A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 251 Demonstration of Ancient Magic

Felix and Hermione sat opposite each other, and he tapped the armrest of the dark sofa with his index finger, and the little witch across a small low table found that he had quietly appeared in the thinking cabin.

'Professor's spellcasting is becoming more and more invisible. Hermione thought to herself, it has been more than a year since she entered here for the first time, from the initial color and shape distortion to subversion, now she can be pulled in without making a sound, the professor has a good understanding of this magic. The control is self-evident.

Hermione was very familiar with this place, she looked at the furnishings in the room with ease, and then her brows frowned.

The half of the space belonging to the professor has not changed much: brown, black, and dark green are the main colors, occasionally dotted with beige and soft gray, giving people a sense of rich colors and a calm and heavy feeling.

A deep chestnut-brown rug, soft and comfortable, is stacked with thousands of tomes, which complement the black wall-mounted bookshelves, the square table with its matte sheen, and the heavy dark green hangings.

Of course, there are more and more ancient rune symbols of different colors, they are like the rhythmic elves in the whole room, bringing vitality and magical visual enjoyment.

Hermione could even imagine what it would be like for the professor to come to the hut by himself—sinking herself on the sofa, calling for a book at random, a naughty rune symbol jumped in front of his eyes, and was flicked away by his fingers...

But now she always feels that something is not right today, is the carpet under her feet dimmed, or is the green curtain rolled up from time to time become quiet?

Perhaps, everything is her illusion?
"Miss Granger?" Felix gave his assistant a strange look, and she looked around nervously as soon as she came in.

Hermione also said rather puzzled: "Professor, your thinking cabin gives me a strange feeling, like—more massive? Or solemn—" She stood at the junction of their minds, looking suspiciously at The half of the space that belongs to you.

There is an obvious modern decoration style, the sun is shining softly, the light brown carpet, the light yellow curtains, and the two pots of green plants on the small round platform in the center have not changed from a year ago.

'Compared in this way, the weirdness is even more obvious. ’ Hermione thought, and she finally thought of a word to describe her feeling: "Dark style?"

Felix laughed dumbfounded, "Why do you think so?"

Hermione shook her head, "I just thought of it suddenly. It doesn't seem to have changed, but some details are different."

Felix understood a little bit, and he said thoughtfully: "You reminded me, this is the external reflection of our inner world, it just so happens that I have a new understanding of magic recently, it will be fine in a few days. "

"Let's begin today's lesson, Miss Granger."

Hermione temporarily let go of her doubts and sat back in her seat. She and Felix began to discuss the progressive relationship of runes.

"Professor, starting from a single rune, to the rune circuit, and the rune ball I saw, as well as the complex circuits overlapping and nesting on the chestnut plate today, does this mean that the more complex the rune structure, The more advanced it is?"

"In terms of function realization, this is indeed the case. A single rune has a single attribute, and we humans always want to achieve more and more complex functions, so we have to desperately study how to combine more runes together .”

"Let me give you an example." Felix held a rune symbol in his hand, "Flame, this rune itself contains quite a lot of possibilities. It must have a completely different effect when I use it and you use it, because we There are different levels of understanding of it.”

The magic symbol in his hand is constantly changing rapidly between runes and flames.

Hermione also quickly constructed a flame rune. Her transformation speed was significantly slower, and after going through two or three changes, the structure of the rune symbols was no longer stable, and finally turned into green smoke with a "chi" sound.

"This kind of understanding of magic itself is actually very difficult to make tricks. Once you understand it, you will understand it. There is no shortcut. But if you simply want to increase the power of the flame, there are actually many ways—"

Felix grabbed some runes from the air, "For example, I want to magnify the flames—" more than a dozen runes were connected to the original rune that meant flames, and the small flame that was originally the size of a palm swelled into a flame. as big as a pumpkin;

"I still want to make it burn more violently..." He grabbed some runes and added them, as if stuffing some condiments, the fireball the size of a pumpkin began to burn violently, accompanied by "crackling" Explosion;

"So far, this magic has become difficult to control, and I must emphasize that the thinking cabin is not real. What I can do here does not mean that I can perfectly reproduce it outside... Back to On topic, I want to raise the temperature—"

The new runes were combined and thrown into the flames.The orange-red flame became brighter, quickly transitioning to bright yellow and bright white, and then there was even a hint of blue.

Felix said in a relaxed tone: "If it is in reality, if we don't take any protection, we will burn ourselves, so the saying that ancient magic is dangerous is not false. From the ancient books I have seen, there are too many Many people were ruined by the first successful casting."

"Continue to talk—in fact, we have obtained a powerful enough magic at this moment, but obviously we still want more: make it controllable, accumulate magic power, or shape..."

"If you have a deep enough understanding of magic and are proficient at mobilizing magic power, some steps can be omitted. Theoretically, all magic in the world is the product of mobilizing and transforming magic power. But most people, including you, also Including me, they are far from reaching the level of doing whatever they want."

Hermione nervously looked at the blue fireball in the professor's hand, which had reached a diameter of one meter, and the surrounding air began to distort. Even though she knew that everything here was constructed by thinking, she still couldn't help feeling afraid.

Felix waved his hand and made the blue fireball disappear, "Okay, the game is over. What you just saw is just a demonstration of thinking. In reality, I can't do it so easily. I hope I won't misunderstand you. .”

"I repeat, ancient magic is very dangerous."

Hermione obviously accepted the rhetoric. Next, she practiced the ancient runes step by step. In addition to learning new content, she also needed to deepen her understanding of the runes. Symbols are transformed into corresponding magical meanings."

She counted on her fingers, and there were only a few who really reached the level of "understanding", such as "Bison Power", "Brightness", and "Flame".

There is a long way to go~
Felix encouraged her and said: "At the next rune club meeting, I will take apart an ancient magic and integrate it into teaching. If your progress is fast enough, I will teach you the rune combination of this ancient magic. way. The same goes for everyone else."

Hermione's heart skipped a beat, but she knew that the professor's attitude towards ancient magic had always been very cautious. In the past year or so, the two had only a handful of discussions on ancient magic.

Does this mean that the professor has enough recognition for her learning and magic manipulation level?

She began to think about it: in the first year, she had been learning to translate runes and practical runes, and in the next semester, she came into contact with the runes circuit, and even successfully repaired the damaged beaded packet before the end of the semester;
During the summer vacation, she has been using the rune carving knife to practice drawing rune and rune circuits;
At the beginning of the new semester, she has already been exposed to the knowledge of rune transformation, and she is more focused on understanding the rune itself. She can't help but imagine: after the end of the third grade, is it possible for her to directly master an ancient magic?
Seeing Hermione's enthusiasm, Felix added: "It's the simplest ancient magic, don't imagine it has any lethal power." But this did not dissuade her enthusiasm in the slightest.

At the end of the practice, Hermione became extremely tired. She stood up and moved her eyes across the room. The weird feeling was still obvious, and the more she looked at it, the more awkward it became.

'Although the professor said it was because of the changes brought about by the new perception, it still looked gloomy. '

She decided to change her mind, and stood in a corner of the room to keep looking at it. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she picked up a pot of green plants and put them on the professor's square table full of books. She narrowed her eyes and laughed.

"It looks much better that way."

(End of this chapter)