The Ancient One:...
You want me to look? I don't want to look. I can't see it...
There were only two possible explanations for Lin Feng possessing two Time Stones: a Parallel Universe or a Timeline.
"I can't see where it came from." The Ancient One shook her head.
"Magic is wondrous, but there are still things magic cannot solve."
The Ancient One had lived for at least several centuries. She had mastered countless varieties of magic and attained profound skill in them.
In the movies, the Ancient One's physical body had died, and Strange inherited the title of Sorcerer Supreme.
As for the Ancient One's soul... honestly, Lin Feng felt that she was probably still around.
Lin Feng said nothing. He was testing the Ancient One, testing whether she knew of the Time Variance Authority's existence.
During the long years she had guarded the Time Stone, the Ancient One must have used it.
But why had the Time Variance Authority not classified the Ancient One as a Time Criminal?
Lin Feng felt that the most likely explanation was that the future the Ancient One observed remained under the Time Variance Authority's control.
Although the Ancient One of the past could peer into the future, just like the more than ten million endings Strange saw, those were all futures the Time Variance Authority wanted people to see.
In other words, every Timeline the Ancient One saw was under the Time Variance Authority's control.
If they did not want you to see a Timeline, you could not see it.
And the Ancient One strictly followed the Timelines, deliberately guiding the relevant people toward the Timeline with the best possible outcome.
In other words, the Ancient One's actions fell within the Time Variance Authority's rules of the game.
So did the Ancient