*Chapter 183: The [Mirror Dimension] Spell*

"Wait, you know who the next Sorcerer Supreme is?" heroine once again became the blind monk who grasped the critical point.

Black Canary beside her brightened up: "Could it be that Mr. Stephen Strange!?"

Atreus laughed and patted Black Canary's shoulder, "Hey, it wasn’t in vain that you've been with me for so long. You've improved."

As Atreus spoke, he continued his VIP front-row seat to the show.

To the Canary sisters, the scene before them looked like an ordinary urban landscape, identical to what they’d seen before.

But for true powerhouses, even someone like Faora, whose perception wasn't particularly sharp, the scene appeared shattered, twisted, and bizarre—more surreal than most bizarre dreams.

Irregularly shaped but interlocked mirrors tugged at their heartstrings.

If they could integrate the broken and fragmented view like Atreus's [Godslayer System], they would see buildings crashing down from the sky, the ground turning into a relentless millstone grinding down those 'monks' in orange and yellow robes.

perspective kept flipping and reversing—what was the ground one second became sky next, and skyscrapers’ facades suddenly became only foothold.

footing was uneven everywhere; one wrong step, and you'd plunge into an abyss, crushed to powder by the cracks in space.

One of Kaecilius's followers fell out. From outside the mirror dimension, it looked like an orange-red fireball crashing into a building's rooftop.

Only Atreus could see that it was a human being torn apart by hundreds or thousands of smaller spatial fractures.

If someone could peer into those tiny spaces, possibly smaller than a needle's eye, they would find flesh of an unknown nature.

battle within the mirror dimension was both spectacular and brutal.

The fight between the Ancient One and the traitor ended when Kaecilius found an opportunity to forcibly open a portal and escaped with some of his followers.

Everything in the mirror dimension began to restore itself eerily.

It was like the legendary "mending a broken mirror."

The recently inverted buildings, even city, returned to the original ground plane, with shattered outer walls piecing back together like a jigsaw puzzle, returning to their rightful places. scattered fragments and broken structures in visual field began to restore, as if time was rewinding, returning to normal as the Ancient One left.

If anything had changed, it was that a few corpses now lay on what had been an empty street.

Just as the Ancient One was about to leave, she unexpectedly saw Kratos return, standing just five meters in front of her.

Ancient One: "..."

Atreus: "Don't get excited. Like you, I just want to protect this Earth."

If the Ancient One had been somewhat wary of Atreus before, she had already made up her mind after seeing Atreus's actions through her foresight.

"Traveler through time and space! Don't mess things up."

"Better than letting this world be devoured by darkness, isn’t it?"

Ancient One didn't reply, swiftly walking past Atreus.

Atreus grinned, feeling both a sense of surviving a near-death experience and relief.

Humming a harvest tune, Atreus turned his attention to the Kaecilius followers the Ancient One had eliminated.

Each of them had once been personally trained by Ancient One herself at Kamar-Taj.

Their strength might not have measured up in a battle between true powerhouses.

Absorbing their red souls wouldn’t give Atreus any basic attribute boosts.

But don’t forget—they all knew teleportation!

Honestly, Atreus had coveted them for a long time.

"Slurp!" Just like slurping noodles, Atreus felt the boost brought by these strange red souls.

[Congratulations, host, for collecting the soul of Kaecilius follower XXXX. Soul purification in progress… The five of them have given the host the following boosts…]

[Host's teleportation has leveled up to Lv36!]

[Congratulations, host, for acquiring Kamar-Taj space skill (Mirror Dimension): The host can use magic to temporarily create a 500 cubic meter mirror dimension. This space will not collapse before sustaining 10,000 points of spatial damage and will not affect the real world. Maintaining this space requires 3 points of elemental energy per second.]

Unlike a certain apprentice sorcerer named Stephen, at least at this moment, these Kaecilius followers were genuinely qualified Kamar-Taj sorcerers.

boosts they provided were really valuable!

Atreus pried off a golden knuckle-like object from one of the sorcerers' hands. If it hadn’t been broken, it would have been a connected knuckle ring. He slipped it onto his index and middle fingers.

A mysterious sensation instantly connected his soul with the [Godslayer System].

[Congratulations, host, for acquiring (Shattered Sling Ring)... Performing a check on the host's spatial magic abilities... Check complete, upgrading to superior quality (Sling Ring): It greatly enhances the host's perception of parallel spaces, increasing elemental perception by 30 levels.]

Found a treasure!

Without this, difficulty of manually opening portals would have risen by countless levels. Without the system's help, even if he could truly subdue a sorceress as a teacher, who knows how many years he would need to learn.

Now it all came effortlessly.

Atreus casually burned the bodies to ashes and used teleportation to return to his room.

Diana looked at the [Sling Ring] in Atreus's hand and tentatively asked, "Is it done?"

Atreus smiled, "[Sling Ring] is a treasure of the Kamar-Taj sanctum. This ring was corrupted, so the Ancient One simply destroyed it. She never expected I could repair it. With it, my space magic abilities can improve by two levels."

"Then…"

"Still not enough; I probably need to kill that Kaecilius."

Diana was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

If it were when she first met Atreus, she would have been worried, but after being together for so long, she knew very well that when it came to stealing the spotlight, he was a true professional.

As a seasoned opportunist, first thing you need is enough patience.

Since it’s certain that New York Sanctum is the key, there’s no need to trek all the way to Nepal.

That place has too many people and too many fakers, and you can’t even find a decent six-star hotel.

Atreus, used to the good life, couldn’t stand it.

He also didn’t dare take the Dark Elf mothership there.

The stealth technology might fool others but not the Ancient One's perception.

If things went wrong, and the Ancient One decided she didn’t like him and shot down his mothership, that wouldn’t be good.

Time passed day by day.

A massive spatial disturbance occurred over New York again.

(End of Chapter)