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Chapter 244 Dark Strangeness
Chapter 244 Dark Strangeness
The "dimensional portal" that Doctor Strange is skilled at, also known as the "anywhere door," is easily wielded by Connors.
Without the slightest hesitation, he stepped into the golden circular door, then casually walked out and returned to the "Dimensional Mirror".
Didn't I use the Anywhere Door to teleport myself out? Connors stared blankly at the "Dimensional Mirror" where he had returned.
Doctor Strange, hovering in mid-air a short distance away using his levitation cloak and counting on his fingers, couldn't help but smile as a faint green halo flashed across his wrist.
Connors opened the "Dimensional Gate" again, and the green light on Doctor Strange's wrist flashed once more, while Connors returned to the "Dimensional Mirror" with a blank expression.
Connors: "..—.?"
He has almost completely deciphered the Vishanti white magic that Doctor Strange comes from the Trinity.
I'm too lazy to waste any more time here with Strange.
But now it seems that Doctor Strange has secretly dug a hole for himself with the Time Stone. If he tries to get out through the Dimensional Gate, he will inevitably step into the Dimensional Mirror again.
The upward curve of Doctor Strange's lips couldn't be hidden from Connors, who possessed the "Athena's Vision," but the upward curve quickly disappeared.
He watched helplessly as Connors brandished the Mystic Ring and, in a way he himself did not know, took away the Eye of Agamotto that was hanging around his neck.
Strictly speaking, he didn't take it away, because while Connors took the genuine "Eye of Agamotto," he also seamlessly handcrafted a pirated version and hung it around Strange's neck.
And it was done right in front of him, giving him no time to react.
"What kind of magic is this? It's not recorded in the Book of Vishanti," Doctor Strange couldn't help but ask.
As he asked the question, a green light swirled on his wrist, but this time time did not rewind.
On the other side, Connors, who had just used a "little trick" to take away the Eye of Agamotto and "reconstructed" a pirated version, is now extracting juice from the plants grown by "Fangwu Green".
The green glow on Doctor Strange's wrist was an effect of plant sap, not the Time Stone.
"Time is humanity's greatest enemy. The world shouldn't be in such a wretched state. Give me back the Time Stone!"
While demanding the Time Stone from Connors, Doctor Strange also made a veiled insult.
During his first moment of time rewind, he realized that Connors, like the "Dark Lord" Dormammu, was an existence beyond "time".
The result is that this being, whose behavior is nothing like Dormammu's, doesn't even give him a chance to negotiate with the time loop, and directly steals his "Time Stone".
"No, I'll give it to you after I've figured out the timing." Connors grabbed the gem and ran off, not giving Doctor Strange a chance to take it back.
Outside the "dimensional mirror," Deadpool and Spider-Gwen watched as Connors suddenly emerged from the prism in mid-air, waving excitedly at them.
"Walk!"
"Where to?" Spider-Gwen asked in a rapid-fire manner.
"Wait for the arrival of the 'Dark Strange'," Connors replied.
When Doctor Strange emerged from the dimensional space in a fit of rage, the remote town of Westview was deserted.
"No-.
The cold rain lashed against Doctor Strange's face, just as it had on the night his fiancée died in the car accident.
He had tried countless times to use the "Time Stone" in an attempt to change his fiancée's tragic death, but the truth was that no matter how hard he tried, the outcome could not be changed.
"Breaking through to the absolute point in time requires extremely powerful energy, but I don't even have the Time Stone anymore."
Doctor Strange sat dejectedly in the rain.
"I need greater power to reclaim the Time Stone. Without it, I am unworthy to continue as the Sorcerer Supreme, nor can I bring back my deceased fiancée—."
Boom!
The rain was blasted away by the suddenly erected golden magic shield, and interlocking magic circles revolved around Doctor Strange.
Inside the magic shield, books of varying sizes, resembling golden phantoms, fluttered and danced like butterflies.
"These are all the books in the temple that I remember; I need to rely on them to gain power."
"High-level summoning spells? Mind control? Polymorph? These are not what I want."
Without the Time Stone, Doctor Strange can no longer glimpse the future to find the right books for himself; he can only read them one by one.
"The way to become stronger: 'Absorb other creatures to gain power'? Whatever you absorb, let's begin."
Doctor Strange drew a summoning circle on the ground with his hands and immediately activated it.
Within the magic circle, a thick tentacle with suction cups stretched upwards, followed by a second, and a third...
Countless thick tentacles waved in the air; the creature that emerged from the magic circle was enormous.
A single tentacle is as tall as a three-story building; the size of the body hidden beneath the magic circle is unknown.
But that wasn't Doctor Strange's focus. Looking at the tentacles, illuminated by the golden-red magic circle and flowing like magma, he said:
"I am Doctor Stephen Strange, and I have summoned you here in the hope of borrowing your power—would you be willing to lend me one or two tentacles?"
The tentacle didn't answer, but instead lashed out at "Doctor Strange" with lightning speed, sending him flying and crashing into the edge of the magic shield before falling heavily to the ground.
"Cough cough—"
Doctor Strange coughed repeatedly in pain, feeling as if his chest cavity had been shattered.
He clutched his chest and looked at the tentacles that had disappeared into the magic circle, knowing that his strength was still far from sufficient.
After coughing a few more times, Doctor Strange sat cross-legged, cast a simple healing spell on himself, and then reactivated the magic circle.
What emerged this time was a wet, wriggling, stick-shaped creature with rings around its body, resembling some kind of earthworm magnified a thousand times.
Doctor Strange's gaze was unwavering. He opened his mouth, and the immense suction force emanating from it propelled the disgusting creature slowly toward him, burrowing into his body.
Next came a crow with four wings and six eyes, a dragon with three heads, four legs and two wings, a cloaked ghost, a werewolf with countless snail-like legs, a vampire bat, and a unicorn—legendary creatures that appeared one by one in the magic circle.
Even the tentacles whose full form was unknown at the beginning were summoned again by Doctor Strange and forcibly absorbed into his body.
As the sun rose, the shadow behind Doctor Strange began to change shape continuously as he devoured everything, finally stopping as night fell.