“Mr. Stark, do you believe there are gods in this world?”
Dressed in stylish, eye-catching clothes and about to head out for a yacht party, Tony Stark lowered his sunglasses and gave Roger, who was blocking the doorway, a long, hard look.
“Listen, Roger! Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve been comforted by a hot beauty? A full 24 hours, 5 minutes, and 12 seconds! Do you know how I survived those 24 hours, 5 minutes, and 15 seconds? Now move aside! The yacht party is about to start!”
Looking at the unusually serious Tony Stark, Roger could only spread his hands helplessly.
Then he tapped the earpiece by his ear and calmly said,
“Ms. Pepper, you heard all of that, didn’t you? It’s not that I didn’t try to stop him—I simply couldn’t. As for the banquet you’ve arranged, Tony clearly doesn’t care about it at all.”
Seeing the meaningful smile on Roger’s face, Tony’s expression instantly darkened.
“No! That’s not what happened! Pepper, let me explain!”
“Sir, Mr. Roger has not connected a call with Ms. Potts,” Tony’s AI butler, J.A.R.V.I.S., interjected at the perfect moment.
Tony immediately clenched his fist and shouted,
“Roger! You little—”
J.A.R.V.I.S. continued,
“However, Mr. Roger did record your conversation just now, sir.”
The fist Tony had raised high in the air gently landed on Roger’s shoulder instead, brushing away imaginary dust.
With a cheerful smile, he leaned close to Roger’s ear and whispered rapidly,
“You can have one of tonight’s hot girls. Give me the recording.”
“Oh! A hot girl! Doesn’t that sound tempting?”
“But… this is a recording of my dear good brother, Tony Stark!”
“I want two.”
Roger’s smug grin made the veins on Tony’s forehead bulge.
After holding it in for quite a while, he finally let out a sigh and surrendered to his good brother’s shameless extortion.
“All right! Deal! But you’ve got to give me that Eastern miracle medicine.”
Tony threw an arm around Roger’s shoulders and began making suggestive gestures with his free hand.
Roger could only sigh helplessly.
Reaching into his coat, he took out a small box and poured ten specially enhanced goji berries into Tony’s insulated tumbler.
Tony stared excitedly at the tumbler.
Delighted, he patted Roger on the shoulder before dashing toward the luxury sports car in the garage, shouting as he went,
“If you get there late, you won’t get a single one!”
Roger shook his head and sighed inwardly.
“As expected of Marvel’s ultimate playboy. His body’s already worn out, yet he’s still living it up.”
Accompanied by the roar of the engine, Tony Stark drove out of the garage.
Roger turned around and returned to his room, opening his system interface.
English Name: Roger Stan Lee
Chinese Name: Chen Wuyang
Cheat System: God Cultivation System
Cultivation Target: Tony Stark
Six Attributes (Roger) Intelligence: 23 Strength: 2.42 Speed: 22 Endurance: 2.51 Energy Projection: 11 Combat Skill: 64 Acquired Skills Eros 10% (Starfox · Passive) Spider-Sense 10% (Tom Holland Version) Spider Physique 10% (Andrew Garfield Version) Telepathy 10% (White Queen) Surgical Experience (Stephen Strange) Hand-to-Hand Combat Experience (Steve Rogers) Archery Experience (Hawkeye) Rapid Healing 10% (Wolverine)
Current Main Objective: Please choose Tony Stark’s development path.
Iron Superman Iron Godslayer Iron God Killer Infinity Iron Man Heart of the Universe Iron Man Ultimate Iron Man Iron Beyonder Iron AAO
…
Roger sighed.
It had been over a year since the memories of his previous life awakened.
Not only had he transmigrated, he’d started with an unbelievably lucky hand.
He had been reborn into the MCU Marvel Cinematic Universe, and was Tony Stark’s best friend.
The universe Roger lived in was Parallel Universe No. 12580, a universe sharing the same timeline as the MCU.
The only difference was…
This world’s Tony Stark had a Chinese best friend.
“That’s right.
“It’s me—Roger Stan Lee.”
And today…
…was the starting point of the Marvel universe.
The Apogee Awards Ceremony.
What did that mean?
It meant Tony Stark was about to head to the U.S.
Air Force base in Afghanistan to demonstrate the Jericho Missile, where he would then be ambushed by the Ten Rings and thrown into that pitch-black cave.
“Ah, my dear brother has no idea that in just a couple of days he’ll no longer be enjoying a life surrounded by beautiful women.”
“Instead, he’ll spend three whole months forging iron inside a cave, accompanied only by the smell of sweaty men and the heat of a furnace.”
After amusing himself with thoughts of Iron Man’s origin story, Roger fell silent.
His transmigration system had one main mission:
He had to become Tony Stark’s hidden mentor.
Roger believed this was meant to change that one inevitable ending.
To prevent Tony’s death in the final battle.
To erase the regret that had always remained.
However, according to the butterfly effect, changing even the smallest detail could drastically alter the future.
Since he had already transmigrated into Marvel, the future was undoubtedly no longer fixed.
Therefore, the best course of action now was to preserve the original storyline as much as possible.
He had to do everything he could to keep events progressing according to canon.
Otherwise, if the plot deviated too much, Roger would lose the advantage of knowing the future.
Roger’s current identity was Stark’s:
Personal secretary Personal physician Personal chef Personal bodyguard …
Pepper Potts had specifically hired him to keep an eye on the notorious playboy.
In his previous life, Roger had been a devoted Marvel fan.
He had watched virtually every Marvel movie and TV series and was also an avid comic reader.
Because of that, Roger knew perfectly well that Tony Stark was the kind of superhero who practically died once every other movie.
Take the day after tomorrow, for example.
When Tony was attacked by the Ten Rings, Erik “Killmonger” could suddenly appear, rescue Tony, and begin his ambitious campaign to seize Wakanda’s throne.
Tony’s armor technology—and perhaps even his remains—would eventually become the foundation of Killmonger’s rule.
And if Tony Stark died…
Roger’s main mission would fail.
He would permanently lose his cheat system.
In a Marvel world where there seemed to be three supervillains every day and a catastrophe threatening New York every three days, an ordinary person without any power would struggle to survive.
Whether he lived or died would be left entirely to fate.
As someone who had received nine years of compulsory education, how could Roger possibly allow something like that to happen?
His fighting spirit surged.
Leaping to his feet, Roger swung his arm dramatically and shouted,
“System! Ten-pull! Come forth, my golden light!”
A brilliant white flash filled the room.
A roulette wheel appeared before Roger’s eyes, spinning wildly before gradually coming to a stop.
[You have consumed ten Dimensional Crystals and performed ten draws. (90/100)]
[You obtained common rewards: Golden Dumplings, Phoenix Crystal, Golden Fried Rice, Cloud Dragon Fried Shrimp, Cosmic Siu Mai, Mapo Tofu, Scare Apple, Banana Cucumber, and Special Goji Berries.]
Looking at the screen full of food, Roger couldn’t help twitching the corner of his mouth.
This broken system always gives me a pile of food…
A burst of purple light flashed.
Roger covered his face in despair and collapsed onto the bed.
“Still no golden reward… This is already my ninetieth draw. Am I destined to be unlucky enough to always hit hard pity?”
[Congratulations! A special exploration event has been triggered!]
[You have entered the world of Spider-Man (Bully Maguire Version). You have become Peter Parker’s classmate in medical school.]
[Knowing the movie’s storyline, you deliberately approached Peter Parker. After a long period of building rapport, you obtained his “Ordinary Friendship.”]
[“Peter Parker” participated in an internship at Oscorp, where he was bitten by a spider and gained extraordinary powers.]
[After obtaining Spider-Sense, “Peter Parker” detected your ill intentions. The timeline has been disturbed. Exploration ended.]
[You have received a reward.]
[You obtained a Beginner Skill Fragment of Spider-Man’s Spider Strength (Bully Maguire Version).]