Chapter 252 Wayne Council
As for his relationship with Ancient One, Bruce believes that it is just average and they have only met a few times.
But Katum is different.
As soon as they arrived at Kamar-Taj, the owl couldn't wait to fly onto Ancient One's shoulder and touched her bald head with its wings.
"Why don't you grow your hair?"
Katum said with some regret in his tone, "Is there something you can't tell me? Tell me, I can help you find a remedy later."
Ancient One smiled slightly and was not angry at what the owl said.
On the contrary, she reached out and scratched Katum's belly, jokingly saying, "You are getting fatter and fatter."
"I'm not fat, it's your hands that have gotten smaller."
Katum shook his head. "Okay, let's stop talking. I have something serious to talk to you about."
Gu Yi still had a smile on her face. She had long known the character of the owl and would not come to her for no reason.
Turning to look at the other side, she had known Bruce for a long time and believed she knew his background well.
But the other red-haired girl is a bit interesting.
Just seeing Wanda for a moment, countless scenes flashed before Ancient One's eyes.
The scene in the light and shadow is still Kamar-Taj, but the Sorcerer Supreme is no longer herself, nor even her chosen successor Strange, but the current Librarian King.
Strange was standing next to the king, but his aura was suppressed.
Then, Kamar-Taj beat the drum of summons, and all the apprentices picked up their magic weapons. The guardians of the three supreme sanctuaries gathered together and opened a huge protective formation, just to stop one enemy -
A witch floating in the sky, emitting a dark aura.
Scarlet Witch, Wanda.
Gu Yi saw the following scenes.
Under Wanda's evil magic, the weak-willed apprentice was bewitched, the formation was breached, Wanda easily released chaos magic, distorted reality, and the guardians were eliminated one by one...
Kamar-Taj, total destruction!
Gu Yi blinked, and his thoughts returned to reality. The face of the little red-haired girl and the scarlet female devil in the predicted picture gradually overlapped.
It’s just that Wanda is still too immature now.
The future Wanda looks... more maternal.
"Oh! Hello, little girl."
Ancient One showed no signs of being unusual and greeted Wanda cordially.
Wanda looked at the bald woman in front of her. Somehow, even though she did nothing, Wanda felt a sense of resistance from the bottom of her heart.
I don't want to get too close to Ancient One.
Katum sensed a strange atmosphere between the two, and without needing to say anything, he guessed the reason.
Ancient One should have seen what Wanda will do in the future.
This is a long story, but in short, Wanda wants to find her two imaginary children and gain the ability to travel through the multiverse, but the key figure in the travel is protected by Kamar-Taj, and in the end the two sides fight, and Wanda alone wins the story of Kamar-Taj.
The bottom line is that Wanda is crazy about being a mother.
Kamar-Taj was just unlucky enough to bear this wrath.
For this outrageous reason, the atmosphere between Ancient One and Wanda is certainly impossible to be harmonious.
only--
Why is Ancient One always looking at Bruce intentionally or unintentionally?
Is this some weird misunderstanding?
"I think I know what you guys want to do."
Gu Yi did not point out what she saw, but went straight to the point and told Bruce why he came.
As the Supreme Sorcerer and the owner of the artifact Eye of Agamotto, she often sees things that many people cannot see.
"I'll help you. It's not difficult."
Ancient One said, "Tony Stark is an important figure in this world. It is my responsibility to retrieve his soul."
Katum's eyes lit up: "That's great! Get started!"
However, after hearing these words, Gu Yi shook his head slightly.
"Don't be happy so early. I have conditions."
"What conditions?" Katum asked.
Ancient One paused for a moment, his eyes resting on Bruce's face, and after a while he said, "Come with me."
After saying that, she stood up and walked into the inner room.
Katum flew after him, and Bruce and Wanda had no idea what was going on, so they had no choice but to follow.
Passing through the dark corridors of the Kamar-Taj monastery, Ancient One and his team stopped in front of a wooden door.
She stretched out two fingers and drew a seal. Soon, the same seal appeared on the wooden door, outlined by orange lines and faintly glowing.
When Gu Yi finished drawing the seal, the seal on the door shattered by itself.
The wooden door opened automatically.
"come in."
Ancient One greeted him, opened the door and walked in. Bruce followed and discovered that there was a different world inside.
Obviously, this is a collection room for ancient magical instruments, which contains various magical items, including armor, battle axes, scrolls... a dazzling array.
Some of the magical instruments were covered in dust, obviously having not been touched for a long time.
This also indirectly shows that even the cleaning staff of Kamar-Taj will not enter this secret room.
Bruce saw a round stone platform in the center of the room.
The stone platform was not big, and Bruce felt he could move it.
Above the stone platform, a feather was hanging in the air, slowly leaping up and down.
"It's an owl feather!"
Katum only took one look and came to his conclusion.
He is an owl expert and can tell whether it is an owl feather at a glance.
"As expected of you, you have such keen observation skills."
Gu Yi said calmly, her tone was extremely calm, so calm that Katum couldn't tell for a moment whether Gu Yi was praising him or insulting him.
"It is indeed an owl feather."
Ancient One reached out, took the feather in his hand, and handed it to Katoom, asking him to take a closer look.
Katum saw the problem as soon as he saw it.
"and many more……"
The owl frowned with an expression of extreme disgust. "It smells like a strange magical alchemy. This is not a naturally formed feather. It is a man-made product!"
"You're right."
Gu Yi took the feather back and said, "Not only that, you have actually seen the owner of this feather."
Seen it?
At this moment, Bruce immediately thought of an existence.
The zombie owl Mutuka, along with the reincarnated bat Slub, turned into spirits and are now missing.
"Where did you get this?"
Bruce was really curious and couldn't help but ask.
“This is actually an interesting question, because I don’t know how to answer you.”
Ancient One said, "I do have a memory of how I got this feather, but my intuition tells me that this memory is a bit strange, as if it was forced in by someone."
Force memory?
Bruce couldn't help but glance at Katoom.
In fact, this is not impossible. Bruce and Katum have both done similar things, inserting personalities into other people's minds.
But such experience obviously cannot be applied to the present.
After all, the person whose memory was tampered with was the Supreme Sorcerer Ancient One, the most powerful being on Earth today. Who can change her memory?
"Then have you found out the reason?" Katum confirmed with Ancient One, "Is it a simple illusion, or has someone really tampered with your memory?"
"I do have some ideas, but they are just guesses."
Ancient One said, "Have you ever heard of the ability called 'dream walking'?"
Dream walking?
When he first heard the term, Katum was a little confused. After thinking about it for a while, he remembered where he had heard of this term.
Actually, it’s also in Doctor Strange 2.
The so-called dream walking is actually an ability to synchronize consciousness, synchronizing one's own consciousness with another self in the multiverse. When the synchronization reaches a certain level, it can even completely take over another person's body.
Why did Ancient One suddenly mention this?
"and many more--"
Katum suddenly realized something, an important setting about dream walking.
The object of walking in a dream does not necessarily have to be a living person.
Even if the multiverse self is dead, as long as there is a corpse left, it can be controlled synchronously!
This is how the zombie Doctor Strange came into being!
If you think about it carefully, isn’t a reincarnated bat also a zombie?
It's just that the production process is more sophisticated, so except for the stitches on his body, he looks no different from a normal person.
"Master Ancient One, you don't mean to say that the extra memory in your brain comes from the Ancient One in another universe, right?"
"Isn't that very possible?"
Ancient One said, "Perhaps there really is a self in some universe who encountered a problem that he couldn't solve, so he sent this feather here."
For a moment, Katum didn't know whether he should say the next words.
Dream walking is not a serious magic.
That is the magic recorded in the "Dark Book", which is completely opposite to the "Book of Vishanti" worshipped by Kamar-Taj.
Speaking of which, the Darkhold was written by Sithoven, the god of black magic, and Wanda's chaos magic also came from Sithoven.
This is also the reason why Wanda rejected Ancient One from the bottom of her heart.
Bruce had been listening nearby and was a little confused at this point.
He interrupted the conversation between Katoom and Ancient One and asked the most crucial question: "Master Ancient One, regardless of the strangeness of this feather, didn't you bring us here because you wanted us to do something?"
Bruce had been here for quite some time, but still hadn't received Ancient One's request.
"Hold on, I was just about to say it."
Ancient One motioned Bruce to be patient, and then said, "In fact, ever since this feather appeared beside me at some point, I have been studying its peculiarities. I have finally made some progress, but now I am stuck again, and it is impossible for me to make any further progress on my own."
"So?" Bruce asked.
"So I hope you can help me with this."
Gu Yi looked at Bruce. She had been talking for so long just for this moment.
The reason that stuck in her research was not anything else, but the soul on the feather.
"Horcrux, that's what you call it, right?"
Ancient One said this word. Just now in the hall, Katum described the existence and characteristics of the Horcrux to her, hoping that Ancient One would pay attention and help find it.
When he heard those characteristics, Gu Yi thought of this feather.
The second Horcrux appeared before Katoom unexpectedly.
Unexpected, but reasonable, Katum had even thought of this possibility a long time ago.
Since Voldemort could use the giant snake Nagini beside him as a Horcrux, why couldn't the reincarnated bat use the owl beside him as a Horcrux?
Not only that, Katoom could even think of who the third Horcrux might be.
It's Bruce Wayne beside him.
Just like Harry and Voldemort, Bruce and the reincarnated bat, they also have a relationship of fateful rivals.
Of course, this is just a possibility.
The reincarnated bat didn't have the chance to attack Bruce and transform him into a Horcrux...
and many more!
Katum's eyes suddenly widened, and he thought of the topic he had just talked about with Ancient One, dream walking!
If I use this kind of black magic, I can send something into Bruce's body even across a universe!
Of course, the prerequisite for doing this is to first find a multiverse equivalent of Bruce.
This is obviously difficult...
?
"Um……"
Katum held his chin in his hand and thought, aren't there Batman's equivalents all over DC?
Just grab a few as consumables, it's easy.
"It seems you guys realize it."
Ancient One twirled the feather in his hands, then raised it and pointed it at Bruce.
"It was not long ago that I discovered that the shapes of Bruce's souls and this feather are somewhat similar."
"How are they similar?" Bruce asked with a frown.
"Similar enough that you can use this key."
Ancient One suddenly approached Bruce and placed the feather in Bruce's hand.
The next second, Bruce felt a resonance from deep within his body, the feather began to dance in his hand, and a space crack suddenly tore open in the void, appearing in front of everyone.
Wanda was stunned for a moment.
She had just been standing there doing nothing. After all, there was really no fun watching a bald woman and an owl chirping.
Later, Bruce joined the conversation and left her aside, which made her feel isolated and uncomfortable.
But things are different now.
She had no idea what was happening, but she saw a crack that only existed in science fiction movies open up in front of her.
Not only that, Wanda also felt an extremely familiar energy emanating from the gap.
"Chaos magic!"
Wanda exclaimed, "This gap has the power of chaos magic!"
"Really?" Gu Yi looked deep into the gap with a very solemn expression.
Bruce pinched the feather between two fingers, thinking back to what had just happened, and roughly figured out the reason.
This feather is an extremely special magic item.
What exactly is it?
It's a portkey.
A portkey that was transformed into a Horcrux, capable of traveling across the multiverse.
Logically speaking, the moment a person touches the door key, they will be teleported to the set destination, but traveling through the universe is obviously much more complicated, so only one channel can be opened.
"What's on the other side of the door?" Bruce heard Wanda ask.
Then came Katum's answer, not caring whether the little girl could understand him or not: "I don't know, maybe hell."
"No, not hell!"
At this time, Bruce turned the feather in another direction.
There, there was a line of words engraved deep in the soul of the Horcrux, which only he could see -
"To Wayne Parliament."
(End of this chapter)
