"No matter what, it's a really convenient ability," Tony Stark sighed. "These Mages, whatever their abilities, are all so convenient. Whether it's the Portal, or Time Manipulation, or observing the Timeline, it's all just too convenient!"
If he had these abilities, in business, he'd be unstoppable, getting whatever he wanted.
Of course, he pretty much had what he wanted now, but it was still different.
He had to admit, that with such treasures and abilities, they weren't causing chaos, which meant the Mages' average moral standards were pretty high.
Oh, wait, that's not true. They did cause chaos, and their chaos was to sacrifice the entire Earth to Dormammu.
Those petty, local dominance games, they really weren't interested in.
This was the advancement that came with a broad vision.
If you're going to stir things up, you do it on a world-shattering scale.
In the palace of Asgard, Thor looked at his father and said, "Father, I don't feel like this Ancient One is as powerful as you say. You and Lin Feng are both so wary of her. Is it really necessary?"
Odin glanced at his son, knowing he was becoming dismissive. He immediately said, "If you really think that, you'll suffer a huge loss sooner or later. Do you know how many Skyfather Level beings there are in the entire universe? How can any of them, who can dominate a region, be weak? It's a transformation of the essence of life, no matter which path they take, they're all incredibly strong.
Or, let me ask you, what do you think Asgard relies on to awe the universe? Wherever you go, you, the God of Thunder, are given face. Do you think it's your strength? With your strength, could you deal with the millions, tens of millions of troops from those technological civilizations?"
Thor fell silent. Although he was quite arrogant, he wasn't so arrogant as to be delusional. He was now thinking about many strange things. For example, while Asgard's military power seemed abundant, how could he, as the commander of the Asgardian army, not know?
It seemed that many high-level troops, such as the Valkyries, written about in history books, were almost nowhere to be found, and the rest were just ordinary soldiers.
Their combat strength was indeed much stronger than that of ordinary alien races, but their numbers were too few.
But Asgard, with this kind of strength, could miraculously stand at the pinnacle of many cosmic civilizations.
"That's strange in itself, isn't it?"
"Also, the fact that there are actually many alien races on Earth has long been known. It's not really unknown in the universe, but no one has taken action, including us in Asgard. Have you ever thought about the reason?" Odin sighed.
"This..." Thor became even more silent.
If Asgard could still maintain a superficial strength, then Earth didn't even have that.
It still has a semblance of civilization now, but a thousand or two years ago, it was basically just native monkeys. What kind of deterrence could it have?
"You have this thought because you've been fighting everywhere in the universe these years, and you haven't found many opponents who can fight you. So you think you're already at the peak of the universe, and even think that the Skyfather Level is just a little stronger than you. In fact, that's a huge mistake. The power system of the entire universe isn't pyramid-shaped, but like a needle tip. There aren't many masters at your level, and there aren't many Skyfather Level masters either, but each of these people can support an entire civilization. It has nothing to do with quantity. Those armies that can surround and kill you are helpless when they encounter these Skyfather Level masters. They are not on the same level of life!" Odin continued. "The power you see of the Ancient One is just the tip of the iceberg, maybe even the result of her holding back. You haven't seen her resisting the dimensional demons, so you don't know how powerful she really is."
Thor nodded quickly, although he still didn't know how powerful these Skyfather Level beings could be. Dormammu was just a reference.
But he could see that his old father was so afraid that he might make some kind of misjudgment.
Anyway, Odin was just one step away from hitting him on the head with a stick, making him remember that the Skyfather Level was not to be provoked, and even wanted to list a list for him, so that he would avoid them in the future.
But Odin couldn't possibly say it so bluntly. If he did, his eldest son would be ruined. Their lineage was forged through endless battles, constantly refining their divine power. If the heart was broken, the entire person would be broken as well.
So, Odin's words were carefully considered, a reminder to behave himself without dampening his spirit.
In the New York penthouse, Lin Feng put away the diary. He glanced at the brightly lit city center not far away. The American city center at this stage wasn't as developed as it would become later. At night, no one dared to walk into the city center; they could be met with "zero-dollar purchases" at any moment.
After watching for a while, Lin Feng changed his clothes, preparing to go out and be a hero. He had just developed the Heat Vision function today. He had to try it out, didn't he?
And everyone, seeing that the diary hadn't been updated for a while, probably knew that today's diary was over, and they dispersed directly.
At the same time, in Kamar-Taj, the Time Stone on the Ancient One's chest emitted a green glow. She routinely observed the changes in the Timeline, her expression calm.
She had seen these Timelines many times. Basically, it could be said that the Timeline had countless possibilities. Every different choice could lead to different consequences.
The reason she was so fixated on the matter of Stephen Strange was to ensure that he would eventually become the Sorcerer Supreme. There were too many possibilities for the future.
Among them, there were even Timelines where he died directly in a car accident and didn't survive, or even more bizarre Timelines. What she had to do now was to ensure that this would happen.
However, starting a while ago, she realized that something had changed in the future. When she looked at the future, it was often obscure and unclear.
Previously, she could understand the cause and effect of events just by glancing at the timeline. But now, that wasn't possible. She had gone from completely observing the timeline, even seeing multiple possibilities, to only vaguely seeing some fragments.
This situation had never happened before. Ever since she obtained the Eye of Agamotto, the Time Stone, from the previous Sorcerer Supreme, the timeline had always been under her control.
The reason her strength could improve so quickly, allowing her to repel and kill so many demons, was naturally related to observing their weaknesses within the timeline.
She even knew long ago that she would have a disciple in the future, named Stephen Strange.
She had been preparing for this day, because in the future she could see, she would definitely die, no matter how she struggled or what methods she used, it was the same.
Who would want to die for no reason? However, fate seemed to have played a huge joke on her, letting her know that she was doomed to die, yet she had to accept this fate.
But now, fate had changed.
"This… is getting even more blurred…" The Ancient One observed the fragments of the Timeline, finding it increasingly difficult to see the future. Each day, the future became more indistinct, her control over it weakening.
This future was becoming harder and harder to understand.
Days passed, and 2008 was navigated without major incident. Soon, 2009 arrived. For Lin Feng, a man with Chinese roots, the year wasn't truly over until after the Spring Festival.
Lin Feng even took the time to visit China, returning to New York only after the New Year. He even went to the place where his family had lived in his past life. But the residents there were a couple he didn't know. There was no trace of Lin Feng's existence in this reality.
Although Lin Feng had anticipated this, seeing it firsthand was still disheartening.
This wasn't a parallel universe of their original one, but the Marvel Universe.
While it largely followed reality as a template, the influence of superheroes and supervillains was growing, making it increasingly dissimilar to the America he knew.
Lin Feng's investment company had been open for several months, and although he'd recruited some talent, it was still in the exploratory phase, and not making much money.
This made Lin Feng have to sigh; it was indeed unexpected wealth that made people rich.
But fortunately, his main investment method was still clinging to Tony Stark's thigh. With the good news of Tony Stark's new energy research and development progress, the market stock price was also soaring. Lin Feng just kept buying, and his net worth had increased a lot compared to before.
The rest was to invest in some unicorn companies, all of which had been proven to be the correct development direction in his previous life, such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, drones, new energy, and so on. Anyway, it wasn't his own money, so it didn't hurt to spend it.
The Palladium Eye would also transfer a portion of the laundered funds into his account every month, so he basically didn't lack money.
After seeing Lin Feng's strength, the Palladium Eye didn't dare to provoke him at all, behaving properly and honestly.
And while Lin Feng lamented that the lives of capitalists were so simple, unadorned, and boring, in a glacier in the far north of Russia, a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents wearing thick cold-proof clothing gathered together. With the help of huge engineering machines, a huge block of ice was cut down, and a figure could be vaguely seen inside.
The leader, Coulson, wearing thick cold-proof clothing, saw the faint figure inside, and his mouth was harder to suppress than an AK. It was really Captain America.
In the past few months, they had followed the direction stated in Lin Feng's diary, combined with the recordings at the time to calculate the time and distance, and roughly had a direction. However, even so, it had taken several months to completely find the person.
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