Nuclear-Level Clash! Dormammu Snatches His Man!

"Impossible! That's absolutely impossible!"

Kaecilius roared like an enraged beast.

"You've only been training for half a month! How can you be beating me?!"

He flung both hands forward. Two enormous, transparent Space Blades crossed through the air toward Raine, threatening to tear apart everything in their path.

The blades had yet to arrive.

But their razor-sharp spatial shockwaves had already gouged two bottomless trenches into the ground.

Even the Hulk's nearly indestructible body would have been cut to pieces by that terrifying strike.

Yet Raine did not so much as blink.

He faced the lethal attack without raising an eyelid.

Hum!

The four Rings of Raggadorr circling him reacted instantly, like sharks catching the scent of blood.

They joined together in midair, forming a massive dark-red shield.

Boom!

The spatial shockwaves slammed into the shield in a burst of dazzling sparks, but Raine did not budge.

"Master Kaecilius, it seems you're beyond saving."

Raine stared coldly at the man before him.

A nauseating black-purple aura poured from every part of Kaecilius's body.

It writhed like living serpents, desperately trying to burrow into Raine.

But Raine's powerful mind and magical shield kept every last tendril out.

Even the Space Blade in Kaecilius's hand was covered in strange black markings and radiated an evil aura.

"Master!"

Raine let out a long sigh. "You once taught me generously."

"So today, I'll make it quick."

The instant he finished speaking, magical power erupted from his body!

"Vishanti's Holy Sword!"

Hum—!

A two-meter-long holy greatsword condensed in his hand, blazing with dazzling platinum light.

Countless sacred Runes drifted down around the blade like snowflakes, purifying every trace of darkness that tried to draw near!

Kaecilius's pupils contracted. At last, naked terror showed on his face.

"You monster!!"

He could not understand it.

How many days had it been?!

The terrifying density of energy in Raine's holy sword surpassed what Kaecilius had achieved after years of grueling practice!

Hell, even the Ancient One herself couldn't do much better!

The holy greatsword came down toward his head.

Kaecilius dared not take it lightly. His hands flew through a frantic series of signs.

Boom!

An enormous, impossibly thick Magic Shield appeared above his head.

Seraphim Shield!

Kamar-Taj's ultimate spell, famed as its strongest defense against a single attack!

During the future Battle of New York, Doctor Strange would use this very spell to withstand a crashing spaceship!

But Raine's gaze did not waver. Gripping the hilt with both hands, he brought the sword down without mercy!

BOOM—!!!

A deafening explosion echoed through the Mirror Dimension!

The two devastating forces collided as though a small nuclear bomb had detonated on the spot.

A huge mushroom cloud rose into the air.

The terrifying shockwave tore the Mirror Dimension Raine had set up to pieces.

Raine waved a hand.

A gale swept away the billowing dust.

A horrifying crater more than ten meters across had appeared in the ground.

At the bottom lay Kaecilius.

Covered in blood, his mage robes blown to rags, he sprawled there like a dead dog, barely breathing.

Raine walked to the edge of the crater, his face expressionless.

Another transparent Space Blade formed in his hand.

"Master, if you get another life, remember to choose the right boss."

With that, Raine swung for Kaecilius's neck without a moment's hesitation.

Showing mercy to a puppet thoroughly brainwashed by the Dark Dimension would be reckless with his own life.

Hum!

Just as the Space Blade was about to slice through Kaecilius's throat, something unexpected happened!

An intensely black-purple barrier appeared around Kaecilius out of thin air and stopped Raine's killing blow.

The barrier flickered violently under the strike and was driven deep into the earth, but it held.

Then a black spatial rift seething with boundless evil split open beneath Kaecilius. Like the gaping maw of an abyss, it swallowed him whole.

"Dormammu!"

Raine spat the name through gritted teeth.

Clearly, Dormammu was unwilling to give up the guide he had worked so hard to cultivate on Earth. He had reached across dimensions to snatch Kaecilius away himself!

"You think you can just take him from me here?!"

A fierce light flashed in Raine's eyes.

He brought his hands sharply together before his chest.

Two violent currents of energy, one red and one white, converged in an instant.

He forced them into a sphere of energy etched with openwork patterns, its aura threatening to destroy everything around it.

"Chaos Orb!"

"You're not getting away!"

Raine roared and thrust both hands forward.

The raging Chaos Orb streaked like a meteor toward the closing black rift.

BOOM—!!!

This explosion was ten times more terrifying than the last!

The Chaos Orb detonated at the edge of the spatial rift.

Blinding light swallowed the entire Mirror Dimension!

Crack... crack...

The grating sound of shattering glass rang rapidly through the void.

Under Raine's relentless, nuclear-scale assault, the High-Order Mirror Dimension Kaecilius had constructed finally collapsed completely!

The spatial barriers broke apart like shattered mirrors, pieces peeling away in sheets.

As for the Kamar-Taj buildings projected inside the Mirror Dimension, the blast left not even ashes behind.

At the same time, in the real Kamar-Taj, the ground shook violently beneath everyone's feet.

It felt as though the entire Himalayas were swaying.

"What's happening?!"

"An earthquake! Run!"

Dozens of unsuspecting apprentices and mages rushed out of their rooms in terror, and chaos erupted across the square.

Fortunately, Wong, Mordo, and several other senior mages reacted quickly. They cast spells to calm the crowd and barely brought the situation under control.

But their faces were growing paler by the second.

They exchanged glances and saw the same profound fear in one another's eyes.

The apprentices did not know, but the senior mages understood perfectly.

This was no damn earthquake!

An unimaginably powerful force had smashed the Mirror Dimension covering Kamar-Taj, sending tremors through space in the real world!

Across the entire Earth, who could cause a disturbance on this scale?

Who else but the Ancient One?!

Meanwhile, Raine, the culprit behind the great quake, had dusted himself off and slipped back into his completely intact dormitory as though nothing had happened. He sat cross-legged on his bed again and pretended to meditate.

At the other end of Kamar-Taj, Lucian, a fellow apprentice who had started alongside Raine, sat slumped on the ground. He gasped for breath, his clothes soaked with cold sweat.

A moment ago, he had been about to return to his dormitory to rest.

Then, without warning, the air behind him had split open in a terrifying, web-like crack!

If he had not reacted quickly and thrown himself into an ungainly roll, the violent spatial turbulence would have minced him by now!

Still shaken, Lucian climbed to his feet and brushed the dirt from his clothes.

From the square came the apprentices' cries of "Earthquake!"

"Earthquake, my ass!"

Lucian could not help cursing.

Generations of Sorcerers Supreme had reinforced Kamar-Taj's spatial nexus countless times.

Forget an earthquake—even if Mount Everest collapsed on the spot, not a speck of dust would fall here!