The Ancient One's Final Lesson

Xiang Qian left in a great hurry, leaving Thor, Jane Foster, and the others staring at one another, along with the enormous sword-shaped spacecraft and the rubble strewn across the ground. He had not even had time to mock Thor a few more times, which was very unlike him.

Thor had clearly been kept in the dark by Odin and Loki. Given Xiang Qian's nature, he should have stayed to watch the next episode of the family melodrama between father and son, brothers and kin. Yet he had hurried away instead.

Because Ancient One had "died."

Kaecilius had not missed the perfect opportunity presented by the Convergence. The moment the Dark Elves' sword-shaped spacecraft appeared and the battle erupted, he immediately led his people in an assault on the London Sanctum.

Dormammu's followers had planned this battle for a long time. Not only had they seized the favorable moment when most of the sorcerers had been dispatched to the Greenwich Observatory, leaving the London Sanctum vulnerable, but they had also gained formidable magical power by offering their loyalty to Dormammu.

Kaecilius had originally only intended to use the chaos to destroy the Three Sanctums, shatter the Dimensional Barrier, and welcome his lord Dormammu's descent upon Earth. Yet he had not expected an "unexpected windfall" during the operation—he had actually killed the Sorcerer Supreme who came to reinforce them amid the melee.

The current Sorcerer Supreme's invincible image was deeply rooted throughout the magical world of the Milky Way. Countless people respected her, countless others hated her, and even more feared her. But regardless, no one had dared imagine defeating her head-on for nearly a thousand years.

Those who had followed Kaecilius to this point were all Dormammu's most fanatical believers. Even they had only hoped to break the Dimensional Barrier