Chapter 243: The Artifact of Fire is Released
"What's the next question?"

Nick Fury asked curiously, isn't this meeting about dividing up S.H.I.E.L.D.?
"SHIELD is a problem, and there is another problem that needs to be solved." said another person on the council.

"Click, click."

At this moment, there was a sudden clicking sound in the conference room. When everyone looked over, they found that Tony Stark, who was lying on the chair with an awkward sitting posture, had taken out a bag of snacks from somewhere and was eating it happily.

"What are you all looking at me for? Are you continuing the meeting, or is it over?"

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"You guys want to eat too?" Iron Man was a little confused. These people were just having a meeting. Why were they watching him eat snacks? He wouldn't share any with them.

"This is Congress, please pay attention to Tony." The representative of the Congress said dissatisfiedly.

"Is there a law against eating snacks here?" Tony asked.

"Okay, let's get down to business." The president next to him knocked on the table and said.

After hearing the president's words, everyone had no choice but to continue discussing the next issue.

"From the Hulk to Iron Man, and the last Chitauri invasion, to today's SHIELD Hydra Insight Project, over the past few years, Amerika and countries around the world have suffered serious losses in these events."

"The property and life safety of citizens are seriously threatened. When dealing with these crisis affairs, the superheroes in the Avengers did not take into account the safety of life and property of ordinary people. We think that should be done."

"Let me interrupt for a moment. Regarding me, Iron Man, Tony Stark, the property losses caused when I was fighting against terrorists, Iron Monger, and Deathstroke have already been compensated, and there were no casualties. Don't include me." Tony Stark next to him interrupted him directly.

"By the way, I need to say something about the Hulk. The Hulk experiment was conducted by the military, and it was also the military that hunted the Hulk. The economic losses and casualties ultimately caused by this incident need to be borne by the military." Nick Fury next to him also said.

"Well, some of these losses have already been paid by the insurance companies, while others have refused to pay due to 'acts of God or force majeure'."

"But the losses caused by the Battle of New York, the Chitauri attack, and the Hydra Insight Project are all yours."

"Now a large number of people are complaining that your actions have caused casualties among ordinary people and economic property losses."

"The Avengers superhero team must be managed by a dedicated government department. All superheroes should undergo battle damage assessments to minimize casualties among the general public, government property, and personnel during combat."

"Your actions need government approval before you can proceed."

Hearing this, both Iron Man and Captain America were stunned. The shadow of the Hydra incident not long ago has not yet passed, and Captain America, the soldier who once trusted his superiors the most, is full of distrust towards his superiors.

The same goes for Iron Man Tony on the other side. He has always treated the government as nothing. Now that he is asked to obey the government's orders, how could Tony be willing to do so?

Tony has not experienced so much yet, and he is not mature enough, so he will not accept this agreement. As for the Hulk and Ghost Rider Johnny, they are both rebellious.

As for Spider-Man, do you dare to control it?
"Does your resolution include other superheroes?" Iron Man suddenly asked.

"Of course!" the man said fearlessly, and emphasized: "This is a draft resolution agreed to by the vast majority of countries on this earth, including all superheroes."

"Okay, what about the Sorcerer Supreme? Is Thor, the God of Thunder from Asgard, also included?"

"Bag"

"Shut up!" Just as the official was about to speak, the World Security Council, the Director of SHIELD, the military generals and the president next to him all said in unison.

The man was startled and quickly shut up and dared not say anything else.

The scene suddenly became quiet, and everyone was silent for a while. In the end, the bill to restrict superheroes was not passed due to the resistance of superheroes and various reasons.

Although the draft was not passed, it still left a rift in everyone's hearts, and this rift will completely erupt one day in the future.

The meeting ended and everyone left with heavy hearts.

Although SHIELD was disbanded, Nick Fury and some justice-minded agents were unwilling to give up SHIELD. Nick Fury had embezzled a lot of funds and secretly established many bases, which only a few people knew about.

Now that SHIELD has been disbanded by the federal government, they just happened to run to these hidden bases to continue performing SHIELD duties.

Richard didn't care about SHIELD's affairs, he was busy making his own staff. In order to speed up the growth of the gem beetles, Richard once again used the power of time on this part of the specially cultivated gem beetles.

He had already doubled the speed of time here before, and now time was doubled again. The speed of time in this area of ​​the Gem Cave had been accelerated four times.

Just today, this batch of jewel beetles finally matured.

Among this batch of gems, more than 80% were gem beetles that had mutated once, with a diameter of one meter. Soon the gems on these gem beetles began to fall off. After all the gems fell off, these gem beetles began to mate with each other and produce the next generation of eggs.

Richard felt a little disappointed when he saw this, because these jewel beetles would no longer mutate after they matured.

After watching these jewel beetles mate, the male beetles begin to prepare food for the females. After the beetle eggs hatch, this group of beetles will gradually become irritable and die.

More and more gems fell from the jewel beetles, and Richard's hope became less and less. At this moment, a jewel beetle suddenly began to devour the magic gems dropped by other beetles on the ground, which immediately attracted Richard's attention.

The beetle quickly devoured the magic gems on the ground, and then continued to devour the demonized mineral veins, and the elemental energy in its body began to increase rapidly.

Richard quickly used a spell to isolate it. This gem beetle was like a bottomless pit, constantly devouring the mineral veins, and its body began to grow again. Finally, after another day, this gem beetle successfully completed the advancement.

All the magic gems on the jewel beetle's body had fallen off and were swallowed by it. After swallowing a large number of magic gems and mineral veins, a new gem grew on its back.

The gem was not big, and it stopped growing after it reached the size of an egg, but the magic energy inside it continued to increase. Soon, after two days, the gem beetle finally stopped eating, and the magic gem on its back completely broke through the extraordinary and became a legendary gem. "Pah~"

With a slight sound, the legendary gem finally fell off the beetle. Richard took it in immediately. The auxiliary system directly scanned and identified the gem, and soon a lot of information appeared in front of him.

[Type: Gem of Ages; Level: Legend;

Basic information: During the process of its creation, this gem was contaminated with a large amount of time power, which enabled this gem to be promoted to legendary level. This time gem has powerful magic that can strengthen time magic and reduce the consumption of time magic.

At the same time, the magic contained in this gem can strengthen the power of other spells. Because it has the power of time, the person who owns the gem can obtain the blessing of the power of time, gain a longer life, and maintain the best physical and mental state until death. 】

This magic gem was actually condensed by absorbing a large amount of time power. It should be that Richard used the power of the time gem to cause it to mutate.

The power and function of the Age Gem are far inferior to that of the Time Gem. After Richard's appraisal, this gem can only extend the life of the owner by 500 years at most. At the same time, the gem can keep the owner's body in its prime.

This gem is a precious treasure even in the world of Motera.

It is very good for containing the soul of the fire giant Surtur. The gem possesses the power of time. After Richard completes the rune engraving on the gem, the power of time of this gem will be activated.

It will always maintain the gem in the best condition. Even if the gem is damaged, the power of time will reverse the time of the gem and restore it to its original state.

In this way, the fire giant Surtur, who was imprisoned in the Gem of Ages, would never have a chance to escape. Once the gem was damaged, it would immediately recover, and Surtur would be imprisoned in it forever.

Richard removed the standing collar of the Time Stone and took it back to the Mage Tower. He went directly to the laboratory and began to engrave the gem.

For Richard, his rune engraving skills had already reached the master level. There was no problem engraving this Time Gemstone. In order to strengthen the power of the Time Gemstone, Richard engraved tens of thousands of runes on this gemstone, forming thirty-seven rune arrays.

Finally, all the rune arrays merged into a complete rune array.

After completing the engraving of the gem, Richard snapped his fingers and released Surtur, who had been imprisoned in a different time and space.

"Wizard, let me go back to Muspelheim, and I promise not to come to Midgard again." Being trapped in a different time and space is not a pleasant feeling, so as soon as he came out, Surtur surrendered.

Of course, Surtur only admitted defeat temporarily. If he was given the chance, he would immediately seek revenge. As for the oath, it would not constrain him in the slightest. He would never give up the Eternal Flame.

"Let you go back? You are my trophy." Richard smiled slightly, and powerful magic power surrounded his hands, controlling Surtur's soul in his palm.

Then he took out the Gem of Ages and poured the magic power in his body directly into it. The powerful magic power instantly activated the Gem of Ages. The golden Fu Wen chain instantly appeared from the gem, and then the chain directly entangled Surtur's soul and pulled it into the gem.

"what is this?"

"let me go!"

"No!"

Surter was immediately terrified when he felt the powerful pulling force. This force left him with no power to resist. He had a premonition of a strong crisis. If he could not escape, he would most likely be trapped inside forever.

Even though Surtur kept struggling, he was soon pulled into the Gem of Ages. The originally light yellow Gem of Ages turned directly into golden red and became a divine stone of fire.

Richard gently stretched out his hand, and the flame gem fell into his hand. It was slightly warm, and he could clearly feel the powerful power contained in the gem. With the help of this gem, he could easily cast the nine-ring spell.

After checking that the Flame God Stone was in good condition, Richard took out the staff he had prepared long ago. The staff was made of precious metals such as Uru, Demonic Vibranium, God's Metal, Galaxy Silver Sand and Dark Matter.

Hundreds of thousands of runes and spells were engraved on the surface and inside of the staff. Richard used the Tower Spirit Matrix to perform tens of thousands of deductions and calculations to form a perfect rune array. The staff has the ability to change size as desired, and can be enlarged or reduced according to the user.

Richard carefully embedded his Flame Stone in the center of the staff, and the rune patterns on the Flame Stone and the rune patterns on the staff were perfectly linked.

At the moment when the Flame God Stone was embedded into the staff, a powerful force instantly burst out from the staff, and the entire staff was directly lifted up in the air by this powerful force.

Richard gently stretched out his hand and grabbed the staff. The powerful magic power was infused into the staff from his body, directly suppressing the staff. A spell belonging to Richard's real name appeared on the staff. In an instant, all the power on the staff was restrained.

The auxiliary system emitted a beam of light to scan the staff, and soon a large amount of information appeared in Richard's mind.

(The following data are not included in the word count)

[Category: Staff (unnamed); Level: Mythical Level 3;
One-handed damage: 4289-7356; spell power: 120
Requirements for use: Strength 18, Constitution 15, Intelligence 25, Spellcraft 125, Richard Soul Bind.

Attributes: Strength +15, Constitution +15, Intelligence +15 (When used in close combat, Strength, Constitution, and Agility gain a temporary bonus of 10 points);

All spells are enhanced by 60%, and fire spells are enhanced by 120%;

All attacks gain 300 points of arcane fire damage (true damage);
When using the staff, the six-sided flame shield is automatically activated; the flame shield is equivalent to the ninth-level defense spell, once a day;
Mana regeneration increased by 100%;

Increases damage to demons, undead, and mechanical creatures by 100%;

Additional status: Legendary spell instant casting (limited to ten rings), multiple casting, legendary spell extreme effect, legendary spell penetration, time rewind, anticipate the enemy's moves, and the difficulty of all spells is reduced by 2 levels.

附加法术：0-9环所有火系法术（法术次数按照等级减少，最高3次最低27次）；传奇法师护甲（3次/日）传奇能量护盾（3次/日）；永恒炽阳（十一环）1次/日；闪现（60次/日）；高等加速术（3次/日）；高等飞行术（3次/日）
Special effects: Legendary Spell Sequence, Summon Rainbow Bridge, Change Form, Summon Fire Giant, All Resistances +20, Iron Will, Immune to Disease, Immune to Blindness. 】

This staff became a divine weapon directly because of the soul of the Fire Giant. The Fire Giant possessed a lot of divinity, but unfortunately it was bound to the Eternal Fire and could not be extracted, otherwise it would not have been kept.

As long as you pick up this staff, you can instantly cast all 0-9 level fire spells, and the ultimate move is the eleventh-level Eternal Blazing Sun.

(End of this chapter)