Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 90 Psychic Power and Magic

Although Voldemort broke through the defense, in order to maintain his image, he kindly performed "Forget All" on the host.

Of course, he did not forget to arrange an additional "whip exercise training session" for him afterwards, euphemistically called it to care for the physical and mental health of his subordinates.

Among the magical animals in the Forbidden Forest, except for the three unlucky pig monsters, the other magical animals were basically unaffected tonight.

The unicorn "Taylor Swift" has become a mother, which is actually a good thing.

Another happy event is that both the Bourne and Weasley twins passed Professor Scamander's test. The three Forbidden Forest rangers will be able to take up their posts with certificates immediately, and even get the "Hogwarts" certificate. "Imperial Grain".

The lovable little Khan also made great contributions to Gryffindor this night.

This is the first time since the establishment of Hogwarts that a pet has earned extra points for its owner.

Its feat, praised by the Weasley brothers, also made the little wizards in Gryffindor fall in love with it. As for it, those little witches naturally love it even more!

In this relaxed and happy atmosphere, time has arrived in December unknowingly, and the Christmas vacation that the little wizards have longed for is approaching.

Regarding the question "Why do wizards celebrate Christmas?", Bourne was actually skeptical at first.

But when he saw the various advertising columns added to the Daily Prophet as soon as December entered, as well as the dazzling array of discount coupons in Diagon Alley, he instantly understood the role of this festival in wizarding society.

Customers want to consume, businesses want to make money - both parties have to have a suitable reason - wouldn't a consensus be reached by celebrating Christmas?
No matter if it is Brother's birthday, Merlin's birthday, or the birthday of the pagan god of agriculture, it would be great if everyone could have a happy time.

Although Bourne has been very busy recently and has no sense of such a holiday that is seriously suspected of being made up, he still prepared a Christmas gift for all the friends he knew.

To put it bluntly, Bourne is definitely a good enough friend to be able to do this.

Because, for more than a month, he was definitely one of the busiest people in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In addition to daily class study, he also did many things:

At noon on 135, he was going to the library to help Mrs. Pince organize the books;

On the night of 246, he would follow Hagrid or Professor Scamander into the Forbidden Forest to patrol;
On Saturday morning, he would be on time to attend Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration Club;

Every other day, he must attend Quidditch training organized by Wood in order to prepare for the Sunday morning league;
After all this, he has recently started a very important long-term project.

Ever since he had an encounter with the "Schrödinger State" dark wizard (Quillo/Voldemort) in the Forbidden Forest, he realized that he had a shortcoming in magic. There were too few spells that he could use in battle. .

As we all know, the vast majority of Astartes warriors suffer from a terminal disease called "Phobia of lack of firepower".

Bourne is no exception.

Just like the greenskins always pursue a stronger, bigger, and fiercer "big tug", the warriors of the Astartes have no end to their pursuit of combat power. The "Total Petrification" spell that can be transformed into psychic lightning cannot meet his needs at all.

Although the old saying goes "you have to eat in one bite" (except Ruth), if you want to learn more spells, you must be determined to learn them one by one step by step. After all, without the system by his side, it is impossible for Bourne to shout "Dark Blue plus points" and then immediately learn a new skill.

However, Bourne is not helpless if he wants to take shortcuts.

His mastery of the 'All Petrification Curses' and the 'psionic lightning' mutated by them has fully proved that some of the magic spells in the Harry Potter world are actually all effective as long as the underlying principles are mastered. Possibly converted into psionic spells from the Warhammer universe.

You know, unlike the various magic spells in the Harry Potter world that are becoming more and more life-oriented, most of the Warhammer psychic magic is for war and combat.

They are more dangerous, but they have to admit that the power they display is also more powerful.

Even if the psychic communication magic seems to be just for transmitting information over long distances, with slight changes, it can actually become a terrifying killing technique that can "sublimate" the brain from a distance (in the physical sense).

Although Voldemort should not have the "quadratic law" of the Saints - he cannot be defeated twice with the same move - Bourne does not want to gamble on the odds against his enemy.

In addition, despite purifying this heresy through physical means, Bourne has enough confidence in himself.

But in terms of magic, he had to admit that a young wizard like himself was indeed no match for the "Dark Lord" at the moment.

In the past month or so, he and his friends have not given up on the investigation of the two-faced professor.

As a result, Byrne discovered that except for the constant sweating on his forehead during class and the increase in the number of trips to the bathroom, Quirrell did not have any other symptoms that a seriously injured person with a broken waist should have.

Even the next night in the Forbidden Forest, he gave the young wizards a Defense Against the Dark Arts class as normal.

Needless to say, the reason why Quirrell was able to survive was because Voldemort opened the "blood lock" for him - being able to make seven Horcruxes is enough to prove how afraid of death this heretic is - in other words, how He must have hundreds of millions of tips on escaping death.

Therefore, out of strategic importance to his opponents, Bourne finally chose to start trying to "psychicize" the magic spells he had learned.

For more than a month, whenever he had time, he would go to the 'Room of Requirement' on the eighth floor of the castle to conduct research on his own.

Through research, he discovered that the spells in the first-grade Charms class actually had many connections and similarities.

For example, [Unlocking Spell] and [Levitating Spell], the reason why "Alajo Cave" can open a locked door is that it borrows part of the characteristics of "Yingadim Leviosa" to allow the lock cylinder (or door latch) to open. ) float together and then rotate, and then locked things such as doors and windows can be opened.

However, the spell of the [Unlocking Curse] is a single function of the [Levitating Curse] that was solidified after repeated attempts by many wizards, so its spell sounds completely different from the [Levitating Curse].

(In addition, "Alajo Cave Opening" can open Muggle electronic locks, because electronic locks also have physical structures such as "lock core" and "latch", but they cannot be opened and rely on the magnetic force generated after power is applied to realize the "locking" concept. Something. If you want to open that kind of magnetic door, you must use an older and more violent unlocking spell such as "Open Sesame".)
Another example is [Passepartout] and [Left and Right Separation].

The former is a spell invented to facilitate wizards' travel and ensure smooth roads. (Before [Kelixiao] was invented, it was also used by some wizards to relieve the symptoms of tracheal obstruction when they were sick. However, because this was risky, it had to be cast by a professional therapist)

The latter is a spell that separates an object into neat left and right parts. From the perspective of the underlying principle of the spell, [Left and Right Separation] is actually the pre-enchantment of [Passepartout].

But just like Burne and the others first learned "The Opening of Alaho" and then "Wingardim Leviosa", Professor Flitwick in the Charms class also taught the young wizards "Passepartout" first. , and then continue to learn [left and right separation].

This is because the closer some magic spells are to the underlying operating rules of magic, the more difficult they are to learn. On the contrary, for those "specialized spells" that have been solidified through repeated use by many wizards, the learning threshold is often lowered a lot: Being able to wave the wand correctly and pronounce the spell accurately will basically result in a release.

As for the two spells [Levitation Curse] and [Left and Right Separation], if we go deeper, Bourne feels that the underlying magic principles they correspond to, if divided according to the psionics school, should probably be "telekinetic system" psionics.

This is a relatively common way of using psionic energy in the Warhammer world, and psykers who use telekinetic psionic energy are called telepaths. They can use mental power to manipulate the material world and convert mental energy into physical power; Use psychic energy to whip enemies, establish invisible positions, tear apart reality, and more.

Although there is no such thing as "spiritual power" when casting spells in the Harry Potter world, Horace, Dumbledore and even Professor McGonagall revealed to Bourne something called "Wizard's Will" in the Transfiguration Club. thing.

Bourne feels that the will of a wizard and the spiritual energy of a psyker are not essentially identical, but they can at least be said to be somewhat similar.

During this period, studying how to "psychicize" the magic spells he had learned was actually equivalent to Bourne groping alone on how to become a think tank who can master the psychic power of the telekinesis school. It is impossible to recite a mantra.

In this life...well, at least not for now.

Because Bourne had just started trying to transform the magic spells he had learned into psionic powers, he discovered that not all magic spells could be transformed into psionic magic like "all petrification".

Therefore, he could only use a "clumsy method": using the wizard's will to force the spells to become spiritual and make them effective.

In this process, he also needs to continue to record the practical results using ancient magic texts, compare the effects of psychic magic again and again, and then continuously optimize it.

The reason why Bourne uses ancient magic script as the recording language is because ancient magic script is an ideographic script, so it is not subject to the natural constraints of phonetic script, and the information entropy of the sentence within the unit length is also higher.

Of course, ancient magic texts are also notoriously difficult to learn.

Although there is an elective course on Ancient Magic Texts in the upper grades at Hogwarts, there are usually only six or seven students who are qualified (certain scores in the OWLs exam) and willing to take this course each year.

Fortunately, Bourne has learned ancient magic texts a long time ago. Because it is equivalent to computer language to coders, ancient magic script is an indispensable tool language for alchemy, and he actually learned and used a lot of alchemy when making his own loyal chain sword. technique.

At the same time, Bourne also discovered that he was actually quite talented when it came to learning this wizarding language.

In fact, his current level of ancient magic writing is even better than that of many senior students at Hogwarts. When he was writing ancient magic texts, he didn't need to check the dictionary as frequently as ordinary wizards. At most, he could just flip through the case examples of various ancient magic texts and write smoothly.

The hard work paid off, and after day after day of research and practice, Bourne's telekinesis school of psychic spells gradually began to take shape.

Finally, one night before the Christmas holiday, he walked into the "Room of Requirement" on time.

Standing next to the tapestry of "Troll Beating the Silly Barnabas", Bourne kept thinking silently: I need a house to practice spells, I need a room to practice spells...

On the opposite wall, two heavy iron-clad double doors immediately appeared.

After walking in, apart from a "Sheraton-style" single seat, the rest of the room was a square hall with an area of ​​about one hundred square meters.

(Sheraton style: British neoclassical furniture style, focusing on tough lines, sturdiness and durability, as for comfort...)
Against the wall, there is a row of iron-clad wooden human-shaped targets, and on the wall are some looking glasses to protect against evil spells. Under the light of the overhead candles and chandeliers, these irregular-shaped metal looking glasses all shone with little stars.

Bourne walked to the center of the room.

Several floors in the room sank, and when they rose again, seven ancient bed crossbows that appeared to be scorpion cannons appeared above. With Bourne as the center, these scorpion cannons formed a circle.

"Wingardim Leviosa!" Bourne waved his wand, raised it slightly, and accurately released a floating spell.

Among them, facing Bourne, a Scorpion Cannon marked with the Roman numeral I fired a heavy crossbow arrow at him with a bang, and this time the arrow was not removed in advance like before.

Facing a crossbow fired at such a close range, it is obviously unrealistic to think about the floating spell, and Bourne has no intention of using the floating spell.

He just stared at the crossbow and used his will to forcibly change the physical reality, causing the air density in a small area in front of him to suddenly and violently increase to a level similar to steel.

"Dang...!"

The crossbow arrow suddenly stopped in mid-air as if it hit a steel plate, and then fell to the ground under the influence of gravity.

Bourne exhaled heavily.

Immediately afterwards, he once again used the "Levitation Spell" to remove the wrenches of the other two Scorpion Cannons, and two crossbow arrows struck from his left and right sides at the same time.

Just like before, Bourne once again used the psychic power of the telekinesis school to change physical reality, but this time he did not forcibly increase the density of the air to the level of steel, but instead shaped the air wall into a gelatinous swamp. Area.

The two crossbow arrows, whose muzzle velocity was comparable to bullets, seemed to be shot into a highly concentrated viscous solution. Their speed slowed down at a speed visible to the naked eye. Finally, their speed returned to zero ten centimeters away from Bourne, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Bourne took another deep breath.

Then, he raised his wand for the third time and said the words "Yingardium Leviosa"!
This time, the remaining four Scorpion cannons suddenly fired, and four crossbow arrows hit Bourne's back at the same time.

The psychic power is activated again!
He did not dodge or dodge, but used his will to give "commands" to the four rapidly shooting crossbow arrows. They seemed to be sliding along some invisible track, bypassing the original target of Bourne and turning around. It shot at the four human-shaped targets placed against the wall.

Thumb, thump, thump, thump...

All four shots hit, and all four crossbow arrows hit the chests of the targets. The huge impact directly exploded the wooden targets into pieces.

All seven crossbow bolts were fired, and all scorpion cannons were idle. This was only the first step in Bourne's psychic training today.

The next second, he transformed into the "Primaris Astartes Magus" form, a little giant over three meters tall appearing in the Room of Requirement.

As Bourne held the wand that transformed into a "psychic staff" and raised it high, the seven scorpion cannons immediately floated up as if they had lost their gravity. Driven by telekinesis, these seven Scorpion Cannons, with a total weight of more than 1 ton, were like satellites, starting to circle around Bourne as the center, rising and falling from time to time. It lasted for thirty minutes before he put the scorpion cannons back on the ground, which was considered the second step of the exercise.

Without any rest, he started the third step of the exercise.

"Clear water like a spring!" Bourne stretched out his wand, and a stream of clear water instantly spurted out from the tip of his wand.

However, these water flows did not fall to the ground, but were lifted up in the air under the influence of telekinesis.

This is the official start of the third step of training.

Because of some difficulties, he had to stretch out his arms and make a motion similar to "holding the ball and turning" to help himself concentrate.

The amorphous water that was lifted in the air began to spin continuously, and slowly turned into a huge water ball.

Under Bourne's control, this constantly spinning water ball began to circle around the wall of the practice field. Any human-shaped target swept by it would be swallowed by the water flow, as if being thrown into the turbulent flow. No matter how you twist, you can't escape from the flowing water prison.

In order to face off with Voldemort and Professor Quirrell with "real swords and real guns", Bourne developed this "big drum washing machine technique", preparing to wash those two dirty things before sending them on their way...

When Bourne walked out of the Room of Requirement, Hogwarts' curfew was about to begin, and he returned to the Gryffindor common room tower as quickly as possible.

As long as he sleeps here again, he will temporarily leave Hogwarts Castle early tomorrow morning and return to his long-awaited home to visit Grandpa Horace who stayed behind.

During the day today, Horace also sent a letter to Bourne to remind him to come back early tomorrow, saying that he had a surprise for him.

I don’t know what this old grandfather has prepared for his precious grandson.

(End of this chapter)