Let me show you a new way Chapter 169

The first to discover traces of the invaders was the current Sorcerer Supreme, Lin Dong.

Theoretically, as the guardian of Earth’s mystical side, the Sorcerer Supreme wasn’t actually supposed to deal with alien invasions. This was a sort of unwritten rule among mystical guardians, a rule passed down since the first Sorcerer Supreme, Agamotto.

In fact, the Ancient One had always operated this way. Only if Earth truly faced a catastrophe of human extinction levels would the Ancient One intervene.

The reason for this rule’s formation was, at its core, very simple.

Because magic was not humanity’s true path.

Ultimately, magic’s difficulty in widespread adoption made it impossible to be humanity’s future; it was destined to remain a game for a select few.

According to the information Lin Dong consulted in the Kamar-Taj library, the first Sorcerer Supreme had attempted to promote magic, but the results were poor. Many people could never even begin their entire lives. On one hand, their intelligence was insufficient; on the other, their sensitivity to magic was lacking. In modern times, there was also the issue of correcting one’s worldview.

In the original timeline, Doctor Strange didn’t believe in magic at all. As a doctor, his disbelief in the mystical side was deeply ingrained. As the saying goes, “severe illness requires strong medicine,” so the Ancient One directly threw his mind into countless incredibly realistic illusions, completely shattering and breaking his entrenched worldview.

In reality, Lin Dong now believed that what the Ancient One showed Doctor Strange were indeed illusions. After all, she couldn’t genuinely lead Doctor Strange’s mind to travel through multiple dimensions in such a short time. However, those illusions were extremely real because the scenes were all ones the Ancient One had personally witnessed during her long life’s journey.

For example, she once used magic to briefly leave Earth, overlooking the world from beyond the atmosphere, thus confirming the idea that “the Earth is round.”

She had also entered other dimensions more than once, seeing many extremely bizarre world rules there, and even her mind was constantly being invaded by the Dark Dimension.

Although these were illusions, in another sense, they were also very real.

As a potential Sorcerer Supreme, Strange, after truly entering the fold, surpassed all his fellow disciples in a short time and even learned the Mirror Dimension spell, which other sorcerers couldn’t master in their entire lives.

But for those with ordinary aptitude, merely memorizing complex knowledge was already very difficult, let alone understanding and successfully casting spells.

Therefore, the first Sorcerer Supreme keenly realized that magic and mystical elements would be difficult to become mainstream.

From then on, there was an unwritten rule: use magic to counter magic. And magic itself should not be made public.

Because they didn’t want to interfere with humanity’s own progress.

As for aliens, in the early days, Odin actually protected Earth. Whether it was the Dark Elves subverting the Nine Realms or the Frost Giants conquering Earth, Odin would lead the Asgardian army, riding in with the Bifrost to save Earth from peril. And afterward, he wouldn’t demand any compensation from Earth (he didn’t care for it)—what a spirit of Lei Feng!

But now Earth no longer had Odin’s protection. The current King of Asgard wasn’t even strong enough for Lin Dong to defeat with one hand. And the threats from the mystical side were, to be honest, becoming fewer and fewer. Therefore, as the new Sorcerer Supreme, Lin Dong directly ignored this unwritten rule.

He threw several probes into the solar system…

Both technological and magical types.

Although Lin Dong liked magic, he never rejected technology. After returning from the DC world, he also acquired many technological products and threw them into space as a defense net.

And precisely because of this, he was the first to detect this group of reckless marauders.

They were arguably the most impoverished aliens among those who invaded Earth. In fact, Lin Dong deeply suspected that even with Earth’s own technological capabilities, it would have been possible to successfully shoot down these few spaceships, after which a few major nations could take possession of the assets and, incidentally, boost humanity’s technological system.

So Lin Dong directly informed Steve, telling him to fly out of Earth, capture these people, and interrogate them. As for the spaceships, after Steve contained the people with Green Lantern constructs, he directly divided the unmanned spaceships equally and dropped them onto uninhabited lands in several major Earth nations, posing as accidental alien spaceship crashes, to elevate Earth’s technological capabilities.

Of course, doing this wouldn’t have much effect, as this was a superhero-themed multiverse, and the effect of mass production would be very poor.

After Steve captured these aliens, Lin Dong personally came to interrogate them. With the help of magic, these aliens revealed everything they knew, telling him all about their method and purpose for coming to Earth.

“Energy signal?” Lin Dong frowned in thought. According to these aliens, they had inadvertently detected an extremely powerful energy reaction on Earth. This energy was completely unmasked, and the signal was growing stronger, so these audacious marauders came to invade Earth with a bunch of junk.

“What is the energy signal they’re talking about?” Steve asked from the side. They were currently standing in S.H.I.E.L.D.’s special prison. These aliens were just ordinary aliens, not Kree or Skrulls, and had no remarkable superpowers.

“If I’m not mistaken, it might refer to the signal generated by the Infinity Stones…” Lin Dong speculated with a frown. The Eye of Agamotto hung on his chest.

“If the Stones are too close, they will generate a special energy reaction. Even if they are far apart, as long as they are still on Earth, the Stones will still produce some kind of energy signal, and the signal will become increasingly easy to detect. If the Stones are not separated, sooner or later, Earth will face an invasion from countless aliens who covet the Infinity Stones.”

“You mean we should send the three Infinity Stones off Earth?” Steve asked with a frown.

“No, actually, we only need to send one away!” Lin Dong shook his head and said. He pointed to the Eye of Agamotto on his chest and explained to Steve,

“Inside the Eye of Agamotto, the mysterious Time Stone is stored, and the Eye of Agamotto is not only a tool for using the Stone but also a gateway that hides its signal.” Lin Dong finished speaking, and golden lines in his hand materialized into the shape of a cube.

“And nearly a thousand years ago, the Tesseract was left on Earth by Odin. The energy protection layer on the surface of the Cube also played the same role as the Eye of Agamotto, capable of isolating the true signal of the internal Stone.”

“But things are a bit different now. The Tesseract has long been shattered, the Space Stone is exposed externally, embedded in Jane Foster’s forehead, and the Mind Stone is stored with Tony Stark.”

“Earth has half of the Infinity Stones. The current protective isolation layers of the Stones are no longer very effective! We must send one away, or sooner or later, some powerful aliens will detect the signal and find their way to Earth!”