In the following exercises, the members of the book club showed the results of their recent training through magic demonstrations. Ryan felt that everyone here had made great progress during this time, and had mastered the methods of real combat, and the only shortcoming was the lack of actual combat experience.

However, there is really no way to train such a thing as actual combat experience, and Ryan can only look for ways to help everyone as much as possible from other directions.

So for the rest of the day, Ryan and Hermione took turns doing one-on-one combat practice with the book club members, hoping to make up for this deficiency as much as possible. In addition to one-on-one combat practice, everyone also practiced two to three squad cooperation. Learn to cover each other, and stop the enemy from attacking the back of your comrades during the battle.

After the bell of the curfew rang, the members of the reading club left the classroom in twos and threes, tired but excited. Ryan and Hermione naturally ended up cleaning up the field last. Hermione asked as everyone had left the classroom. "I feel like you're in a bit of a hurry, can you tell me what's going on lately?"

"In my judgment, the intensity of the war is likely to increase significantly in recent months. Because Lupin told me last week that on the one hand, there has been a huge increase in the number of wizards from Southeast Europe who have recently entered the country, especially from Greece and Turkey. One of the wizards in charge of border control told him that many of these wizards were dark wizards. On the other hand, there have been far fewer recent inexplicable disappearances and assaults than before. ”

"Didn't they back down because of the Rose Crystal, they destroyed the Dementors last time?" asked Hermione, curiously.

"It's not. Ryan shook his head. "The destruction of the Dementors by the Rose Crystal can only contain the disorderly attacks of those Death Eaters, and the attacks directed by the Mystic will not be reduced by this, for a dark wizard like the Mystery, do you think he is the kind of person who thinks about the mood and safety of his subordinates?"

"You mean that the Mysterio's side is growing in power right now, but their actions are decreasing?" Hermione said thoughtfully. "You're right, it's not normal. It seems that they are indeed planning some kind of big operation. That's why it's only now that he's lurking and accumulating strength. ”

"That's how it should be. Ryan nodded, the incident at the end of last year had already warned Ryan that according to the inertia of the plot and the needs of everyone, many things are bound to happen. But when these things happen, they may not follow the flow in the original plot.

For example, Malfoy is indeed repairing the Vanishing Cabinet as in the original text, but this year Professor Dumbledore is intact, and it is impossible for him to run to the middle of the black lake hidden in the cave to drink the poison. Under such circumstances, Ryan felt that the attack in the original article was likely to appear in a completely different way in front of everyone, so he recently stepped up his surveillance of the door of the Bing Room and the corridor so that nothing would go too wrong.

The rest of the day was peaceful, and Ryan and Hermione were improving their strength step by step. It wasn't until one day before dinner, when he was studying the application of runes in the alchemy laboratory, that Ryan suddenly felt the red ball of light in his mind begin to shrink and shrink, beating slowly like a heart.

"Ryan, what's wrong?" Hermione, who was brewing potions, sensed that Ryan was wrong, and asked out loud.

"I think it's time for my breakthrough. Ryan said to Hermione with a smile after closing his eyes and quietly feeling his physical condition for a while.

"It's just amazing. Hermione clenched her fists and waved them in front of her. "Let's get started now. ”

"Hmm. Ryan nodded, and then walked with Hermione into the Myriad Grocery Store. As soon as I entered here. Ryan walked to the edge of the alchemy circle that floated and swirled with four small balls representing earth, water, fire, and wind. He felt an unprecedented sense of closeness from this alchemy array.

Ryan immediately infiltrated the spirit into this alchemy array and began to manipulate the operation of the energy above, and soon, the four small balls began to disappear according to the amplitude of Ryan's heartbeat. Hermione, on the other hand, sat quietly and felt the change in power in this small space.

For the next week, every day, in addition to going to other worlds to simply eat and wash, Ryan devoted himself to the control of the energy of this alchemy array. In Hermione's perception, Ryan and the mass of energy in front of him resonated more and more.

At the end of the week, Ryan's resonance with the magic circle finally reached its peak. This also means that one of the most important processes in the production of Our Lady of the Rosary is about to begin.

"Next are the souls, preferably the souls of dead intelligent beings. Ryan thought silently and began to take out one gray ball after another from his side, each containing the souls of 10,000 intelligent beings of the same level as humans.

In the process of making Our Lady of the Rose, I feel the rules. Aside from a few moments, Ryan didn't need to be silent all the time, and he even felt that being able to talk to Hermione would help him maintain a good frame of mind. So Hermione, after understanding what the gray ball was through her own perception, asked her own question after confirming that Ryan could speak at this time. "These souls—where did they come from?"

"All the souls here were related to me when they died. Ryan suddenly wanted to make a joke, so he said in a deep voice. But Hermione didn't react as excitedly as she expected, and looked at him with a smile. Her eyes seemed to say, "I don't know what kind of person you are?"

"Well, that's right. Ryan also laughed when he realized that he hadn't surprised Hermione, and then quickly restrained his smile and introduced seriously. "These come mainly from the three worlds, and at least some come from the looters and mutants who have been purged of the Fallout world. The second most come from the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, the souls of nomads, slave owners' armies, and pirates killed in war. And the most of the ones from the world of the Lord of the Rings, the Mordor and the Misty Mountains, are some goblins and orcs of filthy souls, and I've spent a lot of time purifying them. ”

"So, this is the soul of a million intelligent beings?" asked Hermione, nodding to the little gray balls that were lying around. "Does the Making of the Philosopher's Stone, or the Lady of the Rose, require so many souls?"

"Actually, a minimum of 300,000 is enough. Ryan spread his hands. "However, 300,000 is very risky, whether it is Teacher Luo Zhen or Nicolamay, I estimate that the souls they use are about 500,000, and they are all those souls that have been collected through the Black Death that swept through Europe. ”

"So, you scraped together a million souls without the possible moral guilt of the two of them. Hermione said.

"It's good for my peace of mind, so to speak. But in a way, I may be more cruel than both of them, because the death of a million souls is related to me. Ryan whispered, and Hermione keenly noticed that his mind seemed to be depressed.

"I don't think so. Hermione hugged Ryan from behind when she realized something was wrong, and then said in a categorical tone. "Because I know that if these evil beings don't die, there will be more truly innocent beings who will die. ”

"Thank you!" Ryan turned to grab Hermione's hand and kissed her gently. After the two of them parted their lips, Ryan looked into Hermione's eyes and said, "In that case just now, the fluctuation of mana made my mental fluctuations be magnified, in fact, my state was a little dangerous a few minutes ago. Thank you for pulling me back. Now I can start the most important step. ”