Mysterious Journey

Chapter 691: Stagnation and Change

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It's now the summer of 1992.
Exactly forty-seven years have passed since Grindelwald's downfall.
For the wizarding world, forty-seven years isn't a very long time, but according to past experience, even during the darkest periods for wizards, such a long time would still see the emergence of one or two entirely new magical fields.
But nowadays...
Forget about any new magical fields, there isn't even a new magical theory!
Take Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as an example. Apart from the continually updated "History of Magic" series, the textbooks used by the children in important core subjects such as Transfiguration, Charms, Astronomy, Potions... are almost exactly the same as the textbooks used when Dumbledore was still a Transfiguration professor. Even the layout hasn't changed.
Dumbledore knew very well that some things, once decided, were irreversible.
The current "International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy" is like a solid barrier, completely separating the wizarding world from the non-magical world. The mystery of magic is guaranteed, and society is becoming more stable, but it is also difficult for new vitality to emerge.
The stagnation and even regression in knowledge derivation is, to Dumbledore, more terrifying than the wizarding wars.
And what's worse is that this seemingly timeless closure doesn't only exist in the British wizarding world.
For a full forty-seven years, magical civilization around the world has been in a state of stagnation!
This is very scary!
If he hadn't personally witnessed the dying moments before the "dissolution of the Soviet Union", closely participated in the magical modification work of the "Hyperion," and, under the influence of Eileen, actively learned about many theoretical advancements in the non-magical world...
Dumbledore wouldn't even have realized the intersection of the two worlds' trajectories.
Whether it's the electronic computer yet to be built in the Hogwarts research area, or the research on controlled nuclear fusion, or the establishment of a second extraterrestrial ecosystem, or even biological cloning and gene editing.
Accompanied by this month's exchanges with those former Soviet scholars, the sense of crisis in Dumbledore's heart has become increasingly strong.
Unconsciously, the non-magical world is no longer the ordinary Muggle world that wizards imagine. In some top research fields, Muggles have used a way of thinking called "science" to form a marvelous civilization no less than magic.
Just as Eileen said - the time left for the wizarding world may really be running out...
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The ripples of the Hogwarts turmoil have just begun to spread.
No matter how anxious Dumbledore is, he still has to wait for time to gather the storm, at least in these short one or two months, this storm that may sweep through the entire wizarding world will not affect places too far away.
England, Dorset.
Quidditch pitch near the Jurassic Coast.
The lavish lunch provided by the Goblin Queen of Gringotts does not come without a price.
Most of the players on the British Quidditch National Team are young people under the age of twenty-five.
They are still too young to know that all gifts from fate are already priced in secret.
Before they could secretly rejoice at the power constantly surging within their bodies, Eileen, with all her firepower unleashed, brought these players from various Quidditch professional teams crashing back to earth – compared to the restraint during the previous scrimmage, the silver-white witch soaring in the sky could finally unleash her full strength without restraint this time.
The strength enhancement from "Bloody Bronya" can only ensure that when facing Bludger attacks, as long as the players can perform the correct blocking, they will at least not be knocked into a near-death state in an instant as before...
Of course, even if they enter a near-death state, it's not a big problem.
According to Eileen, Quidditch is a battlefield belonging to wizards. If you have never experienced flying shoulder to shoulder with death, then even if your skills are exquisite, when you encounter a real sky ace, you are nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered.
Fortunately, the hellish flight does have a final stop.
Five o'clock in the afternoon.
As coach Brandon Dunne's whistle sounded, the tense and fulfilling Quidditch hell training finally came to a temporary end. The players floated down from mid-air, their faces still showing a trace of dazedness after surviving a disaster.
For these players, the past few hours felt like an unreal journey through hell.
Even Seeker Rex, who has always been carefree, energetic, and claimed to be able to fly on the field all day without feeling tired, is now filled with faint soreness and a deep sense of exhaustion.
He has never been so eager to return to his bedroom and lie down to rest.
On the other hand, the girls seemed to have just finished a spring outing.
Compared to these adult wizards who were undergoing high-intensity training for the first time, this afternoon's exercise was just an enhanced version of what Eileen and Hannah usually did in school when training their physical fitness. Although they were a little tired, they could still accept it with gritted teeth.
Not to mention, they had eaten several times the amount of beef and "Bloody Bronya" at noon.
As for Luna Lovegood, she was in a different state than Eileen and Hannah.
Her extraordinary sixth sense and enviable self-regulation ability allowed Luna to perfectly absorb the magic power contained in the beef and blood and transform it into her own strength without much physical training.
Unless she is closely marked, it is difficult to hit the erratic Luna with long-range Bludger attacks.
Therefore, although a little breathless, the three little witches were in much better condition than those useless men who looked like they had been fished out of the water, so much so that coach Brandon Dunne began to suspect that his players had engaged in some intense and exciting multiplayer activity the night before the training match, resulting in such a severe decline in their physical fitness.
"Well then, Coach Brandon, we'll be leaving if there's nothing else?"
"Okay, see you tomorrow! Thank you for your hard work today, Miss Kaslana."
"It's nothing, it will be a little difficult at the beginning, but you will slowly get used to it later. After all, I only have one month to participate in training on the field, and if I don't add a little bit of code, I'm afraid it will be difficult to see a more obvious improvement."
"As long as we can win the championship, what does a little bitterness matter? This is destined to bring earth-shattering changes to Quidditch... Okay, you guys go back quickly, I just saw Mrs. Scamander at the entrance of the stadium, ready to take you home."
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A little late... Sorry...
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