"Ancient One," Drex said after forcing himself free from Morgan's grip, "what exactly happened to her?"
Morgan stared at him in shock.
He had broken through her psychic control far too easily.
Which ant...
Had she never controlled him at all?
"She was most likely awakened by the dinsional entity tied to her bloodline," the Ancient One replied calmly.
One glance was enough for her to understand nearly everything about Morgan's condition.
Honestly, she wasn't particularly surprised.
Over the centuries, she had encountered many descendants of dinsional entities.
So extradinsional beings preferred thods like Cyttorak, creating artifacts infused with their power and using mortals as anchors or pawns.
Others simply reproduced directly.
And children born from those unions often awakened frightening powers with very little stimulation, becoming parasitic footholds for outside dinsions within reality itself.
The Ancient One had hoped she had closed every loophole years ago.
Apparently not.
Because Morgan had been born in Earth's dinsion, she lacked the foreign extradinsional signature that normally triggered reality's rejection response. That ant the Ancient One couldn't simply banish her the way she would a true outsider.
Morgan was technically native to Earth.
The real danger was that excessive use of her power would gradually create stronger connections for the dinsional entity lurking behind her.
The Ancient One sighed internally.
Ever since Drex Valen appeared, her workload had increased dramatically.
And Stephen Strange still needed several more years before he'd be ready to inherit the title of Sorcerer Supre.
The thought alone was exhausting.
Suddenly, Morgan hurled a sphere of dark blue fla toward Drex.
"Careful," the Ancient One warned imdiately. "Her magic is highly corrosive. It attacks both life force and the soul."
Then she watched Drex casually catch the magical fire with his bare hand.
Three overlapping defensive layers surrounded him simultaneously:
Electromagnetic fields.
Gravitational fields.
And his own biological force field.
The demonic fire failed to damage him in the slightest.
Drex briefly considered testing whether his energy absorption abilities could consu magical energy directly.
Then decided against experinting recklessly with demonic magic.
The Ancient One gave him a genuinely surprised look.
She understood enough science to recognize what he was doing. After living for centuries, she'd studied countless disciplines simply to pass the ti.
What shocked her wasn't the theory.
It was how quickly Drex had approached sothing dangerously close to a unified field frawork.
At this rate, most conventional magic and curses would eventually beco almost aningless against him.
Then Drex attacked.
BWOOOOOM—
Twin beams of heat vision erupted from his eyes.
But after learning to use gravity as a dium for energy transmission, the destructive force of his heat vision had beco vastly more terrifying than before.
Normally, the atmosphere was a terrible conductor for concentrated energy transfer.
Gravity, however, was different.
A gravitational dium could transmit energy tens of thousands of tis more efficiently than air.
If heat vision energy frequencies were carried through gravitational waves instead...
The resulting output beca monstrous.
Photon energy followed the equation: E=hνE=h\\nuE=hν
The higher the frequency, the greater the energy.
Conventional laser frequencies were limited.
But gravitational wave transmission could amplify that frequency by an entire order of magnitude.
On the microscopic level, Drex simultaneously manipulated surrounding electromagnetic fields, forcing particles throughout the environnt into extre high-energy transitional states.
The result was horrifying.
The twin crimson beams distorted space itself as they crossed the Mirror Dinsion.
By the ti soone saw the red light, it was already too late.
Light speed wasn't sothing human reflexes could comprehend, react to, or counter.
Where Drex looked, matter ceased to exist.
Air detonated violently.
Structures fragnted into loose particles within fractions of a second.
Ash surged outward like tidal waves.
Mass beca irrelevant.
Density beca irrelevant.
Hardness beca irrelevant.
Anything touched by the beams simply disintegrated.
The Ancient One's expression tightened slightly.
Within less than a ten-thousandth of a second, she twisted the Mirror Dinsion itself, bending and refracting the heat vision away from Morgan.
Even then, rely being within several ters of the redirected attack carbonized Morgan's entire body instantly.
Her magical barriers lasted less than a second.
The Ancient One turned toward Drex with visible disbelief.
"…Were you trying to kill her?"
Those two beams alone, if left uninterrupted, possessed enough destructive energy to vaporize all of New York City.
By combining gravitational wave transmission with large-scale electromagnetic particle excitation, Drex had transford ordinary heat vision from "building-level destructive force" into sothing approaching apocalyptic weaponry.
Morgan's charred body regenerated rapidly.
Drex looked mildly awkward.
"I thought she was supposed to be powerful."
Mystical combat still confused him.
Compared to soone like the Hulk, Morgan looked infinitely more dangerous.
The Hulk could be crushed through gravity manipulation alone if Drex truly wanted to.
But Morgan radiated the kind of supernatural presence that practically scread final boss energy.
Of course Drex had gone all out imdiately.
"Drex!"
Morgan charged toward him furiously.
"Enough."
The single word exploded outward.
Drex transmitted the sound through gravitational waves.
Ordinary sound instantly transford into catastrophic destructive force.
Morgan was blasted backward violently.
Blood erupted from every orifice in her body as sonic vibrations tore through her internally. Cracks spread briefly even through the Mirror Dinsion itself.
Outside the dinsional barrier, the resulting shockwave would have rivaled the blast pressure of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Sound, after all, was fundantally vibration.
And every material possessed a resonant frequency.
Hit that frequency correctly, and even vibranium or Kryptonian tal could theoretically be shattered apart.
Drex suddenly realized he could probably moonlight as Black Bolt if he wanted to.
"That's enough," the Ancient One interrupted firmly. "Leave the rest to ."
Mostly because the Mirror Dinsion was starting to suffer structural damage from Drex's experints.
"Ancient One," Drex asked, glancing toward the unconscious Morgan, "what are you planning to do with her?"
His two casual test attacks had already completely overwheld her.
Still, despite her relative weakness against him, Drex found her transford physiology extrely fascinating.
Structurally elegant.
A beautiful biological design.
He genuinely wanted to study it further.
"I'm going to calm her mind," the Ancient One replied evenly.
Internally, she was already considering dropping Morgan into a ti loop for a few hundred cycles until the problem solved itself.
"Will she be hard?" Drex asked.
Morgan lay unconscious nearby, her body already regenerating from the devastating sonic damage thanks to the passive regenerative properties granted by her demonic magic.
Not fully immortal.
But dangerously close.
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