The Legendary Mechanic in Marvel Universe

Chapter 128 Viper Mark V

Regarding the “Vibranium Energy Crystal”, there were a couple of interesting things to take notes of. When it was first made, Leo didn’t limit the charging rate of the battery and directly linked it to the company’s power grid. As a result, six blocks within Hell’s Kitchen lost their power. 

After he added a limiter to the charger, this situation didn’t occur again. Yet, seven days went by, and “Vibranium Energy Crystal” still hadn’t been fully charged!

He took a glance at the Vibranium battery’s attribute in the system.

【Vibranium Energy Crystal. A high-performance rechargeable battery made from Vibranium and “Vibranium Energy Storage”.

Weight: 10.21kg

Energy output: 0 ~ 5 billion joules per second.

Charging rate: 0 ~ 8 million joules per second.

Maximum capacity: Around 50 trillion joules.

Currently being charged. Current energy, 7100 billion joules.】

These attributes were way better than the “Miniaturized Microreactor” he received from Dr. Octavius. Its performance also far surpassed the Miniaturized Arc Reactor Tony built in a cave. But based on his rough estimation, its performance was still way behind compared to the Miniaturized Arc Reactor Tony modified in his company.

Furthermore, an interesting point to note was that it was great that Leo was smart. He only charged the battery with the company’s power grid for half a day before cutting the power source. Otherwise, the company’s electrical bill for this month would be off the charts…

The nearly one trillion joules of energy was charged by him using the remaining power from two “Miniaturized Microreactors”. For the following days, he silently connected to the U.S. power grid from the outside…

Based on the current situation, when he secretly fully charged the battery, the U.S. power grid would incur a loss of nearly one million dollars for nothing…

Nevertheless, stealing electricity wasn’t a long-term plan. Perhaps someday a U.S. power company would come knocking on his door! Leo believed it was necessary for him to build an independent power source in his lab for providing sufficient energy for his experiments. 

How about a nuclear reactor?

Leo rubbed his chin and felt it was doable. But he had to ensure the reactor’s safety when using it. Shoving the matter of building a huge nuclear reactor aside, he was preparing to assemble Viper Mark III and tested its defensive prowess.

Disconnecting the charging “Vibranium Energy Crystal”, he circulated his Mechanical Force and donned Viper Mark III before striding over to the test area. Steam also needed to cooperate with Leo for the test. It followed Leo’s butt and arrived at the test area too.

For testing the armor, the test area had been constantly improved by Leo. There was a specific test area for impact resistance.

He approached a device and said, “Steam, began testing. In the first test, adjust the impact force to 60% of Viper Mark II’s withstood limit.”

“Buzz! Adjustment completed. Began testing.”

Boom!

The testing device, which was modified from a stamping machine, brutally slammed Viper Mark III’s chest horizontally. Leo bent his knees, stabilizing his body to carefully sense… And sensed nothing at all!

Except when he was stabilizing his body, he sensed no impact force within the armor!

“Steam, adjust the impact force to 100% of Viper Mark II’s withstood limit.”

Boom!

This time, before he could stabilize himself, he was sent flying away. But, within the armor, he still couldn’t feel any exterior impact force. Even when he crashed into the wall behind him, he still felt nothing at all. Just when he was falling down, his body hit the armor’s interior and sensed a slight pain.

When he was wearing Viper Mark II, his internal organs would be shaking under this impact force. Even the armor’s exterior had deformed while all sorts of delicate devices in the armor also received damage.

Removing the armor, he found out the armor’s chest didn’t have any scratches on it.

“Tsk, tsk!” Leo sighed in admiration, “As expected from Vibranium!”

Putting on the armor again, Leo switched the energy module, activating the defensive runes on the armor’s surface.

“Woo!” He mentally played a sound effect, as a translucent barrier silently appeared around the armor’s exterior. Standing back in front of the testing device, the same impact force brutally slammed the armor chest once more.

This time, Leo wasn’t sent flying away. Instead, he left a half-meter skid trail behind before steadying himself. After activating the barrier, it was as if possessing a mitigating effect. The impact force Viper Mark III received was half of the original impact force.

Albeit, it was too energy-consuming for the barrier to brace the impact. Several billions of joules vanished instantly. 

Leo didn’t dare to continue the test. A single impact was equivalent to hundreds of dollars worth of electrical bills, although it was stolen from somewhere…

Returning back to the lab, he removed Viper Mark III and continued letting Vibranium Energy Crystal steal electricity. He sat on a chair with his legs crossed while contemplating the next improvement plan.

He still had “Miniaturized Anti-gravity Repulsor” from Tony and he was free lately. So, he must work to bring forth Viper Mark V out, allowing the Viper to soar in the vast sky.

Vibranium’s energy blaster, which was made from offensive runes, was powerful, and the recoil was minimal. It was a wonder whether or not Newton’s Second Law was devoured by Vibranium!

However, Leo felt he still needed to rely on Tony Stark’s repulsor to take flight.

“Steam, come over. Let’s continue the work!”

“Buzz! Affirmative, master!” Steam’s eyes flickered.

“New project, Viper Mark V. Objective, long-distance flying. Key technology, ‘Miniaturized Anti-gravtiy Repulsor.’” Leo suddenly paused a bit before adding, “‘Miniaturized Anti-gravity Repulsor’ sounds lame. Change it to ‘Anti-gravity Pulse Blaster’. Import Viper Mark III’s model. Oh yeah, add electrocution function as well.”

“Buzz! Project created and now displayed on the control panel.”

Afterward, it was time for Leo’s showtime. It was just flying. Installing an Anti-gravity Pulse Blaster on both of his arms and legs and testing the effects first!

He recalled in “Guardian of the Galaxy”, Starlord only had a rocket booster on his feet and could fly properly.

Now he had an extra pair of arms, flying was just a small deal, right?!

Unfortunately, when the test began, he wrecked the lab apart and decisively gave up on this simple yet crude idea.

‘Well, Starload had a better hip!’ Leo sighed.

After countless tests, Leo equipped the armor’s chest and back with an Anti-gravity Pulse Blaster too. Utilizing multi-directional force, it was able to increase the armor’s flexibility during flying.

He also installed ailerons and flaps onto the armor’s back and legs to increase flight stability. Additionally, he also specifically wrote a flying-usage chip for automatically adjusting long-distance flying that didn’t require him to use his brain to control all the time！ 

Besides working on the flight system, he also installed a positioning system, navigation system, and detection system in the armor. But all of these systems were quite low-end compared to future Mark series armor.

There were no ways to circumvent this. After all, the Marvel Universe would experience an explosion in civilian technology for the upcoming two or three decades. Now it was still relatively backward.

As long as these technologies had a breakthrough, conquering the relative issues wasn’t too much of a hassle. It wasn’t something Leo could solve alone. What he could do right now, was to use the current technology and improve Viper Mark V as much as possible. The others could be perfected later on.

At the moment, Viper Mark V’s framework had been built. To successfully fly properly, he needed to train constantly to the point he could do it while sleeping!

And this training lasted half a month!

It was due to Leo having “Enhanced Body Balance”, otherwise, even training for two months wasn’t adequate.

After half a month, he drove the car alone to the unoccupied countryside of New York. During this half a month, he was constantly training how to fly indoors while making minor adjustments to the armor.

Today, it was finally the day for the actual flight.

The long hours of diligent flying caused Leo to brim with confidence on today’s test flight. Opening the car trunk, he took out two pieces of Vibranium Energy Crystals from the pile of Viper Mark V’s components. The crystals had been fully charged and were radiating a dim blue hue.

For the past two weeks, the energy consumed for the flight test was rather huge. He spent quite some time searching for a place to secretly charge the crystals. 

It seemed like it was inevitable to build an independent power source!