Understood!
Completely understood!
Tony had been puzzled and curious before.
How could the Hulk and the Ancient One, with such a vast difference in power, possibly take the Infinity Stones from her?
Even the playboy had suspected that even if all the Avengers attacked together, they wouldn't stand a chance against the Ancient One.
The Ancient One was indeed incredibly powerful.
But after all that, the Hulk didn't defeat the Ancient One; he used words!
This was a development Tony had never anticipated.
The Hulk, with his exaggerated muscles, who only knew how to use brute force to smash everything, ended up using his brains?
Of course.
What exactly the Hulk said to the Ancient One, that would make her willingly hand over something as valuable as an Infinity Stone, Tony couldn't know.
But it looked like Doctor Strange had been mentioned to the Ancient One.
So, did Doctor Strange know that no one could defeat the Ancient One before the Avengers traveled through time, and asked them to pass on a message?
And because of this, the Ancient One believed Doctor Strange?
According to the diary, it seemed to be this way.
And even if it wasn't, even if he was wrong, it wasn't an important detail.
Stark didn't pay too much attention to it.
Instead, he focused on another extremely crucial piece of information.
The Doctor Strange of the future had observed the future, specifically the battle between the Avengers and the Purple Potato.
The results actually showed fourteen million possible outcomes!
That's way too many outcomes! Over fourteen million!
But what was even more critical was that out of all those outcomes, only one resulted in the Avengers' victory.
In other words, the Avengers' chance of defeating the Purple Potato was only one in fourteen million?
That was practically zero!
This probability was too low to even be called a low-probability event; it was practically impossible.
That minuscule chance, barely a speck, could be completely disregarded.
Whoosh!
In an instant, Stark's expression became more serious than ever before.
Although Stark had always known that the Purple Potato was a very powerful big shot.
His own strength was at the peak of the universe, and he commanded a vast interstellar fleet. Ultimately, he even gathered all the Infinity Stones.
The diary provided various details and spoilers, indicating that the future Avengers would be severely beaten, and the battles would be extremely difficult.
There was even the possibility of heavy casualties.
However, even with this knowledge, Stark only considered the Purple Potato to be a very powerful and difficult enemy.
After all, although the Purple Potato was strong, the future Avengers weren't weak, were they?
Some of the Avengers were even unbelievably powerful.
Furthermore, the humans ultimately won in Endgame, didn't they?
Stark never imagined that the Purple Potato would be so powerful that it would be suffocating and despair-inducing.
Almost no chance of winning!
The future situation seemed far more severe than he had imagined!
So, that's what Doctor Strange meant by holding up that one finger?
And then, Tony suddenly realized why Doctor Strange had held up one finger to him in Endgame.
He also understood why he had listened to Doctor Strange so intently.
What Doctor Strange was referring to was probably the only way to defeat the Purple Potato, right?
So, that method was to collect the Infinity Stones and Snap?
The Infinity Stones!
It's the Infinity Stones again!
At this moment, Tony's emphasis on the Infinity Stones could be said to have reached an unprecedented level.
Solving the problem of the future Celestial race requires the Infinity Stones, and dealing with the Purple Potato also requires the Infinity Stones.
To put it bluntly, the Infinity Stones are crucial to the future of Earth!
Even…the future of the entire universe!
He absolutely had to protect the Infinity Stones and ensure that nothing happened to them! This belief in Tony's heart became stronger than ever before.
However, there's one thing I still don't understand.
On Titan, Doctor Strange did see fourteen million possibilities and also saw the only one that led to victory.
But how did he know that the only victorious possibility would actually happen?
Based on probability, it's one in fourteen million, so low it's almost zero.
With such a low probability, Doctor Strange actually handed the Time Stone over to the Purple Potato?
How did he know that after his death, Ant-Man would discover the time rules within the Quantum Realm, propose the theory of time travel, and then Stark would use it to build a Time Machine?
"The probability of these things happening is almost zero!"
"Just because the Purple Potato wants to kill Stark?"
"But in Endgame, after Doctor Strange was resurrected on Titan, he immediately knew that five years had passed, and also knew that Endgame had happened. He immediately took Spider-Man to join the battle."
"Without a doubt, seeing the future was the reason he handed over the Time Stone, not Stark."
"So the question remains, how did he know that the one in fourteen million possibilities would actually happen?"
Oh, come on!
Tony was speechless, or rather, deeply at a loss for words.
The playboy had previously speculated that the Purple Potato and the other Avengers had successfully snatched the Time Stone during the battle on Titan.
So, that's why, when they later arrived in Wakanda, they used the Time Stone to revive Vision and restore the Mind Stone, which had been destroyed.
Now it seems Tony's guess was right to some extent. The Purple Potato did indeed obtain the Time Stone on Titan.
But Tony never expected this: judging by the tone of the diary, it seemed like Doctor Strange deliberately gave the Time Stone to the Purple Potato? Because Doctor Strange saw the future!
It was obvious that handing the Infinity Stones to the Purple Potato, then letting the Avengers go back in time to collect the stones, and defeating the Purple Potato in Endgame, was the only way to defeat the Purple Potato.
Tony wouldn't comment on the merits of this method for now.
But Zhou Cheng's question in the diary was also Tony's question.
With a one in fourteen million chance, how did Doctor Strange know these things would actually happen?
And he dared to hand over the Time Stone?
If all this didn't happen, wouldn't the Purple Potato have won?
Wouldn't half the life in the universe have been permanently wiped out by the Purple Potato? And from a probabilistic perspective, this tragic fact was almost inevitable, unavoidable!
Doctor Strange was taking a gamble.
Speechless.
Utterly speechless.
Tony really didn't know what to say.
After much thought, he could only guess that Doctor Strange really knew that these things would happen.
Unless that was the case, there was really no way to explain it.
But in the end, whether Doctor Strange really knew, or was just taking a gamble, didn't matter to Tony right now.
The important thing was that he'd gained incredibly crucial intel from it, learning the only way Doctor Strange saw to defeat the Purple Potato!
And this method held significant value for everyone.
After committing this method to memory, Tony refocused his attention on the diary.
A slightly smug smirk curled his lips.
The Time Machine was actually built by him, the great Tony? Of course, only he, the great Tony, could have created such a thing.
He, the great Tony, was still as brilliant as ever! The Avengers' ability to turn the tables after the crushing defeat of the Infinity War, going back in time to gather the Infinity Stones, was all thanks to him, the great Tony!
He, the great Tony, was the key to defeating the Purple Potato!
This was so self-evident that Tony felt no surprise at all, merely that it was as it should be.
It was one thing that Tony hadn't anticipated: the key to building a time machine was the Quantum Realm?
The Quantum Realm wasn't really Tony's area of expertise.
According to the diary's spoilers, it was Ant-Man's specialty. Ant-Man had even entered the Quantum Realm.
The diary was also very clear that Ant-Man had discovered the time rules within the Quantum Realm, which led to the theory of time travel.
So, what exactly were the time rules within the Quantum Realm?
Why could time travel be achieved based on these time rules?
Tony was extremely curious about this.
Unfortunately, Tony hadn't researched the Quantum Realm in any depth, and only had a basic understanding of it.
It was impossible for him to come to any conclusions.
"Looks like Ant-Man came up with the time travel theory around that time, huh?"
Stark's gaze turned thoughtful, and he made a confident guess.
The diary had mentioned that after the Infinity War, the Avengers had all… well, they'd given up. They were wallowing, letting off steam, whatever.
His big self had also returned to his family back then.
Only Black Widow had kept pushing forward, eventually waiting for Ant-Man, and waiting for the method to save half the world's population.
At the time, Stark hadn't known what method the diary was referring to, but now it seemed obvious. It was time travel, wasn't it?
[And then there's something else.]
[I wonder if Doctor Strange saw the Book of the Vishanti in those fourteen million possibilities?]
[The Three-in-One Vishanti, the masters of the Magic Dimension, the source of all white magic!]
"The magic system in Marvel is really interesting, all the magic is borrowed, none of it is their own."
"The reason the Ancient One was so powerful was simply because she borrowed more magic than others."
"A big part of why she rushed to her death was because she owed too many debts and couldn't handle them herself, right? That's why she had to cling to Eternity's coattails."
"Of course, the power borrowed from Dormammu doesn't count, that was just to let the Ancient One live longer."
"The Ancient One's strength actually came mainly from the Vishanti."
"Even the Ancient One, who had only used a fraction of the Magic Dimension's power, was so powerful, not to mention the Vishanti themselves."
"Their strength is of course inferior to the Five Cosmic Entities, but they are undoubtedly big shots at the multiverse level."
"The Book of the Vishanti should be the most powerful inheritance they left behind, containing the most powerful magic and power."
I remember that the Doctor Strange from Universe 838 used the Book of the Vishanti to defeat the Purple Potato.
"Vishanti!"
Stark's eyes narrowed slightly, immediately drawn to the name.
Although the playboy had heard the name for the first time, this Vishanti was actually the master of the Magic Dimension?
Ignoring the fact that a dimension like the Magic Dimension even existed, didn't this statement translate to the Vishanti also being a dimensional god?
Like Dormammu, the master of the Dark Dimension?
Well, the Vishanti was obviously not a bad person, so he couldn't be called a demon god.
But being on the same level as Dormammu was beyond doubt.
As for the second dimension besides the Dark Dimension, the Magic Dimension...
Judging by the contents of the diary, is all of this magic just power?
Those so-called sorcerers are merely borrowing power from this dimension, nothing more!
"So that's what sorcerers are?"
Stark couldn't help but shake his head.
He really hadn't expected this.
The sorcerers, who had seemed so mysterious and unfathomable in Stark's eyes, suddenly lost a lot of their mystique.
Including the Ancient One.
The truth about the Ancient One even more surprised Stark.
Could it be that this big shot, on the same level as Odin, not only borrowed power from the Vishanti, but also from Dormammu?
You really know how to borrow, don't you?
Besides that.
The diary mentioned that the Magic Dimension power mastered by the Vishanti is white magic. So, since white magic exists, does black magic also exist?
The magic borrowed from the Dark Dimension controlled by Dormammu is undoubtedly black magic, right?
So, did the Ancient One borrow both white magic and black magic at the same time?
That's quite a show.
Then the question arises.
Since it's "borrowing," it will have to be returned sooner or later, right?
Although Stark doesn't know what exactly to use to pay it back, he thinks it would certainly require a certain price to be paid.
Otherwise, why use the word "borrow"?
Otherwise, the Ancient One would need to go to Eternity and cling to their thighs, becoming a deadbeat? It's clear they don't plan to return it!
Ahem!
Speechless.
Tony didn't know what to say.
Someone on Odin's level was actually a deadbeat? Could you believe it?
You had to admit, this world was truly insane.
But regardless, the Vishanti's power was undeniable, and the Book of the Vishanti's power was also undeniable.
And there was a living example in another universe.
Doctor Strange from Universe 838 used the Book of the Vishanti to defeat Purple Potato.
Although it was unknown whether the Doctor Strange saw the Book of the Vishanti in the over fourteen million possibilities he witnessed.
But for Tony, the example of Universe 838 was enough.
The Book of the Vishanti should be taken seriously, and should also become one of the alternative solutions to deal with Purple Potato.
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