RNP Chapter 2 Four Years
Chapter 2 Four Years
However, useful information is scarce. The information from yesterday morning was the only one this month that involved relics and magical items.
For example, this morning, what Ryan saw was Hagrid feeding the eight-eyed giant spider.
The accompanying text reads: "Three days later, the giant and the giant spider whispered that he had a great task to complete."
This kind of information is completely useless. At most, it can increase outsiders' trust and admiration for one's "prophetic abilities," but it can't even help others solve their problems.
Some prophecies can be used to help others and are also a major source of Ryan's reputation and Galleons.
On the edge of the forbidden forest.
"The anti-Apparition spell at Hogwarts Castle is still too powerful. I wonder if any wizard can forcibly Apparate inside Hogwarts Castle."
Ryan felt the power applied to him disappear, and he was able to Apparate again.
He couldn't help but sigh, marveling at the power of this magical castle that had been passed down for thousands of years.
Ryan really couldn't imagine any wizard being able to fight against this magic that had accumulated over thousands of years.
Of course, some magical creatures' innate abilities are not included in this category.
In the next instant, he sketched the shape of the swamp in his mind, activated Apparition, and disappeared from the spot with a snap.
mud.
"According to the information I looked up in the library yesterday, this is a section near the Po River basin. The information shows that a wizard lived in seclusion here eight hundred years ago. That wizard was also an alchemist of that era, and the magical artifacts he left behind can broaden my horizons."
He conjured a large, thin wooden plank, stood on it to increase the surface area for support and prevent sinking, and at the same time probed for any possible magical fluctuations in the vicinity.
Ryan didn't expect the magical artifacts that had survived from eight hundred years ago to be of much use, because this wizard predecessor was not a legend whose name could be passed down for thousands of years. He was only somewhat famous at the time, and there were only a few words about him in later generations.
Items left behind from 800 years ago can only be described as having high archaeological value.
Therefore, he only wanted to broaden his horizons and expand his thinking by exploring the traces of magic from that era.
Some lost techniques are not incapable of being revived today; it's just that the convenience of modern magic, the current atmosphere in the magical world, and the "happy education" of various colleges have slowed down the development of magical skills.
Sometimes he really wanted to launch into a speech on "Magic is great again".
But he does not yet have the power to drive change.
He had no choice but to first explore the truth of magic and accumulate power and fame.
"Signature of a trace".
He whispered, and an invisible ripple emanated from his body, probing everything related to magic.
Then, he cast a super-sensory spell on himself, and all sorts of information from the outside world flooded into his mind.
Ryan did not use a wand because, ever since the warning incident during his first-year summer vacation, he had been practicing wandless spellcasting to avoid the Ministry of Magic discovering from the threads in his wands that a junior wizard was casting spells during the holidays, thus prompting a warning and the threat of expulsion.
The story begins five years ago.
At that time, after being used as a speed bump by the wild Grand Canal, he found himself in an orphanage in a foggy city in the blink of an eye, becoming an eleven-year-old orphan. Then, he discovered the daily intelligence in his mind and planned to become a big capitalist overnight through speculative means such as stock trading. At that time, he received a letter.
The envelope had a wax seal and a coat of arms with a capital "H" surrounded by a lion, eagle, badger, and snake.
At the subsequent Sorting Ceremony.
Under his strong insistence on going to Ravenclaw, the Sorting Hat finally gave up the idea of letting Ryan go to Azkaban first and then to Nurmengard for further studies.
During his first year summer vacation, after returning to the orphanage, he went out on an adventure based on intelligence, used magic, and was warned by the Ministry of Magic upon returning to the orphanage, who claimed that they would expel him and destroy his wand.
The matter was resolved by Dumbledore; it was the first time Ryan had ever been in private with the headmaster.
Then a toad spirit working for the Ministry of Magic brought a warning, saying in a cloyingly sweet voice, "You are guilty. It was only because Mr. Fudge went against everyone's wishes that you were safe. You should be grateful to Mr. Fudge, and there can't be a next time, or you'll be going to Azkaban..."
Thinking of the shameless actions of Fudge's faction, Ryan sneered. Ever since he made a name for himself as a master of prophecy, until last year, Fudge had been sending him a letter almost every month, hoping that he could make a prophecy that "Fudge is the chosen Minister of Magic."
"Minister Millicent and Dumbledore both opposed my dismissal. According to some friends, it was the pure-blood heads of the family who were strongly advocating for severe punishment of those who violated the 'Law on the Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards.' Fudge was equally firm in his stance in order to gain support. In the end, he immediately became a fence-sitter after seeing that Dumbledore was against it."
As Ryan surveyed his surroundings, he muttered to himself, "Fudge really is a brilliant politician."
Connery Fudge's tough stance towards an orphaned, possibly Muggle-born wizard appealed to the pure-blood family and garnered him a lot of support. Coupled with his ability to change sides and navigate complex relationships, Fudge was able to successfully become Minister for Magic in 1990.
Speaking of which, in July of this year, 1991, it seems that in two months it will be the day when the famous Harry Potter enrolls in school.
Although he had read the Harry Potter series in his previous life, he only had a superficial understanding of the details. Most of his memories of the original works came from short videos, which may differ significantly from the real people involved.
I just think some of the actors are good-looking.
Now, after living in the magical world for four years, he is familiar with his own story.
The Harry Potter series, however, is a story about someone else.
I only remembered Harry Potter's enrollment because someone mentioned it before the holidays, saying it was for new students.
Then someone chimed in, saying that the boy who survived the ordeal and the warrior who defeated the black demon seemed to be of school age.
These people were arguing about which house Harry Potter would go to, so a large group of them went to the Ravenclaw common room to ask Ryan for a prophecy, hoping that Ryan could tell them which house Harry would go to.
Ryan then threw all of them out.
"Speaking of which, what was the plot of the first game again?"
"It seems the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has gotten into trouble yet again."
As he talked to himself, he thought of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who had been forced to leave after only one year of teaching for various reasons over the past four years.
Some were due to failed magical experiments, some were unable to leave due to other matters, and one even fell on his way to class because of a suddenly disappeared staircase, causing his magic to become disordered and leading him to be hospitalized at St. Mungo's Hospital.
The worst-case scenario was that a dark magical creature went out of control during class. If Ryan hadn't foreseen this through intelligence, it might have resulted in the first student loss due to teaching this century...
It can only be said that there are not many elite wizards left at Hogwarts who are willing to serve as professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Even setting aside how profound their magical skills are, most adult wizards with some ability wouldn't be willing to risk their lives for a year's high salary.
Suddenly, he stopped. Before him lay a jumble of rocks in the mud. The rocks were intricately intertwined, and although there was no magical fluctuation, the results of his investigation told Ryan that these rocks had witnessed magic.
"Armor for protection."
With three metallic clangs, three consecutive layers of the Ironclad Spell were cast. This was the limit that Ryan could currently achieve; the only spell he could cast three times was the Ironclad Spell.
He practiced for an hour every day and learned the dueling techniques of an ancient wizard from a ruin he had discovered through intelligence. It took him three years to master the skills.
Multicasting is an extremely advanced technique. Different spells can complement each other, and the same spells can be stacked, both of which can drastically change the effect of the spell. A wizard needs a deep understanding of spells to perform multicasting.
Ryan's Triple Armor Spell was a product of trickery; the technique he named "Triple Combination" could only stack the same spells.
However, the effect was also amazing. Even though his magic power was only at the level of a junior wizard, the superimposed armor spell generated by the triple casting was something that ordinary adult wizards could not break.
Six months ago, during winter break, Ryan had an experience fighting an adult dark wizard while he was away from home.
After the Cruciatus Curse and the Armored Curse collided with a dull thud, the dark wizard was dumbfounded, unable to believe that his spell had failed to penetrate a junior wizard's Armored Curse.
At this moment, Ryan's magic power and magical skill were much stronger than they had been six months ago, and the Triple Armor Curse caused armor-like phantoms to appear around his body.
After circling around the rubble, Ryan guessed that these were remnants of magic circles or alchemical matrices that modern wizards rarely use anymore. Now, only parts of them remained to conceal and repel ordinary people, and perhaps the complete array also had effects such as illusion and defense.
Modern wizards, thanks to the Muggle banishment charm, can banish ordinary people by waving their wands.
This inconvenient magic circle faded from the wizards' sight and disappeared into the past, leaving only a few words in ancient books.
"In the Ancient Alchemy section of the Hogwarts Library, 'An Introduction to Classical Alchemy' mentions that the principle of this type of magic circle is similar to a magic lock, which can only be entered by those who have reached a certain level of approval without being forcibly broken."
"However, given the current level of damage, I could easily break through it with brute force."
Ryan recalled yesterday's intelligence and realized that the ordinary person who had mistakenly entered this place must have met the selection criteria of this magic circle.
It's really interesting that Ryan, a wizard, wasn't recognized, but an ordinary person was able to "accidentally" enter the treasure.