"Have you ever used the Time Stone?"
He-El asked expressionlessly.
Stephen Strange's expression froze. So far, he truly had never used the Time Stone.
But in his precognitive dream, merely viewing the 14,000,605 futures before his death could be considered using the Time Stone 14,000,605 times without suffering any harm.
"No." Stephen Strange hesitated slightly before answering, then fell silent. He knew what He-El was going to ask.
"Then in the future you saw, did your future self ever use the Time Stone?" He-El raised his voice slightly.
Everyone's gaze turned to Stephen Strange.
Stephen Strange was silent for a while before saying, "Yes."
"How many times?" He-El's voice softened; he was no longer pressing him so aggressively.
Stephen Strange fell completely silent.
The entire conference room was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
"Can I take that to mean countless times? A few? A dozen? Hundreds? Thousands?" Tony Stark stared at Stephen Strange as he guessed. Seeing no reaction from him, Bruce Banner picked up where Tony Stark left off.
"Tens of thousands?" Bruce Banner asked suspiciously.
Stephen Strange remained silent.
Everyone in the conference room began to draw sharp breaths.
"Hundreds of thousands?" Steve Rogers asked, his expression strange.
Stephen Strange still gave no reaction.
The people in the conference room were now looking at Stephen Strange with shock in their eyes.
Using the Time Stone hundreds of thousands of times?
"Millions of times?" Peter Parker said cautiously.
Stephen Strange stayed silent, still offering no answer.
Panic and shock immediately swept through the conference room, sending a chill up everyone's spine.
Using the Time Stone millions of times?
"Tens of millions of times?" Nick Fury asked, his lips trembling slightly.
Tens of millions of uses of the Time Stone?
He did not know what kind