In New York, it was not yet 7 o'clock on a sunny morning, and the streets of Manhattan were already busy, with the Wall Street elite in suits and leather shoes holding reports in their hands, spitting out a lot of technical terms into the phone as they walked, the owner of a coffee shop was struggling to move the magazine shelves to the door, the fast-food restaurant was lined up in the lanes, the cars of all kinds were like parts on an assembly line, and the sunlight reflected by the rearview mirrors and the glass curtain walls of high-rise buildings complemented each other.

Summer is coming to an end, but iced coffee is never out of the market, and in front of the sanatorium on the corner of the street, there are many young people who drink coffee and read magazines, Schiller leans on a lamppost in front of the sanatorium, holding a cup of coffee in one hand and making a phone call in the other.

“…… Yes, I forgot, but I'm the dean, so you can't let the dean be locked out of the sanatorium, right? ”

"You say you have something, what can you do? Wasn't the resignation process at the Presbyterian Hospital already handed over? It's been months, and what else do you have to keep busy with besides your work at the nursing home? ”

"You became a distinguished doctor at Presbyterian Hospital? Hey, you went out to find a part-time job without the consent of me, the dean? …… You can't find my people? Are you justified then? The contract clearly says ......"

"Okay, okay, I know you're a person with a career, don't worry so much, hurry up and send me the key......"

"A madman who trespassed on a private house found you? Same as me? I'm not...... Then why didn't you call the police? Don't know the 911 phone number? ”

"Who? A bald head in yellow? That's fine, you can take a holiday today, bye-bye! ”

"Oh, one last word, it's better to be polite to her and come to work alive tomorrow!"

After Schiller finished speaking, he hung up the phone quickly, he took a sip of coffee, and thought to himself, as soon as he returned to Marvel, he heard a good news, a good start.

At this time, in Strange's apartment, Gu Yi waved his hand, and the starry sky surrounded her, and the endless starry sky seemed to be shrouded behind her.

Strange watched all of this in shock, and in an instant, the magical brilliance disappeared again, except for the faint flickering robe of the ancient one, everything seemed to have never appeared. The Ancient One looked at Strange and asked him, "What do you think?" ”

Strange opened his mouth wide, basking in shock and not answering. It's not that he hasn't seen Schiller use magic before, but Schiller can float a ballpoint pen or something at most, how can there be such a big scene of the universe descending?

As everyone knows, Gu Yi also sighed in his heart, and the development of things was really beyond her expectations.

This matter also starts with the advent of the so-called bat god at that time,

At that time, the so-called bat god guard who descended from the Morun family was actually just a shameless stowaway, no different from a rat that secretly burrowed into a hole.

Because of the existence of Odin and the Ancient One, not everyone can come to this part of the earth, and Odin is furious, and the gods of the symbiote are all right, not to mention the Ancient One, every day is either beating the creditor, or on the way to the creditor.

The demon gods who attacked with great fanfare, those who walked through the front gate were all split into dumpling fillings, and those who walked through the side doors were beaten into even more broken dumpling fillings, and most of the rest were smart, although they coveted this place, no one dared to act rashly.

But the front door and side doors are blocked, that is, some people are not dirty and love to drill rat holes.

Throughout the long history of the earth, the ritual of summoning evil gods has a long history.

In the era when the position of Supreme Mage did not exist, when humans had just formed tribes, freed themselves from the blood of Rumao, and began to establish civilization, many tribes would have sorcerers and priests who used witchcraft to communicate with the world.

Most of them are just psychological comfort, but a small number of them have succeeded in finding the right owner.

At that time, the sorcerers of the tribe used some rituals to summon part of the power of the evil gods to the earth, and exchanged the living sacrifices for the evil power to attack other tribes.

At that time, some evil gods would leave their own marks and exclusive passages to facilitate the summoning of their followers.

After Gu Yi became a supreme mage, he did not miss the gaps and solve these problems left over from history, and the demon gods who dared to do so also paid the price for their youth and frivolity, and became fertilizer for the earth's defense system.

Although Gu Yi hacked most of the imprudent demon gods along the network line, there were also some cunning demon gods, and the passages they buried were relatively hidden, although Gu Yi carried out several demon sweeps and fought evil, there were always a few fish that slipped through the net.

What vampires use is a passage that slips through the net.

This race lives a long time, and they always get their hands on something strange, and they have found a way to communicate the universe in some of the witchcraft books left over from antiquity.

The ignorant are fearless, they send a signal directly into deep space, and there happens to be a member of the Morun family hunting in this universe, and he is like a bloodhound, quickly locking here.

He came to Earth silently from this smuggling passage, intending to hunt Spider-Man while he was in trouble.

The story was normal so far, until the giant venom bat rose into the air, and the Ancient One, after communicating with some higher level of mystical power, got the answer that a new beast totem was being born.

Of course, she got busy, if there really was a new beast totem to be born in this universe, then of course the Earth Supreme Mage Gu Yi had a lot to prepare, such as debt collection, chopping dumpling stuffing, and a new round of demon sweeping.

In short, after this big event, the busiest person will be the ancient one.

This led to the problem that she had little time to keep an eye on her future heir, Strange, for such a short period of time, or rather, the busy Ancient One had forgotten about it altogether.

Who knows, in such a short period of time, Strange's life has changed dramatically.

One of the most significant and impactful changes was that he became rich overnight.

In the past, Strange was not without money, and as the best neurosurgeon in the world, his income was quite high, but obviously, getting a dead salary is never as fast as making money from the wrong side.

Ever since he became a medical advisor to Stark Osborne United Pharmaceuticals, giving lectures around the world on the efficacy of the immortal factor, and endorsing this mysterious drug as his elite doctor, Strange suddenly found it as if the whole world was busy stuffing him with money.

Stark and Osborne's companies would give him a large sum of money as a salary, and in addition to that, S.H.I.E.L.D. would also give him a portion of the honorarium, and the nursing home would also pay him, which was not even his main source of income.

There are many poor people in this world who only have money left, such as the big Middle East investors who sit on black gold, the Far Eastern oligarchs who grasp the finances, and the monopoly predators in certain industries. Not necessarily.

It's just that they are too rich, even if they spend money to listen to it, as long as it sounds good, they are happy.

In this case, they are willing to pay a lot of money for a top doctor who tells them every day that "it works", even if it is just a placebo effect, it doesn't matter, the money is just a number anyway.

In this case, even the price offered by one of them to Strange would make him dizzy for a long time.

And Strange was indeed stunned by the money.

In essence, Strange at this time was not a naturally good person like Peter Parker, and a large part of his high pursuit of his career was due to the generous remuneration and honorary status that his professional level could bring him, which was human nature.

And the sudden rush of wealth almost instantly overwhelmed his view of money, and Strange suddenly discovered that money was not actually the reward for labor, and he did not pay any actual labor, but just repeated a few words as a repeater, and then went to the palatial banquet to eat and drink, and said a few words to the richest man in the world, and the money flew into his pocket by itself.

Strange found that the way the world economy works seemed to be a scam in the first place, and after jumping from being a victim of a fraud to a liar, he suddenly became less entangled in it.

After all, being a rich man is really happy.

So, when Gu Yi took the time to take a look at Strange after a while, she found that Strange seemed to see it.

Just as she was about to find out what had happened during this time, she was stumped by a little trouble, and the head of the New York Sanctuary cried and asked to be transferred, and the Ancient One had to appease the apprentices and find a way to reconnect the Sanctuary to WIFI.

But what she didn't expect was that the quantitative change of money can produce a qualitative change.

It didn't take long for Pepper to finish the important work of the transfer of power from Stark Group, and began to reorganize these industries related to the Immortal Factor, and established the Immortal Factor Foundation, and Strange became a member of it.

When you get a stake in such an important property, everything is different.

In simple terms. From a worker, he became a capitalist overnight.

He didn't know whether Strange had a rich heart and couldn't be lewd, but obviously, the ancient one who came back from his busy work felt that he didn't.

When the Supreme Mage returned, she found that things were going in the wrong direction without looking back.

Due to Schiller's absence, Strange has become an indispensable and important figure in the professional field of the entire immortality factor industry, and his importance is rising steadily, and even has reached a pivotal position.

This means that in this industry, he has become a person as important as Stark and Osborne. In order to carry on this credibility, Osborne Group plans to open a company for him to improve the industry level of United Pharmaceuticals, and the process of opening a company is almost complete before Gu Yi comes to his door.

The future Supreme Master is about to be gone forever on the path of the capitalists.

But the Ancient One knew that if Strange really became a capitalist who controlled the lifeblood of industry as important as Stark or Osborne, then neither a car accident nor the death of an important loved one would allow him to get rid of the entanglement of worldly fame and fortune and turn to the occult.

Even if he wanted to, those who could dig out of him wouldn't allow him to do so.

For example, if Stark is going to leave everything behind and escape into the empty door now, the first person who is in a hurry will have to be the president of the United States, and his blood pressure will rise urgently.

Once these people are involved, things will become very troublesome, the ancient one has been in the position of the Supreme Mage for so many years, and what he pursues is non-interventionism, and now, Strange's stay is related to the immortality factor industry, and the immortality factor industry is related to the Stark Group, the Osborne Group, S.H.I.E.L.D., the military and the Congress, she doesn't want to conflict with so many forces because of the issue of her heir.

At the same time, the Ancient One is very skeptical, with Strange's current will and character, will he really not be corrupted by money?

What if he really became a wicked capitalist, lying on the pile of money every day, spending all day drinking, burying his head in the road of unearned gains and pleasures? You can't chop him into dumpling stuffing, right?

Things have come to this point, in order to prevent his favored heir from investing capital without looking back, the ancient one decided to make a special case, and those test steps can be omitted first, or it is more important to make sure that his Strange does not go astray first.

So, on the very morning that Schiller was locked outside the sanatorium without his key, Strange was first truly introduced to the wizarding world from the Ancient One, and received an invitation from Kama Taj to study abroad.

That's right, it's an invitation to study abroad, not a generous merciful acceptance of apprentices or something.

After all, the current situation is not that Strange is begging his grandfather to sue his grandmother all over the world to find someone to treat his illness, but that the ancient one is optimistic about Strange's talent and doesn't want him to be dazzled by worldly fame and fortune, so he takes the initiative to come to the door, and this invitation is naturally much more polite.

And the Ancient One also knew that in this case, Strange couldn't just leave, too many people were pointing at him to make money, and if he was just taken away, the network cable that the sanctuary had just connected would have to be cut again.

Therefore, the Supreme Mage was very open-minded and said that Strange could go to school, for example, after work, go to the Sanctuary portal to go to class for a few hours, and then come back in the morning.

Gu Yi also asked Strange to think about it for two days before answering, after all, she also had to think about it, in case Strange didn't agree, what kind of car accident would make him change his mind and be a new person.

Strange was still in a trance when he came to work in the afternoon, and it was clear that the magic displayed by the ancient one shocked him even more.

Schiller's floating ballpoint pen and the like are not unseen in magic, and they are more like tricks than magic.

But Gu Yi is a real supreme mage, every move and style is honed from thousands of demon gods who have been chopped into dumpling fillings, and experts make a move, not to mention ordinary people like Strange who have been studying science for the first half of their lives, even the most creative magicians in the world, will be shocked by the infinite power from magic in her.

"Does all this we do really make sense?" Strange sat on the desk, his eyes a little dull and asked, "I've studied knowledge and technology for so many years, what kind of magic is that...... They can do it all with a wave of their hand......"

Strange looked down at his finger, he pointed to it and said, "I was chopping vegetables before, and I got a cut on my finger, and it's right here......"

"Then she waved her hand, and the wound was healed, no medical technology, no medicine, no doctor's ......"

So what is the meaning of the existence of human medicine? What is the purpose of my existence? ”

"A patient is lying in a hospital bed, he can go to a group of magicians and wave at him, and then I can get out of here, because there is no more than a dozen hours of surgery, and there is no need for any post-operative rehabilitation......"

Strange spread his hand, he opened his mouth, but nothing came out.

Then he asked Schiller, very confused: "You're all in the same group, aren't you?" You magicians, what do you think of ordinary people? Do you think we're stupid and ridiculous? Spend decades learning and honing your skills and end up ......"

He smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "It's like a swarm of ants that only spin around in the mud, right?" ”

"Then why don't you try it yourself?" Schiller sat across from him and said, "Go and see if magic is as easy and easy as you think?" ”

"What could be easier than waving a hand? This doesn't make any sense at all. Strange sighed, covered his forehead and said, "I have known since I was very young that there are people in this world who can easily obtain things that you will not be able to obtain in your life. ”

"They don't have to put in any effort, just because they're lucky, the world is inherently unfair."

"But......" he paused, then added, "it's still more unfair than I could have imagined." ”

Strange smiled, but looked very difficult, and said, "Now it seems that the rich people are just fools who have been kept in the dark, and that's the only good news I've heard today." ”

"Do you know how Stark thinks about magic?"

Strange looked at Schiller, he really wanted to say that he didn't care what Stark was a nasty thing, but he did want to know what this group of people who were already at the top of ordinary humans and had gained the most fame and fortune in the world thought of such an extraordinary thing.

"At the time of the vampire invasion, he also thought about this problem, the immortality, even immortality that ordinary people dream of, those big bats are born with, they are very strong and powerful, even well-trained ordinary people have to be in groups to deal with one of them, which seems really unfair, like the creator's partial joke."

"But then I think about it, this kind of thing happened thousands of years ago, in the ancient barbarian age, the human body was completely incomparable to those beasts with sharp claws, but in the end we still survived to this day, and developed such a prosperous civilization."

"But it's different." Strange points out the flaw in this view: "It is still humans and not beasts who can do magic, they have all the advantages of humans, they have intelligence, they can think, they can pass it on. ”

"And she mentioned to me that they are also organized, just like ordinary people, in groups and in a division of labor, they have all the advantages of ordinary humans, plus magic ......"

"Then why didn't they rule over humanity? Or why did you hear of them in your previous life? Why doesn't such a superior and powerful group stand in front of the public and lead humanity to greater glory? ”

Strange was silent, and Schiller said to him: "Perhaps there is a possibility that their abilities are indeed completely superior to ordinary people, and they are nobler than us, and they will not use this ability to enslave ordinary people." ”

"And you and I both know that human beings have wisdom, they will have ambitions and desires, if they are really so superior, can achieve in an instant what ordinary people can't achieve for decades, and don't have to pay any price, then we will definitely see in the history books a tragic war between them and ordinary people."

"Humans even want to dominate other humans by nationality and skin color, let alone a truly superior ability?"

"So......" Strange said with some hesitation.

"So of course they have to pay the price." Schiller spread his hands and said, "If you still don't believe it, then why not give it a try?" ”

"I'm ......" Strange closed his eyes, he frowned, looking a little pained, after all, anyone who was denied years of hard work would feel very depressed.

But he had to admit that he was curious about this magical power.

Or, in other words, knowing magic in this way, Strange was more puzzled, he wondered, where did this power come from, and why was it so powerful? Is there really no drawbacks?

Schiller looked at Strange and thought that now, this future Supreme Mage did not actively pursue magic because of a strong desire to save himself or save people, but on such an ordinary and ordinary morning, he learned the truth about the other half of this world.

He was hit hard, but he thought differently, and Strange still had room to think about some philosophical questions, instead of using magic as the only straw like a desperate stray dog.

The change of social identity gave Strange a lot of initiative in the face of the ancient times.

Strange still has a way out, even if he doesn't become a Supreme Mage, he can still be a happy rich man in ordinary society, and even if he still becomes a Supreme Mage later, he can still play an important role in this society.

This is also Schiller's purpose.

Schiller always believed that a Supreme Mage who was completely detached from human society was not good enough, and that when they put themselves in a position of seclusion and superiority for a long time, their mentality would gradually change, and they would be separated from ordinary human beings, forgetting that they were also born in this ordinary society, which is the root of all things.

And this is likely to make them the greatest threat to human society.

Even if Strange, like the Ancient One, can truly transcend the world and stick to his original heart, his role is too small, and with the status and ability of the Supreme Mage, he can do a little more.

The more others do, the more Schiller can do less and more paid time to fish.

Therefore, Schiller chose the money offensive and smashed Strange, the future Supreme Mage, with a pie falling from the sky, so that he should not be too far away from this society.

Schiller asked Strange, "Isn't it fun to be rich?" ”

"Of course it's happy." Strange subconsciously replied: "How can you be unhappy if you have money?" ”

"You may feel happy to be a rich man now, but after you've been exposed to magic and great magic, you'll find ......"

"Isn't being happy enough to be rich?"

“…… You will find that being a rich man is really happy. ”