Chapter 179: The Second Point in Time
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In the end, Grant still lost. With reservations on both sides, he almost eliminated the other party by taking advantage of the contempt of the young version of the ancient one at the beginning. And then there's you coming and going, and the fight is so lively. In the end, he was just defeated. Compared to being hung and beaten by the other party when he first came to this world, the span of this strength is really amazing.
Subsequently, the young version of the Ancient One could only rest for a day before sending Grant back to the future because of his excessive consumption.
Then Grant saw His Excellency the Supreme Magician, who was more than sixty years old.
"You've wasted too much time!"
As soon as they met, the old version of Gu Yi said this, and his face was terrifyingly dark.
Originally, Grant didn't care. It's just that when he asked to go and see what was going on outside, and how Natasha and Skye were doing, he was rejected by the Ancient One. Gu Yi looked very urgent, and Grant was repeatedly coerced and persecuted by the other party, and the two naturally couldn't get along. So, he only had a fight with the ancient one more than sixty years ago, and now Grant has a fight with the ancient one who is more than sixty years old. Sadly, Grant still lost.
More than 60 years of experience has led to more skill and a precise use of energy. The older version of the Supreme Mage behaved more calmly during the battle with Grant, and was able to start teleporting immediately afterwards. The latter point alone is enough to prove that the old version of Gu Yi is much stronger than the one more than sixty years ago. It's obvious. The supreme magicians of the generation before the young version of Gu Yi said that "his strength has not grown in the slightest in his life" gave Gu Yi a great feeling, so much so that he has not stopped becoming stronger for more than sixty years. And the results are very good.
And now, in Grant's eyes, it is the ancient one of more than forty years ago. Looking at that almost identical face, he felt like he was about to schizophrenia.
This time it's not as simple as stopping the Ancient One from killing one or two guys, as it was during World War II.
At this point in time, the Ancient One was directly at war against a mutant group. This months-long war seemed to be covered with a layer of fog even to future generations.
Some say that the Manhattan Project ushered in the nuclear age, and that the nuclear age brought mutants with it. In fact, mutants have always existed. It's just that most of them haven't been made public before. As communication became more convenient, these people were able to know each other's presence. This is what made some of them determined not to hide anymore. And the one who really defines this type of people as an ethnic group is Charles. Francis. Xavier. It was this future Professor X who used his telepathic ability to locate the vast majority of mutants and make it possible for mutants to huddle.
And the ancient one at this point in time is probably out of the consideration of saving time. When Charles Xavier gathered a group of mutants to prepare to confront another group of mutants, he tried to wipe out the future Professor X and others. It's a pity that he underestimated the strength of Charles and others. In the future, Professor X's telepathy and mind control will make him suffer. In the final moments, he was controlled by Charles's mind control ability, and he was almost killed by the other leader of the mutants, the future Magneto. Lancel died. At that time the latter's coin had already pierced the skin of his temple. However, at the last moment, he regained control of his body and will, and cast a magic spell that turned him into nothingness—the invisible—under intoever circumstances.
This was the first time the Ancient One had fought against the mutant race, and it was also the first time in his life that he was frustrated.
A months-long battle ensued. Although the ancient one, who had summed up his experience in the first defeat, still could not completely exempt Charles from mind control, he already had a lot of experience in dealing with it. This is due to his "out-of-body" ability that he learned from the East. But the future Professor X - which is no longer just "future" at this time - is not bad. Although there is no chance of winning the head-to-head confrontation, Professor X still uses his increasingly sophisticated telepathic and mind control abilities to help his own people escape from the Ancient One's hands again and again. In another mutant, Henry Brown, nicknamed "The Beast". Hank. McCoy provided with the help of a brainwave amplifier modified from radar. He can even fight the Ancient One, using the Ancient One's body as a battlefield to snatch control.
In this way, the fighting between the two sides continued for several months. No one can help anyone.
If that's all there is to it, things are much simpler. Grant only needs to stop the Ancient One's first attack before Professor X and Magneto finish recruiting those mutants. Even he only needs to pass on a word, and the specific persuasion can be handled by the old version of Gu Yi, who has already done a good job of time-stamping.
It's a pity that things are far from that simple.
Since Professor X, Magneto, and their friends were entangled in the Ancient One, they had no chance of getting out, and as a result, the other group of mutants who were supposed to be dealt with by them lived exceptionally well. The leader of the gang, Sebastian. Shaw insists that the beginning of the nuclear age is the beginning of mutants. point, and vainly try to start a nuclear war to make more mutants appear in the world. This allows mutants to replace ordinary humans and gain dominance. To this end, he led his mutant henchmen to provoke a nuclear confrontation between the two most powerful countries of the time, the United States and the Soviet Union, through a series of means. In the end, the third world war, and nuclear war, was triggered in Cuba, which almost destroyed the entire planet and the entire human civilization.
By the time the ancient one learned of the outbreak of nuclear war, the entire northern part of Asia, North America, and Eastern Europe had become a dead place, and nuclear radiation was almost everywhere. At this time, he couldn't care about chasing and killing Professor X and the others who had been forced to Argentina by himself.
It was at this point in time that he returned to a paradise in the Himalayas and performed his first time magic.
Going back in time, he appeared in front of himself and persuaded him to stop destroying mutants. He thought it would be an easy journey, but what he didn't expect was that he was treated as a mutant by his past self.
This time he was still just a rookie. There is neither a timestamp nor a future message, and the fact that he is "invading" the world parabody and cannot effectively predict the true future, so he has no evidence to support him at all. As a result, he was forced to fight with his past self and almost died together.
In the end, the ancient one, who had been old for many months, reluctantly persuaded the ancient one, who had been young for many months, and the two ancient ones understood some of the rules of the timeline after some research. Then the two worked together to develop a plan to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis while trying to kill Professor X and others. However, the two of them were greatly injured in the previous fight, and they still had to retain some of their strength to allow the future Ancient One to return to the future smoothly, so in the end, they were unable to intercept and kill Professor X and others, and the only thing that was successful was to "assist" Professor X and others to stop Sebastian's plot.
In a sentence from later generations, he is still too young.
The Ancient One of the Future returns to the future and guides the timeline to replace the original world with the alternate world. So everyone seems to be happy. It's a pity that he—or "they"—underestimated the power of the timeline once again. After the world's secondary body was successfully mounted, the timeline showed great repair power. Although the Cuban Missile Crisis still hasn't happened, and the most important of the mutants, Professor X and Magneto, are still alive, the ancient one's memory of the whole thing and the whole process has been rewritten, and the part where he traveled back in time to prevent World War III from happening a few months ago has been directly erased!
It wasn't until a few years later that the ancient one had a deeper understanding of time, and this part of the memory was recovered. But after recovering this part of the memory, the original timeline has become blurred.
And now, the ancient one who appeared in front of Grant's eyes, who was more than forty years younger, even the one more than forty years later, didn't know if he was the original ancient one, or the ancient one who had already met another ancient one, or simply the ancient one that had been rewritten by the timeline. In addition, there may be more than one ancient one in the subbody of this world......
Since he didn't know which Ancient One it was, Grant didn't even know. In short, his mission this time is much more complicated than simply sending a message to save the tiger and wolf brothers during World War II. In order to prevent the timeline from making a stronger rejection or rebound, even the old version of the ancient one did not dare to communicate with the ancient one who appeared in the world parabody across the timeline. As a result, Grant was left with only one option.
(ps: About some of the magic abilities of the ancient one, such as "out of the body", etc., light spray, written on Baidu.) The template for the Ancient One here is Doctor Strange. After all, the master and apprentice should regard this as the inheritance of the Supreme Magician. (To be continued)