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Babel asked with interest, "Can you guess what's around here?"

Lin Xia shook her head, but she knew what Babel wanted to hear, so she said:

"I can feel that the surroundings are very special. It doesn't seem like we have come to an ordinary place. There is some strange energy in the air. Could it be that we have come to some extreme place in the wizarding world?"

Babel whistled, "Extreme realm? It seems you have been to those extremely special places.

It's not surprising that you would think so, after all, we are now in a place where many wizards can't enter."

Lin Xia listened attentively and felt that Babel looked very excited today and should be able to reveal more information.

In fact, whether I answer or not doesn't affect her desire to speak.

As Babel was talking, she suddenly fell silent again. She looked at the tower in front of her with an extremely amazed look and said in a voice that was almost a whisper:
"You would never imagine that this is actually the territory of the evil god. The world we live in is the world of the evil god! But this place was conquered by a wizard!"

Lin Xia frowned. This sounded a bit contradictory, and she quickly thought of another possibility.

The wizard invaded the world of evil gods and established a territory of his own in the world of evil gods.

Babel couldn't hide her excitement and said, "As you expected, the future is indeed like this."

Lin Xia asked doubtfully: "The future?"

Babel continued to talk to herself: "We are in a time gap, and I have been preparing for this time gap for a full 10 years.

Being prepared is not enough, a little bit of luck is also needed, but I have been waiting for this luck but it never comes.

Until the space you were in was close to where I was, I decided to take this space with me and enter the gap between time and space together. This bit of luck was finally born!"

When Lin Xia heard this, her expression changed slightly.

This is a lunatic!
She didn't know what a time rift was, but she knew that entering a time rift with space would definitely be a very dangerous thing.

Carrying a person and carrying space are two completely different concepts.

“I saw what I wanted to see. This tower is full of wizard magic, and the gap in time and space where we are located is located in a certain period of time in the future.

Even I don’t know when in the future it was, I only know that I saw the scene of the future, and it’s nice to meet you, magical little witch. "

Lin Xia was stunned. "Little witch? Professor, you don't know me?"

Seeing her like this, Babeling was also a little confused: "Do you know me?"

After saying this, she laughed happily and danced.

Lin Xia finally understood where the strange feeling in her heart came from. The Babeling in front of her was completely different from the professor she had in mind, both in expression, movements, and personality.

"This is such a wonderful combination. This person I just randomly picked up actually knows me!"

Babel said with a smile: "I tell you clearly that I don't know you. The me you know may just be the me who is drifting in a certain plane.

Friendship gives you a tip: although I don’t know which me you met, not all of me are as good-tempered as I am.”

Babel winked at her and said, "You'd better not tell me that you have seen me, or they may have bad intentions towards you.

After all, everyone wants this precious memory, which is a fragment that can clearly predict the future, rather than a possibility that is randomly intercepted from the long river of time.

That’s all, little witch. The owner of this tower is about to discover us. We have to leave. I hope we can meet again next time. "

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xia felt a strong pulling force coming from the cabin, and the automatically closed door opened again without him noticing.

Lin Xia was sucked into the wooden house, and with a "bang", the door was closed.

She felt a powerful magical force at work, and the wooden house swayed slightly, as if it was flying at high speed as it had when it came.

Lin Xia was still a little amazed when she recalled what she had just seen and heard.

What she thought was high-speed flight turned out to be traveling through time and space!
She subconsciously turned her head to look at the window, wanting to see the towering tower outside, but all she saw was endless darkness.

What just happened was like a wonderful journey and also like a magical dream.

Lin Xia repeatedly imprinted Babeling's words in her heart, closed her eyes slightly, and thought about what to do when the cabin reached its true destination.

It seemed like only a moment had passed, or just a few seconds, and when she opened her eyes again, the cabin had stopped at the same time.

She stared at a certain spot in the cabin.

The moment the cabin pulled her in and closed behind her, the door disappeared.

At this moment, as the wooden house stopped, the door that had disappeared at some point slowly reappeared and opened again in front of Lin Xia.

Lin Xia took a deep breath and walked out.

Babel was standing outside the cabin waiting for her with a gentle look on her face.

She was wearing a dark silk wizard robe, and the corners of her mouth drooped naturally, making her look distant when she was not smiling.

He wore a pair of frameless half-moon glasses with some runes faintly flashing on them.

When she saw Lin Xia, she first looked her over from head to toe.

After making sure that Lin Xia was safe and sound, he slightly relaxed his brows and nodded at her.

"We encountered a spatial turbulence when returning to the cabin, which delayed us by half an hour compared to the scheduled time. Did you encounter any other problems or feel anything unusual during this time?"

Babel asked the question casually, but Lin Xia was extremely alert. She took out the answer she had prepared long ago and said calmly:
"For a while I felt the house shaking quite a bit, but it just stopped after a while."

"Yes." Babeling said, "When traveling through time and space, you will occasionally encounter spatial turbulence. As long as the structure of the space you are in is stable, you can resist this turbulence."

Lin Xia looked around. The air was filled with magic. There were trees all around, and nothing in front of her.

Babel smiled and said, "This is a magical forest somewhere in Egypt. A very strange plant was born in it. I stayed here to do research during the winter vacation and have already made some progress.

It just so happens that the space-time magic I set up in the cabin is about to be used up, and I noticed that your progress in learning the complete set of ancient magic spells is almost the same, so I used the remaining power to drift it here."

She looked around the forest and said in an inexplicable tone: "Lin Xia, I only taught you ancient magic runes and never taught you herbal medicine. The methods popular in the magic world today are completely different from my methods and are not acceptable to ordinary wizards.

There is still some time before Hogwarts starts. Are you interested in learning my herbology from me? "Lin Xia raised her eyebrows. Is it different from the current herbology system?

She said with great interest, "I'd love to."

Lin Xia and Babel came to a small wooden cabin deep in the forest.

The style of this wooden house is exactly the same as the one she stayed in before. Both are fresh and simple with a touch of forest style, which is very much in line with Hufflepuff's taste.

Barbie first taught her a new method to identify herbs. It was not to distinguish them according to their characteristics, but to completely analyze a herb and understand its elements.

Using beneficial elements and harmful elements to make a distinction, the effect of this herb is due to the combination of the beneficial elements in it with another element.

If this element is combined with other elements, another effect will be produced.

This identification method is called "element theory" by Barbling.

In this system, the plants themselves are not that important.

As long as the elements contained in the plants can be cultivated and mixed with other elements, the medicinal properties required by wizards can be achieved.

And those rare and extinct magical plants can also be resurrected by relying on the "element theory". This resurrection only requires the extraction of beneficial elements.

Of course, the most important thing in elemental theory is elements. Some rare magical plants contain very precious elements that cannot be synthesized and can only be contained in the plants themselves.

Therefore, the cultivation of rare magical plants is also a very important direction in elemental theory.

Only by thoroughly studying the rare magic plants, synthesizing the most important elements in them, and "compounding" the extinct magic plants can the greatest success of the elemental theory system be achieved.

During the teaching process, Babel was observing Lin Xia's reaction. Seeing that she was adapting well, she nodded with satisfaction.

She thought that it would be better to teach young wizards. Their minds were not yet constrained by current herbal medicine and they were willing to use another set of methods to explore the essence.

After her theory of elements came out, she revived the beneficial elements in several extinct magical plants and made some ancient potions shine again.

It must be said that the ancient potion formula is powerful, and once revived, it will be effective even for high-level wizards.

Moreover, because the synthesized elements are the beneficial elements in the magic plants, the cultivation of those extinct magic plants is eliminated, which greatly saves resources.

Such a good theory should have been vigorously promoted, but it was stopped after only one year.

Because many people in the magical world do not agree with this theory, believing that it subverts their imagination of traditional herbalism and even rejects the theory of elements.

If they insist on learning the theory of elements, some wizards may think that the magical concepts they have been exposed to since childhood have been impacted.

As if cursed, any wizard who studies the theory of elements will have his willpower weakened greatly and will be easily infected by the evil god's whispers.

After comprehensive consideration, the Ministry of Magic believes that the concept of this elemental theory is too advanced and not suitable for popularization among the general wizards. It can only be popularized to wizards who already have a mature set of concepts, that is, intermediate and advanced wizards.

However, the promotion of the theory of elements has also failed to meet expectations when teaching wizards who have mature ideas of their own.

Precisely because these wizards' own ideas are mature and they are not easily convinced by another set of ideas, their overly firm will is actually a major obstacle to the promotion of elemental theory.

However, there were also some good aspects to the previous implementation.

That is, Babel discovered that compared to local wizards who have lived in the magical world since childhood, half-blood wizards from the Muggle world are more likely to accept the theory of elements and can get started faster than local wizards.

So from then on, Babel's teaching was only aimed at young half-blood wizards.

Dumbledore actually wanted her to teach more to those mature senior potion masters. Once they could accept this theory, they would be able to put it into practice quickly.

But Babel thought their comprehension was too poor and she was too lazy to put in any effort, so she compiled a set of teaching materials and distributed them to them. How much they could understand depended on their own ability.

She herself used the method of creating a clone, hiding her identity and constantly discovering young talents in various magic schools.

In addition, she often spreads little adventures about elemental theory.

Not limited to the UK, there are many young wizards in every country who have had a chance encounter and obtained a basic book on elemental theory and some precious potion recipes.

After learning about the theory of elements, Lin Xia said to Babel, "Your method is a bit like the chemistry in the Muggle world. I wonder if you have ever learned that chemistry can also clearly decompose substances, and is not limited to herbs and plants."

Babel shook her head. "I don't go to the Muggle world very often. But after hearing what you said, I'm quite interested in their stuff. I'll go and listen sometime."

In this way, Lin Xia stayed in the magic forest and studied element theory with Babeling.
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As for Harry and Ron, after being persuaded by Mikel, they finally made up their minds to go and ask Professor McGonagall about the assessment of outstanding students.

"Excellent student assessment?"

Mag was a little surprised when he knew their purpose. He asked, "Why do you suddenly want to apply for the Outstanding Student Assessment?"

Harry and Ron looked at each other, and Ron mustered up the courage to say, "It wasn't sudden. I just felt that all my friends around me became excellent students, so I wanted to give it a try to see if I could pass the exam."

Mag thought of the outstanding students currently available. These students were from different colleges, but they did communicate with each other normally.

Mick, Harry and others live in the same dormitory, and competition among friends is also a positive stimulation.

Thinking this way, even though Ron and Harry's apparent qualifications did not meet the assessment standards for excellent students, McGonagall did not reject them outright.

She thought for a while and said, "If you maintain your excellent grades in the next semester and listen more attentively in class, I will consider applying for an outstanding student assessment for you at the end of the next semester."

Ron and Harry's eyes lit up. They thought they hadn't even reached the threshold, but it turned out there was hope?

Seeing that they were happy, Professor McGonagall's serious face also showed a faint smile.

She urged: "Since you two have joined Lin Xia's laboratory, you should help Lin Xia with experiments. If your names can appear in various journals, it will also add points to your outstanding student assessment."

Ron asked, "But that's just academic research. We don't participate in the assessment of outstanding students in the research direction, but in the combat direction. Do we get the same bonus?"

Mag said confidently: "Yes, the assessment of outstanding students is comprehensive, not just focusing on a certain characteristic.

Lin Xia and Draco are not only excellent researchers, but also combat personnel.

Similarly, the assessment of combat personnel is also based on their comprehensive qualities, unless they have outstanding combat talents.

Hogwarts doesn't want a reckless man who only knows how to fight. We need to use our wisdom in battle."

(End of this chapter)