Kraft returned to his laboratory with the Tesseract, where the Ancient One had already been waiting.
"You really are... as full of surprises as ever..."
The Ancient One wore a complicated expression. None of this matched the developments she had seen through the timelines!
Leaving aside Odin dying several years early, all Six Infinity Stones were now on Earth. Even more absurdly, Kraft's family alone held five of them...
She had seen all sorts of Krafts across countless timelines, but the one before her was definitely the fastest at collecting Infinity Stones-many times faster even than the Krafts who had deliberately set out to gather them.
"Hehehe~ So you know."
Kraft rubbed the back of his head and gave her a bashful smile.
"Of course!" The Ancient One rolled her eyes. "With so many Asgardians migrating to Earth, what kind of Sorcerer Supreme would I be if I didn't react to a commotion that big?"
"Didn't you dump that miserable job on the horse-faced doctor ages ago?" Kraft curled his lip.
"Ahem... Strange is a more gifted sorcerer than I am, and Kamar-Taj needs fresh ideas, too."
The Ancient One delivered her explanation with a perfectly straight face.
Kraft gave the shameless sorcerer a disdainful sidelong glance, set the Tesseract on his workbench, and operated a mechanical arm to begin laser-cutting it.
As a container for the Space Stone, the Tesseract wasn't ridiculously tough. Once Kraft increased the laser's power to level four, he easily sliced it open and extracted the Space Stone.
Then Kraft carefully placed the Space Stone into old man Rick's Portal Gun.
"So you caused all that trouble in Asgard just for this thing?"
The Ancient One leaned her head over and asked curiously.
"Haven't you seen me invent this in other timelines?"
Kraft waved the