From Azkaban

Hearing her son's words, Narcissa reached out and gently tapped Draco's forehead lovingly.

"You only know how to eat. This is a big deal. Come with mom. Lord Kazir wants to see you."

Hearing his mother's words, Draco perked up and became visibly excited and nervous.

"Really, mom? That adult wants to see me!"

"Of course it's true. Be prepared, Draco. Don't be disrespectful in front of Lord Cazier. Also, don't talk nonsense when you get there. Just answer whatever Lord Cazier asks you. Try to leave a good impression on him. If you can satisfy him, then your future will be bright."

Narcissa was also very excited at this moment. Through the past two days of getting along and the information she learned from her husband, Narcissa had already understood the difference between Locke and Voldemort, and she understood what she could gain by following him.

Narcissa highly admires Locke's ideas or goals. The reason is very simple, because compared to the Malfoy family, she will always love her family the most, especially her son.

But according to Locke's prediction, in the near future, the wizarding world will inevitably go to war with Muggles.

Just as Locke said, once the war begins, no one can stay out of it. As someone who has experienced Voldemort's reign of terror, Narcissa knows this very well.

When she thought of this, Narcissa began to worry about what would happen to her son Draco if it really came to that.

Narcissa could not accept the thought of her son being involved in a cruel war and eventually dying in it.

So even though only less than two days had passed, she had already become a staunch supporter of Locke's ideas.

Because in her opinion, Locke is a truly great man, and Locke's ideas and path are the only direction she can find. Without Locke's leadership, Narcissa can't think of how she can let her son avoid such a tragic future.

So she chose to follow Locke, just as Locke said, she wanted to fight for her family and the future of her children.

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Narcissa took Draco's hand and led him quickly from the garden to the outside of the hall.

When they arrived at the door, Narcissa did not lead Malfoy in immediately. Instead, she squatted down and carefully tidied Draco's clothes, smoothing out even the slightest wrinkles with magic.

"Okay, let's go in."

After taking a final look and making sure everything was alright, Narcissa stood up and knocked on the door.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

"My Lord, I have brought Draco here."

The moment Narcissa knocked on the door, the closed door opened automatically, and Draco was finally able to see what was inside the hall.

"So big! And so beautiful!"

Draco followed his mother into the hall with a shocked look on his face, and soon saw Locke and Lucius standing beside him in the middle of the hall.

"Father"

Seeing Lucius standing behind Locke and looking at him with a smile on his face, Draco quickly suppressed his shock and put on his best manners.

"Lord Casimir," Draco followed Narcissa and saluted Locke.

"Child, come forward."

Locke stretched out his hand and waved gently. Seeing this, Malfoy hurried forward.

"Your name is Draco, right?" Locke said with a gentle smile and gently placed his right hand on Draco's left shoulder.

"Yes, Lord Cazier." Draco nodded.

"Then Draco, I wonder if you would be interested in studying with me for a while? During this time before you start school."

Draco couldn't believe what he heard and subconsciously looked at Lucius, only to see that his father was very happy at the moment and kept signaling his agreement with his eyes.

"I would very much like to, Lord Casimir." Draco trusted his father's judgement.

Volume 1: Chapter 57 Field Magic

Hearing Draco's agreement, Narcissa, who was standing behind him, could not hide her excitement. Lucius also pursed his lips and tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth that were constantly rising. He looked at Draco with eyes full of pride and satisfaction.

As someone who has been in contact with Locke these two days, he naturally became Locke's new external brain, but his level is a bit worrying, so he is still in the growth stage of being cultivated.

But it was precisely because of this that Lucius could clearly understand how kind, magnanimous and powerful the new lord he was loyal to was.

And now, his son actually got the opportunity to study with Lord Locke, which made Lucius think of his experiences in the past two days.

Through Locke's training over the past two days, Lucius has clearly realized how weak he is.

After all, Locke had originally planned to let Lucius start engraving the "Mana Shield" from the beginning, but he didn't expect that Lucius' level was so poor that he had not even reached the minimum standard for engraving.

However, faced with such a problem, the first thing Locke thought of was that the threshold of his passive magic was still too high, which was not conducive to dissemination, and the progress of iterative upgrades had to be put on the agenda.

Lucius, on his part, was ashamed of his performance, a shame from the bottom of his heart.

However, when he saw that Locke not only did not blame him, but instead thought it was his own problem and began to devote all his efforts to training him, Lucius knew that he had really followed the right person this time.

But at the same time, after two days of study, Lucius also knew that this would probably be his life. Even with Locke's training, his ultimate ceiling would not be very high.

Originally, Lucius felt very disappointed about this, thinking that his abilities were really mediocre, but now, Lucius no longer has that idea.

Yes, he is mediocre in talent, but he has a son, and his son will follow Locke to learn.

When Lucius thought of Locke's abilities and profound knowledge, he seemed to have foreseen the scene where Draco would become extremely outstanding under Locke's training, with abilities far exceeding those of every previous generation of Malfoy family heads.

"Okay, let's start from tomorrow. Go back and have a good rest today, and come to my place with your father tomorrow morning."

Taking his hand off Draco's shoulder, Locke signaled to Narcissa that she could take him back.

"Then we shall take our leave, Lord Kazir."

Narcissa suppressed the smile on her face, took two steps forward, took Draco's hand, bowed slightly to Locke, and then led Draco out of the hall.

"A good boy"

Looking at Draco's back, Locke spoke slowly.

"Thank you so much, sir, for giving Draco this precious opportunity. He has the honor to study under you." Lucius sincerely expressed his gratitude to Locke.

Seeing him like this, Locke smiled slightly. This was exactly the result he wanted. He knew the situation of the Malfoy family very well, and he knew even more about the love the couple had for their only son.

Therefore, giving the reward given to Lucius to Malfoy can also achieve the greatest effect.

"Come to think of it, Professor Snape is coming today, right Lucius?"

Two days have passed since returning to Malfoy Manor from Diagon Alley. Today is the day when Snape is supposed to come and the day when the first round table meeting will be held.

"Yes sir, Snape will come today. According to the agreed time, he should be here in another thirty minutes."

Locke nodded after hearing Lucius' answer. In fact, he also knew Snape. To be more precise, his predecessor knew Snape.

After all, as a student who graduated from Hogwarts, how could he not know the only professor who taught Potions in the school and the Head of Slytherin House?

"Professor Snape, it's been four years since graduation. I wonder if he still remembers a useless student like me."

Locke's emotional words fell into Lucius' ears, and he was completely stunned.

"My Lord, do you mean to say that you graduated from Hogwarts?"

Lucius originally thought that Locke was not a student of Hogwarts. After all, when Locke met Snape in Diagon Alley before, he asked him for confirmation.

If Locke knew Snape, why did he need to confirm with him at that time?

"Didn't I tell you? Yes, I really haven't told you yet. Yes, I graduated from Hogwarts and studied in Hufflepuff House."

Hearing Locke's clear answer, Lucius felt very regretful. It was Hufflepuff, why not Slytherin?

"He graduated four years ago, so now, he is at most twenty-one years old!"

Locke is very young, and it can be seen on his face, but Lucius never expected that Locke could be so young.

"Okay, enough small talk. We still have 30 minutes left, which is enough time for us to verify the theory we just mentioned. Come on, let's get started."

Thanks to the Malfoy family's collection of books, Locke has determined a new direction, field magic, in addition to studying meteorological spells these two days.

Originally, this field magic was an advanced idea of ​​Locke's gravity spell that he developed, but as he studied the weather spell in the past two days, Locke found that this direction seemed to be able to be developed as well.

His original idea for the advancement of passive magic and consciousness space was to use the infinite outside world to influence his own limitations.

This time, what Locke wanted was to use his own limited power to influence the infinity of the outside world. This may sound similar to the original weather spell, but in fact, what Locke thought was quite different.

The original weather spell used one's own magic power as a lever to follow the laws of nature and guide the magic power of the outside world to achieve the result of influencing celestial phenomena.

Just by hearing about this method, you can understand how delicate and complicated this operation is, so the weather spell has such high requirements for the user, and this magic is so profound.

But Locke thought differently. He wanted to develop a simple, crude, and highly contagious curse.

The inspiration for this concept comes from the Fiendish Flame. The infinitely spreading curse characteristics of the Fiendish Flame gave Locke inspiration. Since the Fiendish Flame can grow and spread by devouring everything, can he develop a curse that specifically devours external magic power?

The effect of this curse is very simple. Once released, it will madly devour and infect all external magic that it can touch, and assimilate it into its own magic like the fierce fire.

However, after research, Locke discovered that a curse also requires reasonable rules and restrictions to be born. The more powerful the curse, the more stringent the rules and restrictions. This means that the effect of the curse is destined to not be abnormal.

So in the final first edition, this curse became a one-time curse, and its limit of devouring and growing depended entirely on how much magic power the wizard used when releasing it.

Once the limit is reached, the curse will explode all the absorbed magic power, and eventually everything will return to calm, and the absorbed magic power will return to its original state.

It seems that this curse will actually have no effect if released alone, because the effect of this curse is to devour and assimilate external magic power, and then eventually explode after reaching its limit.

Judging from this alone, it seems that this curse is useless, but Locke naturally cannot develop a useless thing, because this is only the first step, which is equivalent to the foundation.

What Locke wanted to do was to use this as a basis and learn from Li Huo to add the curse into a magic, so that the magic would acquire the characteristics of the curse.

Considering Locke's control and understanding of magic, choosing to create his own magic would have a higher success rate, so in the end Locke chose the gravity spell.

If successful, Locke will be one step closer to mastering the power of the planet.

Volume 1: Chapter 58: Different

The development of field magic is bound to be a time-consuming task. After all, the nature of this magic itself is completely different from ordinary magic. Even the development of passive magic is not as difficult as it.

In addition, Locke is still in the accumulative learning stage in both curses and curse magic, so the progress of field magic is directly stuck at the second step. As for the first step, it is naturally the curse that has already been developed.

However, Locke was not surprised by this. Long before the start, he had already prepared for a long-term battle.

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Thirty minutes passed quickly, and Professor Snape used Apparition to appear at the gate of Malfoy Manor very punctually.

"Severus"

Narcissa, who had already known that Snape would come, was waiting at the gate in advance. When she saw Snape appear, she took the initiative to step forward to greet him.

"Lady Narcissa"

Although he still didn't show much expression, Snape still responded to Narcissa very politely.

"Come with me Snape, Lord Casimir is waiting for you."

Hearing Narcissa's words, Snape narrowed his eyes slightly. When Lucius came to him before, he only told him that an adult wanted to see him and showed him his Dark Mark that had been removed, but did not tell him his name.

Now after hearing what Narcissa said, Snape felt that the last name Casimir was somewhat familiar, as if he had heard it there before.

"Narcissa, how is this... Lord Kazir...?"

So to speak, as for Locke, Snape had already preconceivedly regarded him as the new generation of Dark Lord. As for why this was so, to put it bluntly, anyone who could gain the loyalty of the Death Eaters and could find the Death Eaters must not be a good wizard.

"Severus, I know what you are thinking. The only thing I can tell you is that this lord is not the same as Voldemort."

"This lord is far better and greater than Voldemort. What he pursues is not something that Voldemort can compare to. Voldemort only pursues himself and his own desires, but Lord Cazier is not like that. He is a great pioneer and a benevolent and magnanimous leader. He stands up for all of us, not for himself."

In the past two days, because she had joined Locke's team, Narcissa no longer intentionally avoided such things as before. Instead, she took the initiative to contact and understand them, because she also wanted to do her part.

So now she has a deep understanding of the situation of former Death Eaters like her husband Lucius, and naturally, she can also roughly see what Snape is thinking.

"Is that so? Maybe there really is a little difference."

Looking at Narcissa's serious expression, Snape could tell that she was not just speaking meaningless flattery, but felt so from the bottom of her heart.

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Such a situation is basically impossible to happen under Voldemort. Except for the crazy woman Bella, the other Death Eaters are more afraid and cautious about Voldemort.

"Come on, Severus. You don't need to know too much from me. Lord Casimir is in the hall and you will see him soon. Then you will understand what I am saying."

Narcissa smiled at Snape, turned and walked into the manor gate which was opening automatically.

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

Snape didn't respond. He threw his black cloak and followed Narcissa into the Malfoy family's huge manor.

The two of them walked through the garden and the main hall, and during the process they met Draco who was jumping around excitedly because of Locke's words.

"Draco, pay attention to your etiquette. You can't be so unstable. And starting tomorrow, you will be studying with Lord Casimir. Don't play around today. Go and prepare for tomorrow's study."

Seeing the excited Draco, Narcissa, who had been very doting on her son, now frowned seriously.

However, it is precisely because of her love for Draco that Narcissa behaves out of character at this moment.