While the outside world grew increasingly heated over Jiang Xiang's remarks...
The Himalayas.
Kamar-Taj.
Jiang Xiang and the Ancient One, who had returned from her trip, sat facing each other over tea.
Meanwhile, Kamar-Taj had become much livelier.
Many unfamiliar faces had appeared among the sorcerers on the vast training grounds.
These sorcerers had returned from dimensional campaigns or assignments maintaining spell formations.
The sorcerers from the Three Sanctums had also been returning one after another.
"I've settled everything with the Vishanti Dimension. It will have no further dealings with Kamar-Taj. Once your dimension expands, you can lend your power to the sorcerers."
Jiang Xiang lending his power to Kamar-Taj's sorcerers was one of the futures the Ancient One had seen most often.
In a fully developed, vast dimension, becoming a Dimension Lord would gradually erode one's humanity, drawing one's personality toward the nature of the dimension's energy.
Dormammu, the Dimension Lord of the Dark Dimension, was an excellent example.
Dormammu had originally been a sorcerer from Blue Star.
In pursuit of power and immortality, he had entered the Dark Dimension through a chance encounter and become its Dimension Lord.
In truth, however, the Ancient One strongly suspected that mature dimensions were traps.
Who knew whether such vast dimensions already had masters?
The Ancient One had observed smaller dimensions, even newly born ones.
She had discovered that after a dimension came into being, the creatures born alongside it would generally acquire its power little by little.
Then they would become its Dimension Lord.
That meant there was no reason for those fully developed dimensions to let outsiders become their Dimension Lords.
It was from that point onward that the Ancient One had begun to be wary of ancient dimensions such as the Vishanti Dimension.
Although they had always helped Blue