Nightmare Prophecy

Chapter 041

"Let's try it..."

Li Mu took out a Time Turner and gently turned the hourglass in the middle.

He instantly felt himself hurtling backward at breakneck speed. Soon, he was back an hour earlier. At this time, his past self had not yet arrived at the Ministry of Magic. He stood in the Chamber of Time within the Department of Mysteries, cast an Illusionary Body Curse on himself, and stood silently in a corner, waiting.

After more than half an hour, he saw another version of himself appear.

But this him was not his real, living self. He couldn't feel the Origin HuoZhong of this other him at all.

The Anchor of Fantasy locked onto this world based on the stories and settings he had added, and then it self-corrected and deduced.

However, the movie Harry Potter itself had inconsistencies regarding the Time Turner. Therefore, the Time Turner in his hand, after self-correction by the world, was different from the one in the movie. It couldn't truly change the past; it could only enter a Mirror World to return to the past.

The Mirror World here wasn't real but a phantom reflection of the real world.

Furthermore, the scope of the Mirror World wasn't the entire world, but only within a radius of one thousand meters around the Time Turner's holder.

If the Time Turner could truly reverse time and return to the past, influence the past, and then easily return to the future, just like in the movie, then the Fantasy Coordinate of this world would absolutely not be materialized with such a small amount of Spark Energy.

The consumption for the Fantasy Conversion of the Time Turner would surely be far more than one hundred thousand cards of HuoZhong Source Power.

Such a treasure that could truly return to the past would, conservatively speaking, require at least an orange or even red quality treasure.

Although he could only return to the Mirror World of the past, only observe, and not make any changes.

This did not mean the Time Turner was worthless. Firstly, he could know what happened in the past through the Mirror World. Secondly, five hours in the Mirror World equated to only an instant in reality. This was equivalent to gaining an extra five hours in life every time he used the Time Turner.

Normally, a Time Turner could be activated once a day.

Gaining an extra five hours every day meant gaining an additional 76 days per year for enjoyment and cultivation. If a boss obtained this, they could make their employees work year-round without a break while giving them an additional 76 days of Holiday.

Li Mu turned the hourglass of the metallic timer. The time around him suddenly accelerated, and he instantly detached from the Mirror World.

Leaving the Ministry of Magic, Li Mu began to Apparate all over the world.

Of the seventeen Alien Races he had selected in total, fifteen had accurate information. For these gregarious Alien Races, as long as he found one, he could locate their lairs through Legilimency, and then a few Super Fierce Fire Curses could wipe out an entire Alien Race.

Only for Vampires and Treants was the information collected by the Ministry of Magic inaccurate, with only a few individuals discovered.

Even so, after a day like this, the HuoZhong Source Power he had accumulated, along with his original amount, reached 2995 cards.

This was more than enough to convert into a Kindling Tome and a Human Skin Mask, and in a few days, it would be sufficient to improve his overall strength.

By then, he wouldn't just be invincible in one-on-one combat, but truly capable of sweeping away all Wizards.

Returning to the Ministry of Magic, Li Mu began to sort through the Magic Books handed over by the Ministry of Magic and various magical families, while simultaneously deepening his control over Magic Power through the Polymorph Spell. He needed to filter out the Magic Knowledge he had already mastered and then re-copy the unmastered Magic Knowledge into Kindling Tomes.

As he read, Li Mu discovered some books about Divination.

Divination truly existed in this world, but its accuracy was quite low. Roughly one out of ten predictions might succeed, and very few wizards throughout history had mastered it. They all came from a handful of specific families.

The ancestors of these families had fused bloodlines from Magical Creatures skilled in prophecy.

This was why they inherited the ability to predict the future. However, as generations passed and their bloodlines thinned, their prophetic powers grew weaker. Even more tragically, the Magical Creatures capable of prophecy were all slaughtered by the Dragonblood Knights during their rise.

Nevertheless, within the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, a damaged magical artifact with prophetic effects lay hidden.

Even though it was broken, it could still perform a certain degree of divination.

While most of these predictions were wrong, they still held some research value.

Li Mu knew that the Department of Mysteries had a Divination Hall, but it wasn't detailed in novels or movies. If he hadn't been looking through these materials today, he might have missed the magical artifact with prophetic effects in the Divination Hall.

Half an hour later, Li Mu returned from the Divination Hall of the Department of Mysteries.

He carefully examined the magical artifact in his hands. It was a hollow crystal ball, about the size of his palm, filled with a pale blue liquid. Inside the liquid, a silvery-white crystal, about the size of a ping-pong ball, emitted a faint glow.

No one knew its origin, nor who had made it.

According to over a hundred years of research by the Ministry of Magic, this crystal ball could induce dreams. In these dreams, one could see fragmented memories, some appearing real and others illusory. These memories might just be fanciful dreams, but they could also be genuine prophecies.

On the surface, the crystal ball appeared intact.

However, looking from the inside, the silvery-white crystal within the liquid had many cracks.

The Sacrifice Seed had no reaction to it, so the only thing he could rely on was the Anchor of Fantasy.

Locking onto conversion required one thousand cards of HuoZhong Source Power.

Li Mu felt a pang of heartache but ultimately decided to convert this divination crystal ball into a Spark Creation.

In an instant, the conversion targeting the crystal ball was complete.

[Nightmare Crystal Ball: Spark Artifact]
[Quality: Purple Heaven Grade]
[Effect: Inject mental power into the Nightmare Crystal Ball, consuming ten cards of HuoZhong Source Power to see one's own misfortune and death in dreams. Prophecy accuracy increases for Extraordinary Level LV10 and below, decreases for Extraordinary Level LV10 and above, and loses prophetic effect for Extraordinary Level LV20 and above.]
[Hint: The more powerful the world, the worse the prophetic effect.]

"I can see misfortune and death?"

Li Mu held the Nightmare Crystal Ball, a mix of surprise and joy washing over him.

Although it would be useless at Extraordinary Level LV20, its effect in the early stages was significant. Ten cards of HuoZhong Source Power was not a small amount, but he temporarily unmerged the Origin HuoZhong and the Elf Wizard Robe, and instead merged with the Nightmare Crystal Ball, injecting his mental power.

Li Mu instantly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep. It took him over half an hour to wake up, drenched in a cold sweat.

He had experienced a nightmare. The mad Nicolas Flamel, seeking revenge for his wife who died in a nuclear blast, had personally initiated a global nuclear war. Although Nicolas Flamel ultimately died at his hands, the ensuing nuclear war had already destroyed more than half the world.

"Nicolas Flamel..."

Li Mu put away the Nightmare Crystal Ball, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

They say the poor fear the aggressive, the aggressive fear the reckless, the reckless fear those who don't care about their lives, and those who don't care about their lives fear the insane. Nicolas Flamel had gone completely insane. It seemed he had to find a way to send Nicolas Flamel to meet God.