Chapter 228 The Road to Becoming Stronger
In his previous life, Sherin, who knew Harry Potter by heart, had not forgotten that at the end of the story, Luna married Newt Scamander's grandson and had two sons.
Sherin did not think this was a coincidence.
Luna, who had such a rare "Son of Nature" talent, played an important role in Dumbledore's Army, but did not end up with any outstanding boy in Dumbledore's Army. Instead, she married a completely new person, and married into Newt Scamander's family.
It seems that the Scamander family, which is not very famous in the British wizarding world, is also quite interesting!
Two days later, the Easter holiday ended.
In the past two days, the six girls have been seizing the time to practice actual combat, so as to adapt to their sudden new power in the shortest time.
With more powerful magic, it means that you can start to try to cast more powerful spells, such as explosion spells, continuous explosion spells, "wind vortex spells" and "magic flame protection spells", and the low-level spells that were commonly used before have become useless. So the entire fighting method and tactical arrangements must be changed accordingly.
This is not just a problem that can be overcome by learning new powerful magic, but it involves a change in the mentality of a wizard-
In simple terms, it is to have a strong mentality, start to understand how to break the cleverness with force, and play the advantages of magic.
In addition, Daphne, Zhang Qiu, and Luna need to carry out other training.
Daphne needs to master her newly awakened blood talent as soon as possible. The Druid heritage can be said to be one of the earliest heritages of the ancient Celts. There were archaeological remains of Druids around the fourth century BC. It is almost the same era as the despicable Herpo, Circe, the invincible Andros, and the prophet Mopsus in ancient Greece. This shows how ancient and far-reaching its historical heritage is.
Today, the Druids have long since fallen. With the invasion of the Romans in the first century AD, the Druids were severely suppressed and hunted down. In the second century AD, the entire Druids had disappeared without a trace. In fact, because the Druids' doctrine strictly forbade the recording of knowledge in writing, the Druids also cut off their inheritance.
Schelling would not underestimate Daphne's awakened blood talent.
Even though the Druids have fallen and their inheritance has been cut off, as a magic school that can compete with the wizard system, it must have its own unique features.
The Druids had the concept of inheritance earlier than the wizards. When the wizards were still cherishing their own things and practicing a one-to-one master-apprentice system, the Druids already had a sound inheritance system. Druids are not only monks, but also doctors, teachers, prophets and judges. They teach young people with magic and become judges when crimes occur or when there are land disputes. They are respected for their power, and are the advisors of the king and the rulers of the people.
Druids have a high status in Celtic society, second only to the kings or clan leaders. They can be exempted from military service and tribute obligations. These privileges have caused many people to want to become druids, but most of them are eliminated because they cannot recite the knowledge, history, poetry, etc. required. This is because druids adopt a meritocracy system. In other words, only capable people can become druids-
Druids' teachings and heritage are passed down in the form of oral transmission. They are strictly prohibited from leaving any written materials, and all knowledge must be memorized in their heads. Therefore, those who can become druids are all knowledgeable and have strong memory. Therefore, Schelling always thought that the druid civilization had long disappeared in the long river of history until the conversation with Dumbledore.
Dumbledore clearly mentioned that the last druid high priest Cliona, in the process of escaping the search of the Roman regime, actually violated tradition and privately left behind the textual heritage "Druid's Book", which was also regarded as one of the six great books by the wizarding world later.
The Druid's Book had long been lost, and even Dumbledore's intelligence network had no clues, so Schelling did not set his sights on this book.
The real target in Schelling's mind was --
Ms. Rosmerta.
Ms. Rosmerta was not mentioned much in the original book, but a few words showed that she was not a simple person. She had already worked at the Three Broomsticks during the Marauders' era, which meant that she was at least 20 years older than the Marauders, and she was at least in her 50s or almost 60s this year, but she was still charming and charming. Even the Minister of Magic Fudge spoke to her in a soft and polite voice, and she could still fascinate many young and innocent little wizards.
Most importantly, Schelling's magic eyes did not see any magic fluctuations on her, which meant that her charm was genuine, not achieved by some kind of charm. As far as Schelling knew, this magic of keeping youth had long been lost, so Schelling had come up with the idea of a "beauty potion" that could keep youth forever, and even spent a lot of money to buy the potion research notes of the Tugwood family.
Another small detail that caught Schelling's attention was that the butter beer brewed and sold by Ms. Rosmerta at the Three Broomsticks was obviously different from the butter beer in other bars. Ms. Rosmerta's butter beer had a unique flavor, was not too greasy, and had a slightly cool feeling. According to Schelling's inference, it was likely that moon dew grass was added.
Moondew is a flowering plant found in Scotland. Its flowers will only bloom under sufficient moonlight (usually when the moon is full and cloudless). It is one of the ingredients for invigorating potions and sleeping potions. The person who discovered the magical properties of Moondew was the famous Irish Truid priestess, Cleona. Schelling has every reason to believe that Ms. Rosmerta has some unclear relationship with the disappeared Druid sect.
Of course, before Schelling contacts Ms. Rosmerta, what Daphne can do now is to try to explore the power in her blood and try to use magic to trigger blood talents similar to "Snake Whisperer" and "Disguise Magus".
What Zhang Qiu needs to do is to master the Zhang family's secret transfiguration as soon as possible.
At the beginning, as a reward for Schelling's care for Zhang Qiu, Mr. Zhang He once gave Schelling a transfiguration called "Phantom Clone". This transfiguration is extremely difficult. To this day, Schelling has spent a lot of time and still cannot master the essentials, let alone Zhang Qiu. However, the Zhang family's secret transformation technique is not just a "phantom clone".
The most famous transformation technique of the Zhang family is actually the "paper transformation technique", which is the transformation technique that Zhang Guolao used a piece of paper to transform a live donkey. Since the Chinese branch has been deleted in this book, it can be mentioned here that Mr. Zhang He met a group of black wizards in Xiangxi a few years ago. They violated the taboos of the Chinese wizard world and practiced the method of raising corpses against the will of heaven. They raised hundreds of zombies, flying zombies, and corpses with the intention of causing chaos. In the end, Mr. Zhang He scattered paper pieces all over the sky, there were as many as hundreds of them, and each piece of paper changed into the appearance of a heavenly soldier and general, turning into a fearless iron-blooded army, and fought a fierce battle with this group of "corpse raisers".
(Note: In the original draft, there was a branch line about Xie Ling traveling to China and fighting zombies with wisdom. Later, the author thought it was completely unrelated to the main line, so it was deleted.)
According to Mr. Zhang He, this trick is the most proud secret of the ancestors - throwing paper to make soldiers!
Moreover, transforming into heavenly soldiers and generals wearing armor and holding magic weapons is only the first level of this transformation. If the transformation is profound enough and the magic power is sufficient, it can even add mounts such as Dapeng, Qingniu, and Jindouyun to the heavenly soldiers and generals, turning them into an air combat force that can fight in three dimensions.
Zhang Qiu started practicing this magic a long time ago, but she never got the hang of it. This time, the magic power broke through one after another, and the magic blood potion seemed to have greatly improved her physical fitness, making her body more compatible with the magic power needed for the transformation. She is confident that she can master this magic, not bring shame to their Zhang family, and... increase her status in that person's heart...
Finally, it's Luna.
Among the six girls, although Luna was the last to show the effect of the magic blood potion, the effect of the magic potion on Luna was the most significant and clear. Unlike Daphne's still unclear talent, Luna awakened the complete blood talent "Son of Nature", and there was no need for Luna to dig deeper into the blood, she could easily master it with her subjective consciousness.
At this moment, Luna smiled sweetly, she stretched out her slender fingers, and directed the various magical animals in the secret room collected by Xie Lin's forces outside the school - Pu Rongrong, Bowtruckle, Sniff, Kneazle, and Thorny Man, playing, singing and dancing there. And these magical animals are very docile, and they are willing to let Luna command.
In other words, Luna already has the prototype of a summoning flow combat wizard.
Sherin had once asked Luna to try to command larger magical animals, such as the dwarf pig monster, the bird snake, and even the hippogriff Buckbeak, but it didn't work. It seems that Luna's bloodline talent can only be limited to commanding small magical animals.
Although these small magical animals have their own magical features, they are not good at fighting. They are good for sneaking, reconnaissance, and exploring unknown places, but if they are used as an army, it is not ideal. However, Sherin did not intend to let Luna's talent go to waste.
He had another idea.