Moon Mirage Body

Time: 10 o'clock, inside the real Smith Castle.

A handsome young man sat upright in the bathtub, while House-elf and alchemy machines ground up strange materials and poured them into the bathtub one by one, following the instructions of a Winky sphere.

In the bathroom sky, on the false stars, a new moon gradually appeared, its bright moonlight shining on the naked youth.

This divine light was now bathing every inch of Ryan's flesh and blood.

Under the cool moonlight, the bathtub bubbled and boiled. Ryan sat cross-legged in it, his entire body seemingly turning into jade, but his body was actually... slowly cracking!

The House-elf around them all seemed indifferent, as did the main god.

The magic of the intangible matter began to interact with the new moon, transforming into countless beams of moonlight that gushed forth through the strange runes cracking on Ryan's body.

Then the jade-like body in the bath suddenly lost its color, resembling an ancient statue buried for thousands of years.

About fifteen minutes later, the "moon" on the ceiling transformed into a beam of light and once again rushed into the stone statue in the bath.

"Boom!"

A loud bang came from the stone statue, as if some kind of shackle had been broken. The chief god flickered slightly, and all the House-elf, alchemical machines, and even itself disappeared from the room.

A transcendent, supremely holy and powerful magic was born. Like a spider web, it spread from the body, making the grass, the false stars in the sky, Merpeople in the magic painting seem real. They all looked towards the creator, the supreme being!

"Click!"

The stone statues, unable to withstand the powerful magic and the gaze of these creations, turned into Winky dust. A sudden gust of wind arose from the spot, scattering across the spiritual senses of all creations, into their newly born and still ignorant hearts.

Ryan's mind finally began to function properly. At this moment, Ryan realized that although his body had disappeared, the room had transformed into a real alien world, which was his own body!

That thing that should have been my soul seemed to have its own body, a substantial, powerful, and real physical body.

Ryan was simultaneously existing in this alien realm and in the physical body formed from his soul. Ryan pinched himself hard, and he could indeed feel the realness of flesh and blood.

Then, before Ryan could fully process it, the alien realm vanished, transforming into a silver giant, with the Milky Way, formed from countless stars, serving as his robes, Merpeople as the lords of each galaxy.

However, at this moment, Ryan could still feel a sense of distance, a feeling he had when he usually controlled the main god.

With a thought, a strange feeling suddenly surged in Ryan's heart, his body trembled violently, his Mind Palace collapsed into a tranquil chaos, and then this alien realm formed from his own body seemed to press in on him.

The space seemed to have collapsed.

Then it condensed into a single point, transforming into a beam of light that rushed into his mind. Subsequently, this alien realm suddenly collapsed, turning into a cracked stone statue, then into jade, and then into a galaxy.

The moment Ryan opened his eyes again, he discovered that neither the point that had condensed into nothingness nor the galaxy had ever existed.

It was as if I had been in a daze for a moment.

But at that moment, Ryan truly felt something different. He felt as if he could merge with this world, or more precisely, he was inseparable from this alien land.

"Brush!"

A burst of extremely dazzling light, too bright for ordinary beings to bear, erupted, and the two bodies, like the positive and negative poles of a magnet, attracted each other and merged back into one.

In a flash, above the present-day Smith Castle, Ryan stood in the air, the silver light slowly fading away, transforming into sacred flames, which then transformed into Phoenix and entered Ryan's heart anew.

"As expected, the birth of the Moon Mirage Body was simply an evolution of the Phoenix Metamorphosis. Returning to its original form was no difficult task," Ryan thought.

The Moon Mirage Body is not merely an incarnation; rather, it is the true Ryan, just like the current Smith Castle.

It's like the moon reflected in the water, something you can only look at but never reach. No matter how hard the monkey tries, it can't scoop the moon out of the water.

The physical body in the mortal world is merely the materialization of the soul; it can vanish into nothingness at any time and disappear into the moonlight reflected in the water.

This means that to harm Ryan, one must be able to directly attack his true self in another dimension, while attacking his physical body in this world would render it nothing.

From now on, Ryan will truly be isolated from the world, and even if he reaches the level 7 realm, he will not be discovered by any creature in that realm.

Moreover, the Moon Mirage Body is itself an independent otherworld, and the moon is the sun of this otherworld, shining upon all things. One after another, ignorant consciousnesses will grow, prosper, die, return to Ryan, and then be reborn in this world.

Ryan himself will also grow stronger in this cycle.

It is the Divine Kingdom. According to the chuunibyou (delusional) view, Ryan can now be considered a demigod with the Divine Kingdom, and there are loyal electors in the Divine Kingdom!

A beam of moonlight shone from the void into the bedroom in Ravenclaw Castle, and with the bright moonlight, a figure was "born." Ryan had returned to Hogwarts once again, unnoticed by anyone.

This new leap forward is like an instinct; the body can now be phototransformed at any time.

Ryan had been preparing for this magical ritual for almost two years.

That was when Penelope was in second grade, and Ryan discovered and "thought" out the safest and most suitable way to transform herself.

Fourteen of the coded messages each referenced the ritual Dio performed to ascend to heaven, a ritual Ryan had greatly admired in his previous life.

Of course, if there really were a villain like Dio, Ryan would definitely send him to meet God first; wouldn't that count as going to heaven?

This ritual was too important to Ryan; every step, even the code words, was best done without using any knowledge born from this world.

Every step and element must be inexplicable yet logically consistent.

Ryan even used his only chance to retrieve the Soul Bottle from the Smith Alchemy Cabin — Wind Smith's invention—to collect and select the souls of the 36 most evil and powerful Dark Wizard he had dealt with in Knockturn Alley.

Each soul is inscribed with a spell adapted from Horcrux, activated and refined by the Gubraithian Fire.

If it weren't for that inexplicable stare, Ryan wouldn't have needed to be so busy writing novels, collecting souls, doing chivalrous deeds, making all sorts of props, and even spending a fortune to complete a one-to-one Smith Castle.

But it was all over. Ryan changed into his pajamas, lay down on his standard Hogwarts student bed with four curtain posts, and started reading.

A little while later, Ron, Harry, and the others returned to their dormitory. Ron, unusually, ditched Harry and started talking to Neville, who was in the next bed, about their plans to buy wands in Diagon Alley the next day. They talked about things like going to Flint Ice Cream Shop to buy some ice cream, browsing the Quidditch Supplies Store, and buying some snacks.

Ryan listened with great interest to these down-to-earth words and slowly drifted off to sleep.