Chapter Twenty-Five: The Ancient One's Collaboration with Nick Fury
"I still choose to refuse. Charles looked at Nick Fury, although Nick Fury's words seemed sincere, but Charles still didn't plan to do these things, except that Charles had made it clear that the transaction was limited to Devil Fruits, and the person who made the request to him in front of him was Nick Fury, and Nick Fury's purpose was never simple.
"Why, Charles, I don't think the safety of the planet is something you don't care about, if you really don't care, then you won't do a lot of things, but you just did it, so, I want to hear your reasons. "Nick Fury wasn't surprised by Charles' rejection, but he was confident he could convince Charles.
"I remember telling you that the Earth is protected by the Ancient One, not you, so you just have to ......" Charles continued his old routine, the Ancient One is the one who protects the Earth, and the threat from outer space is handled by the Ancient One.
"Are you talking about Kama Taj's Ancient One Master? She has already told me that she is only responsible for defending against the invasion of the Earth by other dimensions, and the real invasion of Kama Taj will not take the initiative to bear it, and most importantly, she is dying, although there will be a new Supreme Mage to succeed her, but the new Supreme Mage may not be as powerful as the Ancient One, unless you are willing to be the new Supreme Mage, are you willing?" Fury interrupted Charles' ramblings and said what he knew, and it seemed that the Ancient One had told him a lot of things.
“......”
Faced with Nick Fury's question, Charles could only be silent, he might have guessed that Nick Fury had met with the Ancient One, but he didn't guess that the Ancient One had told him so many things, even the fact that she was going to die.
"Kama Taj is not isolated from the world, and the name of the Ancient One is not unknown to anyone, since you have already told me the name of the Ancient One, we can naturally find out Kama Taj, Charles, what are you surprised about?"
"Hmph~" In the face of Nick Fury's questioning, Charles could only make a "hum" sound from his nose, without saying anything or asking anything.
"I know what you want to know, why did the Ancient One tell me so many things, right?" Nick Fury began to answer himself in response to Charles's silence, and then told Charles how he met the Ancient One.
"We knew about Kama Taj a long time ago, and we also visited us, but we were all rejected by the Ancient One, and it wasn't until after the Sokvia incident that the Ancient One was willing to contact us, and we established initial trust between each other, and the Ancient One told us that the main reason why she was willing to contact us was because of you, and it was what you did that made the Ancient One willing to contact us, Charles, since you have helped us, why are you so resistant to helping us again?" Fury continued to ask, but his words also relieved Charles of why the Ancient One was willing to contact S.H.I.E.L.D.
As the guardian of the earth, it is impossible for the Ancient One not to want to save Sokvia, but the Mind Gem does not want the Ancient One, who has the Time Stone, to intervene in the actions of the Avengers, so he arranged for the Avengers to wage war with the Ancient One again and again for various legitimate reasons, so that the Ancient One is very wary of the Avengers and even S.H.I.E.L.D., but Charles pierced the deception of the Mind Gem, making the Ancient One consider whether the Avengers would really be controlled by the Mind Gem in the past timeline, and then she began to let down her guard and began to contact the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., that is, NickFury.
In contact with Nick Fury, the Ancient One also discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers are indeed organizations dedicated to protecting the Earth, and they don't mind protecting the Earth with Kama Taj, not the kind of Earth protector who wants to control Kama Taj in Ancient One's original impression, and the Ancient One, who let down his guard, began to think about what happened after his death, yes, she experienced her own death and knew that her death was inevitable.
Regarding the position of the Supreme Mage, the best successor in the mind of the Ancient One is naturally Charles, especially after Nick Fury shamelessly broke Charles's identity as the "Son of the Plane", the Ancient One was even more satisfied with Charles, "Soul Immortality", the power at the level of rules, the Ancient One very much wanted to know that if Charles succeeded to the position of the Supreme Mage, would the earth's magic protective net become unbreakable like his house.
However, although the ancient one really wanted Charles to inherit her position, the ancient one knew that this matter could not force Charles to do it, Charles's heart was not mature enough, if he was in a hurry to let Charles bear the responsibility he was unwilling to bear, it might cause the opposite effect, and the harm caused by the time might be unbearable for the earth, Nick Fury also recognized this, and they all felt that Charles needed a little bit of growth before he could take on this responsibility.
And Charles's protection of the Inhumans made the two of them see a little light, if it weren't for the fact that the Ancient One felt that he might not live to see Charles really grow up and be willing to take on the responsibility of protecting the earth, Nick Fury would never come to Charles for a spaceship this time, they were willing to wait for Charles to grow up slowly.
But there is no ifs in this world, the death foreseen by the ancient one is coming, and once the news of the loss of the supreme mage on the earth spreads to other worlds, the earth will face greater challenges, challenges in the real sense, the ancient one feels a little emotional every time he thinks of these, if in the past timeline, she can find Charles in advance, so that she can promote Charles to grow up earlier, and even she has the intention of resetting the time, and then giving Charles time to grow.
It's a pity that this option was rejected by the ancient one's sanity, Charles is not a person who can be controlled, and now he has forcibly disrupted his life, in the next timeline, it is doubtful whether he is willing to help the world again, after all, the family relationship between Laura and his unintentional establishment is the driving force for Charles to try to change the world, and in another timeline, whether Charles is willing to establish such an inseparable family relationship with Laura is something that the ancient one cannot guarantee.
After this option was denied, the Ancient One told Nick Fury that no aliens on Earth now dare to occupy it, mostly because he is strong enough, but the new Supreme Mage is not as powerful as himself, and Kama Taj may only be able to defend against invasions from other dimensions after his death, and in the real world, the Avengers are needed to protect, and Kama Taj may not be able to provide any help.
After Nick Fury heard the words of the Ancient One, he immediately understood what the Ancient One meant, the crisis of the invasion of the alien army was imminent, and the power of the Earth in outer space was so weak, the Earth might be shattered by this battle.
"Go find Charles, since he can create something like a Devil Fruit that doesn't exist in the first place, then it can also allow humans to fight freely in space, Mr. Fury, there may not be much time for Charles to grow, you need to let Charles do more. ”
For Nick Fury's fear, the ancient one told him a direction, since Charles can create Devil Fruits, then it shouldn't be a problem to build a spaceship that can fight in space, and being able to make Charles do more good things may make Charles grow up faster, which was recognized by Nick Fury, and then there was this visit.