Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 303 Hmm, that's bad news~
"Boom~!"

Another muffled sound.

This time, the Ancient One's grip was noticeably stronger.

Luca, having been hit on the back of the head again, lunged forward decisively, landing face-first on the carpet at his feet.

"What are you thinking? Do you think I'm some evil villain ravaging the earth? Or some true god who possesses omniscience and omnipotence?"

After saying this, Gu Yi seemed to still feel unsatisfied.

Before Luca could even get up from the ground, he was slammed back down with two more 'bangs'.

This time, Luca finally saw clearly how the Ancient One hit him on the back of the head.

Old Deng actually conjured up a baseball bat about the thickness of an arm, made of golden threads, and waved it around in mid-air.

Seeing that the stick seemed poised to strike again, Luca quickly raised his hands in surrender.

"Stop, stop, stop! I'm not saying anything anymore. Please, be kind and explain this magic idiot to me!"

Seeing that Luca seemed to have completely given in, the Ancient One simply waved away the baseball bat and sat down cross-legged to explain.

"While the Eye of Agamotto can help me use the Time Stone more effectively, it only allows me to see the possibilities of future time more clearly. And among these possibilities, you are actually the biggest variable."

Listening to the Ancient One seriously explain his abilities for the first time, Luca gained a general understanding of the Time Stone and the so-called mechanism of predicting the future.

According to the Ancient One, possessing the Eye of Agamotto, she did indeed have the ability to observe the course of the world.

Although the Time Stone's power is limited to this universe itself, outsiders like Gwent and Spot, once they enter this universe, are still considered part of the countless branches of time observed by the Time Stone.

For the Ancient One, who once had ample time to observe all future changes and possible timelines, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that she knew the entire future.

However, Luca's appearance was an exception among these countless changes.

It's not that the Ancient One couldn't see Luca's 'future' through the Time Stone.

However, because Luca's abilities do not originate from the known Marvel Universe, whenever he acquires new items and abilities, the future timeline observed by the Ancient One will have a large number of entirely new changes.

As Luca's abilities and influence grow, this new change is also increasing exponentially.

The Ancient One is now unable to keep track of all the new changes Luca brings, nor can she predict what new items Luca will acquire.

To put it simply, if Luca acquires a new gadget and the Ancient One takes the time to examine all future timelines, she can still 'predict the future,' but this 'accuracy' of her predictions will only last until Luca obtains the next gadget.

So unless Luca stops using his cheat codes to create new items, predicting the future is no longer 'real' for the Ancient One.

Now, her ability to foresee the future can only be described as limited speculation and deduction based on existing 'conditions' and the future timeline she sees.

"Wow, I'm actually that good? I thought..."

"What did you think? Did you think I had nothing better to do than watch you eat, drink, and poop all day?"

Seeing the undisguised disgust in the Ancient One's eyes, Luca was momentarily speechless.

At this moment, he himself was somewhat unsure whether he should be happy because his own future was unpredictable, or worried because the Ancient One had lost her omniscience about the future.

As for the Ancient One, although she guessed what Luca was struggling with based on her hundreds of years of life experience, she did not delve too deeply into things that could not be changed. Instead, she explained the current state of Earth.

"Now we have good news and two bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

"Dude, let's stop playing around, okay?"

Luca adopted a nonchalant, uncooperative attitude, leaving the Ancient One with no choice but to purse her lips and continue speaking to herself with slight dissatisfaction.

"The good news is that you don't need to worry about the Hell Dimension invading Earth through other spatial weaknesses in the short term."

Right now, outside of Earth's space.

The Ancient One's true form sat upright in the void, with a gold chain in one hand and a blue chain in the other.

Two chains, symbolizing confinement, tightly restrained Mephisto and Dormammu's true forms.

Although the chains themselves, including the Ancient One herself, were constantly trembling under the frenzied riots of the two demons, the continuous addition of new formations made it seem as if this confinement could last until the end of time.

Centered on this battlefield, black, red, gold, and blue energies erupted and intertwined, throwing the entire Earth's space into chaos.

“That’s about it~”

The Ancient One withdrew the projection from her hand, while Luca quietly swallowed.

"Dude, this is like tethering a dog, is this what you mean by holding it back?!"

Ignoring Luca's astonishment, the Ancient One simply explained the current situation indifferently.

The continuous bursts of energy outside the Earth have caused the Earth's own spatial fluctuations to become more chaotic.

The method of opening doors that Tony's research led to, which involved finding weak points in space and using energy collisions to penetrate them, is naturally no longer effective.

It could even be said that during this period, no one could get in or out of Earth through that layer of external turbulence.

"The bad news is that this approach cannot last."

Once the energy burst stops, the Earth will revert to its original, riddled state.

The absence of the New York Sanctum and the fact that Mephisto, the Lord of Hell, could have his energy closely sensing and infiltrating Earth's space might have made invading Earth even easier for him.

Moreover, it is precisely because of this spatial disturbance that Luca and his team's original plan to rebuild the defense matrix by calculating the weak points could not be carried out at all.

After all, in such a chaotic space, data calculated one second might be rendered useless the next.

Luca had originally intended to say, "Why don't you just take the trouble and keep walking these two dogs?"

However, it seems unlikely. There are other dimensional demons in the universe who covet Earth. External forces, accidents, and internal conflicts could all disrupt what the Ancient One meant by 'holding them off'.

"So the two bad news are that this method of resisting intrusion is not sustainable, and there is no way to build a new defense matrix through computation?"

"Hmm~ No, that's not it, it's just bad news."

As for the second piece of bad news...

"Because a large number of dimensional fusion rifts appeared all at once this time, and because I used too much Orange Dimension energy in the battle, you call it Hextech Dimension, right? It's because I used Hextech Dimension energy too many times."

"Mephisto must have already set his sights on this dimension."

(End of this chapter)