Steeling Heart

"My body then felt...comfortable. It was as if I had just broken through a barrier to a new world! I suddenly understood how to use this special ability and control my body to transform into flames.

"I only intended to try out my ability, but since it was my first time, it was very hard to control. It took me all that time to finally figure out how to return my body to normal!"

Captain America explained what just happened and what he felt—although, despite having experienced it himself, he didn't really understand the specific details!

"Your experience was actually the most normal, Li Yue and Thor are just special cases!

"Just now, the temperature of your body almost reached two thousand degrees. Do you feel any discomfort? Also, do you know what's actually burning when your body's in flame?"

Tony bombarded Captain America with his doubts and questions. He wanted to know everything about the superpower—he was considering to use the serum himself, but he hadn't made up his mind yet!

Captain America was slightly taken aback. He didn't realize he was outputting so much power!

...

"You can go further? I thought you already hit your limit just now!"

"Is your ability simply to turn into flames? Is there any other effect? For example, can you throw the flames as projectiles or manipulate it in some way? Can you absorb other source of flames?"

"I don't know either. After all, I have only just awakened. I have not fully tested my ability!"

Captain America was overwhelmed by the questions!

"I think Steve could probably do all that. I think he could even fly!"

Li Yue suddenly interjected. It was basically confirmed that Captain America had gained Human Torch's abilities, so he could probably do everything that Human Torch could.

There was even an ability called "Supernova," but Li Yue was unable to determine if the current Captain America could do it, so he did not mention it!

"Flight? True, theoretically speaking, the force and flow dynamics that occurred in the process of combustion could lift Steve's body and let him fly in the air!"

Tony pondered Li Yue's word for a moment and gave an accurate hypothesis.

Tony felt envious of the Captain. He didn't expect that the flight ability that he aimed for would be obtained by Captain America—as an accidental byproduct, at that!

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"Even so, I don't think that this ability is very good…"

Captain America did not know whether he should be happy or sad because he had successfully awakened a powerful superpower.

He was a bit sad because the superpower came with a glaring drawback: transforming to the flaming form would burn his clothes to ashes! How was he supposed to use this ability in front of others?!

"What's wrong? You don't like your superpower?"

Tony was a little irked by Captain America's doubtful attitude. He had awakened such a strong superpower, what else did he want?

"Stark—it's not that I'm not grateful, but as everyone could see, this superpower has a glaring weakness. I can't burn every clothes I have just to transform, now can I?"

Captain America was conflicted. On one hand, he was happy to gain a new strength, but on the other hand, he felt helpless for the weakness of his ability!

"Hah, I thought you're worried about something serious, but it's just a trivial problem! There's an easy fix for that!"

Tony laughed a little when he heard about Captain America's dilemma. He was confident that he could easily solve it!

"Oh, do you have a solution, Stark?"

Captain America was curious of Tony's confidence. He was eager to know if the billionaire really have a solution for his power's immense restriction!

"Piece of cake! Though, I'm not the one with the solution, but another one of our member!"

Tony kept the eager Captain America in suspense!

"Alright, enough of that. The solution to the Captain's problem is with T'Challa. You probably don't know about it, but other than being a member of the Justice League, he has another secret identity: he is the prince of Wakanda!"

Li Yue directly tore down Tony's stage and mercilessly spoiled the suspense!

"Prince of Wakanda? It's an honorable identity, but what does it have to do with my superpower?"

Captain America was still confused as he stared at the only black member in the room!

The alliance had held several meeting throughout the year, and the Captain had gotten along well with T'Challa, but Captain America had never known about T'Challa's hidden identity!

"Li Yue, what the hell, why would you ruin my moment like that! But Steve still doesn't know, T'Challa's family owns a mine of the most precious metal on Earth: Vibranium…"

Tony complained to Li Yue and hurriedly explained everything about T'Challa, afraid that Li Yue would steal his thunder again!

...

All is well that ends well. T'Challa was a generous prince: he immediately said that he would request two sets of Vibranium combat suit from Wakanda for the Captain!

Thor had finally returned from the toilet. His usual silly smile was wiped from his face, and he looked indescribably exhausted!

He was immediately interested to hear about the Captain's awakened superpower, but before he could hear the details, he suddenly held his stomach again and immediately rushed to the bathroom at full speed!

"Tony, how long will Thor be like that? Will he be like that forever?"

Li Yue felt cold sweat when he saw Thor's sorry state. Luckily, the serum had worked for him. Otherwise, he would've been like Thor!

"Cough, I'm not sure. A normal person would continue to be like that for about a week! But someone like Thor would probably just have it for one or two days!"

Tony replied with some uncertainty. This failure had given him new doubt about taking the serum himself.

But seeing Captain America's superpower convinced him to give it a try. Worst come to worst, he had to stay in the bathroom for a week! No biggie!

Moreover, it was not a definite failure—the success rate was much higher than the failure rate. What was there to be afraid of?

"C'mon, it's my turn! Surely I, the great Tony Stark, would succeed at such simple task!"

Tony suddenly declared his final decision!

He strode confidently to the experiment room, with ironclad determination!

"Ahem, Jarvis, prepare another bed for me!"

Unfortunately, when he entered the room, all he found was the charred remain of the experiment table! He had to order Jarvis to prepare a new one!