Vortex Black Hole
Skylar might be the only person in the world today who can understand the chaotic and seemingly random curves in the book "The Fifth Element".
He first encountered one of the most mysterious realms in the magical world—space magic—in Ravenclaw's Chamber through the book "The Secrets of Space."
Then, he personally came into contact with the Vanishing Cabinet. He even owned a pair that were fully functional, one in the Malfoy Manor and the other in the Suitcase Space.
When Skylar attempted to pass through the Vanishing Cabinet, he witnessed a secret within spatial magic, considered one of the top secrets of the Wizarding World —the Void Space.
As mentioned earlier, the so-called "Void Space" is actually a gap between spaces, where there is no light, no sound, and no flow of time. The so-called magical teleportation uses the Void Space to connect two teleportation points. The teleportation route can be determined by thought (Apparition), or through a pre-connected magical path (Floo Network, Vanishing Cabinet), or guided by the location of an anchored object (Portkey).
When Skylar entered the Vanishing Cabinet, he didn't rush out. Instead, he calmly allowed his mind and soul to slowly immerse themselves in the teleportation process. He successfully entered the Void Space hidden between the two entrances of the Vanishing Cabinet. He didn't know if anyone else in the world had successfully entered there like him. However, he was certain that no one else had gained as much as he had.
He has Magic Eye.
In the Void Space, one's five senses are completely disabled; one can see nothing, smell nothing, and hear nothing. But under Skylar's Magic Eye, he observed a strange and wondrous scene—
The entire Void Space is actually filled with a special energy that is independent of the world. That energy is presented as a series of chaotic and irregular curves, which are very similar to the scribbles in the book <The Fifth Element>.
This demonstrates that Paracelsus, centuries ago, had already deduced the existence of forces beyond the space of "reality".
The so-called the Fifth Element, "Aether," is actually the element that makes up the Void Space!
Skylar's brow twitched slightly. He focused intently on the dotted lines in the book, tracing the names in the air with his finger. After a while, the tips of his fingers felt slightly warm. He did indeed sense a strange energy, but he couldn't materialize it, as if the energy didn't belong to this dimension or this space at all.
Skylar closed his eyes, carefully recalling the process of materializing the four elements. He first came into contact with elemental magic before entering school, when he obtained the secret teachings of the Rosier Family at Druella's mansion. He had one-quarter Rosier Family blood, so the hidden talent in his bloodline allowed him to easily resonate with the elements.
This continued until he met Lady Vinda Rosier. After receiving Grindelwald's Element Ring from Vinda, his mastery of elemental magic advanced by leaps and bounds, allowing him to even revert elements to their most primal forms and unleash their full power. But at the same time, he always had a feeling that he was somehow missing something...
He snapped his fingers, and four small orbs of light suddenly appeared around his head, each a different color: red, blue, yellow, and green. They seemed to have a simple sense of self and played around his head.
He snapped his fingers again, and the four orbs of light slowly transformed into four rhomboid crystals of different colors. Engraved on the crystals were runes representing "fire," "water," "wind," and "earth." Readers may not be familiar with the term; runes are actually a general term referring to a system of symbols used in occultism as secret codes between mystics. It doesn't just refer to the Germanic or Celtic runes prevalent in Northern Europe.
At this moment, the runes displayed on the crystal were not the Ancient Runic Magic Symbols Skylar had used before, such as "Kaunaz" (fire), "Laguz" (water), "Jera" (wind), and "Hagalaz" (earth).
Instead, they are simple shapes drawn with a triangle and a straight line.
Even a student who excels in an advanced NEWT course on "Study of Ancient Runes" might not be able to recognize the origin of these simple symbols.
If Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, or other alchemists well-versed in ancient alchemy were here, they might actually be able to identify them.
These are symbols commonly used by alchemists in Greece. It is said that these symbols originated from the "Seal of Solomon."
In the Muggle World, countless legends circulate about Seal of Solomon.
The most prevalent legend is that King Solomon amassed an unbelievable fortune through commerce and plunder of other nations. Later generations believed his wealth was acquired by commanding demons. The legend states that King Solomon possessed a magical ring called the "Seal of Solomon," engraved with a six-pointed star that controlled its power. Seal within the ring was Asmodeus, the king of demons, allowing Solomon to control the world and command other demons to serve him.
The symbol on Seal of Solomon is a six-pointed star, also known in Jewish culture as the Star of David, the Great Star, the Jewish Star, etc. It later became a symbol representing Jewish culture in the modern Muggle World.
Of course, Muggle World history has long been distorted beyond recognition by wizards. For example, Merlin, the great wizard who was active in the 11th century, was given a legend written and published by Muggle author in the 9th century. This is all the work of the Ministry of Magic's memory rewriting staff.
The same applies to the history of King Solomon.
Like Merlin, King Solomon was actually a very powerful wizard. However, in the years after his death, due to various social and religious changes, his story was gradually distorted and slowly became the so-called "history" circulating in the Muggle World today.
King Solomon's ring was not meant to control demons or devils. It was actually alchemy, the most primitive version of the art of turning lead into gold, the precursor to the Philosopher's Stone, and the true source of King Solomon's wealth.
Four rhombus-shaped crystals floated around Skylar, each radiating a unique brilliance.
Skylar snapped his fingers again, and each of the four rhomboid crystals emitted a straight beam of light, connecting them together. Strangely, when the lines on the crystals were connected, they did not form a square at first glance, but rather a five-pointed star.
Skylar's lips curled up slightly.
I finally found you.
With complete focus, Skylar once again drew lines of "Aether" in mid-air, stroke by stroke. This time, after his fingers became slightly warm, a strange sphere of light suddenly appeared in mid-air.
The book "The Fifth Element" only provides the outline of the lines that make up "Aether". After Skylar reached this point, the book does not explain what to do next.
Damn it! We've come this far, we can't just give up now.
Skylar knew perfectly well that the sphere of light was only the first step in the materialization of the elements, and the next step should be to transform it into a rhombus-shaped crystal engraved with the representative pattern. However, seeing that he was only one step away from completing this final step, he simply didn't know how to do it.
What to do?!
While struggling to maintain the magic circle's operation with his own magic power to prevent it from collapsing, Skylar's mind raced, calculating thousands of possibilities like a top-of-the-line computer. At this moment, a fine layer of sweat had already appeared on his forehead.
Fifteen minutes have passed.
Skylar had already quickly gone through the contents of the four great families' collections in his mind, and there was absolutely nothing useful in them.
Half an hour has passed.
Skylar's raised arm (the one that outlined "Aether") had begun to tremble. He had already quickly gone through the contents of the Ravenclaw's Collection in his mind, but there was absolutely nothing useful in it.
45 minutes have passed.
Maintaining the magic circle's operation and performing ultra-high-frequency calculations simultaneously consumed a great deal of Skylar's mental energy, and his face began to turn pale. He had already quickly gone through the contents of Hogwarts' library and the books he had obtained from several professors and friends in his mind, but there was absolutely nothing useful in them.
Skylar closed his eyes, trying to reduce the dizziness that was starting to creep into his head.
For some reason, he suddenly recalled fragments of memories from his past life—scattered and disorganized segments of memories, some about adventure, some about Harry Potter, some about the occult...
Fortunately, he was a seasoned enthusiast of mysticism in his previous life. The most mainstream legend is that King Solomon amassed an unbelievable fortune through developing commerce and plundering other nations. Later generations spread the story that his wealth was brought to him by commanding demons. The legend says that King Solomon possessed a magical ring called the "Seal of Solomon," engraved with a six-pointed star that controlled its power.
Skylar opened his eyes, unaware that his pupils had turned a completely emerald green!
He snapped his fingers again.
The sphere of light representing "Aether" seemed to be touched by something and slowly began to Transfiguration.
The sphere of light twisted and turned for a while, eventually transforming into a rhombus-shaped crystal. This crystal was more than twice the size of the other four crystals, and it was engraved with a dark green pattern.
"Go back to where you belong," Skylar murmured softly.
The crystal floated and slowly moved to the empty corner of the five-pointed star.
Just as the Aether filled in the missing corner of the pentagram magic circle, the lines that made up the pentagram burst out with dazzling light, and suddenly the entire pentagram began to spin at high speed, transforming into a vortex-shaped black hole.
Skylar's eyes widened. This wasn't the first time he'd seen this black hole. Wasn't this the vortex black hole created by the Mahoutokoro he'd accidentally triggered in Tibet in his previous life? Wasn't this the culprit that had transported him to this world?
A series of mysterious and incomprehensible sounds echoed from the darkness, seemingly coming from the other side of the black hole; the sounds and language seemed to belong to another world.
No way? Cold sweat beaded on Skylar's forehead. Was he about to time-travel again?