The years of welding at Hogwarts

"What is the existence of something?"

Noah was curious about what the thing Gryffindor was talking about was that was worth such a big fuss. At the same time, he was thinking quickly about his next move. Should he fight or retreat?

If he chose to fight, Noah would not be sure of winning without knowing the fighting power of this old monster who had lived for two thousand years.

The magic power flowing in a wizard's body will become stronger with the passage of time. Although huge magic power does not necessarily mean strong strength, powerful wizards definitely have huge magic power as support.

Not to mention a wizard like Gryffindor who is already extremely talented. How powerful would his strength become with the magic power accumulated bit by bit over the long two thousand years?

Noah could not have imagined or predicted it at all.

When it is impossible to accurately grasp the enemy's strength, it becomes impossible to make appropriate inferences based on the difference in combat power between the enemy and us.

So, do we need a strategic shift?

But this huge planet was filled with deathly silence. When both of them revealed their magical aura to each other, their coordinates were no longer a secret that could be hidden from each other.

If you are unable to defeat the opponent, even if you escape temporarily, if you don’t find a way to leave this parallel universe before the opponent catches up with you, it will only be a slow death.

Staring closely at Noah, Gryffindor narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, "No wonder you didn't notice its existence for so long. It turns out that it is too dim because its energy is exhausted..."

Noah had no idea what the Gryffindors were talking about. He just secretly mobilized the magic power in his body, letting it surge in his blood vessels to ensure that the magic could be cast instantly at any time.

But seeing Noah's confused look, Gryffindor lost interest in continuing, as if he wanted Noah to be a clear-headed ghost before he died.

The hand that was originally pressing on the hilt of the sword at the waist suddenly loosened its grip, and the slight murderous intent that was fluctuating in his body was restrained at this moment without any trace.

Gryffindor raised his hand, not to draw his sword, but to face Noah and again gestured to the chair opposite the desk for him to sit down.

Just not understanding what Gryffindor was up to, Noah still did not let his guard down, but stared coldly at the old wizard in front of him across the desk.

Seeing that Noah had no intention of sitting down, Gryffindor didn't care and just slowly lowered his raised hand.

"Aren't you curious about how much effort we have put in behind the scenes to prevent the world from falling into the state it is in today?"

Maybe it was because Gryffindor was feeling suffocated after thousands of years of isolation, and this old man, with his long silver hair hanging down to his waist and the demeanor of a peerless master, was showing signs of turning into a chatterbox.

He still had no intention of revealing the truth to Noah directly, but instead told Noah the story again.

"That war killed at least 95% of the creatures on the surface of this planet."

"And those creatures that luckily survived the war did not escape. Instead, they underwent various mutations under the dual erosion of the dark magic and chaos magic remaining on the surface, and their personalities became brutal and chaotic."

"In just a few months after the war, the proportion of surviving creatures dropped sharply from less than 5% before the war broke out to 1%."

At this point, the old wizard's voice revealed a sense of loneliness.

"Although Salazar, Rowena, Helga and I have used all the methods we can to eliminate the remaining magic after the war."

"We gathered all the surviving creatures, both humans and animals, together and built a shelter."

"Helga, who is proficient in natural magic, spared no effort to replant the seeds of nature on the barren land that we purified, trying to use this method to bring life back to the land."

"But with Helga's ability alone, no matter how hard she tries, the area she can restore is just a small sand dune in the desert for this vast planet."

"Even if we add the other three of us,

It's just three insignificant sand dunes, which will not help the world recover at all."

An extremely complicated smile slowly appeared on Gryffindor's face, as if mocking his own incompetence, or as if feeling bitter about being unable to do anything about the destruction of this world.

"You have also seen what the world looks like now."

Walking to the huge glass window of the office, Gryffindor opened his arms, as if to embrace the cold and dead world outside the window, "Obviously everything we do is meaningless!"

“Even if we can rebuild an ecosystem that has completely collapsed, what can we do?

"It's all too late!"

Turning around to face Noah, Gryffindor's tone was no longer as calm as before.

"This world has already been damaged by that battle. No matter how hard we try, we can only let it survive for a few more years with its last bit of vitality."

Turning his gaze to the wall beside him, Gryffindor stared at the three portraits hanging quietly on the wall beside him, and his sight was focused on the portrait in the middle, who was wearing a yellow and black robe.

"But Helga didn't believe this fact, or maybe her heart couldn't accept such a cruel truth. She quickly overdrew her vitality and magic power by continuously casting spells day and night."

"Even at the end of her life, she still tried her best to maintain her natural magic, hoping to add a touch of green to this land that had been buried by wind and sand."

Slowly walking to the wall where the portraits were hung, Gryffindor reached out his hand, gently stroked the golden frame of Helga's portrait, and sighed softly.

"But her efforts were completely in vain."

Although he had never experienced it himself and could not empathize with it, Noah could still hear from the words of Gryffindor that the four of them had tried everything to save the world.

This made him unable to help but ask, "So, what about Salazar and Rowena?"

Noah's question made Gryffindor involuntarily look at the other two portraits beside Helga, and his eyes obviously stayed on Rowena's portrait for a longer time.

"After Helga's death, the three of us knew that it would be impossible to accomplish such a planetary feat on our own."

"So, Rowena is frantically seeking a nearly infinite source of power. Only with the support of such a powerful source of energy can she reignite the flame of life."

An infinite source of energy?

A flash of enlightenment exploded in Noah's heart like lightning.

Could it be that Gryffindor was talking about...

Noah subconsciously lowered his head to look at his chest. His eyes seemed to see through the heavy barrier of clothes and saw the bronze pendant that he had hidden deep under his wizard robe.

The Eye of Agamotto.

The source of power that drives this artifact is...

"Finding such an energy source that meets our needs is the final plan that Salazar, Rowena, and I came up with to save this dying world."

His eyes were still fixed on the portraits of the three people in front of him. Gryffindor seemed to be in a trance. His voice suddenly became lower, and it was like a whisper in a dream, which Noah could hardly hear.

"Do you know the Infinity Stones?"

Without waiting for Noah to answer, Gryffindor continued to speak on his own, "Power, space, time, reality, mind, soul..."

"There are six Infinity Stones in total. They are the product of the birth of the universe. Each stone has endless energy."

Even when Gryffindor mentioned unlimited energy, Noah already had a fairly certain guess in his mind, but when he heard the confirmation from Gryffindor, a hint of surprise involuntarily appeared on Noah's face.

"Royna saw the record of the Infinity Stones in an ancient magic book."

"These gems contain huge unknown energies. Each one manipulates a basic attribute that is unique to them, just like their respective names."

"Just one! Just one gem! It is enough to support us to complete our plan!"

Gryffindor's tone suddenly revealed a strong unwillingness, "Obviously..."

"We have clearly found the infinite energy source that Rowena mentioned! But in the end, we still failed to pull this world back from the brink of death. Instead, we could only watch helplessly as the survivor camp we had worked so hard to build gradually shrunk under the erosion of time, and was eventually completely swallowed up by the wasteland."

"First, the animals, then the plants, until finally even microorganisms like bacteria ceased to exist. The only three people left in the world were Salazar, Rowena and I, still trying to find any possible way to save the world and survive."

He just opened his mouth silently. He obviously had a lot of things to say, but when they came to his mouth and were about to come out, Noah suddenly became silent again. He didn't know what to say.

.

He looked as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, and in the end he didn't speak.

"The first thing we got was the Space Stone. Fortunately, it is on our planet, sealed in a container called the 'Cosmic Cube'."

"When we first found the Cosmic Cube, we were ecstatic, thinking that with the Cosmic Cube, Helga's sacrifice would no longer be in vain."

Having said that, Gryffindor clenched his fists suddenly. Because he used too much force, all the blue veins on his old and skinny arms bulged high, like a blue-gray spider web wrapped around his arms.

His mood was not calm.

"But for some reason, perhaps because of incompatible properties, the Space Gem was unable to repair this broken world as we had hoped."

"After that, we accidentally found the existence of the Time Stone in this world, but the final outcome was still failure. We couldn't see any hope of success at all."

Noah raised his eyebrows. "Have you never tried to use the power of the Time Stone to go back in time, and then..."

As he said this, Noah couldn't help but stretch out his hands and circle them a few times in the air in front of him, making a gesture of tightly putting a rope around an object such as the neck, then he clenched his fists and slowly and forcefully pulled to both sides to indicate that the rope should be tightened.

What he wanted to express was that after traveling back to the past, he would hang the person at the very beginning of the crisis, but this gesture was a little abstract.

But that didn't matter, as long as Gryffindor could understand it.

However, Gryffindor just glanced at him with disdain, "Time doesn't work that way. Changing the past cannot change the future you know."

“If you go back to the past, the past will become your future, and the present you are in will become your past. The past will not change because of the new future.”

Gryffindor explained the principle of time operation expressionlessly, "And randomly disrupting the timeline will produce a large number of time branches that should not exist. These branches will be entangled like a plate of messed up spaghetti."

Noah always felt that he had heard of Gryffindor's theory somewhere before.

"Do you think we haven't tried this possibility? The intersecting timelines will produce one fixed point after another that cannot be changed, and Dormammu's invasion is a fixed intersection that cannot be changed!"

"We have tried tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of times in the endless cycle of time!"

"I don't know how many years passed, but Salazar and Rowena could no longer endure the despair of failure again and again. In the end, they chose to give up and left me behind!"

Gryffindor's originally calm face was now filled with anger, but he was like a moody madman. In less than five seconds, the anger on his face disappeared without a trace, and was replaced by a touch of pride and complacency.

"When I realized that this method was not going to work, I thought of another plan that could save the world."

"Since all the methods I can think of and take cannot make it revive on the basis of the original ruins, it is better to destroy it directly and then create a new world with the legacy it leaves behind."

Noah's face was a little stunned, but it was not because of the theory that sounded like Thanos that came out of Gryffindor's mouth, but because of the blood mark that quietly appeared between Gryffindor's eyebrows.

It was just a simple symmetrical pattern made up of a few arcs. Even though Noah had never seen it with his own eyes, he would definitely recognize it. It was the emblem of Dormammu, the ruler of the dark dimension.

Every creature that uses the power of the dark world will have such a mark between their eyebrows, and the greater the dark magic drawn from the dark dimension, the clearer this mark will become.

From the very beginning it was just a faint red mark like a birthmark, but when it reached the level of Bald Qiang Gu Yi, it even emitted a faint bloody light.

Of course, not every wizard has the ability like Bald Qiang to dare to refuse to pay back the debt after borrowing it.

"With the help of the power of the Space Gem, I spent a long thousand years and finally found the other three of the six gems. However, the gem that represents power is still missing."

"Of course that doesn't matter much. Five gems are enough to achieve my goal."

A smile graced the Gryffindor's face.

"With the power of the five stones, and from the witch who was given some power by the Scarlet Dimension's ruler, the God of Hades, Sithon, I obtained her power of chaos that is enough to modify reality."

"I originally wanted to combine these six forces, crush the existing universe into the most basic particles, and then use them to create a brand new universe."

This incredible idea made Noah feel ashamed, and at the same time, he secretly raised Gryffindor's strength to the same level as Thanos or even higher.

Because Thanos relies on the Infinity Gauntlet to control the power of the six gems, and the Gryffindor in front of him...

He was even just barehanded.

“But

It is possible that due to the lack of the Power Stone, not only did I fail to achieve my goal, but I also caused these Infinity Stones to be forcibly destroyed by the huge energy that was forcibly gathered together."

Although the final goal was not achieved, Gryffindor's expression did not show any dejection or despair after the failure. Instead, there was a hint of joy.

"I thought my plan had failed, but I didn't expect you to show up."

Noah frowned slightly, "What do you mean?"

This time, Gryffindor did not answer Noah's doubts immediately. Instead, he put his right hand on the sword on his waist and slowly pulled it out.

"I didn't succeed in regenerating this universe, but I did create a brand new universe by accident."

Gryffindor pointed the silver sword in his hand at Noah. "To be more precise, it should be said that a new timeline was created that is almost parallel to the original timeline of this universe."

"Your timeline."

Things like this would seem ridiculous no matter how you listen to them, but Noah's mind couldn't help but emerge with the mysterious powers that were locked deep in the Department of Mysteries of the British Ministry of Magic.

The power of time is sealed in the Hall of Time, and based on this, wizards from ancient times created countless time converters of varying sizes.

In addition, there is the Brain Hall which is dedicated to the study of the mind and thoughts. The ancient magical power sealed here is likely derived from some of the power left over from the destroyed Mind Gem.

The Reality Gem and the Power of Chaos, these two energies that can interfere with and modify reality according to the will of the user, combined together may become a basic law that allows wizards to possess idealistic magic.

As for the Soul Stone, the most likely explanation is that the remaining power from the Big Bang was captured and collected by a powerful wizard in ancient times, and used to create the Resurrection Stone, one of the Three Deathly Hallows.

What Noah didn't know was that his guess was actually very close to the truth.

What has been circulating for a long time in his world are the Deathly Hallows given to wizards by the god of death. Each of the Hallows is actually closely related to the remaining power of the Infinity Stones.

Elder Wand, Invisibility Cloak, Resurrection Stone.

No matter which Deathly Hallows it is, the power it currently displays is actually incomplete.

They have all passed through the hands of many wizards over the thousands of years, and no one knows when a seal was set on them to block part of their power, which is why they have finally become the useless state they are now.