96: This time! I will save you! And the world you love!

Hearing Joa’s words,

Pepper finally noticed that

Coulson was still on the phone with his superior, reporting the situation.

He hadn't noticed anyone entering, nor any abnormalities.

“OMG, what is this…?”

A smile played on Joa’s lips as he drained the champagne in his glass.

“Just a bit of magic…”

Before he could finish, a voice suddenly sounded behind Joa.

“Just a small application of magic?”

“I didn’t expect You to have become so much stronger after only being gone for a day.”

Seeing a legendary portal suddenly open behind Joa, Pepper exclaimed in shock.

“Ah! OMG!”

Seeing Pepper covering her mouth while pointing at Ancient One, who walked out of the portal,

Joa shook his head helplessly.

“Sorcerer Supreme, You really are always watching me.”

“The energy within You is not magic.”

“Did You go to a new World again? And it seems You stayed for quite some time.”

“Is the flow of time different?”

Hearing Ancient One’s increasingly accurate guesses, Joa quickly turned around and interrupted.

“Stop! Don’t guess! If You keep guessing, You’ll strip me bare.”

“It’s good that You’re here; I also have something to discuss with You.”

Hearing this, Ancient One smiled as she looked at Joa, waiting for him to speak.

Taking a deep breath, Joa’s expression gradually turned serious.

“Beyond the fog, there is a World called The Lands Between.”

“The magic, incantations, and combat arts in that World are quite powerful.”

“There are also various outside Loki, demigods, Empyreans, Greater Will, Two Fingers, Golden Tree, laws, elden ring, and all sorts of other strange things.”

“Although I am quite confident in my current strength, I haven’t truly encountered them, so it’s hard to compare combat power.”

“And I myself don’t know magic.”

“So… if Sorcerer Supreme, You have time recently, could You and my subordinates go into The Lands Between to explore a bit?”

Ancient One became interested in the World Joa spoke of.

‘A different power system? magic, incantations, laws…’

“Yes, when do we go?”

Seeing Ancient One agree so readily,

Joa was delighted and then thought seriously.

“We’ll go to the facility tomorrow; I have some matters to handle today.”

No sooner had Joa finished speaking than Stark pushed open the door and entered the lounge, talking as he did so.

“I didn’t expect You, Joa, to come today. Didn’t You tell me the night before last not to expose You?”

“What do You need to handle? Do You need my… help…”

Halfway through his sentence, Stark noticed Ancient One in the lounge, as well as the yellow portal.

“OGD, what’s with that bald person and that portal?”

Hearing Stark call Ancient One “bald,” Joa couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Seeing this, Stark also realized his impropriety and immediately tried to salvage the situation.

“Sorry, I speak a bit bluntly. Many people say that, but… that was indeed my first impression of You, ma’am?”

Ancient One glanced at Stark, ignored him, and turned to Joa.

“I understand. I will be there on time.”

With that, Ancient One stepped through the portal, returned to the Sanctum, and the portal disappeared.

Seeing this, Stark shrugged and looked at Joa.

“Looks like your friend isn’t too happy.”

Patting Stark’s shoulder, Joa gloated.

“Good luck to You; I hope Sorcerer Supreme won’t take You calling her bald to heart.”

“Sorcerer Supreme? magic? Is that stuff real?”

Stark, with an incredulous expression, saw Joa’s gloating face and the portal he had just witnessed, and his mouth twitched twice.

‘I seem to have provoked some strange person.’

“Oh, come on, Joa, we’re friends, right? Quickly tell me, who was that bald… Sorcerer Supreme?”

“Hehe, You guess.”

“No… I guess?”

Joa’s words caught Stark off guard, almost making him blurt out a curse.

With a show to watch, Joa didn’t want to miss out. He really wanted to see Stark’s expression when he eventually learned of Ancient One’s power.

And whether Ancient One would ignore Stark or give him a small punishment.

As Joa anticipated, he used Yin-Yang Release to condense a life-filled chakra pill and handed it to Stark.

“This pill is for You. Remember to take it when You encounter a life-threatening major problem; it will help You.”

“Does this thing… really work?”

“It feels like a mud pill You just rubbed off Yourself.”

Hearing Stark’s words, Joa felt speechless.

Did Stark think he was Ji Gong?

Could he rub off a pill that would make people stretch their legs and roll their eyes?

“Think what You like; just don’t forget to take it when You encounter trouble.”

With that, Joa disappeared from in front of Stark.

A chakra pill containing life force was enough to save Stark from palladium poisoning.

Now, he just had to wait for Stark to realize he was dying and take the pill, and Joa’s enhancement mission would be complete.

Then he wouldn’t need to waste time here.

The real business was to quickly gather people and prepare to attack the elden ring World.

When he played elden ring before transmigration, he only cared about Ranni and had no impression of the little wooden Melina.

It wasn’t until he watched the “First-Class Affair” video on Bilibili that Joa, as if waking from a dream, constantly embraced the Frenzied Fire.

All he wanted was for the little wooden Melina to live, not to become kindling and burn the Golden Tree.

Even if doing so in the game’s plot would destroy the World Melina loved and lead to Melina hunting him down,

Joa still chose to let Melina live.

In the game’s desperate and oppressive World, without Melina and Ranni,

what was the point of even becoming the Elden Lord?

There was nothing to regret about destroying it.

‘I was powerless in the past, but this time! Little wooden Melina! I will save You! And the World You deeply love!’

‘And Ranni, You no longer need to run towards the distant stars with fear, hesitation, and loneliness.’

‘I will bring to The Lands Between!’

‘A brand new!’

‘Blacklight Law!!’

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Blacklight Star.

Joa stood in the void, gazing at The Boys and Ninja World’s spatial gates, taking a deep breath.

‘Currently, my strongest subordinates are Hashirama, Madara, Hagoromo and Hamura, who were sealed on the Moon by Kaguya, and Toneri, whom I sent back to the Moon.’

‘For this probe, to avoid unforeseen circumstances, I’ll take fewer people with me and Ancient One to The Lands Between.’

‘Hashirama, Madara… Oh, right, and Danzo.’

‘Sending Danzo to infiltrate the forces of The Lands Between might have unexpected effects.’

‘As for the time, location…’

Joa ultimately chose the time period he was most familiar with, after Queen Marika shattered the elden ring.

It was all Miyazaki’s fault for his fragmented storytelling, hiding things!

This forced him to abandon choosing a time before the shattering of the elden ring to maintain his advantage of foreknowledge.

Bringing Hashirama, Madara, and Danzo to Blacklight Star,

Joa first saved the state of Mechblood Life into the Holy Digivice, and then maximized their strength.

Afterward, he explained the mission of collecting data on the strength of The Lands Between creatures to Hashirama and the others.

Perhaps feeling that bringing only a few people wasn’t secure enough, Joa turned to Hashirama, Madara, and Danzo.

“You all wait here on Blacklight Star; don’t run around.”

With that, Joa returned to the Marvel Universe, extending his sight and hearing, searching for Kaguya, who was out shopping, and the location of Fallen Seraphimon.