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The moment the image in the mirror dimension faded away.

A roar filled with resentment and ecstatic joy erupted from above their heads!

"The Ancient One!"

Strange looks up!

He saw Kaecilius, the fallen mage who had betrayed Kamar-Taj and sided with the Dark Dimension, hovering in mid-air!

In his hands, he held two transparent short blades made of dark matter! His eye sockets were covered with purplish-black magic runes!

His face was filled with a maniacal smile, as if he had finally gotten his revenge!

"Your era is over!"

"Teacher! Watch out!"

Master Mordo let out a terrified roar! He tried to rush forward!

But it was too late.

Two deadly short blades imbued with the power of the dark dimension moved so fast they seemed to exist outside of this space-time.

They ignored the arcane shield that automatically protected the Ancient One's body.

The sharp blade pierced through flesh and blood.

It pierced between the Ancient One's chest and abdomen!

Strange's pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints.

He saw an expression of utter astonishment on the Ancient One's face, as if she hadn't anticipated this sneak attack at all.

She looked down at the wound on her chest, from which dark energy was constantly seeping out.

Then she looked up at Casillas, who was laughing wildly because of his success.

The strength that supported her body seemed to have been drained away.

She was like a fallen leaf, powerless to struggle.

Falling towards the mortal world.

"No--!!!"

Strange let out a wail!

Without thinking, he followed the falling figure and jumped down!

"Grab her! Strange!"

Mordo followed closely behind! He had already materialized a golden energy chain in his hand, attempting to entangle Gu Yi's falling body in mid-air!

He crossed the boundary between reality and illusion.

Soon after.

It seems like a lot has happened.

Strange fell onto the balcony of a hospital.

Ignoring the excruciating pain all over his body, he scrambled to the operating table.

He witnessed a scene he would never forget in his life.

Countless doctors and nurses are futilely trying to resuscitate a newly arrived emergency patient.

The defibrillator was pressed against the patient's chest again and again.

Adrenaline was injected into her body, one injection after another.

But on the electrocardiogram, the curve representing life shows no fluctuations.

The patient was wearing a yellow monk's robe.

It is Gu Yi.

She has stopped breathing.

"No, no, no, it can't be..."

Strange knelt down, his hand trembling as he reached out to touch the ancient face, but his hand passed right through it.

Is he just an astral entity now?

A helpless bystander, a ghostly figure.

"Put it down, doctor."

A familiar voice sounded behind him.

Strange turned around.

He saw that the Ancient One's astral form was standing behind him with a smile.

She had a soft, moonlit glow around her.

"Death gives meaning to life. It lets you know that your time is limited. Every day you have is a precious gift."

"No! This isn't real! Tell me this isn't real!"

Strange lunged forward, trying to grab her arm, but missed.

"You cannot die! You can draw upon the power of darkness! You can live! Please!"

"I'm tired of fighting."

Gu Yi shook her head, and her figure became increasingly transparent.

She looked at Strange.

"What I see are just a series of forks in the road. But you have the potential to bring them all together."

"You are a remarkable doctor. You always have everything under control."

"But sometimes, you need to learn to let go."

She reached out, as if to touch Strange. But her hand passed right through him.

"That has never been the case."

Her voice grew softer and softer, more and more ethereal.

"The secret lies in..."

"Let go of your ego."

As the last syllable fell.

The Ancient One's astral form transformed into points of light that shimmered with a soft glow.

Then it disappeared into the night.

On the operating table, the electrocardiogram, a symbol of life, finally emitted a long, mournful sound, signifying the end.

—Beep—

High above Hong Kong.

The Shuon projection, which has always stayed in the Marvel universe, has also made a move.

He looked out onto the hospital balcony and saw a ball of light, its spirit beginning to become unstable as it was freed from the constraints of its physical body.

That is the soul of the Ancient One.

"They played it pretty well."

Xiuen held up one finger.

A white filament of light emanated from the ring on his fingertip.

The light threads wrapped around the Ancient One's soul aura.

It solidified the basic structure of her soul.

To prevent this actor from getting too immersed in the role and accidentally killing himself off.

The piercing long beep of the electrocardiogram in the hospital marked the end of an ordinary person's life.

A certain law has been triggered.

In that instant, countless evil gazes from different dimensions were cast upon us!

"The soul of the Sorcerer Supreme? If offered to the great Lord of Terror..."

A shadow creature with eight segmented limbs crawled out of the shadows.

"Mine! Mine! This delicious wisdom is mine!"

Space peeled away. A life form composed of countless rotating fragments forced its way into reality. On each of its fragments, the Ancient One's soul light was reflected.

……

In just a few seconds.

This was originally an ordinary hospital balcony.

It was already crowded with low-level demon gods and their spies from more than a dozen different dimensions!

They come in various shapes and have mixed auras.

But their eyes, without exception, all radiated the same kind of light.

greedy!

They were wary of each other, intimidating one another, like a flock of vultures preparing to fight over the same piece of carrion.

No one dared to be the first to make a move.

Everyone wants to reap the benefits after others have made their move.

And the very meal that caused all of this.

The Ancient One's soul orb floated in mid-air, like a lamb waiting to be devoured.

They didn't even seem to have the thought of resisting.

Just as this lavish feast was about to begin.

A golden portal opened beside the Ancient One's soul orb.

Then, first, furry dog ​​paws stepped out of the door. Next came its body, then its head.

Lucerne has arrived at the very center of the battlefield!

Its appearance was so untimely.

So much so that even the dimensional vultures, who were wary of each other, turned their attention to this new troublemaker.

They sized up the hellhound, which appeared to be only strong in physical attacks.

Their eyes were filled with disdain and mockery.

Another fool trying to get a piece of the pie?

After landing, Lucerne first circled around the trembling soul orb of the Ancient One, carefully sniffing it with his nose.

Yes, that's right.

There were many flies around.

Confirmation completed.

Then, it looked around at the bizarre and wonderful food.

It opened its mouth, and the collar began to glow, enhancing its power.

Then, a roar came from deep within its throat!

"roar!!!"

(roll.)

The low-ranking demon spies all trembled uncontrollably!

That's the smell of their natural enemies!

Most dimensional vultures are opportunistic bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong.

Upon sensing Lucerne's overwhelming pressure, they immediately made the wisest choice.

Several demonic spies, composed of smoke and shadows, shrank back into the void and shadows and disappeared.

He runs faster than anyone else.

But there are always a few clueless fools.

Or perhaps they are fools who are overly confident in their abilities.

The shadow creature with eight spider-like limbs hesitated briefly before its greedy instincts overcame its fear of danger!

It thought the black dog was just bluffing!

It let out a piercing scream! Eight segmented limbs traced a deadly trajectory, aiming for Lucerne's head!

It wants to be the first to win before everyone else!

however.

Luceria opened his mouth again!

It appeared out of nowhere, like a black hole, and then began to devour everything!

【Soul Devouring (Enhanced Version)】—Activate!

An irresistible suction force acted on the shadow creature!

"No--!"

Its body was swallowed whole into the throat of hell!

"belch."

It tasted bland, like unsalted jellyfish.

It gave itself another bad review in its mind.

This terrified all the remaining dimensional vultures who still harbored any illusions!

The remaining demon spies immediately turned around and tried to tear open space to escape back to their hometown!

But will Lucerne give them that opportunity?

of course not.

You should act like you're working when you're at work.

The reason that the weaker group was scared off was because they looked like they had a bad reputation; they were just simple dark energy and hadn't even done many bad things.

The rest are different. They seem stronger, and it looks like they've done bad things too.

Since it's a cleaner, it naturally has to clean up the trash.

Its figure disappeared from the spot.

The phantom of Death weaved back and forth among the panicked demon spies.

One second later.

It returned to its original position.

He was still squatting beside the Ancient One's soul orb.

It was as if nothing had happened.

And those few demon spies from different dimensions who were just preparing to escape.

Some of them still maintain the posture of tearing through space.

Some were still in the act of turning and running away.

Then, their bodies, whether energy bodies or conceptual bodies, silently collapsed and disintegrated, eventually turning into countless black fragments.

Finally, he was sucked into Lucerne's stomach from a distance.

At this point, only the Strange Astral Entity, whose soul is invisible and who is unaware of what has just happened, remains.

And a sphere of the Ancient One's soul.

And a hellhound that had just fulfilled its security duties and was very dissatisfied with the quality of today's appetizer.

The little black dots prefer souls that have committed evil deeds. Although these monsters' souls are dark, they have clearly not done much evil under the Ancient One's protection; only a few have committed atrocities with aliens, while most have lurked around Earth for a long time.

And a sphere of the Ancient One's soul.

And a hellhound that had just fulfilled its security duties and was very dissatisfied with the quality of today's appetizer.

The little black dots prefer souls that have committed evil deeds. Although these monsters' souls are dark, they have clearly not done much evil under the Ancient One's protection; only a few have committed atrocities with aliens, while most have lurked around Earth for a long time.

On the balcony of a hospital in New York.

Strange knelt on the ground, his astral form trembling violently with immense grief and rage.

He raised his head.

He activated the Eye of Agamotto.

A green magic circle spun and spread around his wrist.

Time begins to flow backward.

Then, he tore through space and plunged into the Root Land.

The Dark Dimension.

"Dormammu! I've come to negotiate with you!"

Strange hovered in a space composed of purple and black energy. He issued a mortal challenge to the terrifying human face.

"Who are you?"

Dormammu's voice, a contemptuous sound like billions of voices overlapping, echoed throughout the entire dimension.

"You insignificant reptile."

"Dormammu! I'm coming..."

Strange hadn't finished speaking.

A beam of energy thicker than his entire body pierced through his chest.

death.

The green time magic circle lit up again.

Time can be reversed.

"Dormammu! I've come to negotiate with you!"

Strange reappeared in the same spot, as if nothing had happened.

Dormammu's enormous face, composed of countless planets, seemed somewhat confused.

"You? Weren't you already...?"

This time, countless spikes of dark matter shot out from the void, turning Strange into a hedgehog.

death.

Time, once again, flows backward.

"Dormammu! I've come to negotiate with you!"

This time, it was a gigantic hand made up of an entire galaxy that crushed him into powder as easily as squeezing a mosquito.

death.

……

"Dormammu! I've come to negotiate with you!"

……

"Dormammu! I've come to negotiate with you!"

……

Death, flowing backwards. Death, flowing backwards. Death, flowing backwards.

again and again.

A mortal mage, with his life and will, dragged a great dimensional monarch into an endless cycle of reincarnation.

Xi Mu Jie.

On the light screen in front of Shun, Strange had been executed by Dormammu in over three hundred different ways nearly a thousand times.

They die an average of three times per minute.

Xiu En rubbed his eyes, wanting to eat some cookies, but Xiao Hua snatched them away, making Xiu En even more bored. He complained to Xiao Hua beside him.

"This is taking way too long."

"This is an epic of mortals."

The sunflower swayed its flower head.

"Through constant death and rebirth, one can overcome seemingly invincible enemies on a spiritual level."

"That's too slow."

Marvel Universe.

Marvel's Shuon reached out his hand.

He tapped on the void that had become somewhat fragile due to the invasion of the dark dimension.

Where his fingertips touched.

The spatial barrier of the Dark Dimension cracked open, revealing a square window just large enough for Xiu En's head to peek through.

Within the Dark Dimension.

Dormammu is almost driven crazy by this time crawler that appeared out of nowhere!

He killed his opponent every time.

The next time, the other person will appear in the same spot unharmed, saying the same line that drives him crazy!

Never-ending!

"Enough—!!!"

Dormammu abandoned the idea of ​​killing the reptile; instead, he decided to devour the space locked by the time loop, digesting it along with the reptile!

However, at that moment...

"Knock, knock."

who?!

Who dares to knock on my door?!

He looked in the direction of the sound.

Then he saw that a square window had been opened on the spatial barrier of his dark dimension!

A luminous being with black hair and golden eyes poked half its head out of the window, scrutinizing itself with great interest.

Then the man waved to him in an extremely friendly manner.

"Hey, good evening, big-faced guy."

"Are you busy?"

"Who are you?!"

"You damned insect!"

"Shh!"

Xiu En's clone raised a finger, placed it near his lips, and made a gesture of silence.

"Don't be so loud, the neighbors next door are being driven crazy by your noise."

As he spoke, he took something out of his pocket.

It was a very ordinary-looking glass bottle.

Inside the bottle was the phantom of a little devil struggling in the liquid, trying to break free but to no avail.

"Let me tell you, you have a big face."

Xiu En shook the glass bottle in his hand and placed it in the window to display it.

"We've recently been researching a brand new type of organic fertilizer for our garden."

"I happen to have a sample on hand. Let me show you."

Dormammu wanted to continue roaring.

However, when his gaze fell upon the red demonic phantom inside the glass bottle...

All the threats and roars that were about to spill out of his mouth got stuck in his throat!

Others might not recognize what that thing is.

Dormammu fell silent.

He calmly halted another attack on Strange.