The Sacrifice of a Slaughtered Town

"Looks like we have guests today. I've heard from the Ancient One that she took on a talented apprentice. It hasn't been long at all, and she's already mastered using the Sling Ring to enter and exit the Mirror Dimension. Not bad at all!"

"Wang, is this the Dr. Stephen Doctor Strange that Ancient One mentioned?"

Xia Yu asked Wang with a smile, looking like an elder praising a junior.

Doctor Strange has lived for decades and is praised wherever he goes. Even in terms of magical talent, everyone in Kamar-Taj speaks highly of him.

But for some reason, the praise coming from Xia Yu made him feel incredibly awkward.

Especially Xia Yu's smug smile, which made Doctor Strange feel like caterpillars were crawling all over him.

It felt both slippery and itchy.

Doctor Strange shuddered for no apparent reason.

"Xia, you're here. He's not that good. I let him go first in our match, and he still lost to me several times, but he still won't admit defeat."

Upon seeing Xia Yu arrive, Tate sheathed his flying sword and presented it to Xia Yu as if it were a treasure.

"Um... cough cough, Stephen has only just become a mage, he's not very skilled yet."

Wang spoke awkwardly.

Since we're all from the same Kamar-Taj lineage, we have to save face a little.

"I only recently learned to use a flying sword, and he just said that none of the Avengers are as strong as him. I heard it with my own ears, and he couldn't even beat me. Xia, can I become a real Avengers? He's so weak, yet he's a full-fledged mage."

Tate said without any mercy, and Doctor Strange, who had wanted to say something more, felt embarrassed after Tate's words.

His face flushed red, and he secretly vowed to become even stronger than the Avengers in the future.

"You have a long way to go to become a true Avengers. Being Avengers isn't something just anyone can do. You still have a lot to learn."

"Besides improving your combat skills, you also need to maintain a humble and respectful attitude, just like the Captain said. Don't think you're invincible just because you've learned a little something, looking down on everyone else. It would be embarrassing if you couldn't even beat a kid in front of your friends..."

Xia Yu began to lecture Tate in a very serious manner.

That wasn't just a veiled message; it was practically directed at Doctor Strange.

Those lines, one after another, about how Avengers isn't something just anyone can do, and how you shouldn't think you can embarrass yourself just because you've learned a little bit, and so on.

Anyway, he kept coming up with one set of routines, and Doctor Strange's face changed several colors. Wang was afraid that Xia Yu would just drive him crazy.

After lecturing Tate for a while, Xia Yu seemed to have just remembered that there were two other people around.

"Oh, Wang, and you're Stephen, right? See, you've been so busy disciplining the kids you've all forgotten about us. It's almost lunchtime, why don't you come eat with me?"

Xia Yu's face was full of sincerity.

"Snort!"

Doctor Strange made a sound directly from his nose, then turned and walked over.

I no longer have the face to eat with them.

Wang gave Xia Yu an apologetic smile and quickly turned to chase after him.

"What's going on? I kindly invited you to dinner, and you just said you weren't going? Stop humming!"

Xia Yu stroked his chin, looking at their backs as he spoke.

"Come on, Tate, let's go eat. You did a really good job today. How about I make you hot pot? We'll have some too, come on, hmph!!"

Xia Yu gave a haughty snort, then turned and left with Tate.

This was just a minor incident, and the two of them are unlikely to become enemies because of what happened today.

Xia Yu just felt that Doctor Strange was too arrogant and deserved a little setback.

Xia Yu had seen Tony in this state before, when he had just created his Armor. It was hard not to become arrogant after gaining such great power.

If Xia Yu hadn't known this was the Marvel Universe, it would have been difficult for him not to become arrogant after initially obtaining the system and its power.

When an ordinary person suddenly becomes a celebrity, a tycoon, or someone with great power, they will inevitably experience some degree of arrogance, just as there may be.

The key is whether, after the initial arrogance subsides, one can calm down and fully understand oneself, adjust one's mindset, and, as the Captain said, maintain a sense of awe.

Doctor Strange was the same; although his recent experience had made him realize that the Avengers were not as weak as he had imagined.

However, his long-standing pride wouldn't allow him to be weaker than others, so after returning home, he immersed himself in magic books, eager to become stronger.

Faced with this situation, Wang didn't say much. As long as he didn't get stuck on a rut, letting him experience the power of the outside world was a good thing and could even become a motivation for him to become stronger.

With a helpless sigh, Wang glanced at the wall clock, then suddenly got up and ran towards the Avengers' base. It was lunchtime, and he didn't want to be eating bread in the Sanctum.

Doctor Strange returned to Kamar-Taj and hid in the library, immersing himself in a sea of magic, while Wong was Avengers Compound's dining hall.

None of them knew that somewhere in Africa, Kaecilius was Carnage the residents of an entire town.

The establishment of the Sky Temple made it increasingly difficult for Dormammu to sense the space where Earth was located.

When Kaecilius communicated with it last time, he gave it an order to destroy all the Sanctum and bring Dormammu to Earth as soon as possible.

However, since the Sky Temple is located within the Avengers' base, Kaecilius needs more powerful forces, not only to fight against the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, but also against the powerful Avengers.

Their bodies simply couldn't withstand such powerful Dark Magic, so Dormammu gave Kaecilius a way to increase their strength: sacrifice human lives.

They used death and bloodshed as a price to completely transform the bodies of Kaecilius and his followers, so that they could withstand more dark power.

Kaecilius did not hesitate to Carnage all the residents of the town, and thousands of corpses were neatly piled up in the square in the middle of the town.

The ground was covered with unknown runes.

Kaecilius and his few followers besieged the city.

After drawing a complex dark red energy symbol in the air, Kaecilius began chanting a spell in an unknown language.

The surrounding followers joined in the chanting, their voices growing louder and louder.

With the combined efforts of several people, they finally managed to forcefully open a sliver of space between Earth and the Dark Dimension.

Dormammu's power traversed countless dimensions, and a black light shot out from the runes in mid-air, landing directly on the pile of corpses on the ground.

Without a sound, thousands of corpses instantly turned to dust.