...
Time passed, no one knew for how long.
Leon, whose body had been thrown into the sea, gradually regained consciousness.
Most of his wounds had healed, but a few crater-like scars on his face, where flesh was exposed, were still slowly wriggling and recovering.
"What the f*ck?!"
"Where did that hit send me?!"
Looking at the dark seabed separated by a faint blue energy film, Leon's mind was a bit slow to process.
A flood of memories from his previous life forcibly surged into his mind.
"【Host consciousness detected as awake. Novice protection will be removed in three seconds.】"
"【Three, two, one.】"
"What??"
As the system's countdown ended,
the faint blue energy film covering Leon's body immediately dissipated. The terrifying, all-encompassing pressure of the deep sea instantly enveloped Leon, making it hard for him to breathe.
"I'm going to die! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"
Leon, who didn't yet know how powerful he had become, desperately swam upwards, following his survival instinct!
With a snap, the iron chain, two fingers thick, that had been used to bind him and the rock, easily broke. It was like tearing cotton candy, he felt nothing.
"Huff! Huff!"
Finally swimming back to the shore, Leon, who had escaped the predicament of suffocating to Death, gasped heavily, greedily breathing in the fresh air.
Lying on the beach in a 'spread-eagle' pose, Leon took a while to recover before he finally had the leisure to check what had happened to him.
It turned out that
he was a China exchange student in his previous life.
While chasing the last episode of The Boys Season 3 on a New York street, he was amused by Homelander's betrayal of his teammates on the battlefield.
Without noticing, he ran a red light.
Then, as expected, he was hit by a fully insured large truck and transported to this Marvel Universe, where he was born as Leon Stark, the twin Brother of Iron Man Tony Stark.
The rest needn't be said; he stumbled upon another stroke of luck by chance, thus unlocking the daily sign-in system.
The effect of this cheat, as the name suggests, is to obtain random rewards through daily sign-ins, with basically anything possible to draw.
From the highest heavens to quantum dust,
everything is included, containing infinite possibilities, provided You are lucky enough.
Apparently,
Leon's luck was pretty good.
The novice gift pack gave him a Soldier Boy Template.
In this World, which is likely the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
Soldier Boy, as the power ceiling in The Boys, a superpowered World that plagiarized multiple famous hero Universes, can at least be considered a commendable fighting force.
At least far stronger than Captain America, his original counterpart.
Casually grabbing a handful of sand from the ground, Leon threw it with a little force towards the sea surface.
Bang, bang, bang, the sand hitting the sea surface actually produced an effect like a shotgun. One must know that this was far from Leon's full power, truly terrifying.
Afterward,
Leon also performed tests of defense and strength, such as crushing a large rock on his chest and pulling up a weeping willow.
In a word,
he was practically Superman now, incredibly powerful.
In the original show,
Soldier Boy had impressive displays like brushing his teeth with a machine gun, washing his face with lasers, and inhaling chloroform, with extremely prominent body defense and toxin resistance.
His strength in peak condition could probably also steadily suppress Homelander.
Not to mention his chest blast, which could easily blow up a hundred-story building and weaken or even completely eliminate others' superpowers derived from bodily mutations.
Leon didn't dare to try it easily.
In short,
he was now a walking nuclear reactor.
Below the gods, he could instantly kill anyone he met. (PS: The gods here refer to Asgardians represented by Thor, not to Infinity, Eternity, and the like.)
The only drawback of the chest blast was that it required charging, but it was still a powerful long-range attack method to keep in reserve; having it was better than not.
Lest he be kited and have nowhere to reason.
However,
Leon wasn't blinded by power. Although this World wasn't as dangerous as in the comics, there were many people stronger than him.
Without going into distant examples, just the Sorcerer Supreme Gu Yi alone, Leon was still far from her match; if he caused trouble, he would be instantly killed.
However,
Leon wasn't worried about Ancient One coming to find him. After all, he wasn't a bad person; at most, he just liked making friends a bit. Why would Ancient One come to find him? To make friends?
First, develop early,
Then, directly protect my Earth later, no beef.
"【Question: Do You wish to sign in today?】"
"System, let me see your limits!"
"【Ding, daily sign-in completed. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining 'Super Self-Regeneration'.】"
"【Super Self-Regeneration: Able to regenerate and recover from any injury in an extremely short time; as long as one body cell survives, complete recovery is possible (recovery time is longer in this state).】"
"【Description: I hear the echoes of endless life, rejecting Death!】"
"Oh, a royal flush to start."
Leon's mouth was practically splitting with laughter.
This ability was clearly telling him to go wild without worry.
Deadpool: Let me see what's going on?
In an instant,
the exposed scars on Leon's face recovered as before, with no trace of the previous injuries.
"【Ding, first sign-in completed, character panel has been opened.】"
As the system's voice fell,
a translucent, light-blue, simple character panel, visible only to him, immediately appeared in Leon's vision—
Host: Leon Stark
Abilities: Soldier Boy Template, Super Self-Regeneration
Items: soldier boy suit
"【Explanation: System-produced items will automatically be stored in the system space and can be freely retrieved or recalled within a hundred-meter radius.】"
'Hmm...'
'100 meters, that's more than enough.'
Thinking,
Leon suddenly looked down at the "ragged strips" hanging on him, which were quite shabby.
Always mindful of his image, he quickly retrieved the soldier boy suit from the system space and put it on, instantly reaching a new level of handsomeness.
The heavy shield, which ordinary people could not budge an inch, was like an extension of his arm.
This was the difference in absolute power.
"I am f***ing Soldier Boy!"
...
As the excitement of gaining power slowly faded, the unrestrained smile on Leon's face gradually receded.
He hadn't forgotten that his Brother Tony was probably still imprisoned by those barbarians from the Ten Rings Gang in a cave in Afghanistan, toiling away at iron.
"Obadiah, You dog beyond, once I rescue Tony, You'll get what's coming to You!"
After awakening his past life memories, Leon knew with certainty who had sent the assassins to hit him with the truck.
To completely take Stark Industries into his possession, Obadiah Stane, who viewed Tony and Leon as his biggest obstacles, had become inhuman.
Now, Leon's full-speed running was faster than most household cars. Since the accident location was relatively close to home,
in a short while, he returned to Bin Hai Villa.
Pepper didn't seem to be there.
She was probably busy running around for Tony and Leon's matters.