In truth, the Ancient One's penetrating gaze had been fixed on Anthony all along.
It was not his talent as a sorcerer that interested her, but the bracelet on his left wrist.
The bracelet looked utterly ordinary now, without the slightest fluctuation of energy.
But the Ancient One knew that Mephisto had left it behind.
The Ancient One and Mephisto had actually had relatively few dealings.
Back when the Ancient One was expelling all the faith-based gods and wielders of Dimension Power who remained on Blue Star, Mephisto had kept his head down and rarely caused her any trouble.
The Ancient One had taken a blanket approach to dealing with faith-based gods and wielders of Dimension Power.
Mephisto, however, had not stirred up much trouble.
So the Ancient One had placed him fairly far down her list.
The Ancient One had still been relatively young then, and she had not used the Time Stone much to examine the past and future.
Her methods of purging them had therefore been rather immature.
After she finished dealing with the Dimension Power and faith-based gods at the top of her list,
The Ancient One discovered that other dimensional gods and faith-based gods were beginning to try infiltrating Blue Star.
She realized that simply driving them out would not produce lasting results.
So the Ancient One first contacted the Vishanti Dimension and used the Vishanti's name to deter some of the dimensions.
Later, she worked with Mephisto, promising that the souls of humans who died natural deaths could go to his domain in Hell.
Mephisto would be allowed to operate on Blue Star within certain limits.
In return, Mephisto had to safeguard Blue Star's realm of the dead, preventing other dimensions associated with the dead from meddling with Blue Star.
They renewed their agreement