American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

Biu!

Nick Fury's eyes lit up instantly.

"Blood Clan Package?"

Nick's subtle yet direct inquiry made Luke roll his eyes.

"No, no, no, it's not the same as the Blood Clan! The Blood Clan itself has considerable value, but ninjas, they have some value, but not much." Luke corrected Nick's thinking. "What's really valuable is the power they wield."

"So, the Hand possesses a method to use some kind of power? Then what's the source of this power? It can't be generated from within their own bodies, right?" Nick nodded in understanding, but then asked another question he was quite concerned about. Nick and his agents had suffered quite a few losses these days because of the Hand's ninjas' power.

His agents had the most scientific training methods, the best weapons and equipment, and rich combat experience, yet they suffered a great loss at the hands of a gang in the underworld, and were thoroughly taught a lesson by the opponent's ninjas using cold weapons. This simply subverted Nick's understanding. Even the Blood Clan back then hadn't given Nick such a headache.

"The source of those ninjas' power should come from some powerful beings. You can think of them as demons in your understanding. When you collected intelligence on the Hand, didn't you gather any information about this?" Luke looked at Nick in confusion.

"There's just one thing, they believe in some totem called 'the Beast'? Or something? This is actually very common. If you randomly pick out ten similar organizations in the underworld, at least five of them will have similar legends, such as believing in something, thinking it will bring good luck or power to their organization, etc." Nick's one eye narrowed. "Could it be that those are all true?"

"The authenticity of other underworld organizations may not be certain, but what the Hand believes in should indeed have a physical form," Luke gave his answer.

"F*ck! I always considered this kind of intelligence to be meaningless, a low-priority category." Nick's face was very ugly, especially when he thought that there might be many other underground organizations similar to the Hand, who believe in some so-called demon god, hidden in the dark. His face became even more unsightly. Originally, he thought he had always done a good job, at least he had resisted alien attacks, and the world's safety had always been maintained by him before.

What he was most proud of was building S.H.I.E.L.D. into a large intelligence network. Almost all extraordinary and alien events could not escape his control. He had always been proud of this. But now it seemed that too many fish had slipped through the net because of the difference in perception between him and S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence personnel, and were not within the scope of supervision.

This shows that the safety he thought he had had extremely big loopholes! This deduction was no less shocking to him than the resurgence of Hydra.

This simply made him restless!

"Don't think about it. That level of existence is not something you and your S.H.I.E.L.D. can face right now. If one comes, your S.H.I.E.L.D. might lose more than half of its personnel. Dealing with them is the duty of the sorcerers," Luke guessed Nick's current state of mind and pointed out unceremoniously.

"Sorcerers." At the mention of sorcerers, Nick felt a burst of powerlessness. The current situation was caused by looking for sorcerers, but now, instead of finding sorcerers, he found a big trouble.

"Yes, sorcerers. If you can find the gathering place of sorcerers now and can establish a relationship with them, then we might be able to obtain some of their intelligence information sharing, or even magic knowledge, through transactions or other means. And if we have that magic knowledge, I might be able to create better equipment that is more suitable for your agents." Luke pointed to the metal bracer on Nick's left arm.

"I think it's pretty good right now." Nick stroked the metal bracer with fond admiration. He had to say that Luke's technology always brought him considerable surprises. It was a pity that if the other party didn't have Hebo Lun, then he could invite, or forcibly conscript, the other party to join S.H.I.E.L.D.. But now, he could only think about it in his mind. Even if Luke was willing to hold a position in S.H.I.E.L.D. like Stark, he couldn't afford the other party's part-time salary.

"Didn't you understand what I said before?" Luke looked at Nick with a surprised expression, which made Nick feel as if he had said something very stupid. This look made Nick immediately recall all the words he had just exchanged with Luke in his mind.

"What do you mean?" Nick didn't find anything wrong with what he said in the conversation. He frowned and looked at Luke, asking.

"I said from the beginning that I extracted the power from those ninjas' bodies and used some kind of technology to make it the energy source for the equipment," Luke reminded.

"Is there a problem?" Nick thought through Luke's words and didn't find any problems.

"Where is the source of the energy source? It's the so-called demon god Beast. And my technology is just using some method to deceive the other party to obtain a certain amount of energy allocation." Luke saw the dawning look gradually appearing on Nick's face. "But this method is ultimately a trick. In layman's terms, the demon god named Beast used itself as a blueprint and separated many sub-bodies to disguise itself as a software to supply specific customers. As for what price the specific users paid, let's not worry about it for now.

"Back to us, we cracked this software, cracked its encryption key, so we can also use the functions of this software. But you must understand that we are black accounts compared to those real customers who paid the price! We are wool-pullers! If the other party finds something wrong, then our illegal black accounts can be banned from the source.

"Moreover, based on the intelligence I have and combined with the intelligence you gave me, the Hand is obviously looking for some special people. Let's make a bold guess that these special people may be able to carry more power from the demon god Beast, and may even be used as a carrier for the other party to descend. What is this? This is a VIP deluxe upgrade version! It is bound to receive the other party's key attention. Maybe at some point, the other party will sense and confirm the status of this special customer.

"In other words, before there is a better method, the energy that this equipment can extract has an upper limit. It cannot exceed a certain critical value, otherwise it may attract the attention of the demon god Beast. The longer the time, the greater this possibility."