Chapter 65: The Witch Shadow Empire - All the Past is Prologue
Marchiban and Professor Tofodi wandered among them, watching them record the exact positions of the stars and planets they observed. There was silence except for the rustle of parchment, the occasional squeak of telescopes as they moved across the shelves, and the hurried writing of many quills. Half an hour passed, and another hour passed, and as the lights in the castle windows went out, so did the little golden spots of square that flickered on the field below.
At this time, Andrew saw the front door of the castle open, and the light projected down the stone steps, illuminating a small patch of grass below.
"Uh," Andrew suddenly raised his hand, "can I give it to you now?"
Professor Tofodi looked at him in surprise, "If you think it's okay, I think it is." "But I want to remind you that the .ls exam." ”
"I know," Andrew said, glancing under the castle, "I think I'm already there." ”
"Alright then," Professor Tofodi said, putting away the drawings Andrew had handed him, "you can go." ”
When Andrew left, Hermione whispered to Harry next to her,
"What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know, I think ———" Harry could finish his sentence when he was interrupted by a knock and the low barking of a large dog.
Harry and Hermione looked up at the same time, and the light was shining through Hagrid's window, and there was a loud bang on the other side of the field. Several students shouted "Oops!" as they wanted to see what was going on below, when Hagrid's door suddenly opened, and by the light shining through the hut, they could clearly see a burly figure roaring and waving his fists, surrounded by six men. Together, the men emitted thin red lights in his direction, and from this it was clear that they seemed to be trying to stun him with a stun charm.
"Don't!" Hermione shouted.
But people don't pay attention to their astrological charts at all. The red light was still flying around Hagrid's hut, but for some reason, the spell seemed to bounce off him.
Shouts echoed across the field, and a man shouted, "Catch him!"
Hagrid roared, "Damn sanity, don't you want to catch me like that, you guys ———Andrew, what are you doing here?"
Hagrid's roar spread far away, causing a commotion among the students, and the invigilator looked uncomfortably into the woodland.
Hermione, hearing Hagrid's name say Andrew, jerked her head up from her parchment, and stared nervously at the other side of the field.
"Andrew, what do you want to do, this is the Ministry of Magic, are you going to hinder the Aurors?" Hermione heard Umbridge screaming, sounding angry, "You shouldn't be here," you should be on the exam at this time. Get out of here, beware of me firing you!"
Harry saw Andrew's figure appear in the light, he and Hermione looked at each other, and heard Umbridge's voice, "Very well, Mr. Falco, since you insisted on protecting that guy——— heck, you were fired." "A dog was just about to pounce on her, and Harry knew it was teeth.
But Tooth was immediately knocked to the ground by a stun spell. Hagrid roared in rage and threw the killer into the air, and the man looked as if he had flown ten feet away and never got back up.
"Very well," the people above the castle heard Andrew's voice, "since you're not my headmaster anymore," they heard Andrew's cold, maniacal laugh, "that is, I can do anything?"
"No, Andrew!" Hermione screamed, trying to pounce straight off the castle, but was caught by Harry and Ron just in time.
"Wait," they heard Andrew again, "I have something to say to you." ”
"What?" Umbridge's voice sounded smug, "scared?"
"No," said Andrew, "I want to say, I've always hated your pink fur, old toad!"
Many people in the castle burst out laughing, but Hermione, Harry, and Ron didn't, staring nervously at what was happening below the castle.
A few more dark shadows suddenly appeared below, and they heard Umbridge's smug, gnashing teeth, "You forgot, and that filthy giant behind you." ”
But before she could say more, they saw several red rays of light emanating from Andrew's figure, and in an instant, several black shadows fell to the ground.
"How dare you!" shouted another shadow as he ran, "how dare you ——— Andrew! Are you alright?"
"Don't come here, Professor——— be careful!"
The surrounding figures fired an untold number of stun spells at Professor McGonagall. Halfway between the cottage and the castle, the red light struck her, and for a moment she became so bright that it emitted an eerie red light, and then she rose into the air and fell heavily to the ground on her back, no longer moving.
"Professor?" they heard Andrew shout, and then there was no reply.
The scene suddenly fell silent, no one was bothering about the exam, and everyone was nervously watching what was happening below.
A quiet breeze blew above the castle, but everyone didn't feel the cool feeling——— I don't know why, a sentence suddenly appeared in everyone's hearts inexplicably: the tide of darkness.
Sure enough, a red light lit up the night sky, and Hermione's heart skipped a beat, and he thought back to last year's Tower of London, the terrible destruction of war magic.
"Stop him!" Hermione shouted excitedly, "he's going to kill them." ”
"What?" Harry asked, uneasy.
"Andrew, what kind of magic is he going to use, I don't know, I don't know the name, those, it's war magic!" Hermione ignored the others, "I've seen him use this magic——— maybe a lot of people will die!"
"War magic?kid, that magic has long been lost, do you really know what it is?" an invigilator couldn't help but ask, the red magic cloud in the sky had begun to condense and form, and the terrifying magic tide stirred up the castle's protective barrier, and the powerful red lightning snake crawled over....
"I know, teacher, I... I've done my research, I've found detailed descriptions of that magic in the Forbidden Books section, and I know what I'm talking about..."Hermione recalls the earth-shattering blow in the Tower of London, and Andrew's horrible transformation, she didn't know what to do now.
"But why? Professor Umbridge hated it, but he wouldn't kill her?" Harry watched as the scene began to spiral out of control below, Professor Umbridge was directing the Aurors to attack Andrew in a frenzy - she was screaming, she realized something was wrong - but the spell hit the water like a lake, only causing ripples around Andrew. It didn't work.
At this moment, Elder Dora was standing in front of the tower window, and the war spell had filled Elder Dora's big eyes with flames, shriveled skin, and red eyes like hell ghosts.
"Is it finally about to begin? Chaos leads to new rules!"
Hermione frantically turned and ran towards the castle stairs, and Harry hesitated before jumping in after him.
By this time, red, tidal magic had filled the sky, and everything was covered in a red coat.
Miserable chirps, the flapping of demon wings, fire ravens hovering in the air, and the picture of hell descends.
The last time hell came like this was at the Tower of London. Relying on the Hundred Years of Time Seal, the Tower of London could not stop the terrifying war-level magic from completely destroying everything, and forcibly summoned a lake of fire in the center of London.
Andrew didn't transform this time, but his magic continued to transform into all kinds of hideous monsters around him like substance, waiting for their owners to give orders.
A green light stood out in the sea of red, and the Aurors realized that something was wrong, but Umbridge didn't give up, and she used the Requisition Charm in hopes of killing Andrew.
"So that's what the Star Monarch feels. Andrew didn't care about Professor Umbridge's attack, and the green requisition spell was quickly swallowed up by the magic tide around Andrew, who was basking in the sensation his body had never felt before.
Ever since Andrew was born into this world, he has been devouring each other with the picture of hell. The picture of Hell tries to devour Andrew's sanity and turn him into an entrance to the forces of destruction. Andrew, on the other hand, tries to grasp the picture of hell and accumulate strength for future salvation. The confrontation between the two has always existed, and it has always been a battle of life and death.
Before meeting Queen Anne, Andrew had been on the losing side, and he had to rely on suppressing his magic to counterbalance the further explosion of the picture of hell.
Later, in order to free Queen Anne, Andrew had to unleash the Hell Picture once and for all, and after that, the destruction magic in his body became a time bomb with the timer device turned on, and it was only a matter of time before it exploded completely.
Later, a series of times made this time bomb completely become Andrew's biggest threat to life. After Queen Anne was released, she tried to help Andrew, and the last terrible accident in Hogsmeade Wizarding Town almost devoured the injured Queen Anne.
Realizing that the problem was at its last moment, Andrew had to choose to leave Hogwarts and travel around looking for a line of upgrades.
It wasn't until half a year after leaving Hogwarts that Queen Anne contacted Andrew and told him that he had finally found a solution, but that he needed to meet him in a col in the Himalayas.
When Andrew arrived at the col, he found it a ruin, where Queen Anne and another witch were waiting.
According to Queen Anne, the witch was the last priest of the temple. As for what this temple was, neither Queen Anne nor the priest said, nor did Andrew ask.
For more than half a year, Andrew has been in a semi-comatose state, he feels that his body seems to be out of this world, to another dimension, where it is extremely empty, everything feels so vast, Andrew has traveled for a long time in this world that cannot be described in words.
He saw creatures he had never seen before--- insects that could teleport, birds that could turn themselves into a line, plants that could reach up to 10,000 meters by preying on meteors, huge baleen whales suspended in the atmosphere--- strictly speaking, this was the third world that Andrew had experienced--- the world of destruction, the world of magic, the world of fantasy - in the end, this world made Andrew completely unable to tell where he was.
When Andrew woke up again, he felt as if something was wrong with the space around him, as if something was missing, giving him a feeling of oppression. Fortunately, this feeling is like a wild man accustomed to the wilderness entering the room, but it is uncomfortable, but not fatal.
"The kind of thing and peculiarity in your body should be the embryo of a small world, but unfortunately it was destroyed by someone with a heart and turned into a weapon. Your strength is too weak, and this thing can only be a burden to you. The priest said in a vague voice.
Andrew didn't know how hell came to be in him. When he destroyed the world, he had never had this thing, and the master had never told him that there was such a thing, but when he was born in the wizarding world, this thing was already in his body.
Andrew lowered his head in contemplation, and Queen Anne asked, "Is the strength too weak, how strong is it necessary to control this thing?"
The priest sneered and said, "You and I, barely the upper demigods." His strength is not even a demigod, at most he can be regarded as a servant of the gods. At the very least, this thing is a Supreme Artifact—a Supreme Artifact made from the embryo of the world—an artifact that can only be used by the strongest gods, and there is not a single rudimentary god on tens of thousands of planets today. Think about it. I'm afraid that he can only be threatened by this thing in his life, maybe it's better to be able to turn into an artifact spirit when he dies, this thing doesn't have an artifact spirit for the time being, but according to the current situation, once he has a weapon spirit, he can only become a puppet of this artifact. ”
Queen Anne's face became extremely difficult to look at, "Last time I accidentally opened this thing, and something extremely terrible overflowed inside, what is that?"
"That air of destruction. I feel it. There's still some left on this kid. We live in a space that is like a page of a book, with an infinite number of pages and a world as many as the sands of the Ganges. And those breaths of destruction are the breaths of chaos outside the book. ”
"The aura of chaos continues to erode the pages of books, just like our ordinary books, after hundreds of thousands of years, they will be completely weathered and decayed, and countless worlds will return to chaos after a limited number of tribulations. This is the destiny of all worlds. ”
"The only way to resist this fate is to become an eternal being - alas, nothing in this world is eternal except for eternal rules. The priest sighed and said leisurely.
"So what can I do?" Andrew asked.
"I'm not going to tell you to work hard to cultivate and become a god, that's impossible. As for the rest, I suggest you find a way to become a machine spirit for this thing as soon as possible, maybe you can live a little longer. ”
"Become a machine spirit?"
"yes, there's nothing bad about it, it's almost eternal, it's just that there's no way to get out of it again. The priest sneered.
Andrew frowned, "Is there such a successful person?" Andrew does not rank any way to survive, as long as this method can achieve his goal in the end, he is willing to try. But he always felt as if something was wrong.
"Absolutely. The mechanical creations you know, as well as the Star Monarch, are the spirits of this weapon. They don't do much harm except that their will is controlled by someone else. ”
Andrew was shocked, this sacrifice actually knew about the Star Skeleton Sovereign, could it be that he also came to destroy the world?
"How do you know about the Starbone Sovereign?" Andrew asked hurriedly.
"Didn't I tell you? There are infinite worlds, and there are infinite worlds in destruction. The infinite part of the infinite is still infinite, you don't think that only your world has reached the end of the world. It's a bit too arrogant. The priest sneered again.
Andrew was stunned.
For a long time, he had always believed that the world he lived in was unique, only it was on the verge of destruction, in the fire of the apocalypse, and after listening to the words of the sacrifice, Andrew realized that --- infinite number of worlds were on the verge of destruction, and of course, the infinite world was also at the beginning of its birth....
"I see...," Queen Anne froze--- she understood for the first time why the mighty demigods didn't like to bother with mortal things.
"There's no other way but detachment," the priest whispered.