Many Avengers members looked astonished.
They had thought He-El would, like Nick Fury, keep the Mind Scepter deeply hidden from the world.
But they had not expected He-El's answer to be using the Reality Stone directly. It truly caught them off guard.
He-El had once obtained the Mind Scepter as well. He had feared its ability to devour the mind, afraid that he would lose himself within the Mind Scepter and become consumed by endless desire.
In the end, he gave the Mind Scepter to Nick Fury and had him keep it in secret.
Everyone believed that every Infinity Stone possessed immense power, and using that power naturally came with backlash.
"I can't allow it," Stephen Strange said sternly, his resistance clear. "Don't you know the danger and power of the Infinity Stones? You have everything in this world. Why do you still want to use the Reality Stone? Is what you have still not enough?"
Stephen Strange could not understand why He-El wanted to obtain and use the Reality Stone.
It was not a good idea. Every use of an Infinity Stone would more or less inflict irreversible and unavoidable harm upon its user.
Most importantly, the Infinity Stones altered the fundamental laws of the universe. There was a strong possibility that they could cause fundamental disorder throughout the universe.
In Stephen Strange's prophetic dreams, he had possessed the Eye of Agamotto and the Time Stone. Why had he not traveled through time himself and changed the outcome, instead of merely watching?
Because watching was only observation. It would not recklessly interfere with the universe and cause excessive harm.
But time travel was different.
One trip through time created a new timeline, which would then branch and spread endlessly from that traversed timeline.
No one could say how severe