Ch. 33 - The Halo of Nemesis

After that training, the woman was sent to the infirmary while Doflamingo was led by Mordo to his dorm, where he'll be sleeping from now on.

"Here." Mordo handed him a paper that reads 'Shamballa'.

Doflamingo, who has watched Dr. Strange knew that this is the wifi password in Kamar-Taj.

"Thanks." Doflamingo noticed that Mordo was still standing in the front door, so he thanked him.

"....Ehem, alright. I'll leave you on your own. Another practice session will start tomorrow at 8:00 am. Don't be late." Mordo seemed to be embarrassed as he immediately said his last words before closing the door, leaving Doflamingo on his own.

'He's definitely waiting for me to make the same mistake as Dr. Strange and ask him about the Shamballa thing, too bad for him, I already know about this.' Doflamingo can't help but chuckle as he could still remember Mordo's embarrassed expression before leaving.

'I should probably go to the library, I don't have anything to do here.' Doflamingo said to himself as he opened the cabinet and saw a pair of robes, similar to those trainees before.

"Do they even fit? And if they did, how did they know?" Doflamingo thought to himself suspiciously as he undressed and put on the robe, which in fact, perfectly fits him.

'Alright, now that's some weird magic shit.' Doflamingo said to himself as he opened the door and went outside his dorm, heading towards the library.

After asking a few questions to the other students like him, he finally reached the library.

'Now, I should meet with Wong, right?' Doflamingo thought to himself as he entered the library and was met with a dark and eerily library that reeks of cult.

Though Kamar-Taj is indeed similar to a cult but hey worship no God, but instead, they protect the earth from dimensional threats like Dormammu.

As he entered the library, Doflamingo kept walking until he reached the desk, where he was met with a Not-Wong librarian.

"Hey, good afternoon. Are you the Librarian?" Doflamingo greeted him and asked.

"Indeed I am." The dark-skinned Librarian replied as he continues.

"What is it that you need?"

"Uhm. Do you perhaps have a book about Meditation? Or those magic thingies." Doflamingo shrugged his shoulders, trying to be casual as possible.

"Stay here." The Librarian said before walking out of his desk and walked into one of the aisle of the library.

After 3 to 5 minutes of waiting, the librarian finally came back with stacks of book on his arms.

"[The Basics of Meditation]." He read outloud as he passed the book to him.

"[Sorcery for beginners]."

"[Principals of Astral Dimension and Projection]."

"[Magic Theory]."

"And [Fundamentals on Magic Combat]." At last, he handed him the last book.

"I assume that you are new here, which is why I gave you the basics that you needed. I wish you good luck in your journey, young man." The Librarian said as Doflamingo smiled and slightly bowed as some basic manners at him before walking out of the library.

***

Back at his room, Doflamingo was reading through the books at his hand, he was scratching the back of his head as the book seemed so 'unscientifical'.

Everything on the book is unlogical that would surely cause a scientist a heart attack if he read these books.

Luckily, Doflamingo isn't that much of a science guy, especially since he knew that he's in Marvel World, a world where some things can't be explained by science.

Right now, Doflmainog was reading through the [Sorcery For Beginners] book since he wanted to see if there's some magic spells inside that could be useful to him.

However, he was left disappointed as there are only a few spells that is useful to him.

The first one is the most basic spell, Ignite. Literally creating a fire on the tip of your finger but the downside of this is that you can feel the heat of the flame and it is very small, as small as the fire of a small lighter.

Though it is useful for burning down houses and such.

The second one is Air Ripple, basically, it is just some air blowing out of your palm. It's not that strong but strong enough to blow out the candles at his birthday party.

The last one is the thing that Doflamingo was attracted the most, which is the famous telekinesis.

If he has this then some things would be easy for him like turning off the lights while lying on the bed or when he can't reach for the remote he could use telekinesis to levitate it towards him. It may sound weird but these things has been the major problem of humans in their daily lives.

[A/N: Or you can just call it laziness, jeez.]

By the way, fortunately, he could cast these spells without harnessing the energy from other dimensions.

Why?

According to the Magic Theory, there are 2 ways for a Sorcerer to cast a spell.

The First one is making a pact with a dimension, which basically gives you the energy you require without using your own personal energy.

The last one is the personal energy. In simple terms, it uses both your stamina and mental capacity.

To cast spells, you need to use your stamina to conjure the spell and your mind to shape or form the whole structure of a spell, which is very hard for someone who has a weak mind, which is why some has to make pact with other dimensions so they could skip these steps and directly cast spells without any exhaustion

As of now, Doflamingo was relying on the latter to cast spells.

Thankfully, his mind can be called great, as it took him a while to drain himself, which is an hour of straight casting the Ignite spell.

Another good news is that your body and mind can be trained and improved, so that you can cast spells more faster and longer.

"Alright, what's next? Astral Dimension and Projection?" Doflamingo stretched his arms as he carefully placed the Magic Theory book down and picked up another book and read it aloud.

'This must be where they project their Astral Form out of their bodies, right?' Doflamingo thought to himself as he started the book on page 1 and read it.

***

After a few hours, Doflamingo's mind was already burning, it turns out, [Astral Dimension and Projection] was the hardest book to understand out of all the other books he has.

At first it was very easy to him but as he continued to read, it started to get complicated as it involves souls and different kinds of Astral Forms each unique individual has.

'Now I know why The Ancient One complimented Dr. Strange for his fast learning. He is indeed a genius if he understood all of this shit.' Doflamingo remembered that in the movie, at the start of Dr. Strange's training, he already mastered the Astral Projection and he could already push his Astral Form out of his body on his own without relying on external help.

'Now that is a genius. I wonder if Tony Stark, who is more fast learner and smarter than Dr. Strange starts studying here.' Doflamingo shuddered when he imagined Iron Man using technology combined with Magic.

'Something I would definitely try after learning here.' Doflamingo said to himself before yawning heavily.

'It's past midnight, I should sleep now. There's training tomorrow.' Doflamingo then placed all the books on the side table before lying on the bed and closed his eyes, slowly drifting into sleep.

***

Meanwhile, outside Kamar-Taj, Ancient One was staring at the beautiful sky while her mind is occupied by thoughts.

'That ring on his hand. The it looks so similar.' She thought as she opened a portal that leads to the forbidden library that only she could enter.

She started searching for a book before finally stumbling upon one.

[The Halo of Nemesis]

In the book, it was said that before Nemesis's death, her Halo was lost, along with the Ego Stone in the Multiverse, never to be found again.

Not even the Living Tribunal knows the location of the Halo and the Ego Stone.

The Ancient One caressed a page from the book that shows the picture of Nemesis, with her Halo on the top of her head, close enough to her crown where the seven infinity stones, including the Ego Stone are embedded.

What caught the Ancient One's attention was the Halo that looks very similar to Doflamingo's ring earlier.

She wanted to ask him about the ring or where he got it but she was afraid that something unexpected or out of her control might happen if she did.

For now, she's gonna leave him be. She'll only interfere in his matters if he ever did something unpleasant or atrocious to her or the Earth itself. After all, it is her job to protect the Earth from the threats it cannot handle and although Doflamingo's strength isn't enough to threaten the earth entirely, but just give him enough time to grow, he'd definitely surpass her and the limits of a human and grow enough to threaten the earth.

As for killing him while he's still young?

It's against her morals to kill someone who hasn't done anything bad yet. Because if she did, then Hitler, or Kaecilius won't have the time to grow up as the Ancient One could just kill then before they could grow.

'For now. Let's watch. The future has gone rogue and I can't determine whether what I see in the future is real or not.' She thought to herself as she put the book back to it's place before opening a portal to her meditation room, where she meditates all the time.

She doesn't need sleep, sleep is for the weak.

And threats like Dormammu could rise any minute now and she can't slack off by sleeping. Who knows when she wakes up the whole world is destroyed.

***

In the meantime, Doflamingo's ring of Authority glowed brightly before diminishing as if it never happened.

In the surface it looks like nothing happened to the ring or to Doflamingo.

But inside Doflamingo's mind, he was having a dream. A dream that he'll never forget.

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[As you guys can see, the Halo of Nemesis isn't canon and I just made it up because why not?]

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