Bab 528: Check Up
He looked at the token, observing every detail. It was a simple token made of an unknown material with two characters engraved on the front. There was no sign of enchantment; however, the density of this material was extremely high.
Edward used a divination spell to translate the unknown character, and the result was simple: Astral Library.
"Finally found a clue," muttered Edward as he used a Multidimensional Communication Spell, contacting Luna back home.
"How is the Council?" asked Luna as a hologram of her face appeared before Edward.
"As expected, but that's not why I contacted you. I found a clue to the Savant Race, and I need you to use Netheril and divine any information you can from this token."
"Really? Send it to me immediately."
Edward opened a small portal and sent her the token. Then, he waited for the result. The process lasted over half an hour, and Edward waited silently.
Then, Luna contacted him.
"How is it?"
"Some positive news," she replied. "I found a connection from the token to another plan. However, the connection is too weak and requires much time before I can find the final destination."
"I see."
"I contacted Hermione and asked her if she could find news about the Astral Library in the Abyss, so now, we can only wait."
"Can you find the token in our timeline?" asked Edward, and Luna immediately knew what he meant.
"Yes, if I can find multiple tokens across different timelines, I will have a better medium for divination," muttered Luna. "Give me a moment."
Edward nodded. He had this idea after seeing the Magus Race Inheritance from his variant. He wanted to know whether these inheritances were different across different timelines.
A few minutes later, "I found it. It's in a galaxy not far from us."
"It should be no problem to sneak in and get without the knowledge of these Gods." Many Gods were still outside the Milky Way, isolating the galaxy. As such, the Empire must always be on its guard if it wants to navigate the universe.
"Give me an hour or two, and I will make a radar for the token. You can go to other timelines, and it will point out the location."
"No, I have something else to do before returning. Pick a team from the Time Auror and send them," said Edward.
"Is something wrong?"
"A few days ago, I received news from the Time Aurors that the agent I sent to Charles' timeline is missing."
"Charles? Charles Wentworth? The guy that also reincarnated from Primordial Earth?"
"Yes," nodded Edward.
"Do you think he noticed the agent and did something to him?"
"It's unlikely, considering he was a Tier 8 Arcanist, but I can't say for sure."
Edward knew reincarnators like him could not be seen in the normal eye. As such, he decided to check it himself to ensure no problem arose.
"Well, be careful."
Edward concluded his affairs in the council. He acquired a few more Magical Languages in the past few days, planning to fuse them with his Arcane Rune System. Although his main focus will soon be Primordial Runes, he will not abandon his own magical language. There were a few magical theories, potion formulas, and technologies that garnered his interest, so he exchanged them with people.
Finally, he entered his ship and left with C-137, who would soon become one of his experimental subjects. Of course, he won't kill him since he is the link to control the Law Enforcement Department of the Council.
As soon as Edward left the timeline of the Council, he activated his Curse Rule and removed the curse on his body from the contract.
"Much better," he exhaled. As for the other restraints, he needs to return home to deal with them.
Soon, he reached the timeline he sent Charles to. Edward's ship was in invisible mode and appeared on the moon.
'Oh, he already colonized the moon and established a base?'
Although it was only a few constructions, Edward did not expect Charles' pace to be so fast. He checked the other planets and did not see constructions or lives.
Edward directly teleported to London. He immediately saw the city had changed. There were countless wizards flying using different apparatus and a few Muggles looking at these people with awe and envy.
On the street's corner, a distracted muggle accidentally hit a wizard. Then, a look of horror appeared on his face as he apologized profusely. Although it was dark, Edward could see the latter's body trembling uncontrollably.
The wizard stared at him intensely before snorting coldly and spitting on the latter's shoes.
Edward flew to a secret street where wizards gathered, similar to Diagon Alley. The first thing he saw was a shady transaction in a dark alley not far from him.
Two wizards stood opposite a third one with a large chariot behind him. The two wizards together are composed of a middle-aged man and a young wizard. Edward heard someone call him Edison.
"Have you counted the money?" said Edison.
"Yes, the cargo is yours," said a wizard with crooked teeth and a few puces on his face. Then, he Apparated away.
"This is a bad idea," said a young wizard next to Edison. "Buying and experimenting on muggles is illegal."
"The Magic Council cannot control us if they don't find out," said Edison.
"But…"
"Don't you want our research to succeed? If we don't, we will lose our grant and become a joke amongst our peers."
The young wizard was silent.
"Think about the benefit once we succeed. We will finally gather enough points to enter the Magic Emperor's Library."
A look of longing flashed in the young wizard's eyes as he heard the word library. This is something that all wizards wish for–a place that holds all the world's knowledge. And in the current time where knowledge equals power, this is a temptation that no wizard can resist.
So, he gritted his teeth and said, "Fine."
The two then took out their wands and cast a spell to place the 'cargo' into a bag before teleporting away. Edward watched everything calmly before checking out other areas of this place.
Finally, he decided to check out the Time Auror's secret base. According to mission protocol, the agent must establish a temporary moveable base for such a long-term mission to ensure the person who replaces him has the necessary information.
Edward used the secret tracking method of the Empire to find the base, which was located somewhere in Peru. Once he found the pocket dimension in which it was located, he checked to see if there were any intrusions, but he did not find anything.
He used the correct method to enter the base in order not to activate the self-destruct protocol.
After entering, there was nothing inside besides a normal room with a bed, a small library, a kitchen, and a dining room.
Edward cast a spell, and the room suddenly changed. Countless runes appeared before condensing into what appeared to be a seed. He knew it was a file of all of Charles' activity since he entered this timeline, so Edward read it.
He hoped nothing happened to the agent.
Bab 529: Charles Wentworth's Rise (I)
The document revealed everything Charles did after arriving on this timeline during the Marauder Era. Lily, James, Potter, and Snape were only in the fifth year, and Voldemort was rampaging worldwide, gathering followers.
After arriving at this timeline, Charles had many things to do, the first of which was to learn magic. Due to Edward's contract, he forgot everything he learned from the Empire, including basic knowledge about Wandcraft Magic.
So, Charles's first order of business was to get his hands on books. However, he had no money, including muggle dollars for exchange. So, he removed the shackles of morality, stole money from some muggles, exchanged them for Galleons at Gringotts, and bought the first and second-year books from Hogwarts.
With his ability [24-Hour Call Back], it did not take him long to master all the magic theory knowledge and basic spells. However, he knew it was not enough; he needed a deeper understanding of magic for his plans to succeed.
So, Charles secretly stole all the books in Flourish and Blotts. After all, he was a Tier 1 Arcanist, and most wizards were only Tier 0 Apprentices. Furthermore, Charles was a mage, not a wizard, making using Wandless Magic easier.
After getting the knowledge he desired, Charles had a basic plan for his future. The first problem he needed to solve was that he was not a wizard, and his body could not produce mana. He tried to recreate the Meditation Method of the Empire; however, that is something Hermione spent years creating while having access to countless knowledge and resources, so he failed miserably.
Charles realized the best way to fix his problem was to inject a bloodline into his body, turning into a wizard. He at first rejected the idea of injecting a magical bloodline into his body, knowing there would be danger.
So, Charles began to study magic, focusing more on bloodline theory. He sneaked into Hogwarts and copied their library; the task was easier since Dumbledore was busy fighting Voldemort with his Order of Phoenix.
Charles also raided the library of other magical schools across the world and the library of many ancient families.
"This guy unknowingly walked the same path as me," commented Edward after reading to this part. He never revealed this news to the public, so it's impossible for Charles to know what he did and copy it.
'However, I still did it better.'
Charles did not think magical knowledge would be in the muggle world, so he ignored places like the Vatican–Edward did not. Moreover, many of the wild theories muggles had about magic, witchcraft, and rituals inspired him, so he wanted these books.
After acquiring all these books, Charles had a basic foundation to change his bloodline. But magic research takes time–unless you're a unique genius like Edward. However, his talent only allowed him to learn knowledge faster. Although it did help for him to receive his research result 24 hours in the future, it was still not enough since he could not use his ability many times.
Additionally, he could foresee that his strength won't increase much in a long time. So, Charles used the greatest lesson he learned from the Empire–use the power of many to help him ascend to a higher level.
He used the Imperius Curse and other black magic to control people and countless muggle scientists across the world. He then revealed the existence of magic to them, along with giving them access to his library.
He had only one objective–to use these people's help to advance his magical research. His approach was successful, and Charles's bloodline injection research made progress after experimenting on plenty of dark wizards and even muggles death rows.
However, three years had passed, and the research was far from finished. Furthermore, Lily and James had graduated from Hogwarts, while Snape became a Death Eater. He knew it wouldn't be long before these two died.
His plan was to save Lily Potter and slowly plan how to lure her into becoming his wife. Furthermore, he wanted to use Voldemort's death to become famous in the Wizard World and secretly gather power.
As such, Charles decided to take risks. He directly injected the bloodline into his body. As for the consequences of death? He did not care because he could return to 24 hours into the past.
In the end, after hundreds of attempts, failures, and deaths, he successfully injected the blood of the basilisk inside his body, becoming a wizard. Charles' first step had succeeded; his body could now produce mana.
However, he had to face another challenge–the Bloodline Limit or the three Limiters. Since his mana had already reached Tier 1, it could be considered he had broken the first limiter. However, he still needed ways to break the second and third limiter, reaching Tier 3.
Luckily, Edward did not completely wipe out his memories and knew information like he needed different methods to break the limiters, and each method needed to be better than the former.
Charles knew the easiest method he could get his hands on would be to inject a second bloodline. However, he researched this method for the second limiter while searching for another method.
Luck was on his side, so he soon found the answer in all his knowledge. Knowledge about the limiters was known to certain ancient families–including Dumbledore, as he once suggested to Edward to walk this road instead of experimenting with bloodline, and the first and original method was only basic training of mana. After repeated training, it's possible to break the limit; the only downside to this method is that it takes time–which Charles did not lack.
So, after a few years of practice, Charles broke the second limiter and reached Tier 2. In this world, he was now on par with Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and only Voldemort was stronger than him, but only by a small margin.
(AN: Remember, Voldemort was also Tier 2, but his mana was 60 times that of an ordinary wizard instead of the normal 50 of normal Tier 2.)
Once his strength reached a certain level, Charles began to appear in the Wizarding World, leading a battle against Voldemort. Dumbledore was suspicious of him, so he invited him to the Order of Phoenix to keep watch on him, but that's exactly what Charles wanted; he had a legitimate reason to get close to everybody–especially Lily and James.
Then, on the night of Voldemort's death, he ensured he was at the Potter's house. Charles ensured he was in the bathroom when Voldemort arrived and killed James.
Then, he arrived and fought against Voldemort, losing but saving his life. Finally, Lily cast the Spell of Love, and Voldemort died by the rebound of his spell. Charles used an already prepared dark magic to save Lily's life by injecting life force into her body and also preventing her soul from entering the Afterlife.
In the end, things went as he wanted. James died, Voldemort died, and Lily and Harry were saved. Only a handful of people doubted him, but there was no proof.
After this event, Lily and Charles could be considered the savior of the Wizarding World. Then, Charles began to enact his plan. During a solemn meeting of the Order of Phoenix, he had a "mental breakdown." talking about how the Wizarding World has not changed for so many years, resulting in the birth of people like Voldemort and the death of innocent people like James.
He declared changes needed to happen, and many people chastised him, saying his thinking was similar to Grindelwald and even Voldemort. Charles apologized, and people forgave him, thinking he could not accept what happened to James and this war.
However, Charles's objective was achieved–creating a reason why he changed so much in the future while also laying a seed in certain people's minds.
Then, he proceeded to the next step.
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