Bab 541: Wanda's powers

"So, she's a witch who wields black magic!"

Outside the video, Doctor Strange squinted, "No wonder the symbol she wears looks familiar. It should be the emblem of the medieval witch coven."

"A witch coven?" Steve Rogers asked curiously. "So, witches really existed in history? I mean, like you, knowing magic?"

"Of course," Stephen glanced at him. "Magic has always existed, but ordinary people find it hard to access. However, during certain periods, some witches, who were reckless and used evil black magic to disturb the world, also caught people's attention."

At this moment, the screen also revealed Agnes, or rather, Agatha's actions. Since entering the large illusion of Westview, she had been causing trouble everywhere, like revealing the truth to Vision and creating Pietro that didn't match Wanda's memory. Everything she did was to push Wanda to the brink of collapse!

On the surface, Wanda was the director of the Westview illusion, but the real director should be this evil witch, Agatha.

Agatha was not simple either. She had been a witch for hundreds of years, gifted with extraordinary talent in learning magic quickly, and cunning by nature. She swindled and deceived to learn various kinds of magic and sorcery, even mastering some taboo and evil black magic.

One day, she was captured and tried by the witch coven. Faced with the siege of several powerful witches, Agatha unexpectedly managed to turn the tables. She drained the magic of those witches and took away the leader's badge of the coven. This badge had been carried by Agatha ever since, even when disguised as Wanda's neighbour, Agnes.

As such an ancient witch, accompanying Wanda in playing house in Westview was naturally not well-intentioned. Agatha set her sights on Wanda's magic. In the eyes of this mature witch, Wanda was completely a fledgling in the magical world, not even understanding basic magical knowledge, yet she could manipulate the thoughts and consciousness of thousands of people in Westview, creating such a huge and vivid illusion!

Agatha was extremely shocked by this because after studying magic for so many years, she could only manipulate some bugs, birds, and rabbits, and that was with her innate talent.

Seeing Wanda, a fledgling in the magical world, control the thoughts of thousands of people and create such a magical and vivid illusion, Agatha was naturally envious and jealous. She coveted Wanda's magic and, after lurking in Westview, had been trying to unravel the mysteries of Wanda's magic.

Guided by her and with her help, Wanda's abilities gradually spiralled out of control, and she felt it was time to reap the rewards.

Agatha revealed all of this with great satisfaction, seeming to have already won, but Wanda naturally wouldn't sit idly by. However, as she prepared to cast her own magic, she found that the previously invincible magic was now ineffective!

At the same time, blue runes lit up on the walls of the basement. Agatha smiled triumphantly. This was the difference between academic training and being an outlier. As an ancient witch, her knowledge of magic was not something Wanda, a fledgling, could match.

Agatha had set traps in the basement in advance, waiting for Wanda to step in. Here, Wanda couldn't use any magic at all; it was entirely Agatha's territory. With a wave of her hand, purple magical energy bound Wanda.

She wanted to interrogate Wanda for the secrets of her magic, but the problem was, that Wanda herself didn't know how she did it. Naturally, there wasn't much to say. However, this didn't stump our witch, Agatha. She plucked a hair from Wanda and cast a spell to revisit scenes from Wanda's memories, intending to find the secrets of her magic in the river of Wanda's memories.

It must be said, the magic of witches is indeed mysterious. The two seemed to have returned to decades ago when Wanda was still a little girl living with her brother Pietro and her parents in Sokovia.

Her father made money by selling American sitcoms on the streets. At that time, Sokovia was in the quagmire of war, and the situation was very chaotic. The greatest childhood joy for Wanda and Pietro was staying at home watching the sitcoms their father hadn't sold yet.

Obviously, this memory was a symbol of Wanda's happy childhood. It was because of this that scenes from sitcoms appeared in the illusion of Westview.

Unfortunately, Wanda's childhood happiness was very short-lived. War eventually reached this ordinary family. A missile landed in their house, killing their parents instantly. When young Wanda regained consciousness from the shock, she saw a second missile about to explode.

If nothing unexpected happened, then this bomb produced by Stark Industries would take away her and her brother's lives. And it was at this moment that Wanda awakened her powers, turning the imminent explosive missile into a dud!

Seeing the conspicuous Stark Industries logo on the missile, Tony fell silent, wiped his mouth, and muttered, "So she awakened her magical abilities at such a young age if she didn't have this ability…"

"Wanda is lucky," Rhodes said, seeing his low mood and patting him on the shoulder. "Buddy, don't think too much, all this is in the past."

"Yes, Wanda is fortunate, but not all children are as lucky as they were. How many innocent people have my missiles killed over the years, how many families have been destroyed?!" Tony took a deep breath, anxiously scratching his head.

Rhodes sighed, "Tony, you've already downsized the military industry and have set up a post-war recovery fund..."

Bruce interrupted them, saying solemnly, "Human history is a history of warfare, Tony. Even without Stark Industries, these innocents would still be caught in the crossfire."

At that moment, seeing this video, Tony deeply understood the hatred Wanda and Pietro harboured towards him.

Stark Industries' two missiles destroyed their home and shattered their fragile childhood.

It was also for this reason that the siblings later willingly joined Hydra's human experiments, seeking the power for revenge, and it was in these experiments that the Mind Stone enhanced Wanda's abilities.

Many viewers realized at this point, their initial understanding of Wanda's powers thought to be merely the result of human experimentation, all granted by the Mind Stone.