Chapter 144: National Day Mega-Bundle

Captain America, holding his shield and panting, looked up at the sky. Standing beside him in turn were the Black Widow, Hawkeye, Spider-Man, and Christa the Snow Queen.

"It's fortunate that someone on our side controls this kind of weapon," Steve murmured.

"Though that kid is usually unreliable, I have to admit everyone needs him at a critical moment," Hawkeye said.

"If not for Luke, we couldn't imagine what the consequences of this battle would be right now," Black Widow's lips curved up slightly.

Thor and Iron Man descended from the sky one after another, joining the others.

Then came the Hulk. Leaping across the rooftops and finding no opponents left, he landed with a thunderous crash.

The Avengers all looked up, watching the nine-meter-tall Voltron gradually disappear into the horizon toward Washington.

About ten minutes later, the Orb of Darkness transformed back into the Orb of Light. Instead of emitting terrifying and destructive dark rays, it radiated a soft, golden glow once again, washing over everyone and filling them with renewed strength.

Given a brief yet precious respite, the Avengers clashed once more with the frantically surging Chitauri army!

High in the sky, Voltron cruised at a supersonic speed of Mach 1.8, racing toward Washington.

"Luke, let's turn back. There are too few enemies here," Roths said with dissatisfaction, somewhat disgruntled by their gradual departure from the main battlefield.

"We have to go save that President. Didn't you hear just a moment ago?"

"Why save him? We can't kill him anyway..."

"Don't always think about killing and slaughtering. Spreading the glory of the Apostles isn't the only way. We can make people fear us, but of course, we can also choose the path of making them worship us."

"Hmph, only the weak care about the opinions of ants," Roths snorted.

"You're right. My strength really isn't strong enough yet," Luke didn't argue, instead snapping back, "If you hadn't restricted me from drawing from the magic box at will, my strength would have long surpassed this level."

Roths snorted knowingly and kept quiet.

It wanted to say that system resources were also limited, but swallowed the words back.

"What is the Pentagon? Why is the President there?" Roths asked after a moment.

"The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. Well, it can be considered the general command center of this nation's military, right? As for why the President is there, I guess he's probably formulating a counterattack plan?"

Along the way, they encountered a few small, scattered squads of Chitauri, all of which Luke unceremoniously eliminated by dispatching G-3 Predators.

"The military's command center?" Roths's small eyes rolled around a few times. Pondering something, it suddenly asked, "Luke, do you want to become stronger?"

"Nonsense. Isn't that what I've been doing all along?"

"Beep! System quest issued."

"Huh? Another quest?" Luke's interest was piqued instantly.

"Quest objective: Blow up the Pentagon. Reward..."

"Wait, hold on..."

Before Roths could finish, Luke interrupted him.

"Roths, why do you always want to blow something up? Either you want to blow up Stark Tower, or you want to blow up the Pentagon. Can we please change our life goal?"

Roths glanced at him sideways, snorted, and went on its own way: "Quest reward: National Day Super Gift Pack!"

"Holy shit..."

Luke's eyes instantly turned blood-red.

The National Day Super Gift Pack cost a staggering 5.9 billion gold coins in the system store! An astronomical price! Normally, facing such a price, he could only look on with despair, quench his thirst with the thought of plums, and sigh at the vast ocean. But now the opportunity was right before his eyes...

Luke sighed helplessly and said, "Roths, you always issue quests like this, and it puts me in a very difficult position."

"Just tell me whether you're doing it or not."

"I'll do it!"

"There you go," Roths snorted. "You're always like this, Luke. Your mouth says you don't want it, but your body is very honest."

"..." Luke was petrified.

Quest requirements: Blow up the Pentagon in the name of the Apostle.
Completion reward: One National Day Super Gift Pack.

"Oh, can we actually preview the rewards this time?" Luke was surprised to find that the system was displaying the reward preview to him.

This gift pack contains the following items:
[Magic Box * 100]
[Epic Equipment Blueprint Random Gift Box * 1]
[First Awakening Skill Random Gift Box * 1]
[All-Class Skill Optional Gift Box * 3]
[Seria's Handmade Cake * 250]
[Token of Hope * 100]
[Borderless Small Cubic Fragment * 1000]
[Molatite * 1000]
[Data Chip * 1000]
[Cosmic Soul * 10]
[Mall Gift Pack 5.9-Discount Coupon * 1]

"Goodness..." Luke couldn't help exclaiming once more. "As expected of a sky-high gift pack worth 5.9 billion dollars; aside from being expensive, it literally has no flaws..."

A First Awakening skill, drawn at random! Right now, as long as it didn't duplicate, he would be happy to get any awakening.

Three optional skills for any class! This was simply too overpowered, offering massive operational flexibility.

As for the others, several rewards with uncertain upper limits made him desperately want to open this gift pack right now. Unfortunately, he had to complete the quest first.

"Damn it, to actually use something like this to tempt me..." Luke gritted his teeth viciously and said, "Assistant, increase thrust, full speed ahead!"

Amidst the clouds, Voltron flew like lightning toward Washington, D.C.

The Pentagon had a history of over sixty years. As a defense engineering project supervised by the military throughout its construction, this magnificent building covering an area of over two hundred square meters had stood the test of time. Thanks to regular, astronomical maintenance every year, it still looked brand new to this day.

However, all of this would become dust in history today.

The dark sky before dawn was continually illuminated by flashes of artillery fire. The sounds of fierce explosions and gunfire were deafening around the Pentagon.

Military planes and helicopters thundered across the sky, engaging in a desperate, life-or-death battle with the locust-like alien invaders.

On the ground, several hundred tanks from an armored division were deployed around the Pentagon, treating the situation as a grave emergency.

In the sky not far away, two gigantic Leviathans undulated their bodies, gradually coming within the firing range of the tanks. Suddenly, artillery fire erupted simultaneously! The sound was deafening, causing the ground to shake.

Amidst waves of gunfire, massive fireballs exploded across the gigantic bodies of the Leviathans; however, this could only slightly impede them, failing to destroy them instantly.

A division's tanks continued to fire wildly, attempting to prevent these two behemoths from approaching the vital area of the Pentagon.

Countless aircraft in the sky were inextricably locked in combat with the Chitauri army, their burning wrecks indiscriminately plunging downward as fiery meteors. Quite a few of those fireballs crashed right into the Pentagon.

Not only the Pentagon, but several surrounding buildings were also engulfed in flames and thick smoke. Stretching as far as the eye could see, it was a scene of utter apocalypse!