Harry found it quite interesting, so he destroyed and rebuilt that castle within his consciousness, even flattening and raising the distant mountains again when he felt like it.
As for the consumption...
It's negligible.
With the help of this Transformation Gem, he could continuously convert magic power into spiritual power.
For others, there might be limitations on magic power.
But such limitations are nothing to Harry, who is essentially the Magic Stone itself.
After playing for a while, Harry reluctantly exited his state of consciousness.
Seeing Harry open his eyes, Pabi leaned in and asked with concern, "How do you feel?"
"Pretty good," Harry said happily, "I tried it my own way, and it feels quite nice—thanks to Mr. Leme's stone, otherwise I wouldn't have the abundant spiritual power to expand my consciousness world."
Hearing Harry's words, Pabi was taken aback.
What did you say?
"Consciousness world?" She uncertainly repeated, "Are you talking about—the consciousness world?"
"Yeah." Harry nodded, "I used ancient magic to create a virtual world in my mind—different from imagination, that world... seems real... I can invite others to enter my consciousness world, or automatically counterattack when someone tries to use Mind Reading on me, pulling them into my consciousness world."
Pabi glanced at Harry and tactically leaned back with a dismissive smile.
I must compete with you talented types!
"Wait a second." She suddenly realized something, "What if someone enters your consciousness world to cause damage?"
Who would have thought, Harry chuckled.
"In the consciousness world, I'm the sole ruler. You can't possibly defeat me on my home turf, can you?"
"Then should I give it a try?" Pabi's gaze went past Harry to look at Mr. Leme.
But Mr. Leme just gave a mysterious smile, holding his crystal ball while continuing to gaze into the void, who knows what he was seeing.
Seeing that Mr. Leme was ignoring her, Pabi pouted and pulled out her magic wand from her coat.
"Then you should prepare yourself!" she said, baring her little tiger teeth.
Just as she was about to use Mind Reading, Pabi felt something was off.
"Hold on, this was supposed to test whether you would automatically defend yourself without any preparation—let's chat, Harry."
"About what?" Harry asked in confusion.
Pabi glanced at Mr. Leme, then at her nephew Newt, thought for a moment and finally said, "You come with me—let's go to the room over there."
"Alright." Harry was pulled by Pabi to the small room on the side without saying a word.
After the door closed, Mr. Leme slowly lifted his head, showing a mysterious smile to Newt.
"Seems like Miss Swedding knows how to seize opportunities after all..."
"Huh?" Newt didn't understand what Mr. Leme meant.
But Mr. Leme didn't want to explain to him, he laughed and lowered his head to continue studying the crystal ball computer in his hands.
Dragged into the small room by Pabi, Harry was bewildered. He was pushed onto a chair and asked, scratching his head, "Why do we need to come here to chat?"
"Of course, I need to distract you, Harry." Pabi smiled warmly as she rubbed Harry's head, "That's why I brought you here—"
"Distract?"
Just as Harry finished speaking, he saw Pabi unbuttoning her shirt, her two fair hands pulling the shirt to the sides.
His eyes bulged out.
Damn, what has blinded my eyes?
However, a soft but sharp rebuke came to his ears.
"Legiliments (Mind Reading)!"
...
Pabi only felt the world spinning before falling into a pitch-black space.
Soon a light appeared before her eyes. She opened her eyes and found herself at wintertime Hogwarts.
A cold wind blew past, prompting her to tighten her clothes and rebutton her shirt.
"What's going on?" she muttered to herself, "Isn't it supposed to be summer? Why is there snow?"
"Because you're in my consciousness world."
No sooner were the words spoken than Pabi saw the surroundings transform into a lush summer landscape.
"Harry?" Pabi exclaimed, "Is this real? You've really created a consciousness world?"
As she spoke, she squatted down and scratched at the ground.
The unmistakable texture made her feel a sense of wonder.
It felt like real ground, scraping her nails until they hurt.
"What else did you expect?" Harry looked at her, "Did you think I'd go through all that trouble just to simulate a fake world?"
"Makes sense." Pabi chuckled, then asked, "If I cause any damage in this world, would it affect you... oh, of course, I don't mean I'm going to, but what if someone wanting to invade your spiritual world does? There must be ways to counter it, right?"
"What sort of damage could you cause?"
Harry's figure suddenly appeared before Pabi.
"Huh? You can come in too?" Pabi asked in a daze.
"This is my world; of course, I can come in."
Harry laughed, pointing towards the distant mountains.
"In this world, I am the ruler; do you really think anyone can harm me?"
With that, Pabi saw the mountains Harry pointed to collapse loudly, as if they were struck by a terrifying earthquake.
The ground they stood on began to shake violently as well, causing Pabi to lose her balance and fall onto Harry.