I don't know if Agamotto was too trusting, had a saintly heart, or if Kang the Conqueror had shown him the horrors of the multiverse war.
In the end, Agamotto chose to sacrifice himself to help Kang the Conqueror establish the Sacred Timeline.
Furthermore, it requires the next guardian of the Eye of Agamotto to guarantee that they will never disrupt the timeline.
Because the wars in the multiverse are far too brutal.
The Sorcerer Supreme wasn't stupid either; he gradually realized that this Kang the Conqueror, wasn't after peace at all, but rather to ensure his own rule.
Every branch in the Sacred Timeline is ultimately designed to prevent the emergence of a new Kang the Conqueror.
In other words, everything on every timeline is destined to develop in only one direction. Iron Man may be male or female, and Captain America may be tall or short in different timelines, but everything they do must follow the predetermined script.
If changes occur in the middle, what awaits them is complete erasure—erasure of the characters who caused the branch, erasure of the entire timeline branch.
Now the logic is clear: the timeline's closure occurs a thousand years later precisely because the timeline of the Kang the Conqueror's birth stops before him.
The timeline of the past few thousand years may have been a specific length required for some rule of the closed loop of the Sacred Timeline.
Or perhaps there were resistance fighters who threatened him before; in any case, the Kang the Conqueror created a closed loop, keeping these thousands of years cycling through the timeline.
This conclusion is truly chilling upon closer examination, especially considering the connection between Natasha and the Ancient One.
Have I already looped through this timeline thousands? Tens of thousands of times? Constantly repeating the same life I'm living?
"Wrong?"
The Ancient One suddenly spoke.
"I don't know how many times this timeline has looped, and I have no memory of any previous loops, but this time should be different, because I see that at some point in the future, the timeline will undergo a huge change, and ultimately, it will be the next Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange, who will end all of this!"
" Stephen Strange? Could he be the doctor who performed my surgery? Didn't you say you were going to hand over the position of the next Sorcerer Supreme to Qin?"
Natasha asked curiously.
"That's right. What I just said was all before Qin Xiao appeared, and everything changed after he appeared! I was curious last time why the Time Variance Authority didn't come looking for you. Since you left your little girlfriend here, I suppose you have nothing to hide."
"You don't belong in this timeline, Qin Xiao. Now, we need to have a serious talk. Regarding you, I think we can start with this coffin!"
After the Ancient One finished speaking, Qin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. The system and time travel were his biggest secrets, and he didn't want to tell anyone.
You can't exactly tell them that they're actually a movie made in some other world.
While the laws governing the world may not be like this, and there may be more profound and higher-level explanations, it's too complicated.
But now it seems that I was originally supposed to travel to the Marvel movie timeline, but I might have traveled to the wrong side and ended up on the other side of the Sacred Timeline.
Fortunately, the system was there; otherwise, I might have been stuck in the other half of the loop, going through countless cycles.
Even if you're completely unaware of it, the feeling of being manipulated is very unpleasant.
"Since I was little, I've had a dream that I live in another world..."
Qin Xiao activated his masterful deception mode.
The story recounts the first half of Qin Xiao's life, the origin of the coffin, through a dream narrative. Of course, the system and time travel are omitted, and the narrative is embellished with subtle details, portraying Qin Xiao as someone who endured hardship and humiliation to achieve success and take revenge on that despicable couple.
"And about some things in this world, I know, some things you know that haven't even happened yet."
The Ancient One then asked.
"I only saw these fragments in my dreams; they're hard to piece together!"
Qin Xiao sighed and said with a regretful expression.
The Ancient One smiled. She knew Qin Xiao hadn't told the whole truth, but in her opinion, that was enough.
"The soul is the most wondrous thing in the world. You may have been a soul that traversed that closed loop, or perhaps you received some information from that timeline in some form, and in the process of receiving it, you saw some judgments about the future or the past!"
"So that's how it is. If I hadn't met so many of you, I would have always thought I had delusions!"
Qin Xiao mentally gave the Ancient One a thumbs up.
Well, he's explained himself very clearly.
That's really great.
"And what about this coffin? I can explain it using the concept of a soul, but why did this coffin end up in this timeline?"
Qin Xiao then asked.
"I have no idea!"
The Ancient One shook his head.
"I saw the end of history. This coffin was dug out of the ground and regarded by the people of ancient Europe civilization as a gift from the gods. It was passed down from generation to generation, and then fell into the hands of a fallen nobleman, who sold it to the owner of the castle at the auction."
"However, I suspect that during the timeline transition, there must have been someone or something specifically responsible for deleting certain things. Whether it's a person or an object, they can't just disappear into thin air; there must be some way to completely destroy them. This must be the thing that was missed!"
Qin Xiao nodded noncommittally.
The Ancient One's explanation of the closed timeline is reasonable, but Qin Xiao decided to take some time to go back and check on the coffin.
Qin Xiao was unable to provide any explanation to the Ancient One regarding the issue of the Time Variance Authority.
Because he himself knew nothing.
According to the Ancient One, either the Time Variance Authority has undergone some kind of change, or Qin Xiao is hiding some special factor that even he himself is unaware of.
"I have one last question. Since you saw the future and chose your successor, why did you choose me to be the next Sorcerer Supreme when you saw me?"
This was Qin Xiao's biggest question about the Ancient One.
"Remember what I just said? Only the next Sorcerer Supreme will end all of this!"
"This is the future I foresaw long ago. Stephen Strange was the best of all the Sorcerer Supreme. When the Sacred Timeline shifted, he orchestrated the end of it all. Unfortunately, I was already dead by then!"
"Ever since I obtained the Eye of Agamotto, I've seen my future countless times, and it always ended the same way. But after you came into my life, everything changed. The future began to present countless possibilities, and in most of them, I survived!"
Actually, the initial main plot wasn't that complicated. I made some minor changes, but the overall structure remains the same! I need to revise the outline slightly today! That's three updates for today! Four updates tomorrow! By the way, the Battle of New York storyline is about to begin! Now that the team has been formed, the whole world has to owe the Avengers a favor, right?