Dormammu Has Arrived

Doctor Strange has just taken on the responsibility of protecting Earth, and he is unwilling to ask the Avengers or Xia Yu for help.

Although the Ancient One told him before she left that he could ask Xia Yu for help with anything, and that Xia Yu was considered one of Kamar-Taj's own people, Doctor Strange still wanted to rely on Kamar-Taj's own power to solve this problem.

However, he also left many contingency plans. For example, the mages of the Hong Kong Sanctum were left at a safe distance to observe the battle. If the Hong Kong Sanctum was destroyed, they would contact Xia Yu immediately.

Then Doctor Strange opened the Time Sanctum, instructing the King, who remained in Kamar-Taj, to prepare for the worst. If things went as planned, Dormammu did indeed devour the Earth, and the King was to take his people and hide inside.

According to the records of Kamar-Taj, this Sanctum, known only to the Sorcerer Supreme of each generation, is independent of time and space and is the best natural refuge, as evidenced by the numerous magical books and artifacts that the previous Sorcerer Supreme have placed inside.

This is Noah's Ark in Kamar-Taj.

The one-time-use magical artifact that Doctor Strange and Mordo used for their sneak attack was also discovered in this place.

Doctor Strange tried one of these disposable magical artifacts, which was only half the size of a hand grenade.

It looks like a piece of dried black bread, but you can make it work by infusing it with just a little bit of magic.

This magical artifact can unleash hundreds of incredibly powerful energy blades within three seconds, with the densely packed energy blades wreaking havoc in a small area.

It can tear a large piece of steel plate to shreds in an instant.

Although the defenses surrounding the Sanctum could not hold off Kaecilius for long, Kaecilius still needed to do everything in his power to break the spatial blockade.

This gave Doctor Strange and Mordo enough time to launch their sneak attack.

After several controlled magical artifacts accurately hit Kaecilius and the others, Doctor Strange and his companion, without even a moment to celebrate, activated hundreds of disposable magical artifacts and threw them at them within seconds.

Kaecilius and his group were originally standing in a small area near the entrance, but now that area was filled with countless energy blades.

It was like a golden storm sweeping across a small area.

It was like a mini tornado hitting a knife depot.

The densely packed blades squeezed and collided as they rotated and moved rapidly, cutting each other and producing a metallic clanging, twisting, and grating sound.

Even from a distance of about ten meters, Doctor Strange and Mordo could feel the density and power of the energy blades inside. It was practically a giant meat grinder, capable of grinding everything into powder.

A long few seconds passed.

The tornado gradually dissipated.

Doctor Strange and Mordo even saw the black flesh and blood on the ground through the increasingly sparse energy blades.

The two looked at each other, and a relieved smile appeared on their faces.

But the next second, their smiles vanished.

Kaecilius had five followers, and he brought them all with him today.

The followers were indeed all torn to shreds.

Even the restrictive magical artifacts on their bodies were cut into pieces.

But Kaecilius survived this terrible sneak attack.

Its body was completely unrecognizable as human; its clothes had long since disappeared, and bones were exposed in many places.

Even the flesh on his chest was cut into pieces, leaving only small, unconnected chunks of flesh hanging on his body.

His entire body was almost devoid of any intact flesh; his face had been cut so that only half a mouth and an eyeball remained.

Small, textured pieces of black muscle still clung to the bones.

The skin has completely disappeared.

On his thighs and arms, the skin was completely torn apart, leaving only a thin layer of muscle, still hanging loosely on the bone.

By the time the two of them could see clearly...

Kaecilius was half-crouched on the ground, his hands resting on his knees, his head and chest firmly protected by his arms.

Doctor Strange and Mordo nervously swallowed, looking at Kaecilius was now almost nothing but a skeleton.

He should be dead.

Doctor Strange murmured.

But it seems Kaecilius was mocking Doctor Strange.

He raised his skull towards the two of them as soon as he finished speaking.

With most of the flesh and blood on his face gone, the two could clearly see Kaecilius's two rows of neat teeth gleaming in the distance under the lights.

Then the two rows of tightly clenched teeth suddenly separated, as if splitting open their mouths to give the two a silent laugh.

Then the entire skeleton stood up from the ground. From behind its outstretched arms, you could see that although its chest was protected, there wasn't much muscle hanging on its ribs. You could clearly see through the ribs the internal organs, which were still very similar to those of a normal human.

For example, that still-beating heart, although black and shaped like an irregular stone, is still recognizable as a heart, and it is still beating with vitality.

"Oh no! He's still alive!"

Doctor Strange and Mordo exchanged a horrified look and said in unison.

What they were witnessing was beyond their wildest imaginations. They couldn't believe that Kaecilius's bones remained completely undamaged amidst such a storm of energy blades.

They couldn't believe that Kaecilius, who was practically a skeleton, was still alive, his heart still beating strongly.

After Kaecilius's skeleton stood up, he ran without hesitation into the Hong Kong Sanctum.

During their sneak attack, his heavily armored barrier was shattered, and the entrance to the Hong Kong Sanctum was directly cut into ruins by the storm of energy blades. The spatial restriction defenses, hidden somewhere, were also damaged.

Kaecilius charged straight in.

This was the first time he had been hurt like this, and he didn't know if he could survive.

But he hadn't forgotten Dormammu's instructions. He believed that as long as Dormammu descended, even if he lost his life, the great Dormammu would have a way to resurrect him.

Doctor Strange and Mordo were already stunned, and it wasn't until Kaecilius turned around and went straight into the Sanctum that they came to their senses.

He quickly activated the magical artifacts on his body and followed them into the Sanctum.

But it was too late. Kaecilius had already destroyed several of the Sanctum's arrays and was quite adept at it.

As soon as the two entered the room where the array was set up, they saw the back of the skeletal figure and suddenly felt the Sanctum tremble slightly. A spatial ripple that only they could sense swept out in all directions.

The dimensional defenses set up by Kamar-Taj to protect the entire Earth collapsed.

A thick, indescribable black mist-like energy shot out from the void and directly covered the skeleton.

Various flesh and nerves immediately sprang up out of thin air in Kaecilius's body.

A hoarse, sinister voice rang out from the black mist.

"It feels so good to be enveloped in darkness..."