Chapter 440

There were two locations known to Murphy that directly connected to the Spirit World. One was the Gate of Rebirth under Arkaim, but it had now lost its connection to the Spirit World. The other was the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts.

Because it communicated with the Spirit World, the space-time rules here were looser. Theoretically, the magic energy required for time travel here would be less.

After the previous great war, the Chamber of Secrets had basically completely collapsed, but the chaotic cracks in space-time still existed. If one accidentally stepped into them, one might fall into the Spirit World, or fall into a cycle of some space-time.

It was precisely because of this danger that Hogwarts had moved all the students out.

After stepping into the door, Murphy found a Spirit World crack that was still relatively stable, unsealed the seal set by Dumbledore back then, and stepped into it.

The thick Spirit World fog submerged him. Murphy turned a blind eye, took out the Time Magic Box, and decided to try it first.

Traveling through a thousand years of time was an unprecedented thing, and Murphy only inferred the possibility of this being established in theoretical calculations.

Because it required using the energy of almost all magic nodes, even he could not fully control the massive torrent of energy. He had a premonition that he might not have many opportunities to try, so before performing the thousand-year travel, he needed to test the feasibility of time travel in the Spirit World first.

He first tried to communicate with magic nodes around the world through the mental network and tested the stability of the connection. He found that although the Spirit World isolated his mental connection with others, the connection between those magic nodes and him was strengthened instead.

"Spirit World Source Theory of Magic Power." Murphy said to himself.

This was a conjecture of the Magic Research Institute about the essence of magic power, believing that the initial source of magic power was actually the Spirit World.

In this theory, the Spirit World was like a dam with high potential energy, and whether it was Magic Net nodes, gods, or wizards, because of their particularity, they punched holes in the Spirit World dam, and magic power poured into the real world from these holes.

If this theory was correct, then being in the Spirit World would be more conducive to the flow of magic power.

Then he gripped the Time Magic Box, mobilized his own magic power, and injected it into the Magic Box. The pointer of the time converter inside the Magic Box turned backward rapidly. In an instant, he disappeared from where he was.

……

Ten days ago, London.

"Reparo!"

Murphy struggled to repair the time converter destroyed by Gungnir. His pierced heart also became intact again during the backtracking process of time. The divine spear Gungnir was pulled out of his heart by the great power of time and dragged away to a distance of four meters.

However, the magic power required to repair the time converter was too massive. Murphy's magic power was only enough to backtrack less than half a second. Yet at this moment, the cracks on the time converter suddenly expanded, and with a bang, it shattered again.

Gungnir, frozen by time, struck again.

Yet at this moment, accompanied by a thick fog of the Spirit World, another Murphy suddenly appeared between the long spear and him.

Almost in an instant, Murphy realized when and where he had been sent back. With a thought, the Time Magic Box he was holding froze time.

Afterward, he grabbed the long spear, moved the Time Magic Box with magic power again, and the Spirit World fog, wrapping the long spear together, disappeared again in an instant.

Originally, Murphy intended to return to the Chamber of Secrets, but after looking around, he found that he couldn't recognize his location at all.

The thick fog was still rolling around him. It seemed that he was indeed in the Spirit World, but it was not similar to the previous Chamber of Secrets, and the long spear had also disappeared without a trace.

Murphy frowned and understood.

Time and space in the Spirit World were chaotic. He had just reversed time, but space had also been changed. This should be caused by this characteristic of the Spirit World.

And the divine spear Gungnir being missing was probably for this reason; it was lost in the Spirit World.

He tried to communicate with the magic nodes again, then breathed a sigh of relief. The sensing of those magic nodes was still there, and he could still mobilize the power of the entire Magic Net.

This time, he didn't dare to experiment easily, but re-estimated the current situation and calculated the impact that the space-time chaos effect of the Spirit World might bring.

"The amount of magic power required for time travel in the Spirit World can be reduced by at least half, and the fluctuation of space-time turbulence can be ignored on a thousand-year scale. Overall, the success rate of time travel in the Spirit World is still a cut higher than in the real world."

Thinking of this, he did not hesitate, communicated with hundreds of magic nodes around the world in his mind. Magic energy gathered through the ritual devices built outside the nodes and was transmitted to Murphy here through the mental network.

In an instant, he felt as if he had mastered boundless power. This power was enough to fill the sea, raise mountains, make rivers change course, and even reverse magnetic poles, making the whole world undergo earth-shaking changes.

But such massive power was also extremely difficult to constrain. As magic nodes were continuously added, those ritual devices were also continuously collapsing. Even the most powerful magic metal could hardly support it for too long under such magnificent magic power.

And Murphy himself could not support it for too long either. He didn't dare to delay and immediately poured all magic power toward the Time Magic Box.

The pointer of the time converter in the Magic Box immediately began to retreat rapidly. In an instant, Murphy seemed to have entered a tunnel of time. Everything around him was flowing away into the distance. He felt a strange power flowing through his body. That power seemed to be erasing the matter that constituted his body and making it reappear in another space-time.

However, the turmoil caused by traveling through a thousand years to the material world was too far-reaching, and the magic power required was also too massive. The Time Magic Box seemed unable to withstand such a massive amount of magic power, shaking violently. Strands of golden light radiated from the Time Magic Box. In just an instant, the devices outside the Magic Box all turned into particles and dissipated in that light.

And the time converter inside the Magic Box, even though it was the best quality and most solid one Murphy could find, was already covered with cracks at this moment.

Golden liquid seeped out from between those cracks, gradually melting the pocket watch shell of the converter, leaving only two pointers and layers of golden rings that constituted the dial under the pointers. However, at this moment, those rings were melting one by one. As the last ring melted, the pointers also stopped turning suddenly. Immediately afterward, infinite radiance radiated from the molten gold-like liquid mass, and the next moment, it exploded with a bang.

Suddenly, Murphy seemed to have swept across a thousand worlds.

He jumped in the chaotic space-time. One moment, he was still standing in front of a skyscraper, and the next second he appeared in the Colosseum. The scene around him was also switching at a speed of thousands of frames per second. Even with his extraordinary vision, he could still only see the chaotic light of seven colors.

But in the center of all this chaos, the golden liquid mass seemed to have solidified and was splashing outward at an extremely slow speed.

There was no time to think, and he grabbed that liquid mass in his hand.

He still carried several spare time converters to prevent accidents, but at this moment all magic power had been connected to the current time converter, and temporary switching was impossible. He only tried his best to remedy it.

The moment he gripped the molten gold mass, something seemed to be activated in his body, creating a connection with the time power in that droplet.

Somewhat similar to when he repaired the time converter in the battle with Odin, Murphy felt a sense of stagnation again, as if he was going against the current, and there was massive resistance between heaven and earth that made him struggle.

However, unlike last time, he had massive magic energy support at this moment.

The golden liquid mass gradually seeped into his skin, making his entire right hand appear golden. At this moment, his mental network operated at full capacity, gathering all magic energy on the fingertips of his right hand.

In an instant, he seemed to touch a string. He moved his mind slightly and plucked it lightly.

The field of vision shrank suddenly, and then brightened greatly.

He closed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them again, he was already standing outside a massive castle in the mountains.

A muddy road spread from under his feet to the spectacular city gate. People dressed in all kinds of rags, looking like beggars, pushed carts and carried baskets on that rotten road. Everyone looked as if they hadn't bathed for years, filthy and unbearable.

Everyone was hunched over, with their heads hanging low. No one noticed his arrival. A gaunt man carrying a basket bumped into him. When he looked up and saw his appearance, he was immediately scared to kneel on the ground, begging for mercy in Old English.

Murphy glanced at the flag inserted above the castle, on which a long sword inserted diagonally into a stone was drawn with white paint.

He pulled that serf up and asked: "Where is this, whose territory is it?"

"Back to, to, my lord," the man trembled in panic. Murphy's demeanor was so extraordinary that he must be a nobleman. He was afraid of offending the other party and knelt down again with a thud, "Back to my lord, this is Ca-Camelot, the lord here is the great knight, King Arthur Pendragon."

(End of chapter)