Black American Comics: Start with a Snap

Chapter 173: Tracing the Source of Fire
The dreamlike scene became illusory, and everything around it quickly turned into ink.

Colors began to blend, and the world, which was originally filtered through a layer of waxy yellow, gradually began to dissipate, and the boundaries of consciousness became blurred.

The scene in front of Su Ze seemed like a disrupted painting. The originally clear figures of Dumbledore and Grindelwald gradually lost their outlines, the space began to distort, and the interior of the castle quickly melted.

Su Ze only felt that his body became light, as if some force was causing him to be separated from this world.

Pieces of rock began to break and collapse, turning into black water droplets.

Su Ze knew that this memory had ended and it was time for him to leave.

Everything around became distorted, vision became increasingly blurred, and the world of ink and wash began to rapidly turn over.

His head jerked up.

"Hu-hu-"

The hands holding the edge of the meditation basin were trembling slightly, and Su Ze was gasping for breath, feeling as if he had just been rescued from drowning.

Returning to the real world from the fantasy of memory, Su Ze still felt a little dizzy, but this feeling did not last long and quickly subsided in a few breaths.

At this time, Dumbledore handed over a cockroach.

"Eat something sweet. Anyone who uses the Pensieve for the first time will be affected to some extent, especially for an outsider like you who does not have wizard blood. Sweets will make you feel better."

Hearing this, Su Ze did not refuse Dumbledore's food this time. He took the lively cockroach and threw it into his mouth.

The cockroach that Dumbledore gave to Suze naturally couldn't be a real cockroach. It was a kind of candy called Cockroach Crunchy Every-Flavor Beans. However, unlike Bibi Every-Flavor Beans, cockroach candy didn't have any exotic flavors.

Slowly chewing the cockroach candy, Su Ze silently turned his head and looked at Dumbledore.

Now that he knew what had happened to Dumbledore, this guy actually went straight to Grindelwald without saying a word and used his gift as a prophet to try to uncover the truth.

Although it is still unclear what the strange force is, if it is indeed ether particles, then the actions of Dumbledore and Grindelwald are no different from tearing reality apart.

If Su Ze had previously relied on the power of the chaotic space to find a loophole and open the channel connecting the two realities, allowing everyone to observe another Hogwarts that was burned by fire.

Then what Dumbledore and Grindelwald did was to completely rely on their own strength to confront the entire curtain of reality head-on.

Should we say that they are courageous, or should we say that they are confident in their own abilities?

It's just these two. If it were someone else, even if they didn't get lost in the illusion, they would probably be torn into pieces by the broken cracks in reality.

"Well, you have seen what happened. Have you discovered anything?" Dumbledore looked at Su Ze and asked tentatively.

Hearing this, Su Ze raised his hand and rubbed his temple. "First of all, I hope that next time before you do something so dangerous, you can properly say hello to me. I don't want to hear bad news about you suddenly one day."

Dumbledore ate a piece of lemon snowball silently without saying anything.

Then, Su Ze paused and continued.

"In fact, I have not been idle during this period of time regarding this fire. After I killed the basilisk, I found some clues and followed these clues all the way to the Room of Requirement."

"You mean the fire started in the Room of Requirement?" Dumbledore nodded thoughtfully.

The Room of Requirement itself is a very magical room. It can open up corresponding space according to the needs of the wizard. If the fire is hidden there, it will indeed be hidden from his eyes.

"I can't determine the initial starting point of the fire, but if we only refer to the area of ​​​​Hogwarts, then the fire did start from the Room of Requirement. In that reality, the Room of Requirement has been burned down."

Su Ze did not hide anything and quickly shared the information he knew with Dumbledore, and Dumbledore keenly noticed a key point in Su Ze's words.

"'That reality'?" Dumbledore thought about this sentence carefully, then looked up at Su Ze. "You already know the truth about that power, right?"

"Just a guess."

Su Ze shook his head slightly. In fact, he still couldn't be sure what was going on.

After a moment of silence, Su Ze began to explain.

"In the universe I live in, before the Big Bang, there were six singularities in the world that contained infinite energy. They represent the basic rules of the formation of the universe: time, space, power, soul, mind, and reality. Each of these six singularities possesses extremely terrifying power, enough to influence and destroy a world. What I can be sure of is that the six singularities I know of have been destroyed."

Su Ze sighed as he spoke. "But for some reason, these six singularities seem to have turned into some kind of more bizarre energy, and have begun to gradually invade and affect other universes."

Dumbledore listened to Su Ze's words quietly. Although he could not fully understand the Big Bang and the six singularities, he roughly understood what Su Ze wanted to express.

"So, you mean that my universe was invaded by the energy of one of those singularities, which is why I suffered this unexpected disaster."

"You can say that." Su Ze nodded.

"In fact, my world has also been invaded by that power. In my universe, an alien has mastered the carrier of space and used that power to create a monster that can threaten the universe."

"Space?" Dumbledore stroked his beard. He automatically filtered out the word "aliens" in Su Ze's words and focused on the strange use of energy.

Dumbledore pondered and recalled Su Ze's introduction, then continued, "So, now we can speculate that the force that invaded my world is most likely one of the remaining five singularities."

"Yes, and Rocket and I already have a suspect." Su Ze did not keep the secret, but directly stated his previous guess. "The singularity that represents reality, the ether particle."

As if realizing that Dumbledore did not understand this power, Su Ze continued to explain.

"Ether particles are what make the world take shape and establish the foundation of the reality of the material world. They are one of the beginnings of all things. Any existence that masters that power can manipulate reality at will and change everything at will."

"Manipulating reality." Dumbledore frowned.

"It can restore youth, change the structure of objects, and even reverse life and death, and there is no backlash." Su Ze said seriously. "Using this power, it is more than enough to cover up a fire."

Listening to Su Ze's words, the corners of Dumbledore's eyes twitched unnaturally. He had turned life and death around without any backlash, and at that moment he thought of his sister.

Dumbledore had a sister.

Arianna Dumbledore was an innocent little girl, but she experienced many unfortunate things.

When she was little, Arianna accidentally performed magic and was seen by three Muggle boys, who did very bad things to her. This made her begin to reject magic and gradually turned her into a 'Silent'.

The Obscurus is a very dark force and a very ancient existence. When a wizard's magical energy cannot be released and is suppressed to the extreme, the Obscurus will parasitize on his body and transform him into an Obscurus.

Throughout history, every Obscurial possessed extremely terrifying power, but almost none of them lived to adulthood.

Later, when Dumbledore and Grindelwald clashed, Arianna's Obscurus powers were triggered, leading directly to her death.

And this incident has always been an unforgettable pain in Dumbledore's heart.

After hearing Suze's introduction to the ether particles, Dumbledore subconsciously prepared to find that power and bring his sister back from death.

But the next moment, he suddenly woke up, and his fists clenched unconsciously. "This power should not be controlled by wizards."

Dumbledore couldn't imagine what a wizard with that kind of power could do. You know, even he, who was known as the most powerful white wizard in the world, couldn't completely give up this temptation, let alone other wizards.

Wantonly distorting reality and manipulating the world according to one's own thoughts is like putting a nuclear bomb detonator in the hands of a three-year-old child. It is completely uncontrollable.

Su Ze nodded slightly to this, but he changed the subject and continued.

"The power of the ether particles is indeed too strong. However, I am very curious why that person wanted to cover up the fire, and who set the fire."

Dumbledore didn't know how to answer this question.

However, this conversation brought Su Ze and Dumbledore closer together, and a relationship of trust was gradually established.

After continuing the discussion for a while, Dumbledore's spirit was really exhausted, so Su Ze did not disturb him any more. However, taking this opportunity, Su Ze still proposed to Dumbledore whether Constantine could be brought to this world.

This is not only to help Constantine regain his memory, but Su Ze is also curious whether this fire is also closely related to Constantine.

As for Dumbledore, he naturally nodded in agreement, and he personally wrote a letter of recommendation and had it sent to St. Mungo's by owl.

(End of this chapter)