62: Prepare to invade with the interest of the Ancient One

The entrance gate to the underground facility opened upwards, and the Avengers landed on the lift platform.

After it came to a stop.

Stepping out of the Avengers, Stark looked in surprise at the massive underground Base before him.

All sorts of luxury cars, military vehicles, tanks, and armored vehicles were parked around.

“This is…?”

“My underground Base.”

“Want to see it? Or should we just go home?”

“I can find someone to send You.”

See! Of course, he wanted to see!

Even as the richest man, he didn't have such an underground Base, so how could he not see it?

Although he felt a bit unwell, it wasn't too late to endure it and leave after seeing the Base.

Seeing the interested expression on Stark's face.

Joa had Hank give Stark a brief tour.

After the tour, he would then send him back to Los Santos.

As for Joa himself, he led his people to the conference room.

Stark's matter could be put on hold for now.

Even if he wanted to find out who kidnapped him, it would take some time.

Obadiah's desire to take over Stark Industries was not a recent development.

Joa took advantage of this time to conquer The Boys world.

'Aside from Homelander, the abilities of the others don't seem very important.'

'They're completely useless.'

'It's enough to just devour the strongest Homelander; everyone else can be eliminated.'

In The Boys world, within Vought Corporation's Seven.

Invisible Man, A-Train, Black Noir, Starlight, The Deep, Queen Maeve, none of them were a match for Homelander.

Absorbing their abilities would also be useless.

Homelander is essentially a low-tier Superman.

Heat vision, invulnerability, X-ray vision, clairvoyance, flight, super strength, super speed, super durability, super hearing, super smell.

Overall, Homelander is an entirely superior superhuman compared to all other superhumans in The Boys.

He is completely different from the other superhumans who gained their abilities by injecting Compound V.

This is also why Joa only plans to absorb Homelander and abandon the others who became superhumans through drugs.

'I'm really looking forward to it, how strong I will become after devouring and absorbing Homelander!'

However, devouring and absorbing Homelander might not be an easy task.

In terms of strength and defense, Blacklight Warrior might be able to fight Homelander in terms of strength.

But defense... Homelander's invulnerability can completely resist nuclear bombs.

And in the Prototype World, there are no superpowered individuals; after Joa and his warriors devoured and evolved to their bottleneck.

They would still be injured if directly hit by a nuclear bomb, though not to the extent of Alex Mercer being reduced to only a tiny bit of flesh, but they would still be in a sorry state.

'I need to find a way to break his defense, or... like in the show, use his ear as a breakthrough point to devour and absorb him.'

Joa was deep in thought in the conference room.

Stark, who had finished touring the facility, suddenly burst in with a shocked expression.

As soon as he entered the conference room, he saw nearly two hundred people all turn and coldly stare at him.

Stark's expression froze.

“Uh… Qiao… Are You having a meeting?”

“I might have come… at the wrong time?”

“I'll wait for You outside.”

Saying that, Stark retreated.

Once the conference room door automatically closed, Stark breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Hank beside him.

“Emm… I shouldn't have disturbed them, right? They won't silence me, will they?”

He had intended to make a small joke, but Hank's silence suddenly made Stark feel a bit uneasy.

'Please! They wouldn't really silence me for such a small matter, would they?'

'Say something! Hey!'

“What's wrong? Stark, is there something You need me for?”

His heart was pounding, but seeing Joa walk out of the conference room, Stark breathed a sigh of relief.

“Oh! Thank goodness, I almost thought about which church I'd be buried in just now.”

???

Seeing Joa look at him in confusion, Stark spoke.

“Well, your employees… um… seem a bit difficult to get along with; they make me feel like I'm prey.”

So he was scared.

Smiling suddenly, Joa patted Stark's shoulder.

“You're overthinking it; they won't eat people.”

“What do You need me for?”

Hearing this, Stark took a deep breath, pushing the small interlude aside, and began to talk about the weapons and equipment on the production lines in the facility.

“I originally wanted to give You a surprise, but seeing the military equipment in your facility, I decided to tell You in advance.”

“To thank You for saving me, I'm going to give You the complete blueprints and data for my newly developed laser grenade and kinetic sniper rifle.”

“I won't be needing those things… When I go back, I plan to close Stark Industries' weapon manufacturing and R&D department.”

“From now on, we won't be competitors…”

“I hope… we can become friends…”

Saying that, Stark sincerely extended his hand.

Seeing this, Joa smiled and shook Stark's outstretched right hand.

After getting rid of his sharp tongue and frivolousness, wasn't he much easier to get along with now?

After a few more words, Stark bid farewell and left.

He was now eager to see Pepper, Happy, and Obadiah.

Before leaving.

“Oh! Right, if You want to make money… it's best to pay more attention to the news these days.”

Nodding, he watched Hank escort Stark away.

Joa thought to himself.

'You don't need to tell me, I'll be shorting Stark Industries' stock anyway.'

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Back in the conference room.

Joa took a deep breath.

This was the first time attacking another World.

Before, the Prototype World was completely unconsciously devoured and absorbed the entire Planet.

He felt nothing.

But this time, he had to leave the Planet to mine minerals.

It was completely different from the last time.

It was like something…

Like the Loki in the urban high-martial or apocalyptic novels he read before transmigration, invading Worlds.

'Heh, Homelander and those superhumans are the Guardians of humanity, and I will transform into a natural disaster, slaughtering everyone in that World.'

With a wave of his hand, the spatial gate to the Blacklight Star opened.

At Joa's command, the Blacklight Warriors stepped into it.

To prevent the people of The Boys world from indiscriminately bombing and destroying his Planet.

Joa planned to strengthen all his warriors, giving them Polaris's ability to control metal and magnetic fields.

This way, the hot weapons in that World would be rendered useless.

'Heh, I didn't expect the perspective of a villain causing the end of the World to be like this.'

'Interesting!'

'No wonder in those zombie apocalypse novels I read before transmigration, hot weapons always became unusable for various reasons.'

Taking his people away from the Marvel Universe, the spatial gate slowly disappeared.

And the Ancient One, once again appeared at the location where the spatial gate disappeared.

She was lost in thought.

“Such crude use of life energy… what a waste…”

“Dormammu… Joa… the Fourth Wall…”

“Compared to retirement… this seems more interesting…”

The hellish scene of the Blacklight Star seen through the spatial gate was etched into the Ancient One's mind, lingering for a long time.