55: Invitation to Stark Fair

Los Santos, Hell's Kitchen.

Hank, dressed in a black trench coat, hood, and gloves, looked down at his phone, occasionally scanning the surrounding buildings.

“The mission target should be somewhere nearby…”

Based on the information Joa sent him, Hank found Kingpin's luxurious apartment in Hell's Kitchen.

But as soon as he arrived in the vicinity, Hank felt something unusual.

Cars parked downstairs from the apartment building, and several windows with drawn curtains in the surrounding residential buildings.

‘Someone is monitoring this place?’

Hank was a bit puzzled. Wasn't Kingpin the underground emperor of Los Santos?

Why was no one protecting him? Instead, someone was monitoring him.

The data didn't mention this situation.

Sneaking in, taking out the target, and then quietly withdrawing—that wasn't difficult.

But the mission Joa gave him was to capture Kingpin and bring him back.

With someone monitoring the area, taking him away would definitely be discovered.

‘Should I take out all these people?’

‘No! No, the boss doesn't want to attract attention.’

After a brief moment of thought, Hank took out his phone and called Joa.

……

Senora Desert.

“Haha, that's interesting, I understand.”

“This matter ends here.”

“You can rest for a few days or go directly to work at Merryweather, it's up to you.”

Seeing Joa hang up the phone, Polaris and Jill came over, asking what happened.

Hearing their questions, Joa couldn't help but chuckle and say,

“The Police, FIB, and others all suspected Kingpin of that previous job.”

“They are now closely monitoring him.”

Hearing this news, a playful smile also appeared on Polaris's face.

Only Jill was utterly confused, not knowing what riddle the two were speaking.

‘Since he took the blame for me, there's no rush to kill him. Let him continue to bear it.’

‘As long as he's alive, the Police won't suspect anyone else of stealing the gold.’

It wasn't that he was afraid of the Police, but if flies kept buzzing in his ears, Joa would inevitably swat them dead.

But after swatting them dead, more flies would come, and swatting them again would bring even more.

Then he would have no peace.

Once he reached the point of destroying America, no one could stop him, and then he might even attract Ancient One.

‘If he dares to raid my warehouse again, I'll directly send the company's mercenaries to attack him, and he'll behave.’

Using overt forces to handle such matters saves a lot of unnecessary trouble compared to privately dispatching people to kill Kingpin.

“Things are mostly handled. Let's go to Los Santos.”

“Rest for a few days, and then there are other things to do.”

By the time Joa, Polaris, and Jill drove back to Los Santos, it was already evening.

As soon as they drove into the city,

Joa heard piercing Police sirens and the sound of helicopter propellers.

Occasionally, gunshots also rang out.

“Hahaha, truly worthy of the simple folk of Los Santos, this is what makes it interesting.”

Joa, who had been in the flesh cocoon for a long time, couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard the familiar gunshots again.

Life is only interesting this way.

He made a detour to the Merryweather headquarters and instructed his female assistant to closely monitor Tony Stark recently.

The three returned home.

As soon as they entered the apartment, Polaris took Jill on a tour of the entire place.

Joa, on the other hand, sat alone on the sofa, closing his eyes to rest, his consciousness sinking into his mind.

With his current strength, ordinary bank robberies were no longer challenging at all.

The rewards would definitely not be good things.

‘Challenging missions… given my current strength, they are hard to find.’

‘Unless I add some difficulty for myself.’

‘For example, stealing the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D without being discovered.’

The Tesseract was not safe in S.H.I.E.L.D's hands.

Joa would take it to study, and if it was useless, he would put it in the system space to prevent Thanos from taking it.

He absolutely did not want to fight Thanos, who had gathered all six Infinity Stones.

With this in mind, Joa issued a mission.

However, the mission content was somewhat different from what he had imagined.

【Custom Mission: Collect six Infinity Stones. (Stones within the Time-Space Administration are invalid)】

【Space: Not collected.】

【Time: Not collected.】

【Mind: Not collected.】

【Reality: Not collected.】

【Power: Not collected.】

【Soul: Not collected.】

【Reward: Chaos Seed, which can grow into a complete Universe or World seed.】

【What kind of Universe or World will it grow into?】

【This will depend on the person who controls it.】

【Note: The Chaos Seed is located deep within chaos, initially only 30 cubic meters, and can absorb energy from other Universes or Worlds to accelerate its growth.】

Seeing this mission reward, Joa was stunned for a long time.

As a god, the supreme black light will,

How could he not have a World under his control?

Moreover, if he were to devour Planets from other Instances later and create several more Blacklight Stars,

Then how to integrate the life energy, combat power, and resources of several Blacklight Stars would also be a problem.

He couldn't possibly invade a Universe and open seven or eight different time-space gates to different Instances Worlds, could he?

They were all Instances Worlds, which one would be primary?

Which World's Blacklight Star would he develop?

These were all questions.

But with the Chaos Seed, it was different.

Just like the Dark Dimension controlled by Dormammu.

Joa could accelerate the growth of the Chaos Seed by absorbing energy from other Universes.

Eventually, it could become a Blacklight Dimension, or a Blacklight World, or a Blacklight Universe, anything was possible.

This would be a base of operations completely under his control, used to invade all the myriad Worlds.

It was like, like a divine realm.

No! It was much more advanced than a divine realm.

It's just that this mission… is a bit difficult.

The Marvel Universe is quite large. Without interstellar travel technology or star charts, trying to collect the Infinity Stones is like waiting for Thanos to come knocking on his door.

Although Joa didn't want to fight Thanos, who possessed several Infinity Stones,

But for the Chaos Seed…

‘I'll go for it!’

‘As long as I snatch them from him before Thanos gets all the Stones, it'll be fine.’

With this in mind, Joa opened his eyes and looked at Polaris and Jill, who had just finished touring the house, and said seriously,

“It seems our rest will be canceled. We have important things to do.”

As he spoke, Joa took out his phone and called his female assistant.

Seeing this, Polaris and Jill were a little disappointed.

They had just thought about where they would go with Joa next.

Jill was very curious about this different World and quietly suggested to Polaris beside her,

“How about we discuss it with him? One day of rest should be fine.”

Hearing this, Polaris nodded heavily.

“After he finishes his call, we'll talk to him together.”

As soon as the two made their decision, they heard Joa, who was sitting on the sofa, frown.

“Stark invited me to attend an expo?”

“Yes, boss. Stark Industries just sent someone with an invitation.”

Hearing this, Joa fell silent.

‘What's Stark up to?’

‘Why is he suddenly holding an expo? Shouldn't he be preparing to go to Afghanistan?’

“Hmm, I understand. I'll go.”

Regardless of the reason, Joa, who valued Stark's mind, would definitely go.

Not to mention, after acquiring the Chaos Seed in the future,

His own controlled World would need talents like Stark even more.