Global Unification

Chapter 46

Li Mu was engulfed in flames, already transformed into a Black Phoenix.

He cast another LV10 Shrink Spell, reducing himself to the size of an ant, then layered an LV11 Illusionary Body Curse over it. Without making a sound, he landed on his double's shoulder. Only then did he use the Polymorph Spell to control his double and pick up the Philosopher's Stone from the desk.

He didn't teleport immediately. The Portkey on the stone wasn't triggered passively.

Li Mu channeled Magic Power through his double. An Alchemy Array hidden inside the Philosopher's Stone was immediately triggered remotely by Nicolas Flamel. The Portkey's power activated, sweeping both his double and his true self through space and depositing them in an underground cavern deep below the surface.

The instant the teleportation ended, the Anti-Apparition barrier inside the cavern activated.

Nicolas Flamel, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately clenched an apple in his hand and lifted the Polymorph Spell on it. The apple turned into a nuclear bomb. Its surface was covered in extraordinarily complex Alchemy Arrays, which accelerated the bomb's timer as soon as they activated.

A nuclear explosion that would normally take time to build up was suddenly one second away.

It was a matter of life and death. Nicolas Flamel had covered himself in five layers of Super Iron Skin Charms.

They were all Magic Barriers generated by enchanted items activating on their own. No spell could break through five layers of Super Iron Skin Charms in a single second.

The instant the countdown ended, dozens more nuclear weapons suddenly appeared beside Nicolas Flamel.

Using his Alchemy Magic Eye, he had instantly confirmed that the person before him was indeed the Phoenix City Lord's true self.

If he killed the Phoenix City Lord with a nuclear bomb, he wouldn't be able to get the HuoZhong Source Power inside him.

Without HuoZhong Source Power, the Philosopher's Stone couldn't be improved any further.

And if the Philosopher's Stone couldn't be improved, he would remain merely immortal, unable to attain Eternal Youth. His body, already aged to its limit, would never grow young again. Continuing to live would be nothing but torment, so he would rather die here alongside the Phoenix City Lord.

If he could see his enemy die before his eyes in his final moments, that would be enough.

With his vengeance fulfilled, he had no need to start a Nuclear War.

All the nuclear weapons he had collected over the past few days could be buried here with them.

Boom!

The underground cavern contained the mushroom cloud. In the confined space, Li Mu and Nicolas Flamel were instantly reduced to ash by the nuclear blast.

No one noticed that, in the final instant, the invisible Black Phoenix had stowed the Philosopher's Stone in the Supply Bay before casting Apparition. In Phoenix form, his LV12 Apparition was more than powerful enough to break through the cavern's LV10 Anti-Apparition barrier. He teleported to the surface with ease and escaped unharmed.

"What a waste..."

Li Mu sighed.

If Nicolas Flamel hadn't been wearing so many Super Iron Skin Charms, Li Mu would have had a chance to break through his defenses and control him with the Imperius Curse. He could even have turned those nuclear weapons into fruit with the Polymorph Spell. It was a real waste for an Alchemy Master to die like that.

After Apparating back to the Ministry of Magic, Li Mu entered the Phoenix through his mental avatar.

The Philosopher's Stone still had a Portkey on it. He didn't want to be sent back to that radiation-filled underground cavern, so the stone couldn't leave the Phoenix unless it had become a Spark Artifact and the Portkey's power had been completely purified.

Li Mu went to the Sacrifice Chamber and tossed the Philosopher's Stone toward the Sacrifice Seed without hesitation.

Like the Elder Wand and the Resurrection Stone, the Philosopher's Stone met the Sacrifice Seed's requirements.

The irregular red gem instantly became a regular, diamond-shaped crystal.

[Philosopher's Stone: Spark Artifact]

[Level: LV1]

[Quality: Blue, Heaven Grade]

[Attributes: By consuming Spark Energy, it can transform low-quality metals into high-quality metals. By consuming HuoZhong Source Power, it can generate Longevity Substance with no side effects. Limited by the Spark Artifact's enhancement level, the lowest-quality Longevity Substance can extend a natural lifespan by up to one hundred years]

[Tip: The grade of the transformed metal cannot exceed the enhancement level]

[Tip: Longevity Substance can only take effect once, regardless of quality]

[Enhancement Requirement: 1000 cards of HuoZhong Source Power]

"That's a little unexpected."

Li Mu murmured to himself.

Each person could use this Longevity Substance only once, so the later he used it, the better.

What he valued most right now was actually its ability to transform metals. Even in the Spark World, high-quality special metals were extremely precious. As long as he increased the Philosopher's Stone's enhancement level, he could get as much of that rare metal as he wanted.

In terms of pure value, the Philosopher's Stone was worth more than all his other gains combined.

Its quality was only Blue, Heaven Grade, but its value far exceeded its quality.

He had no use for it just yet, so Li Mu stored it away in the cockpit.

Now that the major threat of Nicolas Flamel had been dealt with, all that remained was to conquer the entire Wizarding World.

Half an hour later, Li Mu appeared in the French Ministry of Magic's Minister's Office.

Thanks to his LV11 Illusionary Body Curse, he went unnoticed even at close range.

His LV10 Imperius Curse took control of the Minister in an instant. Li Mu forced a Human Skin Mask onto him, and the Minister, under the Imperius Curse, immediately summoned several senior officials of the French Ministry of Magic, one by one. Every time someone entered, Li Mu hit them with the Imperius Curse.

Once all the senior officials were under the Imperius Curse, he used Legilimency to find where the nuclear weapons were stored.

After taking all the nuclear weapons, Li Mu immediately Apparated to other countries.

Before nightfall, he had used the Imperius Curse to control the senior officials of the Ministries of Magic around the world.

In just a few days, with the cooperation of senior officials in the Ministries of Magic around the world and a thousand Phoenix Apostles, the Wizarding Worlds of every country had fallen with almost no resistance. Wizards, accustomed to working alone, experienced for the first time the terrifying might of the Professional Wizard Army.

The Muggle World was even easier to conquer than the Wizarding World.

Wizards controlled the ruling class with the Imperius Curse, and they controlled military commanders as well. Ordinary people formed many resistance groups, but they were utterly powerless against the wizards' crackdown.

Legilimency exposed the membership lists of every secret resistance group.

Not a single resistance force escaped the Imperius Curse.

For the first time, the Wizarding World, which had existed in secret for centuries, openly appeared before the Muggles.

Wizards became the new ruling class. Some scientists famous around the world were even granted Wizard Potions and Elixirs of Life, becoming the first generation of wizards. It was easy to imagine that magic and technology would one day merge to create magical technology, enough to completely transform the development of civilization.

That day, Li Mu appeared in a stretch of primeval forest in Africa.

In just one month, the whole world had been transformed.

But the conquest wasn't over, because the world's last Resistance Force was still here.

Once this Resistance Force was gone, he could complete his mission to conquer Human Civilization in another world. He just didn't know how much HuoZhong Source Power Gaia would reward him with. That would determine whether he could truly pilot the Phoenix in the next world.