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Even so, fighting a Celestial should be far from "relaxing."
Or is it that in the eyes of a expert, this counts as relaxing?
Kevin expressed his confusion.
Kevin certainly had to participate in the plot involving Star-Lord and Ego.
Although Ego was destined to die, Kevin wouldn't get many skill points for helping Star-Lord kill him, but Yondu could be saved.
While saving people yielded fewer skill points than killing, the saved individuals would continuously provide Kevin with skill points.
As long as Kevin was involved in the relevant plot, skill points would pop up one after another, like mushrooms after rain.
Overall, saving people yielded greater rewards than killing.
Therefore, as long as he could save them, Kevin would generally do so, especially characters who shouldn't have died in the original plot.
However, before going to save Star-Lord Peter, Kevin had one more thing to do.
"Ancient One, you know about the clone Ego left on Earth, right?"
"Of course."
"Can you send me over? It's been a long time since I saw Peter, so I want to give him a gift."
Kevin remembered that in the second season of the "what if" series, there was a possibility where young Star-Lord was sent to Ego by Yondu, and then Ego dispatched young Star-Lord to various parts of the universe to invade planets.
This was both a way to train young Star-Lord and to realize his plan of turning all planets in the entire universe into himself.
Young Star-Lord's first stop was Earth, where he encountered the original Avengers and fought them.
After a very classic family-friendly sequence, young Star-Lord was recruited by the original Avengers members and became one of them.
And among these, the most noteworthy point was that Ego severed young Star-Lord's divine connection with him, yet young Star-Lord was still able to use Celestial power.
The reason was that young Star-Lord had swallowed the clone Ego left on Earth.
From then on, a part of Ego would forever remain within young Star-Lord, which was why young Star-Lord could still use divine power.
In the plot of "Guardians of the Galaxy 2," Kevin remembered that after Star-Lord killed Ego, he could no longer use Ego's power, which was a regrettable thing.
It just so happened that in this Marvel World, Kevin had become friends with them, so Kevin thought, why not help Star-Lord solidify a portion of Ego's power, giving him more life-saving abilities.
This would prevent him from nearly dying in space three seasons in a row.
This was Kevin's thought, but he wasn't aware of the Ego clone's location, so he could only seek help from Ancient One.
Ancient One didn't answer Kevin's question, but she raised her finger and placed it on Kevin's forehead.
A special power surged in, and countless images flashed before Kevin's eyes as Ancient One infused the power.
Among these images, Kevin also saw the location of the Ego clone.
"Alright, I've told you its location."
Ancient One withdrew her hand, chuckling softly.
Kevin: "?"
Are you serious? You just give me a location and then expect me to go there myself?
"…Ancient One, shouldn't you be opening a portal directly for me now?"
"Sorry, I have no obligation to send you there. If you want to go, you'll have to rely on your own efforts."
Ancient One's gaze flickered to Kevin's finger.
Kevin was still wearing the Sling Ring on his finger.
Noticing Ancient One's gaze, Kevin instantly understood Ancient One's intention.
"…You want me to go there myself?"
"You can do it, Kevin."
Ancient One seemed to have a lot of confidence in Kevin, and Kevin didn't even know where this confidence came from.
But while Ancient One had confidence in Kevin, Kevin didn't have much confidence in himself.
He looked at the Sling Ring on his hand, hesitated, and was about to ask Ancient One for help:
"Ancient One…"
However, Ancient One had already turned her back and walked away, waving at Kevin while encouraging him:
"You can do it, come on, Kevin."
"..."
Ancient One walked away with her hands behind her back, and Kevin looked at the Sling Ring in his hand again, silently.
Actually, even if Ancient One didn't send him over, Kevin could still use the power of the Reality Stone to reach the target location.
But this was Ancient One.
The Supreme Mage of the Marvel World at this stage, a super expert in the early Marvel World.
Some even speculated that Thanos didn't dare to cause trouble on Earth initially because Ancient One and Odin were still alive.
He didn't dare to directly confront these two experts.
So, only after Ancient One and Odin died did Thanos begin his actions.
For such a powerful being, her actions were definitely not meaningless, and Ancient One also possessed the Time Stone; she could use the Time Stone to see the future she wanted to see.
Perhaps… in the future she saw, this was how Kevin mastered teleportation magic?
No, the future Ancient One saw should only be one possibility, and there would also be a future where Kevin couldn't master teleportation magic and used the Reality Stone to achieve his goal.
So which one did Ancient One see?
And which future path did she hope Kevin would take?
Kevin couldn't figure it out.
That's why these experts are so annoying; they always act like riddle-makers, which isn't friendly at all to someone like Kevin, who isn't particularly smart.
However, thinking that Star-Lord probably still had some time, Kevin wasn't too anxious to rush over. He took a deep breath, placed his fingers in front of him, and focused intently on the front.
Kevin had used the hand gestures for casting a portal many times these past few days. Although he couldn't cast it, he was quite skilled at just striking the pose.
But right now, it was just striking a pose.
Golden sparks danced before his eyes, flickering on and off.
No matter how many times Kevin tried, it was always the same.
He couldn't fully open a complete portal.
Doctor Strange was also like this when he first started training, but with Ancient One's coercion, throwing him to the top of the Himalayas, the threat of death forced Doctor Strange to quickly master the portal.
But Kevin didn't have such an urgent feeling.
In the Marvel World, Kevin's mindset had always been relaxed, after all, even if he encountered something truly difficult to deal with, he could still run to the The Boys world.
Even Ultron, Kevin didn't feel he was too much of a threat.
With such a mindset, how could Kevin quickly master the use of portals like Doctor Strange?
"Think about how you manipulate water, Kevin."
Just as Kevin couldn't open the portal no matter what, Ancient One's voice echoed in his ears again.
Looking up, Ancient One was no longer there, as if the voice Kevin had just heard was merely his hallucination.
But that one sentence seemed to possess magic, truly reminding Kevin.
Perhaps Ancient One used some magic to enlighten Kevin's mind, slightly improving Kevin's 'comprehension,' in any case, he did think of something now.
Kevin's Water Manipulation ability originated from his own instinct.
After activating this skill, Kevin naturally learned how to manipulate water. This ability was like Kevin's limbs; Kevin could control it naturally with a thought.
But that was before.
After Water Manipulation was upgraded to Level 5, Kevin did experience some indescribable feelings when manipulating water.
That feeling was very peculiar, Kevin couldn't explain it, but it was precisely this unexplainable part that greatly increased Kevin's Water Manipulation ability.
It even enhanced Kevin's ability to manipulate water in seawater.
Perhaps… that was the power of magic?
"Manipulating water…"
Reminded by Ancient One, Kevin took a deep breath and began his practice again.
This time, he no longer practiced in the rigid, traditional mage's way, but instead merged the feeling of casting a portal with the feeling of manipulating water.
The power borrowed from other dimensions and the power Kevin used when manipulating water merged, and before Kevin, the golden light points turned blue, and an illusory shadow appeared in the circle formed by the blue light points.
During this period, Kevin's mood remained completely calm.
He even closed his eyes, no longer looking at everything in front of him, but instead concentrated on continuing to outline the existence of the portal.
After an unknown amount of time, a blue portal formed before Kevin's eyes, and at the same time, a crisp notification sound suddenly rang in his ears.
At the same time, a line of text from the skill tree popped up before Kevin's eyes as a reminder.
—Magic attribute activated, second profession officially unlocked.
—Do you want to spend ten skill points to unlock the second profession transfer?
OHHHHHH!!!!
When the skill tree's notification sound rang, Kevin couldn't help but cheer with joy internally.
Putting aside the ten skill points cost for now, Kevin, in the Marvel World, could finally be considered a mage.
It's just… the color of this mage's spells and other mages' spells are a bit different.
The portals and magic whips, the Rings of Raggadorr, which are like shield-like magic circles, created by other mages are all golden-based.
But Kevin's… is blue.
Kevin wanted to ask Ancient One why this was, but Ancient One had already left and wasn't here.
After thinking for a moment, Kevin temporarily gave up the idea of asking Ancient One this question and turned to step into the portal.
He could ask Ancient One anytime.
But if Peter's situation dragged on any longer, the plot might really end.
…
While Kevin was preparing a 'meeting gift' for Peter, on the distant Ego Planet, Rocket Raccoon, who was on the spaceship outside the planet, was arguing with Yondu.
Or rather, Yondu was unilaterally scolding Rocket:
"No matter what, seven hundred consecutive jumps are already beyond our physical limits! But you just jumped without even asking… Ugh—"
"You also didn't tell me in advance that Ego Planet was so far away from us! Ugh—"
Rocket turned to bicker with Yondu.
But after only two sentences, he turned and leaned over the trash can on the spaceship, throwing up violently.
The sequence of events was as follows.
The Guardians of the Galaxy had previously accepted a commission from the Sovereign race to protect their race's energy batteries.
Originally, if the commission was successfully completed, they would receive a generous reward.
In fact, they did complete the commission and received the payment from the Sovereign race.
But who would have thought that Rocket, with his sticky fingers, took a few of the energy batteries they were supposed to protect?
After the Sovereign race discovered this, they naturally launched an attack on the Guardians.
Star-Lord's Milan was forced to crash in this attack, falling onto a planet with no intelligent life.
During this time, Rocket and Star-Lord had an argument, and coincidentally, Star-Lord's father came to find Star-Lord, and the Milan also needed repairs.
So the Guardians split into two teams.
Star-Lord, Drax, and Gamora went to meet Star-Lord's father, while Rocket, Groot, and Nebula, the 'trophy' from the Sovereign race, stayed on the planet waiting for them to return.
But they didn't expect to encounter Yondu while staying on the planet.
Then Rocket and the others were thus arrested by Yondu and his crew.
But no one expected that after this, Yondu's team would experience rebellion and conflict… The details of the process are not important, but the final result was that those loyal to Yondu were all killed by the traitors, and those who betrayed Yondu were dealt with by Yondu himself.
In the end, Yondu's large Ravager team was left with only Yondu, the nominal captain, and one crew member who helped them escape.
Rocket and Groot got to know and familiarize themselves with Yondu during this period and learned about Ego from Yondu.
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