The phoenix, which had rested on the olive branch and was pretending to sleep, opened its eyes and flew its beautiful wings onto Dumbledore's shoulder, letting out a low cry like a song, and scorching flames burned all over its body.

The flames soon spread to Dumbledore's body, and he almost became a burning man, but Dumbledore's face was still calm and calm, without a little pain, and his robe was intact.

The next moment, the flames swelled, collapsed and disappeared, and the figures of Dumbledore and the Phoenix disappeared into the Headmaster's office...

By the time the flames that obscured his vision had faded, Dumbledore had found himself in the middle of nowhere, where there was nothing but dirt, gravel, grass and bushes.

Dumbledore glanced around, determined his bearings, and walked towards the empty meadow.

Vaguely he felt something hindering his movements, and after taking a few steps forward, the space around him suddenly changed, and a vast courtyard appeared in front of him.

In the center of the courtyard is a strange house that seems to be alive. Several eye-like windows surveyed Dumbledore's body, shaking his massive body from time to time, and thick white smoke constantly coming out of the chimney to make it look full of life.

As Dumbledore approached, there was a square passage directly in front of him, with jagged spikes on either side.

But it was the strange courtyard that opened its wide mouth so that the old white-bearded wizard in front of it could enter its body.

It wasn't the first time Dumbledore had been here, so he walked in without fear, and vaguely felt a hot breath rushing towards him, and the vigorous flames burning in the furnace next to him, the rising heat made the interior of the house warm...

The right side of the whole hall is full of bookshelves, densely placed with a large number of books, some parchment with symbols or patterns scattered messily on the ground.

A group of small, chirping alchemic creatures had somehow come to his feet, and Dumbledore had to be careful not to step on them...

"Albus? Why are you suddenly free to visit me? ”

At this moment, an old voice sounded.

Dumbledore turned his head to see that it was Nick Lemay coming out of the back room.

Compared to the last time they met, Dumbledore keenly noticed that Nick was in much worse shape.

The wrinkled face was so pale that there was almost no blood visible, and the thin body made people worry about whether it would be blown down by the wind, but only a pair of bright and intelligent eyes were still dazzling.

"Long time no see, Nick!" Dumbledore spoke.

"yes, it must have been more than a year, right?" Nick waved away the alchemical creatures gathered at Dumbledore's feet, then quipped.

"I don't think you would have thought of coming to me if there wasn't anything important, so let's go inside and talk!"

"You know, I've always had a busy job and have to deal with some mischievous kids... Of course, sometimes there are some worries that need to be taken care of outside of work..."

Dumbledore's face was surprisingly thick, and his complexion didn't change in the slightest under Nick's quips, and he said casually as he walked towards the back room.

Upon entering the back room, Dumbledore was surprised to find that it was very different from the last time he had visited, and that it looked more like a Muggle living room.

Televisions, refrigerators, ovens and other household appliances are all available, but they seem to have been enchanted, and Dumbledore can easily feel that these are alchemy props.

"Surprised?" Nick Lemay smiled when he saw the look of consternation on Dumbledore's face.

"yes!" Dumbledore nodded.

Nick Lemay said with emotion.

"These Muggle crafts are a lot of fun and always inspire me...

It seems that there are some benefits to living for a long time, especially in the last hundred years, the world has suddenly become interesting, and it is not as monotonous as before..."

Speaking of which, Nick Lemay is a pity that he can't see a more distant future...

"By the way, Albus, did you come to me this time because of that person?" Nick Lemay quickly reined in his emotions and got down to business.

"Nope! Voldemort has been relatively safe lately, I don't know where he is hiding, and there is no news from him. Dumbledore shook his head, then placed a broken time turner on the table and spoke again.

"Do you have a way to fix it?"

Nick Lemay glanced at it a few times, noticed the fine crack in the time turner, and said in surprise.

"It's so damaged... Thorough! How exactly do you do that? ”

"I just want to know—" Dumbledore raised an eyebrow.

"Well... Let me take a good look! Nick Lemay picked up the time-turner, flipped it over and looked at it carefully.

Although it was not detected with tools, Nick Lemay was able to roughly confirm the state of this thing with experience.

"The specific cause of the damage is that it is being used more frequently and intensively than it can withstand...", Nick Lemay said, holding his wand against the time-turner, casting an unknown spell.

The golden hourglass flipped over, and the fine sand slowly flowed down, and it took nearly a third of the dust and sand to stop, and after a long time, the hourglass reversed again and returned to its original state.

"It looks like the user used it to go back three months and stay there for a long time." Nick said with certainty, and as he was about to continue his analysis, a look of disbelief appeared on his face as the golden hourglass moved again.

"How is this possible?!"

"What's wrong? Nick? Dumbledore asked curiously.

"No wonder... No wonder it was so badly damaged. Nick Lemay first said something to himself, and then explained.

Because the power of time is too amazing, in order to avoid any accidents in the process of using the time converter holder, there is a protection mechanism on the time converter.

The safe time limit is five hours, beyond which the thing becomes unstable, and it is easy to trigger a protection mechanism to send the user back to the original plane.

Generally speaking, the longer the backwinding time, the more unstable the time converter will be, and it will be difficult to stay for long...

However, this holder was stranded for up to two months!

Nick Lemay doesn't know how the other side did this, the only thing that is certain is that the timeconverter should have been corrupted after that.

But the bearer has managed to keep the time-turner working at high intensity, draining the last vestige of its magic...

"Albus, can you tell me who owns this time-turner before?" Nick Lemay looked at Dumbledore with interest and asked.