The Legendary Mechanic in Marvel Universe - Chapter 127

Chapter 127 Steam’s Present, Viper Mark III

Creak! Creak!

Hearing the unexpected noises, Leo curiously turned around. He saw Steam was revving over with a small cart and arrived before him. A black cloth blanketed it and what was underneath it couldn’t be seen.

Just as he was puzzled, the tiny wheel on Steam’s body speedily spun, circling the small cart, and immediately approached next to his legs.

“Buzz!”

Steam raised his multi-functional arms up that reached Leo’s waist and pointed at the small cart with black cloth on it. “Master, I’ve prepared a present.”

“Huh?!” Leo was astonished, even his eyes popped out.

Steam carefully removed the black cloth, revealing the object on the small cart. It was an unidentified object made out of wooden blocks. It was roughly 20 centimeters in height and had countless tentacles on its body. It was also sprayed black entirely by Steam with some paint it got from somewhere. 

At first glance, it looked like a tree root that was dug out from a pile of coal.

“What’s this?!” Leo was scratching his head.

“Buzz!” Steam’s hands wiggled and danced, “Master, it’s you!”

Leo, “…”

Upon closer inspection, this black root did resemble a humanoid, but what’s with the tentacles?

Steam as if heard Leo’s question in his mind and said, “Buzz! Master, this is you while wearing the tentacle arms!” After saying that, its oblong-shaped head stared at the black tree root and nodded as though satisfied with its work.

Leo, “…” ‘Although I might look like a tree after wearing the tentacle arms, I’m not THAT ugly, right?!’

Rendering speechless for a while, he finally asked, “Steam, why did you suddenly want to give me a present…?”

“Buzz… Buzz…” Steam was akin to being too excited til unable to speak, its arm poked at the figurine’s stomach. With a click, the figurine’s head split open and a small white flag popped up. There were words on the flag…

On the flag was a series of sentences.

Thank you, my master, for granting me life!

Bless you, my master, for bringing me up!

@#%!&%+*…((#@Y (A blob of black color)

—— Steam, Buzz!

The last sentence was as if Steam suddenly went blank and chose not to write anything, leaving a blob of black color instead.

Steam lifted its head and stared at Leo with flickering eyes, waiting for his praise.

Leo’s face revealed a rare occasion of gentleness. He patted Steam’s head and said, “Later on, I’ll install a new head for you. I will give you a pair of legs as well, so you can truly walk around. But right now… Let’s get to work!”

“Buzz! Affirmative, master! Steam, at your service.” Steam’s voice was loud and clear, filled with energy.

“New project, Viper Mark III. Improvement goals, shock resistance, and increases energy transfer efficiency. The new main material, Vibranium.”

“Buzz! A new project has been created. Viper Mark II’s model has been imported.”

“Alright, now let’s have a look at how to re-shape Vibranium!”

Leo pulled the knowledge of “Vibranium material and related technologies” out and focused on “Vibranium Rapid Shaping”.

【Vibranium aka sound-absorbing steel. Due to its special atomic structure, its internal atoms display a stationary state. It does not transfer heat and kinetic energy, lacks resistance, and is capable of absorbing and storing heat and kinetic energy.

Under a certain high-frequency wave, it will momentarily lose its unique properties and act just like a normal metal that’s able to be forged and shaped.

Below are the basics of Vibranium Rapid Shaping…】

“Vibranium Rapid Shaping” had an enormous amount of content. Leo spent quite a while digesting all of the key points of this piece of technology.

“It seems like I need to build a sealed high-frequency sonic workroom.” Leo fondled his shaved chin. “Steam, re-arrange the lab’s layout. Make space for building a high-frequency sonic workroom.”

“Buzz! Affirmative.”

……

Time passed quickly, fifteen days went by in an instant. The high-frequency sonic workroom also had been built.

This workroom manufacturing technology was among the “Vibranium Rapid Shaping”. Leo just had to follow the instructions and everything was built effortlessly.

During the fifteen days, most of the time was spent procuring materials. As for some components, they didn’t even exist. He had to spend more time building them. Fortunately, he had tentacle arms. Working tons of projects simultaneously, he made rapid progress!

“Woo… Woo… Woo…”

In the spacious private lab, a piece of huge machinery was rumbling in operation. It was the high-frequency sonic emitter.

The high-frequency sonic workroom was operating at the moment. Leo had already melted the propertyless Vibranium into a liquid state. Next, he was going to coat a thin layer of Vibranium on Viper’s outer shell and carved runes on it.

“Vibranium Rune” was another part of “Vibranium material and related technologies”. While the high-frequency sonic workroom was being built, he used his free time to digest the “Vibranium Rune”.

In the “Vibranium Rune”, two types of rune were recorded, the Offensive Rune and Defensive Rune.

The Defensive Rune’s effect was similar to the cape shield of Wakanda’s Border Tribe. If there was a supply of energy, it could produce a defensive barrier.

The Offensive Rune’s effect was similar to the energy cannon Princess Shuri used during the Black Panther movie. However, this rune had a huge energy consumption and was bigger in size. It required a specialized space to accumulate energy.

Circulating his Mechanical Force, Leo reached out his hand to summon Viper’s helmet over. Then, he utilized his Mechanical Force to scoop up a blob of high-temperature Vibranium liquid and gradually covered the helmet’s surface.

Next, he controlled the Vibranium liquid and carefully carved the defensive runes onto the helmet according to what was stated in the “Vibranium Rune”.

Finally, he placed the entire helmet into a rapid-cooling array composed of Freeze Stones to rapidly cool down the helmet.

Lo and behold, Viper Mark III’s first component had been successfully built. Since he had slightly adjusted the thickness of the Vibranium surface, after cooling down, the Vibranium appeared blackish-brown, not eye-catching at all.

He sighed in admiration that the Mechanical Force really was a mysterious energy that was the most suitable for a Mechanic!

Besides controlling metal, it was extremely suitable for forging and fine-tuning. Even a mold was unnecessary. He could utilize his mind to directly fine-tune the hot Vibranium liquid and casually shape it into whatever shape he desired.

What followed next was repetitive yet exciting work.

Leo coated every piece of Viper Mark III’s components with Vibranium coating and carved densely packed defensive runes. Lastly, he set aside sufficient large holes in the armor’s hand, leg, chest, and forehead to carve the slightly larger offensive runes.

Although this series of actions sounded fast and simple, in reality, it took two whole days for him to continuously upgrade every piece of armor’s components. Every time he carved a rune, he needed to concentrate deeply and be cautious. It was time-consuming. 

Luckily, his body constitution was great and his mental strength was powerful enough, which allowed him to persevere before successfully upgrading Viper Mark III.

While his armor was upgraded successfully, half of the Vibranium Leo “took” from the British Museum had been used. In the British Museum, he obtained a half-human tall and two-inch thick pure Vibranium shield and a fist-sized Vibranium pickaxe.

Logically, just coating a layer of Vibranium onto the Viper would consume that much Vibranium. He certainly wouldn’t waste the extra Vibranium. The extra ones had been used by him to create a new energy source according to “Vibranium Energy Storage” to replace the “Miniaturized Microreactor” as Viper Mark III’s energy source.

【Vibranium Energy Storage: Vibranium can be an effective energy storage after a specific arrangement. It can be charged with thermal, kinetic, and electrical energy.】

Now, Leo had named this storage “Vibranium Energy Crystal” and it was being charged in the basement, waiting to be fully charged.