53 Chapter 53. Phoenix Rising! Iron Man Is Born!

[When Tony woke up, he found himself lying in a cave with a strange round gear-shaped thing on his chest.]

[There was another middle-aged bald man in the cave. His name was Yinsen.]

[Yinsen told Tony that there was a lot of shrapnel left in his body, which would gradually flow to his heart along the blood vessels and eventually kill him.]

[The electromagnet on his chest was temporarily stopping shrapnel with magnetic force to preserve his life.]

[At this moment, the steel gate suddenly opened, and a group of armed thugs rushed in, led by a bearded man.]

[The bearded man walked up to Tony and spoke passionately, but Tony didn't understand him at all.]

[Yinsen translated next to him, "He said, welcome Tony Stark, the most famous mass murderer in the history of America."]

"Hahahaha, mass murderer! That's a good point."

Seeing Tony's awkward appearance on screen, young Wanda laughed happily.

Tony was ignoring her at the moment.

Looking at the scene on screen, Tony soon thought of a horrible possibility.

"My weapons, my bombs, have all flowed into the hands of these militants!"

"Could it be ... is there a traitor inside Stark Industries?"

[It turned out that the bearded man wanted Tony to make Jericho missiles for him.]

[Then, Tony was taken out of the cave to the camp outside.]

[He saw a mountain in the camp, all of which were Stark's arms piled up.]

[After returning to the cave, Tony's heart was in his throat, thinking that the armed thugs would kill him no matter what.]

[While Yinsen, beside him, was trying to persuade him not to give up.]

[With Yinsen's encouragement. Tony finally pulled himself together.]

[In the name of making missiles, he asked the mob for a large amount of equipment and materials, ready for a big fight.]

"Mr Tony, are ... you really going to make Jericho missiles for them?"

Looking at Tony on screen, removing the palladium from inside a weapon. Peter Parker finally couldn't help but ask.

"No! Not a missile."

Looking at Yinsen on screen, who was casting the melted palladium into a ring under his own instructions... Tony couldn't help taking a deep breath.

"I'm building an arc reactor!"

[With Tony's efforts, the rudimentary miniature arc reactor finally ran and glowed brightly.]

["Wow, that doesn't look like a Jericho missile." Looking at the arc reactor taking shape in front of him, Yinsen uttered a sound of awe.]

[Tony: "That's because it's a miniaturised arc reactor. It should keep the shrapnel out of my heart."]

[Yinsen: "But what could it generate?"]

[Tony: "If my math is right, and it always is. 3 gigajoules per second."]

[Yinsen: "That could run your heart for 50 lifetimes."]

[Tony spoke with a stony face, "Or something big for 15 minutes."]

["Whoosh!"]

[Finally, Tony showed his plan to Yinsen. He took out a pile of blueprints with a separated picture of a steel battle armour on it.]

"Could ... this be the original battle armour?"

Tony's breathing became heavy as he closely examined the bulky battle armour in the drawings.

"Hey, are you going to make something like this inside a cave?"

Stephen Strange's eyes widened. There was a look of disbelief in his eyes.

Wanda, on the other hand, held her breath and looked nervous.

'No way?'

'Even with this progress, this villain can still escape?'

[The video continued]

[Finally, the bearded man found out that Tony wasn't building a missile.]

[They rushed in, threatened Tony with Yinsen's life and gave him a one-day deadline.]

[After the mob left, Tony and Yinsen began to assemble the armour without sleep.]

[But at the last moment, the bald boss of the militant force found something unusual and sent someone to check it out.]

[But they never thought that Tony had installed a bomb on the steel gate beforehand, and the minions were blown up as soon as the door was opened.]

["No, we need more time."]

[Hearing the sound of the explosion, Yinsen knew that time was running out, so he quickly started the power system for the armour.]

[But in order to buy time for Tony, he eventually grabbed his weapon and rushed out.]

Seeing Yinsen disappear into the cave on screen, Tony's heart suddenly jumped into his throat.

This strange man could be considered his own saviour!

'Is he going to die like this?'

[Finally, the power system reached 100% and successfully started up.]

[The cave turned dark.]

[Several armed thugs rushed in, raised their guns and started shooting everywhere.]

[But it didn't take long for a steel giant to stand in front of them, and with one punch, the thugs flew out.]

[The Mark 1 was born!]