Chapter 460: The Beginning and End of the Plan

When Harry woke up, he quickly noticed that he was being besieged by Saber. After simply parrying a few times by instinct, he finally realized what had happened, so he hurriedly explained.

Seeing that Harry had regained consciousness, the others also stopped one after another and canceled their transformations with relief.

"Let me think... I seem to have absorbed the power in the space-time rift, and then lost consciousness," Harry explained while taking off his belt. "Now I'm awake, but I'm still confused. By the way, where is that old man?"

"Old man, what old man?" Luo En asked with confusion. "When we came up, we only saw you and three other knights—they have already left now."

"I am here, child," the old man appeared from the shadow in the corner again. "Let's re-acquaint ourselves, I am Ge Xuan."

"That's great, sir," Harry's tone carried a hint of dissatisfaction. "Can you explain all this?"

"It's not impossible," Ge Xuan stretched out a hand, and the gravel on the ground combined quickly, changing into a set of soft sofas. "My purpose has been achieved. If you want to solve any doubts, then I am very happy to answer."

Harry sat down without ceremony, and Luo En followed and sat beside him. Hermione and Neville looked at each other, and then, out of pure curiosity, also chose to sit down and listen.

"I have been suspecting from the beginning, is everything this year calculated by you?" Harry asked impatiently. "What is your real purpose?"

After a short silence, Ge Xuan spoke slowly: "Yes, and not just this year, I started calculating from a long time ago. Let me start from the beginning."

"Before telling my story, I want to explain my theoretical achievements to you, which is the basis of all layouts. By the way, I also want to apologize for deceiving everyone with some layouts this time. These cutting-edge magic theories will serve as an apology and compensation."

"First of all, we need to distinguish the relationship between Death, Fate, and Time. In some theories, especially the research of the Doctors, they are considered to be a trinity, but this is a special situation caused by Antioch's style of conduct. In fact, these three are not unified."

"Among these three, Time is the highest-level existence. It is one of the important elements that make up the world. It is precisely because of the existence of the timeline that we have colorful parallel worlds. How to understand this? It's easy to say. For example, if someone uses a Time-Turner to return to the past and really changes history, what will happen? The result is that he created another world, a parallel world, and entered it. Of course, in the eyes of people in the original world, you can't go back, you disappeared, so people will be afraid and emphasize that history must not be changed—but since the invention of time-travel magic, has there really not been a single person who changed history? The fact is, they created and entered parallel worlds, that's just how it is."

"And Fate is one of the optional elements that make up the world. Very fortunately, we live in a world with the power of fate, which is the source of our magic. Well, I need to introduce my understanding of the essence of magic to you first, which is wishing. When you want to achieve something and make a wish to fate, you can use the power of fate to complete this thing. We can imagine which spells are easy to learn, which spells are difficult to learn, which spells have low consumption, and which spells have high consumption. It is not difficult to find that if the effect of a spell is something that can be easily achieved by non-magical means, then it is easier to master, and the consumption is easier. Conversely, if the effect of a spell is something that Muggles cannot achieve no matter what, then it is very difficult to learn, and the consumption is huge. Speaking of this, it is not difficult for you to understand that the so-called power of fate, also known as omnipotent power, or refined magic, original magic, is a more advanced metaphysical energy."

"As for Death, I tend to think that the first Death was formed naturally. In the process of many wizards casting spells, their thoughts and wishes were passed to the place of fate. These thoughts naturally gave birth to a Death. In the ancient legends of the East, there are sayings of Heaven and Heaven's Will. I think those records are talking about this thing. And the original Death, or Heaven's Will, will have a certain bias, such as maintaining the existence of the Statute of Secrecy, restricting wizards from using overly powerful magic, controlling the birth rate of wizards, etc., because the power of fate is not inexhaustible, and it also needs to recover slowly. And after Antioch defeated and replaced Death, he also continued to do these things to avoid the destruction of the world, but he had his own selfishness, which caused the catastrophe and the existence of catastrophe."

"The so-called catastrophe is that he wants to use the power of fate to push the timeline to the future—because the development of the world will constantly strengthen the total amount of the power of fate, so the more future Death is, the stronger he is, and Antioch wants to surpass all his parallel selves and become the strongest one. To this end, he successively manufactured the Legacy of Hogwarts, the Chaos of Grindelwald, and Harry Potter and Voldemort that you all know. In these events, the biggest common point is that there are many wizards who died. These dead wizards will return their lives to fate and become the power of fate that he can use personally."

The Antioch of this world also insanely brought two souls from other worlds and sent back one soul from the future, but Ge Xuan did not say this.

"Then this Antioch is a bit too hateful," Hermione couldn't help but say.

"Things also have two sides," Ge Xuan shook his head with a smile. "These turmoils have indeed caused many innocent lives to be lost, but they have also promoted the emergence of heroes and the development of magic technology, benefiting those who were born in peaceful eras later, so we still need to look at who is right and who is wrong dialectically."

"Of course, I personally don't want to continue to launch a catastrophe, so I support Yanayev in planning the TARDIS explosion to isolate Death," Ge Xuan changed the subject. "But this also has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that we don't have to endure this self-righteous god anymore, but the disadvantage is that our world has lost the concept of time from now on, that is, it has lost contact with parallel worlds, and a technology tree that was originally very promising has been completely cut off."

The few people present were far from having such divergent thinking, they didn't even understand the concept of parallel worlds, and didn't know how serious this was.

"Then, after finishing these backgrounds, let's talk back. Everything this year still has to start from the TARDIS explosion. First of all, I emphasize again that the TARDIS explosion has nothing to do with me, it was completely planned by Yanayev, I just acquiesced to his approach."

"And in this explosion, I noticed a thing that Yanayev ignored, that is, he chose to completely seal Dumbledore and Voldemort at the same time as the explosion, which means he chose to end this catastrophe in advance. Therefore, those powers of fate that had been accumulated since Voldemort's first chaos, because Antioch didn't have time to extract them before being isolated, became ownerless things. These powers are the powers I originally intended to plot. Therefore, I let Zhang Qiu take the opportunity to recite the Righteousness Descent Alliance Talisman at that time to temporarily stabilize space-time and store the power so that it would be convenient for me to collect."

"However, what I didn't expect was that Zhang Qiu absorbed far more power of fate than expected at that time. I only realized this after the fact—the original Death, although she was defeated and replaced by Antioch, she actually did not perish. And, just as Antioch can extract the power of fate to advance the timeline and strengthen himself, this original Death was also absorbing a large amount of the power of fate unconsciously, and with Antioch's loss of contact, she returned to this world with these powers and is in a slow recovery."

Harry suddenly realized. No wonder he clearly heard that fate did not exist in the fourth year, but in the fifth year, many people told him that fate still existed in a weak way, and many things became unspeakable.

"Things have reached this point, we can only use another way to completely eliminate him. This is both to completely liberate the sky of wizards and for a little selfishness of mine, because I really need these powers of fate."

"However," Hermione raised her hand to ask again, "didn't you say before that Death is beneficial to the world? Because the power of fate is not inexhaustible, but will decrease due to the use of wizards, so the existence of Death can avoid wizards over-casting magic and fishing in a dry pond, so why must he be eliminated?"

"Because times have changed, child," Ge Xuan explained patiently. "After time is locked, the power of fate will no longer be exhausted. It's like opening a lock on blood, uh... to put it this way, it's because you can no longer reach the future, so we can use the power of fate that could only be used in the future at this moment, and the future is infinitely extended, so the power of fate has also become inexhaustible."

Hermione revealed a thoughtful expression, while Harry said: "You continue, is everything this year to completely eliminate the original Death and obtain the power of fate?"

"It's not to eliminate her, but to seal her. She is sealed in your belt at this moment," Ge Xuan pointed to Harry. "Because you are the original person who should respond to the catastrophe, the orientation of fate is based on you, so the original Death will do her best to help you, and she will also suppress all others."

"All our layouts this year are to guide her out of the space-time rift where the power of fate is stored, and enter your belt to help you personally. In this way, not only does the power of fate return to being ownerless, but others also have room for improvement and progress, and you also have the power of Ohma Zi-O. This is a win-win." ===== CHAPTER 461 =====