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The Mirror Dimension fully dissolved.
In an instant, they were back inside the main hall of Kamar-Taj. The walls were intact. The floor was smooth. It was as if nothing had happened.
The Ancient One looked at Ethan for a long moment.
"You adapt quickly," she said calmly. "That is your greatest strength. But reflection is as important as action."
Ethan nodded slightly. "I understand."
She turned to Wong.
"Show him his room. He will stay here for some time."
Wong bowed his head slightly. "Of course."
Ethan picked up his coat from the floor and put it back on slowly.
Before he could follow Wong, Coulson, Natasha, Clint, Frank, and Sharon walked toward him.
They were all staring at him.
Clint blinked twice. "I'm just going to say it. What the hell was that?"
Frank shook his head. "I though you were all just tech and suits."
Sharon looked around the perfectly normal hall. "You destroyed… a whole city in there."
Coulson adjusted his tie slightly, still processing everything. "No wonder she prefers fighting in the Mirror Dimension. Who knows what might have happened if that was the real world."
The others nodded in agreement.
Storm remained calm, his arms folded. "She is powerful. Ethan-sama gave his all, yet she was not even fighting seriously."
"Now I really don't want to see her fight seriously," Clint said, and the others nodded in agreement.
Ethan simply shrugged.
"Anyway, it seems you guys joined Kamar-Taj," Ethan said, looking at Coulson and Natasha, who were wearing apprentice robes.
They nodded.
"Yes," Coulson said. "We are starting from the basics. Meditation, theory, discipline."
Natasha crossed her arms. "We're officially apprentices."
Ethan nodded once. "Good."
He looked at the others.
"Well then, it seems all of you will be learning together. Storm, Clint, Frank, and Sharon are here to learn some magic too."
Clint pointed at himself. "Let's lower expectations. I'm here to survive magic."
Sharon gave him a look. "Lets just try our best"
Frank glanced at Ethan. "Don't expect me to summon skeleton dragons."
"You won't," Ethan replied calmly. " They won't teach it here"
" Damm, I was aiming for it" Frank grumbled.
Clint also groaned. "After watching that fight, I also really wanted that dragon?"
Storm spoke quietly. "Foundation first. Power without foundation collapses."
Coulson adjusted his sleeves. "Honestly, after what we just saw, I'm fine with starting small."
Natasha looked at Ethan carefully. "And you?"
"I'll train separately for now," Ethan said. "But we'll cross paths."
Clint tilted his head. "So we're all classmates now?"
"Something like that," Sharon said.
Wong's voice echoed faintly from down the hall. "Apprentices report to the courtyard at dawn."
Clint sighed. "Dawn. Of course."
Frank rolled his shoulders. "Guess we're monks now."
Storm gave a small nod. "This is nothing like what they teach at the Arashikage Clan."
"I doubt we can reach your level anytime soon," Coulson said, looking at Ethan.
Ethan shrugged. "I've been learning since I was five years old. I would be very sad if you reached my level in just a few years," he said with a light chuckle.
They nodded.
Clint crossed his arms. "Good. I wasn't planning to."
Frank looked at Ethan seriously. "How long did it take before you could do something like that… dragon thing?"
"A few years," Ethan replied. "But the basics took longer. Control is harder than power."
Natasha glanced at Storm. "Arashikage training didn't cover this?"
Storm shook his head slightly. "Different philosophy. Discipline of body and mind. Not manipulation of dimensions."
Coulson exhaled slowly. "So tomorrow we start with meditation."
"Yes," Ethan said. "You'll sit still. Focus on breathing. Clear your mind."
Clint looked disappointed. "That sounds extremely boring."
"It won't be," Storm said calmly. "When your mind refuses to stay quiet."
Sharon gave a small smile. "He's right."
Frank cracked his neck lightly. "Fine. We start at the bottom."
Ethan looked at all of them.
"Kamar-Taj doesn't care who you were before," he said. "Agent, soldier, assassin, ninja. Here, you're beginners."
Natasha nodded once. "Good. I prefer knowing where I stand."
Wong's voice echoed again from the corridor. "Rest. Dawn comes early."
Coulson straightened up. "That's our cue."
Clint pointed at Ethan as he began walking away. " Please no City smashing fights outside of Mirror Dimension"
Ethan smirked faintly. "I'll keep that in mind," he said as they left.
He then returned to his own room and looked at his system interface.
"Hmm, this month's gacha is here," he muttered.
He pressed the button.
The familiar gacha wheel appeared in front of him and began to spin. Colors blurred together until it slowly stopped on a silver-looking armor.
A notification appeared.
[Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Silver Samurai Armor from Marvel.]
In an instant, Ethan's mind was filled with technical designs and blueprints. Every component, every circuit, every alloy composition—he understood all of it.
"Hmm. Not bad," he murmured. "It even has power-stealing capabilities built into it."
He went through the information carefully. There was a specialized energy-drain system integrated into the armor's core.
"It looks similar to the one used in the Wolverine movie to steal Wolverine's regeneration factor," he said quietly.
He sat down on the edge of his bed, thinking.
The armor required rare alloys, high-density power cores, and precise engineering. But with the knowledge now in his head, building it was only a matter of resources and time.
He leaned back slightly.
"With magic and this armor combined…" he paused.
It would allow him to drain energy from opponents—mutants, enhanced humans, even magical beings—if modified properly.
But he frowned.
"Using power-stealing directly is risky," he said to himself. "It can destabilize the target… or me."
He opened the system again and checked the full specifications.
The armor enhanced strength, durability, and reaction speed. It also provided high resistance to energy attacks.
"And it's designed like a samurai," he added.
He stood up and walked to the window.
"I have Uru. I can even use it to forge the armor and enhance my abilities further," he thought carefully.
It could become a balanced setup—technology absorbing energy, magic controlling and stabilizing it.
He closed the system panel.
"Though it will have to wait until my Quan Chi template reaches completion," he muttered.
He opened the status screen and looked at the fusion rate.
Template Fusion: 81%
"Thanks to that fight, it increased by three percent," he said quietly.
That meant real combat against high-level opponents accelerated the synchronization.