Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 383 The Source of Magic - The Moon

Ten minutes later, Murphy stood in front of a dilapidated wooden house covered in moss, with a hideous humanoid monster lying at his feet, riddled with holes by a spell.

"This...this looks like a swamp hag," said a magical disaster relief specialist. "But these things have been gone for hundreds of years; we thought they were extinct."

"There have been a lot of similar incidents lately," another commissioner said. "Last time, we even saw a five-legged monster in Wells, which shouldn't have been there."

"We've found them!" a wizard shouted. Murphy looked over and saw the agents carrying out unconscious wizards from the dilapidated wooden huts.

"Most of them are just unconscious, but two of them seem to be under a very serious illusion curse and must be taken to the Jishi Hospital for treatment."

Murphy spotted a familiar face among the unconscious wizards. He walked over and cast a spell to Draco, who slowly awoke. At first, he only screamed in terror, but soon he recognized Murphy. "Professor, it's you! Is it really you? Is this not a hallucination of a monster tormenting me?"

"Is seeing me torturous for you?" Murphy asked.

"No, no, Professor, it really is you? Did you come to save us?" Draco, pale-faced, scrambled to his feet. "There's a monster, incredibly powerful. It has mind-control magic that can make us hallucinate. My teammates are all..."

"Don't worry, they're safe now," Murphy said, offering a few words of reassurance. "I didn't even know you joined the special training group. You haven't graduated yet, have you?"

"No, but my combat skills are quite good, so I was admitted despite not meeting the usual requirements," Draco said.

The Malfoy family's influence is probably involved in this, but Murphy didn't point it out.

"The training in the special training group is quite tough. What made you decide to come here? Even if you want to get ahead, it's safer to finish your studies first," Murphy said.

"The school...the things taught in the school are outdated..." Malfoy said. "Although you have reformed many things, the education of wizards is outdated."

"I can feel that the world is changing, everyone is changing, and those who cannot change will be abandoned. I don't want to be abandoned; I want to be at the forefront..."

"Oh?"

These words came from Draco Malfoy's mouth, which truly surprised him.

Without their knowledge, these children have also undergone significant changes.

"You're right. Since you have your own ideas, keep it up," Murphy encouraged, then used Lightning Raven to notify the Malfoy family to come and pick them up, before calling Selika aside.

"Murphy... Murphy..." Celica's hands twisted together nervously, her flushed face buried in her impressive chest.

How come I never noticed before that this girl is so shy?

"What's wrong? You're not calling me 'sir' anymore?" he teased with a smile.

"S-Sir..."

Selaka's ears turned red.

"Tsk, it's only been a short time, and you've already become so distant." Murphy sighed. "So you don't call me 'master' anymore?"

"Huh?" Celica froze for a moment.

Did I call this name before?

I do think I called out in my dreams many times, but I don't think I said it out loud.

No, right?

"What, you've even forgotten that?" Murphy shook his head. "I'm so disappointed."

This seemed to have dealt a psychological blow to Selica, who suddenly reached out and grabbed Murphy's sleeve.

"Lord, Lord..."

Murphy's excellent hearing allowed him to clearly hear the girl's rapid heartbeat and feel her trembling breath due to nervousness.

Wow... Seriously, this girl has so much masochistic potential.

He felt a primordial force taking over the darker parts of his mind.

Rope bondage, rulers, whips, candles, and the like were eroding his sanity.

SAN value, critical.

But no, we need to finish getting down to business first.

"Ahem, alright." Murphy reached out and patted the other person's head. "I called you over to ask you something. Have magical disasters been happening more frequently lately? How does it compare to before?"

"Huh?" Selica's head was spinning, and she didn't understand what Murphy was saying for a moment.

"I need to know the changes in the frequency of magical disasters over the past year, especially the changes in the last three months. This could be important."

Selica finally came to her senses a bit more. "Okay, okay, I'll take a look."

Two days later, Murphy received Celica's report.

"The number of magical disasters has increased by more than 30% in the last three months, and they are becoming more and more frequent."

Murphy looked at the report in his hand and arrived at the Siberian ice field.

Amidst a world of ice and snow, a tall metal wall stands atop this permafrost.

This is a colossal radar, 150 meters high and 500 meters wide, constructed using over 50,000 tons of magical metal.

It is called the Eye of Odin, an ultra-precise radar matrix used by the Void Particle Lab to sense magical information.

In the monitoring room beneath the radar, Murphy met Dennis Gelfonso, the head of the Eye of Odin.

"Dennis, I need the background radiation data for magic over the past six months," Murphy said.

The so-called magical background radiation refers to the almost equal amount of magical fluctuations that diffuse in the air or earth after excluding specific magical concentration points.

This is one of the most important indicators for measuring the global level of magic.

After realizing the dangers of increasing magical power, Murphy had already begun preparing facilities to monitor the background radiation of magical power.

The reason why Odin's Eye was built in the Siberian permafrost was to minimize various interferences and obtain the most accurate data.

Soon, Murphy received a chart, and Dennis pointed to the continuously rising curve on it, saying, "According to our continuous monitoring over the past six months, the level of magical background radiation has been rising, and the frequency of its rise is positively correlated with the number of people who are aware of magical information, based on our calculations."

Murphy took the chart and compared it with Celica's report in his hand; the curves in the two charts looked almost identical.

While it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions, there is indeed a very high probability that the frequent occurrence of magical disasters is related to the increase in magical power levels.

"Lord Murphy, we've discovered another phenomenon," Dennis said. "I think you might be interested to know more."

As he spoke, the latter produced another chart, "We discovered that the magical background radiation is not homogeneous in all directions. Moreover, it exhibits regular fluctuations every day..."

"In fact, this fluctuation pattern is almost identical to the tidal pattern... Moreover, we have discovered that the magical radiation is stronger towards the moon and weaker when facing away from the moon, that is, towards the Earth's center..."

"you mean……"

"Yes, we speculate that the moon may be an extremely powerful source of magic."

"In fact, we previously sent proto-matter probes to the moon, and the feedback indicated that there may be a large amount of proto-matter on the moon."

"We are still verifying the authenticity of this data, but... it is most likely true."

"A large amount of original substance? How much?"

"At least tens of thousands of tons."

Tens of thousands of tons?

Original substance?!

If the hypothesis of divine blood in the original substance is true, wouldn't that mean there are tens of thousands of tons of divine flesh and blood on the moon?

Did the gods commit mass suicide on the moon?

No, in the end... were those flesh and blood dead or alive?

(End of this chapter)