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Chapter 430: Eliminate Him in Advance?
🕑 Added 2025-11-02 10:58:42 +0000 UTCLeaving the dead star, Thor naturally returned to Asgard with Odin. Loki, however, returned to Earth with Noah and Ancient One. This guy was still eager to continue studying Noah's magic and certainly wouldn't leave so soon. Odin had no objection, as it was a good thing for Loki, and besides, he now had to return and deal with the headache of the spatial portals Noah and his companions had opened.
Odin had already heard Noah's story, but neither he nor Ancient One had much interest in it. While they believed it was best not to interfere with others, especially when a parallel universe's future was reflected in this one due to certain special reasons, arbitrarily changing things didn't seem like a good idea either. For example, if the future of their own world were known to others, and then those others came and meddled with it. If it was for the better, that would be fine, but if it was for the worse, that would be a huge problem.
Noah broke out in a cold sweat hearing their explanation. He really wanted to tell them not to overthink it; this world was already unrecognizable. Even without Noah's meddling, this world would probably be unrecognizable anyway... Of course, Noah wouldn't say these things; such matters were best known only to him.
As for other outsiders? Noah thought there probably wouldn't be any besides himself. After all, the gates of this world were truly tightly locked; it wasn't easy for others to enter. Unless one reached a terrifying level of power, or like Noah, held the "key," no one else could casually enter or exit. And with so many parallel universes, a different outcome every single second would create a brand new timeline, splitting into different parallel universes. Therefore, Noah didn't care too much.
Perhaps in the future, Tony Stark would be the only one who could use science to achieve fixed-point time-parallel universe travel?
Well, of course, there were exceptions, like Mr. Bruce Banner, who came to his world and didn't have such good luck.
"To be honest, everyone in the comics is crazy, and the Ultimate Universe keeps getting beaten and rebooted, which is depressing enough. But it's hard for them to find their way here. This place is the movie universe, and there hasn't been any blackening or anything."
After a trip to Kamar-Taj with Ancient One, Noah was scolded again. But Noah could tell that Ancient One's tone was more filled with worry, because no one knew what those light screens behind the parallel universes were like, or how dangerous they were. This question probably couldn't be answered even by Odin. Although he had experienced that era, for some unknown reason, these parallel world light screens gradually began to close later on. Therefore, he couldn't understand everything, at most only knowing some relatively safe places.
"Even if you really want to go see, it's best to listen to His Majesty Odin."
"Of course, I won't take risks either."
Noah naturally gave his assurance. Indeed, he didn't plan to take risks casually anymore unless he understood whether the other side was dangerous. This time, Noah was lucky to go to a Star Wars world where, although the power was strong, the people there had, for some special reason, divided this power into two. "The Star Wars world isn't dangerous, but I think I should still be more careful in the future. What if I accidentally go to a world with nine dragons pulling a coffin? I think I'd just kill myself."
Noah shook his head, no longer dwelling on it. With this return from his trip, Noah could sense that there were also many light screens within Earth. However, these light screens were very well hidden and their energy was not strong. If Noah hadn't visited a parallel universe and his physical quality hadn't been changed by the Space Stone, plus the fact that he held the Space Stone, he might not have been able to sense them at all.
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Leaving Ancient One's room, Noah took Loki for a stroll around Kamar-Taj. He hadn't talked much with Ancient One because she wasn't very interested in topics like 'the use of the Force' or 'scientific technology.' She did, however, instruct Noah to further research the Isu's energy manipulation techniques.
She herself had made great progress, and although Ancient One, without a system, certainly couldn't match Noah's progress in research, her speed was truly not slow, at least Noah, the true inventor, dared not utter a single word of complaint.
As for the meditation methods Noah brought back from other worlds and his proposals, Ancient One was more approving. She felt that having such a transitional method to improve the strength of sorcerers, especially the younger ones, was very good. However, Ancient One's attitude towards the Blood Cursed Orcs was quite indifferent. In Ancient One's words: "Why don't you handle such matters yourself? Mordo is in charge of Kamar-Taj now, but he answers to you..."
"So this is where you used to study? And that's your teacher?"
Following behind Noah, feeling the abundant elemental energy in Kamar-Taj, and recalling Ancient One, Loki couldn't help but ask.
"Yes," Noah nodded, then greeted the passing sorcerers before turning to Loki and saying, "Right, it's very nice here, isn't it? And my teacher is very powerful too, right?"
"Far from my father," Loki muttered under his breath, though he kept his eyes on Noah as he spoke. Noah didn't bother to refute that statement too much. For the current stage, the gap indeed validated Loki's "far from."
However, it probably wouldn't be long before Ancient One stood on the same level as Odin.
Noah stroked his chin, ignoring Loki, which surprised Loki, even making him wonder if Noah had changed genders. However, Loki decided to be careful; it was better to shut up voluntarily than to be yelled at to do so.
But as Loki walked, he suddenly noticed Noah, walking beside him, had stopped. Following Noah's furrowed brow, Loki saw a dark-skinned man arguing with someone whose face was painted with... smoky makeup? Well, same difference. They were arguing about something.
"It seems your place isn't so harmonious either," Loki whispered to Noah, teasing him.
"Shut up," Noah glared at him, then walked directly
towards the two. If Mordo and Kaecilius were arguing, Noah felt he should check, regardless of the reason. If Noah were normally in London, he might not have had the chance to witness such a thing, but now that he was back, he naturally wouldn't pretend not to see it.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Mordo hadn't noticed Noah approaching. He was looking at Kaecilius with a cold face.
"What I do is none of your business, Mordo," Kaecilius
said calmly to Mordo. "Though you're now in charge of Kamar-Taj, you can't control me."
"You... don't you know what you're doing? And since I'm in charge of Kamar-Taj, I won't let you just come and go as you please."
"I said, you can't control me."
"Then what about me?"
Just as Mordo and Kaecilius were arguing fiercely, Noah's voice suddenly reached their ears. Both Mordo and Kaecilius paused involuntarily. Then, Mordo became very happy, while Kaecilius's expression turned very ugly.
"Noah, where the hell have you been all this time?" Mordo looked at the approaching Noah with a smile. "Damn it, do you know? For some unknown reason, a bunch of spatial portals appeared a week ago, and we had to close those damn portals, but many small places couldn't be taken care of."
"I know, I know." Noah nodded. How could he not know?
He was the one who caused it! But Noah quickly shook his head. "Loki, Thor, and I left Earth during this time, so I'm not clear. By the way, what's going on here?"
"Is that so? That's too bad. As for here..." Mordo sighed.
"Kaecilius is once again perusing some books that Master forbids, and he even argued with Allen (the librarian)
and beat Allen into the infirmary."
"Is that so?" Noah raised an eyebrow, then turned to
Kaecilius. "Don't you think you've gone too far?"
"Hmph," Kaecilius scoffed, his face not looking good. He could be strong with Mordo, but he truly couldn't be strong with Noah, because Noah was the universally acknowledged heir! As long as Kaecilius remained a Kamar-Taj sorcerer, he had to obey the rules. Noah was clearly someone he couldn't provoke right now.
After coldly staring at Noah for a long time, Kaecilius finally said nothing more and turned to leave. "You're not the Sorcerer Supreme yet, Noah."
"Yes, but I think managing you is no problem," Noah retorted coldly, watching him. To be honest, Kaecilius felt more and more sinister to Noah. And Noah clearly sensed that this guy had the power of the high-dimensional darkness! This forced Noah to take him seriously, especially since the guy now had smoky makeup on his face.
In Kamar-Taj, some people were strictly forbidden from using high-dimensional dark power, and Kaecilius was one of them. Since this guy now possessed high-dimensional dark power, it meant he was probably preparing something. The reason Noah could sense this guy's power was entirely because Noah himself had a pure dark dragon clone. When it came to high-dimensional dark power in all of Kamar-Taj, probably only Ancient One and Noah were most familiar with it.
Silently watching Kaecilius's retreating back, Noah stroked his chin, lost in thought, while Mordo frowned and said, "Kaecilius is getting more and more out of hand. God knows what he'll become."
"Yes, though he's a pathetic man, he's gone astray." Noah nodded, then sighed.
"What do you think we should do?"
"How about? We eliminate him in advance?"
"???"
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