Chapter 347 Second Year Final Summary
Professor Snape wanted to expose Levi, but remembering Levi's previous words and comparing the level of trust between himself and Levi among the young wizards,
he gave up the idea and was not prepared to make a fool of himself.
Professor Snape didn't feel any regret about not being trusted or favored; his teaching style in Potions Class was his own choice.
It was also an inevitable result that he was not welcomed or trusted by the young wizards.
But what about back then? When he was in school, what if he had chosen a different path to get along with Lily?!
If he hadn't been obsessed with the Dark Arts back then;
If he hadn't blurted out that damn curse word;
If he hadn't chosen to follow Voldemort;
If he hadn't eavesdropped on that prophecy and told it to Voldemort...
Too many "ifs", too many fork roads to choose from!
But he happened to choose the path that made him filled with endless regret, remorse for life, and wishing he could die earlier!
Now knowing that Harry Potter was one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, Professor Snape knew that this time he had no choice!
According to the prophecy and Headmaster Dumbledore's arrangement, he had to let Harry Potter die once at the hands of Voldemort, and he also had to let Harry Potterdefeat Voldemort!
He had no other choice; this was his responsibility, and also his crime and punishment!
The young wizards surrounding Levi were easily dispersed by the Professors.
The launch of the school network had already become a fait accompli, leaving no room for these people to refute, oppose, or resist!
"I'm done for, I'm done for!"
Ron, who remained in place, turned completely grey all over. He felt that all joy was gone, and the two-month vacation was left with only a pathetic future.
"Cheer up, Ron! After the game console is restricted, don't you have time to study?!"
As Ron's close friend and sworn brother, Harley brewed words for a long time and finally squeezed out such a sentence.
As soon as these words came out, Ron looked as devastated as if he had lost his parents!
"Phew ~ You scared me to death, Levi. I thought your game console would be completely confiscated!"
"I didn't expect nothing to happen at all; instead, we got the school network as a regulation."
"However, it was really thrilling just now. I almost thought they were going to beat you up together!"
Hermione, who had bravely stood by Levi's side just now, said with lingering fear as she accompanied Levi toward the Great Hall.
"You still don't trust how I handle things!"
Levi smiled smugly in front of Hermione.
After the legend mod condensed the game rules, he knew that resolving the conflict between gaming and studying was not a problem at all!
"As for your ability to court disaster and stir up trouble, I have 100% confidence in it, and I know it like the back of my hand!"
little witch Hermione, who was already prepared to be beaten up, rolled her eyes upon hearing this and said impatiently.
If Levi didn't stir up some trouble after ten days or half a month, she would feel a bit unaccustomed.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet, Great Professor Levi Keynes, you got first place in the grade!"
Changing the subject, Hermione stopped talking about the school network.
In her view, this matter was done by Levi, and done well!
"Congratulations to you too, Miss Hermione Granger, you also got first place in the grade!"
Levi also congratulated the little witch with a face full of appreciation.
The path of exploring the mysteries of magic is long, and perhaps only Hermione had the ability to accompany him all the way down!
As for the first place in the grade, for Levi, it was as simple as taking something out of his pocket.
His seven subjects all got O, especially the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, where he even graded himself.
Although the system did not recognize this score, it recognized Levi's grade-first academic performance.
Because one subject's score was missing, the system finally only gave Levi 180,000 Academic Credits, but being able to earn so many Academic Credits in the final exam already satisfied Levi.
As for the professor mod, it didn't let down Levi's expectations. After a whole academic year, normal teaching plus the Academic Credits accumulated from the trials classroom actually reached 100,000 Academic Credits!
"Calculated this way, being a student attending classes normally seems to earn fewer Academic Credits than being a Professor!"
"Half an academic year is 100,000 Academic Credits, and one academic year is 200,000 Academic Credits. If I become a Professor at Hogwarts in the future, I won't have to worry about running out of Academic Credits to spend!"
Levi thought with great satisfaction in his heart, completely forgetting his initial thought that he would rather die than be an exhausted Professor at Hogwarts!
Coupled with the fragmentary Academic Credits Levigained from reading with Hermione in the Library every day, his Academic Credits reached 300,000.
And this didn't even count the House Cup that was about to be settled and the 80,000 Academic Credits Levi earned from daily classes over the past year.
Levi and Hermione walked into the Great Hall. The inside of the hall had been freshly decorated; sky blue and bronze curtains, flags, and banners were already hanging all over the Great Hall.
"It seems that this year's House Cup is still won by Ravenclaw House!"
As soon as Hermione saw the decorations in the hall, she knew who the House Cup would go to this year.
She couldn't help looking at Levi walking beside her—it was this guy who always played dirty and snatched answers from her.
"Yeah, it belongs to Ravenclaw House again. A certain little witch from Gryffindor House must work hard!"
Stared straight in the eyes by Hermione's beautiful eyes, Levi didn't show the slightest bit of fear; instead, he smugly raised his eyebrows and said meaningfully.
That provocative vibe made Hermione's teeth itch with anger, and she wished she could pounce on Levi and take a bite out of him!
"Levi, you wait for me. When I reach the third year, I'm going to out-compete you to death!"
little witch Hermione said to Levi with renewed determination, stamped her foot, and rushed towards the Gryffindor long table.
Hearing the little witch's ambitious aspirations, Levi smiled indifferently. Who would out-compete whom to death wasn't certain yet!
As for why he deliberately provoked Hermione?
Anyone who asked this question was mostly a single dog; this is called emotional tug-of-war, understand?!
Levi sat down on the side of the Ravenclaw long table. As a result, when his two roommates saw him sitting over, they immediately let out a deliberate cold snort, leaving Levi with two backs of their heads.
"What's wrong? Do you feel inferior because you're not as handsome as me, and dare not face me!"
He said intentionally. In fact, how could he not know the reason for his roommates' reaction?
As the two people who understood him best in the entire Ravenclaw House, Anthony and Michael must have guessed that the school network was deliberately set up by him.
There were no two roommates of Levi who knew Levi's vulgar tastes better than them!
"You still have the nerve to say that! Believe it or not, I'll shout out loud: You deliberately launched the school network to make things difficult for us young wizards!"
Black buddy Michael deliberately lowered his voice, put on a threatening look, and threatened Levi.
"Levi, you wouldn't want me to snitch on you to our classmates, would you!"
Near Zhu is red, near Mo is black. Anthony, who had been blackened by Michael, also threatened Levi in a full-of-threat manner.
This Japanese young wizard, what on earth do you want to do?!
Levi looked speechlessly at his two roommates, lowered his voice as well, and asked helplessly:
"Speak, what do you two want?"
"Hehe ~"
Hearing this, Anthony and Michael immediately looked at each other and smiled. Like flies rubbing their hands, smiling flatteringly all over their faces, they leaned close to Levi and lowered their voices to the lowest, saying:
"Levi, since the school network is made by you, can you open special permissions for the two of us?
Our requests aren't much; can we have no limits on the time we play games every day?"
After hearing the two people's requests, Levi was utterly speechless and said with a helpless face:
"Are you two idiots, or am I an idiot?"
"If I really open such permissions for you, in case you expose yourselves in front of other Professors and classmates, wouldn't the three of us get disciplined by the Professors together?"
"That's right," the steady and wise Anthony reacted like a fool.
"Then what should we do?" Black buddy Michael was out of tricks too.
"How about this, bring your game consoles over, and I'll load something fun for you!"
Levi speechlessly looked at his white-and-black husky roommates and could only helplessly take out what he had newly prepared to deal with them.
"That's awesome, Godfather!"
Hearing Levi's words, Michael and Anthony were overjoyed.
Products from Levi must be fine products; without any delay, they held the game console with both hands and delivered it in front of Levi.
"Hmm," Levi put on airs, spat out a sound from his nasal cavity, took out his own game console, and shot two magical threads, connecting them to Anthony and Michael's game consoles.
A moment later, Levi finished the game installation and threw the two game consoles back into their arms:
"Take them and play, don't make a fuss everywhere!"
Anthony and Michael quickly took back their game consoles. To their surprise, next to the "King of HeroesChampionship Fighting Game", a new game had actually appeared:
"King of Heroes Character Adventure Game"
The two couldn't help exchanging a glance, and a thought popped up in their minds simultaneously:
Could this new game be adapted by Levi from the trials classroom?
Levi glanced at his two roommates holding their game consoles without raising their heads, and secretly thought in his heart: Done!
Having mastered the authority of the game rules, making games for Levi was just a matter of a single thought, and there was no need to proceed bit by bit from alchemy and programming anymore.
The game he loaded onto Anthony and Michael's game consoles was an idea he had conceived long ago: to make the background story of the King of Heroes into a character adventure game.
And the driving force that turned this idea into reality was the game rules condensed by the legend mod.
With a storyline and various vivid NPCs, the King of Heroes character adventure game would further stir up the players' emotions and promote the condensation of game rules.
Levi's original idea was to let the character adventure game appear together with the third version of the hero king game console, or rather the Magic Phone, plus the app store.
But since his good roommates requested it, Levi could only let Michael and Anthony become closed beta testers first to test the effect of the character adventure game for him.
"In the future, I might turn the entire game into a virtual reality game and transform it into the second demon world for Wizards!"
Levi depicted a grandiose vision of the future in his heart.
If the legend [game] rules hadn't appeared, this vision would ultimately remain just a vision.
But now, with the game rules, coupled with Levi's continuously improving strength and alchemy technology, he felt that one day he would turn this grandiose vision into reality!
Anthony and Michael played the game so obliviously and lost track of time; when the two of them raised their heads, time had flashed, and it was already evening!
Their roommate Levi was chatting with Prefect Penelope Clearwater about future career planning, and both of them looked all smiles and laughter.
"What level have you reached?"
Michael whispered to Anthony. He hadn't expected that while he had already cleared the second level of the trials classroom, he hadn't even cleared the first level of the role-playing game on the hero king game console.
"I just hit the third batch of Red Caps. How on earth did Levi design the monsters? Why are they so hard to beat?"
Anthony had a suffering look on his face, but his eyes were extremely excited—clearly a Souls-like player who loved suffering.
That's right, the King of Heroes role-playing game designed by Levi was a solid Souls-like game.
Every level and every mob, under Levi's design, possessed extremely formidable combat power and could always easily crush players.
Especially since Levi cancelled the characteristic of the Harry Potter world where both monsters and Wizards were glass cannons, making the monsters' health bars in every level astonishingly long and their skill mechanics extremely tricky, making the levels even harder to pass.
However, neither Michael nor Anthony were the kind of people who would run to Levi for help the moment they encountered difficulties; they decided that after the dinner, they must try again.
Time had reached the evening. Headmaster Dumbledoreand the Professors of each house arrived at the staff table one after another.
"Alright, children! It's time for the end of the academic year again! What a year full of twists and turns, yet full of hope!"
Headmaster Dumbledore stood up from his golden chair, stood behind the podium, and spoke with Sonorus:
"Over the past year, we have experienced many thrilling things, witnessed vanity and reality, and even witnessed Sirius Black being cleared of false charges!"
"I hope you can gain some realization and understand that true glory lies in the inner persistence of justice!"
In his aged words carrying a lingering meaning, Headmaster Dumbledore began to announce the scores of the House Cup:
"Now, let us first hold the award ceremony for the House Cup. The specific scores of each house are as follows:
Fourth place, Hufflepuff, 382 points;
Third place, Gryffindor, 394 points;
Second place, Ravenclaw, 462 points;
First place, Slytherin, 492 points!"
Levi served as a Professor in the second half of the academic year and didn't put much thought into snatching answers.
Coupled with the fact that most young wizards in Ravenclaw only focused their attention on subjects they were interested in and similarly didn't like raising their hands to answer questions, Ravenclaw's extra points failed to surpass Slytherin's.
"That's fantastic! Could the House Cup belonging to us Slytherin have returned?!"
"Why are there still Ravenclaw decorations in the hall? They should be replaced with our Slytherin snake flags!"
Hearing the house points announced by Headmaster Dumbledore, the Slytherin young wizards immediately became excited and noisy.
"However," Headmaster Dumbledore changed his tone and added:
"Some things that happened over the past academic year also need supplementary bonus points!"
"First is Mr. Ron Weasley. At the second Hero King Game Championship, he defended the glory belonging to Hogwarts and preserved the crown belonging to the King of Heroes, so I add 100 points to him!"
As Headmaster Dumbledore's voice fell, Gryffindor Houseinstantly cheered. In this way, they directly surpassed Slytherin House and ranked first among the Four Houses!
They actually didn't care whether they got the House Cupor not, but being able to surpass Slytherin House made the young wizards of Gryffindor House exceptionally happy!
Headmaster Dumbledore pressed his palm down to suppress the cheers of the Gryffindor young wizards, and he continued adding points:
"In addition, it is also the most important matter of this final dinner:"
"I want to add 1,000 points to Mr. Levi Keynes of Ravenclaw, to reward him for keenly perceiving something amiss and bravely reporting it, allowing a wrongful grievance to be cleared of false charges, letting bad guys receive severe punishment, and letting good people regain their freedom and innocence!"
"At the same time, these 1,000 points also reward him for his contribution in combating dark forces!"
"As the Headmaster of Hogwarts, I decide to present the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award to Levi Keynes, to reward his major contribution when the school encountered an extraordinary crisis!"
"Let's welcome them with applause! Mr. Levi Keynes, please come to the stage to receive the award!"
Chapter 348: The Train Home
The Golden Shield Medal, representing the HogwartsSpecial Award for Services to the School, was personally hung on Levi's chest by Headmaster Dumbledore, shining brilliantly!
This also meant that Levi's second-year academic career had come to an end!
The young wizard of the Four Houses across all seven years burst into thunderous applause, and cheers rose one after another. Facing gazes of blessings or envy, Leviwalked down the podium.
"The second year is over. What kind of adventure awaits me in the next school year?"
Sitting beside the Ravenclaw long table and watching the young wizard enjoying the end-of-term feast, Levi thought with full anticipation in his heart.
With such anticipation, Levi and Hermione boarded the train home.
Strictly speaking, it couldn't quite be considered going home; the Hogwarts Express was simply taking them to King's Cross Station.
"Woo~"
The whistle hummed and blared, and Hermione waved her wand, placing their luggage onto the luggage rack.
"Levi, how do you plan to arrange your holiday?"
Putting away her wand, the little witch sat down on the bench, her slender calves wrapped in calf-length socks swinging playfully beneath the seat.
Looking at Levi, who was flipping through a book, she also took out a book, though she didn't open it, turning instead to ask Levi about his holiday plans.
"First, we'll stay at your house for a few days to keep your uncle and aunt company, then we'll return to the Castle Manor to continue building the wizard tower. I plan to build the second floor to serve as a Library."
"When the weather gets hot, we'll head to Moscow. The nights there are cool, and the days aren't as sultry and rainy as in Britain. I'll refine a few alchemy items for us to use to beat the heat when we go out during the day."
"Moscow happens to be hosting the Wizard Dueling Tournament, so we can go join in the excitement. ProfessorFlitwick will be accompanying us then, so you don't need to worry about safety."
Levi had already thought out his vacation plan ahead of time, and even took the opportunity during the match to ask Valentin, preparing a complete guide.
Hermione listened and nodded repeatedly, filled with anticipation for the fulfilling holiday, and couldn't help praising Levi:
"Levi, I knew you were the most reliable when getting things done. Since that's the case, my summer vacation is handed over to you!"
Hearing this, Levi glanced sideways at the little witch with a hint of sarcasm, bringing up past accounts as he said:
"Ouch, that's not right!"
"How come I remember a certain little witch saying that she was extremely confident in my ability to attract trouble and disasters, and knew it inside out?"
"She even threatened to out-work me to death next school year!"
"Hehe," hearing this, the little witch Hermione wore a somewhat sheepish smile on her bright and delicate face, actively hugging Levi's arm and acting with Charm:
"Levi, wasn't I just caring about you?"
"Besides, what out-working or not out-working, this is benign competition between us good friends. You aren't scared, are you?"
Almost coaxed into a placenta by the Charm-version of Hermione, Levi fell for Hermione's provocation without the slightest defense, chuckling with absolute confidence:
"Hehe, would I be afraid of you?! Just wait until next school year, you'll see if I out-work you or not!"
"Who's afraid of whom!" Hearing this, Hermione showed no fear at all, revealing the pride and confidence unique to a young girl.
When it came to studying, she, Hermione Granger, would never yield to anyone in her life!
"Dong! Dong!"
While Levi and Hermione were chatting and laughing in the compartment in their unique way, a knock suddenly came from outside the compartment.
"It's still empty here, please come in!"
Hermione's face turned slightly red, and she hurriedly released her grip on Levi's arm. After sitting up straight again, she spoke.
The compartment door was pulled open, and the figures of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley carrying luggage appeared before Hermione and Levi.
"Great, it's the two of you, Levi and Hermione!"
"Phew~ We finally found empty seats!"
Harley and Ron breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, squeezed into the compartment overjoyed, and waved their wands to place their luggage onto the luggage rack.
"I wonder what's going on this year? They added an extra carriage, but it's still hard to find seats!"
Having breathed a sigh of relief, Ron slumped limply on the seat like a salted fish, saying with utter puzzlement.
"I'm also wondering, why are there more people getting on the train this year than in previous years, almost making it hard to find a spot?"
Harley was somewhat baffled. Could it be because he was chatting with Hagrid at the station?
But what did getting on the train later have to do with not having enough seats on the train?
"Have you all forgotten that when school started last year, there were over a hundred young wizard in the first year!"
The well-read and articulate Hermione reminded her two useless followers!
Hearing the three of them discuss the issue of insufficient compartment seats, Levi also became somewhat pensive.
Speaking of which, he had wanted to investigate the reason for the sudden surge in the enrollment number of first-year young wizard before, but never had the chance.
And come to think of it, two years had passed, and this was the first time he was sitting in the same compartment with Harley, Ron, and the Hermione trio.
In previous years, sitting in Ron and Harley's seats were the Iron-Hat King Hannah, as well as the Gryffindor sword saint Neville. That was much better than any the Boy Who Lived and King of Heroes Champion!
"Right, right, right, Miss Granger, you're right!"
Ron still habitually addressed Hermione by her surname. He and Hermione had not gotten along since the first year, and it was only thanks to their shared experience of adventuring into the Chamber of Secrets that they were otherwise much like ordinary friends.
"Do you guys think next year won't still have this many young wizard?"
"This is truly strange. In past years, a single class of young wizard in Hogwarts was only about forty or fifty people, but last year there were unexpectedly over a hundred!"
He expressed extreme shock at this. After all, other Wizardfamilies in the wizarding world certainly didn't have as many children as his family!
Upon hearing this, Levi glanced at Harry Potter:
"I actually don't think this is too strange. Twelve years ago, The Boy Who Lived defeated Voldemort, and the wizarding world finally welcomed long-lost peace. Everyone's reproductive inclination flourished, so it might have just generated a baby boom!"
Hearing this, Harley's face turned red as he waved his hands dismissively. He knew his own business best—how on earth had he defeated Voldemort? If it weren't for his mother's magic protecting him, he would have long died under Voldemort's wand.
Ron and Hermione heard this, looked at Harley, and also felt that what Levi said made sense, but upon careful thought, both of them felt something was not quite right.
Of course there was something wrong. No matter how prolific Wizards were, it was impossible for them to magically double the number of incoming first-year students at Hogwarts out of thin air.
Levi had tallied it up; most of the first-year students who entered last year actually came from the ordinary world, similar to him and Hermione.
In other words, within ordinary society, the number of people whose magic awakened had increased!
"Let's see next school year. If there are still this many people, or even more, then it will get interesting!"
Associated with two prophetic dreams, Levi always felt a sense of inexplicable déjà vu, which made him look even more forward to the future!
Chapter 349 Returning Home and Chatting
"Dad! Mum!"
At King's Cross Station, as soon as Hermione got off the train and came out of Platform 9 ¾, she saw Mr. and Mrs. Granger and, like a flying butterfly, threw herself into Mrs. Granger's arms, expressing her deep longing.
"Aww, Dad and Mum missed you too!"
"Hermione, we haven't seen you for half a year, and you've grown taller again!"
Mr. and Mrs. Granger looked at their daughter Hermione, whom they hadn't seen for half a year, with gratified expressions, stroking Hermione's fluffy long hair, and found that their daughter had actually grown half a head taller!
"Levi, you've grown a lot too! You're even taller than Hermione!"
Mr. Granger said, looking at Levi with appreciation, as the young man before him had shed some of his childishness and no longer looked like the child he used to be!
"Uncle, Auntie, long time no see!"
Levi also responded with a smile, and the few of them exchanged pleasantries at the train station.
They also ran into Weasley's parents, Mrs. Molly Weasleyand Arthur, as well as Neville Longbottom's grandmother, Old Mrs. Longbottom, chatted politely for a few more moments, and finally got into the car to head home.
"Levi, do you and Hermione have any plans for this holiday?"
Mrs. Granger asked Levi and Hermione curiously.
She and Mr. Granger had been warmly hosted by Leviduring the last Christmas holiday, and they also wanted to treat Levi well.
"How about we all go traveling to France together? Over there, the Baie des Anges in Nice, located on the southern coast, has crystal-clear blue seawater, bright sunshine, and exceptionally beautiful scenery, making it most suitable for a family trip!"
Mr. Granger, who was driving, also chimed in with a suggestion.
If they wanted to enjoy the sunshine and beaches, they British people still had to go to France, as the climate here was really not suitable for a vacation.
Levi and Hermione looked at each other, and expressions of difficulty inevitably appeared on both of their faces; they had already planned to go to Moscow to spend this summer vacation.
Hermione knew it wasn't appropriate for Levi to bring this up, so she immediately spoke up:
"Dad, Mum, your suggestion is a bit late now!
Levi and I have already planned it all out; this summer vacation is just to accompany you for a few days, after which we will head to Levi's manor to rest for a few days, and then immediately go to Moscow for a vacation!"
"Moscow?!"
Hearing this, Mr. and Mrs. Granger looked startled and suspicious, hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"Didn't that place just experience political turmoil with the dissolution of the Union? Would it be unsafe?"
"Hermione, I know both you and Levi are Wizards and can use magic.
But didn't you say before that the Ministry of Magic has regulations stating that young wizards like you who haven't graduated cannot use magic in front of ordinary people or during the holidays?"
Hearing this, Hermione hesitated for a moment, but was still ready to speak and head to Moscow with Levi for the vacation.
But Levi spoke up at this moment; since it was his proposal, he couldn't just say nothing:
"Uncle, Auntie, please rest assured, the two of us are mainly going to participate in the Wizard Dueling Tournament of the wizarding world."
"And this event is accompanied by Professors from the school, so its safety is well guaranteed."
Saying this, Levi glanced at Hermione, sighed inwardly, and then changed the subject, saying:
"Of course, if Uncle and Auntie are worried, actually Hermione doesn't need to follow me at all; besides participating in the competition, I also have to handle some asset matters in Moscow."
"As for sightseeing, it's just passing time along the way. Hermione can completely go with you two to spend a vacation on the beaches of southern France. Hermione, remember to apply sunscreen so you don't get tanned!"
Feeling that the atmosphere inside the car was a bit awkward, Levi finally cracked a joke, which made Hermione gracefully roll her eyes at him and also made Mr. and Mrs. Granger laugh.
"Since that's the case, then we can rest assured!"
"Levi, you've grown up too and are a little man now. Entrusting Hermione to you gives us complete peace of mind!"
Mr. and Mrs. Granger breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the two of them were just an ordinary couple; even though they had some understanding of the wizarding world, they still instinctively held a sense of awe toward it.
However, if things were reversed and Hermione and Leviwent traveling to Moscow and could be protected by Professors of the wizarding world, then they wouldn't have to worry about any danger in Moscow!
After all, no matter how dangerous the ordinary world was, could it possibly be as dangerous as the mysterious magic in their eyes?!
"Hey hey hey, what do you mean by entrusting me to him? I can take care of myself!"
"Chances are, when we get to Moscow, I'll have to take care of him!"
Mr. and Mrs. Granger had set their minds at ease, but when Hermione heard her parents' words, she became a bit displeased and said with utter unconvinced defiance.
"Yes, yes, yes, I'll have to trouble the great Miss Hermioneto take care of me then!"
Levi naturally heard that Hermione was not making a groundless fuss; she was just indirectly expressing her firm idea of going to Moscow with him.
He also went along with Hermione's performance, saying with a helpless yet indulgent expression.
Who wouldn't like someone who resolutely chooses them?
Sitting in the front row of the car, Mr. and Mrs. Grangerwatched Levi and Hermione's performance, their faces revealing helpless yet gratified smiles.
During the few days at the Granger family home, Levi and Hermione's days were peaceful yet busy.
Sometimes they would help Mr. and Mrs. Granger with things at the dental clinic, and unable to resist Mr. Granger's request, they had their teeth checked.
"Uncle, Auntie, we really don't need a dental checkup. The wizarding world has specialized Potions and Spells used to repair and clean teeth. If you don't believe me, look!"
Levi bared his mouthful of white, neat teeth, signaling Mr. Granger to inspect them at will.
Mr. Granger and the curious Mrs. Granger used professional dental equipment to inspect Levi and Hermione's teeth, and couldn't help but exclaim:
"Dentists are unemployed in the wizarding world!"
"By the way, Hermione, after you graduate from Hogwartsin the future, what kind of job can you do in the wizarding world?"
Mr. and Mrs. Granger expressed concern over Hermione's employment prospects, even though there was a clinic at home available to inherit.
However, Hermione had worked so hard to learn magic, surely she couldn't just come back and work as an ordinary dentist?!
After hearing Mr. and Mrs. Granger's worries, Levi's heart twitched, and he really wanted to say to these two:
The two of you are completely worrying for nothing!
Your daughter Hermione will become the Minister of magicin the future, equivalent to the British magical Prime Minister.
That's only considering the present; back before the Statute of Secrecy came into effect, if you two weren't her parents, upon meeting her face-to-face, you might even have had to kneel and kowtow in salute!
"Greetings, Prime Minister!"
The moment Levi thought of Hermione wearing noble attire, full of majesty, and accepting salutes from others, he felt a sense of amusement.
"What are you smiling at?"
Hermione thought Levi was laughing at her future difficulty in finding a job, so she immediately raised her head proudly and said with utter confidence:
"Even if I can't become a dentist, I can still go work for the Ministry of Magic, I can also become a Potion shop owner, and I can even become an adventurer who travels the world and roams the globe!"
"The wizarding world, the ordinary world—both worlds are waiting for me, and endless knowledge and countless magic mysteries are waiting for me to learn and explore!"
"In short, having mastered the power of magic, the world is mine to roam. Dad, Mum, you don't need to worry about what I'll do after graduation?"
"Instead, you should worry that I might not be able to take regular holidays like now and come back to see you!"
Mr. and Mrs. Granger listened in utter astonishment, and Levi also looked with full appreciation at the sparkling little witch in his eyes!
This was the true Hermione Granger!
Chapter 350: Outlaw
During the past few days at the Granger household, aside from occasionally helping out at the dental clinic,
Levi and Hermione were both busy purchasing books to prepare for the second-floor Library of the wizard tower.
"Hermione, there is no need to purchase ordinary books that can be gathered within the Library."
"As for books like these, I have already completed the data collection. We can simply have the golems copy and engrave them, and then store them directly in the Library."
"What we need to purchase are books involving deep-level knowledge across various scientific fields to serve as the knowledge accumulation for the wizard tower."
Hermione nodded in agreement and replied,
"No problem. I have already contacted Blackwell's in Oxford, Foyles in London, the Cambridge antiquarian secondhand bookstore, and a host of other bookstores, and obtained their book catalogs."
"Whichever books catch our fancy, we can just check them off, pay, and wait for delivery!"
"OK." With the help of his little secretary Hermione, Levicollected books on scientific knowledge much faster.
As for himself, he was busy writing a letter to Mr. Greve Sanchez.
As a former secondhand book dealer, even though he no longer dealt in that business, Levi could still acquire many precious old books from the wizarding world through the channels left behind by Mr. Greve Sanchez.
Even without rare or out-of-print old books, Levi still managed to collect some hidden gems that even the Hogwarts Library had not collected.
"Dad, Mom, see you when school starts!"
A few days later, in the backyard of the Granger family villa, Hermione carried a small suitcase and waved goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Granger.
"Goodbye, Hermione. Be careful when traveling with Levi, and stay safe!"
At the time of parting, Mr. and Mrs. Granger gave repeated instructions, still somewhat worried about Hermione.
"Rest assured, Uncle and Auntie. I will definitely take good care of Hermione. With me here, absolutely no one can hurt Hermione!"
Levi solemnly made a promise. With the strength he currently possessed, he definitely had this confidence!
Even if something were to truly happen, at worst he could go all out and sink the entire city of Moscow!
"Mm, Levi, take good care of Hermione!"
Mr. Granger said to Levi with utmost seriousness, and Levinodded with equal gravity.
Amidst reluctant gazes from both sides, Levi and Hermionegrasped the ring-shaped Portkey.
Feeling the world spin and fierce winds howl, the two of them arrived in front of Levi's manor castle.
"We've arrived already!!!"
Hermione's reluctant expression had not yet faded, and a trace of tears still lingered at the corners of her eyes, when she realized she had already reached her destination.
It was not as if she had never been here before with Levi, Professor McGonagall, and others.
But that required multiple instances of Apparition. After a long while, it would make one's head spin and cause severe nausea in the stomach.
Yet coming this time, she only needed to hold the Portkeyprovided by Levi, and she had effortlessly reached the destination!
"That's right, it's just that easy!"
"It's just that the fireplace opening at your house is too small for the two of us to squeeze through. Otherwise, we could have used Floo Powder to teleport directly here."
With a wave of his hand, Levi opened the gates of the castle wall, surveyed the entire manor castle, and nodded with satisfaction.
It seemed that during the time he was away, Tower Spirit One had operated various puppet golems to maintain the manor castle quite well, not looking like an uninhabited place at all.
Hermione also carried her small suitcase and followed them inside.
While surveying the manor just like Levi, she asked curiously,
"I wanted to ask earlier: how come the Portkey you provided, and the Floo fireplace you mentioned, are different from what I saw in my books?"
"How are they different? They are the same, all right!"
Hearing Hermione's words, Levi told bold-faced lies with his eyes wide open.
"Hmph, you're tricking me again, Levi."
Hermione's little face puffed up in anger. She wasn't fooled by Levi at all, and instead recited like a textbook:
"When using a Portkey, or using Apparition for the first time, it almost always causes intense dizziness and nausea."
"Yet this Portkey of yours didn't give me that feeling, and where did this Portkey come from in the first place?"
"Of course I made it myself," Levi said with a smile, taking it for granted once he saw he couldn't fool the little witch.
"What?!!!"
Hermione instantly raised her voice by three octaves, her entire little face turning pale with fright.
She scanned her surroundings with a panicked expression, feeling as though Aurors could Apparition over at any second to arrest them both and throw them into Azkaban.
"Levi, have you lost your mind?"
"According to the Unauthorized Portus Charm Control Regulations, without written authorization from the Ministry of Magic's Portkey Office, casting Portus on objects privately to create a Portkey is a felony."
"Even if you only made one and didn't actually use it, as long as the incantation was completed, it was already illegal!"
"Furthermore, you've already made one and carried out a teleportation!"
"It's over, it's over, Levi! The two of us are going to spend the rest of our lives together in Azkaban!"
Hermione was completely terrified. This wasn't just breaking school rules; this was breaking the law, and a serious felony at that!
Seeing that the little witch was completely terrified, Levirealized the joke had gone too far and hurriedly comforted her:
"Hermione, don't worry!"
"Look, even now, no Aurors have shown up. You should know that the laws of the wizarding world are just like school rules—as long as you aren't caught, you haven't broken them!"
"Furthermore, as long as you don't report me to the Ministry of Magic, the Portkey I made is completely legal, compliant, and an undetectable secure Portkey! Feel free to use it without worry!"
"Just like the fireplace in the castle—your family's fireplace isn't connected to the Floo Network, but as long as you sprinkle a handful of Floo Powder, you can still teleport right back home!"
"These are all special magical transportation items modified by me, absolutely safe and reliable!"
Listening to Levi's patient explanation, Hermione's little face, previously filled with terror and a breakdown, gradually became plastered with shock.
The look she gave Levi was as if she were staring at some dangerous outlaw!
"Wuwuwu~"
Suffering a sudden emotional breakdown, she hurled herself into Levi's arms.
Tears streamed down uncontrollably as she sobbed out accusations:
"Levi, you are simply the worst! You scared me half to death!"
"I almost thought the two of us were going to be locked away in Azkaban, or forced to spend the rest of our lives on the run!!"
"You guys—you're too bold! And you scared me on top of that; you're just awful!"
Levi held the little witch with a helpless expression.
Breaking the law was such a serious matter that for the little witch—even with her Gryffindor background—it was simply a bit too thrilling!
Moreover, this was different from adventures inside Hogwarts; what he had done clearly exceeded the little witch Hermione's ability to handle.
Sometimes, when something is too thrilling and exciting, it simply turns into an Astonish!
Chapter 351 Returning to the Manor
After quite a while, Hermione finally broke free from Levi's embrace with red-rimmed eyes and an embarrassed expression.
But just as she raised her head, Hermione put on a serious and earnest expression. Her gaze toward Levi was like Professor McGonagall scrutinizing a young wizard, and her tone became incomparably solemn and serious:
"Levi, do you know that what you're doing is illegal!?"
"If you're caught by the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic, you'll be sent to Azkaban! Merlin, I don't even dare to think about it..."
As soon as Levi saw Hermione's expression and heard her words, he knew what the righteous, kind-hearted little witch with her own inner principles wanted to express, and quickly begged for mercy:
"I'm sorry, Hermione. I was wrong, and I won't dare do it again in the future!"
His apology was sincere, and he truly realized that he shouldn't have exposed certain excessive matters before the little witch, Hermione.
Stripped of its fairytale facade, the essence revealed by the Harry Potter world was simply too dark and oppressive.
When he stepped into it, he indeed had sufficient means to cope, but Hermione, who cared about him and worried about him, could only helplessly look on, and in the end, only know the outcome.
The feeling of a friend being in trouble yet being unable to lend a helping hand oneself was just too terrible!
It made Hermione, whose personality was resilient and unyielding and who had almost never shed tears, shed tears multiple times out of care, powerlessness, and lingering fear!
Hearing Levi's sincere apology, sensing his intent to repent, and recognizing the severity of the matter, Hermione's tone slightly relaxed as she gave a soft huff and said:
"Hmph! If it weren't for... I couldn't care less about you!"
"If it weren't for what?"
Levi asked with a puzzled expression. Even with his powerful senses, he hadn't clearly heard what Hermionesaid in the middle.
"I won't tell you, you troublemaker!"
Hermione glared at Levi with a slightly blushing face, showing no intention of repeating her words. Instead, she playfully ran away, leaving behind a few sentences drifting in the wind:
"I'm going to go see Three-headed dog Fluffy. I wonder if it has made itself all dirty again?"
"As punishment, you have to bring my luggage into the castle! I'll forgive you this time, you troublemaker!
If there's a next time, you just wait for it!"
Given a new nickname, Levi helplessly took on the duty of a luggage-carrying lackey.
He chose not to put the luggage back in the castle first; instead, he followed Hermione's steps to go check on Three-headed dog Fluffy together.
When Levi left the Three-headed dog Fluffy at the Castle Manor to act as a guard dog, he naturally hadn't done so without any preparation.
He had built a huge cold storage room in the castle's cellar, freezing it full of various ingredients as reserve food for Three-headed dog Fluffy.
There were also specialized magic puppets to clean up feces, groom fur, roast steaks for Three-headed dog Fluffy, and walk it around the castle and Manor.
However, even so, without its master's company, the three-headed big dog, Three-headed dog Fluffy, was still a bit lonely.
So much so that when it saw Hermione and Levi, it pounced over joyfully, wagging three bedsheet-sized tongues and licking them all over!
"No—way—"
Surrounded by dog tongues, the little witch Hermione had a look of panic in her eyes, turning her head back in "despair" to look at Levi, who had followed them over at some point!
"Stop, Fluffy!"
Levi spoke up in amusement just in time, stopping the big dog's actions and sparing Hermione from disaster!
Hermione quickly retreated two steps, stood beside Levi, and said with lingering fear:
"My Merlin! Fluffy is simply too enthusiastic, it's really a bit much to bear!"
But when Levi heard this, he laughed even harder and said meaningfully:
"There are things even more enthusiastic than this, only you won't get to witness them!"
During the days when he and Hermione were not at the Castle Manor, the Manor naturally had some intruders, though not humans, but animals like wolves and bears.
As for the fate of these little animals, naturally they were swallowed into the belly as small snacks by Fluffy!
Beneath the Three-headed dog's fangs imbued with terrifying magic, the bones of these beasts were chewed to pieces and swallowed!
"You're saying those incomprehensible things again," Hermione rolled her eyes at Levi, poked her head out from behind Levi, and sized up Three-headed dog Fluffy.
With Tower Spirit One's meticulous care, carefully designed nutritional ratios for dog food, regular walks, plus occasional small snacks...
Fluffy's entire coat of fur had been raised to be dark and glossy, its physique robust with bulging muscles, making it look extremely majestic and domineering!
"Such a huge three-headed big dog—if it appeared in the world of ordinary people, what a huge uproar it would cause!"
Sizing up Fluffy, and not knowing what she thought of, Hermione suddenly said.
"But it's just a very big dog after all!"
"If the general public discovers that there is a group of people who can use magic, and even arbitrarily manipulate their minds and memories, distorting the physical laws of reality, the storm caused would be even greater!"
Levi naturally knew what Hermione's words meant, sighed in his heart, and said.
Even knowing the second prophetic dream and guessing that Wizards and ordinary people would have a common enemy,
he could also anticipate that after the Statute of Secrecyfailed, the tranquil lives of Wizards tucked away in a corner today could no longer continue.
He even suspected right now whether some research institutions had already captured some unattended Wizards, locked them up in certain secret laboratories, and conducted some cruel experiments?!
He had already done such a thing twice himself; right now, inside his Compendium Space, there was still an Umbridgewhose bloodline was close to collapse and three Dark Wizards locked up!
Putting oneself in others' shoes, those Wizards who only knew one or two Dark Arts and common household magicwere extremely likely to capsize in the gutter when facing ordinary people, getting captured by ordinary people using things like tranquilizer guns.
After all, Wizards in the Harry Potter world were typical glass cannons—their offensive power was ridiculously strong, even having instant-death magic.
But in terms of physical fitness, except for individual Wizards, other Wizards were the kind to go down with a single gunshot if they didn't have time to cast defensive magic!
Hearing this, Hermione felt a wave of worry in her heart. She suddenly discovered that knowledge truly was a Curse!
If she hadn't deduced that one day in the future the Statute of Secrecy might fail, Wizards would be exposed to the eyes of ordinary people, and conflict might erupt between the two,
she would still be a carefree little witch all day long, caring only about practicing magic and her academic grades.
But once she knew about this matter, sometimes she couldn't help but feel anxious, worrying about a matter that clearly hadn't happened yet, while being completely powerless against it.
"Forget it, worrying is useless anyway!"
"Levi, let's start building the two-story wizard tower you mentioned!"
Hermione shook her head, as if she could shake her worries away like that, and looking at the wizard tower on top of the hill with its first story just built, she proposed to Levi.
"Alright, once I let Purrloin and Mumu out, we'll begin!"
Levi readily agreed.
Chapter 352: The Second Floor of the wizard tower
Consuming a large amount of adamantine, mithril, gems, crystals..., using Gubraithian Fire to brew a large pot of alchemical magic liquid;
Activating Fossil to Mud and Mud to Stone to remove impurities, shaping the stone wall embryo of the second floor of the wizard tower above the first floor;
Splashing the alchemical magic liquid to fuse it with the stone wall embryo;
Using Basic Animation to completely transform the second floor of the wizard tower into anti-magic obsidian, and fusing it as a whole with the first floor of the wizard tower.
In this way, the basic framework of the second floor of the wizard tower was built.
Levi slowly stopped waving his Elderwood and Phoenix Feather Wand, looking with satisfaction at the two-story tall wizard tower in front of him, which was pitch-black and profound throughout.
Hermione, who was watching Levi cast Basic Animationfrom the side, looked at the sturdy tall tower built of anti-magic obsidian in front of her and suddenly asked:
"Levi, did you build this tall tower to deal with the crisis in the future?"
Levi shook his head. As a Wizard, how could one lack a wizard tower?!
This was his foundation for settling down. Even if there was no future crisis, he would still build it:
"How is that possible? You forgot that at that time, the two of us hadn't even deduced the crises that might appear in the future!"
But then he changed the subject and said to Hermione:
"However, you have also experienced the power of the anti-magic stone!
Even if there really is some unstoppable danger, hiding inside this wizard tower will allow us to enjoy peace and be fearless of disasters!"
Hearing this, Hermione didn't believe it at all. She even felt that at this moment, Levi looked like a thirteen-year-old child, and she said with a smile:
"Levi, you really need to understand the development of human technological weapons. Don't you know about the Nuclear Bomb?"
"With a Nuclear Bomb dropped, cities are razed to the ground, mountains are shattered, and lakes are evaporated instantly. Even if your wizard tower is built with anti-magicstone, I'm afraid..."
"Even if the possibility of a nuclear strike here is extremely low, it shouldn't be difficult to destroy the tall tower through physical strikes with conventional weapons, right?"
Hearing this, Levi did not refute. With a mysterious smile on his face, a fully built wizard tower, or even a floating city, was a war fortress. He reminded Hermione:
"Hermione, you forgot, isn't there the power of magic?"
"The power of magic is even more miraculous than you imagine. Under the blessing of magic, the wizard tower I built will be an unassailable fortress!"
But his deliberate air of mystery did not make Hermionebelieve his words any more.
In her view, Levi's wizard tower might be an impregnable fortress to other Wizards.
But in front of modern technological weapons, it was no different from ordinary stone houses.
If a war really broke out between Wizards and ordinary people, hiding in such a house would not guarantee safety at all.
Levi saw Hermione's doubt, but he didn't explain much. When his wizard tower was truly established, she would know just how powerful a wizard tower guarded by a high-ranking Arcanist and draconic sorcerer could be!
Actually, what worried Levi even more was the worry in Hermione's heart.
He couldn't help but comfort Hermione by saying:
"You still seem to feel worried and uneasy about the future crisis?"
Hermione's brows furrowed slightly. The more she wanted to suppress the worry and unease in her heart, the stronger this feeling became:
"That's right, Levi, even though I know that worrying like this won't solve the problem, I just can't help it!"
"This feeling is like knowing the date of the final exam is set, but I still can't help wanting to review it over and over again in advance!"
"Since you know it's a future matter, why think so much about it?"
Levi comforted Hermione, guiding the little witch to look at the Castle Manor decorated by Tower Spirit One:
The two of them stood in front of the wizard tower, overlooking downwards. Flowers bloomed all over the mountains and plains, peach and plum fruit trees were blooming endlessly in vibrant colors, hundreds of birds chirped, and bees and butterflies danced. The beautiful scenery that met the eyes was enough to dazzle anyone!
"Yesterday has become history, and the future is still an unsolved mystery, but the present is the best gift bestowed upon us by heaven!"
"Cherish the present, Hermione! Let's go, I'll take you for a boat ride on the lake!"
Levi took out the alchemical boat he had prepared long ago, and took Hermione to the large lake outside the Castle Manor to take a boat ride and relax.
The sky was like a mirror, and the calm lake surface without ripples was also like a mirror. Only when fish leaped out of the water from time to time would faint ripples appear.
Floating light leaped like gold, and quiet shadows sank like jade.
At this moment, he truly felt the reality of this sentence.
Beautiful scenery can always easily heal people's hearts. What Levi said earlier also rang in Hermione's ears: today is a wonderful gift, so why care about future troubles?!
A smile unconsciously appeared on Hermione's face. She reached out and scooped up a handful of lake water, splashing it toward Levi with a smirk:
"Troublemaker, take this!"
"Ouch, you dare to ambush me, look at my Water Dragon Chant!"
In the scorching summer, a boat trip on the lake quickly turned into a water fight between Levi and Hermione!
After building the second floor of the wizard tower, Leviand Hermione spent the past few days staying at the Castle Manor busy filling the Library and decorating the two floors of the wizard tower.
According to Levi's vision, the first floor of the wizard tower was arranged into two functional areas.
The side facing the sun and close to the door was the reception room, which Levi and Hermione decorated classically and elegantly. On the wall hung surveillance portraits made by Levi using Alchemy.
Unlike the moving portraits in Hogwarts and other parts of the wizarding world, these surveillance portraits had no character prototypes and could not communicate like real people.
However, they could act like surveillance cameras, constantly monitoring the reception room on the first floor of the wizard tower, as well as the external environment of the wizard tower, and broadcasting images to Tower Spirit One.
At the same time, these surveillance portraits refined by Levi could also see through stealth spells such as the Disillusionment Charm, and applying invisibility Potions would be useless in front of the surveillance portraits.
"With the existence of the surveillance portraits, no one would dare to play tricks around the wizard tower and in the reception room!"
Understanding the function of the surveillance portraits, Hermione couldn't help praising.
Inside the living room, besides the surveillance portraits, there was also the binding blanket refined by Levi.
These clearly textured blankets that looked extremely luxurious were actually an alchemical item as well.
With just an order from Levi, the binding blanket would wrap the enemies in the reception room tightly like a zongzi.
Not to mention fighting back, they wouldn't even be able to crawl on the ground disguised as a caterpillar!
In addition, there were water-prison sofas, blinding desk lamps, wailing record players... and many other alchemical items designed by Levi using his ingenuity and the Tower Spirit's powerful computing power. They looked harmless under normal circumstances, but once malicious guests entered, they could easily subdue them. All of these were placed in the living room on the first floor.
Hermione stood in the reception room on the first floor of the wizard tower. Looking around the warm, elegant, and resplendent reception room, she couldn't help exclaiming again:
"Who would have thought that such a luxurious reception room is actually full of traps!"
"Levi, won't these alchemical items you arranged be accidentally triggered?"
"If a guest is accidentally caught, the misunderstanding will be huge, and we can't afford to joke like this!"
"Rest assured," Levi patted his chest and guaranteed:
"Do you still not trust my Alchemy technology?
It seems I have to let you experience it personally. Come on, I'll take you to see the golem workshop on the other side!"
Levi took Hermione's hand and directly performed Apparition inside the wizard tower.
Only Levi, the master of the wizard tower, could perform spatial movements like Apparition inside the wizard tower.
Inside the entire wizard tower, Levi had set up a no-fly magic array learned from the Spatial MOD, forbidding anyone other than him from using spatial spells like Apparition.
Wanting to break in by Apparitting directly from outside the wizard tower was even more out of the question; just the integrally poured anti-magic stone alone could make them crash and bleed profusely!
The two came to the other side of the wizard tower, which was a completely enclosed golem manufacturing workshop.
Under the manipulation of Tower Spirit One, it fully automatically consumed materials in an assembly line manner to manufacture alchemical golems and magic puppets designed by Levi.
Although Levi had the two major mods, alchemy mod and Potion-Making MOD, he could brew a large amount of Potions and refine a large number of golems and puppets at any time.
But this was ultimately Levi's personal ability after all. What if something happened suddenly, an external strong enemy broke in and shattered a large number of golems and puppets, while Levi happened not to be in the wizard tower and Castle Manor?
At this time, the golem workshop inside the wizard towerwas needed to manufacture a large number of models and puppets to replenish the defense forces!
"Merlin's war golems! Levi, are you planning to create a golem legion here?"
Hermione looked in shock as golems and puppets were produced on the assembly line, lining up in square formations to the side like silent soldiers.
"It's just a defense force, and these golems and puppets are not worth mentioning in front of the modern armaments you mentioned just now!"
Levi said with full modesty, still remembering the concept that arose in his mind when he saw the Sorting Hat upon entering school in his first year.
Refining an artificial intelligence comparable to the Sorting Hat, or rather a Tower Spirit, manipulating a legion of magic puppets to roam invincible!
He had almost achieved his original dream by now.
At least given the military strength of the wizarding worldnow, unless it was led by legendary Wizards like Headmaster Dumbledore or a resurrected Voldemortleading a siege with a Wizard legion,
otherwise, even if hundreds or thousands of ordinary Wizards broke into his Castle Manor, they would still suffer a crushing defeat and be brutally slaughtered under his wizard tower!
What's more, the golems and magic puppets he manufactured now could only be considered toy-like gadgets compared to real war golems!
Not to mention anything else, just in terms of intelligent response, without the manipulation of Tower Spirit One, the golems and puppets he refined were all artificial idiots.
As for real war golems, their control cores were all made using soul crystal, making them terrifying war machines with extraordinary intelligence and powerful response capabilities!
Just purchasing the manufacturing technology and materials would require consuming exorbitant Academic Credits and a massive amount of Galleons. Levi could only be considered broke right now and simply couldn't afford to play with them!
Having witnessed the arsenal that was the golem workshop, Levi and Hermione Apparitted once again and came to the Library on the second floor.
Between the floors of the wizard tower, in Levi's design, they were completely sealed off.
That is to say, the first floor had no physical paths or stairs leading to the second floor at all.
If anyone else wanted to go from the first floor to the second floor like Levi, the legal and compliant method was to be taken by Levi for Apparition, or to obtain permission for spatial movement from the Tower Spirit.
Otherwise, they could only use powerful force to smash the anti-magic stone barrier between the first and second floors in order to enter the second floor from the first floor.
The second floor of the wizard tower had been arranged by Levi and Hermione into a repository of books even larger than the Hogwarts Library.
In fact, looking from the outside of the wizard tower, the space on the second floor was obviously many times larger than it should be!
This was naturally the effect of the permanently fixed Undetectable Extension Charm. Whether it was the first floor, the second floor, or even higher floors in the future, Levi was prepared to expand the internal space to the limit that the anti-magic stone could bear.
Levi's style completely followed one philosophy: big is good, strong is beautiful!
Moreover, the wider the internal space of the wizard tower, the more facilities it could accommodate, and it could even arrange an ecological park, Potion garden, and a small world to achieve internal circulation within the wizard tower!
When the enemy arrived, sealing off the inside and outside, even if the enemy used means such as radiation, poison gas, bacteria, or viruses, they would be helpless against the internally circulating wizard tower!
Looking at the countless books piled high enough to make oxen sweat and vast like the sea, as one of the arrangers of this big Library, Hermione didn't even want to leave this place.
"Levi, this is simply the paradise of my dreams!"
The little witch was extremely excited. She came to a prepared crystal screen and manipulated it just a few times, and a magic book she wanted to read earlier was found and automatically transmitted in front of her!
"Actually, there are also electronic versions, Hermione, would you like to try?"
Levi picked up something like an electronic reader and handed it to Hermione's hands.
"No, reading with a real book has a better feel!"
Hermione wrinkled her little nose and pushed away the reader in Levi's hand, feeling that reading with the alchemical item in Levi's hand was soulless!
"All right," Levi flipped through the reader indifferently, wanting to find a book he wanted to read.
Obviously, Levi had also carried out magical construction on the Library on the second floor of the wizard tower.
Whichever book was wanted, through the manipulation on the crystal screen or by directly shouting the title of the book, as long as one had the corresponding authority, the Library would directly transmit the corresponding book over.
Reading books in the Library using an electronic reader was even simpler, almost similar to readers reading novels. By directly searching and passing the authorization, one could read online in the Library.
The two read books attentively in the Library for a while, exchanged books with each other, exchanged knowledge points, quizzed each other, and then sat in the Library and started chatting.
Hermione, who had been fascinated by the wonder and strangeness of the wizard tower, asked curiously:
"Levi, how high do you want to build this wizard tower?"
"What do you plan to use the third and fourth floors for?"
"It has to be built to ten floors at least," Levi said somewhat uncertainly.
He also didn't know if he could afford the Academic Credits, Galleons, and those precious materials to build the wizard tower.
Seeing Hermione looking at him curiously, concerned about the answer to this question, Levi simply explained:
"The basement floor is the basement, where the energy source that supports the operation of the entire wizard tower is placed."
"You have already seen the layout of the first and second floors above ground."
"As for the future third floor above ground, I plan to build it into a large containment laboratory used for Potion, Alchemy, and other aspects of experiments."
"Just right, the interior of the wizard tower is completely sealed and the risks are controllable, so I can safely carry out some more dangerous experiments!"
After hearing Levi's words, Hermione took a deep breath, widened her eyes, and looked at Levi.
Here it comes again, here it comes again. She just knew that Levi was this troublemaker; if he didn't do something thrilling and exciting every day, his whole body would feel uncomfortable!
"Rest assured," as soon as Levi saw the cute expression of the little witch Hermione with her wide-opened eyes, he couldn't help laughing and guaranteed seriously:
"I promise to conduct experiments in accordance with experimental safety regulations, and I won't do those wild and obviously very dangerous experiments!"
"Really, I promise!"
Responding to Levi was only Hermione's little rolling eyes full of disbelief after his credit was overdrawn!
Chapter 353: Two Potions
Late at night, Levi opened *Magical Creatures* once again and entered the Compendium Space.
Inside the alchemy laboratory, two pots of Potion currently being brewed were gradually nearing their end:
The pot of Potion on the left was a life Potion that Leviattempted to brew, and its effect was to elevate vitality, enhance life resilience, and nourish the origin of life.
Under Levi's gaze, the faint mist emanating from the pale golden life Potion in the cauldron transformed into an illusory Phoenix of dual gold and silver colors, soaring and turning amidst the hazy mist!
To brew this pot of life Potion, Levi used numerous precious Herbology and materials.
Not only were there Professor Snape's collections, but Levialso purchased some rare materials from the Shop.
For example, phoenix tears, because they contained abundant vitality, were chosen by Levi and purchased as the main material for the Potion.
Besides that, Levi and Headmaster Dumbledore had agreed previously that one of the conditions for him to serve as the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor was that he had to observe the Nirvana rebirth of the PhoenixFawkes.
Although it failed to trigger any MOD, which left Levi quite frustrated.
However, the embers produced by the burning during the Phoenix's Nirvana were requested by Levi from Headmaster Dumbledore, serving as one of the main materials for brewing the life Potion.
"Headmaster Dumbledore is really stingy. Asking for just a few drops of tears, your Fawkes won't lose a piece of flesh anyway, yet you wouldn't even give me that!"
"Am I still your most capable Professor and the most outstanding young wizard under your command?!"
Levi thought fiercely in his heart, completely unaware of being the least bit "shameless"!
He continued to observe the changes in the life Potion, feeling increasingly confident in his heart regarding the brewing of the life Potion.
phoenix tears represented water and life, while the Phoenix's embers represented fire and death; the two harmonized with each other, resembling the cycle of life and death—this was Levi's concept for brewing the Potion"Life"!
Seeing that the life Potion was almost finished brewing, Levi joyfully cast his gaze toward the soul Potion on the other side.
The soul Potion presented a pale purple color in the cauldron, giving a feeling full of disorientation and fantasy, bubbling gurglingly with steaming mist.
Even more eye-catching was that above the liquid of the soul Potion, a terrifying entity was also floating in mid-air—a "Dementor" that sometimes turned into mist and sometimes condensed into shape!
For the main materials of the soul Potion, Levi selected the cores of two non-existent monsters:
One was the Boggart, which fed on fear but was easily defeated by joyful laughter;
The other was the Dementor, which fed on happiness, against which only the Expecto Patronum could defend.
The two non-existents, one feeding on dread and fear, and the other feeding on happiness and hope, were simply Potion materials even more extremely contradictory yet harmoniously unified than phoenix tears and embers!
Especially since they both fed on soul emotions; in Levi's view, the cores of the two non-existents were simply the most suitable as main materials for brewing the soul Potion!
"Come to think of it, I wonder where the system got the boggart core and the Dementor's brain?"
"It couldn't possibly be freshly killed, right?"
"If that really were the case, then I can only sigh in grief for the Dementor: truly, without trade, there is no slaughter!"
Shedding crocodile tears, Levi watched with extreme satisfaction:
The Phoenix flying above the life Potion and the Dementorfloating above the soul Potion, at the very last moment when the Potion brewing succeeded, fell into the Potionand merged into one with the Potion!
"It's finally done!"
Fetching crystal test tubes specially used for holding Potions, Levi packed away and stored the brewed Potion, dividing it into one portion after another.
Because he couldn't be certain whether the Potioncurrently brewed was truly the life Potion and the soul Potion.
To avoid wasting materials, of the two pots of Potionbrewed by Levi, each pot only yielded three portions of Potion.
"If the experiment succeeds in a moment!"
The remaining two portions of Potion—one can be used to provide for Hermione's class change, and one can be used as a sample to store inside the Potion workshop, initiating the great Potion-making era!"
Carefully calculating, Levi made plans for the future.
Before the holiday, Levi had already started brewing the life Potion and the soul Potion; until today, half a month had passed, and the two pots of Potion were finally brewed.
This was still the result brought by him, Levi Keynes, possessing a contemporary king-level Potion talent.
Levi had no intention of repeating this boring and time-consuming brewing process; the Potion workshop was his ultimate choice.
Bringing a portion of life Potion and soul Potion, he once again arrived at the dark dungeon.
"Master!"
As soon as he walked into the dark dungeon, the three Dark Wizards trapped in the cages knelt before Levi, trembling all over as if they had seen some terrifying entity.
Having long been controlled by Levi's Imperius Curse, the psychological shadow had long been branded deep into the hearts of these three Dark Wizards.
Even if Levi were to release the Imperius Curse of the three of them right now, a single glance sweeping past would be enough to scare these three Dark Wizards out of their wits, trembling all over without daring to harbor the slightest thought of resistance or action.
"Hmm! How is Umbridge doing?"
Levi asked casually; even though Umbridge was a failed experimental subject, the process of her bloodline collapse was also a rare data collection opportunity.
"Replying to Master's words, she is about to die!"
The boss among the three Dark Wizards answered in a cold and mechanical tone.
Under the state of the Imperius Curse, the self-wills of these people had long been suppressed to death.
Even if Umbridge was the chief culprit that led to their downfall to this state, they would not display half a bit of hatred or gloating.
The joys, sorrows, expressions, and demeanors of these three Dark Wizards were completely controlled by Levi; if Levi told them to cry, they would cry; if Levi told them to smile, they could smile!
Hearing the Dark Wizard boss's words, Levi didn't have much of a reaction; instead, he entered Source View, raised his finger wearing the eagle ring, and pointed it at the Dark Wizard boss:
"Cruciatus Curse!"
Pain intense enough to shatter the soul instantly swept over the dark boss's entire body!
Even while in the state of being controlled by the Imperius Curse, the Dark Wizard boss was like a fish struggling ashore, kicking his legs, straightening his body, and lying on the ground convulsing and twitching violently!
Levi's expression didn't change much, but he patiently observed the changes in the Dark Wizard boss's soul symbol using Source View.
If Hermione wanted to change class to Arcanist, she had to create a gap on her own soul symbol to inlay the Spell Template.
And to create a gap, she had to inflict intense torture upon herself, using the soul damage of the Cruciatus Curse to break perfection—destruction is a prerequisite for construction!
Levi had always worried that Hermione wouldn't be able to endure this hurdle, which was why he painstakingly brewed the soul Potion.
Now that he was going to experiment, he would first test the soul Potion's healing effect on the Cruciatus Curse on the Dark Wizard boss's body.
Even though the soul Potion's primary function was to strengthen the soul's origin and assist in soul metamorphosis, having one more experiment was also a completely beneficial and cost-free matter!
Chapter 354: Hermione Changes Profession
After a long while, the pain brought by the Cruciatus Cursefaded away from the Dark Wizard leader's body.
In Levi's Source View, the Dark Wizard leader's soul symbol looked as if it had been gnawed on by something, becoming tattered with many gaps.
"If I torture him for a little longer, this fellow's soul symbolmight shatter just like Neville's parents', making him go mad and foolish!"
"This is indeed a point worth noting. When casting the Cruciatus Curse on Hermione, the power of the Spell must be controlled; excessive damage might lead to failure in changing professions and cause serious consequences!"
Levi firmly remembered this point and cast Imperius Curseonce again, controlling the Dark Wizard leader who was driven to the verge of collapse by torture:
"Drink it, drink this bottle of purple Potion first!"
The controlled Dark Wizard leader did not even ask what the price was; he picked up the purple Potion with trembling hands and drank it all in one gulp.
The Potion entered his stomach and immediately took effect.
On the face of the thoroughly tortured Dark Wizard leader, an unnatural look of comfort and ease even emerged!
Under Levi's Source View, the Dark Wizard's tattered soul symbol with many gaps was enveloped by a cluster of purple mist, as if nourished. Not only were the gaps filled, but it also became much thicker and larger!
It looked just like a lowercase o turning into an uppercase O, and this change didn't stop until the purple mist was completely depleted.
"Not bad, not bad!"
Exiting the Source View, Levi thoroughly checked the Dark Wizard leader's status.
After confirming that the soul Potion's efficacy was fully exerted and produced no side effects, Levi couldn't help but feel extremely exhilarated inside.
With this soul Potion, not only did Hermione have hope of successfully changing professions, but more importantly, he would also have auxiliary soul Potion resources for his future magic cultivation.
"The soul Potion is a success, and I can cultivate by popping Potions from now on. The next thing that needs to be verified is the life Potion!"
Levi opened the lifespan mod and glanced at the Dark Wizard leader's remaining lifespan.
23:07:25:14
Twenty-three years, seven months, twenty-five days, and fourteen hours?!
"I didn't expect that after me torturing you like this, you fellow can still live for so long. It seems that the soul Potion should also have the effect of increasing lifespan!"
"Thinking about it, it makes sense. After the soul is strengthened, it will in turn affect the physical body, so an increase in lifespan is not surprising!"
Seeing the Dark Wizard leader's remaining lifespan through the lifespan mod, Levi couldn't help clicking his tongue in wonder, and said after figuring it out.
"Drink this bottle of golden Potion too!"
Levi nervously watched the Dark Wizard leader; he wasn't worried that this fellow would die.
What he worried about was that the life Potion and soul Potion might conflict, and the two Potions could not be used together. If that were the case, it would be terrible!
Fortunately, Levi's worry was redundant!
In his perception, the vitality within the Dark Wizard leader who drank the Potion shot up section by section, just like a disjointed bamboo.
At the same time, some diseases, hidden injuries, and old wounds left previously in this person's body unexpectedly disappeared in the blink of an eye under the effect of the Potion.
The powerful effect of the life Potion even made the Dark Leader who took the Potion look much younger overall, with a ruddy complexion and full of vitality!
Levi took another look; the Dark Wizard leader's remaining lifespan had unexpectedly increased by more than three years!
A lifespan of around three years was truly not a small amount!
You must know that the essential purpose of the life Potionis to enhance vitality and the origin of life, elevate the resilience of life, and increasing lifespan is merely its incidental effect.
"This fellow has really gotten a taste of good stuff!"
Checking the Dark Leader's status, Levi thought somewhat speechlessly.
Had he known that both Potions had no problems, he wouldn't have done this experiment!
As the saying goes, feeding these glittering and purple life and soul Potions to this damned Dark Wizard is truly a sin!
However, the Dark Wizard leader, nourished by the two Potions, would be his most precious experimental guinea pig from now on.
Unless for some particularly important experiments, he wouldn't bear to treat the Dark Wizard leader as experimental consumable material and casually waste him!
"Imperius Curse!"
Casting Imperius Curse once again to retake control of the Dark Wizard leader whose soul had been strengthened, Levi left the dark dungeon. After resting for a night, he found Hermione to prepare for the profession change.
"Hermione, have you memorized the Spell Template for Forced Calm?"
Levi asked Hermione, making the final preparations before the profession change.
"I've memorized all of them, Levi, don't worry! Everything you said about changing professions, I remember it all!"
Hermione took a deep breath and nodded earnestly.
Her heart was now filled with anticipation; shortly after, under Levi's guidance, she would be able to change professions into an Arcanist!
Although before that, she must endure the pain brought by the Cruciatus Curse and successfully construct her own first Spell Template amidst intense pain!
To maintain absolute calm amidst extremely intense pain, just thinking about it allowed Hermione to feel the difficulty within!
But Levi, as the pioneer of the Arcanist class, was able to grope out such a path out of nothingness amidst pain!
Hermione couldn't help looking at Levi with unprecedentedly admiring eyes:
It is truly hard to imagine that the great figure who pioneered a magic path turns out to be her classmate and good friend!
"Mm, that's good. Let me state the sequence for taking the Potions!"
"First take the golden life Potion and the purple soul Potion. After the two Potions are completely digested, they can enhance your life essence and soul origin."
"After getting my permission, you will then drink Felix Felicis and phoenix tears. Get ready, and I will cast the Cruciatus Curse on you!"
"The power, intensity, and pain level of the Cruciatus Cursewill be increased bit by bit under the premise that you can endure it!"
"During this process, what you need to do is maintain the Source View, introspect yourself, find the gaps appearing on the soul symbol, and use the flowing soul energy to forge your first Spell Template!"
"As long as the Spell Template is forged and a Spell Slot is opened up, it means your profession change is successful and you have become an Arcane Apprentice!"
Levi simply repeated the entire profession change process with Hermione.
The more complex worldview transformation, the study of ancient runes, the casting of Spell Templates... a long time ago, he had already taught all of them to Hermione.
Hermione didn't think Levi was being long-winded; instead, she quickly reviewed the whole process in her mind, and after feeling fully confident, she nodded at Levi.
"Then, after mentally simulating the rune construction of the Spell Template, you can drink the life Potion and soul Potion!"
Seeing Hermione nod, Levi didn't dawdle anymore either, retreating to the side and watching the little witch enter the meditation state.
Hearing this, Hermione closed her eyes, meditated on the rune construction of the Forced Calm Spell Template once, calmed her mind and gathered her breath, and then successively drank the soul Potion and life Potion.
As soon as the two Potions entered her stomach, the little witch suddenly felt as if she had drunk two cups of warm dairy drinks on a bitterly cold day. Her whole body felt as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring, extremely cozy and enjoyable!
This feeling was just like... just like returning into the amniotic fluid!
However, Hermione also knew that she couldn't possibly know what it felt like to stay in amniotic fluid.
But this comfort brought by the enhancement of life origin and essence still made her somewhat carried away, experiencing the wonder of life and soul Potions!
Following this comfortable momentum, Hermioneactivated the Source View and introspected herself.
In her Source View, those lines representing her bodily form were all enveloped by golden mist, growing like a willow tree sprouting branches!
And the circular symbol representing her soul, under the nourishment of the purple mist, gradually became thicker and larger, looking much stronger just by appearance!
After a good while, when the effects of the two Potions were digested by Hermione, Levi's voice rang out at the right moment:
"It's time, Hermione, right now!"
Having received permission, Hermione immediately drank down the small bottle of phoenix tears placed in front of her and the Felix Felicis that flowed like gold!
"Are you ready?"
Holding the Elderwood and Phoenix Feather Wand, Leviasked Hermione with an incomparable solemn expression.
"I am ready!"
Hermione's mind was tranquil, her demeanor peaceful, and she responded equally earnestly.
"Then," a trace of reluctance flashed in Levi's eyes, and he even hesitated for a split second in his heart, but he still waved his wand and shouted that cold Spell:
"Cruciatus Curse!"