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True, while Magic is diffused in all existence and its flows are everywhere, Darkforce and Living Light "inhabit" exclusively their own dimensions, breaking through to which is very difficult, far from every mage, even among the experienced and skilled, decides to mess with these Powers and dimensions.
The more incredible Stark's discovery was. A real portal to the dimension of Living Light. Let it be small, let it be one-way, but fully functional and requiring no effort from the user!
Any sorcerer would give his right arm and both legs to boot for such a thing without thinking, he'd just grow new ones very quickly on such a source anyway.
Even Tony, completely alien to mysticism, managed to negate the injuries inflicted and still being inflicted by shrapnel just on the passive influence of the dimension.
And he noticed other "strange" properties of his reactor, for example, the protection of the wearer from damage.
No matter how good the armor is, it didn't repeal the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, and a tank shell taken "to the chest" should have turned the body under the armor into fine mush, even if the armor itself withstood the impact.
But… nothing of the sort happened.
The Living Light from the reactor absorbed the damage and protected the wearer with its field.
Actually, this was one of the reasons why in all armor models the "power element" was located in the front, although all human experience and simple Common Sense insisted that putting the "engine" almost on the "frontal armor," which always takes the main damage, is complete idiocy.
But not everything was so rosy.
Living Light is a powerful thing, but not omnipotent, and without a mage's will guiding it, not too "smart" either.
Yes, it suppressed obvious damage, forcing vessels cut by small shards to continue delivering blood where needed, lungs to pump air, and other organs to work, ignoring the presence of downright open holes and foreign objects in them.
But even getting rid of the shrapnel and full healing was beyond it, and there was a more serious problem.
The nuclear fusion reactor remained a nuclear fusion reactor, and therefore, even with all possible insulation and protection, it radiated considerably.
By the way, it worked on palladium, a sort of harmless noble metal of the platinum group, from which medical instruments, pacemaker parts, dentures, and a bunch of other things are made, including contact nodes in electronics, due to high wear resistance and corrosion resistance.
Yes, yes, those very contacts in the warhead guidance system, from where Tony initially removed it.
Only all this splendor worked before the reactor started, and inside it, harmless palladium abruptly turned into the radioactive isotope 107Pd, and the fun began.
Stark was getting irradiated, and, as happens with prolonged irradiation, the further it went, the stronger and faster the effect followed.
Add to this heavy metal poisoning earned back in that cave in captivity, where he had to literally cast not-the-healthiest alloys on his knee without any protection, as well as shards lodged in his body, which very briskly poisoned the organism with products of chemical reactions from their oxidation, and the picture turns out quite unpleasant.
Tony was really dying. What supported his life, protecting him from the consequences of being hit by a high-explosive explosion, was irradiating his body, and the Living Light in passive mode not only couldn't cure radiation sickness but didn't "figure out" to simply add vitality.
Yeah, if Stark had the X-gene, it would have awakened long ago, but the guy was out of luck, and he apparently turned out to be one of those few percent of people who either lacked the X-gene or had it in too rudimentary a state.
Later on, Tony's memory tossed up a few more interesting tidbits and technologies, including the principles of creating and training a semblance of artificial intelligence on Earth's elemental base.
J.A.R.V.I.S. wasn't a full AI and couldn't be, if only because all Earth information technologies were based on binary logic.
To form a mind matrix, you need at least ternary logic, which provides for an "uncertainty" option in addition to simple "yes"/"no" states.
However, Tony managed to develop a self-learning algorithm for an operating system that simulated a mind.
And even that was pretty good… and safer in many situations.
Again, implementation on the local elemental base and in local programming languages was a very valuable acquisition, even if the principle itself wasn't anything special for Asgard.
I also liked his repulsor-jet technology based on pure energy, without using a working mass in the jet stream.
In part, it resembled Asgardian plasma weaponry, only Asgardian defense guns were originally created as weapons meant to shoot, not provide thrust for flight.
Stark did the opposite: first he learned to fly, and then he turned the engine into a cannon. Honestly, a natural Genius Idiot!
By the way, I finally managed to form my opinion about him.
So, Mr. Anthony Stark was a very eccentric and selfish person, but at the same time devilishly smart, resourceful, and above all, valuing his independence.
Only he caught the fancy of a certain aggressive one eye guy who moonlighted as the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Naturally, Fury, with all his claims and desires, was told by Tony to go fuck himself and was practically thrown down the stairs.
Or rather, he was transparently hinted at such a probability six months ago and politely asked to leave private property, lest Iron Man hand over the trespassing man to the police as a burglar, and not shy away from showing photos with juicy commentary to the press…
What a pity the movie showed only the beginning of that conversation, but now I was getting a kick out of watching it all from the first-person perspective.
Alas, the one eye guy was aggressive but smart enough to understand that a direct assault on Stark could end very badly for his entire agency.
When a potential adversary's stash is comparable to a country's budget, and their technical equipment surpasses all possible analogues by at least twenty years, only a completely brain-damaged cretin would act recklessly.
Although, in my opinion, Tony hinted to him in vain, in vain! I think without hints Fury had every chance of not guessing, which ultimately would have only benefited Stark.
One way or another, the colonel decided to approach from afar, wait until the dying Tony reached "condition," and then offer "help"… true, I knew this from my "isekai" memory, where there was a distinct moment of S.H.I.E.L.D. providing Stark Sr.'s records, combined with "house arrest", or rather, forcible detention of Tony himself, naturally, completely illegally.
And how Howard's "legacy" ended up with Fury raised many questions for me back then.
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