May and I talked for a little while more before we went our separate ways. I asked her to inform her parents that I might not be coming home that night any time soon. I had a doctor's appointment.
I swung over to Strange's place and knocked on the door. Almost immediately it opened and I found Strange looking at me with a smile. I sighed, "I accept."
"Good, then let us begin," he moved aside and let me walk in. He closed the door shut and I knew I probably changed the course of my life forever.
Once again, I found myself in his parlour, he poured me a cup and we sat down facing each other. Strang sipped his drink and looked at me, "so...what do you know about magic?"
"Honestly? Nothing," I shrugged, "I understand that it's supposed to be power in various different forms, but nothing more than that."
Strange nodded, "yes, that's alright I suppose. Magic you see, if the manipulation of foreign energies through spells and incantations. If you wish, you may think of them as programing codes that can change the system you live in."
I raised an eyebrow, "so like the Matrix?"
Strange blinked, "huh….well, yes, I suppose that would be the perfect example. Essentially every magician is a version of Neo and can change the code of the world through programing. That is essentially magic."
I groaned, "you mentioned something about power. Where does it come from? Is it from inside me? Like bioelectricity?"
Strange nodded, "certain magical spells does use your own bio energy, yes. Spells such as the ones you used against Kylokeous are in this category. Also when you use your life force to interact with the electrical fields around you, thereby pushing your spiritual form outwards, you may achieve a state of release, obtaining your astral form."
"So magic isn't something arcane and foreign, it's just a form of manipulated science," I narrowed my eyes in thinking.
Strange smiled, "I have been telling the same to the greatest minds in this dimension, I'm glad someone finally understands. Yes Peter, Magic is just another way we can understand the world, albeit a much more complex and indirect way."
I nodded, "I see…." I then grew curious, 'how did Doom become a soccer? How? Did it have something to do with the place where we sent him? How?'
"What is troubling you Peter?" Strange asked.
I looked at him, "I...it's..." I thought of lying to him, but I figured if he's going through all the trouble of teaching me, I could at least be honest with him, "I was just thinking about a villain from my world. Doom, I assume you know him?"
Strange glared, "yes, I know Victor Von Doom."
I sighed, "yeah, well he's the man who almost killed me," Strange's surprised face made me continue, "when Doom tried to destroy my Baxter building Reed and I sent him through a dimensional portal where my version of the Fantastic Four got their powers. There he stayed for over a year, before he escaped, and this time he could somehow use magic."
"How? Are you sure he used magic?"
"He had glowing green circles spinning around his head."
"Could he use it before?"
"If he could he would have used it against us before," I replied.
"Then….then you must have trapped him in a dimension of power, which would explain how your FF got their powers," Strange said stroking his beard.
I blinked, "I'm sorry?"
Strange blinked out of his dazed look, "oh, sorry. Well you see a dimension of power is a world unlike the dimensions you and I are aware off. You see there are very specific conditions for the universe to exists, the exact number of molecules in an atom should be present, the exact spin in a quark, the exact speed of light. Each of these conditions are balanced on the tip of a sword, hundreds and hundreds of swords. And if one fall off, the entire universe will be unable to support life.
"But, they still exist, and the resulting dimensions laws of physics are changed to such a drastic measure it's almost unrecognizable. Like for example gravity could be reversed, where everything is pushed away instead of pulled in."
"Okay, but what does that have to do with magic?" I asked, not that this little tale in quantum mechanics wasn't fascinating, I really wanted him to get to the point.
"These dimensions are unstable, they constantly grind against our own. And if they somehow interact with our own dimension and are subjects to our rules, it can cause different effects," he snapped his finger summoning a magical circle over his fingers, "such as allowing me to do this."
My eye's widened in fascination, "how? How can a human do this?"
"Our minds are quantum machines Peter, meaning they work differently than the rest of our boyd. The nest of electrical signal acts like...like a modem of sorts, allowing us to connect to different dimensions, pulling in that world's energies into our own, and manipulating it. There are thousands upon thousands of worlds out there, each giving a different type of magic. Dark worlds, such as Dormammu, Mephisto's realm, and so many more. As such you need to be careful when using magic, it can quite literally kill you."
I groaned and nodded, "so...Doom was in one of these worlds...and he learnt to control magic, the power of that world,...all by himself?"
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