Origins of Wizards

"Thank you very much for teaching me a lesson today."

Li Mu bent at the waist and sincerely bowed to the Hook-nosed Wizard lying on the ground.

He had hyperthymesia. He would never make the same mistake twice.

The next time he encountered an enemy, even if that enemy had surrendered, he would first thoroughly strip them of all ability to resist before interrogating them. This time, he had faced a Wizard of little strength, which was why he had been able to dodge that spell instantly.

Had it been one of those truly powerful Wizards, the one standing here today might not have been him.

Li Mu crouched down and turned the Hook-nosed Wizard onto his back, aiming Frostfire Rose's barrel at his mouth.

The red-and-blue Spark Energy surged directly into his mouth, instantly freezing the Hook-nosed Wizard's oral cavity.

With his mouth frozen, bright red blood trickled from his nostrils and eyes.

With a wave of his hand, Li Mu placed the lifeless Hook-nosed Wizard into the Supply Bay.

As payment for teaching him that lesson, this Wizard's body would serve as teaching material for Li Mu to study Wizards.

Though it was his first time seeing blood, Li Mu felt no discomfort.

Picking up the fruit, Li Mu walked toward the Small Town's station.

Although the death of a reclusive Wizard was unlikely to cause trouble, there was no point in staying here. His destination was Britain's capital, where he could truly come into contact with this world's Wizarding World.

Although the Deep Space Radar had gathered intelligence, the internet was still underdeveloped in this 1990 timeline.

Not to mention that the Wizarding World rejected Human Civilization's technology, leaving even less detailed information about it available.

Therefore, he needed to enter the Wizarding World to obtain sufficient intelligence and carry out his subsequent plans.

A few days later, he had already made a circuit around London.

He had seen Hermione, one of the original trio, and Harry Potter, the original story's protagonist. Neither had yet reached the age to enter the Wizard school Hogwarts and learn magic. The story that had originally belonged to them was destined to become unrecognizable.

As the Captain of a Seedship, conquering the Human Civilization of other worlds and destroying Alien Race civilizations was an inescapable destiny.

In less than two years, people would probably call him the Third Generation Dark Lord.

On a London street, in a hotel near the rundown Leaky Cauldron Pub.

Inside the hotel room, Li Mu entered the Phoenix through his spiritual consciousness.

Although the Phoenix had become a first-generation ship after Nirvana, it still possessed the most basic facilities it ought to have: a Rest Bay, Supply Bay, Medical Bay, and other fundamental ship compartments. Even the most basic among them contained terrifyingly advanced technology.

Over the past few days, the Shipborne Optical Computer had dissected the Hook-nosed Wizard through the Medical Bay.

Inside the Medical Bay, Li Mu called up the Shipborne Optical Computer's findings from the past few days.

Just as he had expected, compared with the genes of ordinary humans in this world, the Hook-nosed Wizard's genes contained a considerable amount of genetic material that did not belong to humans. There was a ninety percent chance that these nonhuman genes were the difference between Wizards and Muggles.

The Anchor of Fantasy generated Fantasy Coordinates based on the fantasy stories he entered.

Yet those stories themselves had been created by human imagination.

According to the worldview of the Spark World, infinite parallel universes existed across spacetime dimensions.

The Blue Star where he had lived before traveling to the Spark World was very likely one of those parallel universes.

That made him wonder: did the magical world he was now in already exist, with an author on Blue Star in his previous life merely receiving information about this world from a parallel universe and creating it? Or had someone imagined this world into existence, causing it to be born?

Out of confusion and curiosity, he had added some Secondary Setting when generating this world's Fantasy Coordinate.

For example, the original worldview of this world had never clearly explained the origins of Wizards.

But in the setting he added, Wizards had gained control of Magic Power because the earliest humans had fused with the bloodlines of Magical Creatures.

This was undoubtedly a Secondary Setting for this world. He did not know whether his setting would affect the world located by the Fantasy Coordinate. If this world's Wizards truly possessed Magical Creature bloodlines because of his added setting, the implications would be enormous.

The first major implication was that the Fantasy Coordinate might have changed this world.

Or perhaps this world had never existed at all, and the Anchor of Fantasy's power had created it.

The second major implication was that he could add Secondary Setting to the Fantasy Worlds he traveled to in ways beneficial to himself.

The Shipborne Optical Computer's findings had now confirmed that Wizards possessed nonhuman genes.

Next, he only needed to determine whether those nonhuman genes truly came from Magical Creatures rather than mutations in human genes. If so, it would prove that the Secondary Setting he added when generating the Fantasy Coordinate had succeeded. This would be of immeasurable help when he traveled to other Fantasy Worlds in the future.

To compare genes, he first needed enough Magical Creature samples to analyze their genes.

That was why he had chosen to live near the Leaky Cauldron Pub. It was the transit point leading to Diagon Alley, the largest market in Britain's Wizarding World. Although normally only Wizards could enter, some non-Pureblood Wizards born into Muggle society would also enter Diagon Alley accompanied by their Muggle parents.

He did not have a young Wizard child, but he had other ways of getting in.

To buy things, he needed money. Ordinary people's Pound Sterling was difficult to exchange there for the Wizarding World's currency, Gold Galleons.

Li Mu took out a palm-sized pouch containing the Hook-nosed Wizard's entire fortune.

Though the pouch looked tiny, its interior was as large as a suitcase.

This was a Magic Item whose internal capacity had been expanded with the Vanishment Charm. The highest-level Vanishment Charm could even expand a suitcase's interior space until it was comparable to a small island. This was also an important reason why he had chosen this world.

Compared to a Spatial Spark, items whose space had been expanded by the Vanishment Charm were actually far inferior.

But Spatial Sparks were scarce and precious, while the Vanishment Charm was equivalent to a low-end version of spatial items.

Just by selling such items, he could make a fortune.

Opening the pouch, Li Mu took out a wand, several sets of clothes, a pile of Pound Sterling, and over a hundred Gold Galleons. Finally, there were quite a few Wizarding World snack Chocolate Frog collectible cards, each featuring introductions to famous witches and Wizards from the Wizarding World.

Last were a ring and a bottle of potion. The potion gave him a very bad feeling, so he did not open it.

As for the ring's purpose, it was used to cast that Red Fire Spell.

"Now comes the moment to witness a miracle..."

Li Mu picked up the eleven-inch wand and began drawing upon the Anchor of Fantasy's power to turn it into a Spark Artifact.

Sixty-nine Dementors had brought him a total of 75 points of HuoZhong Source Power.

He did not know how much it would ultimately cost to use Fantasy Conversion once. Although the Anchor of Fantasy could convert non-Spark Treasures into Spark Treasures, the Spark Treasures it produced could not be further strengthened. If the cost was too great, it would not be worth it. But if the cost was acceptable, then this would be a miracle.