The Supporting System

Nina and Dubov's concerns gave Charles pause, making him realize that although he could take any risk in exploring the nature of magic, he couldn't ask others to take the same risks.

Moreover, according to plan, there would be many more experiments like this to come.

An absolutely safe, secluded, and undisturbed working environment had become an urgent necessity.

Fortunately, Charles wasn't entirely unprepared for this. Like a crafty rabbit with three burrows, he had begun making plans for this long ago.

Last year, he had made Harry and Hermione a promise—if they could achieve perfect scores on their Ordinary Wizarding Levels exams, he would give each of them a castle.

At the time, it had sounded like a wild fantasy, but everyone believed that, for him, it wasn't completely out of reach.

In fact, he had long since stopped being satisfied with Farbaton Castle. The plan to establish subsidiary bases had been brewing in his mind for a long time, and several Disaster Preparedness Centers had been built as practice.

In addition, he had a precision manufacturing plant operating normally beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, maintained by Magic Dolls. All the doll bodies he sold were produced there.

He also had two grander—and crazier—ideas in mind.

The first was to establish an experimental base inside the lava tunnels of an extinct lunar volcano. Shielded from the universe's dangerous radiation, it would be possible to build a base far from Earth's troubles with the aid of a Magic Barrier and an internal ecological circulation system.

In theory, with the magic currently available, this wasn't impossible.

In practice, however, it involved a series of complex problems, including ultra-long-distance teleportation, resource supplies, and how to maintain the stability of complex magic arrays in near-vacuum conditions and extreme temperatures. For now, the plan