(There will be some references to Lord of the Mysteries)
Before he even reached the Great Hall, while there was still some distance to the entrance, Harry could already hear the lively cheers.
When he pushed the doors open, the place was packed. The hall was draped in red and gold decorations to celebrate Gryffindor winning the House Cup.
Up on the High Table, Headmaster Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, and several other professors held goblets, smiling and nodding at him in greeting.
Beside them were a few adult wizards Harry had never met before. Judging by their attire, they were likely Ministry of Magic officials.
They nodded to Harry as well, but beyond polite courtesy, their gazes held far more curiosity about him.
After returning the nod, Harry walked over to Hermione and Ron, who were waving enthusiastically at him, and sat down beside them, quietly waiting for the end-of-year feast to begin.
But just then, a faint, almost imperceptible calling suddenly reached his ears.
Harry's brows knitted slightly. It was obvious that this kind of crackly, unstable "signal" could only come from very far away—his newest blessed, Audrey!
Audrey sounded frantic, so Harry immediately poured his full focus into strengthening the connection between them.
A moment later, the link stabilized. Audrey's clear, pleasant voice rang by his ear—
Only now, that pleasant voice was laced with sheer terror, as she cried in a rush:
"Mr. Potter, help! I was suddenly captured by a mysterious Beyonder and dragged into a world above the gray fog!"
"Above the gray fog?" Harry murmured. Nothing in his memory matched it, leaving him with no clue at all.
He quickly soothed Audrey, speaking softly. "Don't panic. I'll check where you are right now!"
Hearing Harry's response, Audrey finally let out a long breath. The tight string in her chest loosened, if only a little.
She cautiously glanced up at the vague figure overhead, shrouded layer upon layer by gray fog, and the worry in her heart still didn't fade.
Not long ago, she'd just finished a dance lesson and was sitting at her vanity, carefully studying a bronze mirror with ancient patterns and a crack running across its surface.
Her father had given her that mirror. According to him, it had once been a rare treasure of the Black Emperor from the ancient Solomon Empire.
With the ability Harry had bestowed on her, she had keenly sensed an unusual aura seeping from the mirror.
Her intuition told her this mirror was an extraordinary item.
But no matter how long Audrey examined it, she gained nothing. The bronze mirror remained exactly as it had been, showing not the slightest hint of anything extraordinary.
If she weren't certain her senses were correct, she would've given up long ago.
With nothing to show for it, irritation gradually rose. Her soft, pink cheeks puffed slightly, and then she extended a pale, slender forefinger, pointing at the mirror as she scolded in a sweet but fierce voice:
"Mirror, mirror, wake up… In the name of the Hall family, I command you—wake up!"
Suddenly, the bronze mirror that had been standing quietly on the tabletop erupted without warning in a blinding deep-red glow, instantly swallowing her whole.
By the time she regained her senses, she had already arrived in a world shrouded by gray fog!
Realizing she had very likely been abducted by some unknown Beyonder, Audrey didn't hesitate for even a second—she contacted Harry at once and begged him for help.
…
Meanwhile, after confirming she wasn't in immediate danger, Audrey forced down the fear in her chest and asked the mysterious person not far away, hidden in the gray fog:
"Sir… where is this place? What do you want to do?"
There was a brief silence of a few seconds above the gray fog. Then, from deep within the mist, a flat voice drifted out—steady, emotionless:
"An experiment."
Audrey's scalp prickled. Just an experiment, and yet it had pulled her from her bedroom to this fog-filled place in an instant—what kind of unimaginable power was that?
Could Mr. Potter really deal with a Beyonder this terrifying?
If it were Mr. Potter's true body, Audrey would've felt a little more at ease.
But Mr. Potter was located beyond endless dimensions, separated from her by an immeasurable distance. Any power he could transmit would be weakened layer by layer—let alone actually fighting a being of such a high level.
At that moment, Harry's voice finally sounded in Audrey's mind. Her eyes lit up with relief, and she asked anxiously in her thoughts:
"Mr. Potter, what should I do now?"
Harry told Hermione and Ron not to disturb him for the moment. Then he closed his eyes, focused his mind, and sent his gaze across endless dimensions—until it reached Earth in the potion world.
He first looked into Audrey's bedroom. At that moment, "Backlund's brightest gem" was slumped over the vanity, already fast asleep.
Beside her, a golden retriever named Susie was curiously inspecting the sleeping Audrey, even gently tugging at her dress with her teeth.
Harry ignored Susie and fixed his attention on Audrey. Very quickly, he sensed a strange, icy, abnormal energy within her body.
That energy felt similar to the aura of the Beholder (D&D), a powerful dimensional demon-god—though weaker. Yet the essence of that energy was unbelievably high. And the owner of such high-dimensional power could only be an immensely powerful dimensional entity.
Harry's expression turned more solemn. Poor Miss Audrey truly had run into enormous trouble.
Dense observation runes surfaced in Harry's eyes, whirling and weaving together, granting him even stronger probing power.
He stared at Audrey, attempting to use the observation runes to pierce through layer after layer of obstruction and locate where her consciousness currently was.
Soon, Audrey's luxurious court gown gradually became translucent, revealing pale, snow-bright skin beneath.
But Harry's mind wasn't on appearances at all.
His gaze became almost tangible, continuing straight through flesh, deep beneath the skin—muscle, blood, organs, even the marrow at the deepest point—each and every layer laid bare beneath his sight.
A moment later, Harry found a strange crimson spiritual glow inside Audrey.
Following that glow, he probed deeper—yet his vision didn't sink downward. Instead, it began to rise, climbing steadily, until it reached a wondrous space.
The energies here were extremely chaotic, like the aura of certain ownerless dimensional universes, yet also subtly different.
Harry didn't linger. He continued upward along the pull of his perception. At the very top of that space, he finally found a thick, concentrated gray fog—
And within that fog sat a Gothic-style castle, ancient and mysterious.
The instant Harry saw the castle, he reached a conclusion.
Without a doubt, Audrey was inside it!
However, when Harry tried to push further, the castle stopped him. He couldn't go deeper.
His brows furrowed. The castle's defenses were strong—so strong that even he couldn't force his way in.
But quickly, he thought of another method. He rapidly altered the nature of his chaos magic, shifting it to align with the castle's attributes.
Once the two matched perfectly, chaos magic slipped inside with ease—just as he'd expected.
When Harry observed the interior, his brow lifted slightly.
The inside was clearly far larger than it looked from the outside, as though it had been cast with an Undetectable Extension Charm. And just like outside, the interior was also wrapped in vast amounts of gray fog.
Harry swept his gaze through the castle, searching for Audrey.
Very soon, he found her—seated on one side of a long stone table.
Her fists were clenched tight, her whole posture tense with anxiety. Opposite her sat a middle-aged man. He looked far more mature than Audrey, sitting steadily as he glanced around repeatedly, trying to make sense of their surroundings.
Harry's attention didn't stay on them. He looked deeper into the gray fog.
At the far end of the table—the seat of honor at the head—sat a young man.
He, too, was wreathed in gray fog, just like the castle itself.
If Harry's chaos magic hadn't been aligned with the fog's attributes, Harry wouldn't even have been able to see the young man's features through the mist.
The young man had short black hair. His temperament was refined and easygoing, the kind that made people feel goodwill almost instinctively.
He didn't look strange at all—not the kind of indescribable, terrifying form Harry had expected. Instead, he looked like an ordinary person.
But it wasn't that simple. Harry could faintly sense that the young man was connected to the castle itself, and a profoundly unfathomable aura seeped from within him.
Harry had felt the same kind of aura on Odin and those dimensional demon-gods. It was weaker here, but unmistakable—
Divinity.
This is bad. Why is Audrey facing a god head-on?
After thinking for a moment, Harry decided Audrey needed to know the truth and face the brutal reality.
"Audrey," Harry said, "your situation is extremely dangerous."
"Huh?" Even Mr. Potter says it's dangerous—how dangerous is that?! Audrey instantly panicked, her face full of desperation. "Mr. Potter, what exactly is going on right now?"
Harry's voice sank. "The one above the gray fog isn't a mortal."
"He is a god."
Audrey: "???"
Her face turned ashen on the spot, despair flooding her.
Before a god, the entire Loen Kingdom was nothing—let alone her, merely a count's daughter.
If a god wanted to harm her, she would have no power to resist at all!
No…
She still had Mr. Potter. Maybe—maybe Mr. Potter had a way!
Audrey's eyes reddened instantly, tears spilling out as she pleaded pitifully:
"Mr. Potter, you have to be able to save me, right? I'm your most loyal blessed!"
Seeing Audrey so frightened, Harry found it a little amusing, but he still comforted her gently.
"Don't worry. My power can infiltrate this god's divine kingdom. This sliver of strength can't possibly duel a god, but getting you out safely shouldn't be a problem."
After a period of recovery, the chaos magic within Harry was no longer surging out of control. Now, he was once again able to draw on his magic beyond its limits.
If Audrey faced danger, he wouldn't hesitate to push himself into a state on the verge of losing control, using overwhelming chaos magic to shield Audrey and help her escape from this gray fog.
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