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Chapter 100: CHAPTER 99

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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.


Chapter 101: CHAPTER 100

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After the Ancient One left, I opened the book she had given me with curiosity. After all, why would the book of Cagliostro answer all of my questions?

Page by page, I started to understand what she had meant by the book would answer all of my questions. The book spoke of theories, spells never fully finished that would in theory allow me to witness the pass itself.

But the spells themselves needed two things, a magical catalyst and a theoretical point to cast the spell.

The theoretical point was nothing more than a location connected to the event you wished to witness, according to the book.

The magical catalyst, well, apparently you had but one of two options, reaching a level of mana never seen before, or have something connected to the flow of time itself.

In this case, the Time Stone.

But why would the Ancient One give me the book if she will never allow me to get the stone?

Unless she intends to make an exception.

Shaking my head, I continued to read the book, with the ten following pages elaborating in-depth about the dangers these spells had.

Apparently, this was not time travel perse, it was more like my dungeons, meaning the time stone alongside the spells would create a pocket dimension to live out the point in time you wanted to see, leaving your physical body in a meditative state, while your astral form would take hold of an NPC that belonged to the story, one that alongside the pocket dimension had been created for the sole purpose of filling every little box. 

It basically operated like my dungeons, but with more narrative and such, also, unlike my dungeons, here I would not be me, I would simply be commanding an NPC, and here laid the danger of this.

If I died there, I would die for real. 

My powers would be limited to what the story wanted me to have, meaning if the NPC had the power of a human, I would be fucked.

Now, this would be okay, if like my dungeons I had the option to escape, but that was not the case, with this time dimensional adventure, I had no other choice but to live the movie, from start to finish, and survive.

The question now was, would the Ancient One really give me the stone for this, and more importantly, would I really risk it?

I guess that when it came to dangers, doing this or going on my way to space to find out would be equally dangerous. Most of the targets I had to investigate were quite above my league, and more than not asking questions about such things leads to confrontations with the groups that follow said names.

Perhaps I was rushing into this, perhaps it would be best to wait, I did after all had time, time to prepare, to get stronger, time I could use to better myself before looking into the abyss.

"Ok," I sighed, closing the book, the idea of being an NPC whose power was bound to the events of that time, and the role he played was not to my liking at all, with my luck, I would get connected to someone weaker, a mere guy that had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"How's the book?" Bucky asked as he came into my office on the second floor of my house, it was a new addition to my house, since Thor fucked the ceiling, I decided to redecorate and rebuild some parts of the house, like the second floor, that now had an office.

"It's…" I paused, "enlightening," I chuckled.

"That bad?" Bucky snorted.

"Well, in theory, the book and the stone could give me the answers I am looking for, and fast, but the dangers are as high as the rewards," I replied eyeing the book, "I think I first need to prepare more, so to speak."

"I know nothing about magic, but more than not sounds like a double-edged sword," Bucky smiled, taking a seat.

"It is when you enter the realm of universal manipulation, like time travel, or such, other than that, magic is quite useful and has almost no drawbacks," I nodded, he had a point, but magic wasn't that bad when you played under the rules of the universe.

"Want my advice?" Bucky asked, tossing me a beer I had just now noticed he had on his hand. 

"Sure," I nodded.

"Find the answers you are looking for by your own means, follow your gut, if you feel something will go wrong on this path, it means something will GO wrong," Bucky replied, taking a sip of his beer. "Sometimes it's best to stick to our guns,"

He had a point, risking my life for answers that could kill me if I made a mistake was not the way to go, for now, I would wait.

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Resolving not to take on the magical path for answers, I started to formulate another plan, one with more chances of success, plan one had been traveling around the cosmos, looking for answers, which in hindsight was stupid, the universe was very big, and it would take me a long time to traverse it.

Plan two had been using magic to get my answers, this plan while faster, was immensely more dangerous. So, with that said, plan three had come to life, which was basically plan one, but on steroids.

For the time being, I would focus on leveling up, my goal? Being able to use the space tone freely, with it, I would assume the universe would open to me, I would know where every planet is, every star, for all, in reality, exists within space.

I mean, this idea was more sound than the others, all I had to do was get forty-nine levels, and I would be able to use the Space Stone, it certainly had fewer risks than the other two plans.

"Time to grind, like a fucking no life," I said, cracking my neck.


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