The years of welding at Hogwarts

Her tone was full of hesitation and guilt. Her hands, which had been retracted, couldn't help but reach out again, but stopped suddenly when they were about to touch Noah's body.

"you……"

What she originally wanted to ask was whether you were hurt anywhere, but Noah couldn't help but laugh out loud first, which made Gwen realize in an instant that she had been fooled.

Rarely, she didn't feel the usual anger at being teased by Noah, not even a trace of it.

As Noah laughed, a faint smile appeared on Gwen's face, "I'm glad you're okay."

Things did not develop as Noah expected, and the smile on Noah's face quickly disappeared.

Staring at Gwen's bloodshot eyes and her pale face due to lack of rest during this period, Noah's tone became unusually serious.

He did not ask whether the other party had been studying the magic circle recently. This was a meaningless question with the answer obvious.

"Okay, I won't say much about reminiscing about the past."

Noah held out his hand. "I have a grand plan, but it might turn the world upside down. Do you want to join me?"

Without waiting for Gwen's response, Noah continued to speak to himself with his right hand still stretched forward.

"If the plan succeeds, I should be able to find a way to send you home by then."

Gwen had opened her mouth to answer, but when she heard the last few words that came out of Noah's mouth, the answer that was already on the tip of her tongue paused for a moment.

After being stunned for several seconds, Gwen didn't bother to shake Noah's outstretched hand, but just met Noah's gaze with anticipation.

"go home!?"

"Right," Noah dropped his outstretched hand, "Go home."

But before that, he had another thing to deal with first, which was to settle accounts with the two old guys from Ravenclaw and Slytherin who had cheated him out of money.

Chapter 394 The Dark Door

Going home, this simple word is an extremely luxurious or even completely impossible thing for the little spider who is in a distant parallel universe.

Even though the wizards in this world possess idealistic magic that can fulfill almost all wishes, the difficulty of crossing the long distance between parallel universes is no less than that of Muggles researching the curvature engine.

Even as powerful as the complete Scarlet Witch, all she can do is rely on dreaming to project her consciousness into another world.

If she could travel directly between parallel universes in her physical body, there would be no later plot of "Doctor Strange 2: The Multiverse of Madness".

So after realizing how difficult it was to accomplish this, Gwen, who had already settled down in this world, had even regarded going home as an unrealistic wish that would never come true, and had sealed it deep in her heart.

In other words, she had basically given up any hope.

until……

Some time ago, Noah accidentally triggered an ancient magic circle that could teleport to other worlds.

But even with such a living example in front of him, and after months of analyzing and studying it, Gwen still didn't find anything valuable from the complicated and obscure magic runes on the wall.

It can be said that her research progress has not changed at all compared to before Noah left.

The progress bar always stays at the far left end representing "0%".

But now, Noah, who was originally trapped in another world and unable to return, suddenly appeared in front of him and vowed that he could take him home.

At this moment, the ember of "hope" sealed in Gwen's heart rekindled into a raging flame.

Noah's return itself represents one thing——

This guy has mastered the method of traveling through parallel universes!

She leaned her face closer to Noah and looked into his eyes eagerly, "Is this true?"

Although she already had a positive answer in her heart, she still hoped to hear Noah's answer in person.

Suddenly, Gwen broke into such a close forbidden distance. Noah took a half step back, a little uncomfortable, "Of course it's true."

As Noah placed his right hand between him and Gwen, a dark blue gem appeared in the palm of Noah's raised right hand.

However, this gem, which had already been dim in brilliance, was almost turning back into its original gray and dusty appearance after Noah's unscrupulous exploitation.

"Well, this is a bit distressing."

This kind of inter-universe transmission still consumes too much energy, and...

Can the Infinity Stones from another universe still play their due role in this world?

Noah tried to activate the gem, but it was on the verge of being drained dry. The gem, which had entered sage mode, just gave him a response similar to "stop it" and then lazily remained motionless.

played.

It seems to still be usable.

It just needs a sufficiently large energy source as a supplement, otherwise there will be no way to use it to return to the previous universe in a short period of time.

Fortunately, the magical world where Noah is now located is so different from the world that is similar to the movie universe that the difference in magical environment can be described as "a world of difference".

The movie universe is as barren as the withering spiritual energy. There is not a trace of ownerless magic in the air for them to absorb to restore themselves. The magic of the mystics depends entirely on borrowing high-interest loans from the dimensional demon gods.

In this world, there is too much ownerless magic power floating in the air, filling every corner of the world. Such a favorable magical environment is simply too luxurious.

Even without the Phoenix Force fragments to serve as a power bank for the Space Gem, just by absorbing the ownerless magic power in the air, it would take a little time to accumulate enough energy for cross-universe transmission.

It's just that it seems...

Did he accidentally stand someone up?

Because his desire to return to the original universe temporarily suppressed the rationality in his mind, he did not consider the consequences and just dropped the task assigned to him by Ancient One and ran away.

I don’t know if Baldy Qiang Gu Yi will catch me and beat me up if I go back in a few months.

Maybe, maybe...

Yes, right?

Even though Bald Qiang Gu Yi has cultivated herself for thousands of years and always looks like a kind mentor, even if Dr. Banner wants to snatch the Time Stone she is guarding, she just politely asks him to sit down and chat.

However, Bald Qiang's kindness is directed outwardly.

As for this evil disciple of his, even though strictly speaking he could not be considered her student, Noah had no doubt that she was capable of doing such inhumane things as clearing out the family.

Noah scratched his head awkwardly.

Or should we use Dreamwalk to go back and check the situation?

Although there seems to be no equivalent of him in that world, some of his blood flows in Natasha's body. With this weak blood connection, she can still perform sleep walking.

Looking at the dull gem in front of him, Noah's mind gradually wandered, until Gwen's voice brought him back to reality.

"what is this?"

"Infinity Stones," Noah glanced at Gwen, "You who have experienced the Flash should have heard of it, right?"

Gwen's eyes widened in an instant, "Is this the Infinity Stone?"

but……

Even though she was not able to participate in the final battle of her universe and therefore could not see the true form of the Infinity Stone, no matter how Gwen looked at the gem, she did not think that this blue stone with no energy fluctuations was actually one of the six Infinity Stones containing infinite energy.

This is bullshit, right?

There was a hint of suspicion in her eyes as she looked at Noah.

But she eventually dispelled the doubts in her mind. Although the scumbag in front of her had no moral bottom line at all, it was impossible for him to deceive her about something like this.

Noah put away the space gem and smiled awkwardly, "Ahaha..."

The intention to smear the topic was too obvious, but Gwen had no intention of exposing Noah. She just talked about another topic that Noah had brought up before.

"What do you mean by turning the world upside down?"

Noah did not answer Gwen's question immediately, but led the topic to another direction, "By the way, Hydra's layout in the non-magical world should be almost complete, right?"

In response to Noah's question, Gwen just rolled her eyes at him.

"It's still early. We haven't even built one of the three aircraft carriers needed for Project Insight. Do you think building an aircraft carrier is an easy task?"

Noah was a little puzzled by Gwen's question, "Didn't Lucius hire a lot of wizards to help?"

It would have been fine if we hadn't mentioned this. When Gwen heard Noah mention this, she couldn't help but clench her fists, "Those wizards are just idiots!"

Because of the continuous isolation for centuries, the wizards' understanding of the Muggle world has reached a level of "outrageous opening the door to outrageousness, it's outrageous to the extreme."

Even in the Muggle Studies class offered by a prestigious old magic school like Hogwarts, the teacher could actually hold up a hair dryer in the classroom and confidently tell the students that this was a physical fire spell created by Muggles.

Well, using magic to generate lightning that is ten times more than the working current to power the hair dryer, it would be strange if this thing didn't spit out fire.

Professors of this caliber can openly slack off in Muggle Studies classes and receive a salary that is not much different from other professors.

Of course, now the salary thief has been kicked off the podium by Noah, and replaced by the famous Winter Soldier as the students' new Muggle Studies teacher.

However, this also indirectly reflects why Hogwarts's situation had been getting worse and worse before Noah intervened.

Ilvermorny was founded hundreds of years later than Hogwarts.

History is less than three hundred years.

Logically speaking, wizards, who are special beings who rely on time to gather magical powers, should become more popular as they get older, just like Chinese medicine practitioners. Especially since Hogwarts has a Chinese medicine practitioner like Dumbledore who is over a hundred years old. Bah, the old wizard is in charge.

But what level is Hogwarts at now? What level is Ilvermorny at now?

There are only eleven magic schools in the world. Hogwarts, which has been lying low and eating the coffins of its ancestors, has now dropped to the fourth from the bottom and is rapidly moving towards the third from the bottom on the road to upgrading from undergraduate to technical college.

The enterprising Ilvermorny has already surpassed England in just three hundred years by following the lead of Hogwarts.

Oh, I am an American myself, so that’s okay.

The afterglow of the British Empire can no longer bring blessings to the world, even the magical world is the same.

From this we can see that the level of knowledge of wizards is indeed a bit worrying, especially regarding their understanding of the non-magical world.

If we expect such a group of wizards to contribute any effective role in such a huge and complex project as the construction of an aircraft carrier...

Well, it's better to expect the sow to climb a tree.

Gwen sighed tiredly.

"Honestly speaking, apart from using the traceless stretching spell to help us expand the internal space of the flying aircraft carrier, so that we have more redundancy in the design, they can't help us with anything else."

As soon as this matter was brought up, Gwen started complaining.

"Those guys should have just enchanted the ship according to our original design, but every wizard has their own unique ideas..."

"It's OK that they don't follow the engineers' instructions because they look down on Muggles, but most of the time they just act recklessly based on their own shallow knowledge."

"It doesn't matter if those guys join the Insight Project or not! There is absolutely no difference! Damn it!"

Okay, it's wizarding.

Listening to Gwen's story, Noah could fully imagine what it was like for wizards and Muggles to get along reluctantly due to external forces, and he sighed with empathy.

"If Lucius can't control his people, then someone else should do it for him."

Although these words were said in a calm tone, Gwen could fully imagine that if things really came to that, even if Lucius was Draco's father, he would be skinned alive, and he would not be treated any differently just because of his special relationship with Draco.

Skipping the question about Lucius, Noah turned his focus back to the Insight Project.

"What is the current progress of the aircraft carrier's construction?"

Gwen shrugged. "There are still a few sections of the hull that have not been completed. After that, we will assemble these structures into a complete hull, and finally install equipment and so on..."

"how much longer?"

"If those wizards can play their due role, then it will take about a year. If they continue to lag behind like this, then it may not be completed in three years."

Noah had a thoughtful look on his face.

After comprehensively considering the time required to charge the Space Gem, as well as some other things he needed to do, such as the construction of three magic temples, Noah slammed his palm.

"Let's put the Insight Project on hold for now. The construction of the flying aircraft carrier cannot be stopped, but I need to transfer some of the project's personnel to do another thing."

"whats the matter?"

"The Construction of the Dark Portal."

If there is no large enough energy source to replenish the Space Stone, and Noah relies solely on absorbing external magic power to restore himself, it will take at least half a year for him to return to Kamar-Taj.

After possessing the power to suppress the entire world by himself, the Insight Project has actually become an unnecessary tool for Noah.

In the absence of the need for a flying aircraft carrier to eliminate all potential threats for itself, the existence of a flying aircraft carrier has only one meaning left -

That is to ensure that Gwen and Bucky can still maintain their deterrent effect on the entire world when Noah leaves here and goes to other worlds.

Due to the change in strategic goals, only one aerial war fortress like this one that has undergone magical modification is needed.