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Chapter 431: 431. Moon, the cash cow

Earth,

Inside a secure chamber on the Belize Base. It was a secret underground room with all kinds of sanitiser sprayers meant to activate the moment any motion is detected. It was supposed to be the place where Magnus was going to appear.

A small window looked inside the big room, behind it sat Emma, Severus and Magnus' family.

*POP*

He arrived with the apparition, his breathing was hard and his body ached like hell. The answer was clear, an ordinary wizard can not apparate to the moon, he will die in the middle even before he leaves the atmosphere.

He waved his hand at the people behind the window while his suit got sanitised. "The moon is pretty and scary, everyone."

"How are Rag and Bobby?" Grace asked him.

"As always, crazy and stupid. They are probably waiting for me, I will head back now, see you later," He waved his hand and this time used the portkey to head back to the moon.

...

He returned to the moon, still feeling the effects of the apparition. Ragnar and Bobby helped him.

He warned them, "It's not a good feeling, and this means that it took a lot of magical power for me to do it. A normal wizard might not even reach the moon and drop dead in the middle, only for his body to explode. Portkey is the only normal way any ordinary wizard or muggle can teleport to the moon." He fell to his knees as soon as he return to Moon.

"That's great, this means we can effectively control the means to reach the moon. With portkey, everything can be logged, if people could just apparate to here then it'd have created a lot of problems." Ragnar said. It also made a lot of sense.

*Sigh* "Let's start setting up the base so we have a place to sleep," Magnus took a long breath before getting back up.

The three walked to the rocket. Ragnar had the idea to joke with the rocket at that, "Haha, look, our rocket is like Moon's penis,"

"Wait, then... if a guy on Earth says the moon looks so beautiful, he's gay?" Bobby added.

Magnus burst into laughter, "Hahaha... and what about guys who say they're gonna pluck the moon for their love."

"They be plucking nothing but Moon's dick at this point," Ragnar added, laughing together.

Putting aside the jokes, they quickly got to work. One guy climbed back into the rocket to start unloading the cargo, the other two transported it near the crater's edge.

Magic was one hell of a thing, they didn't need any heavy machinery to lift objects. They easily dismantled the parts and welded the entire living unit. It was a big cabin with two windows, a pressurising chamber door, solar panels on the roof, antenna dishes and also a water tank on the side.

It was made to allow them to research inside while providing a safe space to live without the suit. For now, it was a simple single unit, and soon, whole complexes will be made to house dozens of people at the same time.

Once they were done making the unit, they decided to call it a day and take some rest. Inside, they ate frozen food that was microwaved, then went to sleep in the bunkbeds. Magnus, just for security, cast a bubblehead charm inside the whole cabin, so even if something happens, they won't die.

"Good night, or morning, whatever you want to call it," Magnus yawned.

"It's morning back at home," Bobby said.

"Night in Japan. The sense of time as day and night is invalid here," Ragnar argued.

He was right, "Good moon, then, I guess." Magnus fell asleep. He too was tired today.

...

Their alarm clock rang, the sleep of 6 hours was over. Today they were going to survey the whole crater and then collect a few samples from the places they felt they'd get the most minerals.

Ragnar stayed in the lab as he had already gotten some samples. Meanwhile, Magnus took out Emma's experimental broom to test it out. At the same time, he'd be using Bobby's geo-sensing and X-ray equipment to map the crater.

"Okay, I'm ready. Wait for me here," Magnus flew up on the experimental broom. The broom Emma had designed was a single unit like a car, it was as if a motorcycle turned into a car but only for one rider. Most of the frame was made of strong steel and glass to give visibility.

~Nice, due to more magic in space the speed at which the broom can fly has increased.~ he noticed. The broom was the same old model that was used on Earth, the only new things were the enclosed pressurised chamber.

He flew directly over the crater, he had to fly over this dark black ditch without illuminating it as magic may mess with the muggle instruments.

...

He spent an hour or so flying over and operating the small machines, he mapped the entire crater and also checked the floor. After returning to the base, they started analysing the data.

Meanwhile, Ragnar was already done with sand testing and gave his report, "As expected, there is oxygen content. But to extract that, all processes require high energy input, between 2-4 megawatt-years of energy to produce 1,000 tonnes of oxygen. While oxygen extraction from metal oxides also produces useful metals. So, I guess we will need to bring your fusion reactor whenever it's complete.

"Other minerals are Hydrogen, Iron, Titanium, Aluminium, Silicon, Calcium, Magnesium. Next comes the Rare Earth Minerals, as you guys know, Britain is not gifted with these, China, California, India, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, and Malaysia are. So our hope is this moon. Of course, Helium-3 is abundant here. Carbon and nitrogen are also present, these can be helpful in the future when we create an enclosed biosphere for farming here.

"Not to mention, the moon sand is like a natural cement that can be used in many different ways. In short, mining the moon can be the most profitable thing in the world for us, all we need to do is plan and create a well functioning efficient mining and processing system. Of course, we will need to bring other countries on board."

This was the end of Ragnar's report. Magnus and Bobby silently thought about this. They already know about all these things from scientific speculations. For the coming few months or even years, Moon was going to be a cash dumb, as it will take time before they truly start gaining something in return.

"Alright, let's start with the initial mining then. Ragnar, you two start extracting resources, Bobby, you put extra focus on Helium-3, we need the Fusion Reactor, without it we can't do anything else. Wait, what about water?" Magnus remembered the most important resource.

Ragnar flipped a few pages, "Oh, that, yes we got a lot of that here. Especially on the poles. As long as we can come up with an effective way of extracting water, we won't have to worry about going thirsty on the moon ever."

It was very calming, "Good, I will go and start gathering samples from the entire moon. Apparating around the Moon for me is not a problem, even if it's the Dark Side. We need to map this fat stone boy entirely so we know where the biggest mineral deposits are."

"Be careful, man. The dark side of the moon will be extremely cold." Bobby warned him.

"Haha, don't worry, with my magic amplified, I can literally obliterate this giant rock if I want. If I was on Mars though, then I would have been much more careful," Magnus flew away with that.

For the next four days, the three worked as much as they could. They could remain on the Moon for months if they wanted to, but then it would become too shocking for the muggle science community. The fact that they were able to build the first structure on the Moon that can be called a base was shocking already.

The next time another mission is sent, the rockets will have a lot of items related to long missions. Not to mention, Magnus will send wizards and muggles who know. There will be two missions, one that will be in front of public eyes, most of the time 3-5 people will go through the rocket. Meanwhile, with the help of Portkey, at least 10 people will go at a time.

All the heavy equipment, expansion of the base and more items will be sent from Portkey. But above all, the best thing about Portkey was the fact that in case of an emergency, immediate help can be sent.

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Chapter 432: 432. Bullet Train

A/N(Here cuz some of y'all too lazy to read at the end: I and my family have Covid, I'm feeling a bit lightheaded today. That's why I will do one chapter a day when I'm not feeling well. If I'm good, I'll post two. Hopefully, it all goes away soon.]

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Being so busy, four days went by they didn't even realise. Before they knew it, they had climbed their rocket once again. This time, their vehicle would be smaller as only the tip of the large rocket was being used, it was called the command module.

When the time was right, at the press of the button it was detached from the rest of the rocket and flew straight up. It didn't require too much fuel as the gravity was much lower. Once they were beyond Moon's main gravitational pull, they set the trajectory right and rested back. In three days time, they will arrive at Earth.

"How will you be masking the arrival of people from Portkey? After all, no matter what you do, a lot of videos will be shot, photos will be taken." Bobby asked. They had to start planning for the future.

"Simple, we are going to be launching a mission to the moon every single week for the coming few months. Our focus is to make everything seem so common that the news agencies lose their focus from it. Once that happens, we will only be sending unmanned missions to the moon with some payload, for the world, they will be manned though. The real astronauts who will arrive with Portkey will be announced like any other astronaut." Magnus revealed his plan.

It was the truth, the only reason the world goes crazy about humans going to space is that it's very rare. Once it becomes common, it won't create enough buzz for the general population, hence the news won't be much profitable.

*Yawn* "I'm going to sleep. Gonna have to start working once at home, who knows how I can use the moon sand for potions," Ragnar reclined his seat a little, put an eyepatch on and dozed off.

...

The landing happened with no complications, they fell down in the Indian Ocean, where the UK had a military base in the British Overseas Territory. From there they were taken to Greater Britain(Zimbabwe) where they did a press conference, then flew to London for another press conference, this time in Buckingham Palace.

Magnus was the first to speak to a completely silent crowd of reporters from all across the globe, "It was an overwhelming experience. Honestly, if it was possible, I'd tell each human to at least go to the space for once. Because when you look back at Earth from out there, especially from the Moon, you start to realise that all the crimes, wars and misery that exists is just on that small planet. From space, you don't see America, Australia and Japan, you just see one single shiny planet with water and some land. It evokes a feeling in your mind, the feeling of seeing humanity as a whole, from which national borders appear petty."

Bobby agreed and added a few words, "He's right. Isn't there a saying, that one should look at the bigger picture? This is it, this is the bigger picture. We humans think the world is very big, but just a few decades ago travelling from one continent to another was considered something special, but now with better aircraft, we can reach any place within a day.

"The world became smaller with that. This is the same experience, once you look at Earth from space, it starts to look small. Maybe in the future when space travel becomes economical, all major world leaders should take a trip to space to get some humanity and humility."

Ragnar said nothing of the sort, but he just revealed their discovery and their plans to continue sending missions to the moon every week from now on. Pictures of the first moonbase in man's history were also revealed.

No questions were allowed in the current session, and after giving their personal experiences, the press conference was over. It was time to take a good nap on Earth. Sleep just didn't feel good in space or the moon because of a change in gravity.

...

It was December, Magnus had already missed the birthday of his siblings on the 25th, he could only make up to them by being there on the New Year. They had turned 5 years old by now but remained the cute bundle of happiness as always.

"So, what do my most beloved siblings want?" He asked them while sitting in front of the fireplace. Aurelia and Clementia sat on his lap while Maximus hugged his shoulder.

"Big brother, I want to go to space too and watch the moon," Maximus requested.

"Sorry, Max, but only adults can go there. You will have to wait some more and study hard to be able to be eligible. But I did bring you a nice moon rock, you want it?" He took out a small box from his pocket.

Maximus' eyes shined, "Really? I want I want..."

He was quick to run away after taking it. He sat down near Chad and opened the box as if it was a treasure. Aurelia scoffed, "What a baby, how can he be happy with that? Big Brother, I want dance lessons, I will become the greatest actress when I grow up,"

He kissed her forehead, "Okay, I will hire the best dance instructor in the world."

Clementia, who was silent all this time also wished, "Big brother Mag, I-I want another set of crayons, I finished the last ones."

~God, she's so cute. And why is her wish so simple?~ Magnus fawned over her.

"Okay, I will buy you a lot of different crayons. Do you want a painting set? It's a different kind of colour," he asked her.

Clementia thought for a second, "Umm... I don't know how to use that, will you teach me?"

"Of course, I will, sweetie. You know what, let's try it right now. I'm gonna make my beautiful Clementia so good at a painting that even Leonardo da Vinci will kowtow to you." He lifted her in arms and went to the study room.

"Who is Vinci?" She inquired.

"Some mental guy in history, forget him."

...

It was the Year 1979. He had shifted his office to Buckingham Palace and worked from there. The new General elections were going to be held in a few months, the new Prime Minister will be decided.

But he had no worries as no matter who becomes the new PM, he had them under his thumb. His plot was simple, instead of trying to control the PM, he controlled all the political parties.

Under his strict orders, a new bill was passed in the Parliament, it was called Land Acquisition Bill. This basically made it easier for the government to buy land from the private property owners for national projects. He did this because during the construction of the Bullet Train project, he received complaints from the acquisition office that some greedy landowners were asking for extremely high prices as they knew how important the project is.

Under this new bill, such landowners will be dragged to a special court meant for this particular reason and then be fined heavily. He was not going to let human greed stop nation-building. After removing the corruption and red-tapism, he won't tolerate all this crap.

As soon as the bill was passed, all these landowners corrected themselves, and in a single month, the land acquisition went from 40% to 90% completion. But still, there was one train line that had already been fully built and awaited to be opened by Magnus.

It was the London to Manchester train line, with major stations in between Birmingham and Oxford. It was a route of a total of 300 kilometres in length, currently, it takes around 4 hours to complete this journey, with the Bullet Train running at a top speed of 300 kilometres per hour, this journey can be done in slightly more than an hour.

Of course, it would hurt the airline industry, but Magnus cared not for that. Aircraft spew more carbon into the air per passenger than a train. Flights were fine for international travel, but for an area as small as the mainland UK, trains were enough.

He dressed up on the 10th of January and got into the car that was escorted by four more, two at the front and two at the back. They were also followed by 6 policemen on motorcycles. These were mainly for security but they had a mixed team of muggles and wizard guards.

The official car of the crown was a Bentley State Limousine, but Magnus found it to be looking too damn ugly, so he replaced it with his dad's modified Rolls Royce.

The opening ceremony was to take place right inside the King's Station. A new underground level was created to act as a station for the Bullet Train. He cut the ribbon in front of the locomotive and then stepped inside the carriage to take a ride to Manchester City.

A few photographs were taken before he returned home in 3 hours, he desired to waste not a single second of his time. His schedule was always jampacked, according to it, all the time after 5 PM in the evening was reserved for the family. Though he did sneak around sometimes with Emma to have fun. They would go to a random spot in the world and spend some time.

His days went by normally until the day Lily Evans and James Potter married.

"What are you going to give them, Mag?" Emma asked him. Both were in a mall, shopping for the wedding day. He used magic spells to stay unbothered by people.

"Umm, I don't know. James is rich enough to not need anything. Maybe I can get him some magic-proof technology that's not yet in the market." He thought about the present.

[A/N: The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, "hanging in the void", shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere.]

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