But Algrim was like Aldrich Killian and regenerated quickly and wouldn't die just with that strength, Jack didn't even want to kill Algrim, he just wanted to test his strength limits against someone strong.
Jack hit Algrim a few more times using Raiton Chakura Mōdo, stopped, waiting for Algrim to regenerate, and deactivated Raiton Chakura Mōdo. After Algrim recovered, he didn't advance to try to hit Jack and was afraid.
Jack didn't care about that and soon opened the 2nd Inner Gate. Jack realized that not all Inner Gates increased strength, some only increased speed, which was useless for Jack in this fight.
So only the 2nd and 4th increase strength, and after the 4th, all other Inner Gates increase strength. Jack's 2nd increased his strength by 20 times, so he would have a force of over 8,000 tons.
This time, a few punches from Jack almost killed Algrim, which meant that with this strength, Jack could also kill Thor. He wasn't sure if Thor could increase his strength even more if Jack were close to killing him, but that was with Thor's current strength.
Jack realized how he had exaggerated by opening the 7th to destroy the Dark Elves' mother ship. With the 2nd Inner Gate, he could destroy the Dark Elves' mother ship with Stormbreaker. Jack looked at Algrim, who was almost dead and stopped the tests.
He trapped Algrim again with the reality stone and erased his memories of this fight so that next time Algrim would have the courage to fight him again. After doing that, Jack returned to Earth.
Jack left more food for Norman for a few months and saw that he was still holding up despite being imprisoned for years. Then he told Tony and Peter that this time he would be away from Earth for a few months.
Jack had an idea to take advantage of the fact that nothing would happen for a few years and wanted to try to help Bruce Banner start controlling his Hulk form. Jack remembered that Bruce took less than 5 years to do this on his own.
With his help and the Reality Stone and the Mind Stone, Jack thought Bruce could control the Hulk in less than 2 years. But to help Bruce control the Hulk, Jack needed to leave Earth and go to where Algrim was.
So the Hulk could fight against Algrim a few times to calm his anger, and Jack would also fight against the Hulk. But if he opened the 2nd Inner Gate, he would be stronger than the Hulk and would beat him until the Hulk got angrier.
The Hulk would infinitely increase his strength if he got angrier, but Jack wouldn't be stupid enough to beat him until Hulk had 8,000 tons of strength. After all, Jack's defense wasn't equal to that strength and he could die.
So Jack decided to do something he had been procrastinating on. He learned that the Infinity Stones were the best teachers for him to control his new magic, so Jack wanted to borrow the Time Stone from the Ancient One.
He didn't want to keep the Time Stone for himself because he couldn't hide it as he did with the others. After all, the Ancient One would always know he had it. But to train his magic, Jack would borrow it.
Jack went to Kamar-Taj again after a long time. After all, he had been busy for the past few months. Jack felt at peace in this place again, but he didn't have much time to rest now and went to talk to the Ancient One.
"Jack, it's been many months since I last saw you. It's amazing how your talent for magic has increased. Now you are far superior to Stephen, and I can't see the limit of your talent. This is strange, someone's talent for magic is determined before they are born and cannot change," said the Ancient One.
"I think I'm different, that's why maybe the Vishanti asked you to teach me," said Jack.
"It's possible, after all, with your current talent, you can become a god of magic like them and join the Vishanti in the future, but you didn't come here to talk, what do you need, Jack," said the Ancient One.
"I need to borrow the Time Stone for a few years, I have important training to do and it requires the Time Stone. You know how Earth will face various dangers in the coming years, I have to improve my magic significantly in the next few years," said Jack.
The Ancient One didn't respond. Normally, she couldn't lend the Time Stone to anyone as it was very dangerous and could break the fabric of reality and time, creating many timelines and even affecting the multiverse.
But in this universe, everything was different. The universe wasn't connected to the multiverse and didn't have other timelines, and Jack was someone whom Vishanti had asked her to teach. So the Ancient One thought she could lend the Time Stone to Jack, who was someone with good morals.
But even knowing all of this, the Ancient One had a feeling that it was dangerous to leave the Time Stone with Jack, even if he didn't intend to do anything wrong with it. The Ancient One didn't know what it was, but Jack would know because he already had three other Infinity Stones, and it was dangerous for someone to have so many Infinity Stones together.
"Alright, the Vishanti keeps telling me to lend you the Time Stone. I know you won't do anything wrong with it, but I must warn you, even though there aren't other timelines in this universe, changing the past will still change the present," said the Ancient One.
"In addition, even without changing the past, significant changes using the Time Stone for a long time can break the walls of the multiverse and connect this universe to the multiverse again, be careful with that," said the Ancient One.
"I didn't know that, don't worry, I'll just study how time works, I won't change much with the Time Stone. Now I have to go, my time is short," said Jack jokingly.
The Ancient One didn't know why she felt anxious. She knew that Jack was responsible and wouldn't do anything wrong, which showed how well the system of hiding the other Infinity Stones was working.
Surprise, an extra chapter, I promised that I would post an extra chapter when we reached the top 100 of the power stone rankings, which happened yesterday, I didn't forget the promise, here's the extra chapter.
keep giving power stones so I can be generous and give more chapters until Sunday.