The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

After working for most of the night, Link and Dumbledore finally set off back to Hogwarts.

But unlike when they came, the vehicle they used for their return trip was not Phoenix Fox, but the broomstick that Link always kept in the bag of the Invisible Stretch Spell.

Strictly speaking, this is a very brainless behavior. After all, the distance between Hogwarts Castle and Riddle House is ridiculous.

However, Link finally agreed to Dumbledore's suggestion, and he and Dumbledore rode on Nimbus 2001 respectively, and sailed towards Hogwarts Castle in the evening wind.

The reason why Link agreed was that he needed to use this method, which was almost like a walk, to clear his mind.

Link believed that Dumbledore chose the broomstick for the same reason.

After all, the two of them gained too much tonight.

Among them, Dumbledore not only got rid of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes and escaped from hell, but also got a resurrection stone and met his dead family members.

Link also gained a lot, and what concerned him most was a new understanding of Dumbledore.

This last point is especially important.

Because Link has been a Black Deng sect since his previous life, he has always felt that Dumbledore is cunning and cunning. Although his goals are lofty and his behavior is compassionate, the way he behaves in the style of a great sage reveals a sense of ruthlessness and ruthlessness. This can be seen from his behavior of raising Harry Potter like a pig, ready to slaughter it at the critical moment.

Link simply couldn't understand Dumbledore's ruthless saint-like character, nor did he understand his motives for doing so.

But after experiencing what happened today, combined with some understanding of the plot in his previous life, Link found that he seemed to understand Dumbledore somewhat.

Although Dumbledore kept saying how terrifying the curse of the Resurrection Stone was and how it could make people willingly self-destruct, he acted very calmly and even felt a little relieved.

But Link didn't think that Dumbledore's state was the effect of the Resurrection Stone's curse.

If this is the case, then Harry Potter, who used the Resurrection Stone once in the original work, should have confessed himself early.

So Link's personal understanding is that Dumbledore actually wanted to die a long time ago.

Because Dumbledore has experienced too many great changes in his life.

Inadequate care when he was a child caused his sister to be injured by Muggles and become an Obscurial. When he was young, he ran away from the family and followed Grindelwald around. He accidentally injured his sister in a dispute with Grindelwald, causing the Obscurus in her body to go out of control and kill her. He and his mother broke the blood alliance with Grindelwald out of righteousness in middle age and imprisoned his brother/lover. In his old age, his favorite disciple became the second-generation Dark Lord and wanted to rule the country of terror...

He has been making mistakes almost all his life and trying to make things right.

But there are some things he is destined to be unable to make up for.

This caused the guilt in his heart to grow day by day, and eventually turned into an unimaginable pain that tortured him day and night.

Ever since, he thought of death.

Perhaps in his opinion, this should be the highest means of self-punishment.

Of course, death is just his own punishment. In order to eliminate the pain, he feels that he needs to do something for the world that he can.

At the very least, Voldemort, the scourge he taught himself, should be dealt with.

If you think about it this way, Dumbledore's code of conduct is very reasonable.

A person who is tired of living will naturally become extremely selfish.

In order to achieve his final compensation for the world and die calmly, he will not care about how many people will be sacrificed along the way.

In other words, he will also feel sad when facing the suffering and death of those close to him, but he personally feels that it is worth it compared to the ultimate great goal.

"madman!"

Link, lost in thought, read out his truest evaluation of Dumbledore.

Next to him, Dumbledore's five senses were far more sensitive than Link imagined. Even in the windy sky, he still heard Link's words. He turned around and said in confusion:

"What madman?"

Link quickly reacted and said nonsense:

"Oh, I mean Voldemort."

"Indeed, Tom has indeed gone crazy in this current situation." Dumbledore nodded in agreement, "Don't think about it anymore, we have arrived at Hogwarts."

Hearing this, Link finally noticed that the sky had turned white at some point, and Hogwarts Castle stood at the brightest place of the light.

Link stopped talking and followed Dumbledore to accelerate directly back to the principal's office.

"Phew! We are finally back." After landing, Dumbledore breathed a sigh of relief. He hung his coat on the coat rack and said to Link, "It's getting late. I'll go get a check-up for you later." I'm asking for leave. You don't have to go to class today. Go back and have a good rest. I'll ask the house elf to call you in the evening. There are still some things that need to be discussed together. "

"Ah, I see."

Link was not polite to Dumbledore and left the office directly.

But in fact, he didn't return to the Hufflepuff lounge. He didn't even go far. He walked out for a while and then turned directly into the Room of Requirement, which was the Charms Training Ground version of the Room of Requirement.

For a cultivator like him who studied under Snape, how could sleep be as important as retrieving the harvest from this expedition?

You must know that this time he not only upgraded the Fire Spell to LV2, but also obtained a gold skill point.

After entering the Room of Requirement, Link felt his heartbeat quicken just by looking at the golden skill point on his data panel.

No one knows better than him how outrageous this kind of golden skill point that can push skills beyond their limits is.

I think back then he just upgraded the LV5 Divine Edge Shadowless Curse to LV6 and directly gained the ability to freely control the power of the curse.

Since then, Curse Power has been Link's most commonly used and favorite skill.

It can be said that at present, almost half of Link's combat power is obtained by relying on that golden skill point.

So what will happen if we add a little more and raise it to LV7?

Will it be possible to directly reach the state of purification of the power of the curse that Dumbledore mentioned?

Or will his control over the power of the curse be improved again, to the point where he can use the power of the curse to simulate all kinds of black magic?

If that's really the case, wouldn't it just take off?

Thinking of this, Link almost didn't hesitate at all, and directly pressed the plus button behind Shenfeng Wuying LV6 with his consciousness.

However, the dark golden congratulatory barrage he expected after pressing the button did not appear. What flashed before his eyes was a pure black barrage:

[Insufficient gold skill points and cannot be upgraded! 】

【补充：每突破极限提升技能等级一级，下一级所需要的黄金技能点数量+1。即LV6需要黄金技能点*1，LV7需要黄金技能点*2，LV8需要黄金技能点*3……】

"Isn't this cheating?"

Link cursed in a low voice, the intense anger even irritating him to the point where his face turned red.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

How happy he was before, he was so angry now.

If possible, he would even like to ask the creator of this system, why not inform him of this rule in advance.

At least if he knew, he wouldn't be so disappointed now.

However, when the furious Link casually glanced at the Fire Curse LV2 on the data panel, he suddenly froze again.

"Wait, I remember that the Ravenclaw diadem, which is also a Horcrux, seems to be hidden in the Room of Requirement, right?"

Link's eyes lit up.

He had come looking for the crown before, but had not been able to find it because the storage room in the Room of Requirement was too large.

But now it's different!

In the original book, the crown was destroyed by Draco's little follower using the Fire Curse. Now that Link has learned Fire, he can definitely draw a wave of gourds in the same way!

And he didn't have to worry like before about making too much noise and being unable to put out the fire and being discovered by Dumbledore.

He can put out fires now, and even if Dumbledore finds out, he can use the excuse of testing the spell to fool him.

If everything goes well, he will be able to get another golden skill point immediately!

Thinking of this, Link almost ran out of the Room of Requirement at a sprint speed of [-] meters. He silently recited 'A place to hide things' three times before rushing in again.

As it should be, the scene in front of Link has changed into a storage room with piles of debris.

Smelling the unpleasant musty smell around him, without any hesitation, he directly controlled his magic power and threw out a string of black and red fire. Watching it fall on a broken desk, it turned into a fire snake and began to devour it crazily. Everything around you to strengthen yourself.

Because the skill level is not high enough, Link cannot control the flames that are too large.

Therefore, he could only repeat the process of igniting and extinguishing the fierce fire in stages to control the burning range.

This is not an easy job, especially since it will place a huge burden on Link's mental strength.

Even so, Link felt extremely happy just thinking about the golden skill points he was about to receive.

But when the last piece of accumulated garbage was burned to ashes, the smile on Link's face froze.

Because until now he has not seen the expected golden barrage.

"No way? No way!"

Link's voice gradually increased. He grabbed his wand and confirmed that the entire storage room had been burnt to white. Then he murmured in disbelief,

"The crown in the Room of Requirement is gone?!"

"Did Dumbledore take it? No, no, no, it's impossible! If he found out about the diadem, he couldn't hide it. It was a relic of Ms. Ravenclaw. Dumbledore had no reason to do that. Other professors or There is no reason for the students to discover the crown, and the only one who still knows the whereabouts of the crown is..." Link rubbed his chin and analyzed, "Voldemort!"

Link's expression was extremely gloomy. The disappearance of the crown not only meant that Link could not quickly obtain another golden skill point, but also meant that Link had completely lost the whereabouts of a Horcrux. Later, he wanted to find out where Voldemort hid the crown. The location is difficult!

Feeling that he was almost losing control of his emotions, Link activated Occlumency and forced himself to calm down.

'Actually, if you think about it carefully, Voldemort most likely relies on his traitor who is still in Hogwarts to take the crown.

Then things are simpler.

As long as the traitor can be caught and tortured, the loss of the crown may be restored.

In this case, the next battle for the third project will be crucial.

What's more important is that we must go back to Dumbledore to close Hogwarts and restrict everyone's access to the school so that the traitor cannot escape. '

After sorting out his thoughts, Link turned his attention to the data panel again.

He would not do stupid things like accumulating skill points unless he had to. For him, quickly converting all resources into actual profits was the best option.

As of now, Link has nearly 5 skills that have reached LV15.

Most of them are mischief spells that he has improved himself and common tool spells such as restoring to the original state. Therefore, if calculated carefully, there are actually only two spells worth using gold skill points.

Continue to reach LV5 of curse and LV5 of Occlumency.

These two magic spells were upgraded to LV5 after Link reached a certain level and relied on his accumulated experience over time.

It can be expected that the abilities that the upgrade of the Renewal Spell can give Link should be similar to those when upgrading the Shadowless Blade. They are abilities that can basically be used directly as combat skills.

Occlumency, as Link's main weapon to trap Mike, the spiritual beast, is also very important to Link.

However, Link doesn't think this will add much to his combat effectiveness. For now, Link is more willing to increase his actual combat effectiveness as much as possible to cope with the third event of the Triwizard Tournament.

"add a bit."

Following Link's whisper, the golden skill point quickly turned into a golden torrent and was poured into the continuation spell.

The golden frame that was originally imprisoned around the continuation curse on the data panel was quickly destroyed, and then quickly transformed into a circle of dark gold with magnolia patterns engraved on it!

[Continuation Curse LV6 has been obtained! 】

hum!

A massive flow of information rushed directly into Link's brain, causing Link to cover his head in pain, hoping to relieve the horrific pain.

In return, a cloud of water mist filled Link's body without any warning.

This milky white mist was flying in the air as if it were alive, sometimes turning into a giant whale, and sometimes turning into a bird, as if celebrating Link.

"Hiss!~"

Link gasped and stood up, looking straight ahead and waving his wand!

"Water knife!"

The next moment, the water mist condensed suddenly and turned into a thin line that was almost invisible to the naked eye and suddenly shot out, directly penetrating the floor of the Response Room.

"ice!"

The water mist quickly turned white, then turned into an ice spear and hit the ground!

Then, white frost filled the air, covering the floor under Link's feet in an instant.

Seeing this, Link nodded with satisfaction.