The moment Stark finished speaking, Nebula sprang to her feet, a vicious gleam in her eyes. There was nothing between them to block her, and with her twenty tons of strength, turning Stark into pulp would have been effortless.
But Nebula stopped a meter in front of Stark and made no further move.
"The potion can heal your arm, eyes, even your internal organs. But I'll need to completely remove the mechanical parts inside your body, and the process will be extremely painful."
Nebula looked at him in confusion, waiting for him to explain further.
Stark did indeed have more to say. "But I'm not confident I can repair the missing parts of your brain. Even if we use the potion to restore them, some of what's missing includes memory regions. Once the mechanical parts are removed, your memories will suffer permanent damage."
Stark had also obtained information on the Extremis virus. He lacked Dr. Lizard's expertise in biological genetics and had no Leech Potion to serve as an inhibitor, so his research into the Extremis virus had remained at a rudimentary stage.
Later, Daisy began selling Extremis Potion, and he did not continue the research.
Only after joining the Illuminati had that research been restarted. With the godlike academic genius Mr. Fantastic, who seemed to know everything, as the lead researcher, along with the scientific technology of Wakanda and Atlantis, the Illuminati's research into the Extremis virus had already surpassed Dr. Lizard's. The world simply did not know it.
They no longer needed Leech Potion. They could now carry out genetic repairs according to their own designs, with virtually no side effects.
But as Stark had said, they had no good solution when it came to repairing the brain. The field was too advanced—and too cruel.
Once memories were