Thanos didn't want to be a villain.

Chapter 211 A Temporary Return to Marvel—The Melancholy Peter Quill

"More people have joined the bounty hunters since the release of Knight's Aura."

That day, Hela, who was resting, found Dio, who had handed over the government affairs to the group of young people and was now wandering around outside.

“That’s normal. In fact, I’ve also created a new gadget specifically for bounty hunters.” With that, Dio stopped his street hopping and took Hela back to his home laboratory.

Seeing an arm guard casually placed in the corner, Diosci picked it up and handed it to Hela.

Hela raised an eyebrow upon seeing this and, under Dio's guidance, put it on her wrist. Soon, Hela felt a stinging sensation, and then a set of nano-armor began to cover 100% of her body surface from the wrist guard.

"This is an armor I made by simulating the Kree's all-purpose weapon. Of course, the principle of the armor is the Black God Set. It can change its shape according to the owner's will. It can absorb energy mainly composed of kinetic energy, light energy and various potential energies for driving. The material is vibranium alloy. It does not have the advantage of perfect energy absorption, but it can weaken most attacks."

According to Dio's explanation, Hela opened the helmet and asked, "Aren't there any other functions?"

"With such limited functionality, it's better to spend a lot of money to buy a Black God Set."

“Of course it can’t be like this.” Dio shrugged and continued:

"The Kree's all-purpose weapons are still very powerful. If they had been used properly, I wouldn't have had to attack the Kree Empire back then."

"However, I must say that the Kree's individual weapons have many merits, which inspired me to equip this suit with a full set of abilities. But for now, it only has three major functions: energy absorption, energy shield creation, force field flight, and the ability to decompose, transform, and deform matter according to will."

Hela took a look, changed the shape of her armor, and then used the armor's functions to conduct an experiment on the target in the laboratory.

There are several targets, made of vibranium, adamantium, and ceramic steel, but Hella's actuation function has no effect on these three targets at all.

Hela turned her head to look at Dio, her gaze carrying a profound meaning.

"I couldn't possibly create a weapon that would affect the threat, could I?" Dio shrugged and laughed.

"This armor has a maximum energy limit. In addition to energy absorption, I added a valve to the functions of flight, matter decomposition and transformation, and deformation. The maximum output is ineffective against the terracotta I made, so it cannot threaten the main armor of the power armor."

"Even the scope of its function is limited, and this thing is not cheap to make. The technology and technical content of the universal weapon are also not low. The difficulty of making one is no less than making a divine weapon containing divine power, so it cannot be mass-produced."

As Dio explained, Hela manipulated the other waste materials in the laboratory test range to perform material conversion and deformation, nodding and saying, "The maximum range is about one hundred meters, and the maximum output can affect materials with a hardness not exceeding that of tungsten steel."

"Impressive! This completely avoids the situation where the troops might encounter bounty hunters and become uncontrollable. You've thought of everything."

Dio accepted Hela's praise without hesitation.

"What is the limit of this thing?" Hela asked curiously.

Dio scratched his head, somewhat uncertainly, and said, "I haven't tested the specific data for this thing, but when I made it, the theoretical limit was that it could manipulate natural phenomena and control lightning, achieve infinite sub-light speed flight in a vacuum, create force fields to control planets, absorb energy to absorb stars, create shock waves that can shatter planets, conduct teleportation beyond the distance of the Milky Way, decompose asteroids and reassemble them, and even create a small star."

Hela was stunned.

"So strong?!"

Dio nodded: "This is a prototype. I set it to be high-end when it was made. Other functions will require opening valves, and the ones sold will probably only have the capabilities you are experimenting with now."

Hela understood that the prototype's superior capabilities wouldn't be installed in the sold version, but the equipment Dio had equipped with safety features was already quite powerful.

“Let’s just sell it like this. By the way, who do you plan to give the prototype to?” Hela asked.

“You can keep the prototype; you can keep it in your collection,” Dio suggested.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with giving it to Hela. After all, Hela had already achieved genetic recognition, and the boost to strength from this kind of equipment was actually just so-so in the universe, especially now that the universe had been forced into an arms race by Dio, which was a completely different world from the original Marvel universe.

The dangers in the uninhabited areas of the universe are greater, but so are the opportunities, which is the foundation for the survival of those bounty hunters!

Hela also thought it was good, so she quickly put away the prototype and took it back to her treasure vault.

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Once the armor is completed and mass-produced, the next issue is promotion. Although it is expensive, just like the Black God Set, it offers better value for money, given its many features, making it quite appealing.

While its defensive capabilities are inferior to the Black God Set, its mobility and functionality far surpass them, and the enhanced survivability has put bounty hunters in a difficult position to choose.

Especially now that I've just saved up enough money to buy the original Star-Lord Peter Quill with the Knight's Aura.

After Earth and the universe connected, he rushed home once to meet his grandfather, who was over eighty years old, to resolve his inner conflict before happily returning to work in the Empire.

Because of Peter Quill's own womanizing ways, he often had one-night stands. Although, just like in the original storyline, he met Gamora, Thanos's adopted daughter from the Zehobery clan, and they got to know and fall in love.

Interestingly, he only learned that his grandfather was still alive after he fell in love with Gamora.

At that time, short videos were very popular on Earth, and many aliens in the universe started watching them. It was during this time that Peter Quill saw his grandfather's familiar, aged face in a video shared by his grandfather's caregiver.

His first trip back was rushed. The second time he went back, he brought his girlfriend Gamora and planned to introduce her to his grandfather. However, as soon as he approached Earth, he discovered that his grandfather was not at home. After searching, he found that his grandfather had been arrested by the American government.

Peter Quill was also furious. He called on his coworkers, with whom he had built up a strong relationship over the years, to come together and finally rescue his grandfather.

Then she took her grandfather and lived in the universe.

Although bounty hunting is a job where you can go three years without getting a single job, but when you do get one, you can live off it for three years, it is extremely dangerous.

In addition to the cost of purchasing equipment and daily necessities, their lives were still quite difficult.

Fortunately, Gamora works at a spaceship repair shop and has a stable salary; otherwise, she would have trouble making ends meet.

But Peter Quill still wanted to make a big profit!

However, his equipment was damaged during his last treasure hunt, and the money to buy new equipment and repair his spaceship has almost left him in debt. His Transformers at home cannot fly in space, otherwise he wouldn't need to fly another spaceship.

Now, looking at the latest Black God Set 2.0, he is truly tempted.

The Knight's Aura only improves physical fitness and resistance to beatings, but it's not omnipotent. If he had the Black God Set, he could guarantee he'd survive for more than eight hours even in a vacuum environment!

Unfortunately, he only had enough savings to buy one piece of the Black God Set. This was originally the remaining money he and Gamora had together, which was enough to allow the family to live comfortably during this period without income. If they bought the Black God Set, his grandfather and Gamora would have no money to live on while the business was not open.

For a time, Peter Quill was gripped by the melancholy that only men who have grown up and started families experience.