"Even now, there is only a single step between us, but on the timescale of attoseconds, that step is an unbridgeable chasm even light cannot cross."
"To Muggles, wizards' magic seems miraculous, but it is still imaginable. Yet what Muggle technology can achieve is simply beyond anything wizards can imagine."
"They can manipulate a single atom, even a single electron. Their precision is like carving a model of a city onto the tip of a needle, like a cosmic giant whose eyeball is as large as this planet performing an amputation on the ant in my hand."
As Murphy spoke, he held out his hand and let an ant crawl onto his palm from the ground, then presented it to the Empress.
"At such a minute scale of observation, magical disturbances will no longer be able to remain hidden."
"The exposure of magic is inevitable."
"If we maintain the current state of affairs, Muggles will inevitably discover wizards within fifty years."
The Empress looked at the ant in Murphy's hand and imagined a giant with planet-sized eyeballs, holding a tiny scalpel shorter than her finger in a hand immense enough to cradle hundreds or thousands of worlds, performing surgery on an ant.
The extreme contrast between vastness and minuteness made her dizzy for a moment, but it also made her understand what Murphy meant.
If Muggles truly could accomplish such things, then it was indeed something she found impossible even to imagine.
"The collapse of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy is only a matter of time. In fact, signs of this trend have already emerged. The reason we are establishing contact with the leaders of Muggle society is that we can no longer completely conceal the existence of the wizarding world by ourselves."
"The exponential development of technology is