"You mean The Ancient One?" Arkham Batman frowned. "The Sorcerer Supreme shouldn't be that kind of person, should she?"
"She might not have acted directly." Schiller shook his head. "She may have merely foreseen it and chosen not to stop it. Do you believe in Destiny?"
"When I learned that only one pair of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne had survived in the Multiverse, I believed in it for a moment." Arkham Batman answered with brutal frankness.
"The truth is, from Marvel sorcerers' perspective, Destiny is real and cannot be defied. Who becomes the Sorcerer Supreme is destined, and when the Sorcerer Supreme dies is also destined. Along Destiny's thread are countless knots that can only be untied by certain people. No one else can interfere."
"I understand. You mean we simply can't save Doctor Strange from the Car Accident, because the crash itself was Destiny's arrangement, meant to make him meet his teacher and become the next Sorcerer Supreme."
Schiller nodded. "And even in the dream world, once he becomes the Sorcerer Supreme, he'll understand what we're doing. Then he'll willingly leave with his teammates, and we'll lose for sure."
"Isn't that cheating?" Constantine said. "What if he secretly left memories for himself, then disguised all this as something destined to happen? The result would be the same. How would we expose it?"
"The fact is, we can't expose it, because the logic holds up. Even if you ask other sorcerers after leaving, they'll give you the same answer." Schiller shook his head. "As long as there's a plausible explanation, whether he really cheated or not, we can only accept it. After all, this is their turf."
"No, I can confirm that he didn't retain his memories." Jack suddenly spoke. "The rules of the two worlds have partially merged, so