"So, you become the Supreme Mage?"
Natalia watched dumbfoundedly as Zhan Liu tossed the Eye of Agamotto around like he was walking a dog by throwing bones.
No matter how he threw it, when the artifact went beyond a certain distance from his body, it would automatically start a small-scale time reversal and return to his hands.
Natalia was stunned and envious of this wonderful scene.
"Then can you now see our origins through the long river of time like the Ancient One Master before?"
"Unfortunately, we can't!" Zhan Liu shook his head, "Manipulating the Time Stone requires the use of magic power, but I don't have any magic power in my body."
"The time reversal we are seeing now is not caused by me, but controlled by the Time Stone itself. It consumes the energy inside the Time Stone and has nothing to do with me."
"Unless I switch to magic, I won't be able to see the past and future clearly like Gu Yi did."
"Looking at you, it seems like you are not ready to switch to magic?" Natalia asked regretfully.
"Yes." Zhan Liu nodded and said firmly: "I told you before that if you want to learn magic, you must borrow magic power from those demon gods, and you will lose all the money when the time comes."
"I don't have a big backing like Gu Yi. How stupid do I have to be to learn magic?"
"A Supreme Mage who doesn't know magic?" Natalia laughed and said, "When you encounter an enemy, you go up and punch him with your fists?"
"Ahem..." Zhan Liu forced his respect and said awkwardly: "This is called a battle mage..."
Looking at Natalia, whose delicate body was shaking with laughter, Zhan Liu said angrily: "It's not that I want to be the Supreme Mage. It's clearly a trap set by Gu Yishe. I don't know what she was thinking..."
"But I see that you are secretly enjoying yourself..." Natalia looked at Zhan Liu with a half-smile, "Since you can't resist, why don't you lie down and enjoy it?"
"The main reason is that this time gem is such a good thing that no one would be willing to give it up..." Zhan Liuqiang argued.
"Understood!" Natalia nodded with a smile, "I only want the Time Stone, but I don't want to bear the responsibility of the Supreme Mage."
"As you said before, as long as the benefits come without responsibility, I understand."
"And most people in the world are like this, so there's nothing strange about it."
In Natalia's memory, she has seen a lot of selfish people, and she doesn't think it's strange at all. Or to put it simply, compared with those people, Zhan Liu now is just like a little white flower, and he doesn't have enough heart at all. Black!
Having said that, Zhan Liu always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, as if he vaguely felt that he had made a wrong decision.
Under this weird feeling, Zhan Liu felt very irritable.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally managed to restrain his desire and sighed:
"I'll go find Doctor Strange and send him to Karma Taj, so that he can become the most powerful Mage Supreme according to his destined destiny!"
He threw away the Eye of Agamotto in his hand and said hesitantly:
"Perhaps this thing will be able to fall in love with Dr. Strange after meeting him, right?"
"Otherwise, if it stays in my hand, I might not be able to withstand the temptation at some point and switch to magic!"
"Now we can only hope that Dr. Strange is still alive and did not die inexplicably during the previous turmoil."
"Otherwise, if Dr. Strange really dies, I really can't think of anyone else who can take over the position of Supreme Mage."
Zhan Liu only remembered Strange as a famous neurosurgeon, but now New York is in chaos. He doesn't know who to ask if he wants to inquire, and he has nowhere to use his power.
After the chaos in New York finally subsided, the whole city was filled with cries again.
In a state of madness, everyone has done things that are unacceptable to them. After regaining consciousness, regret is inevitable.
Not everyone can accept such a horrific accident happening to them, especially since there are many people who have personally caused tragedies to their relatives and friends.
After the chaos subsided, a large number of people chose to commit suicide out of grief, adding a heavy sense of sadness to the entire city.
Zhan Liu strolled along the devastated streets. His ears were filled with the sounds of crying and painful wailing, and various burnt smells were wafting from his nose.
Although rescue forces have been mobilized from surrounding cities, many fire spots have not been completely extinguished.
And the worse ones are always man-made disasters.
Not all people stopped atrocities after regaining consciousness, and many people were stimulated by the blood in front of them, inspiring the beasts in their hearts, and took advantage of the situation to rob even more intensely.
It can only be said that not all humanoid creatures can be classified as human beings.
After becoming stronger, Zhan Liu's five senses also became more acute.
The miserable howls from the surrounding blocks filled his ears, all kinds of bloody smells assaulted his nostrils, and the mud-like blood stains all over the ground came straight into his eyes, causing Zhan Liu a stronger stimulus than the phantom attack.
Such miserable scenes made Zhan Liu very uncomfortable.
Although he has become stronger now, at the end of the day, he is still just a college student. It is inevitable that he will empathize with these similar people and feel compassion in his heart.
The Eye of Agamotto hanging on his chest shone gently, making Zhan Liu clearly feel that as long as he used magic power to activate the time gem, he could rewrite everything, resurrect the dead, and reappear destruction. Let these tragedies be as if they never happened, and even these people will not remember that these things happened.
Zhan Liu looked down at this artifact, feeling that it seemed to be reminding and tempting, making people's hearts flutter.
In fact, if you don't think about the final outcome, being the Supreme Mage is quite good.
Moreover, the Sorcerer Supreme is a multiverse-level powerhouse and one of the few top superheroes in the entire Marvel universe.
You have traveled to the Marvel Universe, how can you not be a superhero?
Unknowingly, Zhan Liu's originally unstable thoughts became loose again, and his pace of searching for Strange gradually slowed down.
I really can’t get up quickly even if I want to!
In New York now, social order has not yet been restored, and the locals are basically either going crazy or crying. Who will answer his questions?
After realizing that he had made the wrong choice, Zhanliu called Director Pierce again and asked him to help investigate.
Although the Hydra in New York has probably collapsed, they are professionals after all, and the speed of restoring order will definitely be faster than the official speed.
Sure enough, Strange's work address was soon sent to Zhan Liu's mobile phone.
Once you have the address, it’s easy to tell. Zhanliu just flies over and searches it and it’s done.
After arriving at the private hospital at the address, Zhan Liu found that the place had been commandeered by a group of medical workers.
But unfortunately, even at this time, this medical point is not accessible to just anyone.
In Zhanliu's original impression, the rebels who would inevitably appear in every disaster did not appear in New York. Instead, there were only various "humanitarian organizations" working here, followed by a large number of reporters who smelled the smell.
In this hospital, there are a large number of "saved" powerful and wealthy businessmen, so reporters naturally flocked here and surrounded the hospital door, hoping to get some explosive exclusive news.
Such a huge accident like the fall of the entire city is definitely not something that ordinary ordinary people can do. If the culprit is not convicted, he is in this hospital. If he doesn't come here for interviews, is it possible to go to the streets?
All you need to do on the streets is send a camera crew to record the tragic situation. If you want to find out the truth, you have to ask the big shots.
Reporters know very well that no matter what the truth is, ordinary citizens will never know it.
Zhanliu knew who the reporters were, so of course he didn't bother to pay attention to them. He flew over at high altitude, landed on the roof of the building, and went in to look for them.
Just grab two people and ask them, and everything will be clear.
The original doctors and nurses in the hospital are basically useless. In the face of a disaster of this level, even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will not be able to continue working at all.
After being taken over by outside doctors and nurses, those local doctors and nurses who were lucky enough to survive were temporarily admitted to general wards.
However, Dr. Strange is an exception. After all, his surgical skills are very high and his income is very high, so he is qualified to enter the special care unit.
When Zhan Liu saw him, he was like a frightened bird. He was trembling and sitting beside the hospital bed, holding a glass of water in both hands, but his eyes were dull, blank and unfocused, as if he had been ravaged by someone. Same.
"Hi, Doctor Strange."
Zhan Liu came forward to say hello in a friendly manner, but Strange trembled when he heard the sound, his body shrank subconsciously, and the water glass dropped from his hand. Zhan Liu hurriedly reached out to take the water glass, put it on the table next to him, and then asked with concern:
"Are you feeling okay?"
"Do you need me to call the doctor?"
"No, no need, thank you." Strange's face turned pale and his lips twitched, as if he wanted to give him a smile, but failed.
Zhan Liu was dressed strangely and didn't look like a doctor at first glance, but Strange was in a fragile state of mind and needed someone to chat with him.
After Strange's narration, Zhan Liu finally figured out what happened to him.
I don’t know if it’s because Strange is a born magic genius, but his resistance to dark magic is actually very high.
Although he had never practiced magic, the traces of dark magic power could not drive him into madness.
It was precisely because he retained his sanity that he was able to escape to the operating room in time, lock himself in it, and escape.
But because of this, he saw with his own eyes that his beloved Christine was like a madman, yelling and beating the head of the hospital director into a rotten watermelon, and then had a fight with the surrounding colleagues. In a real-life chicken-eating competition, he killed all the others and won the final victory.
As he was helpless, he could only watch all this happen through the tempered glass of the observation room, but he was helpless and had no choice.
After everything was over, Christine, who had regained consciousness, could not bear the blow and committed suicide, right in front of Strange.
Dr. Strange, who had been hiding in the operating room, was unscathed, but the psychological trauma was irreparable.
In particular, the vulnerability of seeing the one he loved fall into madness and being unable to do anything tormented him almost to madness.
"Now I can't sleep at all. As soon as I close my eyes, I can see Christine standing in front of me, as if questioning me, why didn't I stop her, why didn't I save her..."
Strange muttered to himself as if dreaming, his voice full of regret and despair.
After listening to Strange's story, Zhan Liu asked tentatively: "Then what are your plans in the future? Continue to be a surgeon?"
"No, I want revenge!" Strange clenched his fists tightly, and flames of hatred shot out from his eyes.
"So many people are going crazy. Someone must have put some kind of nerve gas here in the hospital. I must find the culprit!"
"No matter how much money I spend, I will never let him go!"
Zhan Liu scratched his head, "About this matter, aren't you curious as to why you were not affected?"
"I..." Strange was also speechless and didn't know how to answer this question.
"Actually, it's not nerve gas, but dark magic..."
Zhan Liu told the ins and outs of everything in detail. Thanks to the existence of mutants and superpowers in this world, Strange easily accepted Zhan Liu's words.
"In other words, it was your work mistakes that caused all of this to happen?"
Strange angrily grabbed Zhan Liu by the collar, glared at him with wide eyes, and sprayed his face with spittle.
"Calm down, this was an accident, just like you can't blame the terrorists' evil deeds on the police's failure in defense... Uh, okay, this example is not appropriate. That's what I mean, you just need to understand it."
Zhan Liu didn't care about Strange's rudeness, but looked down at the place where his hand came into contact with the Eye of Agamotto to see if the Time Stone wanted to change its owner.
However, what disappointed him was that this broken gem didn't flash when it should flash, and it flashed blindly when it shouldn't.
However, deep down in his heart, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
You see, it’s not that I don’t want to give up my position as Supreme Mage, it’s that this broken gem has identified me!
"Ahem, Doctor Strange, are you interested in joining Karma Taj and becoming a mage?" Zhan Liu smiled and extended the invitation.
"Becoming a mage and practicing to protect the earth can effectively prevent this situation from happening again and isolate the danger from the outside of the earth."
"And if you become a mage, the next time you face a similar danger, you will be fully capable of changing everything and preventing the tragedy from happening again."
Zhan Liu's words successfully moved Strange, so although he was still angry, after thinking rationally for a while, he nodded resolutely and said:
"Faced with this extraordinary danger, I am useless without strength!"
"I don't want to experience this helpless and fragile feeling anymore, let alone see my relatives and friends around me being hurt like this."
"I need power!"
"Extraordinary power!"
"Only extraordinary power can make me stronger!"
"Only extraordinary power can protect the people I want to cherish!"
"So, I accept your invitation to join you and become a mage."
(End of chapter)
