Stark's brother had been plagued by illness since birth. For years, he could only lie in a medical pod, relying on technological devices to sustain his deteriorating body.
With money in hand, no matter how bad one's reputation was, someone would still be willing to provide services.
After throwing around piles of cash, Stark soon found his brother in an underground facility beneath a welfare institution that had once received donations from Howard Stark.
Looking at the figure lying in the medical pod, Stark's expression darkened slightly.
He could free himself from this nightmare-like reality simply by unplugging the medical pod. He hesitated, wavered, and feared, but in the end, he held firm to his bottom line.
After many years apart, the two brothers finally met.
This brother was an unimaginably gifted mechanical engineering genius. As an infant, he had been implanted with vast amounts of alien technology, including a significant portion of the Celestials' knowledge.
For a mortal body to contain such immense knowledge was both a blessing and a disaster.
The disaster left him unable to walk for his entire life, while the blessing was a mechanical creation that could be called magnificent.
Drawing on the knowledge in his mind and his own talent, he had imitated the bodily structure of a six-hundred-meter Celestial and created an era-defining suit of armor: the God Eater Armor.
At the sight of this seemingly unstoppable armor, Stark's confidence wavered.
His genius, his pride, seemed as laughable as toys before this armor. Compared to Howard Stark's biological son, he was no longer a mechanical engineering genius, merely a somewhat clever mortal. Even that bit of intelligence could be attributed to a good education and Howard Stark's personal instruction. How much talent truly belonged to him alone?
Watching his brother control the God