[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman":3,"chapter-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-527":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marvel: A Lazy-Ass Superman",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1722033,2198,"Chapter 527 527: A Cleaner Los Angeles","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-527",527,"\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 40 advanced chapters, visit my Patreon:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patreon - Twilight_scribe1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, when dealing with a force like the vampires, you couldn't chase them one nest at a time like a dog hunting rats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You had to gather them together first—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then wipe them out in one blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deacon Frost's ambition to ascend as the Blood God had been crushed by Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with him, the vampire power base built around Deacon suffered a devastating blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, some vampires and human followers belonging to that faction had avoided disaster simply because they never went to Eternal Night Temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But those survivors would not find it easy to carry the banner of the radical vampire faction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the Twelve Houses—who had been manipulated by Deacon and suppressed by him—would never let such an opportunity pass without taking revenge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, Deacon Frost's fortune would be carved up by those old monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any radical survivors hoping to rise using Deacon's inheritance would first have to ask whether the watching elder vampires approved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when vampires dealt with their own kind, they were just as vicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no sense of brotherhood or shared bloodline among them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Completely unlike Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants, which loudly claimed our own do not kill our own and placed mutant collective interests first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether members under Magneto actually killed mutants was another matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Magneto himself truly was quite tolerant toward mutants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the X-Men roster would have gone through several complete replacements by now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, in practical terms, Los Angeles streets suddenly became much cleaner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The police had an easier time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Street gangs no longer lived in fear that they might somehow offend vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those dark creatures who boasted themselves as more evolved than humans were not the sort to welcome random thugs seeking refuge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they weren't careful, those gangsters asking to join simply became convenient blood bags.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What gang member looked for protection just to die?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted backup in fights, cover when committing crimes, and someone powerful watching their backs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But vampires not only looked down on street-level criminals—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They regularly ate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If gangs welcomed vampires, that would be the real miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when those sunlight-hating creatures disappeared from the streets of Los Angeles, people might not openly celebrate in public—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But privately, many were quietly delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even celebrated in secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hollywood was much the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a long-standing Jewish stronghold, vampires had exerted influence there for many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they had never done so with the arrogant, domineering attitude of Deacon Frost's radicals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one wanted mysterious new bosses appearing overhead, demanding a cut of the money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse still, those dark creatures not only ignored existing rules—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted to make new ones of their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what people truly could not tolerate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry quickly began to experience the benefits of fewer radical vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Charlize Theron was still filming in Australia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But her agent, J.J. Harris, remained in Hollywood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides handling the actress's career, Harris also managed other talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past year, the resistance and obstacles standing in her way had suddenly vanished, making work far smoother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From time to time, the agent would visit Stark Pictures personally and chat with Henry about industry matters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Partly to show how seriously she took Charlize's career.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Partly to use the studio's channels to gather information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And partly to cultivate ties with the company's executive director.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry didn't dislike this kind of goodwill mixed with self-interest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least it was mutually beneficial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not one-sided exploitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond those visible improvements, the combat testing of the Duck-form Duck-Leopard Armor and the Multi-Directional Tracking Combat Missiles had become Henry's main private research focus recently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inspired by the Macross anime franchise, the weapon system had presented many technical difficulties when adapted into the Marvel universe—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though not as many as expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, these missiles were primarily designed for space combat outside an atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they didn't require wings or fins for steering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They relied entirely on multidirectional thrusters for maneuvering and propulsion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could still be used in atmosphere, but range became significantly shorter, and some design\u002Fmaterial adjustments were necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the reason their attack paths looked so erratic was because they constantly overcorrected during pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They'd overshoot the target, then turn back again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, such wasteful fuel consumption would get both the thrust-program engineers and the missile physicists dragged before a firing squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this overloaded design accidentally gave the missiles unpredictable flight paths—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making them harder to intercept or evade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What should have been a flaw became a strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true marvel of engineering history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So their bizarre movement wasn't an intentional feature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the lucky result of one mistake layered atop another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Negative times negative equals positive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The initial launch direction determined from which angle a missile would begin tracking the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Henry's current technology, he could control course changes mid-flight instead of letting missiles track independently—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But precise fine-tuning remained impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, he had never intended precision in the first place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unpredictability was one of the weapon's greatest strengths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chaos was the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its only real weakness was size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once warhead payload and fuel were installed, there wasn't much room left for anything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So these missiles lacked true fire-and-forget capability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They required an external system for locking, tracking, and control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If every function had to be built into each missile, they wouldn't be merely thumb-thick anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They'd need to be two or three times larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As things stood, control signals were transmitted wirelessly through the quantum computing system Henry had built behind the scenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, his communications systems were based on alien technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Modern Earth technology couldn't crack them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It probably couldn't even detect them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the explosive compounds had been upgraded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At equal weight, their power was several times stronger than TNT.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The propellant formulas were also from the Galactic Empire version of science, far more efficient than Earth fuels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Miniature missile size remained the greatest limitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once you required enough explosive force to matter, fuel capacity simply couldn't support long-distance travel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why Henry classified them as combat missiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without heavy maneuvering, they could fly only about one kilometer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If maneuvering restrictions were removed, their practical combat range dropped to roughly five to six hundred meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless used outside atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In space, fuel dynamics differed enough that range would increase substantially.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for enlarging the missiles to carry more explosive and more fuel—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That idea barely crossed Henry's mind before he discarded it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true strength of the system lay in overwhelming targets through sheer numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tracking from multiple directions made interception difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they could lock onto multiple targets simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those qualities made them ideal for close-range chaotic multi-target combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At medium and long range, they were actually less suitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, these things had originally been meant to shoot down aircraft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using them on people was already somewhat excessive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Armored vehicles, tanks, armed helicopters—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All perfectly manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Increase the power further?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then what exactly was he planning to fight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This universe didn't have Gundams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During development, Henry had even removed the warheads entirely, replacing them with inert counterweights, and used Katie as the simulated target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tiger had received excellent dodge training as a result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the first real combat test had been against vampires whose speed exceeded both humans and tigers, Henry had gathered a great deal of valuable battlefield data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of it could be used to improve the combat missiles further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he had no intention of switching careers to become an arms dealer, the era of superheroes appearing in bulk was drawing ever closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And for some reason, Henry felt an increasing sense of urgency pushing him toward certain preparations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You could also say that if he didn't spend his time researching alien technology and building strange weapons, he had no idea what else to do with a super-brain like his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Money was trivial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not worth pursuing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it couldn't be converted into something beneficial to him, then it was merely a boring number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And anything money could buy—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was better than what he could personally build?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That sense of confusion had begun affecting his daily life as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A distress call interrupted everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>🎉 Power Stone Goal Announcement! 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