From Azkaban

Rodolphus smiled slightly, ignored the gazes of the people around him, and followed Locke at just the right pace.

After Locke sat in his main seat, Rodolphus and others quickly sat in their seats.

“Sha…Sha…Sha…Sha….”

The sound of Locke turning pages was very clear in the quiet hall. He read very carefully, which resulted in him reading for a long time. Everyone at the round table was waiting quietly.

About an hour later, Locke gently closed the book in his hand and placed it on the round table in front of him.

After finishing reading, Locke did not speak a word, but crossed his hands on the round table in front of him with a thoughtful look.

Seeing him like this, the atmosphere at the round table became even quieter, and everyone began to deliberately control their breathing, just to avoid disturbing Locke's thinking.

About half an hour passed, and Locke came out of his thoughts and looked at the people at the round table.

"Sorry, I just thought of something new."

After Locke said this, he didn't wait for everyone's response. He pushed open his chair and stood up.

The world-weary heart writes the postscript of the eagle's successor

"I need to gather my thoughts, you guys continue."

Locke did not stay here to discuss with everyone this time, because everyone had already discussed everything that could be discussed.

The results of the discussion were all written in the book, so Locke could hardly get any new inspiration by discussing with them again.

"........................"

Looking at Locke's quickly leaving back, everyone at the round table looked at each other in silence for a moment.

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Volume 1: Chapter 39: A Piece of the Puzzle

"This alchemy..."

Back in his cell, Locke was still thinking about the alchemy knowledge he had just read in the book.

Originally, Locke didn't have much in mind about the alchemy of this world. After all, from the perspective of the original work alone, the alchemy of this world can only be regarded as a niche high-end magic path.

From Locke's perspective, although alchemy is magical and advanced, it is not of much help to what Locke wants to do. There is no need to spend energy studying it in the early stages. It would be the same to wait until the situation is almost the same in the later stages to learn it.

But after reading the alchemy knowledge that Rodolphus handed to him, Locke realized that he was careless. This alchemy was of no help at all. It was actually of great help.

In Locke's original plan, there has always been a most important piece of the puzzle that is missing. What Locke has always wanted is to continue accumulating knowledge after he goes out, and then develop it through the knowledge he learned in his previous life.

But just now, after reading the book on alchemy, Locke discovered that alchemy could perfectly complete the missing piece of the puzzle.

In the case of alchemy, he no longer had to think about developing it himself, but could just develop and improve on the existing basis as before.

In this way, Locke could directly skip the step from zero to one and stand on the shoulders of his predecessors. He didn't know how much trouble and time he could save.

"From the knowledge in the books, it is feasible. It is completely feasible to use alchemy as the basis. This is a knowledge similar to Transfiguration. Compared with idealism, the knowledge system itself is also an indispensable part."

Sitting on the floor of the cell, Locke was thinking while raising his hand to produce a bunch of stone rings from the ground. These were all products of permanent deformation.

"It's just right. Now is the time to try the first step, the simplest and most superficial alchemical creation."

The simplest and most superficial alchemical creation is to add magic to an object through magic power and spells, so that the originally ordinary items can acquire extraordinary magical properties.

For example, some props made by the Weasley twins in the early days, some magic candies, magic newspapers, magic cards, Ron's wizard chess, and the car modified by Mr. Weasley can all be considered at this level.

This type of alchemical creation is basically the easiest and most superficial. Just like Transfiguration, the initial path is purely idealistic magic means, which does not require too profound knowledge and only requires a little talent.

That's not true. In terms of talent, alchemy requires higher talent than transfiguration.

The initial transformation requires only thought, firm belief and a certain talent for controlling magic to be able to do it.

Alchemy is different. This system requires higher talent and more stringent requirements.

Because in order to add a magic to an ordinary object, what is most needed is not anything else, but intuition, a natural sensitive intuition or inspiration.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that you can’t learn alchemy without this intuition. If you study hard, you can still get a certain degree of reward.

However, if you have strong intuition, you can rely on the guidance of consciousness to make correct operations and choices without any knowledge reserves.

When you have accumulated enough knowledge in the later stage, this intuition will give you even more power, and your final achievements will far exceed those of others.

This intuition is like a filter. The achievements in alchemy achieved by people with this talent and those without it will inevitably be very different.

How to explain this... Yes, this sentence is most appropriate, genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, but without that 1% inspiration, the 99% perspiration will be in vain.

That is why Locke said that alchemy requires even more talent than transfiguration. After all, for this kind of scientific research knowledge system, long-term hard work is often no match for a burst of inspiration from a talented person.

In addition to this most difficult one, alchemy requires many other talents, the second only to intuition being a sufficiently strong and subtle perception and control of magic power, as well as a good brain.

Locke is very confident about this. Putting his intuition aside, he thinks he is pretty good at magic perception, control and brain.

"The secondary condition is met, but I don't know if I have that precious bit of inspiration."

Locke didn't know whether he had any inspiration or not, but relying on his own strong strength and perception and control of magic power, Locke did not encounter any obstacles in transforming the ring.

According to the knowledge of alchemy, Locke let his magic power flow through the ring, while at the same time he was developing communication magic in his mind.

For Locke now, developing such a magic does not require much time at all, because not only does it already have a certain foundation, but the field it is in is also the field that Locke is good at.

In fact, what Locke did cannot be considered as development, but only as iterative improvement based on the original basis. All he did was cut off unnecessary functions and then add new functions.

In addition, the stone rings that served as carriers were all conjured up by Locke at random, so there was no need to feel sorry for them, and Locke naturally did it very casually.

"Let me see. First, there is the connection, then the channel and the protection of consciousness extraction. The first two Dark Marks already exist, so they just need to be optimized and iterated. The latter one......"

The optimization and iteration process of magic went smoothly, and Locke declared success in about half a day. However, in the second half, Locke's progress was not so smooth.

"Oh!"

A ring floating in front of Locke suddenly exploded again due to Locke's improper operation, turning into a piece of stone chips that shot towards Locke's face, but was completely blocked by the automatically deployed mana shield.

"This time it was because of a flaw in the magic control. Let's do it again."

While summarizing the reasons for his failure, Locke once again produced a stone ring from the ground and started a new round of operations.

“Bang…Bang…Bang…”

Intermittent explosions continued to be heard from Locke's cell. As time passed, the sound increased from once every ten minutes at the beginning to once every almost an hour later.

Until finally, several hours passed, and no more explosions were heard from Locke's cell.

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On a new day, in the hall on the top floor, Locke, who looked a little tired, sat at the head seat of the round table and distributed a pile of stone rings to everyone through levitation.

"This is the result. You can all try it and see how it works."

Volume 1: Chapter 40: Magic is good, but don’t be greedy

The fatigue on Locke's face was hard to hide. Seeing Locke like this, everyone felt a little worried. It was the first time they saw him showing signs of fatigue since they had come into contact with Locke.

"My Lord, how are we going to use it?"

Reaching out and taking the stone ring floating in front of him, Sirius cautiously asked Locke how to use it.

Looking at Locke's tired expression, Sirius judged that these stone rings were the result of Locke's hard work, so he did not dare to try them easily, for fear of causing damage due to improper operation.

"It's very simple. Just wear it on any finger and follow the feeling of the ring to guide the magic power into it. Then your consciousness will be pulled into a consciousness space. This effect has no distance limit."

Hearing Sirius' question, Locke raised his right hand. At this time, he also had a stone ring on the index finger of his right hand.

"I am currently unable to supply the magic power for the continuation of the consciousness space through external magic power, so it can only be provided by all those who hold the precepts together."

"The ring will absorb a small amount of excess magic from your body as a supplement when you rest. Don't worry, that amount is almost the same as releasing a normal spell for adult wizards like you."

When they heard Locke's words, there was a burst of laughter around the round table. They thought that a lot of supplies were needed, but it turned out to be just this. Lord Locke was indeed so kind.

Locke did not stop everyone from laughing, but stopped talking and waited for a while. Seeing this, everyone was very tactful and quickly quieted down.

"In the consciousness space, there is a certain degree of mental acceleration. Simply put, your consciousness will be accelerated here. At the very least, if you stay in there for one minute, only thirty seconds will pass in the outside world."

"!!!", everyone's eyes widened when they heard Locke's words. Their lack of scientific knowledge made it impossible for them to understand what accelerated thinking was.

They only heard Locke say that this magic could achieve the effect of one minute inside and thirty seconds outside. In their opinion, this was pure time magic.

As for time magic, it has long been lost in the entire magical world, and time converters have been basically destroyed.

But what did they see now? They actually witnessed the birth of a time magic item and became one of the users of this magic.

"As expected of you, my Lord. You even know the long-lost magic of time. I am so honored to receive this honor."

Rodolphus carefully put on the stone ring on his hand, his heart filled with excitement and admiration for Locke.

"The upper limit of the speed-up of thoughts in the consciousness space is now ten times. In other words, as long as the conditions are met, you can speed up the mind ten times. One minute in the outside world is equivalent to ten minutes in the space."

"It can actually speed up time ten times!!" Everyone's eyes, which had just shrunken, widened even wider this time.

"In addition, the space also has consciousness protection and real-time detection of external conditions. Once it detects that something is happening next to you or someone is approaching, it will immediately remind you and transmit the external situation to your consciousness. It is up to you to decide whether to exit."

These are the existing effects of the consciousness space. The most distinctive function of accelerating thinking is split from the passive magic "Sian Westin" that Locke is about to engrave.

The complete Si'an Westin includes three items: accelerated thinking, accelerated nerve reactions, and temporary release of physical limitations.

But that's because it needs to act on a real body, so two more are needed.

In the consciousness space, everyone is a pure consciousness, so naturally, the latter two functions are not needed.

However, because they are all pure consciousness, Locke discovered after the results that the upper limit of thinking acceleration in the consciousness space is much stronger than his own "Sian Westin".

The current temporary upper limit in the thinking space is ten times. In contrast, Locke's "Sian Westin" can only achieve an overall seven times. However, his improvement is more comprehensive and can take effect in reality, which is something that cannot be compared with pure thinking acceleration.

Moreover, there are good and bad sides, and the acceleration of thinking in the consciousness space is not arbitrary.

"I need to remind you that the acceleration of thoughts in the consciousness space cannot be achieved for a single unit for the time being, so once it is accelerated, it will be an overall acceleration of the consciousness space, and all people in the consciousness space will be accelerated together."

Seeing the eager expressions on everyone's faces, Locke quickly told them the precautions.

"In addition, acceleration consumes magic power. The higher the speed, the more magic power is consumed. When the speed reaches five times or more, your consciousness will also bear a certain degree of burden."

"Once the accumulated magic power in the consciousness space is consumed, in order to maintain the space, it will evenly extract magic power from everyone who is using the space."

"So please accelerate within the space within your capacity and do not overdo it to trigger the consciousness protection."

"Then the last and most important point is that because there is no solution yet, please do not rely on accelerated thinking to study, discuss, or research magic in the consciousness space."

"Because in the consciousness space, your mind is temporarily separated from the body and accelerated. If you generate a lot of information during this time, then when your mind returns to the body, a lot of information will flow into your head all at once." Ling

"Once the influx of information exceeds the carrying capacity of your brain, it is likely to cause unimaginable damage to your brain and body, or even death on the spot." Ling

As Locke spoke, he raised his hands, put his five fingers together towards the center and placed them on both sides of his head, then opened his palms to make a blooming gesture.

"I have not yet thought of a solution to this problem. It is difficult to judge the standards for consciousness protection, so it all depends on everyone's awareness."

"So I hope everyone will keep this in mind and use mind acceleration in moderation. Don't spend the whole day in the consciousness space, because that will not only make your body weak, but also your brain will feel uncomfortable if a whole day's worth of information pours in all at once."

Locke warned everyone with a serious expression that these were the lessons Locke had learned after going through it himself, especially the one that was learned through accelerated research and learning, which almost killed Locke.

It was because his body was strong enough and he had the "Quick Healing" spell engraved on his heart that he was able to hold on.

This is why Locke looked tired, because he almost lost his life.

Locke was still frightened by this, and this lesson also made him understand that although magic is good, it also requires a sense of awe.

Volume 1: Chapter 41: Linking the Infinite Magical Power

Faced with Locke's serious warning, everyone responded seriously, indicating that they had taken it to heart.

However, after expressing their opinions, everyone immediately became impatient to use the effect of the stone ring to mobilize the magic power in their bodies that had not been used for many years.

Feeling the pleasure of being able to use magic again, everyone except Sirius was silent.

As the magic power poured into the ring, everyone felt a distinct sense of being pulled away. Then they felt a flash before their eyes, and the next moment they were standing in a space completely surrounded by countless cosmic nebulae and star rivers.

The space was extremely vast, and the people who entered it floated slowly. At this moment, they were free from the constraints of gravity.

"This is the interior of the space. I designed the space to show everyone that no matter when or where we are, we must not slack off."

"Because our goal is the sea of ​​stars."

Locke entered the consciousness space a little later than everyone else. After hearing his explanation, everyone who was enjoying the wonderful flight looked in the direction where the sound came from.

"Apart from this big background, everything in the consciousness space can be changed and constructed at will through consciousness. The same is true for the area of ​​the consciousness space. Theoretically, there is no upper limit to both."

"Just like the accelerated thinking, what you construct and the area of ​​the space are closely related to the magic power and the consciousness of the user."

"So although there is no upper limit to the space of consciousness, there is an upper limit for us as users."

Hearing Locke's words, the eyes of everyone who were floating in the air and unable to move freely because they had nowhere to gain leverage lit up. The next moment, everyone held a flying broom between their legs.

"......"