This match had begun as nothing more than a little parent-child game Luo Xia wanted to play with his daughter. Who could have guessed that Tony and Norman joining in would turn it into an arms race?
Luo Xia was not particularly competitive, because he knew that he was only using the AllSpark's abilities to create this equipment. When it came to genuine skill, he was absolutely no match for those two scientific geniuses.
Tony and Norman were both proud geniuses. The only reason they had been able to form the Forgivers Alliance was because they had gone through life-and-death experiences together at Kamar-Taj. Otherwise, they probably could not even have become friends.
Norman was not as flamboyant as Tony, who seemed eager to strike a hundred poses every day and show off his Iron Armor from every possible sixty-degree angle. But geniuses were always proud. Norman felt that he had to surpass Tony in some area before he could truly feel satisfied.
Besides, Norman was confident because both he and his son Harry had received modified Super Soldier Serum injections. Norman had personally refined this version, and it was far superior to the one Tony had accidentally injected back then.
The most obvious difference was that, after losing his negative personality, Tony was now just an ordinary person, with no major improvement in his physical abilities. Norman and Harry, on the other hand, could already be considered superhuman—each of them was worth half a Captain America.
No matter how good the equipment was, it still depended on its user. Just as fighter pilots needed exceptional physical fitness, otherwise they simply could not withstand the terrifying demands of supersonic aerial combat.
Superior physical abilities allowed the Green Goblin suit to do away with many protective systems for the body, freeing