Chapter 118: Research Results

Eric's life was quiet again, and after eating and sleeping, he spent ninety percent of his day in the lab.

When the research really began, Eric realised that things were far more complicated than he had imagined.

Mandarin's ring came from an alien ship, but it was a real magic ring, and while they were all first-class scientists, they were completely in the dark when it came to magic.

Eric went to the New York Temple to ask Master Ancient One for advice, but the answer was still not good enough.

She took one look at the two magical rings and was able to explain everything to Eric, from the forging of the rings to the composition of the magical circuits.

The only thing Eric could give her in return was a dumbfounded look ...

We understand science, but this magic seems very unscientific!

Although it is said that the path is simple, the path is the same, but if she wants to explain a magic item completely in scientific terms, her scientific training is still a little bit short of...

The two of them, one magically illiterate and the other scientifically illiterate, could talk about broad concepts such as the universe, time and space, but when it came to atomic physics, protons and electrons, or theoretical physics such as cosmic non-conservation, it was a complete mismatch.

In the end, Eric returned to the laboratory with a large amount of magical materials, this kind of brain-dead things, how can he let his self be be hurt alone, the others should also suffer of course.

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The same people who were as distraught as Eric were Tony Stark and Obadiah, who had just escaped back to life.

As in the original plot, after seeing terrorists use his weapons to attack them, the first major thing Stark did back in civilization was to shut down the weapons division of Stark Industries.

Stark Industries' stock fell off a cliff and Obadiah was so worried as he pulled on his non existent hair.

What do you think you're selling if not weapons? According to the original plot, you improved the ark reactor, you can still engage in new energy or something, but now the ark reactor is already the fist product of Skye Industries, what else can you sell? Egg pancakes or pancakes and nuts?

He could not help it, he wasn't the boss, he was just a long-time worker, he did not dare to do anything, he could only draw circles in the dark and curse Stark again and again, until his unreliable Middle Eastern partners sent him pictures of the Mark I, then he regained his life value.

After Stark shut down the weapons division, he locked himself in his lab, the electromagnet on his chest had been replaced with a brand new Ark reactor, except for the solid Skye Industries logo on it, which always made him feel a blockage in his chest ...

But he wouldn't go out of his way to make a Stark version of the reactor to put on himself, that would be self-defeating and the arrogant man wouldn't go for such a thing. Unless he can invent a more advanced reactor, he will never take off this Skye Industries logo on his chest, that will be the motivation to spur him on.

Of course, that work would need to be put off for later; the most important work now was still his steel battle armour.

Eight years ahead of schedule, Stark's steel armour was more than eight times more difficult to build!

Firstly, his AI, Jarvis, had not yet been completed, and without the aid of his AI, both the data measurement and the modelling of the armour needed to be manually hammered into his computer, which consumed a lot of his time, forcing him to finish Jarvis' design first.

Then there was his learning, lacking eight years of accumulated knowledge, his mechanical engineering was nowhere near the level it was at when he originally built Mark 2. The technology that was only needed at his fingertips, at this point in time he had to design from drawings a little, then model, test and produce engineering samples ...

The good thing is that with the precedent of metal prosthetics, Stark Industries has perfected the data measurement of human tissues and accumulated a lot of technical information, which has saved him a lot of detours. But every time he remembered that the metal prosthesis also originated from Eric, a feeling of humiliation rose in the bottom of Stark's heart.

"Damn you, Erik, why is it always you! You must have been sent by some God to punish me!"

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Time flew by and a year passed quickly, while Stark was still in his lab working on his stuff, Erik had come out.

He sat alone on the roof of his room, looking at the stars in the night sky and taking a sip of his beer.

A year of research had finally come to a final conclusion today.

Two rings, plus four hands of Hulk's genes, and experimental data far beyond this era, still yielded a failed ending. He still hadn't found a way to evolve strong and weak powers into his own.

If there was a skill progress bar, his electromagnetic power would probably be at something like ninety-eight to ninety-nine percent, just shy of full strength. Gravitational force is slightly weaker, but it can also reach over ninety percent.

As for the strong and weak forces, the progress bar for these two forces is estimated to be eighty percent, but these eighty percent are in a very awkward place.

They are in the very middle of the progress bar.

This eighty percent is partly derived from the data measured by several people in the lab, partly from the research provided by Reed, and partly from the genetic research of the two rings and the four-handed Hulk. This part of the progress bar is like a cheat sheet in a game; read it, try it a few times, and you'll learn it.

The first ten percent is the foundation, the introduction, just like gravitonium is to gravitational ability, the next ten percent must rely on one's own comprehension of the ability, that is the watered-down work, commonly known as proficiency.

The first ten percent is what Eric lacks now. If you don't even have the skills, what's the point of reading more cheats?

His skill points have been ready for a long time, now he is just short of acquiring the skill and etc ...

"Do i really have to use Chen Lu's method? Infect myself with radiation? But that method looks like suicide anyhow!"

Eric drained his bottle of beer in one go, the beer bottle casually thrown far away, as he let out a long sigh.

The more he had, the more he feared losing. He was no longer the Magneto who had nothing. Now, he had a company, friends, his precious daughter Skye, Maya who washed dates together, and things that were worthy of his protection ...

He was afraid of losing all of that, which is why he put all his energy into scientific research; using uncontrollable mutations to gain powers was the last method he wanted to use.

"Leads, leads!" Eric stood up and paced back and forth across the roof, searching his mind carefully for memories.

There were countless superpowers in the Marvel Universe, and many involving both powerful and weak forces, but the ones he could access now, he couldn't really think of for a while.

"Perhaps, I shouldn't have limited my scope so small!" Eric had a sudden flash of inspiration, "Magnetic and gravitational forces are control, strong and weak forces destroy, from the molecular and atomic level!"

"There it is, the Fenrir twins! Damn, why didn't I think of that before!"

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