"Master, he is already old, and I, Modu, will replace him! But my strength is not strong enough, by the way, the classics about forbidden arts are just hidden by him, forbidden arts, will be my chance to rise to the top! And ......"

In the room, Mordo had already begun to replan his life, and the "good baby" who had originally listened to the orders of the ancient mage had completely changed himself at this moment.

The next morning, Bucky was in his room when he heard a constant "thud" outside, not a small sound, as if someone was working on the demolition work inside this Kama Taj house. Curious, Bucky left the room and looked in the direction the sound was coming from.

Bucky was surprised to find that someone was actually working on the demolition, and this person himself knew was none other than the future Doctor Strange, Stephen. Today, Stephen changed out of his previous somewhat shabby clothes and put on a set of pure white practice clothes, looking a lot more energetic, but his behavior was indeed a little strange.

Stephen was holding a sledgehammer and smashing it into a wall in front of him, smashing a large hole in the wall, and then, with his injured hands, carefully picked up the broken masonry from the ground and threw it into a barrel behind him.

"What is this doing?"

Bucky had previously guessed that the Ancient One Mage must have taken a fancy to Stephen's talent and wanted to take him as a disciple, but now why Stephen would tear down the wall here, Bucky couldn't figure out what it looked like. On the other hand, Bucky had walked past the wall that Stephen was tearing down yesterday, and Bucky couldn't remember seeing such a tall wall.

With this question in mind, Bucky walked up to Stephen and asked, "Stephen, why are you tearing down the wall here?" And this wall, I remember yesterday as if it didn't exist. ”

Stephen had just placed two barrels full of broken masonry on a flat pole, picked them up with great difficulty, and took a few steps to the other side. Hearing Bucky's inquiry, he tried to stop and answer, but he stumbled and fell forward. Bucky hurriedly jumped forward and held Stephen to avoid close contact between his erect nose and the ground.

"Thank you, Barnes." Stephen gasped twice before he lifted his bandaged hands and continued, "I came here to find a cure for my hands, and the Supreme Mage said that as long as I removed this wall, I could heal the injuries on my hands. ”

"Tear down this wall?"

Bucky looked at the hole that Stephen had smashed in, the wall wasn't too thick, and although Stephen looked like he couldn't do anything, it didn't seem that difficult to remove it.

Stephen nodded, and picked up the stones that had been thrown out of the barrel from the near-fall, carefully so as not to aggravate the injuries to his hands.

"The Supreme Mage is a magical person, and although I don't understand why removing this wall can heal my hands, I am willing to do anything for the sake of my hands."

As he spoke, Stephen again struggled to pick up the two barrels with his pole and walked into the distance.

"Stephen will be a good arcane master in the future."

A familiar voice sounded from behind Bucky, and when he turned around, Bucky saw Wang on crutches and calmly looking at Stephen who was walking away.

Looking at the much older and bowed king, Bucky asked with concern, "King, how are you feeling now?" ”

"I'm fine, it's just that my mana is exhausted, and it will probably take a long time to replenish the consumed mana." The king walked with a vague footstep and needed the help of a cane, which did not seem as simple as he said he was fine. The king pointed to Stephen, who was struggling to move forward with gravel, and said, "The mystic mage guards this world from the destruction of other worlds, and we are all willing to give everything for this goal, and I am willing, and in the future, when Stephen becomes an arcane mage, he will also work hard for this as a lifelong goal." ”

Ten days have passed in a flash, and the invasion of the dark world seems to have stopped temporarily, perhaps thousands of dark hounds have exhausted Dormammu's power, and the king of the dark world, who has always wanted to invade the earth, also needs to rest.

In order not to miss any opportunity to improve his mental power, Bucky has been staying in Kama-Taj these days, but let the king who has recovered his magic power teleport back to New York with him once, and retrieve his Edman shortsword and left arm armor, so that Bucky can also exert his strongest strength.

"How so!"

On this day, a terrible cry reached Bucky's ear, it was Stephen's voice. Bucky went out and saw that in front of Stephen was a stone wall more than four meters high and half a meter thick.

Standing in front of the stone wall, Stephen's mouth was wide open, as if he couldn't believe everything in front of him, stepped forward, pressed his hands on the stone wall, felt the hardness of the wall, and only then confirmed with half-belief that the stone wall that had almost been demolished yesterday was now not only rebuilt in front of him, but also taller and stronger. The touch of his hands could not convince Stephen completely, he raised the hammer and smashed it the stone wall, but this stone wall was stronger, Stephen smashed it with all his strength, and only a little small gravel collapsed, and the shock force made Stephen unable to grasp the handle of the hammer, and the sledgehammer broke off, holding his hands and falling to the ground in pain and groaning.

"It must be a test of the Supreme Mage!"

Stephen endured the sharp pain in his hands, stood up, swung the sledgehammer again, and began the work of tearing down the wall. At the end of the day, Stephen demolished a corner of the wall, although it was only a small corner, but Stephen believed that if this continued, one day, he would be able to completely tear it down.

But when Stephen dragged his tired body back to his prison-like hut, the king came to the corner of the wall that Stephen had demolished, and with a wave of his hand, he used a secret spell to restore the corner that had been demolished.

This scene, which happened to be seen by Bucky, couldn't help but shake his head, and sighed to himself: "Poor Stephen, there is still a long way to go on the road to becoming a Supreme Mage!" ”

The next day, Stephen looked at the restored corner of the wall in a daze, rubbed his eyes, and after making sure that all this was true, he couldn't help but hang his head and grit his teeth to cheer himself up: "This is a test, there is no gain without paying, this must be a test of the Supreme Mage!" ”

For several days, Stephen tore down a corner of the wall every day, and the king would always restore it after Stephen was gone, and Stephen seemed to have been doing useless work.

Finally, Stephen could no longer bear such useless work day after day, and when he found Wang, his tone was excited and a little angry, and he asked, "I don't know why you think that what I have done will help my hands, but in fact it has no effect at all, and the condition of my hands is getting worse and worse!" ”

Wang was not angry at Stephen's questioning, and his tone remained calm, saying, "You shouldn't use this to measure the effectiveness of the treatment. ”

"What is that yard by that, by this wall that will be rebuilt every day!" Stephen raised his hands, his eyes darkened, and said pleadingly, "Please tell me, when will my hands be better?" ”

Wang shook his head and said, "It's not a matter of hands, it hasn't always been, you shouldn't focus on your hands." ”

"Listen, I'm a doctor, a surgeon, I need my hands to pick up a scalpel, I need to use my hands to save lives!"

"No, you don't."

The king's words made Stephen stunned, and he looked at the king in a daze for a long time, then lowered his hands and said in disappointment: "Since this is the case, then I have no reason to stay." ”

With that, Stephen walked towards the gate of the Temple of the Ancients without looking back, preparing to leave the Temple of the Ancients and leave Kama Taj.

"Just let him go? It's not as warm outside as it is here. ”

Bucky, who had witnessed all this from a distance, walked up to the king and asked, seeing that Stephen was about to leave in his thin clothes.

"This ......" The king was also a little hesitant, not sure whether to stop Stephen.

"Let him go."

It was the Ancient One Mage who spoke, and the Supreme Mage had been keeping an eye on Stephen, but was not prepared to stop him.

Seeing the appearance of the Ancient One Mage, Bucky and the king both saluted respectfully, and then Bucky spoke: "However, Stephen is just an ordinary person, and he can't live without this." ”

"It's his choice." The Ancient One Mage looked at the back of Stephen leaving, and said leisurely, "Moreover, he will definitely find his way back here in the end." ”

Besides, Stephen came to the entrance of Kama Taj in thin clothes, and the moment he arrived, a step appeared in front of his eyes, and Stephen realized that outside Kama Taj was a cold and snowy field, and the altitude altitude of nearly nine thousand meters was definitely below minus 40 degrees.

Stephen's first instinct was to go back and get his clothes, but before he could take a step, he remembered that he didn't seem to need to go back to get his clothes. As a surgeon, my hands are gone, and now I have nothing. In order to treat his hands, Stephen tried countless methods, from surgery, to medication, to acupuncture, these treatments cost him all his savings, but there was no effect at all, and now that his only hope was gone, Stephen realized that it seemed that he had nothing to lose but this life.

"Maybe it's a good choice to say goodbye to this world like this."

No longer thinking about the snow outside, Stephen left Kama Taj without looking back. After walking more than 1,500 steps, when Stephen stood on Mount Everest again, he exhausted the last trace of heat in his body and fell straight into the ice and snow. (To be continued.) )