His words pulled The Ancient One back from her thoughts.
The Ancient One froze for a moment. With her hands behind her back, she calmly looked at Dormammu and said, "When you were freely bewitching sorcerers on Earth, you should have expected this day to come."
As she spoke, The Ancient One raised a hand and assumed the opening stance for a spell, seemingly preparing to fight.
Just then, The Ancient One suddenly felt her vision go black for the briefest instant.
When she opened her eyes again, she was already standing inside the Sanctum.
The Ancient One: ???
What was going on?
Where was Dormammu?
"Good thing we ran fast, Master." Zhang Yang's voice came from beside her just as she was wondering.
The Ancient One was stunned.
Just now... it seemed... Zhang Yang had opened a Portal and brought the two of them out...
Wait!
Zhang Yang had actually used a Portal to get out?!
And he had opened a Portal right under Dormammu's nose to leave?!
What was going on?
No, Zhang Yang, wasn't he being a little too disrespectful toward Dormammu?
At that moment.
The Ancient One looked at Zhang Yang without saying a word, but her mind was filled with question marks and shock.
Her disciple was really something!
"That was close, Master. Good thing we got away." Zhang Yang let out a relieved sigh.
It seemed Zhang Yang had no idea that opening a Portal out of Dormammu's Dark Dimension was something shocking even to The Ancient One.
"Indeed." After a long while, The Ancient One finally came back to her senses and nodded at Zhang Yang.
The Ancient One's thoughts were somewhat muddled.
As she looked at Zhang Yang, she could not tell whether he was pretending or genuinely did not know how astonishing what he had done was.
Dormammu's Dark Dimension was definitely not a place one could enter and leave whenever one wished.
First, one had to know Black Magic to enter the Dark Dimension.
Second, entering and leaving the Dark Dimension required Dormammu's permission.
Neither condition could be missing.
Yet what shocked The Ancient One was this.
There was no trace of Dark Magic on Zhang Yang, nor did he possess magical energy powerful enough to intimidate Dormammu.
Yet he could come and go freely in the Dark Dimension?
The Ancient One felt that perhaps she should find time to speak with Odin.
"Master, is Dormammu very powerful? I heard my senior brothers mention that Dormammu seems to be the ruler of the Dark Dimension." Zhang Yang could not help asking as he looked at The Ancient One.
After all, when Zhang Yang had heard Dormammu's name earlier, he truly had been a little nervous.
For Zhang Yang, who had only watched Avengers: Infinity War.
Dormammu was a rather unfamiliar name.
He was more familiar with Thanos.
But based on what Zhang Yang had learned after coming to Kamar-Taj, although Thanos was difficult to deal with, without the Infinity Stones,
Thanos was no match for The Ancient One.
Dormammu, however, was different.
He was an opponent who gave even The Ancient One headaches.
Although Zhang Yang knew that he might have to fight Dormammu someday.
Because that fellow was wildly ambitious and wanted to devour Earth.
But right now, Zhang Yang was not one hundred percent confident that he could defeat Dormammu.
Fortunately, he had run fast enough.
"Yes. ...Dormammu controls all Black Magic and the power of darkness. Within his Dark Dimension, he is an omniscient, omnipotent god!" The Ancient One explained, then walked over to the table, poured herself a cup of tea, and took a sip.
"That's a relief." Zhang Yang muttered, letting out another long breath.
The Dark Dimension.
Dormammu: "Since you've come, Ancient One, don't even think..."
A blue flash.
Dormammu: "...????? Where are they?"
Dormammu was somewhat dumbfounded now.
Not only was he dumbfounded, he was also rather depressed.
When he had seen The Ancient One suddenly appear, Dormammu had been overjoyed.
He had always wanted to cause trouble on Earth.
But The Ancient One was truly infuriating. She ruined his plans every single time.
Thus, Dormammu could only think of other methods.
Recently, having calculated that The Ancient One's end was approaching and that she would soon report to the Immortal Emperor and stop watching over Earth, Dormammu had begun to stir.
To avoid being driven off by The Ancient One every time he went to Earth like before.
Dormammu planned to gather more followers, then devour Earth in one fell swoop after The Ancient One went to the Eternal Emperor.
Yet he had not expected that instead of going to Earth to trouble The Ancient One, she would come looking for him herself?!
The Ancient One coming to the Dark Dimension was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Once inside the Dark Dimension, no one could escape his control!
Moreover, The Ancient One had walked right into it herself, at the height of his power!
And most importantly.
The Ancient One seemed to have brought along a young man with fairly decent magical energy.
If he could absorb him, his power would grow even stronger.
Dormammu had no intention of letting such a chance to kill two birds with one stone slip away!
He had intended to trade a few taunts with The Ancient One before attacking, but before he even finished speaking, The Ancient One and her disciple had inexplicably vanished from the Dark Dimension?
Dormammu was completely speechless.
He had just said that the Dark Dimension was not a place where they could come and go as they pleased.
Before his words had even finished, he had been slapped in the face?
They did not give the ruler of the Dark Dimension any respect at all?
They really came whenever they wanted and left whenever they wanted?
Dormammu was extremely frustrated at that moment. Not only frustrated, but also somewhat enraged.
"Ancient One! Kamar-Taj! One day, I will devour all of you with darkness!"
Dormammu was furious.
The entire Dark Dimension trembled.
Chapter 78
Late at night, Kamar-Taj.
The Ancient One was meditating with her eyes closed inside the Sanctum when Wong and Mordo arrived together.
Upon seeing The Ancient One, the two bowed. "Sorcerer Supreme."
The Ancient One slowly opened her eyes, her face unusually solemn.
"Do you know why I called you here?"
Mordo and Wong exchanged a glance and shook their heads.
The Ancient One's thoughts were as unfathomable as her abilities. Ordinary people could not casually guess them.
"Today, I had Zhang Yang practice Teleportation Magic. He meditated in my Sanctum for five hours and achieved a breakthrough." The Ancient One revealed the answer.
It would have been better if she had not revealed it. Once she did, Wong and Mordo both felt a sourness in their hearts.
They were indeed bitter.
Bitter beyond words.
Was Zhang Yang relying on his talent to do whatever he pleased now?!
Outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!
How long had he even been at Kamar-Taj?
Even if they rounded up, it had only been a dozen or so days, yet he had already broken through in Teleportation Magic?
Mordo and Wong were both bitter and angry.
Magic only grew harder the further one progressed, especially when trying to break through a bottleneck.
Some people could be stuck there for a lifetime.
Yet Zhang Yang had broken through after meditating for five hours.
Pah!
Monster!
Forcing up the corners of his mouth, Mordo barely managed an auntie-like smile.
Mordo: "That truly is wonderful news. [It's simply infuriating! He's leaving no way for the other sorcerers of Kamar-Taj to survive!]"
Mordo: "Our junior brother has great comprehension, so that's only natural. [That is absolutely not comprehension a normal person should possess. There's definitely something wrong with this bastard!]"
"..." The Ancient One said, "You don't need to force yourself."
With a sigh, The Ancient One continued, "It is indeed good news. Why don't you two outstanding sorcerers guess how far he has progressed?"
Outstanding?
Please, do not say that. They were truly ashamed by comparison.
Mordo frowned. "Could it be that Zhang Yang can now teleport to other planets?"
Wong shook his head. "Senior Brother, guess more boldly. I estimate that Zhang Yang can now teleport without limit through Other-Dimensional Space!"
The Ancient One shook her head. "Combined with the Tesseract's power, he can now teleport across dimensions."
Wong: ...
Mordo: ...
What a beast!
Even Mordo could not yet teleport across dimensions. Zhang Yang was practically grinding the faces of every sorcerer in Kamar-Taj into the ground!
"With the Tesseract empowering him, and with Junior Brother's talent being so exceptional, it is only natural." Though jealousy filled his heart, Mordo still wore a strained smile.
"Mm." The Ancient One nodded, then her expression suddenly changed. "Today, he took me into Dormammu's Dark Dimension."
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