The Way Back

In a place invisible to satellites and unconsciously ignored by wizards, hidden in the boundless sky, are pieces of black metal plates.

A huge cube, made entirely of an unknown metal, appeared on the metal plates and then disappeared.

"I feel like throwing up, how long is this going to take?" Ron asked, his face pale.

He was grateful that the strange magic Ryan had cast on him had made him practically a ghost.

If it were his normal self, he would probably be vomiting and having diarrhea by now.

"It's described in the instruction manual."

"We were transported upwards through metal plates that resembled Portkey, eventually ending up in a small hut on the far side of the moon, specifically used for storing supplies," Harry recalled.

"I mean, how many metal plates are there?" Ron frowned and covered his mouth with one hand.

"One hundred dollars?" Ginny guessed. There was no such information in the instruction manual.

Sizzle!

After an unknown amount of time, such a sound rang out.

"I can stand up now!" Ron stood up and marveled at his transparent hands and his body that had passed through the plastic bucket.

"Look behind you!" Harry exclaimed.

They were now in a transparent circular room, with gray-white moon rocks and craters behind them.

In addition, there is an endless darkness, within which a blue planet shines.

That's Earth!

"Our world?" Ginny murmured.

"Can Ryan's magic really be concealed?"

"It's not that I don't believe him, these wizards can live on the moon, how could they—" Looking at the scene before him, Ron couldn't help but lose faith in Ryan's magic.

Unlike Harry, in his view, Ryan was just a very handsome and mysterious friend.

A friend that you subconsciously tend to forget.

"You have to trust him."

"You know, he's always by Luna's side, but I sometimes forget he's there."

"Hiding himself is Ryan's forte," Ginny comforted him.

"Let's go take a look over there," Harry quickly pointed to their left, where a passageway was closed by a large door made of some unknown red metal.

"Can we just go straight through?"

"Like a ghost," Ron said, tentatively reaching out to touch the door.

"Hey!" Ginny rushed forward and slapped Ron's hand aside.

"Let's wait and see."

"Yeah, wizards will definitely come over soon. We can just rest and hide in the barrel." Harry thought it was better to be on the safe side.

"Fine." Ron sullenly touched his right hand and sighed.

"Harry, tell me about Atlantis," Ginny urged, bored.

"Okay, my..." Harry began to slowly recount his experiences in Atlantis.

"Let's study the magic on our bodies."

"Don't you find this strange? This magic can make us pass through matter and become transparent, but at the same time, it also allows us to stand on the ground."

"Instead of floating around like a real ghost." Harry, his mouth dry, prepared to change the subject. He spoke while looking at the magnificent crater behind him.

"What's so strange about that? Magic is like that; you can do whatever you want with it."

"Once you're familiar with a spell, you can make it do exactly what you want." Ron shrugged.

This was a sentence he had seen in one of his ancestors' travelogues, and he thought it made a lot of sense.

"Wait, speaking of floating—I just remembered something."

Don't you find this strange?

"We're on the moon, and it's said that the planet on the moon is smaller than our world—that is, Earth."

"Theoretically speaking, I should be able to jump ten meters high right now," Ron said with a puzzled expression as he jumped.

The height he's jumping now is completely different from when he's on the ground.

"What's so strange about that?" Harry said, a hint of vengefulness in his voice.

"What's even stranger is that Ryan is on Earth and telling us to go back, isn't he?"

"And how did we get to that farm?" Harry asked, putting his arm around Ginny.

"A farm? How do you know it's a farm?" Ron asked curiously, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

"Look at all this. The milk is still warm; it's obviously freshly squeezed. And these vegetables, especially this Brussels sprout—look how fresh it is." Harry grinned, while Ginny in his arms looked at him with adoration.

"It should be easy for us to get back, right? In Ryan's instructions and his words, he didn't say how we would get back."

"This time it'll probably be just like your trip to Atlantis —whoosh, and you're back at Hogwarts," Ron guessed.

"This time is different; Ryan didn't come here."

"He's probably on Earth right now," Harry said, looking at the dark, blue planet.

The Ryan Harry mentioned was in a library, a library converted from a crater.

It is domed, and the ceiling looks like a pot lid from the outside, but from the inside, it is a dazzling starry sky.

Clearly, the ceiling has been enchanted, faithfully displaying the starry sky outside.

Yes, Ryan did not come to Moon City through the farm.

This time, with Harry and his friends as coordinates, Ryan easily obtained the location of Moon City.

The concealed magic that all the wizards of Moon City had worked together to cast had officially lost its effect on Ryan.

This is all because Harry and his friends are alive, and the markings on them don't need to have their performance reduced for the sake of concealment, unlike the Anywhere Door that was made for Moon City before.

The instant they reached the moon, Ryan appeared in the city.

Such an operation, over such a vast distance, is something no wizard could achieve in an instant.

But Ryan is different; he can divide this instant into different periods of time, so the amount of magic he needs to expend in an instant doesn't have to be Astronomy.

In addition, he also possesses regenerative abilities similar to Ouroboros- style perpetual motion machine.

During those fragmented periods of time, almost instantly, he regained his magic.

All of this time adds up to about a month.

When Harry and the others return, it will be Ryan himself who will lead them back.

However, on his way back, in order to prevent Harry and the others from noticing the passage of time, he would shut down their senses and temporarily share the magic of the Phoenix's immortality with them, only to take it back when they returned to Hogwarts.

This is not out of caution; Harry and his friends are not like Ryan, who do not need to eat and are not worn down by time (Harry is an exception, as he and Riddle share immortality).

This is necessary to maintain their vitality and mental state during this actual month.