Family Banquet

What one could not have was loved all the more; what came too easily was ignored!

Odin's children were like that, and Strange was no different. That was human nature—very realistic.

Russell created plenty of difficulties for Strange, making him understand that getting to Kamar-Taj was not easy. If no one had opened the door for him, he would never have found it in his lifetime.

There had been a slight deviation along the way, but the result was the same. Strange reined in his arrogance and conceit and honestly remained at Kamar-Taj.

After that, Russell used a few tricks to let him experience the boundless mysteries of the universe. He told him that magic was the rules of the universe, stirring up his desire to learn until he could hardly bear it and actively sought to study magic.

This was very important. One's attitude toward learning determined the speed of learning, and even more so how far one could go.

With a perfunctory attitude, one would never succeed at anything. Only a greedy thirst for knowledge and an insatiable ambition could keep someone moving forward.

That might sound somewhat derogatory, but it was not a big problem. Chinese was broad and profound; replace "greedy and never satisfied" with "long cherished," "yearning for," or "diligently tireless," and it became praiseworthy praise.

Strange remained at Kamar-Taj from then on. Under Wong's arrangements, he was given a private room. The decor was a little lacking, but the hardware was genuinely impressive.

Every private room at Kamar-Taj had an NS-3 robot responsible for daily care, ensuring that the mages could devote themselves wholeheartedly to the study of magic. Thus, Strange's dinners were all prepared by NS-3.

Its skills were on par with a five-star chef's, leaving him completely unable to make sense of