Chapter 18: Test of Strength

a few days later.

rain.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the drizzle turned the sea surface outside Stark's mansion into honeycomb coal.

underground garage.

Leon was wearing a tight sensor suit with round iron plates attached to various parts of his body. At the end of the iron plates were induction wires leading to a huge machine.

"Are you sure this iron block can test my strength?" Leon moved his wrist.

Today was the day he and Tony had agreed to test their strength and new abilities.

So at dawn, the sun was struggling to cast a few rays of light through the gaps in the dark clouds.

Tony excitedly dragged him out of the bed.

After washing up and having breakfast, the two went to the underground garage.

A circular iron pier with a radius of three meters is fixed on the wall of the underground garage facing the sea.

This is a prop for testing strength.

"Why do you always use a questioning tone to state a fact?" Tony was very confident.

He introduced: "After you went to space half a year ago, I had a hunch that this day would come, so I built this strength tester here in advance."

“Most of its material comes from a tungsten alloy that I specially synthesized.”

“High melting point, high density, and high wear resistance.”

"It won't deform even if a million-ton object is placed on it, and it won't be damaged even if a force of tens of thousands of tons is applied to it."

"The alloy I created during the synthesis of this tester will be far ahead of its time even if it is used to build a warship."

Tony stood in front of the computer desk: "So don't worry, I guarantee that it won't be damaged by you!"

Leon still had doubts: “Tony, you know, the confidence you have now is exactly the same as when we competed a few days ago.”

Tony was choked. "It's not the same thing. Anyway, you just need to stand in front of the tester and punch with all your might. I'll take care of the rest!"

"No, that's not safe." Leon said, "At least put on your armor first."

Tony slapped his forehead. "I'm more than ten meters away from you and you're not safe? When did you become so arrogant?"

"Put on your armor," Leon repeated.

"Okay, I'll wear it!" Tony raised his hands, "As long as it can make our little princess feel at ease, I can wear it."

The two bracelets on his wrists glowed red.

A few seconds later, a red and gold flying cabin flew in from outside the garage and quickly transformed into a battle armor that wrapped around Tony.

Mark III, this is the new armor that Tony created in the past few days by directly copying Leon's data.

This armor is not made of new elements.

It has almost the same functions as the Mark 7 in the movie.

You know, Mark 7 is a battle armor that only appeared in the first phase of the Avengers, and it is extremely powerful.

Note in parentheses: Leon helped to complete the work so quickly.

Another parenthesis: Tony paid special attention to the liquid circulation function and deliberately excluded this function in front of Leon. I believe that he will suffer for this in the future and then succumb to the law of true fragrance.

"Is it okay now?" Tony stretched his legs and gestured, "I look forward to your performance."

Leon curled his lips speechlessly. This old Deng even plagiarized his lines.

"I hope the tester you build is as tough as your mouth."

He stood in front of the pitch-black tester and took a deep breath. Suddenly, the air in the basement began to surge into wind.

Tony on the other side had never seen such a scene before. He looked around at the papers flying all over the sky in the wind, feeling dumbfounded.

Then he saw Leon slowly squatting back, his muscles bulging like the most perfect stone sculptures.

"Why... I feel like something is not right..."

Tony stared at Leon blankly as he growled and punched out.

Then, the entire underground garage turned upside down in an instant!

Rumble!

The roar like a missile exploding beside his ears filled Tony's whole world.

Everywhere you look there are gravels and dust.

The sudden strong wind blew Tony down, and the tables and chairs fell on him, threatening to carry him to an unknown place with the hurricane.

——If Jarvis hadn't activated the armor's thrusters in time, Tony would have disappeared in the underground garage.

Fortunately, all this commotion did not last long.

After a dozen seconds, the feeling of the earth breaking apart and the sky collapsing disappeared.

The entire underground garage was covered in dust and visibility was almost zero.

"Cough, cough, cough, what happened?" Tony turned off the thrusters and staggered a few steps to the ground.

Then, he heard the sound of Leon exhaling again.

"call!!"

The strong wind blew up again, but this time it was much gentler, blowing away only some debris and smoke in the air.

Now the view is clear.

But Tony's brain shut down.

The originally minimalist basement has now become a war-damaged ruin of Syria.

It is full of holes, like a dilapidated building.

Everything that was originally in the room, the glass, the machinery, the lights... are all gone.

The dozen or so limited edition sports cars parked in the underground garage are also gone.

Even the tester on the wall, which he thought could withstand almost any impact, was left with only a hole.

On the other side of the hole is the misty sea.

"my Lord……"

……

The time comes in the afternoon.

The location is a meadow outside Los Angeles.

The characters are still the brothers Leon and Tony.

The drizzle continued to fall, and Leon, in his shirt, kept banging on a huge round iron pier.

"You said that you, a tough guy, could withstand my strength!"

He complained: "In the end, I didn't even use half of my strength, and it changed from a flat shape to a convex shape."

"And it fell into the sea, so I had to dive down to the bottom of the sea to fish it out."

"Come on, Leon."

Tony was standing fifty meters away, wearing his Iron Man suit, operating the computer to calibrate data and replying via radio.

"Even God couldn't have imagined that your power would be so outrageous."

"God knows you've only been in the sun for half a year, how could your strength increase so greatly? It's like an exponential increase."

“Look at the three months of sun you basked in in Los Angeles six months ago.”

"It took more than ninety days to increase the force by more than four hundred tons."

"Jarvis and I built models based on data from that period."

"I predict that after you return, your force should be between one thousand tons and five thousand tons, and your speed should not exceed Mach five."

"Who would have thought you would be so strong!"

"And look at the TV show Smallville. Clark Kent couldn't fly even after he entered high school, and he's been in the sun for more than ten years!"

Leon stopped what he was doing and pressed the headset: "Do you still watch the Superman TV series? I think that movie is very well made and shows the mental journey of Superman's growth."

"But you probably didn't see the second half, because Superman's performance in the latter part is outrageous!"

Tony retorted: "Then he didn't become as strong as you did!"

"Well, maybe it's because I'm an adult, or maybe it's because I can bask in the sun more efficiently in space?" Leon guessed.

He punched the tester again: "Okay! The tester has returned to its original state. How do we test it now?"