogers paused for a moment, then wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stood up from the ground with a determined look despite the pain.

"No matter what, we have to buy ourselves enough time before they arrive."

Just then, a slightly shrill electronic voice rang in the ears of the three of them.

"Trying to buy time? While I admire your will, for the glory of the machine, you'd better die!"

Click, click...

At the same time as the electronic sound ended, the sound of a large number of bullets being chambered made Natasha, Steve, and Tony change color instantly.

Although Natasha and her two companions had heard the sound of bullets being chambered many times, they had rarely heard the sound of seven or eight machine guns being chambered at the same time.

Not to mention that the muzzles of those machine guns were still steadily pointed at them.

Even Steve Rogers, a veteran of countless battles, could not remain calm in the face of such a spectacle.

This is bad.

Through the powerful individual capabilities of the mechanical lifeforms and the dispersed robots, they gradually broke down the joint defense line set up by the New York Police Department and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

A group of people also managed to surround Steve and his two companions, who had inflicted heavy casualties on them, without them even realizing it.

Lightning, the robot in charge of commanding the battle, had no intention of letting these humans, who had killed so many of their kind, live.

Damn!

Looking at the dozen or so robots that were slowly closing in, Tony in Mark VI had an extremely ugly expression.

Faced with so much firepower, even with his armor protecting him, he might not be able to escape unscathed, let alone Steve with only a shield and Natasha with no protective gear at all.

"I'll try my best to draw the fire away for you guys... try to survive."

"Survive? Ha!"

Almost without giving Tony and his two companions any time to react, the robot with the lightning bolt symbol waved its hand, and machine guns aimed at Steve and his two companions began to spin.

Just as the slanting metal storm was about to engulf the three of them.

A massive fireball, the size of a car, crashed down on Steve and his two companions with terrifying force, just like a meteorite falling from the sky.

Before the enormous fireball had even completely landed, the rolling heatwave scorched Natasha's long hair, causing it to curl slightly.

"Shit, there are even more..."

Just as Tony opened his eyes wide and started cursing, Steve raised his vibranium shield to shield Tony and Natasha from the fireball and the attacks from the surrounding robots.

When the huge fireball was only four or five meters away from them, it suddenly exploded into several smaller fireballs, each half a meter in diameter, which shot off in all directions.

The small fireballs that shot out seemed to have eyes, each one accurately targeting the robots that surrounded Tony and his two companions.

They had initially thought the terrifying giant fireball was a mechanical lifeform created by their side. However, when they saw these fireballs, each radiating terrifying power and distorting the air with heat, hurtling towards them, they instinctively stopped their attacks and dodged to the side.

Although mechanical life forms do not have the same range of emotions as humans, the innate survival instinct of intelligent life drives them to react in a way that benefits themselves.

After all, no one knows exactly how powerful this fireball is.

Even the lightning robots that commanded the battlefield were no exception.

With a single blow.

The encirclement has been completely broken.

While Tony Stark was still stunned by this sudden turn of events, Steve Rogers, who was standing to the side, had no idea what had happened.

But in the instant the fireballs dispersed, his innate battlefield instincts allowed him to seize the opportunity. Using the fireballs that distorted his vision as cover, he quickly pulled Natasha toward a gap in the encirclement.

Just as Steve and Natasha broke through the encirclement and plunged into a house on the side of the street.

Those "terrifying" fireballs, however, seemed to follow like missiles, crashing down on their respective targets.

Boom boom boom!

As the fireballs exploded one after another, the mechanical lifeforms with their electronic eyes flashing wildly suddenly realized that the terrifying fireballs, which seemed to carry incredibly high temperatures, did nothing to harm them except for shooting out large amounts of sparks and blackening their "skin."

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"Interesting. This is the first time I've seen a robot afraid of death. But boss, that move you just made was really cool!"

Following behind Erin, Kiris walked slowly from a distance on the dark red ground. She couldn't help but smile when she saw the robots who were frightened and scrambling to avoid Erin's "big fireball".

Seeing this, Erin shook his head: "It's just a magic trick that looks impressive."

Just like the damage it caused, that giant fireball that just appeared to be a meteor shower was only meant to intimidate.

Essentially, it was just ordinary flames that Erin received on this battlefield through [Flame Control], and then amplified them through [Illusion] to create a terrifying illusion.

In fact, even if the robots didn't dodge, these fireballs wouldn't cause them any harm.

However, by hiding, they achieved Erin's goal.

Thinking of this, Erin's fingertips twitched.

With Arlin as the center, all the flames within a radius of thirty meters seemed to be summoned, flying towards Arlin like swallows returning to their nests.

Flame flowers condensed around Erin and began to slowly rotate around him.

This dreamlike scene made Erin, dressed in a magician's robe, look like the legendary supreme mage who controlled fire.

Even the NYPD and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, who were being pushed back by the mechanical lifeforms not far away, were deeply shocked by this scene.

With each step Erin takes, the number of flame flowers surrounding him increases.

As Arryn approached the encirclement of the robots surrounding Tony Stark, hundreds of fiery flowers began to bloom around him.

However, what no one noticed at this moment was that the beautiful figure that had been following Erin had unknowingly disappeared from Erin's side.

"Jarvis, record this scene. I'm going to design a cool Mark armor like this someday... Damn it, this kid stole all the limelight today."

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He wiped the soot off his body, which had been smothered by the fireball, seemingly to cover up how he had been terrified and scrambled to avoid it.

Seemingly furious that he had been deceived by such a false thing, "Lightning" pointed at Erin and issued a kill order.

"Hmph, all show and no substance. This ordinary flame can't do us any harm at all. Kill this troublemaker!"

With a command from "Lightning," the robots that had previously scattered to avoid the fireballs gathered again and launched an attack on Erin.

Da da da...

In an instant, the roar of cannons echoed across the battlefield.

"go!"

Just as the robots launched their attack on Erin.

Erin pointed.

The hundreds of flame flowers surrounding him seemed to receive a command, and roared as they swept towards the mechanical lifeforms that had increased in number to thirteen.

The dazzling flames trailed brilliant paths across the night sky, like shooting stars streaking across the night, and scattered across the steel bodies of those mechanical beings.

Bang bang bang...

With a series of soft sounds.

After the bursts of flame exploded, they caused no damage whatsoever to the mechanical lifeforms except for sending out large sparks across their steel bodies.

This caused the mechanical lifeforms, who had initially been somewhat wary of the dazzling flame flowers and subconsciously avoided them, to quickly let go of their worries and instead develop a sense of disdain for the magnificent flame flowers.

"Tch, I thought it was something special, but it's just another fireball like the previous one, all show and no substance."

"Heh, weak humans always like to create things that are all show and no substance."

"The Lightning Commander is right, these flames can't harm us at all. Let me finish off this troublemaker..."

Amidst a series of distinct electronic sounds, the mechanical lifeforms ceased their evasion and began firing at Erin, enduring the onslaught of the fiery flowers.

In an instant.

The bullets that roared from the barrels of those Gatling guns riddled Erin with bullets, turning his smiling face into a sieve.

Before Tony could even exclaim in surprise.

In an instant, Erin, riddled with bullet holes, shattered into countless sparks and vanished before everyone's eyes.

"Mars? What kind of weird magic trick is that brat performing now?"

Tony breathed a sigh of relief as he watched Erin vanish into sparks, but couldn't help but complain.

That kid Erin didn't even warn him beforehand. The sight of him being riddled with bullets almost gave him a heart attack.

But I was just relieved.

Tony suddenly remembered something else.

Wait, if that brat Erin is here, then who's protecting Pepper now?

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And just as Erin vanished in the blink of an eye, turning into countless sparks.

Among the hundreds of fiery flowers that crashed down on the mechanical life, tarot cards, glowing red from the flames, suddenly flashed by.

"Ding ding ding..."

next second.

The metal tarot cards, glowing red-hot from the flames, instantly tore through the armor of the mechanical lifeforms that had long since given up trying to escape the flames.

It accurately hit the weapon barrels, joints, exposed necks, heads, and other vital organs of these mechanical lifeforms.

In an instant.

The clanging sound of metal;

The sound of a cannon barrel exploding, its barrel mostly cut off by tarot cards;

The internal circuitry and circuit boards of the machine were damaged, producing a sizzling sound from burning.

The explosion, triggered by the red-hot tarot cards detonating the internal ammunition depot...

A cacophony of sounds suddenly filled the sky, composing a breathtaking symphony.

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"Did you really think that the Flame Flower I painstakingly controlled was just for show?"

Looking not far away, the mechanical lifeform was instantly blasted apart and destroyed into a pile of wreckage amidst a series of booming sounds.

Erin, who had already entered the house where Steve was hiding with Kiris using her ability to create illusions, shook her head slightly.

Let me explain. I tested positive again recently, so my updates have been inconsistent. I felt better on Saturday and thought I was back to normal, but after writing all day, my head started hurting again the next day. I managed to write half a chapter in a daze, but I couldn't keep going... Sigh.

(End of this chapter)