#39 - Section 39

Dodging is difficult because the attack range is wide.

"Clang, clang!"

A high-pitched bird song accompanied by firelight appeared in the open space ahead.

Appearing with it was a tall old man with white hair.

Ethan abruptly increased his magic power, and the giant sword in the fire giant's hand suddenly burst into a sky-reaching flame, directly stabbing towards Voldemort's location.

After doing all this, Ethan didn't look at the result. He reached for an iron chain hanging at his waist, and his whole body disappeared from the spot in a burst of distortion.

This was a Portkey that Ethan had prepared before coming, leading to a stronghold of Dennis and the others in Wales.

It was to guard against Dumbledore's arrival. It was no problem to beat up a weakened Voldemort, but when facing Dumbledore, especially one wielding the Elder Wand, it was best to avoid him.

Dumbledore was also dumbfounded at this moment. What the hell just happened?

He had rushed over after receiving an urgent message from Aberforth's owl. If it had happened within the Hogwarts grounds, he would have known immediately, but this location didn't belong to Hogwarts.

It's just that he seemed to be a little late. The surrounding environment had been completely destroyed, especially that attack he had just seen, which directly turned the ground within a radius of about three hundred meters into a lava lake.

In addition, a Fiendfyre that no one was controlling was spreading, as well as this fire giant that was also rampaging everywhere.

One of them should be Tom, who is the other one?

What were they doing here? Why did the two of them have a conflict?

Will this affect the subsequent plans for the Philosopher's Stone, and Hogwarts?

There were too many questions in his mind, but now there was obviously no time for him to think, because if the fire continued to burn, it would reach the Forbidden Forest.

Immediately, he inserted the Elder Wand in his hand into the ground, and a red light began to spread, gradually enveloping the Fiendfyre and the giant within it. Next was a collision of magic power.

On the other side, Voldemort, who had forcibly Apparated, had already fallen to the ground, or rather, it was now Quirrell. The weak soul was forced to fight, and the consumption on Voldemort was not small.

At this moment, Quirrell, lying on the ground, had his eyes tightly closed, his lips trembling, his face pale, and his body had shriveled down, as if he had aged thirty or forty years, and he was missing an arm. His entire left arm, along with part of his shoulder, had disappeared completely.

This was the consequence of forcibly Apparating. The collision of powerful magic power made the space somewhat unstable. In addition, he had to face that terrifying attack. Humans were not magical creatures who had this ability engraved in their bones. Once there was a slight mistake, it would be a human separation technique.

Voldemort was lucky at the time. He forcibly Apparated and only lost an arm.

And it wasn't even his own.

[Thank you to Young Master Zui Die for the reward, thank you very much, Big Boss!]

Chapter 63: Achievements Completed One After Another

Inside the stronghold, Ethan opened the panel, and as expected, there was a prompt for completing achievements.

Moreover, three came at once. It could be said that Quirrell fell, and Ethan ate his fill!

[Unscrupulous Merchant]

Driven by greed, no bottom line, integrity and morality are abandoned, selling inferior goods to deceive people, quality is worrying and there is no guarantee.

Achievement Goal: Cheat Customers (1/1)

Achievement Reward: One Random Dark Magic

[Betraying the Master and Destroying the Ancestors]

The teacher's kindness is as warm as the sun, nurturing virtue and imparting knowledge with painstaking effort. But the rebellious disciple has a perverse heart.

Achievement Goal: Launch a rebellion against the mentor and cause eye damage (1/1)

Achievement Reward: One Random Ancient Magic

[Brave]

Light and darkness collide, the brave wields his sword to show his heroic spirit, the Demon King is defeated and has nowhere to hide.

Achievement Goal: Defeat the Dark Lord (1/1)

Achievement Reward: Random Talent

This time's achievement rewards were not bad. It was really worth the battle between himself and Voldemort.

Last time, it wasn't a random talent, so he was given a Parselmouth, which was useless. This time, he hoped to get something more powerful.

The familiar feeling of information pouring into his brain came.

After a moment of trance, Ethan understood the rewards he had obtained this time.

First, this dark magic is the Possession Charm.

Isn't this Voldemort's magic?

When on the verge of death, the soul can be forcibly separated from the body and possess other living beings to continue life.

It's just that Voldemort's state is a bit special. He is not on the verge of death, but he can't die at all at this stage. Only a wisp of remnant soul is left, so he can endlessly attach himself to other living beings to survive.

For Ethan, it was basically a useless dark magic.

The second ancient magic is Gungnir!

It and the Mjolnir he drew before are a set. They are both magics used by that group of Nordic barbarians in the Middle Ages. Mjolnir is a huge lightning hammer with a wide attack range and high damage.

Gungnir is a lightning spear projected out, which is a concentrated penetrating wound, and it has a must-hit effect, that is, it cannot be dodged, but it can be defended against.

Similarly, when receiving the information about the ancient magic of Gungnir, some information about ancient runes was also understood by Ethan. This time, the most detailed was u, which represents fate and destiny.

It can only be said that these ancient magics are not simple, and there is still a lot of additional knowledge.

Recently, Ethan has been learning ancient runes and alchemy. This wave of supplements is really timely.

The last talent draw, it can only be said that whatever you want comes.

Lightning Affinity

It is the same as the fire affinity drawn before.

This time's lightning affinity improves the affinity and power of lightning magic.

Mjolnir and Gungnir can both use it, and he can also go to Cassandra to learn a bit of weather charm.

After sorting out his gains, Ethan also prepared to go home. Naturally, this would not be a Muggle way of traveling, otherwise, Wales to London would not be close.

According to the news that Dennis revealed before, Ethan quickly found an old drunkard. This was also a wizard. This side was a semi-gathering place for wizards. Naturally, there would be no merchants specializing in teleportation. No one would come to a place with no business.

This old drunkard had cooperated with Dennis. No matter what your identity is, as long as you give him some wine money, he can use the fireplace and provide a handful of Floo Powder.

After paying a price of ten sickles, Ethan came to the fireplace. Accompanied by a precise place name and firelight, Ethan disappeared from the spot in an instant.

Floo powder is also cheap, and anyone can apply for the fireplace network as long as their identity is not an issue. The troublesome part is establishing wizarding cabins in various locations.

Portkeys are difficult to make. Dennis and the others only have this one, which allows them to arrive but not return.

This is used for escaping and transferring goods in emergencies and is not used lightly.

Returning to their base in Knockturn Alley, Dennis and the others had arrived before Ethan.

"Boss, here is your dragon egg."

Dennis handed over the dragon egg to Ethan as soon as he saw him.

"What's the best way to hatch this dragon egg?"

In the original story, Hagrid researched several books on hatching dragon eggs and then put it in the fireplace to burn. Although it was successful, Ethan felt it was still unreliable.

"Just use a Fire-Making Spell to roast it. Generally, hatching dragon eggs requires the assistance of a dragon's fire. Ordinary fire can also hatch a dragon egg, but the physique of the dragon after birth will be weaker."

As smugglers of magical creatures, Dennis and the others naturally understood this knowledge.

"What about other flames? Like Fiendfyre!"

Ethan brought up his idea. Since flames are needed for hatching, and it won't turn into a roasted dragon egg, wouldn't a stronger flame produce a dragon with an even stronger physique?

"We haven't tried that, and it's very risky!"

Dennis spoke cautiously. Who in their right mind would use Fiendfyre to hatch an egg?

That stuff can burn even souls. Throwing a dragon egg in there would probably obliterate even the shell.

Of course, no one has tried it. A dragon egg is still very precious.

"Alright, I understand!"

Waving his hand, Ethan dismissed the three and went to Bruno's potion-making room.

"How is the Mana Enhancement Potion coming along?"

Ethan's primary concern was this, as he had spent over 1,100 gold Galleons on the materials. It would be a great loss if it was ruined.

"Everything is going smoothly!"

"That's good!"

"By the way, you mentioned wanting to open a potion shop. I agree. Have you chosen a target yet?"

The last time the two of them went to buy materials for the Mana Enhancement Potion, Bruno had mentioned this idea to Ethan.

Potions do make money, but that's high-end potions. For ordinary potions, most wizards make them themselves.

Bruno's Polyjuice Potion and Wolfsbane Potion are more valuable, especially Polyjuice Potion, which is still very popular in the black market. Although Wolfsbane Potion is high-end, werewolves are generally poor, so it's not very useful.

Polyjuice Potion combined with some other potions, and Ethan adding some alchemy products, the business should be pretty good.

Originally, alchemy was just a hobby, but he picked up a lot of materials in the Forbidden Forest, plus a large handful of unicorn tail hairs from Hagrid. It would be a waste not to use so much stuff for alchemy.

"The owner of Archibald's Alchemy Shop died in an accident due to an alchemical explosion half a month ago. Now his son is managing the shop. His son doesn't have the talent and wants to sell the shop. The location is not bad, only two hundred meters from the entrance of Knockturn Alley."

Bruno finished speaking in one breath. He had his eye on this shop before surrendering to Ethan.

He learned about this news in a tavern just a few days after arriving in Knockturn Alley. After examining it, he felt the location was good, and the price was right. He could take it down. Anyway, he couldn't go back to France, so settling down here was also an option.

It's just that everything that happened later was too different from what he thought.

"How many Galleons are needed?"

"1,200 gold Galleons should be enough. You know, houses in Knockturn Alley aren't that valuable, and he's eager to get rid of it."

If it weren't for the several good protective enchantments added inside, it wouldn't be worth 1,200 gold Galleons.

Houses in some wizarding communities are more valuable than houses in Knockturn Alley, simply because the environment here is too bad, and the people who come here are not good people. There are risks in doing business and living here.

If you're bold and do it discreetly, you can kill the owner and move in directly.

"Alright, here's 1,500 gold Galleons for you. The extra is for you to buy potion-making materials."

A little more expensive than a potion, what's there to refuse?

The reason the Weasley twins were able to successfully open a shop with a thousand gold Galleons is that the shop was definitely rented. Anyone with a brain wouldn't sell a shop in Diagon Alley, that's something that can be passed down.

Ethan immediately handed over 1,500 gold Galleons, along with some of the materials he had collected in the Forbidden Forest, to Bruno.

Another achievement completed.

《A Fortune Spent》

Money is like sand, slipping through your fingers, just for that moment of vanity and joy.

Achievement Objective: Spend one thousand gold Galleons at once (1/1)

Achievement Reward: One random spell

Didn't buying the materials for the Mana Enhancement Potion cost more than a thousand gold Galleons before?

Could it be that buying from several shops separately doesn't count, and giving 1,500 at once this time counts?

Forget it, there's no point in arguing with this system that doesn't even have an instruction manual.

Spell draw, the result is not bad.

Fidelius Charm, a rather complex and profound spell that uses magic to permanently bury a secret in the soul of a living person. This secret will exist in the heart of the chosen person and will never be discovered unless the Secret-Keeper actively leaks it.

However, if the Secret-Keeper dies, then everyone who knows the secret will become the Secret-Keeper, so the Secret-Keeper must be carefully chosen.

… …

In the following days, Ethan spent most of his time making goods with alchemy to fill the shelves in 《Bruno's Potion and Alchemy Shop》.

Ethan went to see it. The location is good, not far from Borgin and Burkes. The first floor is the storefront, and the second floor can be lived in. The interior layout doesn't need to be changed. It's ready to use as soon as you buy it.

It wasn't until the arrival of the start of school that Ethan was freed from the tedious alchemy.

Arriving at King's Cross Station, he passed through the pillar to reach Platform 9 3/4.