Ihe fines of the Fortress Factory…

  "Warning! Alert! The prisoners fined underground in the factory have escaped. All soldiers, proceed immediately to suppress the situation!"

  The walls of the factory were bathed in the gring glow of red warning lights, while urgent messages bred repeatedly through the unication broadcast. Both the guards inside and outside the factory swiftly reacted to the unfolding chaos.

  "So, Steve has already freed the captured soldiers." Kyle, still stealthily navigating the factory corridors, heard the urgent broadcast and instantly realized that Steve had succeeded in the rescue mission.

  He was a lot quicker than Kyle had anticipated! There was no time for ption!

  Up ahead in the hallway, Kyle spotted a group of German soldiers and swiftly deactivated his stealth mode, propelling himself forward with unbridled speed.

  With a military knife firmly gripped in his left hand and his right hand ched into a fist, he surged ahead with increased velocity.

  "Enemy attack!" One of the German soldiers at the front of the group panicked and shouted. In respohey pulled the triggers of their firearms, unleashing dazzling blue-white sers like light from the muzzles.

  The corridor was narrow and straight, making it easy to hit the target without much aiming. Moreover, the ser beams were several times faster than bullets, rendering it nearly impossible to evade, even with Super Soldier Physique.

  Kyle's pupils tracted as the ser beam expanded in his field of vision, causing the hair on his body to stand on end.

  He made no attempt to dodge or shield himself. With a burst of speed that bordered on reckless abandon, he propelled himself forward. In the split sed before the ser struck his chest, he swung his right arm swiftly.

  "Chi!"

  To everyone's astonishment, the ser beam that could vaporize a human body was uedly deflected by Kyle's right arm!

  The German soldiers at the front of the group barely had time to react as their own ser beams rebounded and struck them, redug them and their battle suits to vapor within moments.

  "He casually deflected the ser…"

  "Who the hell is he?"

  The German soldiers wore expressions of bewildered terror as they looked at this. The new energy ons had been known for their lethal potency siheir produ, but it was the first time they withem being rendered iive a back by the mere swipe of someone's hand.

  "Get the fuck out of my way!" Kyle paid no mind to whether the enemy still possessed the will to fight, whether they would retaliate or flee, or whether they remained frozen in pce…

  None of it mattered to him!

  Like a cheetah poung into a group of rabbits, Kyle enced his grim harvest of lives as he tore through the enemy ranks. His small military knife became the scythe of the Goddess of Death, g the life of each soldier with every swift stab or ssh.

  With his superhuman strength and razor-sharp bde, enemy battle suits and human bodies proved as fragile as paper. Crimson blood spttered in the air, saturating the corridor in a macabre hue.

  "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Kyle murmured coldly as he delivered a devastating elbow strike, sending the st soldier hurtling through the air. His right hand, now adorned with bandages and sleeves pletely vaporized by the ser beam, revealed the etallic sheen of the Vibranium Bracer.

  Vibranium, also known as sound-abs steel. Not only was it one of the most resilient materials in the Marvel universe, but it possessed the remarkable ability to absorb heat, energy, and kiic force!

  Thanks to the Vibranium Bracer, the ser that had struck Kyle's right hand lost its offensive power, and the rebound occurred due to the momentum of his swing.

  After dispatg the group of German soldiers with decisive efficy, Kyle wasted no time and sprioward the trol room of the factory.

  Unbeknownst to him, his ruthless sying of the enemy soldiers had been clearly captured by a camera led in the er of the wall, transmitting the footage to a distant location within the facility.

  Meanwhile, deep ihe trol room of the factory…

  Red Skull, with a middle-aged officer-like figure, observed the numerous monitors before him, his faux-skin face betraying a trace of fear.

  "Two Super Soldiers infiltrating the factory?"

  Red Skull uttered these words upon witnessing the surveilnce ss in the underground area of the factory. One s dispyed Steve, blue and white striped attire, swiftly incapacitating two soldiers.

  Another s captured Kyle charging through the German ranks, leaving seven brutalized bodies in his wake as he closed in on his target.

  "The first one is ohing, but why is the sed one so powerful…" Red Skull couldn't believe his eyes as he watched this se on the s.

  He had to admit that he couldn't match Kyle's prowess, the way he treated the German soldiers armed with new energy ons as if they were mere ants.

  With his maximized superhuman physique, exceptional close-quarters bat skills, and a decisive killing instinct, Kyle resembled a war mae.

  Both of them were Super Soldiers, so why was there such a stark differen their abilities?

  Red Skull didn't dwell on the question for long. Calmly, he activated the self-destruct meism throughout the factory while the elderly stist standing behind him was horrified and asked, "What are you doing?!"

  Red Skull pointed indifferently at one of the surveilnce ss, which dispyed Kyle swiftly advang toward them, and said. "No one stop him, not even these soldiers here, and perhaps not even me."

  "Retreat immediately!" Red Skull anded before he swiftly made his way to the trol room wall. He opened a hidden partment, revealing a perfectly square object emitting a blue glow.

  The Tesseract! This object held more power thaire factory and surpassed the bined might of ten such facilities.

  "It should be just ahead!" Kyle increased his speed as he turned a er. Before him y a straight corridor with the trol room situated in the middle.

  tally, at the entrance of the trol room stood a German officer holding a bag, apanied by an elderly stist, both preparing to make their escape.

  "Are they trying to run? Leave the Tesseract behind!" Kyle snarled coldly as he swiftly closed in on them.

  "Stop him!" Red Skull had no iion of engaging in bat with Kyle. He gred fiercely at the stist, then hurriedly moved toward the end of the corridor, clutg the bag tightly in his hands.

  "Damn it." The elderly stist's face turned pale with fear as he realized that he had been abandoned and weakly slumped down at the doorway.

  "I told you, don't even think about running!" Kyle pursued with icy determination. He was vihat the bag in the officer's hands most likely taihe Tesseract.

  "Worthless." Red Skull cast a disdainful g the elderly stist. He had never inteo rely on an old man to impede a resolute and decisive Super Soldier.

  "Try this." Unbeknownst to Kyle, Red Skull already held a Cube Stone Fragment in his hand and he forcefully threw it toward Kyle.

  "A Cube Fragment?" Kyle looked at the energy cube in surprise. It was the raw material used to create energy cartridges, the same blue-quality item he had acquired in the rge base.

  Could this stabilize energy and be used as a on directly?

  Kyle's doubts were swiftly answered as Red Skull drew a handgun and aimed at the airborne energy cube and pulled the trigger.

  "This man has gone mad!" Kyle roared in anger as he hastened his steps. He grabbed the elderly stist lying on the corridor floor, using him as a human shield to protect himself.

  Simultaneously, bullets struck the energy cube.

  In the moment, even the air seemed to freeze—

  'Boom!'

  The explosion of the energy cube surged like a tidal wave, spreading shockwaves inch by inch, obliterating everything in its path!

  (End of this chapter)