great-warnovel Chapter 512 Traveling to the Past
Chapter 512 Traveling to the Past
Chapter 512 Traveling to the Past
These words gave Hermione a glimmer of hope.
"You mean, there's still hope to move forward?" At this moment, she chose to believe in science.
Adam's expression was somewhat awkward: "I'm not sure—theoretically, with such a stable spacetime structure, calculations show—it's possible to find a path leading inside—"
"But this path is not continuous. If you can create an additional gravitational source to stretch spacetime, perhaps I can go further and plan a feasible path."
Science can calculate gravity and detect anomalies in spacetime, but it currently has no means to intervene.
However, he knew that the witch possessed gravity magic and could create gravitational sources out of thin air.
Hermione frowned as well: "But my gravity magic is still magic. Won't it cause an increase in entropy here?"
Furthermore, I have never tried to use gravity magic to affect time—that's your scientific theory, and I don't even know if it works.
She thought for a moment: "What about using runes? Wizards usually use these runes to control and seal things. They have good retention, so maybe they can withstand the abnormal effects here and also be used to stabilize spacetime?"
Adam had no answer.
"Give me some time, I'll try to use the Order Runes to translate the runic version of gravity magic —"
Just do it! It's the only feasible way.
She simply sat on the steps, not needing paper or pen, and began to work out the scenarios in her mind with her eyes vacant.
"But I—I'm still not sure—" Adam hadn't finished speaking.
Seeing that Hermione was already immersed in the world of magic, he simply quietly increased his computing power to the maximum and began to calculate intensively.
Hermione had previously transferred spells from this world to the Prayer of Order version; this was her first attempt to transfer magic from the Borderlands to this world.
Fortunately, with the background of a great wizard, such reverse engineering was not too difficult, and it didn't take her long to come out of her daze.
"How is it?" She looked at Adam, who was silent and motionless like a wooden stake.
The latter responded immediately, projecting a 3D model of a staircase connecting to a corridor into the air, with several striking red dots marked on the fluorescent blue projection.
"This is the staircase model I derived from the previous few floors. I have marked the stable and feasible spatiotemporal areas, while the areas that require you to stretch and solidify are marked with red blocks."
Robots are particularly reliable and dependable in situations like this.
"Don't rush, let me test whether this gravity rune works."
The Finger Witch stood up, and mysterious, deep purple symbols crackling with electricity flowed from her fingertips.
Unlike the usual pure white and sacred runes, these symbols give the visual illusion of pulling everything around them inward and collapsing.
The words pieced together, meaning "stable," "slow," "extending," "flowing," and "accelerating," are like dim yet bright ribbons of starlight, sliding along the edge of the stairs into the chaotic spacetime below.
There were no unusual magical phenomena, at least not initially.
The seemingly calm stairwell below, after the influx of gravity like Niven, only symbolically stirred up a little dust, looking like the Tyndall effect formed under the sunlight on a lazy afternoon.
But in Adam's readings, the turbulence caused by spacetime was even more terrifying than a raging storm.
"It's working! A viable path has emerged!"
He reminded him in a loud but steady voice.
In the projected 3D model, a green, undulating, and rugged line is formed.
"You can only stay in the green zone!"
As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them used their respective methods to levitate and then flew downwards.
Upon entering the spacetime anomaly zone, even within the safe zone planned by Adam, the scene before them suddenly changed.
Suddenly, the staircase was filled with a bustling crowd of people, men and women, young and old, weeping, lamenting, or sitting and resting on the stairs.
"Ignore it! It's just a remnant of the past!" Hermione shouted a warning.
These people have no physical form; they have a yellowish tinge like an old photograph, and the voices they emit are also impure.
"Watch out for the route projection," Adam reminded him.
The projection, which rises and falls and moves forward and backward unpredictably, can easily become unclear due to the interference of these afterimages.
Fortunately, both of them remained calm and collected, and continued their descent without any major incidents.
The surrounding scenery was still changing.
This was a dark and gloomy period, with masked male and female witches transporting all sorts of dangerous or mysterious things down the stairwell and sealing them away safely.
As they continued downwards, wizards from the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, from different eras and years, passed by them.
Sometimes they move forward, sometimes they move backward, or they rise half a meter and then fall back to ground level.
Everything seemed calm and harmless, but both of them knew that if they strayed even slightly and came into contact with other unstable and out-of-control situations, they would either be cut off or get trapped.
Soon, the two reached the corner of the stairs. On the other side was an unknown area that could not be seen with the naked eye, only the modeled structure inferred from the upper floor.
"The visible area has ended. The remaining part needs to be calculated temporarily. Please follow the projection route closely and stabilize the gravity source in real time."
Adam's speech slowed considerably: "Warning! Computing power is critical. I can no longer maintain computing power while moving. Please take me with you!"
Hermione reacted swiftly, steadily outputting runes with her right hand while raising her left hand to levitate Adam and pull him to her side.
The robot has now completely turned into a motionless lump of iron, with only its eyes still emitting blue light to maintain the projection.
Turning the corner, you enter the ninth floor of the Department of Mysteries. The layout here is very different from the previous floors. Normally, you would arrive at a circular hall connecting many rooms after exiting the elevator, but they took the stairs. Here, you have to go through a corridor to get to the circular room. In the white light that seems to come from nowhere, everything around you has a clean and quiet eerie feeling.
Hermione kept her rune weaving while keeping a close eye on the route Adam had planned and projected. The two had to work closely together to make steady progress.
Just then, a strange noise came from behind.
Hermione immediately turned around and saw that in the direction of the descending stairs, the originally stable gravity, such as Niven, was slowly expanding and cracking. The stabilizing effect it brought was also rapidly mutating. Clumps of gravity that were exploding or contracting were quickly disrupting the path behind and shattering the afterimages of the past.
"Oh no! Runeven can't hold out for long either!"
Hermione frowned. It seemed that while runes were effective, they couldn't always resist the erosion of time.
He glanced at Adam beside him, who was completely oblivious. Adam had used all his computing power to calculate the road ahead and probably couldn't look ahead or behind at the moment.
"We have no choice but to speed up and keep moving forward!"
She turned her head, and the dark purple light flowing from her hand moved even faster. This time, she was racing against death behind her. The turbulence in spacetime triggered a chain reaction, destroying the dark purple runes behind her little by little. Meanwhile, the two intruders continued to advance at a swift and steady pace, even faster than the turbulence itself.