Chapter 80: The Mage's Problem, Refining the Horcruxes
Pure spiritual power is always the best tonic for the soul.
Even under the erosion of the "Water of Styx" potion, Hermione's soul began to become solid and stable little by little, and there was no longer a weak ethereal feeling.
And in addition to her, the blank Horcrux diary, which had obtained another part of the spiritual power infusion, also began to undergo wonderful changes.
Although Tom Riddle's remnant soul has long since left the Horcruxes, the soul space opened up in it has not disappeared.
In the process of contact with Tom Riddle before, Clark had already roughly spied out some secrets of making Horcruxes through a few words, combined with the occult knowledge in his mind.
Although these mysteries were not enough to support him to make a Horcrux, there was no problem with simply using it.
The so-called Horcruxes, in fact, are similar to the Lich Chests in the DND world, which are magical alchemy devices that preserve soul backups to avoid death.
Of course, compared to the more powerful and comprehensive Lich Life Box in the High Demon World, which can automatically operate after the death of the owner and help the owner resurrect, the function of the Horcrux can be said to be very rudimentary.
It has only one soul space that has been carved out, and the ability to nourish the soul and preserve the soul.
However, the single function does not mean that Horcruxes are not precious.
The soul is an ethereal and elusive high-dimensional product, so every Horcrux that can preserve the soul must also use very precious magic materials, as well as high-end magic that is constantly solidified.
Even though Tom Riddle's diary was bought from a Muggle bookshop, he invested a lot of valuable resources in the process of making it into a Horcrux, and even sacrificed a few human lives.
With this readily available precious material, coupled with the empty soul space in it, Clark was able to manipulate it and transform it into a magic book needed by Hermione to become a mage class.
In the DND world, because of the existence of magic nets and spell bits, the magic books in the hands of mages exist more as a storage tool.
As long as they have not yet reached the legendary level and changed the essence of their souls, the mages still have to use the structure of the magic net itself to cast magic.
In fact, most of the steps involved in casting magic are actually done with the help of a magic web.
The mages use spiritual power to communicate with the magic web, absorb the processed magic energy, and then call the pre-stored spell structure to change the nature and form of the magic power, and give the essential attributes of the matter, and finally the mage acts as a terminal and releases it.
The whole spellcasting process, like Muggles using electrical appliances, is simple and fast, and the spell is completed with a single click.
Of course, because of the simplicity and brainlessness of its spell casting process, the ancient mages of the DND world often refer to these mages who can only cast spells step by step as ordinary wizards, which are similar to the existence of engineers in the Muggle world.
They are just users of magic.
And if a mage can study and master these spell structures by himself, understand the inner mysteries and meanings of the structure, and only ask the magic net to provide magic power, and complete the procedures such as the transformation, metamorphosis and metamorphosis of magic power by himself, then this kind of mage is a scholar and scientist in the wizarding world.
They even have an exclusive title, which is 'Arcanist'.
However, with the exception of a few gifted mages who can achieve this title before the legendary, most mages do not have that strong soul power, which is up to 18 intelligence attributes, to study the essence of those rules involved.
So most mages are just mages, a kind of existence as magic engineers.
However, even the 'Magic Engineer' is not so easy to be, as a high-level technical job, every ordinary mage needs to be constantly learning and recharging.
However, there are many types of spells in the world, and the structure of spells is naturally very different.
The brains of mages are not biological computers, and even the more advanced Grand Arcanists are inherently weaker than the technological civilizations in terms of information processing capabilities.
They can't memorize all the complex spell structures, so each mage prepares a magic book for themselves before entering the school, which will record all the spell structures they have learned.
When mages need to use a new spell, they extract the desired spell structure from the spellbook, write it down temporarily, and upload it to the magic web, replacing a previously recorded spell.
It's a pity that there is no magic web in the Harry Potter world today, so if Hermione changes to the [Mage] profession, she will have to face two problems.
The first is how she can mobilize the violent and restless primordial magic, which can make magic more powerful, but its uncontrollable nature also makes it much more dangerous to cast spells.
Maybe sometime, the simplest fireball technique will make Hermione, who uses primordial magic, explode like a bomb.
In addition to this problem, another problem is that without the magic web, the spell structure needs to be memorized by the mage himself, which leads to the need for new mages to do the work of an arcane master.
It's like a blacksmith, who only needs to buy iron ingots and forge them with fire.
But now he needs to start by smelting steel by himself, and even needs to memorize the material ratio of the alloy and the processing steps, and the difficulty has skyrocketed.
Of course, these problems are serious, but Clark had already considered them long before he was ready to transfer Hermione.
And after performing a resurrection ritual for Tom Riddle, he successfully verified some of his guesses and perfected his plan.
In fact, the method is also very simple, since there is no magic net in this world, then build one yourself.
Maybe Clark and the others don't have the strength to do this kind of grand project in one go, but they don't have to be ambitious in the first place.
If the global network can't be completed, then there should be no problem in building a small local area network.
No! It's too wasteful to make a small LAN, anyway, there is only one [Mage] now, and you don't even need a LAN, so you can just get a spell-casting auxiliary terminal for single use.
The personal spellcasting support terminal that Clark helped Hermione build was her magic book.
Hermione's spiritual power was poured into Tom Riddle's blank journal, like pervasive clear water, beginning to soak every page.
This is the first step in creating a magic book, first to gain control of the diary, to exorcise the soul breath left by Tom Riddle in the diary, and other hidden dangers.
In the process of purging, wisps of black smoke also began to emerge from the diary.
Countless vicious and desperate curses were transmitted to the souls of Hermione and Clark along the link of spiritual power. Faces of resentment appeared on the cover of the diary, but they were bound by Horcruxes, wailing and unable to break free.
They are the foundation of the Horcruxes, the bricks and stones that build the soul space, the innocent souls who were once killed by Voldemort and used to create the Horcruxes.
The noisy magic sound entered his ears, and a nameless anger suddenly appeared in Clark's heart, and he almost wanted to cast powerful spells on the surroundings and destroy them recklessly.
And a moment later, a dark mood of sadness enveloped his soul again, making him feel disgusted with the world, and he wanted to commit suicide on the spot.
Such a variety of emotions of joy, anger, sadness, and happiness took turns, which interfered with him and Hermione extremely uncomfortable, and the process of seizing control of the Diary Horcrux was naturally extremely difficult.
Fortunately, Clark had long expected this situation, and he had just received a trace of death divinity from Tom Riddle as a reward for helping him resurrect, and with this kind of thing, dealing with these unjust souls happened to be a professional counterpart.
As a faint trace of death divinity descended on the idol in the center of the circle, the idol that had been standing still suddenly came to life.
No, it wasn't alive, but the scales in His hand began to shake from side to side.
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Anubis, who was responsible for guiding the spirits of the dead, possessed a scale of judgment.
Every dead soul will stay before this scale of judgment.
Anubis would take out the heart of the deceased and place it at one end of the scale, and then place the feather of truth called "Mart" on the other end of the scale.
If the deceased's heart is equal in weight to a feather and the scales are balanced, eternal life can be obtained; If the heart is heavier than a feather, it will be eaten by the devil and sent to hell.
Although this is just a deliberately exaggerated statement by the ancient Egyptian gods in order to have a say about death.
But now the scales in the hands of the God of Wisdom, Knowledge and Magic seem to have some of the power of the legendary Scales of Judgment.
Translucent, billowing black smoke wraiths were pulled out of the Horcrux journal and landed at one end of the scales.
Originally, souls had no weight, but when those resentful spirits fell, they pressed one end of the scales high.
Seeing this, Clark knew that this was a matter of equal exchange and that he needed to put something as heavy as the ghosts on the upturned end.
If the two ends of the scales were equal, then the spirits would be freed and Hermione would have no way to control the Horcrux diary.
And if what Clark put on is not qualified, and the two ends of the scale cannot be equalized, then these resentful spirits who have been dead in vain for more than 50 years will completely entangle him, and pour out the resentment and death accumulated over the years on him.
Fortunately, Clark suddenly felt blessed and remembered that he really had something to put in it.
Then, he pulled out a handful of bullets from his magic pocket and placed them on the other side of the scale.
The bullets were as white as jade, as if carved out of ivory, and from time to time there were silver lightning flashes on them.
If Hermione could still see it at this point, she would have thought the bullets were familiar.
Because they are the same magic bullets that Clark used at the end of the previous semester, sharpened from unicorn horns.
As the darling of the moon goddess Artemis, the unicorn's horns are inherently equipped with purifying magic.
When Clark was adventuring in the Forbidden Forest last year, he rescued a baby unicorn named Goldmane from Quirrell, possessed by Voldemort.
This horn, which was given to Clark as a thank you gift, also bears the blessing of a unicorn.
Later, in order to deal with Voldemort when obtaining the Philosopher's Stone, Clark divided and polished the unicorn horn into a bullet warhead, and except for a part of it, he carried the excess with him.
It's just right to use it here at the moment.
With the release of the horn bullet, the whole balance was shaking, and it gradually flattened.
The deal is done!
The resentful spirits covered in black smoke willingly floated above the bullets, and the silver-white lightning bloomed with dazzling light, whipping them and washing away the thick resentment.
And the beast horn bullets that were originally as white as jade also became as black as ink after absorbing the grievances.
The wraiths who had washed away their grievances and returned to a transparent state nodded and smiled at Clarke, and then collapsed into a cloud of white light, completely integrated into the Horcrux diary.
Hermione, who had been in a stalemate, successfully gained control of the Horcrux.
The old journal floated on Hermione's chest, and began to resonate with Hermione's soul in a burst of soft groans.
On the originally blank page, lines of text appeared, followed by various runes and patterns.
All the magical knowledge that Hermione had learned before had been transformed into a spell structure suitable for the use of [mages] with the help of a mysterious law.
This can be regarded as the care of the Harry Potter world for the first [mage].
After all the magical knowledge was transformed, the Horcrux diary that originally belonged to Tom Riddle completely changed its appearance.
What was originally a palm-sized, thin soft-shell diary has now become a heavy, large book.
On the cover of the hard shell, there is an intricate pattern painted in silver, and in the center of the cover, a combination of scales and books [God of Wisdom, Knowledge and Magic] emblem shines brightly, exuding a mysterious light.
Clark looked at the magic book, and with the help of high-dimensional vision, he could vaguely perceive that a concept symbolizing [magic] was nurturing and lurking in it.
Maybe one day, when Hermione successfully spreads the profession of [Mage] in the world of Harry Potter, this magic book can also be successfully promoted to an artifact containing [magic] rules.
The magic book that accompanies the [Mage] profession is Issei and represents that Hermione's transfer has also been successfully completed.
Now that the "Water of Styx" potion had also lost its effect, Clark hurriedly took out a piece of the Sun Stone that contained a ray of morning light and crushed it, allowing the golden red sunlight to shine on Hermione's face.
In ancient Egyptian myths and legends, the sun god Ra drove the "Boat of Ten Thousand Years" and sailed through the sky.
When he passes through the earthly realm, the world ushers in day, and when he passes through the underworld, the world ushers in night.
Therefore, the antidote to the "water of the Styx" is also very simple, which is the first rays of sunlight in the morning.
In Clark's soul view, the golden red morning light shone straight down, piercing the dark pool of the River Styx, shining on Hermione's soul, pulling her out.
In the reality of the outside world, Hermione, who had been sleeping deeply, also trembled slightly with her slender and slender eyelashes under the morning light, and slowly opened her eyes.
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