"Do you know who caused this?" Stark asked.
Mercer nodded and explained what he knew about how it all began.
They had assumed it was some kind of biological attack. It had never occurred to them that aliens had done this using the Reality Stone.
"I never imagined something like this could happen. Asgard... I thought that was just an ancient myth," Stark said blankly.
"With someone like me around, Asgard existing doesn't seem all that strange, does it?" Mercer said with a smile.
Stark nodded helplessly. "Fair point."
Mercer looked at the Iron Man Armor Stark was wearing. It wasn't the Flame Dragon Armor.
This was the Iron Man Armor Stark had developed himself, with a particularly conspicuous triangular reactor on its chest.
Mercer couldn't help giving the armor a few extra looks. The Iron Man Armor with the triangular reactor was the MK6, the only suit with a reactor of that shape.
It was a suit Mercer had always loved. In his previous life, he had even bought several highly articulated MK6 figures.
Seeing the actual armor, he found it even cooler than the figures.
"What is it?" Seeing Mercer staring at him, Stark looked down at himself. "Oh, this is my newly developed armor, the MK6. It uses that sword you gave me as its power source. It's seriously powerful."
"Also, letting me study that sword this time saved my life."
After a hard-fought battle, Mercer's arrival had helped Stark relax considerably, and he couldn't stop talking.
"Only after I used your Lightsaber's energy for the core did I discover that my old reactor was giving me palladium poisoning. If I hadn't caught it in time, I wouldn't have noticed until I was terminally ill. I owe you another huge favor."
Stark told him without hesitation, even