Marvel's Hogwarts Wizard

Chapter 371 The Book of Carmen (6000+ words)

"Incredible!"

"That's incredible!"

Li Xiaolang and Xiao Ke, one human and one beast, stared wide-eyed at the Illumination Spell in Li Meiling's hand, repeatedly muttering the two sentences.

Although Li Meiling only cast an Illumination Charm, which is arguably the simplest and least mana-consuming spell.

But that's still magic. It means that the method Jerry taught Li Meiling truly broke the established understanding of all magicians over the years, allowing someone without magical aptitude to learn and use magic.

It's like a physicist who has always regarded the law of universal gravitation as the truth, but one day discovers that a person can ignore universal gravitation and fly directly in the sky, and even fly out of the earth and travel in the universe.

"Magic is about turning the impossible into the possible. And nothing in this world is certain. You think something is impossible simply because you don't understand it enough!"

Jerry, with his hands behind his back and his head tilted back, casually uttered a sentence that struck Li Xiaolang and the others like a thunderbolt.

That's the truth. After so many years of studying magic and experiencing so many worlds, Jerry has truly discovered that all fixed formulas, laws, theorems, and so on are not absolute.

Just like when you first learn Transfiguration, Professor McGonagall would emphasize that Transfiguration must follow the Gump Transfiguration Law, otherwise the transformation will definitely fail.

However, when Jerry obtained the Reality Stone and began to study its power, he discovered that the so-called Gump Transformation Law was not actually that accurate.

Once you understand the laws contained within the Reality Gem, you'll discover that anything can be transformed if you wish—ordinary items, magical items, and even things created out of thin air. You can even create something in a tangible way, like a creator.

There are many things you can't do simply because you don't understand them yet, or you haven't reached that level.

All the formulas, rules, and so on are conclusions drawn by magicians of the past based on their observations, knowledge, and experience.

When you surpass them, you will find that their conclusions are not necessarily correct, but only relatively one-sided.

When you first start learning math, you know that you can only subtract a smaller number from a larger one, otherwise you can't subtract. But after you've studied for a few more years, you'll learn that you can also subtract a larger number from a smaller one, because there are negative numbers.

Therefore, Jerry studies magic without ever completely following any fixed laws or letting his thinking become fixed. Only in this way can his magical abilities not stagnate.

He wants to turn all the impossible into possible!

At this moment, the look in Li Xiaolang's eyes as he looked up at Jerry was filled with nothing but admiration; he had no other thoughts whatsoever.

No wonder the other party's magical abilities were so powerful; it turned out that the other party's mind had already surpassed his by countless times, and they were not even on the same level.

That makes sense. Just think back to when you heard him say he wanted to surpass Clow Reed; that tells you how it was.

Sure enough, his choice to learn magic from the other party was a very wise one, combining Chinese and Western techniques.

"Strawberry, Merlin, you do look quite alike. Study magic hard, and maybe you'll become a great magician someday!"

Looking at his first Magic Cutting Contractor, Jerry suddenly had a strange idea.

Since Li Meiling's magic power comes from him, if Li Meiling uses magic to do good deeds, can he also get some little red stars?

However, whether this is true or not, we will have to wait until Li Meiling learns more magic and observes carefully in the future to confirm.

If things really turn out as he suspected, then his Little Red Star problem will no longer seem like a problem.

half a month later.

"Brother Jerry, this is a new card we acquired yesterday!"

Sakura handed Jerry a Clow Card with the word "Mirror" written on it, then looked curiously at the dozen or so identical books with large golden heads piled up next to him:

"What kind of magic book is this? I've never seen it before!"

Jerry took the "Mirror" card, returned the previous "Small" card to Sakura, and smiled.

"Since these are all magic books that I just made in the last few days, you can call them the Book of Carmen."

"The Book of Carmen?"

Sakura was taken aback when she heard this.

Li Xiaolang, who was not far from her, seemed to have overheard the conversation and curiously walked over, picking up a copy of "The Book of Carmen":

"May I take a look at it?"

"certainly!"

Jerry nodded.

Li Xiaolang opened the cover of "The Book of Carmen" and his pupils shrank the moment he saw the first page, because the first page contained the magic circle from which his sister Li Meiling had obtained magic power that day, and below it was the corresponding incantation.

Continuing to the next page, you'll find a series of introductions to the basic principles of magic, as well as methods for obtaining magic power through covenants using covenant arrays, and the corresponding content of covenants.

At the same time, there are also explanations and learning methods for several spells. However, upon closer inspection, all the spells are auxiliary, defensive, and healing spells.

Such as the Illumination Mantra, the Levitation Mantra, the Repair Mantra, the Healing Mantra, the Bone Growth Mantra, and the Hair Growth Mantra, etc.

There isn't a single offensive spell.

Turning to the last side, there was a recessed area, and inside the recess was a Carmen Ring, identical to the one on Li Meiling's wrist.

"This is?"

Upon seeing the contents of Carmen's book, Li Xiaolang seemed to understand something, while Sakura beside him remained somewhat bewildered.

Seeing this, Jerry didn't keep him in suspense any longer and nodded to explain:

"That's right, just as you thought. I created this Book of Carmen to give to people like Meiling who don't have magical talent but really want to learn magic."

"But why are there no offensive spells in it?"

Li Xiaolang asked in confusion.

"Because I don't want anyone who gets my magic book in the future to use it for evil after learning the magic in the book, so I think the magic in the book is enough for now."

Jerry smiled slightly, looking very kind.

Upon hearing Jerry's answer, Sakura immediately clasped her hands together:

"Jerry is such a gentle and kind person!"

Wanting to spread magic, yet worried that spreading it would allow bad people to learn magic and use it for evil, so they left no offensive magic in their magic books—what a gentle and kind person would think of such a method.

But is that really the case?

of course not!

Jerry's words were just meant to appease Li Xiaolang and Xiaoying.

In reality, he didn't create these Books of Carmen to spread magic; he wasn't that free. He simply wanted more people to make pacts with him and borrow magic from him to help him cultivate.

As for why he didn't leave any offensive magic in the book, it wasn't because he was afraid that bad people would learn the magic and do bad things. Rather, it all started with what happened a few days ago when he followed Li Meiling.

After discovering that Li Meiling had finally learned the Levitation Spell, he began to follow her to verify his previous conjecture.

While Li Meiling was walking alone on the street, he deliberately cast a "weak leg spell" on a worker who was painting a wall above Li Meiling's head, causing him to fall from the fourth floor.

Li Meiling lived up to his expectations, immediately using a levitation spell to save the worker.

Jerry clearly saw that the number of little red stars on his panel had increased slightly.

Therefore, he was certain that as long as borrowers used his magic to do good deeds, he could collect the corresponding little red stars.

However, it can also be seen that, for the same good deed, the borrower has significantly fewer red stars than the person who did it.

If Jerry had saved that worker who just fell, he would probably have gotten around ten little red stars, since falling from the fourth floor would have resulted in serious injury, if not death.

However, since Li Meiling saved him with magic, he could only get one.

It's understandable, really. Li Meiling saved the workers, but the magic actually came from Jerry. However, she learned the magic herself, so naturally Jerry couldn't get all the little red stars.

Even so, Jerry was overjoyed. Although it was only one-tenth, the quantitative change led to the qualitative change. As long as his total magic power increased in the future and he made more borrowers, Little Red Star's income would definitely be considerable.

But then he thought, what if his covenant holder uses the magic he borrows to do bad things every day? Then he wouldn't get any more little red stars.

So initially, Jerry wanted to add a setting to the magic circle that only people could use his magic to do good deeds, ensuring that every bit of magic he used would bring him a little red star.

The result, of course, was failure.

Because the idea of ​​doing good deeds cannot be specifically defined.

For example, some people think that saving lives is doing good deeds, while others think that killing is doing good deeds, like Thanos, who thought that wiping out half of all life in the universe was doing good deeds.

In reality, the panel is rather rigid and doesn't approve of such a good thing, so he won't get the little red star.

Later, he thought that when choosing borrowers, he should try to be more careful and find some kind-hearted people to lend to.

However, upon closer inspection, it's not a good idea.

You can know a person's face but not their heart, and a person's character is not static, so it's really unreliable to judge them based on that.

Moreover, his borrowers will definitely increase in the future. Perhaps when he has enough magic power, he can simply throw out a large number of "Carmen's Magic Books" to recruit a large number of borrowers in order to save trouble.

Finally, he felt it was better to solve the problem at its root, so he only left healing, defensive, and support magic in the spellbook. This way, he could ensure that his borrowers would definitely bring him the Little Red Star.

Even if someone is a bad person, as long as they use these magic spells to save or help people, even if they are bad people, they will still receive a little red star.

Moreover, when the magic book is spread in the future, everyone will have a good impression of him. Everyone will think that the Book of Carmen is a magic book that leads people to goodness, and that Jerry Carmen is also a kind dimensional demon.

This will also be helpful for his future, since in any world, kind people are always easier to accept and like than evil people.

"Brother Jerry, we've made plans to go to Tsukimori Shrine together after school tomorrow, so I won't be coming!"

Seeing that it was almost time to leave, Sakura ran over to greet Jerry, who was analyzing the "Mirror" card.

Upon hearing the words "Moon Peak Shrine," Jerry's heart skipped a beat:

"Sakura, has your school recently gotten a new substitute teacher?"

"Brother Jerry, how did you know?"

Sakura looked surprised.

"Oh, just a little bit of divination magic."

Jerry smiled but didn't say anything more.

He certainly didn't know this through divination magic; he just felt that the shrine maiden named Mizuki Kaho should appear around this time.

Kaho Mizuki, a shrine maiden of Tsukimori Shrine, possesses magical power even greater than that of the Judge Tsuki, and is highly proficient in prophetic magic.

She was once a substitute teacher at Touya Middle School and had a teacher-student romance with Touya, but they eventually broke up because she was going to study in England.

The reason for her return this time is that she was entrusted by Eriol Hiiragi, the reincarnation of Clow Reed, to deliver the magical item "Moon Bell" to Sakura in accordance with Clow Reed's last wish.

Jerry also wanted to meet this teacher, Mizuki.

So far, he has not encountered any true masters of magic in this world.

Sakura previously knew no magic at all, relying entirely on Clow Cards for her attacks. Li Syaoran was a bit better, but in terms of strength, he was only relatively strong among his peers.

Touya also possesses magical power no less than Sakura's and a very keen sense of perception, but he is actually completely ignorant about magic.

And this Kaho Mizuki should be considered to represent the level of the world's top magicians.

"No, you guys go to the shrine, I won't go. I want to continue my research on magic."

At this moment, Li Xiaolang replied.

As a Taoist priest, it's shameful to go to a shrine to ask for amulets. You should use that time to learn more magic and improve your strength.

"No, we have to go. To strengthen our relationship, we must go to the shrine to get a protective amulet!"

At this moment, Li Meiling grabbed Li Xiaolang's arm and gave him a fierce order.

Today, she heard from her classmate Naoko that the amulets from Tsukimine Shrine are the most effective for love, and everyone who goes to Tsukimine Shrine to obtain an amulet has found love.

Seeing this, Li Xiaolang sighed helplessly.

He also needed to figure out how to make his sister understand that what they had wasn't romantic love, but simply the affection of family that came from spending a lot of time together.

"Let's go! I've heard that the cherry blossom tree at Tsukimori Shrine has powerful magic; I'd like to see it for myself!"

Jerry looked at Li Xiaolang and smiled.

Some things you don't understand when you're young, but you'll understand when you grow up.

When I was a child, I thought my parents and siblings were my favorite people. But when I grew up and met true love, I naturally realized that there is a difference between family affection and romantic love.

"Brother Jerry, come with us to the shrine!"

Upon hearing that Jerry was also going to visit the Tsukimori Shrine, Sakura, Tomoyo, Syaoran, and Meiling all showed expressions of surprise and delight.

In their eyes, Jerry is not only a knowledgeable and powerful magic teacher, but also a gentle and understanding older brother, so going to the shrine together is definitely something to be happy about.

And it wasn't just fun, it was also a bit of a surprise, because Jerry was so engrossed in his magical research that he almost never went out.

The next day, at 3:30 pm.

As agreed, Jerry drew a portal inside the magic hut leading to the foot of Mount Tsukimori Shrine at the appointed time.

He immediately spotted Sakura and her three companions waiting at the foot of the mountain after passing through the teleportation portal.

"What kind of magic is this? It seems different from the Apparition Charm in the book!"

When Li Xiaolang saw Jerry emerge from the ring of fire, his eyes lit up.

Jerry waved his hand, deactivated the portal, and replied:

"This is a new spatial magic spell, and it has its own unique characteristics compared to the Apparition Charm. I've already recorded it in a book called 'The Complete Kamar-Taj Magic.' You can take a look at it when you have time!"

"Forget it, I haven't even learned the Apparition Charm yet."

Li Xiaolang sighed upon hearing this.

Jerry, who also dreams of surpassing Clow Reed, is becoming increasingly powerful with his magic. He is not only able to decipher the Clow Cards, but also constantly creating new magic.

While his progress was also rapid, it paled in comparison to this.

It can only be said that there are differences between people.

Jerry smiled and patted Li Xiaolang on the shoulder:

"You're still young, you'll have plenty of time later, take your time, there's no rush!"

With Li Xiaolang's talent, he is likely to live a long life in the future. As long as he studies the magic book he left behind thoroughly and combines it with his already strong Taoist skills, his strength will definitely not be low.

"Let's go up and take a look!"

After comforting Li Xiaolang, Jerry led the four of them up the stairs of the hill towards the Yuefeng Shrine.

However, after walking only halfway, Sakura and Syaoran suddenly stopped at the same time:

"It has the aura of a Clow Card!"

As soon as their voices fell, the scene around them underwent a dramatic transformation.

The five of them were originally on the stairs of a small hill, but now they suddenly entered a maze made entirely of green walls.

"This is the 'Mystery' card. The characteristic of the 'Mystery' card is that unless you find the exit, you will be trapped here!"

Li Xiaolang observed the surroundings and, based on his family's records about the Clow Cards, immediately determined that they had encountered the "Mystery" card from the Clow Cards.

"Should I fly up and see where the exit is?"

Sakura immediately took out the "Fly" card, then rode her bird-headed magic wand into the air, wanting to fly directly to the high sky to check the location of the exit.

However, as Sakura took off, all the surrounding green barriers rose up in sync, giving Sakura no chance to check, forcing her to fall back down.

"Brother Jerry, will your portal magic take us out of here?"

At this moment, Tomoyo's eyes darted around, and she turned to Jerry, who had a calm expression, and asked him a question.

"Of course you can, but I think Sakura should be able to break it herself!"

Jerry looked up and gazed into the distance, as if he could see something through the green wall.

The "Mystery" card includes the ability to seal space. Theoretically, even someone with teleportation magic wouldn't be able to leave the maze. However, his understanding of spatial magic far exceeded the limitations of the "Mystery" card, so he could naturally find the loopholes and leave at will.

However, he also wanted to see how much Sakura's strength had improved during this time of learning magic from him.

Meanwhile, standing atop the hill at the shrine entrance, holding the Moon Bell, Kaho Mizuki looked up at Jerry in the maze, who seemed to have spotted her, and murmured to herself:

"Who is this person? Such powerful magic! Why didn't I see him in my previous prophecies!"

This time, following the instructions of the great magician Hiiragi Eriol, she secretly helped the new owner of the Clow Cards to master them, something she had foreseen years ago when she left for England.

However, the prophecy at that time did not mention this guy whose magic he now finds unfathomable.

"let me!"

Upon hearing Jerry's words, Sakura drew a sword card, transformed her bird-headed magic wand into a sharp sword, and cleaved the green wall in front of her in two with a single strike.

However, the green wall, after being cut down, miraculously rejoined itself.

"Sakura, the Clow Cards possess magical power, but if you want to become a truly powerful magician, you can't always rely on them. You have powerful magic within you, so you need to learn how to use it flexibly."

Seeing this, Jerry slowly spoke up to remind him.

While the Clow Cards are powerful, they are made using many principles of mutual generation and restraint. Sometimes, without a card that can counteract another card's ability, it is difficult to break through that card's power.

Just like the current "Swords" card, it cannot break through the "Mystery" card's blockade.

Sakura has not yet mastered the "Earth" card, which can break the "Mystery" card.

"But even swords and shields can't break through these walls, what kind of magic do I have that can?"

Sakura scratched her head a little embarrassedly.

She had been studying magic with Jerry for some time, but because she lacked a foundation, she hadn't learned many spells, far less than Li Xiaolang, who had a solid foundation, and Zhiyi, who could almost remember everything she saw.

So aside from using kitchen magic at home, she mainly relies on Clow Cards in battles.

"The sword token cannot be broken simply because its destructive power is insufficient. Sakura, your advantage lies in the magical power within you that is far stronger than others, and I remember that you seem to have mastered the magic of the 'Particle Cannon'."

Jerry spoke again, offering a hint.

Tomoyo, who was standing nearby, clearly understood what Jerry meant and immediately explained to Sakura:

"You forgot, the description of the 'Particle Cannon' says that the more magic power you have, the longer you charge it, the greater its destructive power will be."

Sakura finally realized what was happening.

She raised her hands, closed her eyes, and quickly drew upon the magic power within her body, slowly condensing particle spheres in her palms.

As magic was continuously injected, the particle ball grew from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a billiard ball, then to the size of a basketball, and finally stopped when it reached a diameter of nearly one meter.

"Particle cannons, fire!"

Sakura shouted and opened her eyes, then threw the enormous particle ball above her head.

As expected, the particle ball easily broke through the layers of maze walls, and finally, with a huge explosion, shattered the entire maze, turning into a Clow Card that floated into Sakura's hand.

Meanwhile, standing atop the mountain and witnessing all of this, Mizuki Kaho's eyes were completely glazed over.

"Does this new owner of the Clow Cards really need my help?"

She knew she might not even be able to withstand the incredibly powerful magic that Sakura had just unleashed.

(End of this chapter)