"T'Challa is actually dead? No wonder Wakanda feels a bit aggressive lately."
Having learned the general situation of Wakanda from the War Dog member in front of him through mind control, Luca lowered his head in thought.
However, he soon stopped this meaningless analysis.
Who leads Wakanda now, what does it have to do with me? Even if T'Challa were still leading, would I not go and take back my Vibranium?
Luca shook his head helplessly. Although the Mind Stone had brought him active thinking abilities, sometimes the multi-threaded divergent thinking under the same intelligence level made him overly cautious.
Of course, this wasn't a bad thing, it was just...
Why doesn't my super brain remind me to use my super strength?
But in fact, after using it for these past few days, Luca had discovered more uses for the Mind Stone.
Just like the sudden sneak attack with the spit needle from the person in front of him just now.
The reason he could activate the deceleration field in time to respond was thanks to the 'keen perception' brought by the Mind Stone's enhancement of his mental power.
To describe it more vividly, it was probably that Luca had now mastered an ability similar to 'Observation Haki' from the One Piece world.
Even if combined with the mind-reading effect of the Mind Stone, saying he achieved 'Future Sight Observation Haki' wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Not only that, the highly active mental power also allowed Luca to achieve an effect similar to 'Bullet Time' under high concentration.
And after embedding the gem into the [Quicksilver Time] mechanical arm, the energy supply effect based on the Infinity Stone also greatly enhanced the arm's deceleration field.
The 'large-scale stasis field' that originally required blowing up the arm to use could now barely be used as a regular ability.
If he counted the 'memory modification and deletion' ability that he would inevitably master by continuing to study the Mind Stone in the future, it wouldn't be impossible to make the person whose memory was deleted mistakenly believe they had experienced 'time reversal (brain-limited)' or 'time travel (as thought by the person whose memory was deleted).'
It seemed that this perfectly good Mind Stone was forcibly played by Luca into a 'Yellow Time Stone.'
Of course, these were all things for later.
Right now, what Luca cared more about was...
"Vibranium babies! I'm coming!"
Boom!
A huge explosion erupted in the sky.
The sky, which originally looked empty, suddenly emitted a pale blue light screen amidst the shockwave.
The blue light screen trembled violently.
What should have been an endless African savanna, under this trembling blue light screen, faintly revealed a bustling city full of technology.
As the fire dissipated and the roaring subsided, the city was once again hidden by the light screen.
However, the city under the light screen at this moment had long lost its usual calm.
Beep—Woo—Beep—Woo—
Air defense alarms trembled continuously without stopping. All ordinary citizens in Wakanda were quickly evacuating to air raid shelters in confusion and panic.
However, Wakanda, which had been peacefully secluded for hundreds of years, and even most of its ordinary residents, had no idea what a foreign invasion tasted like.
And at this moment, inside Wakanda's council chamber, a heated argument was still ongoing.
"Your Highness the Queen! We must assemble the army immediately and destroy the invaders!"
The elder of the Border Tribe was already fully armed... well, actually, he just picked up a spear and put on a cloak.
However, the elder of the River Tribe had a different opinion.
"Those outsiders cannot break the dome shield. Currently, His Majesty Erik has just taken the Heart-Shaped Herb. We can wait for His Majesty to wake up before launching a counterattack."
"According to the radar, the enemy is continuously increasing troops by unknown means. Although it is currently only a probing attack, the number of enemies..."
"But only His Majesty the King has the command of the army. Commanding beyond authority is equivalent to treason!"
"This is war!"
The Border Elder suddenly erupted, raising his spear high and glaring at everyone present.
"The war has already begun! Do you want to see those invaders continue to expose Wakanda to the eyes of outsiders?!"
This sudden sentence completely ended the meaningless quarrel.
Although they were all very confident that the attacks of outsiders could not defeat the dome shield, such attacks had already exposed Wakanda.
Even destroying the incoming enemy might not prevent the news from spreading, but even so, could they really just sit and wait for death?
In the end, it was Ramonda, the former Queen, who made the decisive decision.
"Forest Guards, Border Tribe warriors, Jabari Tribe warriors, assemble and head to the boundary of the dome shield to prepare for the enemy."
"Okoye, you..."
Before Ramonda could finish speaking, she was interrupted by the leader of the Jabari Tribe, who had remained silent until now.
"The Jabari Tribe only obeys the orders of His Majesty Erik!"
As soon as these words came out, even the two elders who had previously opposed immediate assembly looked at M'Baku with unkind eyes.
However, he just stood there with his arms crossed, completely ignoring the gazes of others.
However, Queen Ramonda also knew that now was not the time to argue with him about this, and immediately modified the order slightly.
"Areg, get your Merchant Tribe's fighters ready for sortie."
"Okoye, lead the Dora Milaje and go with Chief M'Baku to guard His Majesty Erik. Make sure to report the situation to him as soon as he wakes up!"
"Yes!"
Orders were issued one after another. Watching the elders quickly leave, Queen Ramonda sat back down somewhat weakly.
She didn't understand why things had suddenly come to this?!
Previously, Erik led the fighters to reclaim the Vibranium, and later dispatched the War Dog spy unit to recover the crashed fighter. The Wakandan high command, including herself, had actually made various contingency plans for these two events.
Perhaps it might slightly expose the existence of Vibranium, or let outsiders know of an unknown faction possessing Vibranium technology.
But even in the worst-case scenario, they never thought Wakanda itself would be exposed so quickly, or even reduced to the point of being directly attacked at their doorstep.
Yes, although the enemy's identity could not be confirmed, Ramonda was certain that this must be related to Wakanda's previous actions.
It was just that, in the eyes of the outside world, Wakanda should be just a poor and backward country.
And those spies sent out had no obvious identification marks, and their loyalty was absolutely guaranteed, so it was impossible to expose Wakanda's information.
However, now it was...
"Normal people discover an unknown amount of Vibranium and unknown technology. Shouldn't the process be searching, probing, scheming, negotiating, and dragging things out?
How could these people pinpoint Wakanda's location so quickly and even attack directly?"
How dare they?!!