At the peak of a snow-covered mountain, a faint breeze quietly swept across the white drifts.
In an instant, the snow was gently stirred, turning into a thin veil of mist that drifted lazily through the air.
And in one corner, the steep summit had somehow become perfectly flat—like it had been shaved off with an impossibly huge blade—forming a circular platform roughly a hundred meters across.
This should have been a place no one ever reached.
Yet now, it was packed with people.
Even more strangely, none of them seemed affected by the brutal conditions of the Himalayas.
Because along the edge of the circular platform, amid the raging wind and snow, a transparent circular shield flickered in and out of view—blocking all the bad weather outside and keeping the temperature inside steady at around 72°F (22°C).
Tony stood beside Harry. Seeing how confident Harry looked, Tony couldn't help staring ahead with worry.
Nearby, another peak glimmered through the storm, its surface covered in dense, intricate rune carvings.
Tony swallowed and asked anyway, "Harry… are you sure you don't want to test this first before lifting an entire mountain?
Even Notre-Dame Cathedral took 182 years to build. Even if you're a wizard, a project as huge as a floating city should take years, right?"
Tony wasn't the only one doubting the floating city project. Wong stood at Harry's side too, arms crossed, brow furrowed, his tone heavy with concern.
"Harry… maybe we should think this through again. If this fails, we won't have the budget to buy that much construction material a second time."
Kaecilius, on the other hand, looked utterly unimpressed. He sneered without holding back.
"Making you the Sorcerer Supreme was the Ancient One's greatest mistake. At this rate, Kamar-Taj will be shutting down any day now."
Kaecilius had disliked Harry for a long time. Even after Harry became the Sorcerer Supreme, he still refused to accept it.
Unlike the others, Harry was brimming with confidence. He patted his chest.
"Relax. I've prepared for everything. Nothing will go wrong."
Everyone could only sigh. Harry was the Sorcerer Supreme, after all—and the cost of the rune materials had been paid for with the money Harry earned by selling Mephisto's S&M video.
So whether they liked it or not, Harry had the final say.
When everything was ready and Harry was about to activate the levitation runes on the rune-covered mountain, Nick Fury walked over from the side.
Fury's expression was grim. He fixed his eyes on Harry and offered advice in a low, serious voice.
"Harry. You're really going to just send it up like this?
You know an aircraft-grade Helicarrier took ten full years of repeated testing before it reached stable flight.
And during that time, problem after problem kept showing up.
Maybe you should wait. Once S.H.I.E.L.D. builds a couple more Helicarriers, we could help pull your floating city into a stable flight path. It would cut down a lot of the risk."
Harry shook his head again. "No need. I'm fully prepared. I guarantee it's foolproof."
Under everyone's watchful gaze, Harry walked forward. His body passed through the shield and emerged into the oxygen-thin, freezing outside air.
The wind howled like blades, but Harry looked unaffected. A strange energy radiated from him, and the cold couldn't come near.
He raised his wand and rapidly drew a dense rune matrix in front of his chest. It resonated with the rune matrix carved into the mountain and activated it.
The next moment, a powerful vibration spread outward from the rune-covered peak.
Slowly—accompanied by sharp cracking—rock began to fracture. Under that sound, the mountain's top, hundreds of meters tall, separated from the bedrock beneath it.
As the rune matrix intensified, the severed mountain actually rose—floating steadily—and began to ascend into the sky.
The sight was breathtaking, like nature itself was performing a miracle under Harry's magic.
But Tony's prediction was right.
The lift provided by the levitation runes wasn't enough to keep a mountain rising for long. After climbing about a hundred meters, the floating city stalled—and started to look like it might fall.
Kaecilius laughed coldly. "Hah. Of course. Wasting that much rune material… I wonder how he plans to handle the next few years of financial problems."
No one bothered responding.
Everyone here was smart enough to know Kaecilius and Harry were at odds. And it was obvious who they'd rather stay on good terms with.
No one was going to throw away a chance to cooperate with Harry just because of a senior sorcerer's snide remarks.
Kaecilius hadn't even finished speaking when the floating city—seemingly stable a moment ago—jerked violently without warning…
And then it dropped.
Every heart on the platform leapt straight into someone's throat.
They'd all been dreaming of Earth's first floating city—something that belonged in fantasy novels—finally becoming real.
They wanted it so badly.
Even Tony did.
He'd lived in every kind of mansion imaginable, but he'd never lived in a floating city.
But now it looked impossible.
Harry had rushed this.
And yet—
In that instant, scarlet magical radiance wrapped around Harry's entire body. A terrifying force burst from him and slammed into the mountain—dozens upon dozens of billions of tons of mass—like it weighed nothing.
Those who recognized the signature of the spell cried out on the spot.
"The Levitation Charm!"
Harry's magic was clearly teetering on the edge of losing control—and that pushed his raw output even higher.
And the Levitation Charm's structure was relatively simple. It didn't demand fine control.
More importantly, its essence was to cancel gravity in a "fantasy" way—rather than using brute telekinesis to physically carry the mountain.
That meant it consumed far less magical power.
So under the Levitation Charm, the mountain stopped falling… and began rising again.
Tony and Nick Fury both stared, completely stunned.
Seriously?
This was the plan?
Just brute-force lift a mountain with your own power?
Wong, who had never liked Kaecilius to begin with, immediately fired back with a sharp grin.
"Looks like someone's going to be disappointed. Harry still lifted it. And this floating city will become Kamar-Taj's fourth Sanctum."
Kaecilius's face darkened. He shot Wong a venomous glare and spat, "We'll see what happens next.
Even if Potter can lift it, keeping it afloat long-term—and running magical weapons, spatial teleportation arrays, defensive arrays—that takes an ocean of magic.
Where's he getting that from?
Tony Stark's Arc Reactor can't provide magic of that quality!"
But as soon as Kaecilius finished, a far greater surge of magical power rolled down from the sky.
This power was activated by Harry's magic, yet it dwarfed Harry's own in scale.
Driven by that enormous force, the floating city—still shaky just moments ago—shot upward at an unbelievable speed, soaring in the blink of an eye to several thousand meters above the ground.
Everyone below stared in stunned silence, unable to understand what they'd just seen.
Why had the floating city, which had clearly been failing, suddenly launched like that?
As they stood there exchanging baffled looks, a portal opened beside them.
Harry stepped out—obviously exhausted, yet grinning with excitement.
Tony couldn't hold it in anymore. "Harry—how did you do that? Where did you get that much energy?"
Harry's smile turned faintly smug. "Did you forget? I still have two Infinity Stones.
I traded the Space Stone to Asgard for the Mind Stone.
Then I placed the Mind Stone into the floating city's base as its magical power source.
The Mind Stone's higher-dimensional power can be converted into high-quality magic with ease."
Even so, Tony still didn't understand.
Bruce Banner, standing nearby, asked what everyone was thinking. "But extracting power from the Mind Stone at that scale, that steadily… I don't remember us having materials that can withstand and channel that much magic."
Right then, soft sounds drifted down from the sky—faint, intermittent moans.
They were so seductively sweet that even Tony—an old hand at flirting—couldn't suppress the instinctive reaction. His face flushed immediately.
Seeing everyone's reactions, Harry looked apologetic.
"Sorry. I forgot to turn on the dampening system."
He lifted his hand and quickly drew a simple rune array in the air.
As it formed, the mountain above flickered—like an invisible soundproof curtain had been pulled into place—completely cutting off the sultry moans.
Tony stared upward, then back at Harry. "What was that?"
Harry's grin widened, proud as can be. "That's connected to your question…"
"Huh?" Everyone looked even more confused.
Harry enjoyed the reaction, smiling brighter and brighter. "I figured out an extremely clever way to draw power from the Mind Stone!"
"What way?"
"The Mind Stone's higher-dimensional energy attribute is mind.
And I just so happen to have an excellent supply of 'consumables' whose attribute is also mind."
"…What?"
Harry finally revealed the answer.
"Succubi."
Everyone: "???"
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