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  Kamar Taj [August 2015]

  –Jack Sullivan.–

  “Aha! Finally!” He shouted in jubition as he was finally able to, after hours of tinuous practice, open the Eye and cast just a single spell, the one spell that trumps them all.

  The Time Loop spell. Good Lord was it hard, and even then, he hadn’t even mastered the spell. That would have opened all of its funs but also taken a lot longer.

  Theoretically, casting inplete spells or even spells without learning all of its funs was dangerous but then agaiing Dormammu spill into their reality was even more dangerous.

  Sighing, he put the Eye ba the pedestal. He did not have a death wish to try and take it out of the library. There were a mind boggling amount of spells cast onto the Pedestal that would no doubt do horrendous things to the person who tried to take the Eye out of the Library, not to mention being faced with the possibility of being hunted down by the A One who, so far, had a 100% success rate.

  After all, in their line of work, a single failure meah. Especially if you were the Sorcerer Supreme, your failure meant Kamar Taj’s failure and Sorcerer Supremes don’t back down from fights. Fight till death, taken literal form.

  He went out of the Library and the restoration woing on. THis was not the first time that Kamar Taj was attacked and damaged, although he wagered that it happened for the first time iuries sineon of the MASters had any idea how to go about the process without promising the entire ward scheme.

  Thankfully, the overarg Ward scheme of Kamar Taj was fine. Kaecilius did not have the authority or the power to destroy the ward pletely. All he could do was temporarily disable it using his authority as a Master of the Mystic Arts. So, the Masters were now breaking down rubble a the older buildings as much as they could while they awaited the return of the A One.

  “Jarvis? Any updates?”

  There was a beat of silence before Jarvis replied into his s as he waved down the Masters who were calling him a into his chambers which were thankfully intact, “No, sir. There have been no firmed sightings of any suspicious person as well as the perimeter around the Sanctums have not been breached by any energy signature. Also, the shifts have been rotated now,”

  He that. Made sense because it had been over 8 hours sihey began the Sanctums. The Sanctum Masters must be exhausted as well because they were all expeg an attack to occur at any time and they had to be awake for longer periods of time.

  Still, they were trained for this so being awake for days at a time was not that hard. What was hard was the stress, the anticipation, the tension in their body as they waited for an attack, and he could uand that. There were spells to reduce the body's need for sleep but they always had a drawback, being that ohe spell cleared off, they would crash much harder than necessary. He’d read reports of one such Master going into a a because their brain couldn’t handle such things.

  While he himself had no such limitation, owing to his enhanced body, even he was starting to feel frustrated at the ehing. At the A ONe’s abse Kaecilous’ ina, and his own inability to find out what the fuck happened in Kamar Taj while he was away. NO magical residue attacks meant that someone from the normal world might be involved, which would be disastrous, for all the wrong reasons.

  He khat magic as a whole would be outed to society at rge, eventually but for that to be accepted properly, humanity as a whole also had to learn a lot of other bitter truths as well. As they were now, he might just have to start shutting down a whole lot of crusader type shit that sought to prosecute the magic users.

  He the Masters a Kamar Taj, arriving in the crater that was ohe vilge where the majority of the active Inhumans on the p lived. THis was basically their base. Jiaying’s crusade was always going to end in tragedy, the only question was would it be her tragedy or the tragedy she was going to infli humanity. This….was not what he had in mind when he was going to stop her crusade or disarm the entire flict.

  He was either going to vote for reunification with the Attin Inhumans, obviously after killing Maximus but not this. Devoured by a Demon for some ritual that ended up being used by Dormmamu?

  He winced as his senses alerted him about the heavy presen the surroundings. He was deep into the vilge and there we go, heavy lights flooded his side as the ese Authorities no doubt verged here.

  “Halt!” He k least that one word for Mandarin ae their wishes, he could not actually halt in this pce. He had a lot of other pces to be, he was just cheg in on the barriers. Topping it up with another charge, he made sure that the barrier would st for days, hopefully enough time for the Dark Energy here to fully disperse.

  With a boost from his barriers, he flew right into a portal that led him to Greenwich Vilge. He had not yet entered any of the Sanctums, mainly because the Wartime wards were active ahought it prudent to maintain caution but the wartime wards weer extremely energy expensive and while they did have what was essentially unlimited energy in the form of dimensional energy, the wards needed a much more trated energy source.

  The energy itself was almost limitless but they could not feed that energy directly into the wards. The ste meisms for that energy density were very few in number and the ones installed in the Sanctums were always going to be temporary ones, meant to stall any would be invaders long enough for the Sorcerer Supreme to arrive.

  The ones in Kamar Taj were made of Uru, making them infinitely reusable. The ones iher Sanctums? Not so much.

  Sooner rather thahey were going to have to drop the wartime wards and Kaecilius would no doubt be waiting for that, ready to destroy any Sanctum that did not have the presence of Jabsp;

  He could have id down a trap in the library before Kaecilius had all the knowledge he needed but now that he had no idea what exactly Kaecilius was after, he could do nothing but wait.

  The Time Stone was one such thing but the protes on it made any move he could make useless.

  He sighed and walked right up to the Sanctum, and knocked on the door, watg as that made a visible ripple of magic all around the Sanctum. IT also sampled a piece of his magic, which he let happen, and then watched as a voice came from the door.

  “Master Sullivan.”

  “Master Drumm, I think it is time we drop the wards. Kamar Taj has regrouped.”

  “Has the A Ourned?”

  He sighed at that, “No. We have not been able to tact her but I have no reason to worry. The Fae iations have always taken time.”

  There was silen the other side before, with a resounding click, he watched as the visible protes faded away, revealing the brick wall of the Sanctum. At the same time, the door opened and Master Drumm, haggard and tired, stepped out, took a deep breath, and said, “I need a Bagel.”

  He gri that, “Spoken like a true New Yorker. I’ll fill in for you,” He said aered the Sanctum.

  “Be careful,” Drumm said as he was metaphorically handed over temporary trol over the wards by Drumm, in an instant. Damn, that was some good skill. Well, he had been Sanctum Mater for a long time now.

  His subtle barrier that molded around Drumm drew his attention but he didn’t react aside from a subtle nod as Drumm disappeared from his vision.

  ___xx__

  Eastern Europe

  –HIVE–

  They were ready, he khat a, for some reason, he was hesitating. The teams had been formed, and while he was saddeo know that none of the knowledge as well as the magical items from these two Sanctums would be avaible to him, he khat he could not push further on that topic.

  Two teams had been formed and they were already on their way to London and New York. Acc to Kaecilius, the A One would remain busy until the st moment. That would give them more than enough time to blow up one Sanctum, with his team and then they would call on something more special to deal with the retribution that would undoubtedly be ing their way.

  The knowledge in the books he had read save him glimpses into the structure of the Sanctums and how they were operated. An invisible pary shield capable of repelling enemies older thah itself. It was distressing, how much he was unaware about his future kingdom.

  A part of him feared what would happen should all the Sanctums fall, which is why he would be going to the London Sanctum himself, to sabotage this mission. The New York Sanctum would fall, undoubtedly, there is nothing that stop the Ghost, now that she has pleted her Inhuman transformation.

  Kaecilius will be overseeing the destru of the London Sanctum as well so he should be able to stall Kaecilius long enough for the heroes to arrive. His lips curled in distaste at the y of the act but he khat should the shield fall, beings much worse than him would try and capture his kingdom, something he could not allow.

  “Sir?” He looked up as one of his minioered his voice, a tablet in his hand. Now that he had a good enough number of minions from his own species, he had begun relegating the moo lesser jobs like ing the bathrooms as such. He undoubtedly enjoyed putting the monkeys in their pce.

  “Yes?” he turned his attention back to the book, which was in his hand but he was not reading that at all. He was feeling a sense of unease about the whole thing a, after going through the entire pn with a b, he could not find anything that might indicate that he was going to be in any danger.

  “Sir, we have received firmation from their side. They are about to ehis A One who will be returning soon,”

  “Hmm, leave.”

  He could feel him leave hastily. As soon as the door shut, he she book shut ao the window in his office, overlooking the training as well as the modifications being doo the base. Sure, the Elephantised Inhuman was grotesque and inplete to look at but his strength was undeniable.

  With two more of his brethren who were uo bee perfect like himself, they were well on their way to making his first ir, acc to his wishes. It would be the start of many such irs, spread across his Kingdom.

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  –Kaecilius–

  “She will return soon. At this location,” He opened his eyes from his meditation as a message was received from his Liege. He bowed at the invisible air until the pressure from the area receded. They were in one of the many natural air chambers that had formed beh the o. Dete at this depth was o impossible using teology, like the ohat Stark has, who is undoubtedly roped in to defend the Sanctums by Jack Sullivan.

  And he has cloaked this cave, along with many others, to make sure that none of the Dark Energy st leaves it. He had to be careful in st some of the more votile Dark Ones in one of these caves but it had been worthwhile to do that, to deal a surprise blow to the A ONe.

  “Inform the leech,” he ordered as he stood up, making preparations for the battle.

  For ohey had a pre chosen location for the A Oo push her in that pce so that they would have the home field advantage. His liege has given him the entrao the Fae Pace so that he could prepare to ambush the A One.

  After a long st, he would be oep closer to Eternal Life, to immortality. All he had to do was kill a thief and a liar. He would have loved to have her loyal Masters in front of them when he exposed her hypocrisy but as, that would mean Jack being there to support her and as powerful as he was, he was not fident iing that infernal man’s barriers.

  His liege would be the oo deal with that pesky i once his liege desded on the world and made it timeless.

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