Asgard.
Thor's palace, meditation chamber.
Known as the Soul Furnace on Asgard and the Quantum Generator on Earth, it was a bed-like machine often used by Asgardians to examine the body and mind.
Simply put, the Asgardian gods used the Soul Furnace as a medical device.
Through Thor's influence in Asgard, Stephen Strange had requisitioned a Soul Furnace. After Tony Stark modified it, it was used alongside the Mind Stone's fluctuations to stimulate and strengthen Wanda Maximoff's Chaos Magic, allowing it to quickly reach the level needed to destroy the Mind Stone.
A powerful wave of Chaos Magic energy erupted from the meditation chamber, and Stephen Strange and Loki hurried there.
They saw Wanda Maximoff's body floating above the Soul Furnace, immense dark-red Chaos Magic coiling around her. It surged over her body like rolling waves, bathing the entire spacious meditation chamber in an eerie dark red glow.
"She suddenly had a powerful Chaos Magic energy surge." Pietro Maximoff clutched his chest as he painfully pushed himself up against the wall. His brow was tightly furrowed, and his eyes flickered with pain and worry.
Ever since they returned from Xandar, Tony Stark had finished modifying the Soul Furnace. Wanda Maximoff had begun using the Mind Stone to stimulate the Chaos Magic within her body, while Pietro Maximoff had stayed by her side to care for and watch over her.
Nothing major had happened, and Wanda Maximoff's Chaos Magic energy readings had been steadily rising.
Until just now, when the sudden eruption exceeded the expected threshold. Caught off guard, Pietro Maximoff had been slammed into the wall by the abruptly surging Chaos Magic.
"Her consciousness is being drawn into the Chaos Magic." Stephen Strange's expression tightened, his gaze grave.
If Wanda Maximoff was not pulled away from the deeper levels of