Tony bit his lip; he was equally anxious, but he still nodded solemnly.
"I believe it can work. Captain, Homelander also participated in the design of that thing."
"And... I believe in Peter. He can do it."
On the field.
The heavy footsteps of the giant beast approached step by step.
Peter looked up, and through the dust-filled sky, he saw the giant beast that blotted out the sun.
And Eros, who stood on top of the giant beast, looking down at him.
"Now, Spider-Man." Eros raised his hand and pointed at Peter. "Round two begins..."
Roar!
The giant beast opened its bloody maw, and a ghostly blue light gathered deep in its throat.
Atomic Breath, ready to be unleashed!
Peter stared at the mountain-sized monster before him and took a difficult deep breath.
"Alright, it seems Mr. Homelander was right; villains always have a Plan B."
Peter mocked himself, shot webs from both hands, and began to flee frantically.
The Atomic Breath swept past his heels, burning the entire street into a river of lava.
"Good heavens! That breath is too heavy! You need a mint!"
But this was merely the beginning of the disaster.
Under Eros's command, the giant beast turned into a machine of destruction.
Its thick tail, like the scythe of the God of Death, swept wildly back and forth through the city ruins.
Peter shot a web in mid-air, attempting to stick to a residential building that hadn't collapsed yet.
But the very instant the web stuck, the giant beast's tail sliced that building in half.
Peter lost his leverage, and his body lost balance in mid-air.
"No, no, no! This is not good!"
He hurriedly fired webs in succession to stabilize himself.
But the giant beast's massive claw had already swiped over with a whistling wind.
Whoosh!
Although Peter twisted his waist to the limit in mid-air to dodge the direct swipe, the violent air currents kicked up by the claw still sent him flying.
He fell from a height of over thirty meters, crashing heavily into a pile of car wreckage.
"Oh, my back..." Peter groaned in pain, feeling his back go numb.
He stood up while holding his waist, looked down, and his heart instantly sank.
The high-tech web-shooters fixed to his wrists had their casings cracked in the collision, and the micro-circuits inside were sparking with blue electricity.
"Damn it, this equipment is expensive." Peter said with a bitter face, "Mr. Stark won't make me pay for it, will he?"
Without his webs, in this ruin where a hundred-meter giant beast was rampaging, he was like a bird that had lost its wings.
Seeing the giant beast lift its massive foot to stomp on him again, Peter immediately removed the web-shooters.
He pressed his middle and ring fingers directly against his palms.
"Alright, although it's a bit gross, this is the evolutionary power bestowed by Principal Homelander!"
Pfft! Pfft!
Two strands of white organic webbing sprayed directly from under the skin of his wrists.
Thanks to Compound V, his physique had evolved, allowing him to synthesize organic webbing within his body.
Although this organic webbing was far inferior to the man-made webs enhanced by black technology in terms of toughness and versatility, in this situation, it was already a life-saving straw.
Peter struggled to weave through the ruins.
He was truly in life-threatening danger now; every attack from the giant beast was lethal.
And Eros, standing on top of the giant beast, would occasionally throw surrounding rubble and debris at him, blocking his movement.
The most fatal part was that the environment of the arena had changed inadvertently.
The original metropolis had been almost razed to the ground under the rampage of the giant beast.
The once towering skyscrapers were now just rubble and broken walls.
Without skyscrapers as pivot points, Peter's webs lost their greatest utility.
If he couldn't swing in the air, he could only hop around the low ruins like a flea, and his stamina consumption would increase exponentially.
"Hoo... hoo..." Peter hid behind a billboard, taking deep breaths to adjust his breathing.
Suddenly, the billboard was torn apart by a giant claw.
The giant beast glared at Peter with a fierce look in its eyes.
And on top of the giant beast, Eros was watching him with leisure.
"It's over, Peter."
Eros said in a regretful tone.
"You have nowhere left to hide."
"I'll give you one more chance to surrender, and I guarantee I'll let you leave the arena alive. Otherwise... you know what happens!"
Peter flicked his wrists lightly and suddenly started laughing.
That cockiness belonging to a teenager returned to his tone.
"Mr. Starfox! Do you think that as long as you're big enough, you can win?"
"Then you might have gotten one thing wrong... You aren't the only one with a big guy!"
Eros frowned slightly, and a sense of foreboding suddenly welled up in his heart.
Just at this moment, the spider totem on Peter's chest suddenly popped open, and a metal disc shining with mysterious magic light ejected and landed on the open ground in front of him.
Hum—!
The moment the disc touched the ground, it didn't stop but instead spun rapidly across the wasteland like a top.
It left behind dazzling golden magic lines along its path.
In the blink of an eye, these lines intertwined into a huge magic circle!
At the same time, the micro-speaker integrated inside the disc activated, and a blood-pumping BGM resounded through the ruined arena.
Peter raised his right hand high, fingers spread wide, as if to grasp the entire firmament.
He shouted with all his might:
"Principal Homelander said! A hero is someone who creates miracles in desperate situations!"
"Come out! My magic Warrior—Spider King Kong!!!"
Boom—!
The magic circle shone brightly, and the violent fluctuations blew all the surrounding rubble away.
Under the gaze of countless shocked eyes, a giant red and blue metal object slowly rose from the center of the magic circle!
That was a mechanical head styled after Spider-Man!
Clack clack clack clack—!
This giant head unfolded with a series of metallic clanking sounds!
The mechanical limbs quickly locked into place like folding giant swords.
The shoulder armor popped outward.
Within just a few seconds, a "Spider Mech" full of oppressive power, fusing magic and peak technology, stood imposingly on the wasteland!
And at this moment, the cockpit on the mech's chest, shining with magical light, had already opened.
"Tear it apart!" Eros snapped out of it, shouted, and immediately commanded the giant beast to attack.
But Peter had already shot a web one step ahead, his body catapulting into the cockpit like a slingshot.
"Neural connection synchronization complete. Welcome, Mr. Parker." The voice of the AI Karen rang out.
At this moment, the giant beast's tail was already close at hand.
Bang—!!!
The Spider King Kong's huge mechanical arm raised, fingers spread wide, firmly catching the giant tail that had swung over!
And the mech's lower body stood as if rooted, without moving an inch.
"Now, Mr. Eros." Peter's cheerful voice came out through the speakers, "We are the same size now!"
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