To achieve the power Harvey envisioned, Lumos would likely need to be upgraded to Version 4.0.
"A long road ahead!"
Just as he was about to continue his research on the Lumos spell, the ground shook violently. The cauldrons and materials on the workbench were rattled and fell to the floor.
"What's going on?"
Harvey thought some death-seeking fool was attacking the estate's protective magic. He immediately flicked his wand.
He cast the Version 2.7 Levitation Charm.
The brass scales, cauldrons, and jars of magical materials in the laboratory...
Even the Devil's Snare used to guard the lab levitated into the air.
They quickly flew into his spatial bag.
A minute later, the shaking became increasingly violent.
After packing everything up, Harvey rushed out of the underground lab and onto the lawn outside the villa.
He saw Hermione, Cho Chang, and Wanda—three beauties who had grown even more radiant under his "nourishment"—all staring straight at the sky.
"Is an enemy attacking the protective magic?"
As Harvey asked, he followed their gaze upward.
The entire sky had turned a gloomy, leaden gray, like the prelude to a coming storm.
He cast Far-Sight Version 1.5.
His vision zoomed in rapidly. He then realized that the "overcast" clouds were actually the result of a massive accumulation of dust.
"Is this... volcanic ash?"
With a bit of thought, Harvey understood the reason for such a massive dust cloud.
"Look! We found the cause of the earthquake!"
Hermione pulled out her phone and tuned it to the radio mode. An emergency news broadcast was playing.
[This is a CBA Real-Time News broadcast. Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, located in the heart of the United States, suffered the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history at 2:37 PM today!]
[This super-volcano has had three massive eruptions over the past 2.1 million years.]
[But this fourth eruption, accompanied by a Magnitude 9.2 earthquake, far exceeds the previous three in scale.]
[According to Professor Bernard Mason, a renowned geologist, he estimates the energy of this eruption to be equivalent to the explosion of 2.6 million Hiroshima atomic bombs.]
[Clearly, this eruption will have extremely severe consequences. The White House has already declared a National State of Emergency.]
[All personnel living in Wyoming are urged to evacuate the area immediately...]
After hearing the explanation given by the news, everyone was stunned.
Wanda said in shock, "How could Yellowstone suddenly erupt?"
Cho Chang and Hermione were more concerned about everyone's safety.
"Yellowstone is a full 3,000 kilometers from New York, yet the ash has already drifted here. We won't be affected, will we?"
Seeing the three women worried, Harvey spoke calmly to reassure them: "Don't be afraid. With me here, even if the Earth explodes, I can take you to another world for refuge."
Hearing this, Hermione and Cho Chang quickly calmed down.
"This super-volcano eruption is an act of God. Muggle casualties are one thing, but this much ash blocking the sun will likely change the entire world's ecosystem."
Wanda asked cautiously, "Should we go hide in the other world for a bit? Can we bring Pietro along?"
Harvey shook his head, feeling the situation was still under control. "No need. It's just a volcano and an earthquake. Let's see what the situation is like after the shaking stops."
Wanda felt something wrong with the vibrating ground. Her hands immediately lit up with red light, lifting everyone into the air.
Everyone watched as the earth gradually cracked open, revealing a deep, bottomless fissure over 200 meters long.
Cho Chang's pupils shrank as she exclaimed, "This earthquake is too much! It's literally tearing the ground apart!"
Harvey began to feel something was wrong as well.
He keenly sensed violent energy fluctuations in outer space. He looked up, trying to see what was happening.
But the sky was filled with gloomy volcanic ash, obscuring all vision.
"Something's wrong. This earthquake isn't natural. Be careful, I'm going to outer space to check it out."
After instructing them, Harvey cast Apparition Version 3.0, and his figure vanished from the air.
In an instant, he arrived in outer space.
He propped up a magical shield to withstand the vacuum pressure. His eyes glowed blue as he cast Far-Sight to find where the spatial fluctuations were coming from.
Before long.
He pinpointed the exact location of the spatial anomaly.
The Moon!
At this moment, countless meteorites of varying sizes were "landing" on the Moon at high speed, gradually forming a strange area of dark shadows.
Because the distance was too great—over 200,000 kilometers—the Far-Sight spell could only barely make out that the shadows seemed to be moving life forms.
Harvey cast Apparition again, arriving instantly on the lunar surface.
Viewing these moving shadows from a close distance...
His eyes went wide in pure shock. "What the motherfuck? How did the Transformers get here!?"
These moving, humanoid, metallic mechanical life forms were clearly the Decepticon army from Transformers.
The largest mechanical life form, based on its black-and-red armored appearance, the shoulder cannon, and the handheld laser sword...
He was clearly the leader of the Autobots, the mentor of Optimus Prime, the descendant of Primus—Sentinel Prime!
A stunned Harvey recovered and began to think about the reason Sentinel Prime and the Decepticons were here.
Did the appearance of Transformers mean that at the core of the Earth sat a dormant Unicron?
Had the Decepticons awakened Unicron? Was that why natural disasters were striking Earth?
The probability was high.
As he thought, he spotted several energy pillars standing on the moon's surface nearby from the corner of his eye.
"That thing... it looks like the pillars for the Space Bridge?"
Harvey was startled by this guess.
If the Space Bridge was successfully activated, had Sentinel Prime really succeeded in transporting the home planet of Cybertron here?!
With an ugly expression, Harvey looked up into the starry sky, searching for an anomaly.
Ten minutes later.
He finally found a dead, metallic planet in Mars' orbit.
Gulp—
Harvey swallowed hard. Cybertron had actually been transported here.
This planet Cybertron was likely made entirely of rare metals; its mass had to be astronomical.
Based on the gravitational effect of such a massive body, the reason for Earth's frequent disasters was obvious.
"These Decepticons seem to have allied with the Inhuman Royal Family on the Moon?"
Harvey frowned, looking at the gathering of villains. "What a hassle. Should I step in and deal with these mechanical lives?"
He didn't want to meddle, but if he allowed this to continue, he worried these Transformers would truly wake Unicron.
Sentinel Prime, driven mad by his desire to rebuild his home, would have no mercy for the humans of Earth.
Once Sentinel Prime's plot succeeded, his joke about the Earth exploding might actually become reality.
"If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll just grow back when the spring wind blows."
In the Marvel Universe, Earth was a vital location. Harvey didn't want it destroyed by these people.
Thus, he steeled his resolve to eliminate all the Transformers on the Moon.