Apocalypse paused, cursing inwardly, Fuck.
He had overplayed it!
He had made Pym Particles sound so miraculous and rare that while he had scared Dormammu, Dormammu also believed he had used them all up.
He would definitely attack again, and with even greater force.
Beside him, Stephen's ongoing spell wavered.
He nearly laughed himself to death.
He had never imagined that Apocalypse King, who dominated Earth, could be such a chatterbox.
He lied without blushing, his heart pounding, or his expression changing, completely fooling a Lord of Darkness.
Dormammu could not really be blamed for falling for it.
Apocalypse's strength had simply led him into a psychological blind spot.
The strong had their own pride.
Under normal circumstances, their word was as good as gold, and they disdained lying!
For example, when Thor had been banished to Earth, even though everyone around him treated him like an idiot, he still insisted that he was Thor.
With over a thousand years of experience, he could not possibly have failed to realize that a small lie would have been easier for mortals to accept.
He simply disdained doing so.
In the original plot of Doctor Strange, Dormammu had been forced back by Stephen's Time Loop.
And once he retreated, he truly retreated.
He had not come back for another attack after the Time Loop was lifted.
Otherwise, with his abilities and proper preparation, it would not have been so easy for Stephen to pull him into another Time Loop.
He might even have killed Stephen the instant the Time Loop was lifted.
In his eyes, anyone who could withstand him for so long, like Apocalypse, would be a supreme powerhouse in any Parallel Universe.
Introducing one's ultimate move to an enemy was, first, to make the opponent admit defeat wholeheartedly.
Second, it