great-warnovel Chapter 220 Journey to the Secret Realm
Chapter 220 Journey to the Secret Realm
Chapter 220 Journey to the Secret Realm
The agonizing three days finally passed, and just before the twins were about to throw dung balls into the Ghost Owl's Shack, Dumbledore sent word.
"Gonuk is all ready, we can set off now."
In an instant, all the children, no matter what they were doing, immediately put down what they were doing and ran to Hermione's side to gather.
The fairies had been away from wizarding society for too long, and none of them wanted to miss this rare opportunity to visit their secret realm.
Harry's group of four, the Weasley twins, Maria standing behind Hermione, and Cedric and Percy.
Even Bill, curious, came over; he wanted to go into the secret realm to see the fairies' skills.
Dumbledore watched the surging little heads with amusement and took out a silver ring from behind him.
"It's about time, let's go."
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Everyone reached out and grabbed the ring. The next moment, they felt the familiar sensation of being hooked in the navel, followed by a dizzying spin as they were thrown into darkness.
When I opened my eyes again, the air was warm and humid, and before me was a strange world that was dark yet luminous.
The sky twinkled like a starry night, and the magnificent nebulae were as beautiful as diamonds, but half of it was burned into an ugly black, and then repaired with a piece of snakeskin that looked like it had been magnified countless times.
On the ground, Hermione found herself standing on a gentle slope, with a towering cliff in front of her. On the steep, greyish-white rock was an extremely magnificent brass-colored metal gate, with strange gears and smoke sticking out from the cliff face, and wisps of white smoke constantly rising from it.
The gentle slope is covered with lush green grass, and amidst the slowly drifting clouds, some oddly shaped little animals occasionally dart out and then quickly disappear.
The entire secret realm is not very large. From a distance, it seems that there is only this mountain. The waterfall flowing down from the cliff will meander and disappear into the mist when it reaches the edge of the secret realm.
"Welcome to the ancient forest of Wenyu. You are the first humans to arrive here." Gonuk stood before the crowd, wearing his usual intricate silver mechanical armor, and spoke in a gentle voice.
"Thanks to you for providing the basilisk skin, our secret realm was preserved."
Dumbledore stood at the front, smiling as well, and said, "Thank you for the invitation. We are honored to be among the first to arrive here."
"However, there might be quite a lot of children coming this time."
Gonuk looked at the bunch of heads peeking out from behind him, all of them, young and old, looking around with curious eyes.
"Haha, whatever, it's fine this way too," he laughed.
"Come with me, our home is inside the mountain."
The group walked down the gentle slope toward the huge brass gate.
"Why is he called Gringoire, the Rainbow? That's a strange name," Harry asked.
"In this secret place, the rain is warm, providing both moisture and heat to the earth, because there is no sun here," Gonuk explained.
"Every day, there are 12 showers here, every two hours. You came at a good time, just when the rain stopped."
No wonder it's so humid and warm here; it turns out it has a completely different world system from the outside world.
Hermione looked around. This place reminded her of the underground city of Norklonn. It was always shrouded in darkness, with huge buildings, but much smaller in size. The architectural style was also different. The goblins seemed to prefer brass and gear-like designs, but their forgings were usually made of silver.
Because we entered directly using a special key; otherwise, if we had gone straight through the Fairy Cave, we might have experienced other unique places.
"Everything here was created by fairy magic. We extracted materials from the outside world, rebuilt it here, and made the whole world more suitable for the survival needs of fairies," Gonuk explained.
"Is it true that the fairies have a huge secret realm that connects many fairy caves?" Ron asked curiously.
Gonuk nodded: "Under the coordination of Lanlock II, the Extinctionists combined all the secret realms they controlled into one, which is the largest independent world ever created, possibly larger than the whole of Britain."
Dumbledore and Hermione exchanged a glance. This was the first time the wizards had confirmed information about the Extinction Party's secret realm. Before that, it was just a rumor. Just this alone made befriending the Coexistence Party worthwhile.
"With such a large area, how much material must they have stolen from the real world!" Percy frowned.
It's as if an entire area of Britain has disappeared from the world map. From his perspective, the fairies are like thieves, secretly taking over the Earth.
"It's been a long process. For thousands of years, the fairies have been continuously building fairy caves. Some have been destroyed, and some have been rebuilt. This accumulation, along with the support of the Muggles back then—" Gonuk pursed his lips.
"The Soviet Union had several huge mineral veins and oil fields, which have now been completely leveled, with nearly a square meter of pit dug down into them. The ore and crude oil went to the Muggles, and the rest to the goblins."
"Isn't it possible to build a fairy cave without anything else?" Cedric asked, feeling that it was all too simple. "Nothing is needed. Even with just a stone, an adult fairy can skillfully build himself a fairy cave the size of a basement. This is the very ability that fairies rely on for survival."
Gonuk led the group to the brass gate and tapped on the brass patterns on the gate with his slender fingers.
"Gringotts, the Gringotts of Wen Yu, has a history of nearly a thousand years. It is the hometown of Gringotts' builder, Gringotts, who was also the first goblin to propose merging with the wizarding society. The materials used in this secret realm are said to have come from the permission of Julius Nepomuk, the de facto last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He gifted the Verdon Gorge to the goblins in exchange for a way to continue his rule."
As he explained, the patterns on the brass door automatically changed, and soon, the outline of a small door, large enough for a human to pass through, quietly emerged. Then the brass recessed and receded to both sides, opening a passage.
"And it was precisely because this secret realm was famous enough that the fairies all knew about it that it was easily revealed to the Wushi Party."
"Come on, I'll show you around inside the mountain."
The group filed in.
"Where is the Extinction Party's secret location?" George asked.
However, this issue is somewhat sensitive. Although the wizards present all came from Hogwarts, their positions were opposed to those of the Extinction Party. If they chose to reveal the information to the Extinction Party, it would be no different from Gonuk betraying his compatriots.
Although this is how the extermination faction dealt with them, the fairies of the coexistence faction were kinder. Even though they were ostracized, abandoned, and nearly wiped out, they were unlikely to do anything to harm their fellow humans.
"The ridiculous thing is that, to this day, we don't even know where the Extinctionists' secret territory is hidden." Gonuk twisted his long nose, looking very frustrated.
"The fairy Grand Ratta always uses the Portkey to bring fairies from other factions to the meeting. Their wariness of us is even more excessive than their wariness of humans."
"Lada?"
"It's Parliament, in Ukrainian." Hermione was quite familiar with it; she had lived there as a child and had a good understanding of the Ukrainian language.
It seems that the collaboration between the Extinction Faction goblins and Soviet Muggles has also brought them closer culturally.