American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

"This is?"

Luke frowned. The only ones he had established a deep connection with were the Chitauri, oh, now the self-proclaimed God-Mechs, the Lytari bunch. Before that, there was only the Pacific Rim universe, which he regarded as a potential alternate dimension. But what's with this sudden online mental connection?

Could someone have mastered a key generator?

But his dimensional server isn't completely set up yet, and the corresponding supporting services haven't been provided either. It's just a bare [empty box] right now. What are you in such a hurry to get in here for?

You can't temporarily borrow energy either, right?

Of course, Luke had given out some trial qualifications before, such as the Mind Ring, the Emotional Elixir, and Snoke and others who had received Luke's weapon meme injection.

But these trial qualifications need to be activated after the dimensional server is established.

Your forced login is a provocation!

Luke subconsciously issued a ban, a login restriction, and a blacklist, a three-pronged approach. After preserving the other party's mental fluctuations for future comparison, he suppressed the surprise in his heart.

He's currently overwhelmed with thoughts. The only one who can directly communicate with him right now is Lytari, who has been granted permission. After all, before a dimensional consciousness AI appears to handle various data and information for him, he definitely won't grant corresponding permissions to just anyone.

...

"Where's my cannon?"

Venom, who was rampaging in the base, suddenly froze, because he found that his body was rapidly transforming from a mechanical body back into the original symbiote, and the plasma cannon that his right arm had transformed into had returned to being a dark, large claw.

"Is this transformation time-limited? Is it just letting me experience it for ten minutes or so?" Venom cursed involuntarily after discovering that he had really degenerated from Mechanical Venom back into Venom.

"I think we shouldn't complain about the experience right now. I think we should run," Eddie, inside Venom, looked at the base security guards in front, who had discovered the attack had stopped and were cautiously peeking out to observe the situation, and reminded Venom with some panic through Venom's consciousness and perspective.

Before, he had been a Mechanical Venom with explosive combat power, capable of transforming into various weapons, suppressing the enemy so much that they didn't dare to show their heads, but the current Symbiote Venom, although also strong, was not comparable to the previous state. Especially since there were some mutated inhuman beings on the other side.

"No, I must get that cube!" Venom was still obsessed with the cube that could transform and evolve him. When he evolved into Mechanical Venom before, he had also found the port and temporarily violently paralyzed the base's intelligent system. After retrieving the base's blueprints and controlling the surveillance system's cameras, he had been chasing after the man who was fleeing with the cube, following the guidance of the images. His reason told him that he should listen to Eddie's advice, but his instinct and desire told him that he still wanted to continue chasing.

"Don't be silly, this form can't beat those mutated guys. They're not ordinary people! Even if you want that cube gem, we have to escape first and try to find some SHIELD reinforcements or something," Eddie anxiously collided with Venom's consciousness in his mind. In the end, perhaps Eddie's words moved Venom, which made him give up the idea of continuing to chase. He began to plan an escape route according to the design drawings of the base that remained in his mind.

...

"Mr. Rogers, please come with me." Snoke came to Captain America Steve's side and said to him. "Mr. Phield is entertaining guests."

"Sorry for the intrusion." Steve smiled at Snoke. The two walked together from the gate towards the villa not far away. At the same time, Steve also keenly saw a familiar ring on Snoke's finger.

"This is the Mind Ring." Snoke noticed Steve's gaze, raised the hand with the ring and let him look at it, but didn't say which type he was. Since Snoke himself didn't say, Steve naturally wouldn't ask impolitely. As long as it wasn't Frank's type. Although after the Chitauri War, he and Frank had fought side by side and were both veterans, so they should have a lot of common topics to talk about, but after some communication, Steve clearly felt that the other party's personality was too extreme, and his values and style of dealing with things were seriously conflicting and incompatible. He couldn't say whether the other party was originally like this, or whether the possession of the Rage Ring had subtly amplified the other party's extreme personality. He had a premonition that perhaps his friendship with Frank would one day be shattered due to ideological conflicts.

Not the next battle side by side.

Perhaps the one after the next.

After entering the villa, the first thing Steve saw was someone he didn't expect to be there.

"Frank? Why are you here?" Steve exclaimed in surprise as he watched Frank on the sofa turn his head to look at him.

"Is it only you who can come to visit Mr. Phield?" Frank didn't get up, because he was clumsily holding a two or three-year-old girl, and this little girl always wanted to bite the ring on his hand.

"Mr. Frank was invited by me. I want him to help me train Hebron's security. You know, Mr. Frank is a top talent in teaching soldier skills." Luke stood up, shook hands with Steve who was walking over, and explained.

"You agreed?" Steve looked at Frank in surprise.

"Why not? Mr. Phield offered a price I couldn't refuse. You know, I still owe that old bastard Nick a lot of money." Frank looked helpless. It was unclear whether he felt helpless because of the debt, or because of the little girl's obsession with his ring.

As for returning the ring?

Perhaps he could have done it before he wore it, but after experiencing battles and fusion, Frank could no longer do it. The Rage Ring had subtly transformed his body, turning all the blood in his body into blood-colored energy that was connected to the ring. In layman's terms, the Rage Ring had become an organ as important as his second heart.

"My daughter, Becky." Luke introduced when he saw Steve's gaze fall on the little girl.

"No nanny?" Steve Rogers glanced around and found that there was no one else present except for them. Oh, and a silver-white metal mechanical dog.

"No need, companionship is the most important thing for children." Luke shook his head. He didn't want to be like other big shots in this world, who were kind fathers and filial sons. When their children grew up, they were all filial sons and daughters, and they all wanted to help others overthrow their own fathers first. Little Becky is now a blank slate, in the infancy stage without any concept of good and evil, so of course he had to teach her himself to be at ease.

After Steve also sat down, he asked Luke for advice: "My ring has recently undergone some changes, and I think I need to ask you about it."

"Changes in the ring? What specifically?" Hearing Steve's words, Luke became a little interested.

"Its energy is expanding. It's been like this for a while now. It wasn't obvious at first, but these days..." Steve said, spreading out his hand.

"Can you show me?" Luke raised his hand, signaling.

Steve didn't hesitate to activate his Mind Ring, and a dazzling golden light overflowed from his body.

Eat! Eat!

The golden Steve instantly attracted little Becky next to him, attracting her gaze from the ring to Steve. Feeling the familiar energy fluctuations flowing and overflowing from the other party's body, little Becky's eyes sparkled and she wanted to pounce on him. But unfortunately, Frank's hands grabbed her pouncing figure.

"That's enough." Luke nodded.

Steve restrained the light, and the golden light all poured into his ring in an instant.

"Do you have any discomfort?" Luke asked.

Steve thought for a moment, then shook his head under Luke's gaze.

"Then when did this change happen? What did you do during this time?" Luke asked again.

"It should be twenty days ago. I've been busy attending some news interviews these twenty days. Fury arranged it." Steve said with an embarrassed expression.

Luke retrieved some reports about Steve these days in front of Steve, and the virtual images were projected in the air above the table. The reporters and reports frantically boasted, making Steve's embarrassed face turn completely red. Under the gaze of Luke and Frank, Steve felt a sense of social death as he watched those reports.

Then the intelligent system sorted out some data according to Luke's requirements, such as audience opinions on these news reports, public evaluations of Steve, and the list of popular topics about Steve, etc.

"No problem."

After reading it, Luke's voice rang in Steve's ears, who couldn't even lift his head.

"What do you mean?" Steve didn't care about the embarrassment, raised his head and looked at Luke, asking.

"Literal meaning. Everything is normal. Your power increase comes from the feedback of public emotions during this period. The Mind Ring is a receiving sub-terminal. When I made it, I set up a super-capacitance system for its energy supply system. Because it involves secrets, I can't explain it too clearly. But you just need to know that this is normal." Luke explained patiently.

"I don't quite understand, does that mean that being a public figure can also gain power enhancement?" Steve was a little stunned. He obviously didn't expect to hear this kind of answer from Luke.

"It's not that being a public figure will gain power enhancement, but that you did something that matched your energy characteristics and caused its resonance. This is a leader's ring that represents courage, trust, resilience, and other positive emotions. The more recognition you receive, the more energy the ring can bring you. Obviously, under this wave of reports, the attention and recognition you received has turned into the energy of your ring." Luke explained to Steve again. What he didn't say was that most of this energy would be plundered by the collection device of the Emotional Elixir. Only some soup was allocated to him.

"Can I also collect energy like this?" Frank's eyes flickered. Steve's experience and Luke's words opened a door to increasing power for him. In his opinion, the people who recognized Steve's behavior were like his believers. The more believers there were, the more power would be fed back to the corresponding ring, and the more energy and combat power the ring owner could mobilize!

"Of course you can, but I want to explain to you that this kind of increase is not a normal state! It has a time limit. You can treat it as a BUFF state. When the BUFF is on, your various data will increase. But correspondingly, this kind of recognition and high attention cannot be maintained forever. Even if you are frequently exposed, you also need to consider factors such as boredom and rebellion." Luke nodded, first affirmed Frank's idea, and then added.

"That is to say, when I am no longer exposed and promoted on TV and newspapers, the energy and strength I have increased will quickly decline and return to normal." Steve understood Luke's words.

"If you want to cool down faster, you can even have the media smear you. This can cool down faster." Luke shrugged. "The energy allocated to the ring is generally fixed in the initial stage. This is its unchanging principal, but if you use other means to obtain some additional energy increases, the ring will show a super-capacitance state. In this state, it will be very active and can more deeply affect and assimilate the wearer's spirit. My suggestion is to try not to frequently use this increase to make the ring reach a super-capacitance state. Admittedly, it will bring you more powerful power for a certain period of time, but at the same time, it will also more deeply affect your spirit. Captain's positive emotions are okay, but the negative emotions you have mastered, Frank, may take you into the abyss."

The increased power will pay an additional price.

Steve and Frank both understood what Luke wanted to tell them. Especially Steve, he had already planned to go back and ask Nick to completely drop the publicity tasks on his body, anyway, the current popularity has begun to decline, and it would be good to concentrate all the traffic on Tony. He seems to like this "job" quite a bit and enjoys it.

At this time, Snoke stepped closer and whispered something in Luke's ear.

"Venom? He's being chased?" Luke felt that there seemed to be a lot of troublesome but cumbersome things recently. Venom had only been away from home for a little over a day, how could he have fallen to the point of being chased?

"He's asking for help, saying he has information about something that the boss will definitely be interested in." Snoke replied.

Luke inexplicably thought of a certain unknown mental connection. He pondered for a moment and gestured to Snoke: "Bring him back. I look forward to him bringing me information that I am interested in."

"Need any help?" Steve and Frank asked from the side. The name Venom, perhaps it's the code name of someone in Hebron Security?

"No, Snoke will handle it very well." Looking at Snoke's back as he turned to leave, Luke shook his head.