After a couple more casual sentences, Sharlot hung up the phone.
Old Wang, who was standing by, then asked, "Sharlot, why did you suddenly bring up Peter Parker out of nowhere?
Could he be Venom?"
Sharlot shook his head.
"No, to be precise, he should be the person possessed by the alien Symbiote, Venom.
Humans usually possessed by Venom often undergo a drastic change in personality, developing a taste for killing and devouring, becoming as if their entire being has been eroded by Dark Energy.
Someone like Peter, who, even after being possessed by Venom, hasn't had his personality turn extreme, is truly rare."
At this point, Sharlot couldn't help but recall what was mentioned in the Venom 3 movie.
After Venom merges with a host, it creates something called a "Codex."
It can free Knull, the Symbiote God, who is trapped deep in the Universe, allowing the World to return to darkness!
And because Knull, the Symbiote God, is imprisoned, to obtain the Codex, he will send an army of Exolons to Earth to wreak havoc, and at that time, there will be countless casualties again.
Thinking of this, Sharlot's head started to ache.
Tsk tsk tsk, this really is one wave after another.
Agatha the Witch in front of him hasn't even been dealt with yet.
And deep in the distant Universe, there's Knull, the Symbiote God, who could awaken at any time and is eyeing Earth.
Sharlot truly felt at this moment that his meager skills were completely inadequate in front of true powerhouses!
It seems he needs to return to Kamar-Taj to improve his strength.
So, Sharlot quickly said goodbye to Old Wang, opened a Hell's Gate, and returned to Kamar-Taj... Kamar-Taj.
Mountaintop.
Sorcerer Supreme Sanctuary.
Looking at Sorcerer Ancient One, who was dressed in plain clothes, calmly brewing hot tea, as if everything in the World was under her control, Sharlot nodded slightly and spoke.
"Coach, I want to play basket... oh no.
Sorcerer Ancient One, I want to learn new magic."
"No."
"???
Ah, why not?"
Although he had only joined Kamar-Taj two days ago, Sharlot could clearly sense from Sorcerer Ancient One's attitude towards him that he held a significant place in her heart.
After all, with the help of the system, his speed in learning magic was so fast, and although the modified and optimized magic fell within the realm of Dark Magic, its offensive power was incredible!
Besides, didn't Ancient One herself delve into the realm of Dark Magic for thousands of years?
By all accounts, Sharlot and Ancient One were the same kind of people.
Perhaps in the near future, he would succeed Ancient One and become the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj!
Logically speaking, Ancient One, this woman who always wanted to get off work, should actively provide magic guidance for whatever magic he wanted to learn!
Why wasn't she teaching him?
Sorcerer Ancient One took a sip of hot tea, her right hand gently tracing over the eye of agamotto on her chest.
After a flash of green light, the eye of agamotto slowly opened.
A scene appeared in the void, which was exactly the exorcism Sharlot performed at Gwen's house last night.
Ancient One pointed to annabelle in the picture and said, "Sharlot, when you performed the exorcism last night, you must have learned from Director George that the mastermind behind this whole affair is Agatha the Witch, who has lived for over four hundred years.
Although you ultimately succeeded in exorcising annabelle and completely eliminating her,
wasn't the process too convoluted?"
Sharlot heard this and thought carefully; it was indeed true.
He first used the Bone Spike Whip, gradually increasing it to three hundred and fifty years' worth of Dark Energy for physical attacks.
Seeing that this wasn't working, he then opened a Hell's Gate to throw annabelle into the Dark Dimension.
But even that didn't work, so he finally activated the Chaos Shield for a mental attack, combined with the cloak of the undead and his own three hundred and fifty years' worth of Dark Energy, and only then was he barely able to successfully exorcise her.
It could be said that to deal with annabelle, he had used almost every trick within him.
"Sorcerer Ancient One, I know my strength is weak, which is why the exorcism process was so convoluted.
That's why I want to learn more powerful magic to strengthen my abilities."
Sharlot looked at Ancient One, his eyes sincere.
Ancient One gently shook her head.
"No, Sharlot, you are mistaken.
The improvement of strength lies not in learning much, but in mastering what you learn!
Just like annabelle's recovery limit, from the results, it should have been four hundred years' worth of magic energy.
And you?
Although Dormammu, for some unknown reason, transferred five hundred years' worth of magic energy to you two days ago,
you couldn't actually mobilize that much energy, could you?
Otherwise, in your first attack, you would have been able to break annabelle's recovery limit.
Learning and mastering are two different things.
So, Sharlot, I'll give you one month to thoroughly grasp all the magic you've learned so far.
After that, come back to me to learn new magic."
Listening to Sorcerer Ancient One's words, Sharlot nodded, thinking that it was indeed the case.
If he had truly absorbed Dormammu's blessing yesterday,
and directly infused all the Dark Energy into the Bone Spike Whip, unleashing five hundred years' worth of magic energy from the start,
there would have been no subsequent events of Gwen, Director George, and Old Wang successively falling into nightmares.
Thinking of this, Sharlot nodded, turned around, and returned to his residence to begin his cultivation... Time flew by, and a month passed in an instant.
Inside Sharlot's room.
Sharlot sat cross-legged on a cushion.
Hundreds of small Hell's Gates densely filled the entire room.
Behind each Hell's Gate were black long snakes with crimson eyes, occasionally flicking their forked tongues.
These seemingly very dangerous black long snakes, because they were summoned by Sharlot using the Hell's Gate,
each appeared extremely well-behaved.
Sharlot slowly opened his eyes.
Thick black smoke emanated from his body.
Large amounts of pure Dark Energy were divided into hundreds of portions, all simultaneously infused into the black long snakes behind him.
Sharlot softly said, "Gather!"
The next moment!
Hundreds of black long snakes shot out from behind the Hell's Gates!
Under Sharlot's mental control, they intertwined with each other.
Finally forming a colossal snake-like entity, five meters tall, six meters wide, with a massive body and nine heads.
And each of the nine heads of this HYDRA had different eye colors and facial expressions.
Seemingly indicating that each head possessed different abilities.
Looking at the HYDRA that appeared before him, Sharlot nodded with satisfaction.
Sorcerer Ancient One was very right.
Learning is not as good as mastering.
During this month of arduous training, he had thoroughly absorbed Dormammu's blessing.
He could mobilize five hundred years' worth of Dark Energy, and at the same time, he could subdivide each portion of energy, allowing the magic he controlled to be used to different degrees for different situations.
For example, his Bone Spike Whip, which was originally a three-meter-long white bone whip.
When dealing with a group of enemies, a wave of his hand could sweep a large area, indeed having a miraculous effect.
But in a confined and narrow environment, it was inconvenient to launch attacks.
To address such situations, Sharlot subdivided the Dark Energy, only needing to summon a single bone thorn, which would scatter like Undead Skeletons.
When enemies appeared in a confined space, he only needed to throw three to five pieces of white bone, which would rapidly spin three hundred and sixty degrees in the air to launch bone thorns from within the white bones at the enemy.
In such a narrow environment, with such high-speed rotation, enemies would be impaled by the bone thorns and turned into hedgehogs in less than three seconds.
The efficiency of subduing enemies greatly increased.
Similarly, with the subdivided use of energy, Sharlot could do more things with Hell's Gate.
A month ago, he could at most open four or five Hell's Gates and summon a few Hellhounds to fight.
But after a month of improvement, Sharlot could quickly open hundreds of small Portals and summon Dark Vipers to engage in battle.
And after summoning these Dark Vipers, they could even merge into a giant HYDRA!
Emitting an aura of evil and darkness from head to toe!
Hundreds of black long snakes densely wriggled beneath its skin!
Each snake head possessed different powers: deadly poison, raging Fire, chilling ice, lightning, skeletal wind, massive rock, tsunami, fear, and Chaos!
And each snake head could rival the existence of more than a dozen Hellhounds!
The most incredible thing was that this HYDRA, because it was connected to hundreds of Hell's Gates, possessed extremely strong regenerative abilities.
After an enemy chopped off one of its heads, two more heads would grow back!
Sharlot looked at the giant HYDRA, which was subservient to him, and nodded with satisfaction.
"What do you call this move?
This is called the orthodox HYDRA being in Kamar-Taj!
If one day in the future I face those guys from the HYDRA organization,
I'll just slap out a HYDRA, and Pierce and Crossbones, those two guys, probably won't they just be dumbfounded, unable to believe that there really is a HYDRA in this World?
At that time, perhaps I'll put on the cloak of the undead and become the HYDRA organization's... Black Skull?"
Thinking about this mischievous scene, Sharlot smiled.
He checked the time; since he had thoroughly mastered the magic and Dark Energy at hand after this month of hard training,
Sharlot knew it was time to learn new magic.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel excited.
What magic would he learn later?
The Swords of Vishanti? The Winds of Watoomb? The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak? The Illusions of Ikohn? The Mirror Dimension?
With such curiosity and anticipation, Sharlot walked towards the Sorcerer Supreme Sanctuary on the mountaintop...