Tony's armor had no problem deflecting bullets, but in front of the Sentinel Robot, it was torn to shreds in less than a minute.
Pepper anxiously ran to Zhai Nizi, asking him to think of a solution.
Zhai Nizi thought for a moment and said:
"Well, the Sentinel Robot is like a brother to me."
Tony dodged the Sentinel's attacks, scurrying around like a rat.
He shouted:
"More money!"
Immediately after, a cold light flashed, and Tony appeared beside Pepper.
The spot where he had been a second ago was now a large crater punched by the Sentinel Robot.
At this moment, the Terrorists hadn't yet figured out what was happening when the Sentinel Robot began to make clicking sounds.
Then, the Sentinel Robot instantly twisted into a pretzel, like a hollow soda can.
Zhai Nizi walked out of the pit, looking at the Terrorists surrounding him, who were pointing their guns at him.
"Hmph! Don't you know who I am?"
The Terrorists really didn't know who he was; not following the news, they had only heard that a particularly powerful person had appeared, but none of them had seen what he looked like.
Zhai Nizi felt there was nothing more to say to these people, so he made the ground twist, burying them all, leaving only their heads exposed.
When a person breathes, their chest expands and contracts. If the soil is above the chest, under the force of gravity, the soil will compress the person's chest cavity, preventing them from expanding their chest with each breath, eventually leading to suffocation.
Zhai Nizi turned and left without looking back; as the portal closed, those buried could only wait for death.
Back at the mansion, Tony thanked Zhai Nizi, saying he would definitely repay Zhai Nizi in the future.
Zhai Nizi smiled and said, "You have to repay me now."
Zhai Nizi stated his conditions, and Tony agreed without a second thought, even promising that these girls would no longer have to worry about money in the future.
Tony hadn't expected that this person, whom the media had always called an evil god, would actually do such a good deed.
This made Tony understand even more that the media was unreliable.
Tony, Pepper, and Happy were about to leave when Zhai Nizi called out to him again, asking him to stay.
"Although I extorted a large sum of money from you, I cannot let a good person be disheartened. Come with me, I want to give you a gift, as thanks for what you've done for these girls."
Tony followed Zhai Nizi into the elevator, descending to the underground of the mansion. Due to the high ceilings, the Underground Room appeared even more spacious.
Zhai Nizi clapped his hands, and heavy footsteps echoed from the darkness in the distance. Tony guessed it must be an enormous creature.
Slowly, a tall figure appeared in the direction of the footsteps.
As the figure drew closer, Tony clearly saw its face.
It was a Sentinel Robot, but not an ordinary one.
Its form was closer to a human, completely unlike a robot.
It was completely black, with scales covering its body surface.
This was the Sentinel Robot's ultimate form, a Sentinel Robot that could transform its own shape based on the target (the Sentinel Robot from the future World in X-Men: Days of Future Past).
This was one of the spoils Zhai Nizi brought back when he tried to travel through time after meeting Loki, the God of Stories, and gaining the ability to travel through time, which we will discuss later.
Zhai Nizi conjured a Fireball in his palm and threw it at the robot. The moment the Fireball touched it, the robot's exterior turned into ice.
"This is your gift. You can modify it into your armor or whatever you want. Use it however you like."
Tony extended his hand to shake Zhai Nizi's hand:
"Thank you, this is a great gift."
Zhai Nizi performed a complex set of gestures, and the Sentinel Robot transformed into a suit of battle armor.
Tony and the other two left the mansion, and the Sentinel Battle Armor transformed its appearance into an invisible material, flying back with them.
On the way, Happy drove, muttering to himself, "Do you know what a god is? Actually, gods were originally people, but they did things that people couldn't do, which is why they became gods."
Upon returning, Tony unfolded his story, held a press conference, and closed Stark Industries.
He placed the Sentinel Armor Zhai Nizi had given him in the warehouse.
He knew it was powerful, of course, but it wasn't his own creation after all.
He wanted to build an even stronger battle armor himself!
So he built MARK 2, and after testing it, he built MARK 3, and eradicated the Ten Rings Gang.
Later, the mastermind behind Tony's kidnapping—Obadiah—stole the Arc Reactor from Tony's chest and, using the MARK 1 fragments recovered from the Ten Rings Gang, created the Iron Monger armor.
Tony, having lost his Arc Reactor, was on the verge of death. He struggled desperately, picked up the replaced Arc Reactor, and wanted to put on his armor to fight the Iron Monger.
Just as he stumbled towards the armor, he saw the Sentinel Battle Armor Zhai Nizi had given him again.
To stop the Iron Monger as quickly as possible and save Pepper, Tony, to be safe, chose to put on the Sentinel Battle Armor.
The moment the armor was on him, his weak body instantly felt filled with strength.
It was then that he discovered this armor also had the ability to absorb surrounding energy and recharge the Arc Reactor.
Jarvis successfully connected to the armor's system, and Tony immediately flew to Stark Industries at an extremely fast speed.
Inside Stark Industries, Pepper led S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson to apprehend Obadiah.
Pepper originally wanted to ask Zhai Nizi for help again, but she was afraid of being extorted another huge sum of money by him.
What made Pepper even more scared was, what if Zhai Nizi really had feelings for her?
At that time, it must have been because White Queen was there, and in front of so many people, that he said it was a joke, just playing along.
If she were to ask him again this time, she definitely wouldn't be able to escape it.
So she chose the free Coulson.
Coulson also brought a few Agents, and they went to the warehouse, where they encountered Obadiah in the Iron Monger.
Unlike the movie, Tony arrived before the Iron Monger even started to show off.
When Obadiah took Tony's Arc Reactor, he thought Tony was doomed; without the Arc Reactor, Tony would surely die helplessly and painfully from the shrapnel in his chest entering his heart.
But now seeing Tony alive, he began to regret not killing him then. So this time, he would show no mercy.
The Iron Monger raised the 20mm rotary cannon on his right hand and began to spray Tony.
The Sentinel Armor already had extremely high defense, but its mechanism still transformed its exterior into a harder metal, making the Iron Monger's attacks unable to even create a dent.
Tony ignored the Iron Monger's attacks and first moved Pepper to a safe place.
Coulson and the other Agents, after all, were well-trained… a few people died…
The Iron Monger had no intention of letting Tony go; he ran directly towards Tony, mercilessly knocking away anything in his path.
To avoid affecting Pepper, Tony turned and flew towards the Iron Monger, choosing to confront him head-on.
With just one punch, the Iron Monger's right hand was ruined.
"How is this possible!"
Obadiah's furious roar came from inside the Iron Monger's armor; he had already reinforced the metal when he built the Iron Monger, so it shouldn't have been so easily dismantled by Tony.
Tony didn't waste words with him, flying up to completely incapacitate the Iron Monger.
But the Iron Monger suddenly dodged to the side, simultaneously grabbing Tony with his left hand.
The surface of the Sentinel Battle Armor began to glow red, and scorching Fire immediately covered its entire body, but Tony inside the armor didn't feel hot at all.
In a few seconds, the Iron Monger's left hand also melted into molten iron.
"This is impossible! How can such technology exist!"
Obadiah began to panic; he had full confidence in his Iron Monger armor, and with Tony already incredibly weak, he couldn't possibly lose!
But reality was so cruel; after just a few exchanges, the Iron Monger was already close to being scrapped.
The Iron Monger jumped backward, creating enough distance from Tony, and fired anti-tank Rockets from his shoulders towards Tony.
After an explosion, Tony, wearing the Sentinel Battle Armor, walked out of the smoke unharmed.
Although the armor wasn't his own creation, it still made Tony feel incredibly satisfied; he seemed to experience Zhai Nizi's confidence and composure, not caring about any attacks—this was the feeling of a god.
Obadiah knew he was doomed and immediately controlled the Iron Monger, activating the Rocket boosters under his feet, intending to escape.
Tony raised his repulsor ray, aiming at the slowly ascending Iron Monger:
"We have to reciprocate. I'll test the firepower, by the way."
Aim, fire!
The Sentinel Battle Armor's repulsor ray fired a golden light, hitting the target dead on.
Boom!
A dazzling White light erupted in front of Tony, blinding him.
When the light extinguished, there was nothing left of the Iron Monger, not even a speck.
"This..."
Tony was stunned; he hadn't expected the power of that last shot to be so immense.
He and Obadiah had known each other for so many years, and this was how it ended...
If he had known this...
He would have blasted him from the start!
At the mansion, Zhai Nizi saw the flash of light from the distant sky and nodded with satisfaction.
Attaching magic to bullets was just too cool.