"How is America's training progressing?" Homelander asked Ancient One bluntly. "Can she control that ability to travel through the Multiverse now?"
Ancient One nodded.
"With my guidance, she can now actively use her own power."
"But that is also where the problem lies. She has lost the ability to travel to the Multiverse."
"What do you mean?" Homelander frowned.
"She can still open those star-shaped portals," Ancient One continued. "But the other side of the portals no longer leads to other parallel universes. It leads to a world of Chaos."
"America is extremely upset. She told me this had never happened before. No matter how she tried, the end of the passage was always that Chaos."
"I suspect the cause of all this was the dark magic accident Strange triggered at the New York Sanctum."
"It was more than mere interference." Ancient One shook her head. "Part of her core power was stripped from America's body. She is incomplete now."
She had lost part of her power?
Homelander suddenly recalled the scene in the secret chamber that day, when he had held America.
At the time, the Multiverse energy inside the girl's body had been in a rampaging state.
The instant they came into contact, he had clearly felt a peculiar energy surge into his body.
At the time, he had assumed it was merely ordinary magical backlash and had not paid it any attention.
"I estimate that part of her power was absorbed by me."
Homelander then truthfully told Ancient One about the energy flooding into him while he had been saving her that day.
"But I can't sense any abnormal energy fluctuations inside me now." Homelander spread his hands. "Nor can I draw out that power."
After hearing this, Ancient One understood.
"So that's how it is! If