FBI: Chapter 159/160

Chapter 159: Ion Man, Back Again!

Dante had to admit, whether it was the dialogue or the current situation...

White.

Too white.

White Album is truly one of the Internet's legends.

Dante felt he could deeply empathize with Ada's feelings, but...

Now was really not the time to get emotional.

Thinking of this, Dante silently activated the third Lantern Ring on his ring finger.

Orange light merged into the torrent of red and green, forming a strange balance.

Finally, with three Lantern Rings combined, Dante's overall strength had completely surpassed Hela.

Now, he even felt that a normal Clark Kent would be at a disadvantage against him.

This was the confidence brought by power.

And the little punch that had just fractured his sternum would finally not instantly break his defenses.

This also gave Dante the leisure to deal with Mothra.

"Ada! Snap out of it!"

"Bastard! I love you so much! Why are you always so distant from me?"

"No, don't get so agitated yet!"

"And you're still doubting me, doubting the authenticity of my ten years of loving you..."

"Damn it!"

Dante saw that not only could he not awaken Ada's normal consciousness, but he was making her sink deeper into jealousy...

He could only curse, then fiercely kiss her.

If she couldn't wake up, then make her shut up.

The moment their lips met, Ada's eyes suddenly widened.

The rich Love Violet Light burst forth in an instant, then gradually dissipated, revealing slightly tired but rational eyes.

This kiss lasted a full five minutes.

Fortunately, Ada was possessed by Mothra at this moment, otherwise she would have fainted from lack of oxygen by now.

At this point, Dante released the red lips he was holding, noticing that the five-minute deep kiss had made Ada's lips slightly swollen.

Suppressing the hint of tenderness in his heart, he cupped Ada's small, palm-sized face and asked seriously:

"How is it... can you communicate normally now?"

"Yes, I... I can..."

Ada, whose rationality had temporarily returned, realized her current posture was rather ungraceful.

So she released her legs from around Dante, performed a graceful backflip, and landed on the ground.

Dante let out a long breath.

He wasn't acting on sudden lust.

After all, everything that should have happened at Lake Inari had already happened.

The reason he chose to kiss the completely irrational Ada was because there was a successful precedent in the original work.

That was during the major event Brightest Day, when the socially anxious Abraham Pointe stalked a girl named Lisa for two years, following her and taking photos.

The most incredible thing was that he didn't reveal a single flaw in those two years.

And Abraham had always yearned for Lisa's love in this way.

It was this deep and pathological love, and the desire to be loved, that attracted the original Violet Lantern Beast, the Predator.

And Carol, Hal Jordan's girlfriend, after correctly guiding it with the Star Sapphire Lantern Ring, reclaimed the Predator with a kiss.

Dante imitated this, and naturally succeeded.

However, the original work was just a light kiss, but Dante kissed for a full five minutes.

As for whether he had selfish motives...

If he said no, would anyone believe him?

Regardless, at least Dante brought Ada's rationality back, which allowed him to proceed to the next step.

"I originally wanted to find Tony or Doom to help you forge a set of mecha with this thing..." Dante said to Ada as he opened his pocket dimension, "But now it seems... everything is fated."

He reached in and pulled out a mass of what appeared to be liquid silver metal, about the size of a human head, into Dante's hand.

That was the galactic glaze pilfered from the Paradise Dimension.

Ada looked at the galactic glaze, then at Dante.

"You mean, forge a Violet Lantern Furnace now?"

Dante shook his head, then proposed an even bolder idea.

"No, to be more precise, forge a Lantern Furnace armor that you can wear."

"Lantern Furnace armor?" Ada frowned and shook her head, "I don't quite understand."

Don't understand?

In the original work, when Norrin Radd was transformed by Galactus with galactic glaze and the power of the Universe to become the legendary Silver Surfer, he also didn't understand what kind of power it was.

But it didn't affect his power.

"Just you wait and see!" Dante said confidently.

The principle of the Lantern Furnace armor was similar to the Silver Surfer, except the Silver Surfer used galactic glaze plus the power of the Universe.

The Lantern Furnace armor, however, used galactic glaze plus Love Violet Light.

It could provide a container for the Lantern Beast and also harness the power of the Violet Light and the Lantern Beast to power the armor.

The galactic glaze was both the carrier and the adhesive.

"I... I will always believe in you." Ada opened her arms, then closed her eyes, "Hurry up, I can already feel the Lantern Beast's unwilling pulsation... She's about to take over again!"

Hearing this, Dante dared not delay. With just a look, Ion Shark understood.

After circling in mid-air, it directly transformed into a dazzling and pure Will Green Light, drilling into Dante's body, whose eyes were already closed.

"Hoo..."

With his next exhale, Dante opened his eyes.

Time and space appeared before him in a strange way.

Ion Man, reappeared.

(To be continued.)

Chapter 160: Welcome

This was Dante's second time merging with Ion Shark, and the experience felt very different from the first time, which had been more like a trial run.

Last time, he was on the brink of death, and it only lasted for about a minute, so he didn't have the presence of mind to thoroughly study Ion Man's abilities.

Although he was now using Ion Man's power to create the Lantern Furnace Armor, overall, it was practically a foregone conclusion.

The sense of urgency was truly worlds apart from when he first faced Cyttorak.

"So that's how it is, the power of Ion Man..." Dante clenched his fists, feeling time and space flow through his fingertips. "No wonder this power doesn't last, it's still a bit too outrageous."

In the state of Lantern Beast fusion, aside from the Blue Lantern, which is purely supportive, all other Lantern Beast fusions, without exception, are overpowered existences.

And among them, the most outrageous was Ion Man, formed by merging with Ion Shark.

Of course, this was speaking within the scope of the Seven Lantern Corps.

The others, like the Black Lantern, White Lantern, and those of the invisible light, were purely external to this discussion.

Their appearance basically signifies a top-tier existence, so discussing their combat power doesn't hold much meaning.

But this isn't Ion Man's solo comic. In this mixed Universe, no one has a protagonist's halo.

All powerful forces come with a corresponding cost and price.

Oh, except for Clark Kent.

"Is this... Ion Man?"

Dante was currently embracing Ada, so she was also drawn into the domain they were in.

"Mm, although Ion Shark is no longer the rookie who could only last a minute back then... We should hurry up."

Dante felt a buzzing from the green lantern ring on his hand, expressing displeasure.

This was Ion Shark condemning him.

Dante grinned.

Then, he activated Ion Man's reality-reshaping ability.

First, he completely transformed the abnormally dense Love Violet Light on Ada's body into energy, integrating it into the galactic glaze.

Without external support, even with its cosmic energy-absorbing inclusiveness, the galactic glaze wouldn't be able to immediately absorb such a vast amount of Emotional Spectrum energy.

But within Ion Man's domain, which exists outside of time and reality, this fusion happened almost instantaneously.

Just like the invincible Galactus does.

And as the fusion concluded, the galactic glaze also underwent a slight transformation due to the unique properties of the Love Violet Light.

If the original galactic glaze was a seemingly liquid metal,

then the fused galactic glaze, instead, lost its metallic properties and gradually transformed into a crystal, looking remarkably similar to the purple crystal Ada had created after being possessed.

However, its original infinitely extensible and changeable properties remained.

Honestly, neither its physical nor chemical properties conformed to common sense.

Finally, after completely crystallizing, it also completely turned purple.

Dante nodded.

Pure Emotional Spectrum power is not inferior in quality to cosmic power, it's just that, as a power influenced by the host's emotions, its performance varies.

Moreover, due to their respective characteristics, in special circumstances, they can be much stronger than the versatile cosmic power.

Ada looked at the galactic glaze, which had now turned into a purple crystal, and felt incredibly shocked.

She had just witnessed a scene that defied science.

"Changing the physical properties of an object... Can Ion Man's power achieve this?"

"Ion Man can indeed do it, but this is more about the fusion and evolution of the galactic glaze and the Love Violet Light themselves. I merely accelerated the process."

"So, what should I do next?"

"It's very simple."

Dante took Ada's wrists and guided her to cup the new galactic glaze in front of her chest.

Mothra, inside Ada, clearly sensed the incredibly potent Love Violet Light after merging with the galactic glaze.

After much deliberation, she still chose to emerge from Ada, the innate Purple Lantern Saint Body.

Ada couldn't help but puff out her chest. Endless purple light shone from within as Mothra finally detached from her body.

"See? This heartless glutton was lured out, wasn't she?"

Dante smiled and extended his hand towards Mothra.

And the originally huge Mothra grew smaller and smaller as Dante extended his hand, until he clenched her in his palm.

"Why are you grabbing me?!"

"Nonsense? What are you doing constantly clinging to my woman's body? Don't you have a home?"

"You have quite an accent!"

After another frustrated, sharp insect chirp, Dante directly stuffed the shrunken Mothra into the galactic glaze.

But the next moment, Mothra's expression immediately changed.

"It's so comfortable in here! Even more comfortable than inside Ada's body!"

Dante rolled his eyes, then began to accelerate the assimilation of the Lantern Beast with the galactic glaze.

The galactic glaze, whose properties had been assimilated by the Love Violet Light and Mothra's power, now clung to Ada's body like a child seeking its mother.

Spreading from her chest to all parts of her body, everything below her neck transformed into a suit of amethyst armor.

Translucent but not transparent.

Dante felt a little disappointed.

This... really doesn't go well with outfits.

Ada tried to move her limbs, but found that although the armor on her body was made of crystal, it was incredibly flexible, as if there wasn't the slightest sense of restraint anywhere on her body.

There wasn't even any sound from the friction and collision between the crystals.

And a symbol, slightly larger than a fist, gradually appeared on her chest.

It was the symbol of the Purple Lantern Corps.

Then, a voice similar to Mothra's, but devoid of any emotion, echoed from within the Lantern Furnace Armor.

"Intelligent lifeform locked.

Ada Wong from Earth.

Deep love resides within your heart.

Welcome to the Galactic Glaze Corps."

Dante wasn't surprised that the Lantern Furnace welcomed Ada.

But he hadn't expected that the original "Star Sapphire Corps" had changed to "Galactic Glaze Corps."

This was something he had never seen before. It turns out that if the origin of the Lantern Furnace changes too much, the welcome speech and even the Corps oath will change.

Ada, of course, also heard the welcome message from the Galactic Glaze Corps. She had witnessed many people receiving Lantern Rings, but when it was finally her turn, she felt a bit flustered.

But after all, the characteristics of the new Purple Lantern were unique.

As the welcome message sounded, the original Lantern Furnace Armor converged towards Ada's right hand.

Ultimately, it transformed into a purple crystal Lantern Ring, firmly set on her ring finger.

It was both armor, a Lantern Furnace, and a Lantern Ring.

Unique.

"Fear and confusion, two hearts entwined,
The Blackest Night, no longer alone.

Slender finger dons the Ring, transforming her guise.

The world's solitary love, filled with purple light!"

(To be continued.)