Blaine simply stared directly at Stephen Strange to prevent him from suddenly running away.
Looking at Stephen Strange, for some reason, there seemed to be a green light occasionally emitting from in front of him. There was no need to think about it. It was the Eye of Agamotto, also known as the Time Stone.
In fact, during the many days Blaine had been here, he had seen the Eye of Agamotto more than once, and had even played with it more than once.
Because it was placed in an easily found darkroom behind the library. Moreover, its location was quite conspicuous. Basically, when one opened the door and went in, the first thing they saw was the Eye of Agamotto.
However, because the Ancient One was still here, Blaine still had to ask her some questions for the sake of long-term planning. In addition, he had not yet fully comprehended so many spells, so he had not secretly taken it for himself.
In fact, there was an even more important reason: Blaine could not open the Eye of Agamotto.
He did not know what this Eye of Agamotto was made of. No matter whether Blaine used brute force or other tricks, there was no way to get it open. Let alone open it—he could not even make it glow green like Stephen Strange had.
Of course, Blaine also knew that if one wanted to use the Eye of Agamotto, one had to read the Book of Cagliostro to learn how.
Moreover, even another high-level sorcerer in the universe—although Blaine did not know what level he was, if it were really calculated, he might be similar to the Ancient One in magical ability; even if lower, he could not be too much lower—could not take the Eye of Agamotto.
This sorcerer was Ebony Maw. Even Ebony Maw could not take the Eye of Agamotto. Blaine, who was not a pure magic practitioner, was naturally even more confused.
Besides, the Eye of Agamotto had been obtained by the Ancient One from Eternity. Who was Eternity? One of the five creator gods of the universe. It was understandable that Blaine could not open it or use it now.
Blaine continued to focus on Stephen Strange. He saw that the Eye of Agamotto on Strange's chest seemed to be turning along with his gestures, as if it were about to open.
It was just that Stephen Strange's gestures were too strange. His fingers were twisted into a special posture—uh, like chicken claws.
…
Suddenly, at a certain moment, Stephen Strange seemed to have successfully used the Eye of Agamotto. Because a round, complicated green magic circle appeared on one of his hands. The magic circle was not large, only about the size of Stephen Strange's two palms, and it was as ugly as his gestures.
On the other arm, there seemed to be a green screen wrapped around Stephen Strange's forearm, just like the wrist armor of Tony's Mark suit.
It was not over yet. Blaine could not help taking a closer look. Dude, Stephen Strange was over there using the Time Stone. He turned the green magic circle in his palm, and the half-eaten apple he had just placed on the table returned to its complete shape, then turned into an apple core again. Rotating the green magic circle clockwise fast-forwarded time, while rotating it counterclockwise rewound time. Stephen Strange was having a great time at that moment.
"How is your Sanskrit?"
Finally, Blaine could no longer sit still. He suddenly appeared behind Stephen Strange and said something so completely irrelevant.
"Huh? Who's there?"
Obviously, Stephen Strange was also startled. After all, it was midnight, and he was reading forbidden books again.
"Uh, it's you."
"All I know is that my Google Translate sucks…"
Seeing that it was Blaine, Stephen Strange also breathed a sigh of relief. For so many days, almost all the students in Kamar-Taj had seen this mysterious black-robed man. He read in the library every night and appeared somewhere from time to time during the day. He remained mysterious. However, because his sense of presence was too low, many people did not have any other impression of Blaine, so Stephen Strange relaxed and was not afraid of him.
"The Vedas. Classical Sanskrit. See?"
As he said that, Blaine casually threw a book from his hand in front of Stephen Strange. The meaning could not have been more obvious: let's switch. I'll read that, and you read this.
Stephen Strange did not seem to understand, but with Blaine here, he was too embarrassed to continue experimenting. He stood up and pretended to borrow books in order to cover up stealing forbidden magic, then casually stood by the bookshelf and looked up.
"What are these?"
"The Ancient One's private collection."
In order not to embarrass Stephen Strange too much, Blaine also replied.
"Is it the photo kind?"
Blaine did not know what Stephen Strange was thinking. Was he all right?
"Uh, so… reading them isn't allowed?"
Stephen Strange asked again.
"Kamar-Taj has no forbidden knowledge to read."
"There are only some spells that are forbidden."
"Except for the Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One, and me."
"These books are too profound for everyone else."
Now that Stephen Strange had left his seat, Blaine hurried forward, picked up the book beside the table—the Book of Cagliostro—and began reading it. At the same time, when answering Stephen Strange's question, he even pretended a little.
"Is there a missing page in this book?"
"Two are missing?"
Blaine casually flipped through it and saw the two missing pages in the Book of Cagliostro. Blaine, of course, knew what was going on, so he asked this to scare Stephen Strange and make him leave quickly, allowing Blaine to properly study the secrets of this book.
"This is the Book of Cagliostro, dedicated to the study of time. Don't you know?"
"If you tear up this book, beware—Wong will throw you straight out of Kamar-Taj."
Before this, Stephen Strange had been reading this book. Whether he knew there were missing pages or not, he did not dare say anything if he did know. Blaine simply took advantage of this and continued to intimidate him.
"Let me tell you."
"There was once an ex-sorcerer who stole a magic book."
"A zealot named Kaecilius."
"He also hanged the former librarian."
"And cut off his head."
"Now Wong guards these books."
"So, you can imagine what would happen if Wong knew you took the most precious book…"
"And tore two pages from the Book of Cagliostro."
"You should be able to imagine the consequences."
The Kaecilius Blaine mentioned was naturally the real culprit who had torn pages from the Book of Cagliostro, and all of this was true. Blaine had not deliberately fabricated it to scare Stephen Strange.
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