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55.89% MARVEL: GAMER PATH / Chapter 164: CHAPTER 160

Chapter 164: CHAPTER 160

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Two weeks after my last talk with the Ancient One about the venture into the quantum realm.

My golem, the one I wanted to send to this mission was ready, it took a bit of preparation, mostly because I wanted the Golem to be as strong as possible, and because I wanted to erase any chance of infection.

Which is why, the golem had a bomb within him, in case the virus existed and was able to propagate to non-living things.

The golem in question was a rock golem, with three skills, [Sight], so that I would be able to see what he was seeing, [Dash] so that he would be able to move fast, and [Voice] so that I would be able to talk through him, I mean, if the virus didn't exist and Janet was okay, I wanted to tell her, she was okay, instead of scaring her with a ten feet tall golem.

As of the moment, the Golem was level 100, which I presumed was more than enough for this mission, and for the worst case scenarios.

After all.

The lower the level, the easier to eliminate if said Golem becomes a threat.

Granted, this was just me thinking of every worst case scenario.

For all I knew, the quantum virus was not a thing here, and I just wasted my time planning around it.

"Well, time to see how she's doing," I sighed, turning around to make a portal, to see Clay, my sentient elemental looking at me, tilting his head, "What up Clay," I waved at him.

He waved at me, carving a smile on his face with one of his fingers.

Creepy, but adorable somehow.

"We'll catch on later, I have things to do," I chuckled, opening a portal to the Ancient One's office.

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I walked through the portal, to find the Ancient One on her desk, working on some papers.

For a few moments, as the portal closed, she seemed to be lost in her work, almost as if in a trance, but before I could announce my presence, she spoke.

"Alex, just in time," 

"For what?" I asked.

"Well, I have been researching about portals for quite a while, and I think I have found what we need," The Ancient One replied, snapping her fingers in a fast motion, sending a wave of magic around her office, that put everything back on it's place, erasing any trace of the mess that few moments invaded her work space.

I smiled, "Well, my golem is also ready," at this, I summoned my golem from my inventory, who spawned in a kneeling position.

"Marvelous," The Ancient One smiled, "Now, let's get started,"

"With the portal? Sure, what do you need?" I asked, taking a seat.

"Well, mostly a supply of mana, I alone can't power this portal, mostly because it's experimental, and we don't have the time to tweak the spell so that it utilizes mana in a efficient manner, so for this draft of a spell, we need two sources of mana, and the space stone," The Ancient One smiled, beaming with happiness.

"You are quite happy," I commented.

"Indeed I am, it's been sometime since I had to make something, from scratch, you have any idea how fun is that?" The Ancient One chuckled, "It brigns me back to my young days, when I actually had to tried, it's not often these days I have to become creative, so for that, I thank you,"

I looked at her, and smiled, happy she was enjoying this, if anything this served as a distraction from what could happen when we opened the portal.

"So, do you need the stone now? Or?" I asked.

"In a moment," The Ancient said, with a wave of her hand, "First we need a bigger room," she added, looking around her office, "My office as it is, won't suffice for the runes I need to carve,"

"I have a few empty warehouses," I offered.

The Ancient One looked at me for a brief moment before she shook her head, "If we take into account the risks of this mission, a warehouse close to… well, any amount of people, it's not the best location to do what we are set to do," she mused, index finger pressed upon her lip, "We need an empty space, not only empty inside, but on the outside,"

She had a point, if the virus existed, and we didn't manage to contain it, well… a populated area was not the best place to start.

Granted, if we didn't manage to stop the virus, and it infected us, it didn't matter where we were, the virus would consume the earth regardless.

"I think I have just the place," The Ancient One announced, breaking me out of my train of thought.

"Where," I asked.

"Follow me," The Ancient One replied, opening a portal to God knows where.

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At the other side of the portal, I checked my map to find out the Ancient One had taken me to Egypt, apparently, we were currently within a pyramid, a very empty one.

"So, we are desecrating someone's tomb?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Goodness, no, this tomb is empty for a purpose," The Ancient One chuckled.

"Which is?" 

"Well, this pyramid was made for situations like this," The Ancient One smiled, pointing at the walls, "Believe it or not, some of the best mages in the earth's history, came from Egypt, granted, their mages didn't excel in raw power, or numbers, but they were particularly good in preparing for the worse, this pyramid was one of those cases,"

Moving my gaze to the walls, I noticed something, runes, a lot of them, tons of them.

"This is a sealing tomb, if our magic changes, even if it's just a little, we will be trapped here, forever," The Ancient One smiled, touching the runes in the walls.

"They made a tomb to seal, people?" I replied.

"Well, of course, in case they needed to stop a powerful being," The Ancient One nodded.

"But… wouldn't we be able to use the space stone to… I don't know leave… in case we get trapped?" While the idea behind a sealing tomb was very cool, I doubted that would be able to stop us, if we became zombies.

"No, after all, you can't use the space stone without energy as a whole," The Ancient One winked, "This pyramid was made to seal mana, life and other energies, on the rare occasion something infected the mage from within, be it an evil god, or a demon. After the tomb seals your energy, the tomb wraps you in many layers of magical linen to trap your body effectively immobilizing you, sealing both your spiritual form and your physical form for all of eternity, after that, there is no escape unless the person in question goes back to normal," She smiled.

All the while, I looked around me thinking, damn, Egyptian Mages were terrifying.


Chapter 165: CHAPTER 161

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After a few hours on the pyramid, all the preparations to open the portal were ready, now it was time to see if they would work, after all, this was all very experimental.

"When I give you the signal, be ready to power the runes I carved," The Ancient One repeated, making sure I remembered her instructions as she walked around the runes, verifying they were all correct.

"Ok," I nodded, ordering my golem, the one I was gonna sent on this mission to stand by my side for the moment being.

I couldn't lie, I was nervous, nervous about the possibilities behind this…  venture, if Janet was a zombie, I would be faced with two options, one, killing her, or two, finding a cure, which would involve god knows what.

In reality, the sad part was, I knew the option I would take, I knew I would kill her if that happened to be the case, but for the sake of my own self, I was kind of lying to myself about other options, just to say I tried while patting myself in the back.

"Are you ready?" The Ancient One asked, drawing my attention back to her, and out of my dark thoughts. 

"Always," I nodded.

"Then, let's begin," She nodded, and so, at the same without a sound, we started powering the runes she had carved, one by one as they lit up in the process, the lights eventually leading to a runic circle, where the space stone was located for this very purpose.

"Is it working?" I asked as I watched the space stone shake a bit.

"I still don't know," The Ancient One replied.

But before I could dwell on the thought for much longer, the space in front of us broke, as if reality itself was shattering into a million pieces, creating a small rift of sorts, leading to the place I was looking for, the Quantum Realm.

"Well, I'll be damned, it works," I whistled with a chuckle.

"Now, it's time to send your golem," The Ancient One smiled, as I nodded.

It was indeed time to see what was within the Quatum realm, and if it was safe to explore.

"Go," With my command given, the Golem started to walk towards the portal, stepping into the quantum realm without much of a problem.

Meaning it was time to connect my [Sight] with his.

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After connecting my [sight] to that of my golems, I opened my map and checked the coordinates where Janet was supposed to be and embarked with my golem into the quantum realm.

Well, not really, I was still powering the portal, but with the golem, it kind of felt like Virtual Reality, but better.

Anywho.

According to the map, Janet was a few miles away, sadly, I had no access to my portals, because, within the quantum realm, they didn't work, something about space not really applying to it, anyway, this meant I was destined to do this mission the old fashioned way, without them.

As for the Quantum Realm itself.

Well, it was as trippy as I imagined, like, there was no other way to describe it. It was also worth mentioning, the entire realm felt kind of ominous, like, even with the golem, that worked as a safety net, I felt like I was being watched, which didn't bode well for this mission.

Though, I trusted my system to alert me of such a thing, with a quest or something.

Then again, I didn't know about Hydra, until Hydra had kicked my ass.

"How's everything going?" The Ancient One asked.

"Good so far," I replied, my sense of vision still connected to the Golem, "But it feels like something it's watching me, maybe it's just my paranoia, but… I can't shake the feeling off,"

The Ancient One clicked her tongue, as my golem continued to walk, "Mayhaps that's our call to cancel this out?"

It would certainly be wise to do so, I was not one to feel uneasy, and yet, here I was feeling like a naked man in a lion's den, but still, I needed confirmation, I needed to know what I was feeling was not based on a fear born from a comic I had read before coming to this world, I needed to confirm there was a reason to fear.

"While that would be certainly wise, I would rather confirm my suspicions," I eventually replied.

"Very well," The Ancient One sighed, "I plan ahead just in case, nothing can come in, not even air without me allowing it, so… as long as we power this portal, we should be relatively safe,"

I snorted, "That's reassuring," 

"I suppose it's not," The Ancient One chuckled.

"I'm getting closer," I muttered in shock, because it made no sense, a few seconds ago, I was miles away, now, I was a few meters away from the coordinates I was looking for.

"Why does that sound like a bad thing?" The Ancient One asked, her tone lacing with a bit of concern.

"I was a few miles away a few seconds ago, that gap closed in an instant, I didn't even see it," I replied, my golem on stand by as I tried to rationalize what had happened.

"Well, the Quantum realm does operate outside the rules of time and space, and well, a measurable distance is part of a system that follows the laws of space," Maybe she was right, and meters or miles were irrelevant within this world.

[Janet Van Dyne is approaching]

What?

Seeing that notification, I ordered the golem to turn around, looking at my minimap, a red dot, a fucking red dot was approching.

And not the Golem, but the portal.

Hissing internally, I used [Sight] on the dot to see who was coming to us, seeing no other than Janet flying towards the portal, and much to my dismay, this Janet was not the one I wanted to find, it was the one I feared to find, the one carrying the Quantum Virus.

[New Quest Created = The Virus that should not be!

The Quantum Virus was not supposed to exist in this reality, it was only supposed to be in a few selected universes, so you have to find out why it's here, and who is behind it before it's too late.

Objectives = Find a cure, Find the Culprit.

Side Objectives = Save Janet from the virus]

"Close the portal!" I roared seeing the quest, breaking my connection to the runes, something The Ancient One did a few seconds after I did.

"What happened," The Ancient One asked, with the portal now closed.

"The virus it's real," I sighed, ordering my golem to self-destruct, just in case.

"I see," The Ancient One sighed, taking a seat on the ground, "Well, now what?"


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