Chapter 23 Invisible Phantom

In the remaining month of summer vacation, Xie Ling did not forget the various disturbances that would occur in Hogwarts in the upcoming semester, so he also began to study the spells that could be used in this semester to prepare for various situations he might face.

Since last semester, Xie Ling has already begun to improve the Luminescence Charm, the Amplification Charm, and the Flame Charm that he learned in the first-year course. In this long vacation, Xie Ling finally found the opportunity to realize his ideas one by one.

Through the fine manipulation of magic power and the adjustment of the wand posture, Xie Ling found that the light emitted by the Luminescence Charm, the sound effect created by the Amplification Charm, and the flame form released by the Flame Charm can all be adjusted in size.

For example, with the Luminescent Charm, Schelling successfully turned his wand into an adjustable flashlight for Muggles, and the light source transformed by magic power can adjust the brightness as he wishes; for example, with the Amplifying Charm, Schelling also successfully made the sound like a Muggle sound system that can freely adjust the volume and sound waves; for example, with the Fire Charm, the flames Schelling now releases are no longer just a long jet of flames, but can release a huge fireball like a miniature sun, or a bunch of scattered sparks.

In addition, in the past few years, he has been keeping in touch with his overseas pen pals. Among them, the one he exchanges letters with most frequently is Akabane Sakurazuki, a female pen pal from Japan who attends Mahoutokoro School of Magic.

Mahoutokoro means magic place in Japanese, so it is also referred to as the Magic House. This magic school is a palace located at the highest point of Minami-Iwo Jima, Japan. The palace is built with mutton-fat jade and looks like a gorgeous and exquisite pagoda, so it is also known as the Magic Palace. To Muggles, the island and the palace are uninhabited.

In Japan, wizard children start school when they are seven years old, but they will not start boarding until they are eleven years old. Before that, they will ride on the back of giant petrels to and from home every day and go to school as day students. So although Akabane Sakurazuki is the same age as Schelling, she has been exposed to magic for six years.

Schelling is most interested in Japanese magic in the 16th century. The Japanese wizards who actively appeared in front of the curtain under the name of "ninja" during the Warring States Period of the shogunate. In order to meet the intelligence needs of the major feudal lords at that time, the magic of Japanese wizards is very inclined to stealth, disguise, invisibility, and concealment. There are as many as 30 kinds of invisibility magic that have been passed down to this day, accounting for more than half of the "Invisibility Book of Invisibility" which tells about the invisibility magic of the world.

(Note: The unique magic of each country is confidential and will not be shared with wizards from other countries. The Invisibility Book of Invisibility only briefly describes the invisibility magic of each country. The specific methods of casting magic and the techniques to enhance the invisibility effect are not in the book. Although wizards from various countries cannot disclose the magic of their own country at will, privately owned family magic and privately researched spell casting experience are not included in this rule, so Xie Lin can exchange magic with Akabane Sakurazuki.)

During the many exchanges between Xie Lin and her, they inevitably discussed the invisibility magic that she was most proud of, and exchanged the different understandings of invisibility magic between the two schools in Britain and Japan: the common invisibility magic in Britain is the Illusion Spell, which uses the principle similar to that of a chameleon to allow the caster's skin to simulate the surrounding environment, trying to create visual deception to achieve the effect of hiding the body; while the most commonly used invisibility magic in Japan is the "Harmony with Light and Dust Spell", which is a spell that changes the shape and light transmittance of the body, making the body like dust that allows light to pass through, in simple terms, making the body truly transparent.

After generations of wizards' improvements, these two magics are close to perfect, but Schelling is still not satisfied. There are actually many ways to see through invisibility magic. For example, the perspective spell attached to Mad-Eye Moody's artificial eye can see through the Disillusionment Charm and the Invisibility Cloak; for example, animals such as cats and dogs can also rely on their sensitive sense of smell to see through the position of the invisible person. In this regard, Schelling mainly considers students and Filch's pet cat Loris; for example, snakes that can sense infrared rays can also detect the temperature of the invisible person.

Schelling's goal is to create an invisibility magic that can overcome the above shortcomings and is completely unique to him.

Schelling referred to the principles of the Disillusionment Charm and the Light and Dust Charm, and then referred to some Muggle popular science books on optics. Finally, he developed a new invisibility magic, which he named "Invisibility Charm".

He took out all the anti-stealth and anti-stealth devices collected by his family and tried them out. He even asked Lucius to borrow a pair of perspective glasses of the same model as Mad-Eye Moody's. Of course, Schelling wanted to study the alchemy principle behind the perspective glasses. As a result, he was surprised to find that none of these expensive devices could see through his invisibility magic, which means that his invisibility magic even surpassed the invisibility cloak of the three artifacts of the god of death in terms of concealment. After all, the invisibility cloak in the original book could not hide from Mad-Eye Moody's perspective eyes.

"Invisible Phantom Charm" is matched with his Supreme Wizard Robe - which has the function of covering breath, smell, and body temperature. Even the most sensitive dogs with a sense of smell and snakes that sense infrared rays cannot sense Schelling's existence. Even if Schelling stands in front of them, they will just ignore him.

What's more amazing is that he has successfully developed a new combat technique. He cleverly uses invisibility magic to integrate into his spellcasting process, causing the spells shot by his wand to be invisible and intangible, and cannot be tracked by the naked eye, let alone resisted. Before this, there was only one spell that could achieve this effect, that is, Snape's original "God of Shadows". Schelling can integrate this technique into all spells, and he named it the "Invisible Casting" technique.

[Invisibility magic "Invisible Phantom Spell" created! ]

[Invisible Casting Technique Acquired! ]

Compared with Schelling's rich harvest, his brother Draco neglected his studies and went out to practice Quidditch with Goyle and Crabbe almost every day during the entire holiday. Second-year students can already participate in the selection of the school Quidditch team. Draco mentioned at home more than once that he must join the Slytherin Quidditch team this semester.

Under his soft and hard persuasion, Lucius personally negotiated with Marcus Flint of the Flint family - the Malfoy family will provide each member of the Slytherin Quidditch team with a Nimbus 2001 for free, and the price is that Marcus Flint, as the Quidditch captain, must let Draco pass the selection.

The Nimbus series of flying brooms are currently the most high-end on the market, and each of the newly launched Nimbus 2001 costs 130 Galleons. Even for the wealthy Malfoy family, buying seven Nimbus 2001s at once is a considerable expense. This shows how much Lucius dotes on his son.

Sherin is not very interested in Quidditch. He is focused on strengthening his own strength. Only after he has survived the crisis brought by Voldemort in the next few years, will he consider slowing down his pace to enjoy the good things in life.

During the two months of summer vacation, he has made great progress in alchemy and spells, and even in combat skills, he has become more flexible and at ease with daily practice and improvement.

As for the rule in the "Law on Reasonable Restraint of Underage Wizards" that underage wizards are not allowed to use magic outside of school? That is for Muggle families or weak mixed-blood families. As an ancient pure-blood family, the manor is shrouded in powerful protective magic and shielding magic. As long as it is still within the scope of Malfoy Manor, the Ministry of Magic cannot trace the traces of Sherin and Draco's spells.

It can be seen that pure-blood wizards have too many advantages over wizards from Muggle families. In the original book, if Draco had not wasted his time every day in conspiracy and boring play, he would not have suffered the shame of repeated defeats in a series of struggles with Harry Potter.

Speaking of Harry, he had a miserable summer vacation. In July, all his magic items were confiscated by his Muggle relatives, so he was unable to touch any magic for a whole month.

Worse still, he tried to write letters to his friends to complain or seek help, but never received any reply - all his letters were intercepted by Dobby, which was Dobby's own decision. Although Sherin knew about it, he did not intervene.

Such depressing days lasted until Harry's birthday - on July 31, Dobby appeared in his room and gave him an inexplicable warning, and used a hovering spell to cause Harry to receive a warning letter from Mafalda Hopkirk, the director of the Office of the Prohibition of the Abuse of Magic.

After being imprisoned more cruelly by his Muggle relatives for three days, Harry was rescued by Ron and his twin brother, and his miserable summer vacation life came to an end here.

On August 19, Lucius said that he needed to go to Knockturn Alley in London to do something, and asked Draco and Sherin to go with him, so that he could buy them the book list for this semester.

Knockturn Alley, a black market similar to Muggles. It is adjacent to Diagon Alley, where all kinds of people are mixed, and most wizards despise it. This alley is full of dark magic shops where people can buy many kinds of dark magic items.

There are very few decent wizards in Knockturn Alley. There are even many notorious dark wizards, werewolves and vampires hidden in it. The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic have tried to remove Knockturn Alley, the cancer of the wizarding world, many times, but in the end they all returned in vain.

Sherin has always been skeptical about this. He does not think that the failure to ban Knockturn Alley is due to the incompetence of the Aurors. The real reason should be the protection of some high-level officials in the Ministry of Magic - after all, how many hands of people involved in politics can be completely clean?

The entrance to Knockturn Alley is adjacent to Diagon Alley. Lucius led Draco and Sherin through the crowded crowd and walked into Knockturn Alley. In front of them is a dirty alley. The shops in Diagon Alley are crowded enough, but Knockturn Alley looks obviously narrower. Even the light is mostly blocked by the weird buildings, which makes people feel a little gloomy.

The three shops facing the intersection had their doors tightly closed, and their windows were tightly drawn with thick velvet curtains. The shop names on the door lintels were barely legible, and it was obvious that they had been abandoned for some time.

There seemed to be shops selling black magic on both sides. In the window of a shop, some shrunken human heads were displayed eerily, and in a large cage, huge black spiders were crawling all over. In a dark doorway, two ragged wizards were watching them whispering. Lucius looked at them with contempt. Perhaps because the characteristics of the Malfoy family were too obvious, the two wizards shrank back their gazes and continued to wait for the next prey.

In front of a shop selling poison candles, there was an old wooden street sign, telling him that this was Knockturn Alley. After walking for a while, Sherin saw the largest shop in Knockturn Alley, the crooked shop with the sign "Boggin and Burke's".

It seemed that this was their destination. Lucius stopped, turned around, pushed open the wooden door of the shop, and walked in. Sherin was not completely ignorant of this shop that had a little reputation in the dark world of wizards.

The store is run by the Burke family, one of the 28 holy pure-blood families. In addition to selling dark magic items, Borgin and Burke's can also be used as a pawnshop. The owner, Mr. Borgin, likes those dark magic items with strange uses and unpredictable power. As for whether a deal that satisfies both parties can be reached, it depends on personal means.

Lucius didn't waste any words and went straight forward to explain his purpose to the owner, Mr. Borgin - he wanted to sell some dark magic items collected by the Malfoy family here. While Lucius and Mr. Borgin were bargaining for each item on a long list of goods, Shaylin and Draco could only wander around Borgin and Burke's to learn more.