[Tesseract's Energy]:

  The power derived from the Cube could furnish tanks and guns with astonishingly destructive force, an energy of infiential led within the realm of abstract cepts.

  Blue Item Card.

  Do you want to extract it?

  The above is the card message dispyed by the block-shaped blue energy entity.

  "Oh my…" The card's message shimmered in blue, catg Kyle's attention. His face torted with astonishment, a rare cra his typically posed demeanor. He had never anticipated stumbling upon a god-tier artifact from the Marvel World so swiftly.

  The Tesseract! A bona fide god-level item, it had once served as the receptacle for the Space Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones—a tool of ic magnitude.

  "Indeed. During World War II, the Hydra anization stumbled upoesserad hars limitless energy for warfare," Kyle mused aloud, his gaze fixed upon the enigmatiergy cube before him. A sense of trepidation washed over him, and a cold sweat broke on his brow, both for himself and the makeshift U.S. military unit stationed in the bat zone.

  To this day, suergy remained absent from the front lines. It was evidently a ret creation by the German forces, as yet ued in an official capacity.

  Unbeknownst to an unsuspeg world, the sudden introdu of energy-boosted German forces into the theater of war could result in catastrophisequences for the European front lines.

  Yet, serendipitously, the present circumstance pyed to Kyle's advantage.

  Eyes glinting with excitement, he picked up one of the energy cubes. Each of these possessed the potential to serve as a Blue Item Card—a tribute worthy of extra.

  "There should be at least twenty of these in this crate, right?" Kyle pondered, on the verge of embarking on a card-drawing spree. However, a faint sound reached his ears from behind, causing his expression to shift abruptly. Before he could react, a etallic object collided with the back of his head.

  "Don't move. If you make a move, I'll blow your head off." The man behind him, holding a gun, spoke in German. With a clieical sound, he had already released the safety on his pistol.

  Carelessness.

  Kyle tensed up his body and sighed inwardly. He never expected that he would let his guard down while drawing cards, and he never expected that there were people hiding in this underground basement.

  "Put down what's in your hands and raise your hands." The gunman tinued with a anding and forceful tone.

  "Don't shoot," Kyle said as he put the energy cube bato the box and raised his hands.

  In this life-or-death situation, Kyle remained calm and pondered his options.

  The simplest way would be to directly use Stealth to forcibly teleport out of the enemy base. However, that was the st resort, to be used only if absolutely necessary.

  "Very good. I didn't expect you to speak German. You truly are an Ameri rat that mao infiltrate my base." The gunman said coldly, without any immediate iion of shooting. This made Kyle dismiss the idea of forced teleportation.

  "What were you hoping to aplish by infiltrating this pce?" The gunman persisted, but this time Kyle remained silent, refusing to provide an answer.

  "Heh, I'll find a way to loosen that tongue of yours," The gunman sneered, maintaining the firm pressure of his pistol against Kyle's head. In his other hand, he retrieved a walkie-talkie. "Hello, this is ander Leo. Dispatch soldiers to Warehouse No. 2's basement immediately. We have an Ameri rat in our midst…"

  So this guy is ander Leo, the one who rovided with girls in the name of resources. He must also be the highest-ranking ander of this rge base.

  Kyle still stood motionless with his hands raised, but at some point, a card had silently materialized between his fingers.

  "ander Leo."

  Before the man behind him finished his versation, Kyle suddenly spoke in a cold tone, "Do you know a saying from my hometown?"

  ander Leo slightly paused, hung up the walkie-talkie, and asked coldly, "What saying?"

  His pistol ressed tightly against the back of Kyle's head. As soon as there was any movement, he would immediately pull the trigger.

  Kyle replied softly, "That saying is, 'Vilins die due to being talkative'."

  "Vilin?"

  ander Leo's brow furrowed, perplexed by the meaning behind Kyle's words, when suddenly, an Evil Dog emerged from the nearby darkness. Its menag teeth glistened with a cold, sinister light as it swiftly cmped down on his wrist, still gripping the gun.

  [Evil Dog]: Summon a vicious Evil Dog ied with rabies to fight for you.

  Green Lifeform Card.

  "Ahhhhhh!" ander Leo cried out in pain as he fell to the ground. The Evil Dog appeared to be a rge dog resembling a Tibetan Mastiff, with green glints in its eyes. Its incredibly strong bite tore a rge piece of flesh from his wrist, exposing bone.

  "Tonight, I'm the Hero, and you, of course, are the Vilin."

  A smile curved on Kyle's lips as he gently caressed the fluffy fur of the Evil Dog.

  "Please, I beg you. Don't kill me. Even if you kill me, you won't be able to leave this pce alive!" Uhe intense desire to survive, ander Leo, who had previously dispyed a stern and ruthless demeanor, pleaded for mercy.

  "Don't worry, I won't kill you," Kyle said with a smile. Before joy could appear on ander Leo's face, the words draihe color from his face, "The thing I hate the most is when people put a gun to my head. So, I'll use you to feed the dog."

  As soon as the words left Kyle's mouth, as if attuo his and, the nearby Evil Dog emitted a savage roar and lunged forward, sinking its teeth into ander Leo's neck.

  Uurbed by the agonized screams of his adversary or the gruesome sight of the Evil Dog feasting on flesh, Kyle proceeded to extract the energy cubes scattered throughout the basement.

  Even at the rate of drawing one card every three seds, it would still take over a mio extract more thay energy cubes. By the time the German soldiers within the base received the unication call, alerting them to the presence of an intruder, they should already be verging upon Kyle's location.

  "One minute from now, the base's defense meisms must be promised, and I must break through the enemy's ranks to make my escape. Time is of the essence," Kyle muttered to himself, his eyebrow raised iermination as he tinued extrag the energy Item Cards. Simultaneously, he retrieved another Lifeform Card from his Card Space.

  [Toxic Hor's ]: Summon a beehive housing hundreds of venomous hors. These deadly is inflict fatal injuries within half an hour. Rare Green Item Card.

  Current Status: Oime summon, sts for half an hour. Will you use it?

  "Now is your time to shine," Kyle murmured meaningfully, his gaze fixed upon the card.

  Meanwhile, in the forested area adjat to the sprawling base, hundreds of Ameri soldiers y in wait, their expressions grave. Sergeant Fury, their steadfast leader, couldn't help g his fist in mounting apprehension as they awaited a certain occurrence.

  "Sergeant Fury, the designated raid time is drawing near. What should we do?" Gee inquired anxiously.

  "Wait a little longer," Fury replied in a deep voice, uain of the exact event they were anticipating.

  Perhaps Kyle had not yet successfully infiltrated the base and had met an untimely demise.

  Even if Kyle had mao infiltrate the base, how could he, with his individual capabilities, dismahe defense meisms prising thousands of soldiers and advanced equipment?

  "Give it another five minutes. If there is no sign of activity from the rge base within that timeframe, we will abort the raid mission areat immediately." Fury took a deep breath. Just as he uttered those words, excmatioed from several soldiers nearby.

  "Sergeant Fury! It appears that there is a movement within the enemy's stronghold!"

  (End of this chapter)