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"It seems that she has a lot of opinions about you and doesn't even want to say hello." Wanda looked at the crimson clouds in the sky and glanced at Strange with an embarrassed expression with a smile.
"As usual, according to the rules, you who come from the multiverse have to solve the problem yourself. It's best not to wait for Luke to intervene. If Heberon and S.H.I.E.L.D. take action, the control of the situation will no longer be in your hands." Stephen said as he made a seal with his hands.
"There are still people here. Don't you need to persuade them to leave?" Strange looked at Stephen's familiar handprint and looked in a certain direction.
"Don't worry about them! They are observers of S.H.I.E.L.D., and their existence is not important until the situation worsens. What you should consider now is to pray that the Scarlet Witch can finally sit down and talk with us calmly." As Stephen said this, pieces of broken lenses spread rapidly around him.
The earth was stretching, the sky was lowering. Everything around seemed unchanged, yet it was changing.
Mirror space.
This is the magic that Kamar-Taj still insists on mastering and learning. There is no other reason, it is just that it is too versatile and useful.
At this moment, the crimson clouds in the sky also gathered together, forming a face wearing a red robe, whose face was 80% similar to Wanda's.
"Mirror space? Are you not planning to escape, Strange? No, I see. I thought you had given up on escaping, but I didn't expect you had help." Scarlet Witch slowly descended from the sky in a red energy. Her eyes swept over the two Stephen Stranges and the other self standing not far away, until her gaze fell on the man next to Wanda who impressed her deeply but whose face was a little different from the one in her mind. Suddenly, her obsessive mind was hit by a surprise and shocked!
"Pietro?" Scarlet Witch trembled as she called out the name of her brother. Although the face was different from the one she remembered, it was obvious that this was the mature version of Pietro who had not experienced death.
This is incredible! Because she has traveled across the multiverse and has never seen Pietro alive. It seems that there is a powerful force in the universe where she exists, and the universe where she and he are siblings, Pietro, Vision, and all her family members will experience various accidents.
"Another sister, or younger sister, whose soul has been severely damaged? I feel like I'm just a tool." Pietro waved to Scarlet Witch, smiling and greeting her while lowering his voice to his sister beside him. Ever since Wanda discovered some of her own tragic experiences in the multiverse, she always liked to drag him along when dealing with her other universe selves.
"No, this is not true! Pietro is dead!" Scarlet Witch's mental fluctuations were extremely great. As her mental fluctuations, the surging chaotic power was also venting unscrupulously to the surroundings, distorting and modifying everything around her.
"Although this is a mirror dimension, it will still be very troublesome if the power of chaos is allowed to flow and modify at will. I can't let it affect reality." The power of chaos also emerged from Wanda's body, and it was more intense than that of Scarlet Witch.
Two energy spheres of equal strength collided, and those caught in the crossfire scrambled to the side. The same power, but different individuals, began to vie for control of this space.
Any changes Scarlet Witch had just made would be instantly overwritten and forcibly restored by Wanda's power. The two were entangled, each engaging in a tit-for-tat confrontation. They would wantonly smear and modify the underlying rules of this world, even destroying and restoring them.
The battles in the outside world are fierce and dangerous, but what is even more dangerous is the collision at the spiritual level.
Wanda forcibly broke through Scarlet Witch's spirit and entered her spiritual world. In terms of mental power, Wanda is much stronger than Scarlet Witch, but in Scarlet Witch's spiritual world, she can actually do not do much.
"It's you!" In the crimson sky of the spiritual world, Scarlet Witch looked at Wanda who was slowly rising from below, wrapped in a ball of red energy. A complex emotion spread in the air and was sensitively captured by Wanda.
"You are jealous of me." Wanda looked at the Scarlet Witch facing her and said in a soft tone.
"I saw everything! You and I are different! You have a happy family and are surrounded by relatives. Why? Why do I have to be the only one who has to go through the pain of losing loved ones, including not being able to have children? This is not fair!" Scarlet Witch vented her anger wantonly, and the power of chaos turned into a torrent, rushing towards Wanda, trying to wipe her out!
Wanda seemed to be caught off guard by the power of chaos and was swallowed up. However, in Scarlet Witch's astonished eyes, she separated the power of chaos and walked out.
"I sense your intention. You want to erase my existence and replace me in this universe, right?" Wanda felt a pity. The self before her, her mind and imagination, had indeed become paranoid and twisted to the point of distortion. Her heart felt empty, a vast void in need of filling. Perhaps this was the price she paid for wielding the power of chaos? After all, such powers typically either altered a person's life form or distorted their entire mind. Even those few who possessed neither of these two abilities would inevitably bear a price.
Her price was paid by psychic power, and the loss of control over the power of chaos was corrected bit by bit by Luke. At least now, under certain limits of use, she can use the power of chaos as if it were part of her body strength.
In other words, when it comes to using the power of chaos, she is naturally stronger, more proficient, and more comfortable than her counterparts in other universes.
Scarlet Witch's powerful and extremely dangerous power of chaos may be an irresistible destructive energy to others, but if used against her, the effect can only be described as unsatisfactory, which will make people question their lives.
"Why?" Scarlet Witch was a little dazed when she saw Wanda easily walk out of the Chaos Power that had previously been invincible to her. But in an instant, she thought of another self, another self who had mastered the power of Chaos.
"It seems her paranoia is a bit severe." Wanda sighed inwardly as she watched Scarlet Witch, who refused to give up and even squandered the power of chaos like a madman, regardless of the cost. But this did not stop her from taking the initiative to meet her.
If you want to sit down and have a good communication, then of course you have to teach the other person a lesson first and suppress him/her.
In the opponent's spiritual world, even Professor X, who is proficient in psychic power, can only rely on his own power to guide a certain power and personality deep in the opponent's mind little by little, and then constantly strengthen it, let it thrive, and grow to the point where it can control the body and suppress the bad side.
Of course, there is another way. As a master of the mind, he can block a certain aspect of the other person's personality if the other person does not resist.
However, if he were in Wanda's world, he would likely be unable to restore Wanda's kindness. Wanda's paranoid personality has reached an incomprehensible level. Unless she comes to her senses, the so-called spiritual guidance and soothing power can only provide a temporary solution, at most causing Wanda to hesitate for a moment, but perhaps the next moment, she would completely abandon this hesitation and return to the paranoid Scarlet Witch who will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.
Scarlet Witch's situation was so daunting that few were willing to face it head-on. The mere prospect of a confrontation was enough to make one's head spin. After all, if they could have fought, Strange wouldn't have had to flee across the universe with a girl, right? The deaths of the Sorcerer Supremes at Scarlet Witch's hands served as a reminder to Strange of his impending death.
This universe's Stephen Strange could certainly fight Scarlet Witch, but as he said, there were better candidates for the job, so why bother putting himself in such a difficult position? He came here to maintain spatial stability, to prevent their battle from affecting reality, and to serve as a supporting tool. He had already fulfilled his duties.
From the time Stephen first took over the Sorcerer Supreme position, wanting to be in charge of everything, feeling like he had an obsessive-compulsive disorder, he had long been worn down by the endless missions and travels, becoming a mere idler. His obsessive-compulsive disorder was abruptly reversed by Luke's massive workload.
The best thing is that the tasks are always extremely suitable for Stephen. Except for him handling it personally, if someone else does it, there is a high probability of failure.
Clone?
Yes. But it's not necessary. The number of tasks and troubles within the foreseeable timeline is infinite. For the time being, Stephen still wants to strive for a higher status in the future.
Just like Wanda has her own Wanda's Legion that spans the multiverse, Stephen has also spared no effort to establish his own multiverse crisis supreme magician response team.
It's just that Wanda's so-called legion is more used to communicate about illnesses, discuss treatment, and provide spiritual comfort, while his Supreme Master Crisis Team is composed entirely of workaholics.
Stephen glanced at the nervous Strange beside him and mentally reserved a spot for him on his team. After all, he seemed like a good-hearted individual, someone he could rely on in crucial moments, someone with a strong sense of responsibility and potential for growth.
"Are we really not worried about them? I'm afraid the Mirror Realm can't contain Wanda's power." Strange asked Stephen fearfully, watching the sky suffuse with a crimson energy so dense that the two figures were no longer visible. The Mirror Realm couldn't contain Scarlet Witch.
"Of course not in the mirror space, but in the mirror dimension." Stephen maintained the stability of the mirror world while still having the energy to communicate with Strange. He saw Strange's confusion and took the initiative to explain: "Many spells in Kamar-Taj in this universe have undergone major revisions and even upgrades. For example, the portal. In the past, even the Supreme Sorcerer had to wear a Suspended Ring to open it. But now, even the Supreme Sorcerer of Kamar-Taj can use a trick to condense a Suspended Ring artifact with psychic energy to achieve this purpose.
After Ancient One's ascension, the Mirror World was no longer merely an illusory mirror world. Drawing on the unique characteristics of the data dimension, she transformed the Mirror Space spell into a world of reflection. In other words, it was a dimensional world somewhere between illusion and reality. It was absurd, surprising, and freewheeling, like a fairytale. Even lesser dimensional demons could be imprisoned there, and they would be unable to detect any abnormalities for a short period of time.
The drawback is that it's more difficult to master, consumes more energy, and there's a danger of becoming lost in the process, losing the ability to distinguish between reality and illusion. If you can't confront your own mind, the biggest downside to learning this spell is that you might believe you're in the real world, but in reality, you're simply trapped in your own world in the mirror dimension.
Strange surveyed his surroundings in astonishment. This certainly didn't resemble the Mirror Realm, where the terrain could be freely extended and combined, easily altered to create a terrain advantage during battle. If he hadn't been so familiar with the Mirror Realm spell and sensed a similar power around him, coupled with the crimson energy constantly being absorbed by the wrinkled mirror ripples and then transferred elsewhere, he would have mistaken this for real life.
"You should wake up, Wanda." Wanda sighed slightly as she looked at her other self, now filled with even more turbulent Chaos Power. No matter how many times she saw it, the tragic self in the multiverse seemed to resonate with her, making her realize more deeply that she and the universe she lived in were truly special!
If this universe developed in the same way as the rest of the multiverse, then there was no doubt that sooner or later she would also face the same tragic path as her own multiverse, perhaps with slight deviations, but with a similar outcome, inevitably leading to the loss of loved ones. Just thinking about it filled her with a visceral fear, and while she cherished her current life, she felt even more compassion for her multiverse self.
Why did she learn Stephen's soul surgery from him? Wasn't it because she wanted to help those who were immersed in pain and unable to extricate themselves? She wanted to help them get out, even if some people were unwilling to accept the means.
"Let me replace you." Scarlet Witch's response was a paranoid statement that penetrated her soul. She discovered that she was the most perfect and ideal self in this universe!
My brother is here, my lover is here, and my children are here.
She was envious and jealous to the point of madness, and she wanted to replace them to the point of madness. She no longer wanted to cause trouble for America and Strange, she just wanted to replace herself right now!
"That won't do. You have your own world and life." Wanda shook her head. Under the rewriting of the power of chaos, she began to forcibly suppress Scarlet Witch's energy and spiritual world.