Chapter 177: Doctor Strange Supreme

Doctor Strange?

Jack was curious why they needed to find Doctor Strange.

Why not go directly to the Ancient One?

The Watcher clearly had no intention of explaining further.

With Natasha and Jack, he directly passed through the cosmic crystal wall and arrived at a...

Small dark space?

It looked like an upside-down bowl with odd crystal walls that made a circle around the three of them to keep them safe.

At first glance, Jack recognized where they were, and that's why he found it somewhat unbelievable.

"Oh my, who on earth turned the universe into this?"

He looked around with a disgusted expression and jokingly said,

"The endless universe has collapsed into this mess? They should have made it smaller."

This place was barely larger than his living room, or maybe even smaller.

If it weren't for a strange force supporting it, this universe would have disappeared completely.

He was honestly curious about which idiot had a talent.

How could they turn a perfectly fine universe into this?

"You better not ask about this directly,"

The Watcher replied, glancing back at him.

"It's not a nice memory."

"I can imagine,"

Jack responded.

Looking at this miserable state, there was nothing nice about it.

"Oh, yes, it's indeed a bad memory."

A voice came from a dark corner nearby.

Jack followed the sound and was surprised to see a figure lurking in the shadows, with like tentacles wriggling all over his body and eyes covering its face, staring directly at them.

This view raised Jack's eyebrow slightly.

This person could actually escape his perception, which showed that he was not like other ordinary people.

Wait, weren't they here to find Doctor Strange?

Could this be him?

Even Natasha seemed startled by this appearance and instinctively wanted to make a move.

Luckily, the Watcher stopped her and looked up at the figure, saying,

"I need your help."

"Haha, the famous Watcher needs help?"

The other person clearly didn't believe it, and his words were filled with sarcasm and resentment, obvious even to Jack.

"So even I can't do anything about it."

"Same old excuse!"

The person seemed to be getting angry and slowly stepped out of the shadows.

Once Jack got a clear look at their face, he was both amazed and deeply puzzled.

"Um... Strange? What's going on with you?"

He looked at the person in front of him with a confused expression, realizing it was the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange.

However, this Doctor Strange was different.

No, he was very different.

A thick aura of darkness surrounded him, and his face was pale, resembling a vampire more than the Sorcerer Supreme.

"Something happened,"

Doctor Strange answered, and it was clear he did not want to talk about it anymore.

After sizing up Jack for a moment, he looked at the Watcher and asked,

"What's your purpose for coming here?"

"There's a disaster that threatens the multiverse, and I need your help..."

"I won't do it!"

Before the Watcher could finish his sentence, Doctor Strange interrupted him, decisively refusing without any hesitation.

The Watcher seemed to have predicted this result.

He sighed deeply and said,

"Do you still hate me?"

"Hate you? No, I hate myself."

Doctor Strange laughed sarcastically, and his face filled with regret.

He walked to the side and sat down on the ground, leaning against the crystal wall, gazing above.

"You know, during my time here, I've thought a lot. It's all my fault, as the Ancient One said. But it's too late... everything is too late."

"Um... can I interrupt for a moment?"

At this moment, Jack, who had been invisible all along, raised his hand and asked,

"Um... can you please explain what you did? And how did this place end up like this? Because I'm really curious."

Doctor Strange glanced at him and sighed, saying,

"Well, it's nothing. I wanted to save someone, someone I loved. I traveled through time countless times trying to save her from dying, and finally... I succeeded..."

Doctor Strange stopped here, as if he was having difficulty to continue. It was as if he was trying hard not to recall what happened next.

"But the timeline collapsed because of it."

The Watcher took over and continued,

"Due to often interference with time, the cannon event in the timeline were reversed, breaking the continuity of the entire spacetime."

"So, the universe became like this?"

Jack nodded understandingly and looked sympathetically at the gloomy Doctor Strange.

He understood what had happened.

In simple terms, it was a time paradox.

Jack didn't know the exact details, but he could make a wild guess.

The death of Doctor Strange's lover changed him into the person he is now.

And once he used the Time Stone to go back in time and stop her death from happening, the things that happened before wouldn't have happened.

It's important to mention that Doctor Strange didn't time travel to a different timeline.

Whatever he did wouldn't affect his own timeline.

In order to rewrite the result of his lover's death, he directly changed the past of his own timeline.

This, in turn, disrupted the continuity of time, causing the entire timeline to collapse. And this place was the ruins after the timeline collapse, like an independent pocket universe.

"I have no interest in going after Ultron. It has nothing to do with me,"

Doctor Strange continued.

"He will be stopped by someone eventually, and even if no one stops him, no one here is interested in getting involved."

Jack nodded.

He understood that with the death of his lover and the destruction of this universe because of him, Doctor Strange had completely lost his sense of purpose.

Now he was just locking himself up here as a form of punishment.

The Watcher sighed, realizing that he was helpless.

Convincing Doctor Strange to help in his current state was indeed not easy.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed in Jack's mind.

Continuity of spacetime?

Wasn't he known as the one beyond time?

Didn't that Kang and the Ancient One mention that he could freely interfere with time without consequences?

If that was true, then there was a chance to do something.

When he shared this information with the Watcher and Doctor Strange, the Watcher had a look of sudden realization, while Doctor Strange looked at him with disbelief.

"This is impossible!"

Doctor Strange muttered to himself.

Suddenly, he put up his hand to use the Eye of Agamotto, and a green light glowed to Jack.

Jack didn't resist.

He knew that Doctor Strange only wanted to confirm something.

As expected, after waiting for a moment and seeing no change in Jack, Doctor Strange lowered his hand with an expression of utter astonishment.

"This... this is impossible!"

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