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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.


Chapter 102: CHAPTER 101

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With my new plan in motion, I started to do more dungeons than ever before, heck, it had gotten to the point where I was doing it in a mathematically time-efficient way. Was it fun? No, god no, it was boring, like playing wow classic as a warrior in early levels, it was exhausting, mind-numbing at times, farming the same mobs, over and over and over again was exhausting, but I wasn't doing this to have fun, I was doing this to become stronger.

But, if I continued like I was doing, I would reach level 220, by the start of the year 1997.

At least according to my calculations.

Meaning, this boring, EXTREMELY, boring path, would only take a year.

I mean, it was currently December 1995.

That was if the speed I was farming dungeons didn't slow down, by some unforeseen problems.

"This is boring," I yawned, my strategy was making one of the dungeons close to Canada, that had the most mobs, I would run around the dungeon, get their agro, and create several pillars of fire while stopping their advance with a new skill of mine, [Primal Shout], primal shout only worked with soulless creatures, like the ones in the dungeon, slowing them down by a 200%, which was just slow enough to keep them under the pillars of fire until their demise. 

Doing this for a day would give me around 14.5% of my EXP bar. Meaning, I would get one level a week or so. Four a month, which would roughly help my ass up to level 220, by next year.

"Ok, time to repeat the dungeon, again," I sighed, this dungeon was a few levels below me, but it was the most efficient to farm, dungeons of my level would take hours to complete, tiring me out, and at most I could do a few, but with this boring farming method, I was doing the same dungeon fourteen times a day or more.

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By the end of the day, after another long journey of grinding, I knew I had to find a new way to level up, otherwise, I would end up hating dungeons by the end of the year, this way while efficient was like grinding a knife into my skull.

In an ideal scenario, I would have someone doing the dungeons for me, while I get EXP, but I wasn't sure if I could do that.

Maybe creating golems of some sort? The gamer my powers were based on had them, but he also had a territory, I wonder, can I make a territory.

That was something worth investigating.

I think if I remember correctly, he created his territory after forming an alliance with a guild, meaning by the system itself he had been recognized as a guild or group, giving him RTS privileges.

But unlike the gamer, there were no guilds in this world, unless… the Order of the Crane mother counted, wait, I'm an idiot, The Ancient One runs a guild basically, she's the boss of the Masters of the Mystic Arts, if I sign an alliance with her, perhaps the system will unlock that part as Jihan did.

I mean, it was a stretch, but it was worth the shot, I had nothing to lose, and a lot to gain.

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[The Ancient One POV]

I was teaching Emily how to tap into the mana that surrounded her, the girl had a bright future ahead of her, such power, such innocence, such love, it was funny really, had Strange not been around, I would've picked her to be my successor, but alas, the greatest of us was always destined to be Strange, also, Emily's destiny went beyond these walls.

"I think I got it!" Emily smiled, showing me her remarkable progress, unlike her father, her soul vibrated with the mystic arts, making her a one-of-a-kind prodigy, she would absorb my lessons like no other, it was a teacher's dream.

"Good," I smiled patting Emily on the head, as she tackled me into a hug. "Now, go to your room, and read about illusions and transmutations, I'll test you tomorrow," I winked.

"Another A!" Emily nodded with determination, running towards her room in my temple.

"Three, two, one," I chuckled, and turned around to see Alex coming out of a portal. "Mr. Walker, have you come to talk about the book I gave you?"

"Yeah, not interested in that," Alex replied, giving me the book, how strange, I had not foreseen this, at all. "I actually wanted to check something,"

"Which would be?" I asked, for the first time in a long time, I had no idea where a conversation was going, it was exhilarating, and yet, terrifying.

"I want to make an alliance with your guild," Alex replied, giving me a mountain of paperwork.

"An alliance?" I tilted my head to the side in confusion, "But… we already are allies, Mr. Walker," was he perhaps sick? "Are you okay?" I said, approaching him to inspect his body with magic.

"Yes, I am," He chuckled, though I still scanned his body, just to be sure, and to my surprise, he was okay as he had said. "I just want the Masters of the Mystic Arts to recognize me as a guild, like yours, right now you recognize me as an individual, but I want to be also recognized as an organization,"

"Ok, I'll be honest Mr. Walker, I have no idea what is going on," I replied, this was not at all what I was expecting today.

"I know, I know, it sounds like I am having a mental breakdown," He smiled, then hummed deep in thought, "I might be suffering one, not sure, but the point is, I need you to sign those papers, to test a theory out, worst-case scenario, I wasted ten minutes of your life,"

I looked at the pile of papers and sighed, "I suppose I could, but do be a dear and go make me a tea, if I am to sign all those papers to make the Masters of the Mystic Arts recognize you as a guild, I might as well get something out of it,"

"Of all the things you could've possibly asked, you asked for a tea," He deadpanned.

"Well, I like tea," I shrugged.


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