great-warnovel Chapter 514 The Fall is Paused
Chapter 514 The Fall is Paused
Chapter 514 The Fall is Paused
"Everything is stable." The boy's detector was working non-stop.
"But I don't recommend you go in." As a supportive AI, he dutifully offered his advice.
"As it stands, aside from the Silent Man's office, every door here has undergone some unknown mutation. You shouldn't gamble on such a low probability."
"Perhaps the changes in the prophecy hall are not related to space and time, but that is just as dangerous."
The omnipresent white light on the ninth floor deliberately avoided the Hall of Prophecy, which was already very strange.
Hermione hesitated for a moment: "You're right. At least until we find the Time Chamber and successfully obtain the Time-Turner, we shouldn't cause any unnecessary trouble."
She restrained her curiosity, closed the door to the prophecy hall, and drew a simple eye symbol on it as a marker, saying that she would like to come back and visit again if she had the chance.
There were only a few doors left to choose from, and this time, Hermione finally found the right direction.
Even a crack in the door revealed a burst of intense, diamond-like white light.
The continuous ticking and clicking sounds blended together, as if thousands of clocks were chiming together.
"We've found the right one!" The two exchanged a glance.
But when they pushed the wooden door open and saw what was inside, they were dumbfounded.
The enormous Time Hall had completely collapsed. Perhaps the floor could not withstand the erosion of time, or perhaps it was due to some other factor. All the clocks and hourglasses that were originally in the room had fallen into a courtroom on the tenth floor below.
The recessed floor of the Time Hall, like a funnel, caused the clocks to slide down, while the circular trial chamber, which contracted towards the center, formed a high hill at the very center.
They are not completely broken yet, and are still operating on their own.
But from the cracks on it, endless white light just kept escaping.
"This is really not good news."
Hermione saw that above the clocks and hourglasses, inside a broken bell-shaped crystal case, a shriveled and rotten little bird egg was emitting a steady stream of white light, more than all the other clocks combined.
To make matters worse, their destination—the time converter—also crashed down.
Among those clocks of varying sizes, on an exquisite silver stand, a dozen thin gold chains were attached to rings made of small hourglasses, unlike the ones in Grindelwald's hands.
Some of them were damaged and had lost all their light, but others were quite intact, and Hermione could tell from a distance that they were still usable.
"This is really bad."
Adam also gave the results of the test: "The gravity reading is normal, but the normality at this moment seems very abnormal."
The boy adopted a serious expression, attempting to amplify the emotional intensity of the context.
Hermione thought for a moment: "I'll try to use the Summoning Charm."
In the rotunda, gravity magic works normally and can open doors; perhaps the same is true in the Time Hall.
But Adam still held her hand: "Don't forget that the way we came down has been destroyed. Even if we get the Time-Turner, we still have to figure out how to get back."
Although spacetime within the Rotunda is stable, its connection to the outside world is severely compromised; even Hermione's Law of Transference might not be able to reliably transport her there.
However, the witch already had a plan; she pointed to the blown-up door of the Hall of Death.
"Lucius took the entire Hall of Death. We can fly to the eighth floor through the hole in the ceiling, and then return the way we came. Once we leave the ninth floor, I can Apparate you out."
Because of the Unseen Stretching Charm, the actual interior area of each floor of the Ministry of Magic is much larger than it appears from the outside. Standing inside the Department of Mysteries and looking up and down the floors, there is a strange sense of stretching and deformation.
Adam was still somewhat uneasy. His scientific and rational mind made it difficult for him to understand the spacetime chaos caused by magic. After all, all his theoretical basis was derived by scientists, and his own observational skills were relatively limited, let alone practical application.
In his mind, everything at this moment should be kept at a distance as soon as possible, carefully observed within a sufficiently safe range, and without any interference whatsoever.
These wizards, on the contrary, were very bold and wanted to use magic to touch the root cause of all this.
However, he didn't have enough reasons to convince Hermione, since this was a spacetime phenomenon caused by magic, which didn't conform to objective laws in many ways, and he didn't have enough credible information to prove the correctness of his theory.
Of course, Hermione wasn't reckless and unprepared.
"Come to my side. If anything seems amiss, fly to the Hall of Death immediately. Once we reach the eighth floor, I can Apparate with you."
The boy obediently moved closer.
The two didn't even step into the Time Hall; they just stood at the entrance to avoid any accidents.
Everything was ready. Hermione took a deep breath and stretched out her left hand towards the silver shelf beneath the large crater in the floor: "Time-Turner, fly here!"
The spell was activated instantly. The golden chains seemed to be pulled up by an invisible hand, and the golden hourglasses attached to them flew rapidly towards the top of the floor.
"It's a success!"
But before Hermione could even smile, the spell's effect was abruptly reversed.
The Summoning Charm turned into a Departure Charm, and the Time-Turner returned to its shelf. However, Hermione, who had cast the spell, was dragged by her own power and unexpectedly pulled into the Time Chamber.
"Oh no!" The entropy curse is still in effect!
It seems that only the circular hall in the eye of the storm is safe; casting spells in other rooms will cause backlash!
But now that she knew it was too late, realizing the danger, she immediately severed the power of the spell and tried to retreat back to the rotunda as quickly as possible.
But the moment she entered the Time Hall, she seemed to be captured by a chaotic, strange force.
She began to fall uncontrollably, rapidly sliding towards the courtroom below.
The power of the Great Order Rune was activated instantly, forcibly fixing her in mid-air and creating an irresistible outward thrust.
She turned around in mid-air and saw that Adam's movements became extremely rapid.
A row of small missiles was launched from his shoulder, but as they flew toward him, they began to slow down, becoming extremely slow.
They exploded one by one, forming shockwaves that were powerful but without flames, as if the boy was trying to blast Hermione back in this way.
But it seemed to have failed. That strange spatial force affected everything that entered the place equally. The shock bombs exploded slowly, softer than goose feathers, and were even twisted into long, curved gas strips by the suction, falling towards the floor together.
Hermione, although the power of the Order Rune successfully immobilized her and pushed her away for a moment, only for a moment.
After all, she was only half a Great Rune, and she was born from the order of human society. At this moment, the laws of order could not shake the power of time.
The runes made of delicate rainbow threads collapsed after holding on for a moment, and Hermione still fell unstoppably into the lower courtroom!