Regulus of Hogwarts: Lord of the Stars

Chapter 329 Tree Model Replica Completed

Regulus stood under the tree and placed his palms on the trunk.

Yesterday, I soaked in the natural magic for most of the day, and the Willow Tree has already identified its magic as a harmless environmental factor.

Now he mixed the magic of nature with the magic of the willow itself, and climbed up the roots, following the main path all the way to the end of the branches.

Guiding doesn't require much effort. The magic loop of the Man-Beating Willow is completely unguarded against natural magic. He only needs to put his own magic into its loop and follow along.

He guided the magic of the willow tree from the tips of its branches, the first drop condensing in his palm.

It is larger than mandrake, which is a small plant about a foot tall, from which only a few drops can be extracted.

The Mandrake is a 25-foot-tall mature giant, and its total magical power is on a completely different level. The magical power stored in a single branch may be equivalent to that of a dozen Mandrakes.

This magic drop is yellowish-brown, highly transparent, and has extremely fine vibrational ripples at its edges.

Unlike the magic of mandrake, which stays quietly in the palm of your hand, it moves.

The entire drop of magic was trembling, with ripples at the edges flashing at a high frequency. They were irregular and chaotic, but there was an overall harmony, as if it were constrained by some kind of internal logic, maintaining a stable structure in the midst of disorder.

His magic instinctively surged; his magical perception was so acute that any contact was amplified.

This drop of magic was so vibrant that the vibrations traveled along the contact surface into his magic, like placing his hand on a high-frequency vibration source, causing his magic to automatically surge up to counteract it.

He suppressed his own magic, letting the drop of magic from the Willow Tree vibrate freely in his palm.

He looked at it and fell into a brief moment of thought.

The Disintegration Curse comes from death, allowing the whole to return to its original state.

Natural magic comes from life, restoring the damaged to wholeness.

Darkness inspires the spirit, allowing the will to override the will.

This drop in my palm is different from all of them.

It is purely physical, neither cold nor warm, without any bias or stance, and does not point to life, death, or the spirit.

It's like a tremor; if it shakes something, it shatters; if it doesn't, it simply dissipates.

This was the first time he had directly obtained this kind of magical power from nature.

The decomposition of death attributes, the restoration of life attributes, the domination of mental attributes, and the destruction of physical attributes.

Four distinct sources of magic, four distinct paths.

He has now reached the entrance to the fourth path.

What's ahead of us?

Is the opposite of pure physics pure magic?

Completely disregarding the rules of physics, unrestrained by the conservation of energy, and devoid of cause and effect, logic, and structure; it is a power that operates purely through magic itself.

If it exists, what would it be like?

What about spatial attributes?

He can already manipulate space. What kind of magic is space magic?

What about time?

Reversing time is a controlled technology of the Ministry of Magic. The existence of the Time-Turner has proven that time can be interfered with by magic. So, is there also a kind of magic that is unique to time?

What about foresight? What about prophecy? What about ritual?

These thoughts flashed through his mind before he pulled them back.

The road is too long; we've only reached the entrance to the fourth path so far. But that's precisely where the magic's allure lies. For now, let's finish what we're doing.

He crouched down and pressed the drop of magic onto a stone.

The stone's surface remained unchanged, but his senses penetrated its interior, where vibrations spread for three seconds before decaying to almost zero.

A single dose is too small, only enough to create a few microcracks inside, without even affecting the surface.

He continued to extract samples, taking samples from different branches—one, two, five, ten.

The magical loop structure of each branch is identical, with the same entrance angle, number of internal loops, and node positions.

It's simpler than Mandrake. Its magical core is hidden deep in its roots and stems, with a complex and intertwined circuit structure. You have to peel it layer by layer to find the core decomposition tendency.

The loop of the "Da Ren Liu" (打人柳) is only two and a half turns. The core is right on the table, involving transmission and oscillation. The key lies in the oscillation and reversal logic at the nodes.

It has a simple structure but operates with precision.

He dripped the extracted magic onto different things to test it.

Stone is the most effective material; tightly structured minerals are most easily broken apart from the inside under vibration.

Iron sheets work just as well; the metal's structure is orderly and dense, allowing vibrations to travel quickly and far within it.

The effect of using wood is reduced because wood fibers have a certain degree of elasticity and can absorb some of the vibrational energy.

Water has almost no effect; it disperses as soon as it's shaken in. Water has no rigid structure, so shaking it won't find any connection points to break it.

The more compact and rigid the structure, the better the effect.

The looser and more flexible something is, the worse its effect will be.

Then he went to find the goblins.

In winter, the goblins hibernate. You can find a nest of them by digging just two feet down under the bushes at the edge of the plantation. The tiny, scrawny creatures huddle together in the mud hole, making soft, purring noises.

He pulled one out, lifted it by the ankle, and carried it to the open ground.

The goblin woke up, squeaking and waving his short, thick arms wildly in the air.

Regulus dripped the magic of the Man-Beating Willow onto the goblin's body, causing it to stiffen and then convulse violently.

Starting from the point of contact, the skin and muscles were shattered, torn apart from the inside out, the bones broke into pieces, the internal organs ruptured, and blood and bits of flesh were splattered all over the ground, leaving the body sprawled out in a heap.

It has a completely different effect from the Disintegration Spell.

The Disintegration Spell struck the goblin, disintegrating him from the very level of his being. His flesh and bones lost their definition layer by layer, until only a small clump of ash remained.

This is physical pulverization; the meat is still meat, and the bone is still bone, but it has been shattered.

It shattered on the ground, blood was everywhere, and white fragments of bone and red remnants of muscle fibers could be seen in the shards.

Regulus caught two more and increased the dosage, giving each two drops.

The effect was even more intense; the entire body shattered into dust, leaving no intact bone fragments. It shattered so thoroughly that what was a pool before was now a pile of dust.

He continued testing, with larger doses, smaller doses, single application, and multiple applications; one application would shatter, multiple applications would explode.

The plantation goblins suffered again after six months, disappearing in droves.

But it doesn't matter, these things are pests, and pests are characterized by their rapid reproduction. Regulus left a few nests, and they can continue to be effective next year.

As evening approached, he stopped, and the test results came out.

It works best on rigid structures, less so on flexible structures, and is almost ineffective on loose media.

It is effective against living organisms, physically pulverizing them with visible results.

After a day of extraction, the first willow sapling was not in good condition. The branches stopped swaying and drooped, with the tips dragging on the ground. The knots on the trunk looked drier and harder.

The magic circuit was still running, but the flow rate was extremely slow. The continuous oscillating cycle had decreased to an almost imperceptible level, and the magic of the entire tree had been drained.

It is still alive and barely maintains basic functions, but its aggression has completely disappeared.

Half-dead.

The other plant was intact, and he didn't touch it.

Regulus returned to the cabin.

Agnes brought in stew and bread, along with a pot of hot soup. Baruch lay comfortably in his usual spot in front of the fireplace, about two feet away, his eight legs sprawled out.

He sat by the window, closed his eyes, and began to construct the first version of the magic model in his mind.

The weather was fine on the third morning, with a light sea breeze. The half-dead willow tree from the night before was still drooping its branches, while another tree seemed quite cheerful.

Regulus stayed in the cabin all morning without going out, and the magical model in his mind was taking shape.

Similar to the Disintegration Spell, first, accurately replicate the complete magic circuit in your mind, then pour your own magic into it and run it around until the magic that comes out carries the target attribute.

The Disintegration Spell's model is a spherical, multi-layered mesh with multiple entrances and one exit. Magic repeatedly travels between the mesh's openings, only flowing out with disintegration properties after seven and a half cycles.

The model of the "Hit-and-Pierce Willow" is a tree-like branching structure, with a thick and shiny main trunk, and branches that branch out layer by layer from the nodes, becoming thinner and thinner, with the smallest compression and release port at the very end.

The magic flows in from the main trunk, is distributed proportionally to the branches at the fork, undergoes two and a half cycles of oscillation and regulation, and finally narrows, compresses, and releases at the end.

On the first attempt, the magic flowed in and then dispersed at the first node. The branch angle deviated by less than two degrees, and the entire branch was completely stress-free.

Adjust the angle and reconstruct the first node.

The second time, when the magic completed its loop and came out of the release port at the end, it did not have any vibrational properties.

The oscillation turning logic of the number of cycles and nodes is not matched. Two parameters were adjusted for one node, but the overall ratio is still not right. The third node cannot oscillate.

Continue adjusting.

The third time, the oscillation went out of control within the model, and the entire tree-like structure was shattered in the consciousness space, with the oscillation and conduction becoming mixed together.

He caused the magic to vibrate within the transmission path, resulting in it vibrating from beginning to end, shattering itself before reaching the end.

He stopped to analyze.

The magic of the Whomping Willow is that it first conducts and then vibrates. During the conduction process, the vibration is confined within the path and is only released at the end.

His model failed to do this; the oscillations leaked out during the transmission process.

He continued to adjust, setting the transmission path and oscillations to two levels.

The transmission layer is responsible for direction and constraints; it is the outer conduit.

The oscillation level is responsible for energy accumulation and final release, and is the inner core.

Pipes within pipes, conduction on the outside, vibration on the inside, the main channel only transmits without vibration, the branches are segmented and adjusted, and the release port is only opened at the very end.

The fourth time, the magic flowed in from the main stem, the outer layer was stable, and the inner layer oscillated and accumulated. After passing the first node, it continued to run. At the second node, after running two and a half laps, it reached the end.

The outer and inner layers converge at the tip of the needle, the conductive and oscillating magic superimposed, extremely compressed by the needle tip, and then released.

A surge of magical energy with vibrational properties erupted from the end of the model.

He opened his eyes, looked down at his palm, and saw a small ball of yellowish-brown light condensed in his palm. The edges were vibrating, high-frequency, irregular, and chaotic, but the sense of structural harmony was completely preserved.

It became.

This tree-like model embedded in the consciousness space is his own, just like the previous spherical network model, and can be accessed at any time.

He pushed open the door and went out, channeling the prepared magic onto a granite slab.

There was no change on the surface, but you could feel the inside start to vibrate for five seconds, and then it split into three pieces from the inside out.

The mineral particles on the cross-section are loosely arranged and the connection is broken by the shock, just like the effect of pulling out the willow branch.

The same cracks from the inside out, the same intact surface but broken interior.

The basic fluctuations were successfully replicated.

He found an even bigger stone and magically pressed it onto it.

Five seconds later, a dense series of cracking sounds came from inside, like hundreds of ants munching on a cookie.

He removed his hand, took a step back, and gave it a light kick.

The stone split into four large pieces from top to bottom, and each piece was covered with a dense network of cracks that extended from the inside to the surface.

He squatted down, looked at the cross-section, and nodded.

In the afternoon, we conducted repeated tests, going through all the different materials to confirm that the basic oscillation was completely stable and that the effect of each output could be precisely controlled.

The harder the material, the better the effect; the denser the material, the farther the vibration is transmitted; and the looser the material, the worse the effect, which is completely consistent with the previously observed pattern.

In the evening, Regulus sat in a chair in front of the fireplace, his palms outstretched.

A small ball of yellowish-brown light condensed in his palm. He had reduced the vibration to a minimum, so it was almost imperceptible, but one could feel it in his palm, as if he were holding a slightly trembling insect.

"Baruch, come here."

Baruch was warming himself by the fireplace when he heard the sound. He propped himself up on his eight legs, and a piece of spider silk swung onto his wrist.

Regulus gestured to it: "Try it."

Baruch lifted his upper body, craned his head, and peered at the glowing object with his eight eyes before jumping inside.

It's been tamed.

Baruch lay in his palm, enveloped in a yellowish-brown light, and the entire spider went limp.

With its eight legs fully extended, belly down, carapace up, chelicerae loosened, bristles standing up and then softening, it resembled a fluffy blanket.

"...So...so...so...comfortable...comfortable...comfortable..."

Regulus looked at it and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Outside the hut, the abandoned willow tree drooped its branches, while another tree swayed slowly.

The sea breeze blows from the east, carrying a salty taste and the coolness of the night fog.

Agnes walked over from the stone path at a distance, carrying a food box in her hand, her apron pockets bulging.

Baruch was still lying there, all eight legs outstretched, his chelicerae twitching occasionally.

The model is stable, the replication is complete, tomorrow, the incantation will be activated.