Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 466

blood.

fire.

Screams.

pain……

Miriam woke up from a nightmare crying, tears streaming down her face so much that the people in front of her looked blurry.

"Awake?" the person said, handing something to you. "Drink some water. You're covered in cold sweat; you need to rehydrate."

Miriam was terrified. She dared not move, or even cry anymore. Today was the day she had met the most strangers in her short life, and all they brought was fear that she could not understand.

Murphy sighed. Well, she had really been through too much.

Miriam had said that Murphy had saved her when she was a child, but she never expected it to happen at this time.

In order to fake his own death and lure the gods into using the magic network, Murphy, after fighting the Danu gods, readily left behind a charred corpse and then used time jump to escape.

Even if the gods suspect the corpse, Murphy has indeed vanished completely, and they will soon forget about him.

This time jump spanned less than a hundred years. Murphy originally intended to learn about the current state of the magic network in the world, but he didn't expect to see someone preparing to torture and kill children as soon as he arrived.

Faced with such a situation, he naturally couldn't ignore it, which led to the scene described earlier.

Only after rescuing her did he realize from her hair color that the girl might be Miriam.

The randomness of time jumps is very strong. Even if Murphy can roughly control the duration of the jump, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact day and location. It is purely accidental that he could coincidentally appear at the execution ground at such a crucial moment.

However, considering that Miriam had already told him about the rescue, this event seems like a kind of inevitable destiny.

From the perspective of an ordinary person living along the flow of time, the contradictions involved are simply mind-boggling. But Murphy, who has traveled through time several times, has developed a calm and accustomed calm towards such things.

Spacetime is a continuous whole; the past, present, and future do not exist, or rather, they exist simultaneously.

Humans have the illusion that time moves steadily and average forward simply because they have limited information to observe and are in roughly the same time stream as all things in the macrocosm.

In Miriam's timeline, Murphy saved her first, and only then could she tell Murphy about being saved, which aligns with the common sense of human beings.

However, in Murphy's timeline, he would feel that Miriam told him she would save her first, and then the rescue occurred—it would look like a prophecy fulfilled or a preordained event.

This is why Miriam was able to become a prophet by relying on the information provided by Sophia.

However, Miriam is not in a good state right now.

Such a severe blow could destroy a child's spirit.

Murphy thought for a moment, then extended a hand to her. "Interfering with other people's memories is a bit unethical, but just think of it as a form of therapy."

As he spoke, he activated his magic, beginning to read and manipulate Miriam's memories, blurring the events of the day and reducing the intensity of the associated emotional memories, so that she would only remember some basic facts while forgetting most of the painful details.

He then teleported the unconscious Miriam to a forest in Cornwall.

The little cabin I'd seen before was still there, but it looked much newer, as if it had just been built.

This is where Miriam once said her "grandfather" lived.

Murphy had many things to do and couldn't take care of a child, so he thought of the grandfather who had raised Miriam.

As Murphy, carrying Miriam, approached the cabin, he heard a low shout, "Stop! This is my place, get out!"

Beside a large tree in the forest stood a hunter with long hair and a beard, resembling a wild man. He had already drawn his longbow and aimed it at Murphy.

"Hello, Martin."

Murphy's magic instantly penetrated the old hunter's memories, revealing his entire life.

He had served a lord as a longbowman, but after the lord's castle was breached, he had to find another way to make a living. Later, his wife and two children died of the plague, and the old hunter went into seclusion in the mountains to live a hermit-like life.

Having witnessed the hunter's life, Murphy knew that the hunter was kind-hearted, and his reclusive nature would also prevent Miriam's magic from causing any trouble, making him an ideal caretaker.

Murphy ignored the hunter's longbow and stepped forward, which provoked the hunter. Martin warned again, "Stop, or you'll get hurt!"

However, Murphy did not stop. Martin frowned, adjusted the aim of his arrow, and shot an arrow at a tree next to Murphy.

Martin just wanted to drive people away; even if he didn't dodge, the arrow wouldn't have hurt Murphy.

To Martin's surprise, the arrow stopped abruptly about a meter from Murphy, then slowly turned its head and shot back at him.

Martin was startled and instinctively dodged, but the arrow had already arrived, hovering just two palms' width in front of his forehead in an instant. The fletching was still trembling, as if it could break free and pierce his head at any moment.

Faced with this illogical scene, Martin rationally dropped his bow and arrows and raised his hands.

Murphy approached the hunter and handed him the girl he was holding. The girl took the girl instinctively, but remained puzzled.

"Take good care of her," Murphy said succinctly.

Martin looked at the sleeping girl in his arms, somewhat confused. He saw Murphy turn and leave, and wanted to chase after her, but the arrow was still in front of him, making him dare not move. He could only watch as Murphy suddenly disappeared in a twist.

At the same time, the constantly trembling arrow stopped, and then gradually turned golden from the tip, eventually becoming a pure gold arrow that fell heavily to the ground.

The mysterious man's voice drifted from afar, "This is your payment."

Although Murphy cannot directly convert other substances into gold—this involves atomic-level material conversion, and his magical control is not precise enough to do so—forcing it would not only consume a lot of magical power, but would also not appear so casual.

But he possessed a pelt that guaranteed to produce gold, and he had plenty of gold at hand. It would be much simpler to replace the arrows with golden arrows using some trickery.

This arrow weighs over a pound, more than enough to pay for raising a girl.

Just in case, Murphy planted a seed in Martin's mind, but it was not activated.

He believed that the other party's kindness would naturally allow them to take good care of the girl, and that the seed of the heart was merely a precaution against some extreme situations.

After settling Miriam in, Murphy recited a spell, but there was no response.

Sure enough, there was no magic network coverage in this area.

Even though this place is not far from Camelot, and the first magic network node I set up was in Camelot Valley.

This was not surprising, because when he first appeared in Camelot, he did not sense the existence of the magic network.

Did the gods discover the trap in the magic net and destroy it?

It seems unlikely.

Confirming this is not difficult. As the builder of the Magic Network nodes, Murphy left many backdoors in them, and he could access the Magic Network not only through conventional means.

With this in mind, the magical energy fluctuations around him were adjusted to an extremely high and narrow frequency, and then a directional scan was performed, immediately locking onto a direction.

There he connected to a magic network node.

After estimating the distance, Murphy knew where it was.

London.

(End of this chapter)