To Strange, Lan's words were undoubtedly a bright star in the darkness. It lit up his gloomy life.
As he said, he could no longer accept his days as if he was on drugs to protect his hair. After finishing Li Jie's spaghetti bolognese, Strange set off for London.
Although he had never been to the London Sanctum, he had heard of it. Although Thor had poured cold water on him before he left, saying, "Maybe that Baron Mordo was wearing a wig."
But Strange still treated Thor's words as bullshit. How could there be so many coincidences in this world? He didn't believe it anyway.
To Strange, the arrival of aliens, political reform, all of this had nothing to do with him. What could be more important in this world than keeping your beautiful hair? Nothing!
He knew Baron Mordo. He was the eldest disciple of Ancient One. Apart from the king, he was the one who had followed Ancient One the longest.
Baron Mordo was born into a noble family in Europe and had a hereditary noble title. His title of baron was a hereditary title of his family.
Baron Mordo was a proper European white man, or rather, a slightly arrogant European noble white man. He had outstanding magic talent and was chosen by Ancient One as a disciple when he was young.
As the eldest disciple, Baron Mordo should have been the closest person to Ancient One. Just like the old staff man and Rock (Daredevil's senior), Matt (Daredevil), and David (Sea Ripper King). Because in the traditional Asian relationship chart, the relationship between master and disciple was second only to that between parents and blood relatives.
However, as Baron Mordo grew older, the relationship between him and Ancient One slowly became estranged, and there was no longer the kind of close father-son relationship. This was the opposite of Lan. Although Lan and Ancient One were master and disciple, they were like father and daughter.
In the end, Baron Mordo was sent out of Kamateki by Ancient One to London to manage the London Sanctum. This place could be considered Mordo's old home. In this way, it seems that Ancient One still takes good care of Baron Mordo.
But everyone's thinking is different. Some things and some people seem to be taken care of. But in the eyes of those involved, it might be a form of exile.
"Master kicked me out of the inner circle," Baron Mordo muttered to himself in the monastery of the Holy Temple in London.
He was different from Ancient One in many aspects. Ancient One was born 500 years ago and was the child of a farmer. When she grew up, she studied magic and lived a hard life. She was used to a relatively poor life.
Ancient One's ability was very strong, but she didn't pursue material pleasures. It could be seen from the food in Kamateki that simple dishes such as boiled yak meat were daily meals. The highland barley wine, which was roughly brewed by the herdsmen, was Ancient One's daily drink.
Born into a noble family, Mordu found it hard to accept all of this. He was used to living a luxurious life since he was young. When he was young, he followed Ancient One to learn magic and had a hard time.
But ever since he made some progress in magic, Mordu would think of ways to improve his life. Everything from food to utensils would improve.
Nowadays, most of the utensils used in Kamateki were wooden utensils and black pottery common in the pastoral areas. There was also a small amount of porcelain mixed in.
Baron Mordo, on the other hand, used a set of pure silver utensils and a set of beautiful crystal glasses. Everything from the plates to the glasses had been carefully carved.
Mordo was even more particular about the food he ate. He needed a certain year's red wine to go with his steak. What kind of drink to go with caviar in the afternoon.
Mo Du's pursuit was ingrained in his bones. He was a hereditary noble, and these traditions and ancestral teachings had been passed down in his family for nearly a thousand years.
Ancient One didn't like Mordo like this. She felt that excessive pursuit of material things would cause people to lose their way in the pursuit of magic.
However, these things were just minor details, not a matter of principle. After all, everyone had their own way of living. Ancient One couldn't expect Mordo to live in poverty like him.
But when Mordo showed more and more that he liked material things, Ancient One made the decision to send him away to London. From then on, Mordo was transferred out of Kamateki.
Just like in ancient times, officials had to be officials in the capital because only officials in the capital had more opportunities to meet the emperor. Only by leaving a deep impression in front of the emperor could he climb higher.
Mordo was sent to the London Sanctum to be a Sanctum Mage stationed there. Ancient One gave him freedom and let him live the life he wanted. But at the same time, it was equivalent to kicking Mordo out of the core circle of competition.
What competition? Don't forget, Ancient One's biggest legacy was the position of Sorcerer Supreme, and the empowerment that Ancient One gave to the next Sorcerer Supreme before leaving office.
Empowerment wasn't like in wuxia novels, where you passed on your internal energy to someone else and turned a rookie into a master. Instead, using a special method, Ancient One passed on the knowledge she had mastered in her life to the next Mage.
How much could be mastered depended on the individual's talent, but the magic attainments and unique understanding that Ancient One had accumulated over hundreds of years was a huge treasure.
It was very tempting, but all of this had nothing to do with Mordo now. Because he was kicked out of Kamateki, he became a Sanctum Mage in London.
He actually didn't like it very much, because London had the Greenwich School of Sorcerer Merlin. And there was a slight conflict between the Greenwich School of Sorcerers and the Kamateki School of Sorcerers.
Among the three Sanctums of Sorcerers, the London Sanctum was the most difficult to manage. They had to balance the relationship between Greenwich and Kamateki, and protect the legacy of Sorcerer Merlin's underground palace. At the same time, they had to do what every Sanctum had to do, which was to maintain the stability of Earth's space and prevent the invasion of Otherworld.
Mordo was actually not very happy, especially now that he knew that Ancient One had accepted two new disciples. One of them was the famous Professor of Destruction, Dum, and the other was a nobody, Strange.
Originally, Mordo still had a little hope in his heart. He even imagined that one day he could inherit Ancient One's legacy. This was because Ancient One had said a long time ago that he would not hand over the position of Sorcerer Supreme to Lan.
Apart from Lan, Ancient One only had one disciple, and that was himself. Then when Ancient One is about to step down, his position will inevitably be passed on to him.
But now, the two new disciples had shattered the last bit of Mordo's fantasy.
In the training room, Mordo felt that his meditation was not very good. His heart could not calm down, and he kept feeling that something was going to happen.
Walking out of the training room, he prepared to have a drink and relax. At this time, a message came: "Ancient One's fourth disciple, and also the youngest disciple, Steve Strange, requests an audience."
PS: In Marvel Comics, Mordo was a white man, born into a traditional noble family. Marvel Movies had forcibly changed him to a black man for the sake of political correctness. The movies did not matter, but if the books still followed the movie settings, then a lot of the story would be weakened.
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