NOVEL WEB Chapter 20: SYSTEM
After getting out of the vehicle, Bucky—the masked Winter Soldier—headed straight toward the unconscious Human Torch.
He stared at him with a cold expression. His mission this time was to retrieve the man and return him to the base.
Bucky hadn't received orders from Pierce to kill the Human Torch. His task was to provide support, surveillance, and ensure that the Torch didn't fall into the hands of Whitehall or Baron Strucker.
As is well known, Hydra never truly unites.
"Sorry to interrupt, gentlemen, but that guy is coming with me."
Isaac appeared from his stealth mode, descending to the ground and facing the Hydra operatives with utter confidence.
Before he could finish his sentence, he felt a sharp gust of wind behind him.
Taking a sidestep, he dodged the attack easily, then turned to see who the assailant was.
The attacker turned out to be a woman in a silver-gray combat suit. He recognized her instantly from the outfit—Ghost, the villain who appeared in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Ghost could phase her molecular structure, allowing her to pass through solid matter, making her nearly invulnerable to physical attacks.
But the ability had side effects—over time, her molecules became unstable, and she risked turning into an invisible cloud at any moment.
"Buy one, get one free? No—buy one, get two?"
Isaac commented sarcastically as he glanced at Ghost, then shifted his gaze to Bucky and the Human Torch.
In the era of the Marvel List, everyone was desperate to unleash their full potential and rise in rank. But for Isaac, wasn't this like being handed a meal ready to eat?
Snap!
With a simple snap of his fingers, all the armed Hydra agents dropped to the ground simultaneously, without even understanding what had happened.
The scene was so bizarre, it made Ghost's heart tremble. Even Bucky looked stunned. He immediately bent down to inspect the fallen soldiers.
Bucky wore a serious expression, remaining wary of Isaac, who seemed completely unbothered.
These highly trained elite soldiers had been taken out in an instant—a strange and deadly power previously unheard of.
Isaac sighed as he looked at the corpses and muttered to himself,"Void Engine is extremely effective for crowd control."
In the twentieth year after arriving in this world, the system granted him a character template, available every ten years upon login. This time, it was Espada Barragan Luisenbarn. As a former ruler of Hueco Mundo, he possessed immense power and many time-based abilities.
Against Hydra's soldiers, Isaac had used a modified version of time acceleration—but instead of aging the body, it accelerated the soul, killing them instantly with no physical damage.
As for the finger snap? That was just for dramatic flair.
"Can the system analyze the enemy's data?" Isaac asked while looking at Ghost.
System: "Target is in an unstable condition. Data cannot be read at the moment. Analysis suggests high resistance to physical damage."
Isaac nodded.
"I know who you are. How about a deal? I'll help stabilize your molecular state... in exchange, serve me."
He said it coldly, not even acknowledging Bucky's presence.
Bucky, not one for many words, was secretly relieved Isaac ignored him. He pulled out a rocket launcher from the vehicle and silently aimed it at him.
Whoosh!
The rocket fired, but Isaac didn't even flinch. He simply raised his right hand slightly, and the missile froze mid-air before falling to the ground harmlessly.
Bucky: "???"
Aura: 1000+
He stared at the rocket in disbelief. Was it defective? Or was something else going on?
Still unconvinced, Bucky tossed the launcher aside, grabbed an automatic rifle, and opened fire on Isaac.
To him, there was no such thing as an unbeatable opponent. And if bullets didn't work, maybe a laser cannon would.
Isaac just shook his head, pitying him.
Snap!
Another finger snap—and Bucky dropped to the ground.
"What a lazy system!"
Isaac muttered as he looked down at the fallen soldier.
Analyzing the Winter Soldier had taken dozens of seconds. He was enhanced, and the system hadn't dealt with that kind of biological state before.
When Isaac first arrived, he realized that the powers he gained would start adapting from scratch, because the world used here wasn't the same one his powers originally came from.
In the Marvel universe, the rules were different... and the system here was like a new software installed on outdated hardware: functional, but far from optimized.
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