Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 437 The Old Ones

"Huh?" Just as Umbridge was looking around in surprise, a grayish ghost floated over and curiously circled around her once—

"How come I've never seen you before?"

"Are you a new ghost?" Another ghost floated over, curiously examining Umbridge. "Did you drown? Your face looks so swollen."

"Your clothes are so unfashionable, are you a Muggle?" another ghost asked.

"Get out of here!" Umbridge roared angrily, waving her short, thick arms as if shooing away flies.

"Thump—" Umbridge's arm bumped into the chandelier on the ceiling of Hogwarts, causing it to sway slightly and make a dull thud.

"You can touch things?" The other ghosts were intrigued to see Umbridge's outstretched arm reach the chandelier on the roof and gathered around.

"You, you, you get away! Don't touch me!" Umbridge waved her arms frantically.

There seemed to be a force collapsing inside Umbridge's body, like a vase shattering. Countless glass-like patterns appeared on the semi-illusory Umbridge's body, and the fragments formed by the shattering pieces twisted and squeezed into Umbridge's interior little by little.

“Umbridge’s two-dimensional existence is still too fragile…” Sitting in the principal’s office, Tiera chanted a return spell, summoning back Umbridge’s spiritual and mental dimensions.

……

"ah--!--!"

Meanwhile, Umbridge woke up screaming from the Hogwarts infirmary.

……

“Because of the lack of a physical anchor, even very slight emotional fluctuations can cause the spiritual and mental dimensions to converge, forming an illusory aggregate similar to black magic.” Tiera rubbed her temples, looking exasperated, and said helplessly, “How exactly can the great race of Is travel through time and space using only the spiritual dimension?”

"Could it be... that all the great race of Is are born divine beings?" Tiera picked up her pen and wrote down this conjecture in her notebook. "It's possible, just like the phoenix can travel through space... Perhaps the great race of Is are born divine beings like the phoenix, except that they can travel through time at will."

After writing down a few more conjectures, Tierra closed her lab notebook.

"Dolores Umbridge's mental dimension is not strong enough... This needs further verification. To be precise, perhaps stable time travel requires at least three dimensions or even four dimensions?"

"It's a pity that Umbridge's time travel was too short this time, and she didn't attract the Hounds of Tindalos... Next time we can try to let her travel in her physical body." Tiera wrote in her notebook.

After reorganizing her notes, Tiera reached out into the void and pulled out two more books: "Fragments of Seraino" and "Special Plants of the Dreamland".

Tierra now desires complete control over "time"—

Based on the knowledge acquired from Tierra's former "inheritors" and the notes recorded in Merlin's manuscripts—

The process of ascending from three dimensions to four dimensions involves resetting matter, spirituality, and mind to zero in the previous dimension, traversing the magic stone—a distant point in the fourth dimension—to reach the fourth dimension, and then using a pre-prepared staircase to make a second leap towards the divine dimension. This grants one coordinates in the divine dimension and divine authority, which is the power to change the rules of a certain attribute or domain.

Of course, while Tiera used the power of the "ladder" when she ascended to the fourth dimension, if one simply seeks a long and vibrant life like a phoenix, the ladder isn't entirely necessary.

Tiera experienced three collapses during her ascension to godhood—

The first collapse of Tiera's matter caused the spiritual and mental dimensions to return to zero, traversing the four-dimensional origin and arriving in the divine dimension.

In other words, the moment Tyrell came into contact with the divine dimension, she had already achieved immortality—it was as if Tyrell had opened the door to the divine dimension and could enter and exit at any time.

However, this immortality can only grant Tiera divine power, not divinity.

In other words, a god who has only experienced one collapse can only use his ability to enter the fourth dimension at any time to hide, perform long-distance spatial jumps, and avoid death.

These who become gods are no different from naturally divine beings.

Those who have become gods after experiencing two collapses can use the three mutually restraining "staircases" during the second collapse to obtain the coordinates of the divine dimension, thereby gaining divinity that can change the rules.

This is also the experience of most people who become gods.

And Tierra—

Because of the time converter, his original "evil" divinity collapsed. This collapse caused Tiera's divinity to move in an uncontrollable direction of entropy increase. Ultimately, due to an unknown obstacle, Tiera gained "chaotic" divinity.

While "chaotic" divinity does indeed belong to the fourth dimension, in some ways, it also transcends certain aspects of the fourth dimension.

The fourth dimension is the divine dimension. Those who become gods in the fourth dimension can use the power of divinity to modify, distort, and utilize a certain rule in the universe.

The fifth dimension is the dimension inhabited by the Great Old Ones, the Ancient Gods, and the Old Ones. Life at this level is not easily understood by ordinary people; in short, it is at the level of a single universe.

The sixth dimension is the dimension inhabited by the Outer Gods; in ordinary human terms, it's at the level of the multiverse.

This is also the dimension that Nyarlathotep hopes Tiera can achieve under rational conditions.

Although, according to Gellert Nyarlathotep Grindelwald, Tyella seemed to be able to hatch and become an Outer God cub simply by systematically turning all the fixed variables into variables—

But Tierra always felt it wasn't that simple.

Of course, it wasn't that Nyarlathotep was trying to frame him or anything; rather, Tyella felt that some things were clearly important, but from Nyarlathotep's perspective, there was no need to explain or specifically remind him of something—

That means Tiera is currently only a four-dimensional being, while the Outer God's offspring is a six-dimensional being.

You eat one bite at a time, and you get promoted one step at a time, one dimension at a time. If you take too big a step, "snap—" you might tear your balls.

To date, no one has ever been heard of successfully ascending across an entire dimension.

In other words, Tyra must first ascend to the fifth dimension. That is to say, before Tyra can transform all the "fixed numbers" in the universe into "variable numbers", he must become an Old One-level being. Otherwise, when he emerges from his shell, there is still a certain probability that he will lose control and become a failure.

The principle behind advancing from four dimensions to five dimensions is quite simple—

It's about how to evolve from a divine individual into a single universe.

To elaborate further, it's about how a single divine authority can gradually devour and absorb enough authority to create a universe—

For Tiera, who already possessed the authority of "space," the authority of "creation," the authority of "life," half of the authority of "time," and had acquired the divinity of "chaos," the question became how to perfect her half of the authority of "time" and further incorporate the two authorities of "death" and "annihilation."

(End of this chapter)