After the power test of Philosopher's Stone, Ian went straight to the deepest part of Moon Base without taking any rest.
There, standing quietly, was a huge door several meters high, made of silver-gray metal.
The door body is seamless and integrated, the surface is covered with fine magic patterns and rune veins, and a slowly rotating blue core is embedded in the center - it is the blue Philosopher's Stone that he made with his own hands.
He called this door--"World Gate".
Walking into the experimental room, Ian pressed his palm on the door.
As the magic power flows in, the door slowly vibrates, the gap in the center cracks, and a gray-black light curtain appears, like a flowing tulle.
Ian took a deep breath and stepped in.
--
The scene in front of me changed instantly.
He was in a white corridor, and the air was cool and dustless.
There are two doors at the end of the corridor: the left is labeled "Relaxation Room" and the right is labeled "Core Area".
The "rest room" is actually a huge space with a complete manor building inside, which can accommodate hundreds of people.
But he didn't stop and went straight to the "core area".
As soon as I touched the doorknob, a cold female mechanical voice sounded:
"Identity scan started - fingerprint matching, iris matching, appearance comparison 60%, magic parameters unknown, bloodline: unknown, soul fluctuation: abnormal. Intruder detected, defense system activated."
Ian's mouth twitched slightly.
He forgot that when he designed this security system, he paranoidly set up multiple defensive measures.
After the bloodline transformation, his physique and magic power structure have completely changed, and naturally cannot be recognized by the system.
The air suddenly distorted, and hundreds of automatic defense spells were activated at the same time.
The scorching flames, ice spears and chain lightning struck almost at the same second.
Ian immediately raised his wand and whispered a spell like a storm:
"Enable master code--AKSLDHG8120390981-1248."
After a while, the system responded:
"Code identification. Confirm the highest authority - creator level. Welcome back, Mr. Bones. Do you want to update the security protocol?"
"Rescan all my parameters and use the existing body as a new template."
"As commanded."
In the next few hours, he patiently re-entered the data: physical characteristics, bloodline fluctuations, magic frequency, and soul fingerprints.
He did not enter the "core area" again until the system was completely updated.
--
It was a pure white round room Chamber of Secrets, about thirty square meters.
The ground and walls are engraved with runes and ancient words, some belonging to Norse Ancient Runes, and some from the lost Atlantis.
Ian walks to the center and puts the blue Philosopher's Stone into the groove.
The stone body instantly released a dazzling light, and a blue energy line extended, flowing through the talisman array throughout the room.
"Sir, a large-scale energy inflow has been detected."
That was the voice of another artificial intelligence named "Mojina".
Unlike "Siri", she is the management core specially designed for World Gate.
"I know. Check if there is any disorder in the talisman array." Ian said in a deep voice.
"Scanning... Anomaly detected: No. 6, 67, 167, and 534 attached array energy offset."
Ian waved his staff to repair the talisman array, and the runes were reorganized one by one.
When the last ray of light returned to stability, he stopped.
"Perfect," he whispered.
Next, is the most important stage - activating World Gate.
--
In the next few days, he specially made a remote-controlled alchemy ring for Philosopher's Stone.
When all preparations were completed, he came to the core area again.
A stream of blue light surrounded the entire round room, and the door lit up again.
The gray light curtain unfolds like a mirror, deep and unknown.
"Start World Gate."
The light curtain spread, and the time flow in the entire laboratory began to oscillate.
The form of walls, floors and even equipment is rapidly regressing.
Through the holographic image, he clearly saw:
Moon Base's buildings "disappear" little by little, returning to the desolate surface;
Stone layers collapse, dust rises, and everything is being turned back in time.
This process lasted for a long time.
Time is going backwards - one year, ten years, fifty years...
Until a certain moment, the base completely disappeared, and World Gate was buried deep under the lunar soil.
Ian frowned slightly.
"Sure enough, it can travel through time, but it cannot cross space."
In other words, he can travel back in time but still be anchored to coordinates on the moon.
"It seems that my understanding of 'time' and 'space' is still not unified." He said to himself.
"If I want World Gate to realize true dimensional travel, I still need deeper theoretical support."
He ordered:
"Mojina, record all energy fluctuations and space-time interference parameters."
"Recorded. All energy, material, and life sign data have been saved for subsequent analysis."
Ian nodded, took out the alchemy ring, and wore it on his left hand.
That is the "remote control terminal" that allows him to activate the energy of World Gate at any time.
He waved his staff to bless Disillusionment Charm, and then activated Apparition.
The next moment, he had left the moon and appeared in Diagon Alley of London.
--
The streets are still the same, but the atmosphere is different.
He randomly read the memory of a wizard, and after a few seconds, whispered:
"1926?"
A familiar surprise arose in my heart - that was the era of <Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them>.
He frowned.
Theoretically, arbitrarily interfering with the past will bring serious consequences, and time paradoxes are enough to cause the entire world to collapse.
But Ian was silent for a moment and then smiled in relief.
"As long as my family is not involved, what does history change have to do with me?"
He knew very well that this kind of indifference and arrogance were the side effects of the expansion of power.
But he didn't care.
If his destiny is really disrupted, he still has World Gate--
He can go back to the starting point at any time and rewrite the result.
--
In order to confirm the historical node, he recalibrated the coordinates with Global Marauder's Map and quickly locked the position of Newt·Scamander.
"It seems that he just set off from Europe to United States."
Ian pondered for a moment, Apparition.
The air twisted and he appeared in New York.
But that was New York in 1926 - noisy carriages and horses, Muggles clothes were old, and the electric lights were dim.
Fortunately, he is still invisible, otherwise the sudden appearance of a modern wizard would be enough to cause panic.
He stole a wealthy businessman's wallet from a street corner and checked into a fine hotel.
After a sleepless night, he spread out his notes in front of his desk and re-examined the significance of his time travel.
"The 'time jump' of World Gate has been verified successfully. The next thing to do is to realize the cross-border coordinates Spatial Anchor and Fusion.
If I can integrate the two axes of time and space, I can... truly control my destiny."