While the whole world was going crazy over virtual reality helmets.
Leon and Wong arrived in New Jersey State.
Naturally, they were here to recruit teachers for the academy.
As one of the oldest and most prestigious supernatural forces on Earth, Kamar-Taj.
It was also exceptionally convenient for gathering intelligence.
Old Wang produced a list of recommendations in just two days.
Since they only needed to hire teachers for Potions and Divination.
Leon simply picked out two names from the list based on his memories.
He also blacked out the name of a witch called Agatha.
So that if Old Wang needed to recruit teachers again in the future.
He would make sure to avoid the cancerous blight of the witching world represented by that name.
Why call her a cancerous blight?
Because Agatha was unpredictable, utterly unscrupulous in her actions, and a complete egoist.
Yet her ability was also outrageously unfair—she could absorb all the magic power of anyone who attacked her with energy.
Leon had heard in his previous life.
That in the third season of What If...?.
A parallel-universe Agatha even drained the power of Celestials such as Tiamut and Arishem.
If someone like that entered Kamar-Taj.
Leon suspected that one day, when he returned.
He would find the sorcerers sucked dry into a floor full of mummified corpses.
"This is the place?"
Leon and Wong stood before a rundown shop on a dilapidated street.
There were barely any people on the street, and the vehicles parked along the roadside were coated in dust.
It made one wonder whether this place was normally visited by anyone at all.
Anyone opening a shop here was either doing illegal business or was simply a colossal fool.
"It should be here." Wong took out his notebook and carefully compared the