Chapter 409: That Kingdom

"Raise it a little higher, pull the clothes down, okay, don't move. Why did you close your eyes?"

"I, I'm a little scared. Mr. Murphy, please be gentle."

"Don't worry, it'll be over soon."

Murphy held a syringe in his hand, looking somewhat amused at Sofia, who had her eyes tightly closed and her head turned away, "You're not a child anymore, are you still afraid of shots?"

"Being afraid of shots has nothing to do with age!" The Empress turned her head desperately, wishing the shoulder about to receive the needle wasn't her own, "Please hurry..."

Murphy smiled, disinfected Sofia's fair shoulder with a cotton ball, and then suddenly slammed the syringe onto it.

The high-pressure jet instantly injected the liquid medicine into the body. The Empress only had time to let out a light hum before Murphy had already pulled the syringe out.

"Okay, it's over."

"So fast?" The Empress was a bit surprised, "I didn't really feel much."

"..." Although this showed his injection technique was superb, for some reason, it didn't sound quite right to Murphy.

"Hmph, don't be happy too early," Murphy said, "Once a week, six more weeks of continuous injections are needed for it to take effect permanently. However, the effect should be visible now."

As Murphy spoke, he pulled Sofia's small hand over, took out a UV flashlight, and shone it on the back of her hand, "How is it? Do you feel anything?"

The Empress shook her head.

"It won't take effect that quickly normally, but we added some magic potion ingredients to it."

"Okay, Your Majesty the Empress, you can go for a walk now."

At noon, Sofia walked on the Sky Street. She was still holding an umbrella, but this time she carefully stretched her hand out from under the umbrella, then threw the umbrella aside, bathing her whole body in the sunlight, taking a deep breath, and laughing happily, "It seems like I haven't been out for a long time. It's really good, the smell of sunlight. Thank you, Murphy."

They were walking toward an archway. The inner edge of the archway was burning with green flames.

"What is this?" Sofia was very curious. There shouldn't have been such an archway on the Sky Street in the past.

"Look at the opposite side," Murphy reminded.

Sofia walked closer and looked toward the opposite side of the archway. Originally, that should have been the other end of the Sky Street, but looking over now, what came into view was a bustling street with many wizards coming and going, shops on both sides were dazzling, and at the end of the street stood a milky-white building.

From afar, one could see a few large characters written above the building: "Wizard Central Bank."

Sofia's small mouth opened into an "O" shape. She knew Murphy had changed Gringotts into a central bank, "Is this Diagon Alley?!"

Murphy smiled, "That's right, this is the Floo Arbitrary Door, one of the achievements of the Spatial Magic Technology Group."

"They studied the Floo Network and found that it is a basic application based on the Magic Net system. Theoretically, as long as it is within the coverage of the Magic Net, it is possible to move through the Floo Network. Even Apparition and Portkeys are high-level applications based on the Floo Network."

"Floo Network fireplaces require two-way authorization, which has the highest safety and stability. We felt that just using it for point-to-point single transfers was too wasteful. After some adjustments to the Floo Network technology, we changed the Floo Network protocol and added a private line. What you see now is that."

"Then these green things, are they Floo Powder?" Sofia asked.

"Yes, Floo Powder is the key to directing and maintaining the channel. We embedded it into the archway, and it will burn continuously. This archway is actually equivalent to a permanently open Floo Network fireplace."

"There is a Floo Powder storage device under the archway. In the resting state when no people or objects pass through, it consumes about 0.1 grams of Floo Powder per hour. When people pass through, the consumption will be larger. The Spatial Technology Research Group is still researching methods without using Floo Powder. However, this is a private line, and only my magic can open it. Not many people can come and go."

Murphy said, reaching out his hand, "Let's go, let's go see Diagon Alley. You shouldn't have been there, right?"

Crossing the archway, Sofia looked back and found that they had walked out from the entrance of a potion shop. Murphy was naturally holding her hand, looking just like an ordinary couple shopping.

However, with the appearance and bearing of the two, how could they be ordinary? No matter where they went, they would attract many gazes, and there were even people who recognized Murphy whispering.

This made Sofia feel very embarrassed. She tried to let go of Murphy's hand several times but was a bit reluctant. Just as she was hesitating, Murphy suddenly let go of her hand, making her feel a sense of loss.

In the blink of an eye, Murphy took two ice creams from the dessert shop next to them, handed one to Sofia, and then naturally held her small hand again.

Holding hands before could be said to be leading her to tour, afraid of getting lost, but now Murphy's action had no other intention.

Sofia secretly glanced at Murphy. The latter was expressionless, gnawing on the ice cream. Although he noticed she was looking at him, he didn't look at her with that aggressive gaze as he usually did, but glanced elsewhere, as if he had noticed something fun. But where his gaze pointed, there was clearly nothing.

Could it be that he would also be shy?

This was the first time Sofia had seen such a Murphy. He didn't seem as powerful as he usually was, without any dead ends, but he also didn't have that high and untouchable feeling, which made her feel it was a bit fun and a little funny.

And, such a Murphy was so cute!

Sofia's originally nervous mood suddenly relaxed a lot, and the hand that was held also held back.

Hehe, little Murphy, don't be nervous, big sister will protect you!

"Hmm?" Murphy felt the gentle force coming from the palm, glanced at the girl suspiciously, and seeing the light of some kind of affection flashing in her eyes, he was a bit confused.

How did this girl seem to have become a bit bolder suddenly?

But it was also good. Today's purpose was to make her happier.

He glanced at the sneaky guy in the distance through his crow vision again, notified the Aurors directly through the mind network, and then didn't care anymore.

On the other side, three Aurors came to the remote alley Murphy notified. Hearing a low cry of pain coming from afar, the three looked at each other, drew their wands, and chased in the direction of the sound.

Turning the corner, they only saw a person squatting in the alley in a piece of abandoned alleyway, and someone seemed to be lying at his feet.

The air was filled with a fishy stench like a seafood market.

"What are you doing?! Raise your hands, stand up!" an Auror frowned and scolded.

The person squatting stiffened, then slowly turned around with a weird, awkward posture. Only then did the Aurors see the other party's appearance, and were immediately startled.

That "person" had a huge head, but its limbs were disproportionately thin. Fish-like fins grew on both sides of its face and joints. It looked like a fish-man from the seabed, but unlike ordinary fish-men, its lower limbs were not a fish tail, but two long webbed legs.

But what scared the Aurors more was that the tattered clothes on the fish-man's chest were full of blood, and its huge mouth was full of jagged sharp teeth, which were currently even stained with something like intestines.

The person under it had long been disemboweled, and blood was everywhere.

"What kind of monster is this!" An Auror raised his wand in fright, but the fish-man pounced over violently.

A scream rang out in the alley.

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