Chapter 44: Upgrading Equipment!
Iron Man's armor was indeed cool and full of black technology, but all of this was based on the premise of having mechanical arms to assist in wearing it.
Once the mechanical arms were gone, if one had to put it on manually, it wouldn't be a question of coolness anymore; that thing would be pure social death.
That's right, Sherlock experienced such a socially embarrassing scene, with Tony purely manually helping Sherlock put on the Mark Two armor, and it was in full view of everyone.
For Sherlock, this act was no different from shitting in public. In fact, when Tony excitedly disassembled the Mark Two and called Sherlock to stand still, a profound question inexplicably popped into Sherlock's mind.
If you were taking a shower and a disaster occurred in the bathhouse, and this disaster quickly attracted national attention, with reporters, crowds watching the spectacle, and live streamers outside the scene...
And as a survivor of this disaster, when you were rescued, the only thing you had to cover yourself with was a towel. The question is, do you use it to cover your face or to cover your private parts?
Sherlock originally thought this was just a joke, but he never expected that one day he would face a similar situation, and Sherlock's choice was simple: cover his face!!
He forcefully demanded that Tony put on the armor's helmet and faceplate first. As for the rest, Sherlock said he didn't care; if it was social death, then so be it. As long as his face was covered, he had nothing to be ashamed of.
Putting aside this socially embarrassing process, Sherlock still had a high opinion of Tony's Mark armor. At the very least, just the act of flying at supersonic speeds in the sky was enough to make Sherlock forget that socially embarrassing wearing experience.
Moreover, as a sensible guy, Sherlock only experienced Tony's armor once and then was done with it. After all, for Sherlock, it was fine as a toy, but if it came down to it, no matter how fast it flew, could it be faster than a teleportation gate?
Sherlock was now a player who used distant teleportation gates and close-range Phantom Shift flashes.
After about an hour of flying, the two successfully returned to New York. The moment they landed and took off their armors, Sherlock used Phantom Shift to leave Tony's Villa.
An hour later, Sherlock returned to Tony's house driving a Shelby raptor Baja customized edition, bought with S.H.I.E.L.D.'s compensation money, and Tony's expression finally improved a little.
At first, he thought Sherlock had run away.
Sherlock talked him down, and Tony finally calmed down and agreed that Sherlock had done nothing wrong.
After all, it was money paid by S.H.I.E.L.D. If it wasn't spent cleanly, let alone Sherlock, even Tony felt a bit uneasy, as Nick Fury always gave off a cunning and treacherous vibe.
After sorting out his beloved car, Sherlock no longer hesitated, tossing a Destroyer Armor arm to Tony, and then he hid in the library to begin studying the core of the Destroyer Armor.
Although Tony was quite displeased about only being given one arm, he couldn't do anything about Sherlock. He immediately immersed himself in the research of the Destroyer Armor.
Although the two worked on their own, they truly did manage to figure out something. First, Tony, although he hadn't yet found a way to completely analyze the metal composition of the Destroyer Armor.
However, the structure of the armor itself gave Tony great inspiration, and he designed a very classic folding Iron Man armor, which was the Mark Five armor.
However, because it needed to be compressed and miniaturized, the new armor's protective power and attack methods were greatly reduced, far less effective than the Mark Four Tony was currently wearing.
As for Sherlock's side, in the library, he isolated everything and wasn't worried about anyone discovering his research on the core. Boldly hypothesizing and carefully verifying, he quickly understood what the core roughly was.
If there were no surprises, this thing should be somewhat similar to the Sun, relying on magic runes to lock in the Sun's power, and it was also through the power of runes that Loki could remotely control the armor.
Sherlock quickly eliminated the runes used for remote control within the core, and then he generously brought out the full form of the Destroyer Armor.
Seeing that Sherlock had finally revealed the goods, Tony no longer hesitated. The two began to study the Destroyer Armor like obsessed fans.
With the help of Sherlock's magic knowledge and Tony's brilliant mind, the two quickly figured out what each needed.
Sherlock used alchemy to fashion the Destroyer's core into something resembling a collar, with the golden energy core decorated in the center of a collar buckle adorned with ornate gems, providing power and amplification for the armor Sherlock was refining.
And Sherlock's armor—no, it could no longer be called armor; battle suit would be more appropriate—Sherlock, with great flair, used the Destroyer's metal as raw material to refine a suit full of magic.
The overall design referenced the protagonist Elias Ainsworth's attire from the anime "The Ancient Magus' Bride," which Sherlock had watched before transmigration.
However, the helmet was still the one Tony gave Sherlock, and he didn't completely copy Elias Ainsworth's appearance by making a bone helmet. Sherlock directly integrated the helmet's functions with the suit.
Not only was it flashy, but most importantly, its defensive power was not low. Tony had tested it, and one shot from his repulsor ray could not cause any damage.
Of course, Sherlock also realized the quick transformation function he had been longing for. By pulling the collar buckle on the collar, he could quickly change outfits.
Thanks to the omnipotent magic, and thanks to the help of the Traceless Extension Charm!
Of course, Tony's side naturally couldn't neglect this. Although experiments showed that the Destroyer Armor's metal raw material could not be a substitute for palladium metal, this material was much more durable than the metals currently on Earth.
Especially after Sherlock finished refining his clothes, there was still a lot of material left, and Sherlock naturally wouldn't let these precious materials go to waste.
He stuffed all of it into Tony's Mark Five, and even helped the Mark Five with a wave of magic enhancement.
Facing Sherlock's epic upgrade, the Mark Five, originally intended only for emergencies, even surpassed the defensive power of the normal Mark Four. Even its only weapon, the repulsor ray, gained an armor-piercing effect.
Of course, the cost was also very obvious. The Mark Five's energy consumption rate began to skyrocket. Eventually, Tony even had to add another miniature arc reactor to the Mark Five to keep up with its energy consumption rate.