[Entering this strange Mirror Dimension, Strange looked around and felt his understanding of the world completely change once again.]
[The Ancient One said: "Whatever happens here has no effect on the real world."]
["We sorcerers use the Mirror Dimension for practice and observation, and sometimes to isolate dangers."]
["Without a Sling Ring, you will remain trapped here."]
[Strange asked somewhat confusedly:]
["Alright, excuse me... what kind of danger do you mean?"]
[The Ancient One gestured with her hand, and the entire world around them instantly turned upside down.]
[Up, down, left, and right—the entire space began bending and folding.]
[Looking at Strange, who stood completely stunned in place with his mouth wide open, the Ancient One calmly said:]
["To understand the infinite multiverse, you must also understand the infinite dangers hidden within it."]
["If I told you all those unknown secrets right now, you would certainly run away from here."]
In the live broadcast room of another world, Strange swallowed and suddenly smiled bitterly.
No matter how terrifying the secrets hidden in the multiverse were, they probably could no longer drive him away.
At that moment, he was not the only one who had such a thought.
[Wanda Maximoff: Hey, actually the Ancient One does not need to be so mysterious. She could simply say everything directly.]
[Wanda Maximoff: We have already seen a purple monster that wipes out half the universe with a single snap of his fingers and a multiversal war involving countless timelines. What else could possibly scare us?]
[Mordo: Well, little girl, you should speak a little more carefully. Everything the Ancient One says and does has its meaning.]
[Charles Xavier: What? One snap of the fingers and half the universe disappears? And a multiversal war? What are you talking about?]
Hearing these terrifying words, Charles's entire body broke out in goosebumps. Cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and uncontrollable panic rose in his heart.
As a highly educated man, he could roughly guess what even such an advanced concept as the "multiverse" meant.
But precisely because he could guess its meaning, Charles was even more shocked!
Did wars between different universes really exist in this world?
And what kind of being could erase half the universe with a single snap of his fingers?
"Huh..."
In the live broadcast room, Erik also took a deep breath, and the way he looked at the people around him completely changed.
Even one little girl could so casually talk about "erasing half the universe"?
Who the hell were these people?
Was it really harmless for him to be completely alone among such a group of mysterious people?
[The image continues.]
[After spending a long time in Kamar-Taj, Strange also learned from Mordo about the existence of Kaecilius.]
[It turned out that Kaecilius had once been one of the Ancient One's closest followers, but many years ago he led a group of sorcerers in betrayal and even stole several pages from a book in the library.]
[One day, while Strange was reading alone in the library, he suddenly found records of spells connected to the Eye of Agamotto.]
[Looking at the Eye of Agamotto, which had simply been left in the library, Strange's natural adventurous spirit drove him to approach it, take the artifact, and place it around his neck.]
[Then, following the records in the book, he activated the Eye of Agamotto.]
[The Eye of Agamotto gradually opened and revealed the green stone hidden inside.]
[The Time Stone.]
[Under the light of the Time Stone, Strange created his own time spell, while a strange green structure of light appeared around his wrist.]
[It was time magic!]
[As the time spell changed, the state of the apple on the table began constantly changing.]
[First, it turned into the state where it had been completely eaten and only the core remained, then it reversed back into a completely untouched state.]
[In the end, Strange accelerated its time again, and the apple turned into a rotten, decayed version.]
Seeing this scene, everyone in the live broadcast room was stunned.
"Man, you can really control the power of an Infinity Stone!"
Loki looked at Strange in disbelief. The expression on his face was filled with shock.
As far as he knew, Odin's father Bor had once captured the Aether, namely the Reality Stone, after defeating the Dark Elves.
But the Aether was extremely difficult to control.
In the end, Bor had no other choice but to secretly hide and seal away this Infinity Stone.
Even present-day Asgardians no longer knew exactly where it had been sealed.
This showed that even Odin's father, the legendary God King, had not been able to truly control an Infinity Stone!
But judging from the recording, this ordinary human had actually used magic to guide the power of the Time Stone!
He could reverse and accelerate time at will!
It was incredible!
"Strange, you..."
In Kamar-Taj, Mordo and Wong simultaneously took a deep breath, and their eyes almost widened to their limits.
A student who had only studied magic for a few days would progress to such a level in the future?
The Ancient One's expression did not change much. She only silently nodded inwardly.
"Just as I expected, Strange. You truly deserve to be the successor I chose."
"As for pure talent for magic, perhaps only Tony Stark has a chance of surpassing you."
"Thanos! This is the same thing Thanos did???"
In the live broadcast room, little Wanda covered her mouth in disbelief, but still exclaimed in surprise.
She remembered very clearly that in the previous broadcast, her future version had used all her strength to destroy Vision.
But Thanos had still used the power of the Time Stone to restore the completely destroyed Vision and the Mind Stone!
And the method Strange had just displayed on the screen looked almost exactly the same as Thanos's!
"This is me? Future me... can really do something like this?"
Looking at the incredible ability to freely manipulate time on the screen, Strange stood frozen in place, his mouth open and his face full of disbelief.
At first, he had wanted to learn magic only to heal his hands.
Now, although his hands had already been healed, through the live broadcasts Strange had learned that Earth would face terrifying threats in the future.
That was why he practiced magic hard almost every day, hoping to become a powerful enough sorcerer as soon as possible to oppose Thanos.
But the scene before him almost completely shattered Strange's understanding of his own future!
If he could control time in the future, why not simply use that power against Thanos?
And he was not the only one who thought of that.
[Wanda Maximoff: Mordo, can you answer me? If Strange can freely control the Time Stone in the future, why did you struggle so much against Thanos?]
[Wanda Maximoff: Could he not simply use time magic and turn Thanos back into a baby?]
[Mordo: It is not that simple. Infinity Stones cannot cancel one another out in such a simple way.]
[Mordo: In the previous recording, Strange fought against Thanos when he already possessed four Infinity Stones!]
[Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man): In other words, once Thanos obtains one Infinity Stone, another Stone can no longer simply act on him?]
[Mordo: That is right. In such a situation, the Time Stone cannot simply reverse his time, and the Reality Stone cannot simply rewrite his reality. That is one of the limitations of the Infinity Stones.]
[Wanda Maximoff: Ah, I understand...]
While they were reaching this conclusion, Magneto and the others were almost so shocked that they began doubting everything they knew.
[Wolverine: What just happened? What kind of spell did that man use? What did he do to that apple?]
During his long life, Wolverine had seen who knew how many strange things.
But watching the apple on the screen constantly change between "eaten" and "untouched," he felt terror penetrate all the way into his soul, and the hairs all over his body stood on end!
[Charles Xavier: Control of time! Reversing time and accelerating it! Impossible! That violates the most basic principles of the theory of relativity!]
[Charles Xavier: An illusion! That is it! This must be an illusion!]
Charles stared at the large screen with wide eyes, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably, his scalp tingling, and even goosebumps appearing on his skin.
It was terrifying.
People really could use spells and magical energy to reverse and distort time!
The scene before his eyes practically shattered the scientific knowledge and worldview Charles had built throughout his entire life, then trampled them underfoot!
In the live broadcast room, Magneto, Erik, stood motionless while cold sweat ran from his forehead all the way down to his chin.
He had always believed that Mutants were a superior race, far above ordinary humans.
But that belief had just completely collapsed before his eyes.
Compared with such great power that could even reverse time, what did mutant superpowers amount to?
No matter how much these elite Mutants doubted what they were seeing, the recording continued.
[Strange looked like a child who had just received a new toy. He picked up the apple from the table, then turned toward the Book of Cagliostro from which pages had been torn out.]
[Under the influence of time magic, the pages that had been torn from the book suddenly reappeared out of nowhere!]
[Reading the contents of those pages, a surprised expression appeared on Strange's face.]
[Dormammu. Dark Dimension. Immortality.]
[Just as he was carefully reading this forbidden knowledge, the space around the Book of Cagliostro suddenly froze.]
[It turned out that Mordo and Wong had arrived.]
[After stopping Strange, they first gave him a serious lecture.]
["You must understand that manipulating time can create timeline branches!"]
[Mordo shouted toward Strange:]
["You can open unstable dimensions! Cause spatial paradoxes, time loops! Do you want to become trapped in an endless time loop from which you will never be able to escape?"]
Seeing this, Loki's expression immediately became extremely ugly.
At that moment, the others in the live broadcast room, who had previously watched a certain "endless loop" of his, also turned their gazes toward him.
Their eyes were filled with amused mockery.
"Being trapped in an endless time loop you cannot escape from... hm, yes, that really does sound terrifying. Hahaha!"
Little Wanda pretended to speak seriously for several moments, but in the end she could not hold back and burst into laughter.
"Damn it! Those bastards from the TVA! I will never forgive you for this!"
Feeling the hidden smiles in everyone's gazes around him, Loki became furious and suddenly felt phantom pain begin again in a certain part of his lower body.
[The image continues.]
[After scolding Strange, Mordo and Wong finally decided to tell him the truth.]
[It turned out that sorcerers had the duty of protecting Earth from magical threats from other dimensions.]
[In order to accomplish this, the sorcerers built three Sanctums on Earth.]
[The New York Sanctum, London Sanctum, and Hong Kong Sanctum.]
[When Strange spoke Dormammu's name, both Mordo and Wong were instantly surprised.]
[Then they finally explained to Strange the true nature of this being from another dimension.]
["Dormammu lives in the Dark Dimension. He exists beyond time. He devours universes, destroys worlds, possesses almost endless power and enormous ambition!"]
["He wants to conquer all universes and pull them into the Dark Dimension, and what he most wants to conquer is Earth!"]
[Hearing this, Strange finally connected everything.]
["So, the pages Kaecilius stole from the Book of Cagliostro..."]
[Wong nodded: "They contain the ritual for summoning Dormammu and drawing power from the Dark Dimension!"]
Seeing this, almost everyone was stunned.
[Wanda Maximoff: Are you kidding me! Besides the purple monster that wipes out half the universe with a snap of his fingers and the evil Kangs from the multiverse, in the future we also have to face Dormammu from another dimension? This future is too dark! There is no hope at all!]
[Peter Parker (The Amazing Spider-Man): Ms. Wanda, no matter how difficult the situation looks, we should not give up hope.]
[Wanda Maximoff: Shut up! Can you not see how serious the situation is? I really do not need your motivational speech right now!]
[Stephen Strange: Mordo, is all of this true? Is Earth really threatened by an invasion from Dormammu of the Dark Dimension?]
[Mordo: Unfortunately, I have to say that what the screen is showing is true. Dormammu really is that evil and powerful!]
[Mordo: But do not worry too much. Dormammu already tried to attack Earth many years ago, but in the end he was stopped by the Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One!]
[Natasha Romanoff: The Ancient One can even defeat a being from another dimension like Dormammu?]
[Mordo: Haha, why do you think she is called the Sorcerer Supreme?]
[Mordo: The fact that Earth is still peaceful today and has not yet been dragged into the Dark Dimension is largely thanks to the Ancient One!]
[Loki Odinson: This is truly incredible!]
[Loki Odinson: No wonder my mother once told me that in the Nine Realms there may be only one person who can compare with my father Odin. That is the Sorcerer Supreme from Earth!]
[Loki Odinson: At the time, I thought Mother was exaggerating a little.]
Seeing this, someone finally could not endure it any longer.
[Charles Xavier: What Nine Realms? What Earth? What Dark Dimension? Who are you people anyway?]
His entire worldview had been completely shattered, and at that moment Charles felt as though his mind was about to collapse.
But before anyone could answer him, a new change suddenly occurred on the screen.
["No!"]
[With a shout, the portal connected to the London Sanctum suddenly opened, and a sorcerer with a transparent weapon sticking out of his back rolled through it.]
[The enemy had attacked the London Sanctum!]