In the City of the Dead in Egypt, a mysterious hooded man wandered around the place where Chen Ang and Strange were capturing the voodoo wizards. He pushed open the door of a large hole and walked in, closing the fearful gazes of the locals behind him. The room was still as gloomy as ever. The voodoo wizards had left behind all kinds of animal bones.
There were organs and strange things soaked in medicinal liquid, dried and dried animal products, herbs and black magic materials taken from the bodies of dead people.
The mysterious man slowly took off his hood, revealing a black face.
It was Baron Mordo, who had just destroyed the voodoo cult's base camp. Coming to Africa, he could blend in with the locals without feeling out of place, but he still chose a conspicuous wizard attire to show his inner sense of honor as a wizard. Mordo was a pitiful man. He had been following the guidance of his teacher, the Ancient One, all his life, following the path of the Ancient One, but in the end, he realized that the Ancient One had already betrayed the path he claimed.
"Mordo!" A voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Baron Mordo turned around abruptly, only to see Strange sitting in the darkness looking at him.
"You knew I would come here?" Mordo leaned against the table and looked at Strange.
"I joined an organization!" Strange said calmly. "They are very resourceful and well-informed. Egypt is our base camp. It is impossible for you to move around here without our eyes!"
"The Paragon Wizard never joins other people's organizations … He will always be the leader!" Mordo said.
Strange, however, disagreed. "The Paragon Wizard never sets these rules for himself. Other than the responsibility of the Paragon Wizard, we have no restrictions, and we don't need any restrictions! That's why I'm the Paragon Wizard, and you're not. You care too much about the commandments you set for yourself! "
"Without commandments, acting recklessly like the Ancient One will bring disaster!" Mordo said loudly. "That's why the Ancient One died!"
"He did it to protect the world!" Strange shouted. He noticed the symbol that appeared between Mordo's eyebrows and said in surprise, "You said that … But you also sided with Dom's Mu! I never understood why you were involved in this matter. It turns out that it was because of Dom Mu's orders that you became his lackey! "
"I just made a deal with it!" Mordo said, "I already understand the Mage's mission … Ancient One was wrong! What we are protecting is not this small planet and the humans on it. Humans have been destroying themselves, and no one can protect them. What we are really protecting is the unknown world, the balance between the mysterious and the known world. "
"What we should revere is the great Law of Equilibrium!"
"Dom 'Mu also understands this. Although the greed of darkness always makes it want to devour our world, I will still stand up and fight against it at this time. But when Dom' Mu protects the entire universe, including the balance of the Dark Plane, I should also lend a hand. Thanos … they are saving this universe! "
"But Thanos' goal is to kill half of all life in this universe!" Strange said angrily.
Mordo didn't care. Life was too insignificant. When mages looked at the entire universe, they would discover many great things. Space, dimensions, time, planets, matter, energy … Too many great things perfectly formed the entire world, and what maintained them was balance. Balance created and maintained everything. Once balance no longer existed, all the elements would clash, and everything would be destroyed and cease to exist.
At that time, how could life exist alone?
This was what Mordo realized. Mages should not focus on the insignificant individual life that was constantly being born and dying. Instead, they should focus on the balance that maintained everything behind it.
And life was only a weight that maintained the balance … Although it was necessary, more or less was the result of the Law of Equilibrium.
Mordo just replied, "I once wanted to follow the Ancient One to destroy the darkness, but after realizing that the Ancient One and Dom 'Mu were just two sides of the balance between light and darkness, I realized that what we should really protect was balance. Mages are not nannies, not servants of this planet, not the guardians of mere humans … What we should work for is something greater. "
Strange opened his palm, and a circle of runes appeared in his palm. Strange said, "As the Sorcerer Supreme, I have the responsibility to clean up the traitors among the mages."
"It was I who led you to Kamar-Taj back then …" Mordo stretched out his hands and pulled out the Scepter of the Tribunal of Life from his sleeves. Strange suddenly interrupted, "It seems that you have taken a lot of good things from Kamar-Taj!" Mordo was taken aback, then continued, "It was I who taught you magic! Leading you into the mysterious palace of magic … These things are not yours. I have a share of them as well. I am also a disciple of the Ancient One. "
"But you betrayed him!"
"It was he who betrayed me first!" Mordo said angrily, "I respected him so much, but he hid it from me … He hid the true path and power of mages!"
"I once led you into the palace of mages!" Mordo said to Strange, "Now, I will teach you the true path of mages!"
"Shameless boasting!" Strange pulled out the magic whip that was coming to life, and with one lash, the entire world turned upside down. The City of the Dead split into countless fragments and reassembled like Lego bricks. The nearby pillars formed countless geometric patterns, and space lost the meaning of up, down, left, and right.
Mordo and Strange jumped around in the complex geometric space, exchanging blows from time to time.
While Strange was using spells to reconstruct the terrain so that Mordo could only move on the path he had planned, he was also using the power of the Eye of Agomodo to travel through time, the surrounding space and time forming a complex maze that was being deconstructed.
The maze formed in space, coupled with the fragmentation of time, trapped Mordo in it, unable to escape.
However, Strange was still careless. When he separated the distance between the two of them again, Mordo jumped into the air, using the Wator Boots of Leap on his feet to jump into the air. Golden ripples appeared under his feet as if he was stepping on something solid, using the force to change his direction, he crossed the seemingly insurmountable barrier, nimbly changing angles around Strange, and swung his staff at Strange's face.
But when the Scepter of the Tribunal of Life hit Strange, his figure turned into broken light and shadow like the surface of water.
At this time, Strange's real figure appeared behind Mordo, the long whip in his hand wrapped around Mordo's neck, and he shouted, "Don't move!"
Mordo opened his hands, placed them on both sides of his shoulders, and smiled. "Not bad, you've improved!"
"I didn't learn everything from you!" Strange said. "After we parted, I've improved a lot, and I'm no longer that clumsy apprentice!"
"But it's not enough!" A face suddenly appeared behind Mordo's head, speaking to Strange. Suddenly, a few pale hands with very dirty nails and deformed joints reached out from behind Strange's head, piercing through the hair at the back of his head and grabbing his face. Strange tightened his right hand, and the magic energy whip in his hand cut off Mordo's neck.
But Baron Mordo suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed his head. His head was held in his hand, and he said, "But after leaving the Ancient One, I've also learned a lot!"
"Black magic!" Strange's face was almost completely covered by those hands. His eyes looked at Mordo through the gaps between his fingers, and he said sadly, "Not only did you join Dom 'Mu, but you also made a deal with Mophetus!"
"Yes, Dom 'Mu introduced me to him. I signed a contract with him, using a part of my soul to exchange for its power for everyone, and to pick up the black magic of the Middle Ages."
"And …" Mordo put his head back on his head and stretched out a hand. It was covered with bone spurs and black scales, like a lizard's claw, burning with pale flames. "Satan asked me to send his regards to the Revolutionary Alliance! He said that he no longer wanted to be questioned in Hell … This is a great insult to the Lord of Hell! "
"You also signed a contract with Satan and exchanged it for Hell magic!" Strange could no longer see Mordo, and the hand grabbing him from behind his head had already covered his face. Baron Mordo's demonic hand had pierced through Strange's chest.
But at this time, a transparent and colorless blade formed by spatial distortion had also pierced through Mordo's chest.
Another Strange stood behind Mordo, and the symbol of Dom 'Mu's dark space appeared between his brows.
"You're just like the Ancient One …" Mordo said. "Both so hypocritical …"
"This is the power of the Eye of Agomodo. It's your overflowing time, isn't it?" Mordo's body split in half from the wound. The two halves turned to look at Strange, then took a step forward and fused together, forming another complete Mordo.
"Why didn't I suffer from the damage of time?" Mordo said. "You should have deprived me of all time when you stabbed me. You must be very puzzled, because I haven't read the Book of Wilishan, nor have I obtained the complete Book of Cagliostro. "
"But before I left, when I sneaked into Ancient One's bookshelf, I accidentally found an incomplete magic book –" Xuan Jun's Seven Secret Scriptures ", and I found a secret from Ancient One's notes …"
Strange's expression suddenly changed. "You saw the notes that Ancient One hid with magic?"
"The origin of Kamar-Taj … We are all servants of that existence. The Apocalypse … or the Primordial Heavenly Demon, also known as' Xuan '…' Xuan 'and' Jun ', the Primordial Heavenly Demon and Laozi left Hangu Pass and discussed the Dao in Lou Guan, passing down Yi Xi's Lou Guan Dao lineage and Yang Zhu School. Later, Yang Zhu School did not fall behind, and one of their Daoist academic factions began to focus on spells. They inherited the only notes of that discussion, Yi Xi's Seven Chapters of Xuan Jun, and no other secret knowledge was recorded. "
"They are our ancestors."
"This knowledge was mistakenly recorded by Sithorne, one of the mages who read them."
"Those secret knowledge have no names. It records the knowledge of the gates to different dimensional worlds and the construction of dimensional gates such as the Dark Gate and the Well of the Sun. "
"Some knowledge was sealed because it was too powerful. It is a part of darkness, and the Sorcerer Supreme calls it the Book of Darkness. The part of light is known as the Book of Wilishan. "
"But the Book of Darkness has long been missing. It has long been stolen," Strange said.
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