Basil Plays It Safe

"This pie is delicious." Ron took a big bite, then took a big gulp of Coke, smacking his lips. "This soda tastes pretty good too."

"I prefer sour soda." Dumbledore waved his right hand, and a glass of orange-red soda appeared out of thin air in his hand.

Harry relaxed considerably and began to enjoy his meal.

"Do you still remember why we called these two children here?" Mordo sneered again. "We mages are only responsible for protecting Earth from the invasion of terrifying beings from higher dimensions. That is your duty!"

"If it weren't for the fact that this also threatens the Wizarding World and the Merlin Dimension, do you really think I would be so anxious?"

"Then shut up." The door opened abruptly, and a woman with reddish-brown hair walked in.

Hmm, hmm.

Ron looked in the direction the sound came from and saw the black man named Mordo. He really 'shut up', or rather, his lips disappeared and stuck together.

The woman's hair was now red. "There are more important things to deal with now. Odin is dead."

"What?" Everyone on the aircraft became serious.

The man hidden in the shadows, dressed in a strange outfit with a tuning fork on his head, also piloted his aircraft into the light.

Ron's instincts, stemming from his Skrull Kent origins, made him notice that the man hadn't spoken, and his throat and lips hadn't trembled, even though he looked extremely anxious.

"Wanda, are you sure you're telling the truth?" Dumbledore asked seriously. "What do we mean to each other?"

"After the Ancient One's pursuit of Eternity, Odin became Thanos's only fear—"

"Isn't there Hela?" Stark interjected. "I've been matched with her in the Duel Arena. She's quite reliable as a teammate. She's also a Grandmaster in the Hall of Fame, what you guys usually call the Skyfather level."

"I'm going to tell Strange."

Ron noticed that the black man named Mordo's mouth had returned to normal, and his hand, which wore the long, rectangular ring with two rings, was drawing circles in the air. A spark immediately ignited in the air in front of him, and then multiplied further and further away, forming a circular door.

Another view unfolded behind the door, and even a single leaf drifted in.

Ron instantly understood; this must be a spell similar to Apparition, a portal.

"I already know." Suddenly, another portal appeared, and a horse-faced man with a strong wizarding aura, wearing a red Cloak, stepped out.

Ron observed that as the man uttered the word 'know,' most of the people in the room looked at the eye-shaped pendant on the man's chest.

At the same time, a word appeared in his mind— Sorcerer Supreme.

Then, the red-haired woman named Wanda spoke up, "Hela is unreliable. She has already invaded Asgard."

"You're no match for her either?" Dumbledore asked in surprise.

"Her power in Asgard is almost limitless," Wanda said. "Thor was too reckless, and he was defeated too quickly when he went up alone. My brother wasn't there, and Loki still couldn't forget his dagger. He was defeated before he could even use magic."

"Indeed," the horse-faced man nodded, "If Quicksilver were here, he could at least save Thor and Loki."

"They don't need to worry," Wanda said irritably. "Frigga is still their mother, Hela won't do anything to them. In fact, if it weren't for Frigga, I probably wouldn't be back for a while."

"Without using the Bifrost, even I would need to spend some time preparing for this kind of long-distance Apparition."

"You mean," Dumbledore said after a moment of thought, "that Hela is not prepared to help Earth resist Thanos' invasion."

"I thought she was pretty smart," the mustachioed man scoffed. "Doesn't she understand that after that the Snap, she might be among the half of the random people in the universe who die?"

"The entire universe," the horse-faced man said coldly, "As long as it doesn't belong to this universe, isn't that enough?"

"Dimensional space!" the mustachioed man exclaimed. "Is she planning to bring Asgard into Nibelheim? Madwoman, that would prevent the Asgardians who died in battle from entering Heroic Spirits."

"Why would she do that? As her temporary teammate on several occasions, I could tell that she wasn't afraid of the fight; on the contrary, she was very eager for it."

"She said," Wanda recalled, "That Titan represents destiny. Now is not the time to attack him."

"Fate?" The mustachioed man sneered. "Fate is just an excuse for the incompetent. After building the Arc Reactor and escaping from the Skrull prison in Iron Armor, fate is the last thing I believe in."

"I think I understand now why the various forces in the universe still don't take that purple sweet potato spirit seriously even after his crazy ideas were exposed."

"They all have plans to ascend to a higher dimension and temporarily escape the universe."

"Instead of facing the cosmic overlord, why not temporarily ascend to another dimension and hide? That's the thinking of cowards."

"Now I finally understand why that soldier hated deserters so much."

Ron and Harry remained silent.

But through these people's conversations, Ron roughly understood that there was a cosmic-level villain who was up to no good, and many forces in the universe chose to turn a blind eye and temporarily hide.

The only two people who could pose a threat to him are dead (Ron used "following Eternity" as a euphemism for death among the mages).

Then he thought of Basil.

In the Starry World he is the "Sun King," and in this world he is the Merlin Dimension, the master of the entire magical world, and the headmaster of Hogwarts.

If he heard correctly, there's also the title of the Sorcerer Supreme.

So he couldn't help but ask, "What about the Sorcerer Supreme? Thanos shouldn't be a match for him, right?"

Arthur Weasley smiled and patted his son's head. "Ron, the Sorcerer Supreme is also Dimensional Demon God. His true form cannot descend to Earth. Otherwise, it would disrupt the magic array protecting Earth and driving away other evil daemons."

"Yes, the Sorcerer Supreme!" Tony's eyes lit up. "Why don't we throw the Space Stone, the Time Stone, and the Reality Stone into the Wizarding World?"

"Even Thanos, who possesses two Infinity Stones, cannot run rampant in Merlin Dimension."

"We could even migrate the entire global population to the Merlin Dimension."

"The Infinity Stones can only work within this universe," the horse-faced man said. "They are merely vessels for the laws of the universe. The existence of the Duel Arena made Thanos an unprecedented master of magic. If the vessel did not exist, Thanos, who possessed two Infinity Stones, would be the only one capable of recreating them."

"By doing this, you are actually helping him."

"In the future I saw, that's exactly what he did."

"Don't even think about interrupting his magical ritual by bringing the Infinity Stones back into space. Everything for the ritual is already prepared on his accompanying spaceship. As soon as the carriers of the other Infinity Stones are detected to have disappeared, the ritual will start immediately."

"Completed in a very short time."

"So," the mustachioed man stroked his beard, "He anticipated that we would do this?"

The horse-faced man sighed, "He simply prepared different plans for different situations, and each plan was meticulously crafted and extremely comprehensive."

"A madman as intelligent, determined, and with clear goals as him is undoubtedly the most terrifying."

"In fact, he also prepared a way out for us."

"If we leave the gem on Earth and take all the people of Earth into the Wizarding World, we can escape his the Snap."

"The target of his snap of his the Snap will also change. It will no longer be half and half, but will kill all other life forms in the universe that he judges to be a waste of resources."

"You're tempted?" the mustachioed man said in a slightly sarcastic tone.

The horse-faced man shook his head. "In the 176 million times I've seen the future, there have only been less than three such chances of survival."

"In most cases, he would hide after snapping his the Snap and wait for the ascended cosmic forces to return to the universe before snapping his the Snap again."

"This also includes us who have returned to Earth from the Wizarding World."

"And it's not half and half."

"What if we tell other cosmic powers about this?" the mustachioed man asked, "Like Hela."

The horse-faced man shook his head. "Stark, in the future I see, if you do this, he will make an unbreakable pact with those cosmic forces that have ascended to other dimensions and are hiding, but he will not let us go."

"Strange, can't the power of the Infinity Stones break the contract?" Stark asked.

"It's endorsed by the Sorcerer Supreme," Strange said. "The power of the Infinity Stones can only interfere with this universe."

He noticed Stark's gleaming eyes. "Don't even think about using the power of Dimensional Demon God. It's all borrowing, even the White Magic of the Vishanti. Most Dimensional Demon God's loans will ultimately make you pay a much higher price than you borrowed."

"The Merlin Dimension, which can create energy out of nothing and has contractors help it create energy, is just an isolated case."

Strange is absolutely right.

This is the only one.

The Merlin Dimension can be like this because this identity system was created by replicating the conceptual nature of magic that Basil possessed in the Novel Harry world—a magic that is eternal, inexhaustible, and never depleted.

Therefore, the Merlin Dimension as a whole is like an axe that can chop a log out of thin air by swinging it.

The wizards who were bound by contracts were laborers who helped Merlin Dimension, wield his axe to create logs.

When wizards cast spells, they are creating energy for Basil, and the experiences and insights they gain from casting spells also belong to Basil.

In fact, Basil in this world wished that all humans would make a pact with him to become wizards and have them work for him.

However, only a few possess the potential to become wizards.

Perhaps because the magic of wizards is inherently idealistic, wizards can only spread their magic through normal reproductive activities.

Neither artificial insemination nor cloning can create wizards.

It's also possible that a wizard's reproductive activities could be considered a form of magic.

This is something that Basil in this world has never been able to do.

Otherwise, he would have turned Tony Stark, Wanda, Thanos, Strange, and others into wizards long ago.

Especially Tony and Thanos, whose wisdom is cursed, helped with work and training, bringing more insights and inspiration than Basil has gained so far.

In fact, after learning about wizards, Thanos once considered using the power of the Infinity Stones to turn everyone into wizards, but he eventually learned that this was not feasible.

It must be admitted that the power of the Infinity Stones also has limitations.

This ultimately led to the current situation.

Within the Merlin Dimension.

In the Hogwarts Headmaster's office, Basil opened his eyes.

He has not yet fully arrived.

As the only Dimensional Demon God capable of creating energy out of nothing, he was granted special privileges by the Ancient One, but this also meant that countless eyes across the Multiverse were fixed on him.

If he hadn't been strong enough, he probably would have been devoured by the wolves long ago.

At the same time, he felt that this was going too smoothly.

The Ancient One and Odin just happened to die.

Only the most powerful one remains in this universe.

Thanos also ignored the wizards, regarding them as treasures for the continuation of life in the universe, and tried every means to enhance their fertility.

In fact, the so-called banished Voldemort was with Thanos.

They constantly supplied him with various fertile female races to increase the number of wizards.

It was through his research on Voldemort that he discovered the Infinity Stones had limitations; they couldn't even enhance a wizard's fertility.

In short, Basil felt this was a trap.

Perhaps abstract entities such as Eternity, infinity, death, Oblivion, the Living Tribunal, or even the OAA are waiting for his arrival.

Within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he exists in a single universe, invincible within his own dimension.

According to the Marvel Universe, the multiverse is smaller than the superverse, which refers to all the worldviews of a company and its subsidiaries as a superverse.

The Omniverse is the sum of all known and unknown universes, all universes that cannot be understood, felt, or imagined by human thought and consciousness but can be understood, felt, and imagined by higher intelligent life and consciousness, as well as all unknown universes and all known and unknown things that exist or do not exist.

The translation is "the entire universe," meaning all of them. It includes not only the Marvel Universe but also the real world, as well as the DC Universe, the Star Wars Universe, and all other universes, including those yet to be imagined by humankind. All of these fall within the scope of the Omniverse.

The Living Tribunal is Omniverse entity.

In Mephisto's description, the Living Tribunal was simply a group of strong students on the school playground, and the OAA was the principal.

Although Basil knew this was just philosophical rambling, he himself, and the Harry world itself, were the best evidence to undermine this premise.

He and the universe he links to are truly outside the Marvel Universe.

The system did indeed create a Dimensional Demon God in this universe with complete cause and effect.

The system's [Duel Arena] component is so powerful that no life form in this universe can refuse its invitation to become a duelist and be granted magic.

From this perspective, OAA is merely a Dimensional Demon God a larger dimension.

And Basil, this Dimensional Demon God, also possesses a system.

But regardless, Basil is prepared to play it safe.

Observe from Ron's and your own perspective, and silently wait for the one-month cooldown period to recycle the [Duel Arena] components.

Tony Stark becomes the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D..;

Quicksilver and Wanda are connected to Asgard;

The Inhumans on the moon have surfaced, and Black Bolt has even become a leader in a space base;

Hela seemed to be venting her frustrations in the Duel Arena, and wasn't as aggressive as she appeared in the movie;

The cosmic forces that knew in advance about Thanos's the Snap made preparations for dimensional ascension.

This is all so interesting.