Chapter 9
When Aisen had previously bought an astronomical telescope, he suddenly remembered that there was also a type of telescope in the wizarding world.
For example, at the Vizek Magical Supplies Store, they sold a brass telescope. However, compared to telescopes in the Muggle world, the brass telescope was enchanted. Not only could it see things that Muggle telescopes could not, but it could also be folded up at will.
Conveniently, Aisen still had one portion of Miracle Property on hand, so he decided to buy a brass telescope and try to replicate its property. After all, although a brass telescope was not the same as a wand, both were magical items.
Soon after, Aisen spent 5 Galleons to purchase the latest model of brass telescope. According to the shop owner, magic had been applied to the brass telescope, allowing it to ignore interference from atmospheric clouds and directly view the surface of the moon.
When Aisen took the brass telescope in his hand, a prompt unsurprisingly appeared before him.
[Discovered Extraordinary Property — Fine-Grade Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property.]
Consume one portion of Miracle Property to replicate it?
Seeing this result, various speculations already surfaced in Aisen's mind.
Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property—from the name alone, it was clear that this was a property that allowed one to see very far. In Aisen's view, this property could likely be fused into the eyes, enabling him to see extremely distant objects.
For example, directly seeing the moon? However, after pondering for a moment, Aisen felt that was unlikely.
Because if fusing the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property truly allowed him to see the moon directly, that would be far too overpowered. Moreover, he could not be certain whether the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property included the brass telescope's ability to ignore clouds and atmospheric interference.
Some might say that in the wizarding world, being able to see far didn't seem particularly useful. Upon closer thought, that did appear to be the case. Seeing far had no relation whatsoever to a wizard's combat ability—whether in battle or escape.
Could one really cast a spell from eight hundred miles away to defeat an enemy? That even seemed impossible in thoughts too. If that were the case, wouldn't the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property be rather useless?
That reasoning was sound, but in Aisen's opinion, if Long-Range Vision Enhancement were combined with Apparition, it would become extremely powerful. After all, in the Harry Potter world, Apparition was a magical means of instantaneous travel.
To Apparate to a location, one had to be particularly familiar with it. Otherwise, relying solely on a photograph greatly increased the danger of Apparition. But if one could directly see the destination, wouldn't that make things much more convenient?
For instance, in a moment of crisis, Aisen could look directly at the moon and Apparate there. Though it sounded absurd on the surface, in theory it was entirely feasible.
However, even if Aisen could actually do it, he probably wouldn't have the courage to risk his life. After all, such an outrageous act was indeed dangerously risky.
So, should he replicate this property or not?
Originally, he had planned to wait until formal classes began at Hogwarts and then experiment on a house-elf. He hadn't expected the second replicable property to appear so soon.
With this in mind, Aisen put the brass telescope away for the time being. It wasn't that he was giving up on the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property, but rather that he intended to first visit the Hogwarts kitchens and conduct an experiment on a house-elf.
Soon after, Aisen went to Hogwarts. However, after spending half an hour there, he had no choice but to return to Diagon Alley. There was nothing he could do—despite having one portion of Miracle Property, he discovered he truly could not extract any properties from house-elves.
"It seems I'll have to find a way through magical artifacts," Aisen could only sigh at this realization.
"Wow, this is the newest Nimbus 2000!" Just as Aisen was wandering around, planning to leave, a voice suddenly reached his ears. Turning his head, he saw several young wizards gathered around admiring a flying broomstick.
However, Aisen's expression immediately turned strange and a grin took its place.
Because he suddenly realized that flying broomsticks were also magical artifacts—and ones with flight capability at that. In that case, couldn't the Miracle Property replicate the ability to fly? Without caring about the odd looks from others, Aisen walked straight in and touched the Nimbus 2000.
Sure enough, the system prompted him in front of him.
[Discovered a Fine-Grade Flight Property]
In that instant, Aisen's imagination exploded. Yes, when he had previously considered the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property from the brass telescope, he had identified a critical flaw.
That flaw was the lack of X-ray vision! Indeed, Long-Range Vision Enhancement was not see-through vision. As a result, if he wanted to stand on the ground and use the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property to observe a distant destination before Apparating, his line of sight would be blocked by buildings.
Unless he climbed to a high place every time before a fight—which was clearly impractical. Therefore, in combat against other wizards, using Long-Range Vision Enhancement to coordinate with Apparition—unless he truly fled to the moon as he had imagined—wouldn't be nearly as ideal in practice.
But if he had the ability to fly, he could simply leave the battlefield by flying upward, then observe distant locations from high above. That would make using Apparition far more convenient.
In an extreme example: if Aisen were fighting Voldemort and found himself outmatched, he could immediately fly up, then use Long-Range Vision Enhancement combined with Apparition to escape.
Thinking of this, even Aisen himself felt stunned. Because he suddenly realized that the Miracle Property function of his system was truly too powerful—practically a cheat-like existence, 'But isn't a system called cheat-like ability.'
For instance, Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak could replicate an Invisibility Property. The Philosopher's Stone could replicate a Touch-to-Gold Property. As for whether it could directly replicate an Immortality Property, Aisen was uncertain. After all, Nicolas Flamel's immortality was achieved through the Elixir of Life produced by the Philosopher's Stone.
So Aisen couldn't be sure the Philosopher's Stone would yield an Immortality Property.
Of course, if a Time-Turner could be used for Miracle Property replication, wouldn't that allow replication of a Time-Travel Property?
In that case, the Invisibility Cloak, the Resurrection Stone, the Philosopher's Stone, and so on—all could have their extraordinary properties extracted! Suddenly, Aisen felt that with one portion of Miracle Property available each year, he would soon become invincible.
Unfortunately, properties could not be replicated from living creatures. Otherwise, house-elves' Apparition ability, Mandrakes' lethal scream, the Basilisk's deadly gaze, Dementors' ability to drain positive emotions and their partial magic immunity—every bug-level ability Aisen could think of seemed impossible to replicate.
Even so, being limited to magical objects alone left Aisen deeply conflicted. Although he believed the chances of replicating an Immortality Property from the Philosopher's Stone were low, he still wanted to try.
Otherwise, the Philosopher's Stone would be destroyed by Dumbledore in June 1992. And crucially, there was only one such stone in the world. If Aisen used his current Miracle Property on another magical artifact now, the next portion wouldn't recover until July 1992.
In other words, unless Aisen saved his current Miracle Property, once the next one became available, the Philosopher's Stone would already be gone.
But doing so meant temporarily giving up the Long-Range Vision Enhancement Property from the brass telescope, as well as any properties from other magical artifacts. For Aisen, who was eager to increase his strength, this felt like an extremely "wasteful" choice.
Nevertheless, after thinking it over for a while, Aisen decided not to use this portion of Miracle Property for now. There were two main reasons. First, naturally, he didn't want to miss the Philosopher's Stone's property. Even if the chance of obtaining Immortality was slim, it was currently the only possibility, so he was unwilling to let it go.
Second, Aisen felt that within the next year, the dangers he would encounter at Hogwarts were extremely limited. With these considerations, he concluded that delaying the fusion of a property by a year wouldn't matter much.
Having made this decision, Aisen no longer hesitated and soon returned to the Leaky Cauldron.
Since he had seen Harry Potter and Hagrid, there was roughly only one month left until the start of the Hogwarts term.
In fact, when Aisen had said during his interview that he wanted young wizards to understand what reverence truly meant, it had mostly been empty words. Magical ability did indeed far surpass that of Muggles.
But this was a real world, and as time passed—with the explosive growth of technology—the wizarding world would inevitably be exposed to Muggle eyes. Conflict would then be unavoidable, and Aisen could not predict the consequences.
Clearly, with his inclination to develop cautiously until invincible, Aisen naturally hoped the environment he lived in would remain stable. Though his caution wasn't true reclusiveness, if he could peacefully explore the path of magic, who wouldn't want that?
Therefore, if he could instill some of his own ideas in the young wizards ahead of time, Aisen was quite willing to do so.
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