The First to Defeat Dormammu, Shocking Ancient One

Wong, Mordo, and Strange stood shoulder to shoulder.

Their gazes pierced through layers of mist, finally settling on Lin Du's figure, brimming with absolute confidence.

Dark power coiled around him, making him seem like the most mysterious dancer in the night.

Every faint breath he took challenged the boundary between light and darkness, playing out a silent contest.

"How... how is this possible?" Wong's voice was filled with shock. His gaze was almost irresistibly drawn to Lin Du's hand, lightly caressed by shadows.

How could Lin Du use dark magic? Had he truly joined forces with the terrifying Dormammu and fallen into endless darkness?

Yet it was Lin Du who had personally ended Kaecilius.

Amid this chaos where light and darkness intertwined, Lin Du had become an unsolvable mystery.

He could manipulate the flow of time and command the profound power of darkness.

Such unimaginable abilities inspired both awe and endless curiosity and doubt.

Mordo simply could not figure out how Lin Du had acquired such astonishing dark magic.

While everyone else marveled at and questioned Lin Du's mysterious power, Lin Du himself seemed completely unaffected by the emotions around him.

He simply stood there quietly, allowing that dark energy to circle lazily around him.

His gaze was deep and resolute, sharp enough to pierce through all fog and strike directly at the truest core of things.

He slowly spoke, his voice low yet powerful. "You all think darkness and light are irreconcilable, that things must be either black or white. But that is not so."

"They are more like twins between heaven and earth, yin and yang relying on one another to maintain the balance and harmony of this world."

"I do not belong to darkness. I have merely learned how to control it and make use of it."

Wong, Mordo, and Strange exchanged looks. Lin Du's words left them both astonished and confused.

To them, dark energy had always been synonymous with evil.

Yet Lin Du's perspective had undoubtedly opened the curtain on an entirely new world before them.

Mordo's brows knotted tightly, endless confusion churning within him.

He lowered his voice and muttered to himself, "Lin Du, when exactly did you master the secrets of dark magic?"

Thinking back to the moment Lin Du had launched his attack, the technique had clearly been identical to Kaecilius's.

Could it be that he and Ancient One had come here to establish contact with Kaecilius?

Strange also wore an expression of utter disbelief, his gaze fixed firmly on Lin Du.

They had both become Ancient One's disciples, yet Lin Du had surpassed Ancient One after only two short days.

He had been personally accepted by Ancient One as her final disciple.

And now, Lin Du had already left him so far behind that he could not even see his taillights.

The moment Lin Du finished speaking, Mordo could no longer hold himself back and asked directly, "Lin Du, when exactly did you learn that dark magic?"

Lin Du's gaze swept lightly over Mordo, and a faint smile curled his lips. "Isn't that something you can learn just by looking at it?"

Mordo and Wong froze on the spot.

They had never expected Lin Du to brush aside that question about dark magic so casually.

In their minds, dark magic was something mysterious and unfathomable, fraught with danger and incredibly difficult to control.

Yet Lin Du treated it as casually as greeting an old friend, as though it were merely one ordinary skill among his many talents.

Their eyes both settled on Lin Du, trying to find some clue on his face.

But all they saw was unruffled calm and bottomless wisdom.

It was as though Lin Du's eyes possessed the power to read minds, making people instinctively want to believe every word he said.

But in the end, someone as extraordinarily gifted as Lin Du

was probably rarer than a phoenix feather even in the vast sea of stars across the universe.

Wong and Mordo exchanged a glance, their admiration for Lin Du growing even deeper.

They knew that someone with such talent must have had extraordinary experiences and unseen efforts behind him.

At that moment, they became even more eager to learn more knowledge and power from Lin Du, so they could become more unbreakable in the future battles to protect the world.

Wong's brows furrowed into a knot, as though his ears had betrayed him.

"Are you sure? You can do it with just one look?"

Who could possess the ability to see through something at a glance and learn it instantly?

It was simply unbelievable, beyond imagination.

Lin Du nodded without hesitation. "That's right."

"The core nature of these energies is not difficult to understand. Once you grasp that crucial secret, controlling them becomes effortless."

Strange's face was filled with shock.

He had also studied magic under Ancient One, but he knew full well that he was still far from that level.

At present, he had only just crossed the threshold of magic.

Was the gap truly this enormous?

Was what Lin Du had displayed really an ability a mortal could possess? One could not help but wonder.

At that critical moment, a brilliant golden streak suddenly cut across the sky, and Ancient One descended directly beside Lin Du.

She stared at Lin Du, undisguised astonishment flashing in her eyes.

"Lin Du, your talent is truly unbelievable!" Ancient One said with deep emotion.

"You effortlessly controlled that dark power. This truly exceeded my expectations."

She had borrowed Dormammu's power in order to guard against Dormammu's designs on Blue Star,

yet Lin Du could control this power so freely?

Could it be that Lin Du was truly destined by fate, a hero sent to save them?

Ancient One's words plunged everyone present into deep thought.

Lin Du's extraordinary abilities no longer seemed to fall within the realm of personal talent alone. They were more like a subtle manifestation of some higher power from the depths of the universe.

Just as everyone remained immersed in the shock brought by Lin Du's astonishing abilities, the skies not far away suddenly changed, strange phenomena appearing one after another.

The heavens seemed to be casually torn open at one corner, revealing an ominous sign.

Cracks quietly emerged in the void, as though some immense force had forcibly ripped away the veil of space, exposing the deep and unfathomable dark abyss behind it.

A heart-palpitating dark energy surged from those cracks, sending chills down their spines as fear and unease quietly spread through their hearts.

Lin Du's gaze was as sharp as an eagle's, locked tightly onto the gradually expanding crack. His brows were tightly furrowed, his thoughts racing as he clearly pondered this sudden change.

"This... this is Dormammu's rift!" Strange cried out in alarm.

Under Ancient One's guidance, he had once learned fragments of information about Dormammu—the ruler of the Dark Dimension, who had long coveted the real world and sought to invade it.