HIATUS

"So there's a chance for me to bring them to life?", I asked the Ancient One with curiosity.

"There is, but I believe you would require an extremely high amount of life force. I know you use your life force to weaponize it, but it won't be enough. You'll die before you can even bring one of them back to life, and if you think about sacrificing people to bring these pendants to life then I will be your opponent. When that happens then don't even think that I will spare you", she said not even hiding the literal threat she gave me.

"Lifeforce huh. That's also the reason why I came here. I may have a way for you to stop channeling energy from the dark dimension, that is if you want to?" I asked her.

The Ancient One channels energy from the dark dimension to prevent her from aging, but it also makes her more powerful. Channeling energy from the dark dimension makes her physically stronger, as well as increasing her reality-warping abilities.

With her channeling energy from the dark dimension, I wholeheartedly believe that she could fight anyone, even if the person wields at least 2 infinity stones and that's her not using the time stone. The only reason why I believe that she died in canon was because of destiny. If she stopped Kaecillius, I still believe that destiny would have still done something to cause her to die, destiny was her weakness.

The Ancient One showed a conflicted expression and said, "Tell me how you will do it".

"All right then. I need you to open a portal in the state of Missouri, my teleportation can't handle that distance, remind me to borrow your books on runes", I said to her smiling.

She just nodded and opened a portal straight to the forest of Missouri. Once we pass through the portal I said to her, "Grab my hand, it will be my turn to teleport". She obliged, markings were soon visible on my entire body as we vanish from that location.

We appeared in a location where there were 2 of my clones. The clones were guarding something I viewed as extremely valuable. They had placed multiple barriers and illusion seal in the area. In the middle of this formation was Ego's seed.

"This is what I am talking about", I said to her as I showed her Ego's seed.

"What is this?" the Ancient One asked.

So, she doesn't know that this existed. I always wondered why the Ancient One didn't prevent Ego from coming to earth, the simple answer is that she didn't know.

"This is a part of a celestial", I said with a wide smile on my face.

"Celestial? I have read those in our records, but the only recorded accounts of a celestial were from the time of Agamotto himself, during the time when he was the sorcerer supreme. I never knew that a celestial still existed. What do you plan to do with it?", the Ancient One asked as she looks at Ego's seed more closely.

"This contains an incredible amount of life force, I intend to use this. At first, I was only thinking about telling you about this so that I can give you a choice between you channeling energy from the dark dimension or using this as a substitute. Now that I learned that the 3 pendants require life force, then I will use this on them as well. Besides there is literally so much life force here that I doubt we will be able to use it all", I explained to her.

"You are perhaps right, but I believe we can't remove this from here", she said to me.

"Yeah, that's why I left some clones to guard this place as well. I'm already nearly done in making a seal formula that store's life force, maybe in a month or two, I could start mining life force from these. Anyway, could I read some of your books about dimensional energy and rune making? I can write seals but seals use my chakra to power them, I was wondering what could happen if I'm able to use dimensional energy as a power source instead", I asked her.

"I would like to accept your offer in making this my substitute, true my fighting capabilities would be lessened by a level but I believe that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. As for you wanting to borrow the books on dimensional energy, I will allow it", she said to me.

"Thank you, I would appreciate that", I replied.

"Let us return back then", she said as she opened a portal back to the Kamar Taj. We returned back to her room, and she said, "come, we should check up on that little girl". The moment she finishes talking a sword came flying by straight towards her, she was only able to dodge at the very last moment. She was not fast enough though, the blade was still able to wound her left shoulder.

"That was a close one", the Ancient One said.

The blade that went pass her stop at the moment it was at least 2 feet away from me. At this distance, the sword just began to hover.

The sword was beautifully made, it's forging style was similar to how the Japanese sword was made, on the blade itself were multiple writings, writings which I presume to be runes.

"What is this?", I asked the Ancient One as I move to her side and began to heal her cut shoulder.

"This is a sword relic, this was made by a previous Master of the Mystic Arts. The man was recorded to be of Japenese origin, one day a sorcerer found him near the Hong Kong Sanctum. He later became a master of the mystic arts, and he later made this blade. Since then, he was the only person to use this sword, many have tried but the sword never reacted to them, until now. He named this sword 'Heavenly Sword of Gathering Clouds'. Don't say it, I also believe that the name is too much", the Ancient One said with a weird expression.

"It has chosen me?" I asked her.

"Yes, the sword has chosen you to be its new wielder. The sword has the ability to extend and retract its blade to attack incredible distance, and the wielder is said to control the blade telekinetically as well. In his notes, he said that the sword was made of Vibranium", the Ancient One said.

'A sword that has the ability to extend and retract itself? Isn't that similar to Orochimaru's Kusanagi Sword?' I thought to myself.

After healing the Ancient One, I grab the floating sword. I felt the sword was extremely light as if I wasn't even holding anything at all. I made multiple slashes in the air to get a feel about the blade, "This is cool", I said to the Ancient One. After a few moments of playing with the sword, I placed it in a seal and said, "I should go and see Ava already".

The Ancient One nodded and she ushered me in a room where Master Hamir is inspecting Ava. It seems that Master Hamir was still not yet done in assessing her. Ava saw me and I smiled at her.

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ANCIENT ONE POV:

The events of today were intriguing, to say the least. I don't say that often, due to me being centuries old. I thought I had already seen most of the world.

The girl that Ethan brought to Kamar Taj was by far the best candidate to practice the Mystic Arts since the time I became the Sorcerer Supreme. I'm guessing that if she trained in the Mystic Arts then she would only be a level below Stephen Strange when he becomes the next sorcerer supreme.

I am currently holding the Eye of Agamotto, I wanted to see something, I wanted to see if Ethan somehow change my destiny. I seated myself and I began levitating, I began to see multiple alternate futures, I focus on one thing, my death. After viewing millions of possible futures, I stop.

"To think that would happen", I said out loud.

In all the possible futures I saw, time was a blur. The time stone, one of the most powerful relics of the universe could not allow me to view the future clearly. Even my death, something I saw previously in every possible future, now became uncertain.

"Who are you truly Ethan Carter?" I said to myself.