Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 459 Foundation Laying

Murphy stayed at the camp and began leading the wizards in building the magic network nodes.

At this point, he acquired another identity—Merlin.

Not many wizards have actually seen Merlin in person. Many people have mistaken him for Murphy because of his demonic form. More importantly, Merlin used propaganda to deceive wizards, portraying himself as their savior, and Murphy fits this image even better after saving the camp.

The remaining divine children, either out of gratitude for his saving their lives or because of his immense power, remained silent about him killing Merlin. Furthermore, since Murphy himself did not deny it, he easily took over Merlin's identity as a divine child.

In fact, after the wizards began training to meet the requirements for building the magic network, they became even more convinced of Murphy's identity. Legend has it that Merlin was the savior of wizards, a master of magic, and the greatest wizard. Clearly, Murphy absolutely fit this image—there really is no one in the world who understands magic better than him.

It's obviously impossible to teach wizards who rely almost entirely on instinct and hearsay to become magic masters through ordinary learning methods from scratch. Fortunately, Murphy has a way to cheat using the Mind Seed.

After bestowing the Seed of the Mind, containing essential knowledge, upon thirteen wizards, Murphy had an absolutely loyal initial team. They then organized the wizards to construct the Magic Network. In fact, Murphy didn't need to expend too much energy. Apart from occasionally checking on the construction progress, Murphy spent most of his time on the pre-training of the large Magic Network model.

Several months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the course of several months, under Murphy's guidance, the wizards gradually became familiar with the methods of refining high-quality magical metals. They built an orchard smelter to mass-produce the high-quality orchards needed for the magic net.

Meanwhile, the extraction of special magic power has also been basically completed.

The camp already had a large number of wizards, and after news spread that Murphy had defeated the angel legion and was teaching wizards magic, more and more wizards gathered there. It wasn't too difficult to find some wizards with a single outstanding magical attribute among these many wizards.

Although its quality and polarity are far inferior to the magic of the divine children, Murphy Ben only used this magic to make a show of it; he had actually prepared the polar magic to drive the magic network long ago.

Seven months after arriving at the camp, Murphy's large magic network model finally completed its pre-training.

Murphy then announced that the Magic Network construction ceremony could begin.

On this day, all the wizards in the camp gathered in a valley at the foot of the mountain, which was chosen as the first node of the magic network.

For stability and security reasons, the Magic Network nodes were designed to be located underground.

Murphy glanced at the rocks beneath his feet, and with a thought, his own magic surged, resonated, and expanded outwards.

Without relying on a wand, nor borrowing a raven antenna or a magical radar, he expanded the scope of his magical power's coverage and influence without depending on any external objects.

This was something no wizard could do before.

But for Murphy, it was simply a natural progression.

Having used the magic antenna so many times, Murphy has extensive experience in its application and has a thorough understanding of the propagation patterns of magic fluctuations. Now, by expanding his cognitive scale and extending his control over magic to the microscopic level, he can adjust the flow of magic within his body, transforming himself into a magic radar.

He didn't even borrow the Nibelungen Ring; he spread the magical energy fluctuations to an area of ​​several hundred meters using only his own original magic power.

But this is just the beginning. The spreading magic is not a whole, but is projected by Murphy into a multi-dimensional matrix through the microstructure of the magic flow in his body.

By adjusting the magical microstructure within his body, he was able to influence the overall direction and scope of the magical matrix.

As a result, the magical fluctuations began to contract, gradually compressing into a cylindrical shape with a radius of thirty meters. As Murphy made subtle adjustments to the fine structure, its originally smooth and continuous outer edge continued to contract, eventually forming a cliff-like boundary.

He contracted the magical fluctuations that should have been continuous, like thermal radiation, into a clearly defined area.

At the same time, the magic level within the region gradually becomes more even, while the magic level outside the region continues to decrease until it approaches zero.

At this moment, Murphy slowly opened his eyes and sighed with a hint of regret.

"Currently, my control over magic can only reach the nanometer level at most, so I cannot achieve an absolute boundary for magic. There will always be some magic fluctuations with an intensity lower than my control that escape beyond the boundary. If I could go a step further and explore the scale of cognition down to the femtometer level, perhaps I could touch the boundary of material entities, thereby constructing an absolute domain within the realm of matter."

However, the current effect is already more than sufficient.

He could make his magic work only within a cylinder with a radius of thirty meters, and outside the cylinder, the amount of magic he emitted was less than that of a flea.

"Fossils turn into mud," he said softly.

Centered on it, the ground within a 30-meter radius suddenly collapsed, turning into a pool of liquid and sinking to the bottom, forming a large pit with extremely neat edges.

Murphy floated naturally above the crater, while the liquid was compressed and guided by Murphy's magic, first forming a cylindrical basin with a diameter of 30 meters, a height of 20 meters, and a thickness of only 50 centimeters at a depth of 100 meters underground.

Then, a complex honeycomb structure with an unknown number of cells was laid out at the bottom of the basin.

Then, "the mud was turned into stone."

The entire fluid structure instantly solidified, turning into a hard solid like black crystal.

If someone were to analyze these solid materials, they would find that due to the high pressure and thorough mixing of the materials, the original stone was compressed into a complex-like crystal mainly composed of silicon iron oxide. Its structure is extremely complex yet very stable, and its texture is incredibly hard. It looks like a translucent black crystal, but it is actually a type of ultra-strong ceramic.

What's even more terrifying is that every part of the ceramic structure looks absolutely smooth and flat. The inner wall of the cylindrical basin looks as if it were drawn with a compass, and the edge of each ceramic honeycomb is a near-perfect line. Every surface in the entire structure is so smooth that it could be used to make a high-precision reflector.

If someone were to use chip-level detection methods, they would find that the material undulations on those flat or curved surfaces would not exceed three nanometers.

Murphy used the precision required to manufacture chips to build a massive structure of tens of thousands of cubic meters in an instant.

Although the wizards and the onlookers could not comprehend the terrifying nature of its precision, the fact that it had dug a deep pit large enough to hold a skyscraper and constructed a complex architectural structure with just a few words was enough to amaze them.

The children of the gods couldn't help but whisper among themselves, and their initial doubts about the effects of the magic network, as described by Murphy, began to diminish.

Murphy was aware of all these reactions. He chuckled to himself. A large part of the purpose of this Magic Network project was actually marketing, and it seemed that the preemptive opening had worked.

"Now that the foundation is laid, bring all the ores."

(End of this chapter)