Ian left the secret stronghold in Peru and teleported directly to the Magic Empire palace in France. He was a little curious as to why Charles chose France as his base camp. Maybe this guy was a France before traveling through time.
Along the way, he carefully observed the development of the Magic Empire in this world. The magic system they used was completely different from the Arcane Empire of Ian.
In order to reach the First Tier position, the wizards here use arduous magic training methods to break the first Limiter.
After that, they will take a magic potion developed by Charles after studying Philosopher's Stone. This potion can allow huge magic power to forcefully wash away the wizard's meridians, helping them break the second Limiter, thereby being promoted to the Second Tier position.
As for how to advance to the Third Tier position? The only way at present is Fusion's new magical bloodline. After years of research and huge investment, this Magic Empire has successfully developed a bloodline Fusion potion with a success rate of 70%.
However, here, it is very difficult to achieve Fourth Tier. Charles has not mastered the core technology of compressing magic power into a liquid state.
After all, Lin An also created that system by integrating the knowledge of multiple universes. Therefore, Charles could only continue to bite the bullet and follow the old path he is best at - constantly integrating new bloodlines.
Every time the Fusion bloodline is successfully obtained, the wizard's total magic power will experience an explosive growth, and the magic power recovery speed will also be greatly increased, thus helping them to break through to a higher level.
But sadly, the survival rate of Fusion's second bloodline is only 30%, which severely limits the number of the Magic Empire Fourth Tier wizards.
Currently, only Charles in the entire Empire has reached Fifth Tier, and the vast majority of Fourth Tier wizards are descended from the Imperial Family.
Ian can guess how they were cultivated with his eyes closed: once someone fails and dies while in Fusion's bloodline, Charles will use his ability to go back 24 hours ago and try again with the experience of failure until he succeeds.
Magic Empire, Royal Palace:
Charles is sitting in front of a large desk, with a mountain of complicated documents piled in front of him, and he is reviewing them one by one. Although Magic Empire has popularized magic computers, he is still obsessed with the tactile feel of paper documents.
There was a knock on the door, but he was completely immersed in his work and ignored it.
"Dear, dear...Charles."
"Huh?" Charles came back to his senses and saw his beautiful wife beside him.
"Lily, what's wrong? Is there an emergency?"
"No, it's just time for dinner." Lily said with a smile.
"So fast?" Charles then noticed the passage of time. He looked at the pile of documents on the table and wanted to refuse, but he suddenly remembered that he had promised his family to spend more time with them.
"Okay."
With a wave of his hand, all the documents on the table disappeared without a trace. Then, he followed Lily to the restaurant. As soon as he opened the door, a burst of noisy sounds came to him, intertwined with laughter, chatter and the sounds of children playing.
He looked at the women sitting at the long table: Hermione, Pheobe, Luna, Ginny, Qiu Zhang, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Tonks. Several of them had children with them.
Looking at the "land" he had conquered, Charles smiled with satisfaction. He sat down on the main seat, and his youngest daughter immediately rolled into his arms like a little meat ball and sat on his lap. The little girl was only five years old, and she was very cute.
"Phoebe, how do I usually teach you royal etiquette?" Ginny frowned, dissatisfied with his daughter's indecent behavior. The little girl curled her lips in grievance, but Charles's generous palm touched her head, immediately giving her a strong sense of security.
"Don't go through those red tapes at home." Charles said fondly.
"You can't spoil her like this."
"She is my precious daughter. If I don't spoil her, who will I spoil? Tell me, who is daddy's caring little cotton-padded jacket?"
"It's me!" Phoebe shouted loudly.
"Yes, even if you get married in the future, you will still be daddy's little cotton-padded jacket."
"Don't worry, Dad, I don't want to get married! I want to be with Dad forever!"
"That's really great." Charles laughed heartily. Then he looked around and frowned slightly:
"Where is Harry?"
"He... is still in his laboratory." Lily sighed deeply, and Charles frowned even more tightly.
'I knew I should have found a chance to kill that bastard Sirius Black back then!'
Harry was almost single-handedly raised by him. He has always played the role of a loving and supportive uncle to Harry, until he later legitimately became his stepfather.
However, Sirius Black Black, that reckless guy, instilled some absurd thoughts into Harry when he was a teenager, which caused Harry to develop a pathological and unreasonable obsession with his biological father.
Since then, Harry has completely fallen into Resurrection James's crazy obsession, immersed in those dangerous Resurrection magic research all day long. Charles cannot take any strong measures against Harry, because if any news leaks out, the family he has worked so hard to manage may fall apart in an instant.
Therefore, he can only adopt a backup plan-to pour all his love and attention into Lily. In this way, even if Harry is really lucky to Resurrection and James, Lily will never leave him.
Of course, he would use secret means to prevent this from happening. He had already made careful preparations: he planned to use Deathly Hallows to forcibly summon James's soul from Afterlife, and then completely obliterate it.
In this way, even if Harry's future research is successful, he can use Voldemort's fact that Avada Kedavra completely destroyed James's soul as a perfect excuse.
"Just make sure he doesn't endanger his life." Charles recovered his thoughts and started eating, ignoring Harry's rude absence. The family chatted while eating, and the atmosphere was harmonious. Charles also fed his little daughter from time to time.
"Dear, have you encountered anything troublesome recently?" Hermione asked with concern, "You seem more anxious than usual."
"Something's not going very well." He sighed.
"How could it be?"
"As I told you before, our development has encountered a serious bottleneck. If we want to break through quickly, we must obtain the knowledge of other magical civilizations." Charles explained helplessly, "However, all my attempts ended in tragic failure.
"I have not been able to find any relics of ancient magical civilization. I tried to open the door to time and space to other dimensions, and the result was a terrible disaster; and the spaceship I have been trying to build for interstellar navigation is not even a rough semi-finished product."
"I think the speed of our development is already amazing, we just need a little time." Narcissa comforted.
"No, compared with the Arcane Empire, our speed is slower than a snail." Charles retorted.
"Dear, you don't have to compete with that Arcane Empire." Pheobe reminded.
"No, since he can do it, I can definitely do it, and I will do it better than him."
No one said anything except sighing secretly in their hearts; they avoided the topic tacitly. Charles saw their reactions and smiled bitterly; he opened his mouth and wanted to apologize:
"I didn't expect you would value me so much."
"Who is so bold and dares to break into the palace without permission?!" Bellatrix suddenly shouted, with crazy killing intent in his eyes Blink. Everyone was instantly alert, staring at the young man who suddenly appeared in the palace.
"So it's you." Charles's face turned pale.
"Yes, it's me."
Charles looked at Ian with extremely complicated eyes; he immediately cast a spell on himself, trying to calm his frantic thoughts, but his violently beating heart betrayed his apparent calmness.
"I have foreseen the arrival of this day in my nightmares countless times. I thought I was prepared, but now it seems that I am not." Charles's voice was a little bitter.
Ian ignored him, but looked at this warm family dinner with great interest. It felt very strange to look at these former "wives", but they obviously did not know him; they even glared at him with eyes full of vigilance, disgust and murderous intent.
"You are here for me, this matter has nothing to do with them." Charles said in a deep voice, "For the sake of everyone being time travellers, I beg you to let them go."
Ian looked at him. "The agent I sent to monitor this place has disappeared. Do you know what happened?"
"I don't know."
"You should know that this answer is not enough to satisfy me."
"I've always suspected you were spying on me, but I've never found any trace. So, I really don't know what you're talking about."
Ian frowned slightly, realizing that Charles might not be lying.
"Dear..." Lily held Charles's hand worriedly.
"It's useless." Charles shook his head. He understood what Lily meant. He knew that his proud time ability was completely useless in front of the man in front of him.
A deep fear enveloped the Charles family, and they finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Their husband's biggest reliance was his talent of time, but if even this trick didn't work, the situation would be extremely critical.
"Has anything unusual happened recently?" Ian asked.
Charles hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, "Yes. A few days ago, I tried to open the door to another dimension of time and space, and a big mess occurred.
The space-time energy I control goes completely wild and spreads rapidly; according to my calculations, if it is allowed to develop, the entire Solar System will be destroyed."
He paused, seeming to recall the scene.
"At that moment, I felt an unprecedented fear that enveloped me; it was an intuition of imminent death. But strangely, this intuition did not come from the chaotic space-time energy storm."
"Oh? Then where does it come from?"
"I don't know either. I only know that I was in great danger at the time, but I couldn't determine the source of the danger. So, I activated my ability without hesitation and returned to the previous day."