Alaric didn't know whether Dormammu was aware of his thieving behavior, but in any case, he had absorbed all the mysterious energy, and Dormammu hadn't shown up.
"Pleasant! That's Dormammu for you!"
Alaric sighed.
Alaric felt that the one who had contributed the most to his early growth was precisely Dormammu!
Without Dormammu, he wouldn't have been able to open the Eternal Night World and receive the lord-level bonus to his power.
Without Dormammu, Alaric wouldn't have mastered several powerful spells.
Without Dormammu, Alaric's actual combat abilities wouldn't have improved so quickly!!
Alaric said that Dormammu was responsible for all of it! He was the one who allowed him to keep shearing wool endlessly!
Moreover, because Dormammu was so powerful, you could say that this wool never ran out!
Here, Alaric was very grateful to Dormammu for his hard work!!
Dormammu: Thanks so much, really!!
...
After absorbing the energy, Alaric looked at this enormous world and didn't rush to leave.
This was a rare opportunity where Dormammu wasn't home!
Wouldn't it be a shame not to take the chance to freeload a little!?
So Alaric began wandering around the Dark Dimension.
But he soon discovered that throughout the entire Dark Dimension, aside from the ever-present dark energy that made Alaric feel very "hungry," there was nothing else that interested him.
Thinking this, Alaric sat down directly in the deep void and began to absorb dark power.
As in: you can absorb as much as you want!
As Alaric absorbed, the Eternal Night World also slowly expanded, little by little, but the speed wasn't great, and in fact, if Alaric weren't the master of the Eternal Night World, he probably wouldn't even be able to sense it!
And the God of Black Magic at the center of the Eternal Night World became denser after recently absorbing that huge wave of mysterious energy.
It's believed that if progress continues like this, in the future, Alaric may, by relying on the God of Black Magic, the God of White Magic, and himself, fuse the three together and become something like a Vishanti-level trinity!!!
And at that moment, Alaric might be able to step into the multiversal level and sit alongside many great beings!!
Just the thought, it was exciting!!
"However, it seems this speed is still too slow."
After a while, Alaric opened his eyes in dissatisfaction.
He felt that if he continued absorbing like this, in terms of the Eternal Night World, the expansion rate would be nearly negligible.
After all, Alaric could only stay here one night.
Things on Earth were still waiting for him.
Even though the Avengers could stop the alien invasion without Alaric, what if something did happen?
That's why Alaric was concerned.
But what he didn't know was that he was actually right, because an incident related to his existence had just occurred.
To deal with him, Loki had deliberately returned to Asgard, released the Enchantress Amora, and was just waiting to find Alaric to control him!
Especially now that Tony had become Amora's slave; if Alaric didn't return, once the Avengers gathered, the next target would likely be the rest of the team.
After all, Loki was smart enough to break the Avengers from within and divert their attention so that his plans could proceed unhindered.
...
Alaric quietly absorbed energy while thinking about how to maximize the gains.
As he thought, Alaric suddenly had a flash of insight.
"In other words, Dormammu made himself extremely powerful by attacking other dimensions and devouring other forces, and eventually became this eternal being he is now, so why shouldn't I?
Can I also grow stronger by devouring other dimensions!?"
Alaric's eyes gradually lit up!
Although, as Earth's protector, he couldn't do such things as destroying others' homes, but the Dark Dimension, maybe?
And it just so happened that Dormammu wasn't home, so Alaric had a chance to carry out his operation!!
Moreover, there weren't many natives in the Dark Dimension, and many places were uninhabited; as long as Alaric picked the outermost edges of the Dark Dimension, he could, once he began his own dimensional invasion, occupy a portion of the territory!
He didn't yet need to worry about whether it would affect the natives!
Of course, whether it would affect Dormammu, that wasn't Alaric's concern.
In any case, Alaric said: Dormammu is so strong, giving me a little shouldn't bother him, right?
Dormammu: Do you even hear yourself!?
With that in mind, Alaric immediately stopped absorbing energy, stood up, and teleported toward the edge of the Dark Dimension.
After a few more teleportations, Alaric stopped.
Here, it was completely dark, not even a single glowing stone. Alaric felt that this location, who knew how far from the center, was just right for him to play around.
However, this still wasn't the true edge of the Dark Dimension, and where exactly the boundary was, Alaric didn't know.
That alone shows how massive the Dark Dimension truly was.
As far as Alaric knew, the Marvel universe had four planes: the inner plane, the outer plane, the split field, and the divided realm in a distant region.
The divided realm was once a vast plane that long ago, due to conflicts between kingdoms, shattered and was split into many planes.
The Dark Dimension is its largest fragment, now ruled by Dormammu.
And, because Dormammu is extremely aggressive and offensive, he had successfully conquered and assimilated many smaller fragments of that divided field, completely turning them into one unified complex of reality.
Dormammu used this to become the strongest among many rulers, and to this day, his invasion of other dimensions hadn't stopped.
In the darkness, he still hungered for those worlds not strong enough to resist.
Alaric stood in the deep space, raised his right hand, opened his Eternal Night World, and continued its expansion, launching an invasion of the surrounding space, as well as extracting power.
Because the power of the Eternal Night World was the same in nature as that of the Dark Dimension, the Dark Dimension offered no resistance.
And as the Eternal Night World expanded, its energy absorption exceeded what Alaric had just absorbed on his own, more than tenfold, a hundredfold!
Just like Dormammu attacked Earth and began assimilating it, Alaric now began assimilating this part of the Dark Dimension.
As long as Dormammu didn't return, Alaric wouldn't stop!
Alaric sat cross-legged in the air and waited calmly.
He could clearly feel his power increasing, his spirit expanding, and his consciousness constantly rising.
Suddenly, Alaric opened his eyes.
In the dark and endless void, Alaric saw a black dot.
Then a suction force pulled his consciousness into that black dot, and when Alaric came to, his awareness had already enveloped the entire Dark Dimension.
At that moment, he was like the only god in the Dark Dimension!
If he wasn't mistaken, Alaric's consciousness at that moment had already connected with the Dark Dimension.
He had also acquired part of the authority that belonged to Dormammu and possessed part of his dominion power.
At the same time, Alaric realized that he seemed to possess cosmic awareness, able to flood the entire universe and see everything happening within it.
Alaric had now ascended to the level of a single-universe entity!!