In early February, Zhang returned to New York, and Oakes dumped all the Stark Industries stocks he had and invested all his money on the promotion of the drink acorn.

And Zhang's task is to work with Melinda to open the market for this outrageously low-cost high-end drink, at least in New York.

This will accumulate a large amount of money for the Rende Society.

Oakes, on the other hand, has once again come to the Amazon rainforest, which has been absent for a long time.

This time, in order to deal with the ensuing crisis, Oakes will focus on one of the four talents - recovery spells.

In the beginning, Oakes first focused on cultivating the Wild Combat and Guardian talents, that is, animal transformation.

With the blessing of a part of the power of nature, the animal form can exert a powerful combat power.

And restoring spells requires him to have a greater degree of control over the forces of nature.

After all, Oakes was only a quick druid who had awakened for less than a decade, which is why he had previously been able to use plant essences and be in the forest environment to use his healing powers.

Despite his good potential, Oakes is completely beyond the initial stage where he can quickly grow in strength with constant practice.

After the transformation of the wild, the enhancement of the spell part must be increased to channel external energy to achieve this.

And the crisis that he may encounter after this year will not have a large forest to bless him at any time, and it is impossible to prepare a bunch of plant essence potions when fighting.

It is necessary to master powerful healing spells that can be successfully cast without relying on any casting materials.

Therefore, even if he knew that Tony Stark would probably encounter a major change this year, he could only do his best to make an acorn bracelet, and he would have to leave the cultivation instead.

Because Tony's life will not be in danger, but if he doesn't hurry up and work hard, he won't be able to keep up with the pace of the times.

As for the most powerful, the highest ceiling, and even the infinite prospect of balanced spells......

I don't dare to use it now.

Balance spells include natural energy and astral energy, and astral energy is the "cosmic energy" possessed by many bigwigs in this world.

The balance between natural and astral energies allows druids to induce terrifying spell effects.

But the astral energy is too conspicuous, and there is no strong enough natural energy balance that Oakes doesn't even dare to trigger it casually.

After all, to attract the energy of the sun, moon and stars, it seemed nothing to him as a druid, but in the eyes of other magicians, it was not a trivial matter.

Because the mages of this world cast spells by borrowing the power of various dimensions, they rarely directly use cosmic energy.

The earth is guarded by three supreme sanctuaries.

The natural energy used by Oakes comes from the biosphere itself, but the cosmic energy comes from the outside.

Outside energy frequently appears in a fixed location, and the New York Temple will not be able to detect it?

Although I don't know what Supreme Mage Ancient One will do with a completely positive person like him, but without enough strength or chips, Oakes doesn't want to pin his fate on such a small probability event as mercy from others.

Therefore, the little bit of astral energy that he usually quietly attracts can only be transformed with a special device, hmm...... When gasoline is like this.

And when Oakes worked hard to earn a place in his fate, the fate that belonged to Tony Stark officially came to the door.

"What did you do to me?"

"What was done? I saved your life, and I've done my best to get the shrapnel out of your chest, but there's still a lot left, and when they reach your heart, you'll be dead. ”

In the gloomy cave of Afghanistan, Tony, who is finally awake, has the first communication with the suspiciously confused middle-aged man with glasses in front of him, whistling and busy rummaging over what seems to be a fire.

"But it's surprising...... Your wounds heal much faster than I thought and you seem to be awake sooner than expected, it seems that your fitness is much better than it seems. ”

Dr. Ethan, the man with glasses, smiled freely, and Tony's sobriety made him very happy, but of course, he didn't show it.

And finally understood that Tony, who had to rely on the electromagnet in his chest and the car battery next to him to sustain his life, undoubtedly suffered a huge blow-

Of course, as an extremely conceited genius, he would never show any emotion of being hit on his face when there were outsiders.

He rubbed the acorn bracelet that was probably too ordinary to remain on his left wrist — half of the acorns had turned black.

Aside from the shrapnel in his chest, most of the wounds on his body were just a few scars.

It's just that although the acorn bracelet can help him recover from his injuries, it can't remove the shrapnel from his chest.

With a sigh, Tony surveyed the environment and spotted the surveillance camera facing them.

And the people behind the scenes, who found him awake, did not leave him more time to come and meet the "most famous Holocaust in American history" in person.

After being educated and beaten by a reality he never imagined, Tony finally regained his fighting spirit under the guidance of Dr. Ethan.

And......

"My mind is clearer than ever, Oakes, man, hold on for your support......

I've got a great idea now, and when I go back, I won't envy your transformation tricks anymore! ”

At the same time, he gets to know his savior for the first time, a doctor of physics from his fellow captive and from the small town of Gumila.

and, the enemy they need to contend with, the Ten Rings.

In the captured mountains of Afghanistan, in this gloomy cave, as a prisoner, with a pile of broken copper and iron, Tony Stark strode out of his destiny in a desperate situation of life and death-

The epoch-making miniature ark reactor, as well as the Mark I type combat armor.

However, things didn't go as smoothly as they thought.

After all, they are always under the watchful eye of the enemy.

"We still need a little time."

Ethan had a free and easy look on his face, he looked at Tony, who was wearing battle armor and still waiting for the control program to download, with a trace of unwillingness in his eyes, but he forcefully asked him to come as planned, turned around and picked up the submachine gun on the ground:

"I'm going to buy you time!"

"Ethan!"

When Tony, with great rage, took advantage of Ethan's time to break through the blockade of the Ten Rings and see him again, Ethan was already dying in a pool of blood.

After all, he was just a scientist with no military training.

"We said yes, go ahead with the plan."

"That's what my plan is."

"You still have to see your family."

"They...... It's long gone, and I'm going to see them. ”

“…… Thank you for saving me. ”

"Don't waste it...... Your life ......"

“…… I promise, but I want you to see it all with your own eyes. ”

A string of acorn bracelets landed beside Ethan, and the steel gauntlets smashed the three remaining normal-colored acorns.

With Oakes' serious look at him as he gave him the bracelet, Tony struggled to shove them roughly into Ethan's mouth with his heavily leather-gloved hands.

"Live, please!"