"Ha ha, did you see that look Daisy and Hill exchanged? Ha ha, they must have noticed something was wrong, but I'm not telling them!"
Stark had finally regained a bit of psychological superiority. He held a great secret that others did not know, and the satisfaction of that was simply indescribable.
Pepper felt it was a little risky, but seeing how enthusiastic he was, she did not spoil his mood.
That night, the two of them were pulled into the dream world once again.
They continued exploring that world. Stark churned out invention after invention—ballistae, trebuchets, large-scale steelmaking, explosives—while Pepper used her financial knowledge to develop the economy within their territory. From time to time, she returned to modern society to study medicine, then used the little herbalism knowledge possessed by the lord's wife to brew potions.
The two of them were incredibly busy, while Daisy did everything she could to patch this story together.
By the time Stark gathered the Illuminati members to seek a solution, the story had already been completely transformed.
It was still set in a parallel timeline. Daisy described to Stark a world where the Cancerverse had invaded, where the entire universe had unleashed earth-shattering power to repel the invaders, but where civilization had regressed drastically as a result.
The Middle Ages were not the past, but the future.
Stark led his people beyond The Wall, absorbed the northern barbarians into his ranks, and encountered the White Walkers Daisy had left there.
After battles and searches, hunting through the Great Library for historical records and exploring barbarian ruins, Stark finally found historical texts documenting the hundred years that had vanished from that world...
He learned the truth of the entire world.
The truth was simple and brutal. The survivors who had defeated the Cancerverse