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After magically manipulating the King of Wakanda for the sake of what I considered was best for the world in the great scheme of things, I was left alone to think, but when that usually turned into a self-doubt session of me questioning myself for what I had done, so I started to change my focus, burning all my alone time doing dungeons.
You see, the problem was when I was alone when I had nothing but time to think, no matter how much I tried, my mind would go there, perhaps it was because it was recent, and it would remain at the top of my mind for a bit because of that, but I hate it.
So, the only way to erase such a difficult situation was by occupying myself, yes, I know it was at best a temporary solution, but for now, it would do.
Besides, doing dungeons was proving a good emotional excuse to avoid facing my feelings, I mean, most people drink to avoid dealing with their emotions and their mistakes, but me? I do dungeons, I level up while neglecting the voice in my head that makes me feel bad.
Again, I know this is by no means a healthy path, but I just wanted peace, at least for a bit.
[LEVEL UP!]
I grinned at the notification that brought me out of my long reverie, I was finally in the one hundred seventies, which was amazing, at this pace I would surpass Thor's level before the events of Iron Man begin, reaching the three hundreds with ease.
Well, that was if I continued doing four to six dungeons a day.
But the question was… would that be enough to face Thanos? I had no idea how strong the Mad Titan was, which made my entire mission to stop his possible snap all the more impossible, perhaps soon it would be time to travel the cosmos on the quest of gathering information.
[New Quest Created: The Secrets of the Cosmos! And the Predators that Lurk Within!
Description: You alone know what is to come, but what can you do about it, how can a man prepare if he doesn't know how strong his enemy is? Well, the answer is simple, to prepare you must reach the skies, and find what you can about the Threats that will hold the universe to its knees.
Objective: Investigate in the ever-expanding universe about the predators that lurk in the cosmos, some of them are free, others are imprisoned, but all are very much alive and waiting for the time to strike.
Investigate about Hela 0/100%
Investigate about Thanos 0/100%
Investigate about Knull 0/100%
Investigate about Kang 0/100%
Investigate about Mephisto 0/100%
Investigate about Galactus 0/100%
Failure: Death, The Gate, Enslavement of both body and soul.
This quest has a 10-year timer.
Rewards: ?????????]
Knull, Kang, Mephisto, Galactus, Hela, so Thanos is literally the least of my concerns… "I almost wish I didn't get this quest," I sighed, looking at the quest, heck it even had a timer, that's new, the failure consequences are weird though, what is the Gate supposed to mean? I will get killed or turn into one?
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[Unknown POV]
In his pocket dimension, Alex trained day and night, to avoid the voices of his consciousness eating him away. Mortals rarely learned, no matter how long it takes, their choices good or bad, always come back to them.
But I suppose, this was the only way, for what was to come would forge the man he was destined to become. After all, he had no choice, he had been chosen.
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[Emily Walker POV]
Daddy was sad, I had no idea why, but he was sad, I knew that I could tell, how he would smile just to pretend, how his laughs would feel somewhat empty, so I had to take manners into my own hands, I would not allow daddy to be sad, I refused that!
"So, what are we doing again?" Nat asked with a sigh, rubbing her eyes in a tired fashion.
"We are going to bake!" I declared with a smile.
"It's 3 am in the morning," Nat replied with a yawn.
"Nat, do you want me to show you the graphs again?" I said, threatening to show her my 201-page long graph presentation with detailed information about Daddy's emotional state?!"
"No, but if you hadn't shown me the presentation, we would've been here four hours ago," Nat rolled her eyes, "Fine let's bake cakes," she smiled.
"We will bake a cake for each letter of his name!" Ten cakes, to show our love!
"Can we use your magic?" Nat asked, and I gasped, how could she ask that, I mean, yes I could, but where would be the love in that?!
"I will not even justify that with a response!" I huffed.
"Fine… ten cakes the old-fashioned way," Nat chuckled.
"Good, now let's start!" I declared, ready to enter the next phase of my plan, learning how to make cakes, I mean, I knew how to make cookies, how hard could it be?
[Three hours later]
"Why is that cake on flames, we haven't even baked it!" Nat shouted as she ran towards the flaming cake with the fire extinguisher.
"I don't know!" I cried as I was painfully forced to slay one of my cakes that had become sentient because of a magical surge that came from me when things started to go south.
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[Alex Walker POV]
I was happily sleeping in my bed, when all of the sudden, a flamming cake came running into my room, followed by Nat with a fire extinguisher. A single thought came to me, as I saw Nat kill the living cake.
What. In. The. Actual. Fuck!?
"Sorry, dad, problems with… ok, I don't have a lie prepared for this, so I will go ahead and walk away and hope you think this is a dream…" With that said, Nat left back to the Kitchen, where I could hear Emily screaming.
"What in the actual fuck?" I muttered.
"They wanted to bake you some cakes," Bucky answered as he came into my room. "Don't worry, I've been keeping an eye on them."
"Hm," I chuckled, "So… how come a cake came running into my room? Are my daughters playing God out there?"
"Magic and baking powder apparently don't mix," Bucky shrugged his shoulders.
"DIE YOU UNHOLY TIRAMISU DIE!" That was Nat.
"I made you! And I can unmake you!" That was Emily.
"Huh, should I be worried they sound bloodthirsty?" I hummed.
"Is there such a thing as a woman without a bloodthirsty side?" Bucky snorted.
"Touche," I nodded, going back to sleep, tomorrow I would call someone to repair whatever they broke, for now, I would sleep.
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Christmas was right around the corner, making this the first official Christmas with Natasha in my life. The preparations for the celebrations were under Fury, who had offered to organize the entire thing, as for me, same as always, grinding some exp.
My plan was to leave earth after new year's eve, I wanted to finish the quest I had obtained a few weeks ago as soon as possible.
So, I had set the date to start the quest after new year's eve, leaving the girls with Bucky.
The quest in question was an eluding manner, where to start? Where to begin? The quest in questions was hard, for in it there were beings I had to investigate that I had no idea about.
Yes, I had read about Knull and Kang, but very little, my knowledge about them was very lacking in substance, meaning finding information about them was a matter I had no idea how to tackle with.
Perhaps the Ancient One would know where to begin.
"You seem distressed," That voice, the Ancient One, God I hate it when she does that, I should put a bell on her.
"Can you for once use the door?" I asked with a sigh, as I turned around to face her.
"Where's is the fun in that?" The Ancient One smiled a mischievous smile.
"I hate you sometimes," I sighed again, rolling my eyes at her.
Ignoring my annoyance, the Ancient One approached, taking a seat in front of me with a chair she made out of magic, "So, what has you distressed, my friend?"
"What do you know about Knull?" I asked, it was worth the shot.
"You are treading in dangerous waters," The Ancient's One tone got suddenly dark and borderline scary, for the first time since I had met her, she sounded angry, and maybe scared.
"If you don't want to answer, I can understand," I replied after I recovered from my initial shock.
The Ancient One stared at me, her eyes showing a turmoil of emotions when suddenly she said, "I don't know much about Knull, Odin would know more, but what I know is that he is something you don't want to mess with, he is the end of things, and the bringer of darkness, a being with no remorse, only hate."
"I see," I nodded.
"You already knew that," The Ancient One muttered.
I looked at her, seeing her surprised expression set in.
"You truly are an anomaly," The Ancient One sighed with a faint smile, "You know things beyond your years. I wonder, just who truly are you, Mr. Walker,"
I eyed her and chuckled, "A man trying not to die?" I offered.
"Haha, I suppose that is true," The Ancient One giggled at my response. "Tell me something, is this new interest of yours a danger to our existence?"
"No," I shook my head, "I just know that there are threats out there that we need to prepare,"
"I suppose we are more similar than I originally thought," The Ancient One smiled, handing me a book she apparated from out of nowhere, "Learn the spells this book holds, once you have mastered this book, and its contents, come back to me, you will then find the answers you seek, for you will venture where even I haven't dared to,"
I eyed the book, [Book of Cagliostro] then I turned my attention back to the Ancient One. "Thanks,"
"Don't thank me yet, Mr. Walker, for this path you are taking, could very well kill you, and then you would curse me for helping you," With that said, she teleported out of the room, leaving me with the [Book of Cagliostro]
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[Odin Borson POV]
I eyed Yao as she teleported back into her office, where I was waiting for her. "You sure want to do that?"
Yao turned and chuckled, "He will find his answers one way or another, why not help him?"
I chuckled, "I suppose that is one way to tackle a situation, but for you to give that stone? I never thought I'd see the day."
Yao smiled, "I'm not giving him the stone, I'm just lending him the stone for a bit,"
"I know," I sighed, "But time projection? Are you sure, he could die,"
"I know, and when he finishes that book I gave him, he will know too," Yao sighed, taking a seat, "The only way for him to find his answers without destroying himself is this."
"And who will protect him while he does that, you know as well as I do, he will defenseless while he does that," I added.
"He will meet a few interesting individuals, so don't worry," Yao answered as cryptic as always.
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[The Ancient One POV]
Time projection, the power of sending one's consciousness back in time, it's like dreaming, but you're aware of what is happening, however unlike most dreams you are not in your body, in fact, possess the body of someone connected to you in the past, while on this state, you can change things, but the absolute points in time remain the same if the person you possessed was supposed to kill someone, and you refuse, that person would still die by your hands, with the body going back to autopilot, meaning what you could change was very little, and with how time works, non-important as it would eventually be washed away.
This mystic art is dangerous, for if you die in the past, you die for real, even if the events of the past continue as they were meant to be, your death will remain, that is the one fact time projection can change.
With this power, Alex would find the answers he wanted, and perhaps he would also understand his origins.
I could only hope.
I wonder how will he react when he finds out, he has familiar ties in this universe he once called foreign, I could only wait for his reaction.
"I hope you are ready to unveil the mystery of your own existence, Mr. Walker," I smiled, for things were about to get mildly interesting.
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