my slow journey to infinity

Chapter 115 Battle of the Century

Diagon Alley is much deserted.

But next to Gringotts, there was a newly opened alchemy supplies store, and people were still coming and going.

The wizarding world in England does not attach great importance to alchemy. Potions and transfiguration are more popular here, but most wizards are not proficient in them.

To be precise, most wizards are not proficient in anything. Under the rules and regulations of the Ministry of Magic, there are fewer outstanding wizards each generation.

Many regular visitors to Diagon Alley speculate that this shop called [Geralt's Alchemy Workshop] should be opened by a Frenchman.

The grudges in the Muggle world have not continued in the wizarding world, not to mention that it is now a period when a large number of dark wizards are escaping from prison, and there are rumors of Voldemort's return.

No one cares about who sells this protective alchemy item.

The manually activated [Iron Armor Charm] only costs 5 galleons.

It can be used three times a day and does not require spells or wands. It can be activated immediately with just thought control, which is very convenient.

There are also other types of protection spells, escape spells, and talismans for commonly used counter-spells, but the prices are slightly different.

But the most popular one is the [All Curses End] ring, which can be used five times a day and can dispel most of the continuous magic.

But, this kind of ring costs 15 Galleons.

In addition, there are many offensive spells and props to choose from, which indeed provide excellent protection options for wizards with average skills.

There is no doubt that this workshop was opened by Wang Shui.

It's not that he just made a bunch of low-level alchemy products just to make money.

Wang Shui just wanted to establish direct contact with the local wizards and balance the power gap between ordinary wizards and dark wizards.

By the way, I also dealt with the gadgets I made before.

Aqua Regia's balancing strategy has been effective.

After a large number of dark wizards flowed into the wizarding world, they immediately caused large-scale riots. However, Aqua Regia's alchemy tools powerfully suppressed this catastrophe, which made [Geralt's Alchemy Workshop] famous.

Soon, the Ministry of Magic chose to compromise.

They agreed to exchange the [Time Turner] for the [Horcrux Radar] in order to restrain Voldemort, and Aqua Regia naturally started to raise the price.

I was disgusted before, so I naturally want to give it back.

However, the final transaction price only included an additional 2000 galleons and a ten-day pass to the Ministry of Magic Archives.

The reason why he didn't make things particularly difficult for the Ministry of Magic was because Wang Shui had a need to check the information.

Since he could go in and see openly, Wang Shui didn't want to suffer the pain of phase invisibility.

The effect of this right of passage is that within ten days, Wang Shui can freely browse all magic materials that are not [Top Secret Level].

Wang Shui's request is not excessive, because this kind of reading permission is similar to that of a small official in the Ministry of Magic, not to mention that Shui Wang only lasts for ten days.

The Ministry of Magic readily agreed.

After getting the [Time Converter], Wang Shui discovered that this ten-day right of passage was the biggest gain in this transaction.

And in this original work, the time artifact that can go back to the past and change history cannot be used as expected.

Wang Shui had thought that if the [Time Turner] worked, he would have to spend more money to authenticate it.

But he also considered that as a transcendent in a special state of time acceleration, he might not be able to use this artifact at all.

Sure enough, the system dismissed him with - [Time acceleration state cannot superimpose time phases], and also characterized the [Time Converter] as a special equipment that cannot be authenticated and brought out.

To be fair, the system's decision was completely within Wang Shui's understanding.

After all, the fantasy world is constructed by the system through "rational calculations".

To be precise, it is the [Book-eating Demon·Fantasy Paradox] algorithm in extraordinary materialism, which has constructed a large number of idealistic fantasy worlds.

This algorithm has brought many miraculous scientific and technological advances to the extraordinary science of materialism that has been developed to a certain limit.

But [Paradox Algorithm] (abbreviation) also has limits. It has many idealistic abilities that cannot be constructed, such as time magic.

The real world cannot provide enough [Fantasy Parameters], so it is normal that [Time Turner] cannot be built.

Wang Shui was just a little disappointed.

In his erudite education course, a small part of the content mentioned [Paradox Algorithm].

But Wang Shui, who has only had three fantasy experiences in other worlds, encountered an item that the system could not construct for the first time.

However, for Aqua Regia, these are just episodes in life in a slow and infinite world.

Even including the additional starting price, including the ten-day right of access to the Ministry of Magic Archives, it is considered an adjustment that is earned in blood, and it doesn't matter if you can't get it.

Aqua regia is not a machine that can enhance itself at high speed. He cannot make every choice to enhance himself correctly, nor can he prevent some actions from wasting time.

He will maintain a certain degree of self-discipline and become stronger through study and research.

Reality is not a speedrun game, there is no planned route, and aqua regia does not have unlimited energy.

Wang Shui was fortunate to have his sisters to help him share the work. Otherwise, he would not have been able to progress at such a speed if he had relied on him alone, even if he had a stronger [Master] talent.

He is also more fortunate that there were not too many accidents that wasted time during his study and research work.

As for the spiritual knowledge resources of this wizarding world, Wang Shui has no more expectations.

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Closer to home, the current plot has gone astray out of control.

Aqua Regia's actions in stabilizing the wizarding world are all random operations in his spare time.

He had no idea of ​​directly changing the ideology and workings of the wizarding world.

Even if there were, this would be a big project that would require bloodshed and would be too troublesome.

The teammates from [Michelle Brotherhood] didn't notice Shui Wang's little move, and they didn't understand how thin and fragile this fairy tale world could be.

They thought that the resistance in this world should be this strong.

Ordinary wizards can only temporarily resist persecution. They do not have the ability or ideas to guard against thieves for a thousand days, so they can only allow the dark wizards to become more and more arrogant.

And soon, the group of dark wizards set their sights on Shui Wang's alchemy workshop.

However, after hanging a dozen ownerless wands at the entrance of the workshop, those bullies became silent.

But when it comes to bullying, you have to look at the Ministry of Magic.

After a large number of dark wizards escaped, the Ministry of Magic could only send more than thirty Aurors to hunt them down.

The average working intensity is one pair of three to four, but they are only equipped with a group of brainless dementor assistants.

As a result, the second prison robbery occurred in Azkaban, which had no defense, and more than twenty elite Aurors were ambushed to death.

Then, the Ministry of Magic... fell silent.

They completely lost the arrogance they had when they first got the [Horcrux Radar], and soon returned to the state of talking about magic.

Voldemort has also begun to consciously monitor all Horcruxes. At least his pet snake "Nagini" is always by his side. This is his chance to be reborn.

During these days when dark wizards were raging, Voldemort did not appear.

Although Voldemort keeps a low profile and hides himself, the loyal Ministry of Magic has begun to prepare for the arrival of the Dark Lord.

Dumbledore strictly closed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He just wanted to protect the students from being harmed, and the professors directly agreed to suspend enrollment.

Dumbledore's conservative attitude made those inside the Ministry of Magic even more timid.

But in fact, Dumbledore had quietly left the school and accelerated his collection of Horcruxes.

The situation here is turbulent, but in the eyes of the hunting team, the world is developing healthily according to their expectations.

In addition to recruiting, cultivating, and training dark wizards, the focus of the hunting team has shifted to building troop equipment.

The only weapons and equipment acquired from the Muggle world were rockets and missiles that could be used. The performance of vehicles such as artillery and tanks were strictly limited by their engines.

As for the plane?

On a battlefield with extraordinary and complicated means, expensive aircraft are too easy to wear out. As long as there are enough unmanned wingmen and a small amount of air superiority, it can be regarded as passing.

In the battle for air supremacy on the battlefield in the main world, you either have to go directly to the space battleship, or the sky is filled with lingering bombs, and no one wants it.

It is said that only the crushing game has air supremacy. The balance of power on the planet is also the stage for large-scale ground warfare machinery and mobile armor.

Qualified tanks, combat vehicles, and qualified cannon fodder drones are currently produced by Wang Shui.

The hunting team provided an upgraded version of the confidential blueprint - [War Machine Encrypted Prototype], and also provided a lot of funds from the Muggle world, which was full of sincerity.

Wang Shui has only exceeded the factory's production capacity, but based on his performance, it has only exceeded the production capacity.

There are still about twelve years until the proxy war begins.

And the troops they directly planned have reached the level of one million.

Now, recruiting agents is no longer a problem, but the military industry has a long way to go.

After the world became chaotic, Wang Shui also gave up his previous efforts and began to live a shrinking life. He just wanted his research base to be safe.

In order to conceal its industrial focus, Wang Shui even sent the specially allocated military production capacity directly to "Africa" ​​for custody. The hunting team's training ground was also there, and it happened to be managed by them together.

Wang Shui's job became a simple purchase of supplies.

This act of delegating power gave Wang Shui a certain amount of trust, so when the hunting team invaded Hogwarts, Wang Shui watched the whole process.

Yes, they are still very persistent in recovering the bodies of their teammates.

Even during the strict closure period of Hogwarts, they had to rely on internal agents, namely the passerby Awakened [Dragon Rider] brothers, to sneak into the school and launch a comprehensive search.

Speaking of which, the terrain of Hogwarts is quite complicated. They sneaked in several times and made different discoveries each time, but they never found any useful information.

You can't find it. The wreckage has been broken down by aqua regia, and the badge, which is not easily damaged, has also been put away by aqua regia.

It wasn't that Wang Shui deliberately opposed them, but in the current seemingly clear situation, Wang Shui always felt that someone was spying on the awakened ones.

You can lose in proxy wars, but in a fantasy world, you can also be killed for no reason, which would be terrible.    …

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The fantasy world, especially the situation of ordinary wizards, seems to be full of dangers, but in fact, the traders have no intention of flipping the table.

Even the hunting team has no intention of harming the students of Hogwarts, because these students are the reserves for the proxy war ten years later.

The circle of awakened people is on the contrary. On the surface, everything is calm, but in fact, because of the death of [Purple Magic Book], everyone is a little wary.

Now, Voldemort has been basically confirmed to be recruited, but everyone in the hunting group seems to not know that it was the Basilisk that killed the [Purple Grimoire].

Was Voldemort hiding information?

No, this is unlikely.

Even if they don't have the ability to read minds, the awakened ones still have many ways to extract information, such as contracts and the like.

They are still looking for the corpse of the [Purple Grimoire], and they must have not received any information from Voldemort.

In other words, they knew that the basilisk killed their companions, but they also confirmed that the basilisk was not ordered by Voldemort.

Otherwise, Voldemort, who can kill third-level awakened people, will definitely die and become an agent.

Awakened people all have a reckless side, but everyone also cherishes their own lives.

The scene suddenly became simple and complicated.

The simple thing is that the supernatural forces in the fantasy world are loose and easily controlled, and the situation on the surface is clear.

The complicated thing is that the inexplicably dead awakened person points to a hidden force.

Anyway, Wang Shui didn't believe that the basilisk alone could kill [Purple Magic Book]. There must be other factors that led to the death of Purple Magic Book without any sign of resistance.

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The wizarding world went through the plot of Azkaban in a gloomy atmosphere.

With the high-profile appearance of "Peter Pettigrew", "Sirius", who had escaped from Azkaban, was also able to clear his name.

But this matter is no longer important, because Voldemort is back.

Different from the noseless and disfigured image in the original work, Voldemort returns this time, maintaining a rather youthful appearance and terrifying vitality.

He is sixty-seven years old and looks like he is in his early twenties. His magic power is quite powerful, so powerful that even the dullest wizard can feel the oppression with the help of his sixth sense.

He did not blindly create chaos, but directly settled in the Ministry of Magic like a king.

The next day, on the front page of the Daily Prophet, the author announced the return of the Dark Lord in extremely tactful and gentle terms, and also published a series of personnel changes in the Ministry of Magic.

The dark wizards lost all their excess madness. They all wore suits and ties and quickly took over the Ministry of Magic.

However, on the newspaper pages that everyone could see, Voldemort unabashedly began to massacre half-blood wizards.

The scale of the massacre was within a certain limit, and it mainly served as a deterrent.

Voldemort killed all rich and powerful mixed-race wizards because he believed that mixed-race wizards were unworthy of such wealth and power.

As for the poor half-blood, he had no interest in it.

Voldemort unified the wizarding world in England very quickly. In fact, behind the Ministry of Magic, there were originally a large number of wizarding family plutocrats supporting him.

Those chaebols don't care about pure-blood hybrids, they only care about their control of the wizarding world, their restrictions on extraordinary power, and their monopoly on wealth.

Yes, Gringotts is one of them, but there are still some rifts between Gringotts and the Ministry of Magic. After all, the issues between the various forces are not simple.

Voldemort was not a war madman, he was a very capable instigator.

This time, he returned with overwhelming strength. In just one week, he conquered all the plutocrats behind the Ministry of Magic.

Those plutocrats had originally planned to compromise, but Voldemort simply made them disappear. After all, the Dark Lord also needed funds for activities.

Soon, the new wizarding laws were sent to the world by the Ministry of Magic.

To sum up, it’s very simple. There are only two most important things:

First, all wizards must register personal and family information, and mixed-race wizards obtain second-class citizenship. The difference in status mainly reflects taxation and social rights.

Second, announce the existence of supernatural forces to the Muggle world, directly puppet all Muggle governments, and allow wizards to live under the sun while ensuring that the existing world system remains unchanged.

In addition, Muggles automatically obtain third-class citizenship in the wizarding social system. Only children with wizards can be promoted to second-class citizens.

Voldemort, who divided the world based on the aristocratic system, did not directly become the monarch of the entire world.

With his open control of the Muggle world, other societies where extraordinary people gathered were also forced to come to the forefront.

Some of them have entered into harmonious co-governance with Muggle society.

Some also imitated Voldemort and directly controlled Muggle society.

The administrative level of many Muggle countries was lowered by one level. According to geographical divisions, the countries were merged into the [Wizard Country], and the new world began to be reshaped.

In half a month, the world has undergone drastic changes that exceed thousands of years of development.

But in any case, because of Voldemort's actions, the wizards truly stepped into the sunshine.

And just when Voldemort controlled several countries and had just stabilized his wizarding country, Dumbledore, who had been silent all the time, appeared.

On December 1993, 12, Wang Shui came to the new square of the Ministry of Magic and watched the battle of the century.

Voldemort very gracefully challenged Dumbledore to a [Wizard's Duel].

In fact, he now has quite a lot of subordinates, and it is no joke if he really wants to kill Dumbledore.

Dumbledore came here alone because he had received Voldemort's duel invitation letter early.

Voldemort needed to defeat Dumbledore in an upright manner. He needed the reputation of being the strongest wizard, but Dumbledore didn't have too many scruples.

Completely opposite to Voldemort's youthful appearance, Dumbledore has looked even older in the past six months.

But there seemed to be some determination in his eyes.

Three, two, one.

After the countdown, the referee "Lucius Malfoy" shot a red ball of light into the sky from the edge of the circular square.

Voldemort tapped the air with his wand, and six beams of different colors quickly struck Dumbledore, and he himself immediately entered the state of [High Frequency Apparition].

This is an in-depth application of [Apparition]. Voldemort enveloped the entire square with his mental power and always maintained the state of disembodiment.

As long as he remains focused, he can apparate at any time and quickly.

Although the range of teleportation is limited to the entire square, the speed of movement and appearance is greatly accelerated.

Dumbledore on the opposite side also maintained this state in silence, and his speed was even faster than Voldemort.

Dumbledore did not seize the opportunity to attack. He took out something like a leather wallet and shook it off a few times. Several items were shaken into the air by him.

Those were [Tom Riddle's Diary], [Roona Ravenclaw's Diadem], [Marvolo Gaunt's Ring], and [Salazar Slytherin] that were made into Horcrux radars. 's Locket] and [Helga Hufflepuff's Gold Cup].

When he saw these things being thrown out of the wallet that had been casted with the "Invisible Stretching Charm", Voldemort's expression really changed.

These are all the Horcruxes except for his pet snake Nagini and Harry Potter, and Harry can only count half of them.

Voldemort knew through the Ministry of Magic that Dumbledore was looking for his Horcruxes, and had already begun sending people to recover them.

But in his perception, the Horcruxes still all over the country had been gathered by Dumbledore long ago.

Dumbledore, a handsome old man, snapped his fingers and activated the silent "Fire Curse" to cover all the Horcruxes.

But the burning speed of the fierce fire was too slow, and Voldemort began to launch a magic storm like crazy.

As long as Dumbledore takes away his mental control for a moment, Voldemort can immediately use the [Universal Breaking Curse], also known as the "Stop Curse" to extinguish the fire.

But Dumbledore chose to eat many powerful magics.

The pale white gold shield rose. This was not just the effect of the "Iron Armor Curse". The powerful magical power allowed Dumbledore to take damage calmly, giving him time to throw a metal lighter-like object into the fierce fire. .

The sharp fire instantly turned into a dark silvery white, and the black flame outline made the silvery white flame look sacred and solemn.

Those Horcruxes were all disintegrated in less than a second, and the soul fragments that Voldemort had worked so hard to separate disappeared like snowflakes in the quiet [Death Fire].

Voldemort suddenly fell to his knees, his handsome young face began to become ferocious, a hoarse cry came from his mouth, and tears of blood flowed from his eyes!

In fact, the battle of the century had only begun for a few seconds.

The old Dumbledore still had no expression on his face. Unscathed, he raised the Elder Wand for the first time and pointed it at Voldemort.

"[Inward Explosion] (Implosion)."

This is a spell that is unfamiliar to everyone, a spell that even Dumbledore has to use a wand and recite the spell!

Powerful magic fluctuations set off a storm in the entire square toward Voldemort!

At this time, Wang Shui, who had turned into a public face in the crowd of wizards, focused his eyes.

A corrupted dark gray dragon image appeared around Voldemort's body, and the powerful [Inward Explosion] magic was eaten by this dragon shadow.

Amidst the screams of the dragon's shadow, Voldemort quickly stood up, and dark gray scales appeared on his exposed skin.

Then his whole body turned into a shadow in Dumbledore's surprised eyes and sprinted forward.

The experienced Dumbledore subconsciously wanted to disapparate, but Voldemort, who was sprinting, pressed down hard with his right hand that turned into a scaled claw - at this time, the space was blocked.

To be precise, an [Anti-Apparition] force field was raised in the square, and Voldemort released an extremely complex spell without a wand.

Dumbledore maintained his surprised gaze, but the look in his eyes dimmed.

Voldemort's scaly right hand penetrated Dumbledore's chest.

The old man's bright red heart was clawed out of his back, and blood spurted out like rain, but it wasn't until Dumbledore fell that no exclamations of surprise came from around the square.

"Your era is over."

The dark gray scales on Voldemort's face receded, and he whispered to the dead Dumbledore, while his scale-covered right hand devoured Dumbledore's heart like a living thing.

Voldemort raised his scaly right hand covered with dark red lines and shouted loudly to his men:

"Next, it's our time!"

　Thank you everyone for your patience. The beginning of the chapter is a bit long, but there is absolutely no water.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)