As is well known.
Wanda's Crimson Chaos Magic is the progenitor of all magic, originating from the earliest primitive light in cosmic cognition and chance events.
If Hawk's Phoenix Fire is the first flame at the birth of life, then Wanda's Crimson Chaos Flame is the mysterious fire ignited at the birth of the most unlikely life.
In terms of incredibility, the Crimson Chaos Flame has the upper hand.
At least without the Reality Gemstone, Hawk can't alter reality.
But Wanda can.
And altering reality is just the basic function of Crimson Chaos Magic.
Altering causality!
Creating something from nothing!
Twisting space and time.
Creating duplicates and dimensions.
...
The mysterious fire ignited at the birth of the most unlikely life can naturally achieve many fundamentally impossible things.
Because...
The Crimson Chaos Flame itself is the synonym for impossibility.
Just like Wanda's variant in a certain Multiverse, the one with mutants, when that universe's Wanda said, "There are no mutants in this universe," the moment she finished speaking, all the mutants in the universe turned back into ordinary people in the blink of an eye.
Not a single mutant remained.
And in the 616 Cosmos, one variant of Wanda said, "Where's the mouth?" and directly made the mighty Black Bolt blow up his own head.
Turning the impossible into the possible, that's Crimson Chaos Magic.
The most important thing.
Wanda's Crimson Chaos Magic is innate, the Mind Gemstone merely shifted Wanda's control over it from latent to apparent.
When she was very young, Wanda had used Crimson Chaos Magic, though she hadn't realized it at the time.
When Wanda was very young, when the Stark Industries missile landed in front of her and Pietro, Wanda's Crimson Chaos Magic intervened for the first time.
The reason the missile didn't explode wasn't because it was a dud, but because the Crimson Magic chose "not to explode" over "to explode."
Very quickly.
When Wanda's Crimson Chaos Magic from her fingertips seeped into Hawk's mind through his temples, the fatigue in his deepest consciousness caused by "repeated failures" and "repeated struggles," which even the Mind Gemstone couldn't repair in the short term, was soothed like boiling water gradually calming down at a visible pace under the intervention of Crimson Chaos Magic.
While Wanda soothed the turbulent thoughts in Hawk's mind with Crimson Chaos Magic, she looked at Hawk with slightly closed eyes: "What Agatha said about 'Dreamwalking', it can't traverse the Multiverse?"
Hawk opened his eyes slightly.
Their eyes met.
"It won't work for me."
"...That's right, you don't have magic."
Wanda realized.
Hawk's mouth twitched: "That's part of it."
He is a Saint Warrior, a warrior.
As is well known.
Warriors rely on their own power and bravery.
Magic?
What is that? To a Saint Warrior, even the more powerful mages would have to succumb after a single punch.
Like a few months ago in Texas when he found Witch Agatha, then a single punch shattered Witch Agatha's magic, causing her to faint on the spot, and then he brought Witch Agatha back to New York City.
But at that time, Hawk was desperately seeking solutions.
So—
Hawk only realized when Witch Agatha handed over the "Dark God Book" and he couldn't open the copy, that he didn't have magic at all.
Naturally, without magic, he couldn't open the "Dark God Book," nor could he use the dark magic "Dreamwalking" to traverse the Multiverse.
But that's not the point.
Because even if Hawk had magic, the magic "Dreamwalking" would still be of no help to him.
The reason is simple.
"Dreamwalking allows consciousness to descend into your variant in the Multiverse, nothing else."
"It can only let you descend into a Multiverse where your variant exists."
"If the universe lacks your variant, you cannot descend."
Currently, in the 828 Cosmos where Gwen is, there is no variant of him.
So…
Dreamwalking is useless to Hawk.
As Hawk felt the gradually calming storm in his sea of consciousness under Wanda's soothing, he explained to Wanda, then seemed to remember something: "Has Agatha shown any unusual behavior?"
At the time, he sought ways to traverse the Multiverse, and after finding out Agatha couldn't help him, he simply left Agatha with Sharon, while remembering that Wanda became the Scarlet Witch through Agatha's help, so Wanda has been systemically learning with Agatha over in New York S.H.I.E.L.D. these days.
Because of this, Wanda's mastery over Crimson Chaos Magic has been continually enhancing.
Hearing this, Wanda chuckled: "With you here, she wouldn't dare make a move."
This wasn't ambiguous.
But a fact.
Hawk had demonstrated numerous times with bloodshed a single truth to everyone aware of his existence.
He needs no evidence, just suspicion, even the slightest, even misunderstandings would incur his thunderous wrath.
So, when Wanda said Agatha was being well-behaved, it was truly well-behaved.
Although she was thrown to S.H.I.E.L.D. by Hawk, although she lost her freedom from a certain perspective, at least she's still alive.
After Wanda said this, she suddenly thought of something.
"The Time Gemstone combined with the Space Gemstone should allow passage through the multiverse, right? Last time when I went to S.H.I.E.L.D., Stephen mentioned that examples of traversing the multiverse are recorded in the library at Kamar-Taj."
"It can, but I can't."
Hawk shook his head slightly: "Even though Celestial God Griss has really left this cosmos, and the time trap seems to have disappeared, a million things can happen, just in case."
Once again.
He has held on for all these months to spare Gwen the bitterness of separation, so he's not going to show any flaws.
"I won't step into time until the Phoenix Fire is ignited."
"Then your Phoenix Fire..."
At this moment, Wanda felt the sea of consciousness in Hawk's mind settling down, and withdrew her hands.
Hawk felt his head clear up, and after Wanda's hands left, instinctively reached out to press his temples.
"Entering a dead end..."
"Wait."
Suddenly, Hawk seemed to think of something, and after Wanda soothed his boiling sea of consciousness, turning it back into a cool spring, his eyes lit up, looking at Wanda, as his sea of consciousness boiled fiercely again.
What he was just thinking is that, as long as it's in the Marvel Main Multiverse, there's no way to awaken the Eighth Sense.
Because the Main Multiverse doesn't allow a second Zeus to appear.
Actually, that's not true!
Hawk was exposed, but only exposed in the view of the current Main Cosmos, not in the view of other cosmos.
So...
Theoretically, if he could go to other cosmos, he could continue to awaken the Eighth Sense there.
Yes.
Theoretically.
But there's a prerequisite, which is that he needs to avoid the Main Cosmos's attention and avoid its view to travel to the multiverse.
Thinking of this, Hawk raised his brows, feeling like he had forgotten something.
Just as he was about to think carefully.
Wanda, listening to Hawk's slightly excited speculation, smiled and said, "I believe you can bring Gwen, William, and Bella back."
She spoke from her heart.
Wanda had no intention to interfere in Hawk and Gwen's lives.
Just like Gwen said.
After all, with the ex-wife divorced and taking the kids, her coming here these days was due to Gwen's request.
Wanda agreed with Gwen's reasoning.
Clearly, a man can live independently without a wife, but once he has a wife, he can't live independently instantly.
So—
In recent days, Wanda would stay in West View Town during the weekdays and take her daughter Jean up to tidy up Palm Street on weekends, and pick up some groceries for Palm Street in passing.
After all, she promised Gwen she would.
Listening to Wanda's words, Hawk once again temporarily set aside the thoughts that had just emerged, looked at Wanda, and smiled slightly.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Wanda returned the smile, then looked over at her daughter Jean, who was lying on the kitchen island, blinking her big eyes, quietly listening to their conversation: "Alright, you can take your daddy to the door to build a snowman now."
Daughter Jean, full of energy, cheered, jumped off the high stool, and looked at Hawk.
Hawk also got up from the high stool, holding his daughter Jean's little hand, walked to the door, put gloves on Jean's little hands, and then pushed open the door, stepping outside into the snow-white world.
Jean cheered and ran into the snow.
Hawk followed closely behind.
An hour and a half later, as the snow gradually ceased, a big and small, very cute snowman appeared on the lawn outside the door.
After Hawk and Jean finished building the snowman and returned to the house, the interior was surprisingly refreshed.
Actually, the interior wasn't too messy, since Hawk spent most of his time like Buddha under a tree pondering.
But with Wanda tidying up, the whole house felt cleaner and more organized than before.
Just magical.
At this moment, Wanda walked down from the stairs, holding Hawk's phone: "Peter just called."
Hawk paused slightly, took the phone, and was about to ask why he hadn't heard it, then saw the silent setting and realized.
The next second.
He entrusted daughter Jean to Wanda, who took her to eat pastries, while he redialed Peter's number.
The call quickly connected.
"This is Peter."
"Peter."
"Hawk."
Peter on the other end heard Hawk's voice and quickly left the laboratory behind him: "I figured out how to travel through the multiverse."
Hawk heard this and immediately cheered up.
"Peter, traveling through the multiverse isn't that hard, but what's suitable for me is..."
"Quantum Realm!"
"..."