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Murphy and Sophia walked through Arkaim as he explained his plan to counter the International Confederation of Wizards by founding a Wizard Alliance. The chapter ended with Murphy inviting Arkaim to become a co-founder.

• Murphy and Sophia walked down from the sacred mountain to explore Arkaim, while Sophia worried about sunlight and Murphy teased her about her covered-up outfit.
• Sophia asked whether Murphy feared that wizards would sabotage his Muggle industries, and Murphy said he would prevent them from uniting under the International Confederation of Wizards.
• Murphy explained that the Statute of Secrecy was weakening and that other wizards might follow his path if given guidance and benefits.
• Murphy announced that he planned to establish a Wizard Alliance, offering wizards wealth and status under rules he would set.
• Sophia asked whether Arkaim could join the alliance, and Murphy said it would naturally be a co-founder.

Harry grieved Sirius’s death and read a letter revealing Sirius’s plans to spend time with him. As Harry desperately wished to see Sirius again, a voice offered him a way forward: surrender his soul.

• At Sirius’s funeral, Dumbledore told McGonagall that the Order of the Phoenix had disbanded and that he no longer knew what was right.
• Harry returned to Sirius’s cottage and struggled to understand Sirius’s death and his role in fighting Murphy’s forces.
• After his friends left, Harry cleaned Sirius’s room and found a letter inviting him to travel with Sirius and Lupin.
• Harry wept over Sirius’s letter and wished he could see him again.
• A voice in Harry’s heart told him to surrender his soul.

After Patrick became prime minister, he imposed a new constitution, expanded public spending, and allied Britain with the Soviet Union while Murphy pushed to strengthen their position before magic became widely known. Murphy revealed that the threat of gods was driving his urgency and proposed military research funded by higher taxes, including taxes on Umbrella.

• Patrick’s People's Livelihood Party won 80 percent of Parliament’s seats, and Patrick became prime minister.
• With Murphy’s help, Patrick drafted a constitution that established the People's Livelihood Party as Britain’s sole ruling party and limited Parliament’s power; he imposed wartime controls as opposition grew.
• Patrick’s government increased investment in public services and taxed the wealthiest Britons, while Britain formed an alliance with the Soviet Union.
• Murphy told Patrick that magic would soon attract competitors and that destroying the Statute of Secrecy could bring the gods, so he wanted to prepare quickly.
• Murphy urged Patrick to launch military technology projects and raise taxes on Umbrella and other high-profit industries; Patrick agreed.

Lucas reported that the Prima Materia had been recovered from a pearl in the Merman King's crown, and Murphy's researchers found that its core was liquid blood with extraordinary magical properties. Murphy suspected it was divine blood and asked Severus Snape to make the Philosopher's Stone, which Snape said would take one day.

• Lucas told Murphy that his team obtained the rainbow-colored pearl by helping the elder merman prince seize the throne, then killing him after he betrayed them and receiving the pearl from the younger prince.
• Murphy used Prima Materia Reveal to confirm the pearl was the core material needed to create a Philosopher's Stone.
• Hordan reported that the pearl's core was liquid blood that regenerated magical energy, and that its protective layers helped preserve it.
• Murphy suspected the blood came from an extinct god and ordered that the Philosopher's Stone be made before the material decayed.
• Murphy summoned Severus Snape, who examined the pearl and said he could make the Philosopher's Stone in one day.

Murphy used Philosopher’s Stones to power magical technology and launched a rapidly expanding network of magical detection satellites. By May 1995, he ordered Lucas to search the globe for the Holy Mother’s magical signature.

• Severus Snape explained that Murphy’s first Philosopher’s Stone generated six hundred Haber of magical power per second, and Murphy used it to build a large-scale magical power source.
• Murphy launched a project to equip satellites with magical detection radar and develop them as communication relays and potential spell amplifiers.
• Scientists discovered more primordial matter and found that much of it was biological tissue whose magic quickly faded outside its protection, so Murphy preserved it in small Philosopher’s Stones.
• Murphy’s satellite program accelerated after Soviet wizards and aerospace scientists adapted spells for rockets, including the Undetectable Extension Charm, which greatly increased payload capacity.
• The United States feared that the Soviet Union was putting its Star Wars defense concept into practice as it launched hundreds of satellites at a time.
• By May, Murphy had more than three hundred satellites in low orbit and told Lucas to search the Starlink Satellite Network for the Holy Mother’s magical signature.

Lucas and Murphy used magical satellites to repeatedly strike the Holy Mother, weakening it until its defeat seemed inevitable. At Göbekli Tepe, Dumbledore and Grindelwald encountered signs of ancient magic before the Holy Mother confronted them, and Dumbledore refused to help it.

• Lucas and Murphy tracked the Holy Mother with satellite scans and attacked it with annihilating magic until its strength fell to thirty percent.
• Grindelwald and Dumbledore visited Göbekli Tepe, where Dumbledore sensed traces of magic resembling the Holy Mother's.
• A woman carrying a portrait approached Dumbledore and Grindelwald, who vanished to avoid confronting her.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald found the Holy Mother waiting at their restaurant table in the form of a grimy, one-handed old man.
• Dumbledore told the Holy Mother he would not agree to its request and asked it to leave.

The Holy Mother warned Dumbledore that Hogwarts was the last chance to stop it before its signal vanished. Dumbledore returned the Philosopher’s Stone to Murphy and joined him at Hogwarts, where they saw the castle shrouded in mist.

• The Holy Mother urged Dumbledore to go to Hogwarts, but its portrait caught fire and the vagrant collapsed before he could explain further.
• Dumbledore decided to warn Murphy and returned the Philosopher’s Stone, while Grindelwald cautioned him that the Holy Mother might be using him as a shield.
• Murphy learned from Dumbledore’s letter that the Holy Mother might have set a trap at Hogwarts, and discovered that the Lightning Ravens there had been hacked.
• Murphy contacted Dumbledore through a Lightning Raven, and they agreed to investigate Hogwarts together, with Murphy insisting that Dumbledore not interfere with killing the Holy Mother.
• Murphy and Lucas arrived beside the Black Lake, where Grindelwald pointed out that Hogwarts Castle appeared veiled in mist.

Murphy and Lucas entered Hogwarts through Spirit World Fog and encountered visions of the school's past and present, including a terrified Katie Bell who said the Chamber of Secrets had been opened. The chapter left Murphy questioning whether the fog and the disappearances had anything to do with Holy Mother.

• Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Murphy, and Lucas reached Hogwarts through the Spirit World Fog, which grew denser inside the castle.
• Murphy and Lucas saw ghostlike students, including young Sirius and James, and then witnessed Tom Riddle being sorted into Slytherin.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald vanished, and Murphy found himself inside the entrance hall with Lucas.
• Murphy found Katie Bell, who said Graham was dead and warned that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened.
• Murphy overheard professors discussing missing students, hypnotized students, and an ancient ritual embedded in the castle.
• Murphy wondered how the fog could have descended three days earlier if Holy Mother had only arrived at Hogwarts that afternoon.

Murphy and Lucas investigated the fog sealing Hogwarts, where time and space had become distorted and Snape encountered a vision of Lily. After Murphy killed an eighteen-year-old Tom Riddle, they reached the Chamber of Secrets and found another Voldemort inhabiting Harry Potter.

• Murphy and Lucas found that the Great Hall’s doors had vanished, and Murphy led the way toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• Murphy encountered Severus Snape watching a past version of Lily, and Snape explained that the fog had appeared while he was making an antidote.
• Murphy concluded that Hogwarts had become connected to the past and took Snape toward the Chamber of Secrets.
• A Killing Curse emerged from the fog, but Murphy’s Lightning Raven blocked it, revealing an eighteen-year-old Tom Riddle behind the spell.
• Murphy killed Tom Riddle, then Lucas opened the Chamber of Secrets with Parseltongue.
• Murphy found Harry Potter in the Chamber, where Harry greeted him as another Voldemort.

Voldemort explained how he had influenced Harry Potter through a fragment of his soul and taken control of him after Sirius died. He left Lucas and Murphy facing a fully resurrected Voldemort in Harry’s body.

• Lucas and Murphy recognized Voldemort’s presence in Harry, and Lucas blamed himself for Harry’s suffering.
• Voldemort revealed that after losing his body, he found and consumed the soul fragment inside Harry, then gradually influenced him.
• Voldemort said he had guided Harry toward Dark magic and Horcruxes, but Harry’s conscience repeatedly resisted killing.
• After Sirius died, Voldemort promised Harry he could resurrect him, and Harry opened himself to Voldemort’s control.
• Voldemort declared that he had returned to life in Harry’s body and would become more powerful than before.

Murphy, Lucas, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald confronted Harry and multiple Tom Riddles in the Chamber of Secrets, where Voldemort unleashed a Basilisk he had made into a Horcrux. The fighting reached a stalemate until Harry approached Salazar Slytherin’s statue and announced that the sacrifices were ready for his resurrection.

• Murphy warned Dumbledore that Voldemort controlled Harry, as a second Tom Riddle appeared and attacked.
• Harry summoned a Basilisk from the pool, forcing everyone to avert their eyes to avoid its lethal gaze.
• Murphy resisted the Basilisk’s petrification and realized Voldemort had made it a Horcrux, rendering ordinary spells ineffective.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald fought the Voldemorts while Murphy used Lightning Ravens to share vision with Lucas, who tried to hinder the Basilisk with Parseltongue.
• Harry went to Salazar Slytherin’s statue and declared that the sacrifices were ready for Slytherin’s resurrection.

Murphy discovered that the Chamber of Secrets had overlapped with the Spirit World, revealing captured students whose life force Voldemort was using to resurrect Salazar Slytherin. After exposing an impostor disguised as Dumbledore, Murphy reached the true Chamber of Secrets, where Harry awaited him.

• The stone statue split open, releasing thick fog that revealed over a hundred unconscious students suspended in snakes and a clay coffin at the statue’s center.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald suspected a sacrifice ritual, while Murphy realized that the students and Chamber of Secrets had been drawn into the Spirit World.
• Murphy encountered an eighteen-year-old Tom and heard Lucas cry out through their disrupted mind network, then evaded the basilisk in the fog.
• Murphy recognized that the Dumbledore who approached him was an impostor and attacked him with a shotgun and fire axe, but the impostor vanished in a pool of blood.
• Murphy used lightning to reach a space above the fog and found Harry standing in the true Chamber of Secrets, where the students’ magic flowed through a ritual formation.

Voldemort revealed his plan to resurrect Slytherin as a Horcrux and use the returned soul to break through the wizarding power ceiling. Murphy freed Lucas just as Slytherin began to awaken, and he sensed the Holy Mother's aura.

• Murphy found Lucas bound in Voldemort's ritual circle and saw Slytherin's corpse being restored as a passage to the Spirit World opened.
• Voldemort explained that he planned to merge his soul fragments with Slytherin's returning soul to overcome the limits on magical power.
• Murphy realized Lucas and the students were in danger, then freed Lucas with the help of a Lightning Raven.
• Harry raised his wand to attack Murphy, but a withered hand emerged from the coffin and Murphy sensed the Holy Mother's aura.

Murphy found the Holy Mother hidden in Slytherin's Locket, but before he could attack it, the Black Ship appeared and used a Soul Anchor to drag Slytherin and Voldemort toward the Abyss. Dumbledore and Grindelwald arrived as the students' souls began to be pulled free, and Dumbledore urged them to destroy the hexagram array.

• Voldemort activated the hexagram array and began assimilating Slytherin's magic through the Horcrux embedded in his soul.
• Murphy searched for the Holy Mother and discovered it was hiding inside Slytherin's Locket.
• The Holy Mother emerged from the locket and began chanting, but Murphy's spell only flipped the locket open before Voldemort attacked him.
• A Black Ship appeared, harpooned Slytherin, and dragged his soul and Voldemort toward the Abyss passage, pulling at the students' souls as well.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald entered, and Dumbledore identified the chain as a Soul Anchor and said destroying the array would free the students.

Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Murphy halted the students’ pull into the Spirit World, but the Black Ship turned its chains on Murphy. Murphy used an enchanted portrait to send the Holy Mother into the ship, killing her as the Chamber of Secrets remained trapped in the Spirit World.

• Dumbledore and Grindelwald used their magic and the Soul Anchor to hold back the Black Ship and keep the students’ souls from being pulled away.
• Murphy severed the magical bond linking the students to the array, returning their souls to their bodies and allowing the Black Ship to drag Voldemort and his Horcrux soul fragment into the void.
• A chain from the Black Ship pursued Murphy through the Chamber of Secrets, while Dumbledore explained that Morgan’s Ship took oath-breakers to the Otherworld.
• Murphy animated a drawing of the Holy Mother and threw it toward the pursuing chain, which entered the portrait and dragged the Holy Mother into the Black Ship.
• Statues of Our Lady around the world burned to ashes, marking the Holy Mother’s death.

The Holy Mother’s origin and purpose as a portrait-bound restraint on wizards were revealed before she returned from the Spirit World, where the old man told her the trial was complete. After the Chamber of Secrets collapsed, Murphy stopped Dumbledore from sacrificing himself to save the unconscious students and suggested that his despair was retirement syndrome.

• A poet asked his teacher why a resentful blind painter had portrayed the gods with compassion, and the teacher explained that the painter understood suffering and pitied those trapped in it.
• Wizards explained that they had chosen the Holy Mother’s portrait to enforce their oath, trusting the painter’s compassion to keep her from enslaving humanity if she gained consciousness.
• The Holy Mother returned to the riverside and told the old man she had failed, but he said she had completed her mission and the real adventure was beginning.
• The ritual passage closed, and Dumbledore, Murphy, and Grindelwald rescued the unconscious students as the Chamber of Secrets collapsed into the real world.
• Murphy stopped Dumbledore from transferring his magic to the students, gave Snape a Philosopher’s Stone to brew restorative potions, and challenged Dumbledore’s wish to die.
• Dumbledore said he no longer fit into Murphy’s future and feared becoming an obstacle, while Murphy suggested he was suffering from retirement syndrome and needed to find a new purpose.

Murphy stopped Dumbledore from sacrificing himself and instead used the Watchmen to help save the unconscious students. Dumbledore woke to find Murphy had made him vice president of the Wizard Alliance, while Grindelwald took him to persuade the French Ministry to join as Murphy gathered allies and pursued his plans.

• Dumbledore told Murphy he wanted to die saving the students, and Murphy petrified him and pulled him away from the magic circle.
• Murphy summoned the Watchmen and linked their magic to the students so they could help save them.
• Dumbledore awoke in an enlarged carriage with Grindelwald and learned that Murphy had announced him as the Wizard Alliance’s vice president.
• Dumbledore read headlines claiming he had withdrawn his accusations against Murphy and supported the Alliance’s constitution and policies.
• Grindelwald said he and Dumbledore were heading to the French Ministry to recruit allies, while Murphy planned to wage war against France if peaceful negotiations failed.

After Voldemort’s attack left hundreds of Hogwarts students injured, Mercy Wizarding Hospital treated them while officials kept Harry’s name out of reports. His friends grieved and blamed themselves for failing to notice his pain, and Lucius Malfoy decided to leave school to pursue power and learn what had happened.

• Rita Skeeter interviewed Director Ferud, who reported that eighteen students had died and described their soul injuries and magical depletion.
• Ferud condemned the Holy Mother after hearing that the Statue of Our Lady had spontaneously combusted and that the figure had allied with Voldemort.
• Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy discussed whether Harry had been controlled, while Ron Weasley defended Harry and broke down over his death.
• Hermione, Ron, Cho Chang, and Lucius Malfoy admitted they had failed to recognize Harry’s suffering and regretted their jealousy and distance.
• Lucius Malfoy announced that he planned to leave school and join Professor Murphy’s new department to gain power and uncover the truth.

Murphy arranged to relocate Hogwarts’ students and professors to Umbrella Special Skills Vocational School while keeping secrecy measures in place, then assessed the Wizard Alliance’s efforts to win support from France and Germany. At home, he organized priorities for preparing humanity against the gods and decided to pursue mechanical ascension to strengthen himself.

• Murphy approved moving Hogwarts’ students and professors to Umbrella Special Skills Vocational School, viewing Hogwarts as too dangerous and better suited to research.
• Rasim reported that France remained resentful and difficult to persuade, while German officials showed interest in joining the Wizard Alliance because of Grindelwald’s reputation.
• Murphy listed what he knew and did not know about the gods and the Covenant, concluding that he needed more information before preparing humanity for a possible invasion.
• Murphy identified unifying human strength, developing technology, preparing for war, and improving his personal strength as priorities.
• Murphy decided to pursue mechanical ascension using the Soviet Union’s National Science and Technology City central computer room.

Murphy toured the Soviet Union’s Void Particle Research Institute and learned about its research divisions and enchanted technology. At the Magical Energy Fertilizer Research Institute, he discovered that researchers had identified Mooncalf dung’s growth-promoting component but could not produce the fertilizer at scale because the process consumed too much scarce magical energy.

• Murphy toured the underground Void Particle Research Institute with Barty Crouch Jr. and a military guide.
• Murphy reviewed the institute’s research departments and chose to visit the Magical Energy Fertilizer Research Institute’s Mooncalf dung project.
• The guide explained the institute’s elevator enchantments and the unresolved difficulty of connecting it to the Floo Network.
• Director Trofim Vavilov told Murphy that his team had identified the fertilizer’s key component and developed an industrial process.
• Trofim explained that mass production remained impractical because it consumed several times more magical energy than producing magical energy steel, and the lab lacked sufficient supplies.

Murphy toured several research institutes and found that magical energy shortages were blocking projects across nearly every field. After learning that existing sources and discovery methods could not meet demand, he was approached by a researcher offering an algorithm to optimize magical energy allocation.

• Murphy visited the Weather Magic Research Institute, where Molchanov Rosbe explained that weather control could guide storms and ocean currents, but accelerating Arctic shipping routes would require two thousand times the world's current magical-energy output.
• Murphy toured the Unlocking Charm, Portrait AI, Animated Objects, and Anti-Gravity research institutes and learned that magical energy limited their projects, including mathematical problem-solving and plans for flying cars.
• Murphy returned to the Aerospace Research Institute and learned that surface scans had found few useful primordial substances, while researchers were developing spectral analysis and sensitive passive detectors to locate more.
• Murphy concluded that he needed to consider alternative energy sources because discovering more primordial substances or increasing Philosopher's Stone output would be difficult.
• A researcher specializing in magical computers and cybernetics offered Murphy an algorithm to optimize magical-energy allocation in exchange for more support for magical-computer development, and Murphy agreed to discuss it on the way to the Central Supercomputer.

Murphy visited the National Supercomputing Center and learned how Pioneer could coordinate the distribution of magical power across laboratories and factories. Anton Sakharov argued that Pioneer's computing power could also make Glushkov's OGAS national economic system feasible, leaving Murphy to consider whether Cybertonia could become reality in this changed world.

• Anton Sakharov led Murphy through the National Supercomputing Center and described Pioneer's immense computing power and cooling limits.
• Anton explained how Pioneer could use real-time data to allocate magical power among factories and laboratories.
• Murphy recognized the system as cybernetics, and Anton revealed that the allocation algorithm was a miniature version of Glushkov's OGAS.
• Anton said Pioneer could remove OGAS's computing bottleneck and might help build Cybertonia.
• Murphy reflected that the world's changed circumstances could make Glushkov's once-impractical vision possible.

Murphy decided to revive the OGAS plan and use Pioneer to manage the Soviet Union’s economy and other systems. He turned Pioneer into a Horcrux, establishing a more stable connection between it and himself.

• Murphy asked Anton, Glushkov’s student, to prepare an OGAS proposal for him to submit when the opportunity arose.
• Murphy and Anton inspected Pioneer’s six enormous computer rooms and discussed the supercomputer’s near-limit computing capacity.
• Murphy connected himself to a magical energy plant and ordered everyone to leave before beginning the Horcrux ritual.
• Murphy split off a fragment of his soul and transferred it into Pioneer’s core cabinet.
• Murphy used Magic Devouring to form a stronger, two-way connection with Pioneer and viewed himself from the Horcrux’s perspective.

Murphy used Pioneer's expanded network to appear to Patrick in a holographic video call and presented him with a Soviet National Automation Plan. He explained that he intended to adapt it for Britain, leaving Patrick to consider a system that would inform economic choices while keeping critical industries under state control.

• The national laboratory integrated an AI into Pioneer, expanded its network and equipment, and gave Murphy far greater reach and computing power.
• Murphy appeared beside Patrick during a meeting at 10 Downing Street and urged him to fire defense secretary Durendo, whom Patrick dismissed.
• Murphy explained that Patrick was seeing a holographic call that simulated his presence by using neural signals in Patrick's brain.
• Murphy showed Patrick a virtual copy of the Soviet Union's National Automation Plan and said he planned to adopt and expand its ideas.
• Murphy told Patrick he would preserve a role for capitalism, open some industries to private enterprise, retain state control of critical sectors, and use the plan chiefly as an information platform.

Murphy explained his plans to use the OGAS system and nationwide data access to reshape Soviet governance and reduce information barriers, while keeping control of the system himself. He revealed that he wanted to unify the world to prepare for a terrifying enemy, and invited Patrick to inspect Umbrella Industries’ new weapons.

• Murphy told Patrick he would make market information widely accessible while using the OGAS system to replace most bureaucratic positions of power.
• Murphy said he would connect Soviet devices and machinery to the national mainframe, giving himself access to information while protecting people’s privacy from everyone else.
• Patrick supported Murphy’s plans and discussed his hopes to become president after a second constitutional amendment, while Murphy said the transition would take years.
• Murphy hinted that a world war might create an opportunity, then told Patrick that a terrifying enemy would require the world to unite.
• Patrick realized Murphy intended to unite the world, and Murphy invited him to see weapons developed by Umbrella Industries’ military department.