Harry Potter: Using science to be IMMORTAL

Chapter 389: Chapter 388: Time Magic



In the Department of Mysteries, there are actually more than twelve rooms. Behind some doors lie even more complex corridors. Researchers have discovered a total of 42 unique rooms within the Department of Mysteries, each related to various mysterious energies.

These energies almost all correspond to certain concepts, such as death, love, time, etc., types of pure conceptual magic energy that are unseen elsewhere, possessing unparalleled research value.

Since two years ago, Murphy has been continuously setting up laboratories here to study each type of energy.

In each energy laboratory, he initiated multiple secondary research topics related to its concept. For example, in the death topic group, not only are experiments conducted on the archway and veil's power in the Death Chamber, but cross-research is also done on ghosts, Horcruxes, the afterlife, The Veil, portraits, and various other phenomena.

Researchers are now fairly certain that the space beyond the veil connects to "the afterlife", although the veil acts as a one-way passage that can send things through but not bring them back; anything thrown into it loses "substance" as if devoured by the veil upon reaching its boundary.

They are attempting to find a substance that exists in both the material world and the afterlife to establish a two-way portal and obtain information from the afterlife.

In the Brain Room, researchers using the green brain-preserving solution have developed a method for keeping brains alive ex-vivo.

They discovered that monkey brains soaked in the green solution grow "thought tentacles", which allow the brain to perceive its surroundings directly, move using the tentacles, and absorb "mental magic" from the green solution to sustain itself.

Even brains that have grown thought tentacles can be transplanted into other bodies, acting like a plug-and-play device.

Researchers believe these green solutions might be an excellent storage medium for mental magic, promising significant impacts in the study of various neurological diseases and the field of brain-computer interfaces.

Due to the Brain Room's existence, Muggle researchers had the first opportunity to study a living, intact brain directly. Two mad scientists, Funes Bachman and Omid Abbott, by conducting various chemical or biological staining on these living brains, have established a model of the brain's neural network topology and hope to explain the process of thought activity from a neural perspective.

Murphy finds this model very interesting because it could be useful for developing deep learning algorithms closer to human thought patterns and improving the computing power of his super-calculator Horcrux.

It could also enhance his knowledge of "thought" and "mind", improving his effectiveness with various mental magics, even strengthening his use of the mental seeds.

The Time Room, the hottest among all research areas, displays miracles of time magic that have enthralled countless Muggle scientists.

Among these scientists, physicists are the most numerous, including a dozen Nobel Prize-level physicists.

Unfortunately, the secrets of the Time Room are too profound, and even with so many luminaries gathered, they have been unable to provide a complete explanation for the existence of time magic.

When Murphy conversed with them, their faces bore a clear confusion as if thinking, "By all accounts, the Earth should have exploded by now; why am I still alive?"

But not understanding doesn't mean it can't be used.

Upon realizing that the Time-Turners were actually charged using the energy from the Time Room, Murphy asked the researchers to replicate another time-related device: a Time Accelerator.

As the name suggests, this device allows the user to enter a sped-up time flow, acting at speeds several to dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the external world.

From the user's perspective, it's as if the world has been paused.

Originally, he thought this project would be extremely difficult, but the results were unbelievably smooth, and the researchers completed the device in just two years.

"This is the Time Accelerator." A white-haired researcher handed a pocket watch to Murphy, "It has been tested and is now ready for you."

"Its working principle is actually very simple; we just weakened the conversion function of the Time-Turner," the Muggle researchers explained, pointing to a button on the pocket watch, "Just press this button, and you can stop time."

"This is essentially a more precise Time-Turner, with the hands moving at one-thousandth the normal speed. Aside from some minor troubles with precise control technology, there were almost no production bottlenecks, which was surprisingly simple. Frankly, after we made it, everyone thought they had gone mad."

"The initial prototype could only enter a 5x time flow. Later, we made an accelerator that could enter a 10x time flow, which was already incredible, like entering another world where all the rules of the world lost their meaning to you."

"We were all very excited at first and played quite a few pranks with it, but after a month, no one dared to touch it again, fearing they would go mad."

"That terrifying freedom was followed by a fear of the void. This is not a power that humans should wield; it confronts us with the insignificance and meaninglessness of our existence."

"And this, the final version, can enter a 100x time flow. Pressing this button, a second will feel like more than a minute to you. You can even watch a bullet move like a slow-moving bird, and most sounds will be unclear because normal sound frequencies will drop to the infrasound range for you."

"You will enter a still world. Those scenes that appear in science fiction movies, you can see all of them. But believe me, you'll quickly get tired of it."

Indeed, the spectacle of time standing still feels incredibly shocking the first time, but after a few tries, Murphy put it away.

With his current abilities and status, he really couldn't think of many situations where he'd need such a device, except in combat.

To use time pause for a zero-cost shopping spree at the supermarket? Or to undress a girl with speedy hands?

He didn't need time pause for those; he could do them anyway.

But, its aid in combat is incomparable.

And if a Time Accelerator could be made, what other functions could be realized?

The idea prompted him to tinker in the lab. Based on the Time-Turner and Time Accelerator, it only took him two days to create a universal "Time Magic Box."

With this Time Magic Box, Murphy could release several powerful time magics, such as time stop, time rewind, and time loop.

Its principle is extremely simple, essentially using magic to command the time devices within the box.

It's akin to using magic to turn the hands of a Time-Turner instead of using fingers.

Technically speaking, it's straightforward, yet its functionality is astonishingly powerful.

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