The Admiral of Hogwarts

"I think it's time for us to retreat as well." Victory said softly to Hugo, watching Dumbledore's brothers weeping over their sister's body and Grindelwald running further and further away along the village path.

At the same time, she was making gesture after gesture in front of her chest, causing the wax figures that had been placed around the Dumbledore's house to quickly turn into gas and evaporate into the air.

However, just as they were destroying the wax figure closest to the Dumbledore's house, the one placed on the treetop, the situation suddenly changed. The instant the statue disappeared, Hugo felt a powerful surge of energy carrying information rushing back.

"What—" Before Hugo could react, he saw a beam of light suddenly rush into the crystal ball along the magical connection between the statue and the crystal ball, and then pour into the Admiral Network.

"Damn it, it's an Obscurus." Victory immediately sensed what this thing that had rushed back was. "Normally, an Obscurus would die with the death of its host, but now—"

Victory quickly submitted her analysis about herself to Hugo through the Admiral Network, but at this time Hugo couldn't listen to Victory's explanation. Because he felt that this energy full of destruction was eroding the Admiral Network.

Fortunately, Hugo at this time was completely different from when he had just obtained the Admiral Network a few years ago, so he could mobilize all his energy to fight against this destructive energy.

As the confrontation continued, the energy within the Admiral Network began to gradually smooth out the chaos contained in the invading energy, and then began to absorb and merge this force little by little. "This is actually not purely destructive energy."

As the confrontation began to ease, Hugo gradually peeled away the black energy in his vision, revealing the milky white brilliance within.

"This seems to be—a soul!" Victory, who had been helping Hugo guide the energy from the side, carefully stretched her perception in bit by bit, and saw a shocking scene:

A little girl composed purely of white light was curled up in the center of that black energy, looking as if she was asleep. And a completely pure energy emanated from her.

"Could this be Ariana's soul?" After sharing the vision with Victory, Hugo carefully looked at the little girl's face, and then looked surprised.

"That's very possible, my dear Admiral." Victory said after carefully observing. "I can confirm that this white light is indeed a soul, a pure soul."

"This is simply—" Hugo took a deep breath, while a look of helplessness appeared on his face. But soon he thought of a suspicious point that he hadn't considered before.

"Wait, did you just say this is a pure soul?" Hugo frowned. "If I remember correctly, humans shouldn't possess this kind of pure soul after they are born, right?"

"Yes, theoretically that's the case. But Ariana's situation is quite special." Victory said, while manipulating her consciousness to check the white glowing soul.

"Don't forget, this poor girl has coexisted with the Obscurus for even longer than she has had independent consciousness. So her soul has also been gradually destroyed in the collision of this power."

"That's why the Obscurial's condition will gradually worsen with age, because their souls will gradually be worn away, and finally completely disappear."

"And after losing the foundation of the Obscurial's soul, the Obscurus in the Obscurial's body will completely run wild, leading itself to destruction as well."

"It's just that the situation on the Dumbledore family's side seems to be a bit abnormal. Whether it's Credence, who is suspected of being a member of the Dumbledore family in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,' or Ariana, they have both lived much longer than other Obscurials of the same type."

"I suspect this may be related to the Dumbledore family's contract with the phoenix." Hugo said, touching his chin, "You know, the phoenix represents rebirth and immortality."

"If a family has a contract with the phoenix passed down, then the bloodline of their family may also be subtly influenced by the power of the phoenix. For example, possessing stronger vitality and recovery ability."

"In this case, as long as the speed at which the Obscurus damages the Obscurial itself does not exceed the speed at which the phoenix's power recovers, then I think such an Obscurial should be able to live for a long time."

As Hugo and Victory communicated, the speed at which the energy flowing in the Admiral Network regulated the energy from the Obscurus became faster and faster. Finally, the last bit of black mist in the Admiral Network disappeared.

"I seem to feel that the system seems to have a desire for this soul—" Just as the black mist disappeared, Hugo suddenly felt that the Admiral Network, which was usually unresponsive, suddenly had some kind of response to him.

"Your feeling is correct, Admiral." Victory said, turning her head, as she was also connected to the Admiral Network, "I can feel that the Admiral Network seems to think that this soul can make up for the defects of the entire Admiral Network."

"Make up for defects?" A solemn look appeared on Hugo's face. He knew that this system was his root, but he really couldn't bring himself to strengthen himself with an innocent soul.

After all, as far as he was concerned, the current Admiral Network and the entire ship girl system were already powerful enough. So Hugo had the capital to refuse some practices that violated his values.

"Uh—I'm very glad to see that you, Admiral, can have such a kind heart. But this kind of replenishment is not the kind of self-sacrificing replenishment like Pangu, but rather summoning a new system spirit like me."

After carefully communicating with the entire system, Victory said to Hugo with a smile.

She was actually very happy that her Admiral could always remain kind, after all, ship girls themselves are kind creatures, so naturally they hoped that their Admiral would be the same.

"In other words, she could become Aella?" After a brief thought, Hugo realized that if this soul really turned into a system spirit in the end, then the only possibility would be to become Aella.

After all, almost all other system spirits are ship girls, and only Aella, the system spirit, is the only non-ship girl existence.

After confirming that this approach would not destroy this bit of soul, Hugo safely allowed his system to gradually merge this soul, and then invested a normal 1.5 times, that is, 1.5 points of Destiny Points.

After completing these tasks, Hugo found that the soul gradually entered the deepest part of the Admiral Network, and then was wrapped by layers of threads composed of light.

"When will our new system spirit be able to come out?" Looking at the cocoon in the depths of the soul, Hugo first breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Victory beside him.

"100 days, which means she will be able to come out at the end of this semester." Victory said after a simple perception. "Of course, she may not be quite like me."

"That's understandable, after all, she comes from the soul of a deceased person, not from legends like you." Hugo nodded, and then looked at the Dumbledore brothers in the distance, who were weeping while holding their sister's body, and sighed.

Although Hugo knew that this was history, sometimes knowing it from books or from others and experiencing it personally were completely two different concepts. Therefore, he now felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.