Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity

"Very good. The fact that you can give this answer shows that you really understood what I said before." Hearing that Hermione didn't directly choose him, Roger didn't argue or show any displeasure.

Instead, he revealed a knowing smile.

Roger had previously said that, with the characteristics of magic, setting a high goal would yield more rewards.

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But this is actually just the surface.

Hermione saw the truth beneath the surface.

Magic is a miracle of the mind.

You firmly believe in magic, crave magic, and only then will magic respond to you.

If we re-examine the path Roger has taken, and how he was able to succeed on it, using this theory...

It's easy to discover.

Throughout his journey, besides his own talent and the ability of a seer, there was one other very important thing:

That is, he firmly believed that he was walking on the right path.

He didn't care about how the outside world viewed him.

Whether they respected him as a seer, regarded him as a murderous demon king, or held even lower opinions, it didn't matter.

Respect, fear, indifference, disgust, belittlement, love—Roger ignored them all.

He wouldn't plan actions that wouldn't benefit his path to immortality, and he couldn't be bothered with things that would harm it.

Saving people, teaching those who like to engage in campus bullying a lesson, and other seemingly 'unnecessary' things were actually closely related to his path to immortality.

"Mental integrity."

Doing what he liked, not doing what he hated, and maintaining a bottom line were some of his means of anchoring himself.

If he couldn't even firmly establish himself, he didn't even need to think about it; he definitely wouldn't go far on the path to immortality.

For the sake of immortality, he constantly absorbed new knowledge, continuously conducted various magical experiments, interacted with the professors at Hogwarts in turn, built up industries to test and improve new restraints, traveled around Europe, and cultivated successors.

Always doing what he thought was important and correct—it was this kind of determination and belief that allowed him to receive the response of magic.

Now, returning to the original question, how should the path of the Second Magic be chosen?

Potential is certainly important, but continuing down a path when you clearly know it has major flaws...

This is obviously not a suitable behavior.

But it's also not about choosing the path with the highest potential.

"When I return to Hogwarts, I'll talk to Headmaster Dumbledore about you, and you can go and study with him for a while then."

"Okay." Hermione nodded.

Receiving Roger's approval made Hermione even more certain that she was right.

Potential is potential, and strength is strength.

Not everyone can transform potential into strength.

It's like how the potential of computer science is also infinite.

Creating artificial intelligence, opening the next page of human civilization development, wielding network technology, commanding the internet, and writing software that makes countless people's lives easier and increases productivity—sounds beautiful, right?

But most practitioners can't reach the limit of the profession's potential, working overtime every day as code farmers, becoming 'optimized' after their thinking becomes stagnant, and ending up with a body full of occupational diseases. Whether the money they earn is enough to pay for treatment is the main theme.

And Hermione's choice is to take advantage of the fact that everything can be turned back and experience several different paths of the Second Magic.

To find the path that is most suitable for her, the path that she can go the furthest on!

It's useless for the Second Magic to have a high design ceiling; you have to find the path where your realization ceiling is high!

"Roger! Come and look at this!"

Just as Roger was about to encourage Hermione with a few words, Olivander's surprised voice came from the side.

"Look at this wand. It's different from the previous experimental products—" Olivander, like Gollum stroking the One Ring, had a glint in his eyes as he repeatedly examined the wand that was still flashing with a different kind of magical light.

"Oh? Let me see." Roger walked over.

As for Hermione, besides encouragement, he had nothing else to talk about.

In fact, he believed that Hermione would most likely still choose his "Illusionary Truth Realm" path in the end.

But what she was about to do was not meaningless.

It's like how many people's final careers are not related to the major they studied in school.

So, is it the right choice to not study and go straight to work, gaining a few more years of work experience than your peers?

Leaving aside the very few examples of individuals who were jointly created by the times and personal abilities...

In most cases, those who study more are certainly more likely to go higher in the future.

Society's recognition of education, the connections made in school, the more logical way of thinking gained through learning, the methods learned to solve problems, and even emotional ups and downs.

These are all very meaningful things for the path of life.

In Roger's eyes, Hermione seemed to be taking a detour, but the act of taking a detour itself was meaningful.

As the saying goes, magic is closely related to the mind.

Directly learning his Illusionary Truth Realm, or experiencing various Second Magics and finally determining that the Illusionary Truth Realm is the most correct path before starting to learn it...

It may delay some time in the early stages, but in the long run, this may allow Hermione to go higher and further on the path of magic!

The next day, at dawn, the morning sun rose.

Olivander sighed: "Unfortunately, it can't completely simulate everything in reality. Currently, it can only be used as a means of communication."

The rising of the sun meant that the Hogwarts summer vacation was completely over. Roger was about to leave Olivander's Wand Shop to take the train at King's Cross Station to Hogwarts.

"There will be a perfect day," Roger said with a smile.

Roger's smile was not a polite smile, but because he was genuinely in a very good mood.

Technical research is a very wonderful thing.

Sometimes, the technology you research for goal A may inexplicably have miraculous effects on goal B.

Like that blue little pill that was researched for heart disease and unexpectedly became a gospel for some men.

Roger and Olivander were clearly researching the combination of the Second Magic and wands.

As a result, after researching and researching, they unexpectedly unlocked a "tech tree" that exceeded Roger's expectations!

[Super-Remote Virtual World Networking!]

"After I take care of the back-to-school matters at Hogwarts, I'll contact you, and then we'll continue the research."

"Okay," Olivander replied with an expectant tone.

Roger's virtual reality technology has always had a limitation.

That is, if two people use virtual reality devices at the same time and both want to connect, they must be very close, so that Roger can use the power of thought magic and alchemy to connect the two together.

This is also why Roger specifically set aside an abandoned old classroom in Hogwarts to use as a 'game room'.

Instead of distributing the equipment and letting students and professors use it at will, spreading the equipment to society,

Letting the 'Earth Village Internet Era' belonging to the wizarding civilization descend.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's that he really can't do it.

But now it's different.

Now it is 1992. The world's first modern Internet search engine was created by British network engineer Jonathan Fletcher in 1993, and Google and the like only began to rise around 1996 to 1998.

Judging from the current trend, maybe the wizarding civilization really has the possibility of achieving a curve overtaking and entering the information explosion era earlier than the Muggle technological civilization!

And it's a one-step process, skipping the mouse, keyboard, and display screen, and directly entering the virtual space field.

Unreasonable leapfrog development is also one of the characteristics of the wizarding civilization.

"Hermione, is your luggage packed? If you're ready, hold my arm."

"I'm ready." Saying that, Hermione held her suitcase in one hand and grasped Roger's forearm with the other.

Hermione didn't expect that she originally came to witness the wizarding civilization's wand technology opening a new chapter in history,

But unexpectedly, she witnessed a breakthrough in virtual reality networking technology.

How is super-remote virtual world networking achieved?

This has to start with the wand that Olivander cherished last night.

The two thought that it would be an important technical breakthrough sample in wand research.

But unexpectedly, there was a mistake. The highly integrated state of the wand only lasted for a short time, and then it exploded.

Powerful magic poured into the virtual world that had transformed into a wand core, allowing it to support a huge illusory scene in reality. Not to mention Olivander's Wand Shop,

Half of Diagon Alley saw the appearance of the semi-finished 'Illusionary Truth Realm' manifesting in reality.

It was clearly summer, but a scene of snowflakes dancing in the sky appeared above.

Roger naturally tried to cast a spell to erase it, so as not to cause a riot.

And it was during the casting process that Roger discovered.

That semi-finished 'Illusionary Truth Realm', although it didn't have much ability to interfere with reality, the falling snowflakes didn't make people feel cold at all. The illusion of snowflakes passed through the body as if it were just a projection.

But—when those snowflakes landed on other wands, they 'penetrated' into them!

The sunny forest, the silent moon, the turbulent ocean, the one-to-one replicated unmanned city—the different virtual worlds in those wands also began to drift with fine snow.

Yes, this incomplete Illusionary Truth Realm cannot affect reality, but it can interfere with the weak and ethereal virtual reality!

At that moment, an idea popped into Roger's mind.

Virtual world nested structure.

Roger had seen a work in his previous life.

"A Certain Magical Index."

Those standing at the pinnacle of the extraordinary system within are called Demon Gods, not gods of demons, but gods of magic.

They cover reality with a layer of 'Phase' and can influence reality by manipulating their own Phase.

They can arbitrarily manipulate, create, and destroy all the laws of the universe.

To put it in Muggle technology terms, if reality is an online game, then the Demon Gods can use a 'private operating system modifier' called Phase to influence everything according to their will.

And now, Roger finds that he can also play a similar game.

However, with his current abilities and the limitations of virtual technology, what he influences and modifies is not reality, but the other virtual worlds he creates.

He plans to cultivate 'Second Magic · Illusionary True World' not towards influencing the real world.

But specifically towards the aspects of 'size' and 'virtual world interference'.

As long as he 'feeds' it until it is larger than Earth, he can achieve unlimited global online access!

He even plans to combine it with his 'Imaginary Creation · Thought Dream Shadow' technology, using imaginary creature Thought Dream Shadows as relay jumpers.

As long as there are tens of thousands of virtual interference versions of the Illusionary True World deployed on those future colonized planets, the era of zero-latency universal online gaming will directly arrive!

Even if you are far away in the M78 Nebula, you can still have a father-son Zu'an showdown with Earth.

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Filled with longing for the future, Roger glanced at his arm, making sure Hermione was holding on tight.

Apparition!

Accompanied by a wave of spatial distortion, the figures of the two disappeared in front of Ollivander.

Hermione's face was a little pale as she held onto her suitcase.

Obviously, the feeling of Apparition was very unpleasant.

Hermione was so uncomfortable after just one time, one can imagine how Harry felt after Apparating hundreds of times in space.

After coming into contact with Roger, Harry gained more room for development, but relatively, he also experienced a lot of pain that he shouldn't have had to endure in his original fate.

Just like now.

"?" Looking around, Roger was a little puzzled.

Arriving at King's Cross Station, Roger saw many familiar young wizards, but he didn't find Harry's shadow.

Having spent time with him, Roger knew clearly that Harry was now a person without procrastination.

Instead of arriving just on time, he should be more inclined to arrive early.

But at this moment, he didn't see him.

"...—Could it be that he was delayed by something inexplicable?" Recalling Harry's original fate in his second year, Roger frowned slightly.