"Phew~"
Seeing that all the enemies had been dealt with, Steve let out a long breath and stood up, supporting himself with the sofa on the ground.
He turned his head to look at the messy banquet hall.
Finally, his gaze landed on Tony Stark, who had slowly landed from the air.
It seemed that the blood of the demon Tony just killed was quite corrosive. At this moment, with flames jetting from his feet to land, his arm hadn't recovered its original shape, and electric arcs were still sparking, making Tony look exceptionally weird.
But after hesitating for a moment, Steve still spoke up.
"Tony..."
However, before he could say anything, a burst of extremely uncomfortable retching sounds came from the other side.
"Blargh... spit it out! Quick!"
The sudden sound interrupted everyone's train of thought.
Everyone turned their heads and saw Harry, who was Venom-ized, slapping his head and chest frantically.
The next moment.
"Ptooey~"
Half a dog head was spat out from Venom's grinning mouth.
Black lines appeared on everyone's foreheads.
Ignoring Harry, who continued to dry heave after retracting the Venom into his body...
Cap spoke again.
"Tony, we..."
Whoosh~
A white light flashed past the speaking Captain's face.
The demon, whose head had clearly been half-shattered, had secretly moved, trying to push away the sofa and stand up. Now, a blue-white energy arrow pierced directly through the sofa and pinned it firmly to the ground.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~
Three more arrows followed.
The entire sofa exploded into two halves, and the demon, which had half a breath left, finally ceased to breathe.
Everyone turned their heads again and saw Luca, who had exited his half-dragon form, holding a blue-white energy shortbow about 30 centimeters long, resembling a toy, in his left hand.
"Uh, just making sure it's dead. Cap, please continue."
Seeing everyone still looking at him, Luca helplessly canceled the particle bow and spread his hands.
"Just a portable energy weapon, nothing strange, right?"
Everyone withdrew their gazes with strange expressions, except Clint, who looked at the [Quincy Cross] in Luca's hand with unconcealed envy.
Seeing that no one interrupted him anymore, Steve, whose emotions had become somewhat disjointed, continued.
"Tony, we need an explanation!"
Tony, who had long guessed what Cap was going to say, looked around at the gazes of the others.
Finally, after his 'body' made a series of clack, clack sounds...
The chest and limbs opened, and his main body, appearing as a teenager, walked out.
Under everyone's dumbfounded gaze, he walked towards the laboratory upstairs where the explosion had just occurred.
At the same time, a clear and tender child's voice reached everyone's ears.
"Let's check the situation first..."
At this time, the others hadn't reacted yet and were still in a daze.
Pepper, seeing Tony's true form revealed, hurriedly picked up her handbag from the ground, clutched the capsule Luca gave her, and quickly followed him.
Everyone looked at each other in dismay.
At this moment, inside the second-floor laboratory.
Having experienced the explosion just now, all the surrounding glass had shattered. Most of the experimental equipment was damaged, and various fragments and charred documents were scattered all over the floor.
Even 'Dum-E,' the intelligent mechanical arm Tony had always valued, fell to the ground, emitting electric sparks with sizzle sizzle sounds.
The various lights, which weren't sturdy to begin with, had long been completely destroyed.
However, the laboratory wasn't actually dim at this moment.
Because right in the center of the laboratory, a strange portal extremely familiar to Luca was still emitting crimson light, reflecting eerily on everyone's faces.
"Gate of Hell?!"
Luca frowned slightly, his face also looking grim.
But when he turned to look at Tony, he found that Dr. Banner was poking Tony's arm with a suspicious look, seemingly trying to confirm the authenticity of the Tony in front of him.
Yes, although Tony had returned to his adult state after everyone went upstairs...
Luca estimated that Pepper probably didn't want Tony to lose face, so she took the time to give him the antidote before the others came up.
It was just... Dr. Banner's reaction...
Are you that dense?
Luca shook his head secretly, but still continued to ask.
"Tony, didn't we say we wouldn't touch this stuff for the time being?"
Because the previous research on locating hell souls caused a small-scale demon invasion, and even Mephisto's avatar descended.
After that, the two agreed to shelve this project temporarily, or at least not touch the most dangerous Gate of Hell, to avoid causing a catastrophe.
Who would have thought that Tony actually created another one in his own home?
However, facing Luca's question, although Tony remained expressionless, he shook his head slightly.
"It's not a Gate of Hell. This position should have been the portal device prepared for Gwen to return to her original world."
At this moment, the Gate of Hell in front of Luca only consisted of pure red energy forming a rift, and a small amount of base wreckage after the explosion.
Even the power supply lines were all blown away.
So although Luca had researched this, he didn't notice previously that this wasn't a Gate of Hell.
Hearing Tony say this now, Luca frowned even tighter.
"Otherworld Portal? Impossible to get the coordinates wrong. Did you use a magical artifact for power supply?"
After saying this, even Luca denied it himself.
Setting aside whether Tony had a suitable spatial magical artifact, he wasn't stupid and wouldn't be greedy for such cheap advantages.
"It might be... because of that new project I mentioned earlier..."
"Otherworld Invasion Node Stabilization?"
Banner also thought of what the three were discussing just now.
But at this time, Rhodes, who really couldn't listen anymore, finally couldn't help asking.
"Hey hey! So, no one wants to explain what the Gate of Hell is? And those... demons just now?"
"I thought biological mutations and alien invasions were ridiculous enough. Is God and Heaven going to appear next?"
"Can't you guys usually research safer things like armor and robots?"
Obviously, not only Rhodes couldn't help it, but Hawkeye Clint and Captain America Steve also complained one after another.
Only Natasha, who was leaning aside with her arms crossed, saw that the situation seemed wrong and stepped forward in time to smooth things over.
"Shouldn't our top priority be to close this door first? For example... cut off the power or something?"
Hearing their words, Luca and Tony looked at each other.
"I'll call Mitsuki to try!"
"I'll try to recover the cause of the explosion before!"
After speaking, Luca turned his head, sent a message, and began to briefly explain the intelligence about the Hell Dimension and demons to the others. Tony pulled Dr. Banner along to try to restore the changes in the laboratory.
However, what neither of them knew was.
The opening of the Gate of Hell this time was far from simple...