From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 100 Philosopher’s Stone

Ivy's research on the Philosopher's Stone can only be described in four words - no progress.

Because every time he took out the Philosopher's Stone, he couldn't help but bite off a little bit of it and swallow it into his stomach. So after two or three times, there was nothing left of the Philosopher's Stone.

Just like the first time he swallowed the Philosopher's Stone, the next few times he ate brought Ivy a total of 2 points of growth in each physical attribute, and he also grew taller, even taller than the 16-year-old body more than a hundred years ago, and almost catching up with Dumbledore.

In addition, new changes have appeared on Ivy's character panel.

His wizard profession level has reached 16th level. In addition to the original three professional characteristics, there is now a fourth one - the Philosopher's Stone.

The Philosopher's Stone is the wizards' supreme masterpiece in alchemy, possessing all kinds of extraordinary special abilities.

Ivy can now spend 8 hours to create a Philosopher's Stone with magical powers. He can gain the benefits of the stone himself or give it to another creature. As long as a creature holds it, it can gain all the abilities it brings.

Based on Ivy's current wizard class level, carrying the Philosopher's Stone now has the following effects.

First, Ivy can see in the dark as well as in the day.

Secondly, Ivy is completely immune to toxins.

Finally, Ivy's Transfiguration was endowed with an extraordinary talent by the Philosopher's Stone. As long as he wanted, he could even permanently transform an object.

Alternatively, Ivy can choose to destroy the Philosopher's Stone, fully releasing the magical power contained within it to accomplish several miraculous magical effects.

The first is to turn stone into gold, which is one of the abilities of the Philosopher's Stone. Ivy can transform ordinary metals into gold of equal mass. However, the maximum value of gold that a Philosopher's Stone can transform is capped at 10,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to 10,000 gold Galleons in the wizarding world.

Then there's the Panacea, which allows Ivy to direct all of the magic of the Philosopher's Stone toward a single creature, removing all curses, diseases, and toxins from it and restoring it to full health.

Next is resurrection. The Philosopher's Stone has the ability to break through the boundary between life and death. Ivy can use all its magic power on a dead creature, just like releasing a 5th-ring necromancy spell to awaken the dead. When doing so, Ivy will not consume spell slots, and does not need to know this spell.

Although Awaken the Dead is a 5th-ring necromancy spell, Ivy has never seen it in the spell list of the Destruction Codex before. Because it does not belong to the spell list of the mage profession, and its regular release method is different from that of the mage when releasing arcane magic, Ivy cannot learn it through the Destruction Codex.

This spell, raise dead, resurrects a creature that has been dead for less than 10 days and that has not lost any body parts or organs necessary for survival.

Raising the dead. Upon successfully resurrecting a creature, the spell completely neutralizes or cures any poisons and diseases that affected the creature, but does not cure curses or magical diseases. If the effects of curses and magical diseases are not nullified or terminated before the spell is cast, the creature will still be affected by those curses and magical diseases after returning from death, just as it was in its last life.

For the resurrected creature, the process of returning from death is quite arduous, so he will suffer this pain for a long time after his resurrection, and it is not until after a week of complete rest that he can live and fight as before.

Although the spell of awakening the dead has many restrictions, it is still the spell that consumes the least amount of energy among all the spells that can achieve the effect of resurrection. For a mage like Ivy, it is an extremely important backup method.

The last effect of the Philosopher's Stone is rejuvenation, which can make a creature regain youthful vitality and reduce the target's age by a maximum of 30 years, and no more than 13 years, but it will not increase his lifespan accordingly.

The only limitation of the Philosopher's Stone is that Ivy cannot make multiple Philosopher's Stones at the same time. He can only start making the next one after one Philosopher's Stone is completely used up.

In addition to bringing new professional characteristics to the wizard profession, the magic of the Philosopher's Stone is even linked to Ivy's personal expertise.

After confirming his attribute panel in the Codex of Destruction, the first feat Ivy chose was "No Materials Required for Casting Spells". It can eliminate the materials required for some spells, but for some spells with high casting materials or special requirements, this feat will not work.

For example, the soul cage that Ivy used to imprison Tom's soul fragments. That spell required a small silver cage, and Ivy melted a lot of silver to make it.

Now, there is a bracket with the word "Philosopher's Stone" after the feat of "Spell Material Free". The effect has changed from exempting some low-value materials to consuming Philosopher's Stone to replace spell components. The maximum value can be replaced is materials worth less than 5000 gold coins, or a maximum of experience points. The only pity for Ivy is that this effect cannot be used to exchange for new spells in the Destruction Grimoire.

In any case, Ivy was very satisfied with the new changes brought about by eating the Philosopher's Stone. If it was regarded as the salary Dumbledore gave Ivy as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, it was equivalent to a job with a daily salary of 10,000 gold Galleons, and it was paid on a daily basis.

Not to mention that this job has brought Ivey many miraculous effects, which is equivalent to a monkey version of wishing.

Moreover, Ivy's wizard career level has reached level 16, which means that there is a new specialty for him to choose, and he has already had an option that he has been eyeing for a long time.

With almost no hesitation, Ivy obtained the "Versatile Spellcaster" feat in the Grimoire of Destruction.

The only effect of the multi-talented spellcaster is that it allows Ivy to combine two low-level spell slots into one spell slot one level higher than them.

Combined with the large number of low-level spell slots that Ivy obtained through the ancient magic affinity characteristic, he can call himself a high-level spell turret in the future!
Because the work of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts was too busy and too miscellaneous, Ivy couldn't find more than 8 hours of free time to make the Philosopher's Stone except for sleeping time at night.

So on Friday morning, everyone who came to the auditorium for dinner saw Professor Victor walk into the auditorium with bloodshot eyes and a pale face.

Ivy even heard some students discussing his identity: "Professor Victor looks really bad, could he be a vampire?"

"You don't know?" Another student made a fuss over his companion's ignorance, making Ivy a little curious about what rumors about him were circulating in the castle.

Ivy slowed down and heard the Hufflepuff say, "Professor Victor is the vampire who has been chasing Professor Quirrell! Remember? At the beginning of last semester, Professor Quirrell told everyone that he was being chased by a vampire!"

"What?" This sentence completely expressed what Ivy was thinking, "Then Dumbledore hired him as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"Oh, that's Dumbledore after all, the most famous white wizard of this century. I wouldn't be surprised even if he lets a centaur or a zombie teach us one day." The Hufflepuff who spread the rumor that Professor Victor was a vampire shrugged.

"Centaurs and zombies? What can they teach us?" another student sounded horrified.

"Astronomy, huh? Or how to get out of your coffin after you die?"

Ivy sat down at the staff table, calmed down, and finally decided to give all grades an extra lesson on how to identify vampires.

Just as he was trying to recall the content about vampires in the textbook, an owl brought him a message.

In a clumsy handwriting it said: "You're going to be a grandfather!"

Ivy immediately realized that the message came from Hagrid, but his handwriting was so large that even Professor McGonagall, who was passing by behind Ivy, could see it.

She said in surprise, "I didn't expect your children to be married. Professor Victor, do you need me to ask for leave for Dumbledore?"

Ivy's face twitched and he shook his head, "Don't bother, I can handle it."

Professor McGonagall nodded in understanding and said gently, "Oh, and if you need anything, please do ask. Okay, Professor Victor?"

"Of course... of course." What else could Ivy say besides this?

This was all because he forgot to block the magic of the Calling Spell, which resulted in the owl carrying the letter to "Ivy Doom" being able to easily find "Professor Victor".

(End of this chapter)