Chapter 21.

  During the remaining month of summer vacation, Soren did not fet the various troubles that would arise in the uping term at Hogwarts, so he began studying spells that could be useful in this semester, preparing for the various situations he might face.

  Si semester, Soren had already begun improving the spells learned in the first-year curriculum, such as the Lumos Spell, Sonorus Spell, and fgration Spell. During this long vacation, Soren finally found the opportunity to realise his ideas one by one.

  Through precise magical trol and adjustments to his osture, Soren discovered that the light emitted by the Lumos Spell, the sound effects created by the Sonorus Spell, and the fme forms released by the fgration Spell could all be adjusted in size.

  For example, with the Lumos Spell, Soren successfully turned his wand into a Muggle-style adjustable fshlight, with the light produced by magic able to ge brightness acc to his will. Simirly, with the Sonorus Spell, Soren mao make the sound adjustable like a Muggle sound system, allowing for free volume and sound wave adjustment. Additionally, with the fgration Spell, the fmes he released were no longer just jets of fire but could now produce a cluster of enormous fireballs resembling miniature suns, as well as bursts of scattered sparks.

  Moreover, over the past few years, he had maintained correspondeh pen pals overseas. Among them, the most frequent unication was with a female pen pal from Japan, Akabane Sakutsuki, who studied at Mahoutokoro School of Magic.

  Mahoutokoro means a magical p Japanese, so it is also referred to simply as the school of magic. This magical school is a pace located at the highest point of Minami Iwo Jima in Japan, built from a type of stone known as sheepfat stone, making it look like a magnifit and exquisite pagoda, thus earning the title of the magical pace. To Muggles, both the isnd and the pace appear uninhabited.

  In Japan, wizard children begin school at the age of seven, but they do not ence b until they turn eleven; prior to that, they travel daily on the backs of giant sea creature between home and school, attending in a day-school format. So, although Akabane Sakutsuki is the same age as Soren, she has already had six years of exposure to magic.

  Soren is particurly ied in Japaches from the 16th tury during the Warring States period, known for their popurity as "ninja." To satisfy the information needs of the major feudal lords of the time, Japaches' magic was heavily ined towards stealth, disguise, invisibility, and cealment. There are more than thirty types of invisibility magic that have survived to this day, ating for more than half of the "Book of Invisibility" that narrates all invisibility magi the world.

  During her multiple exges with Soren, the discussioably turo her most cherished invisibility spell, expl the differing interpretations of invisibility magic between the British and Japanese schools. The only seen invisibility spell in Britain is the Disillusio Charm, which uses principles simir to that of a chameleon, allowing the caster's skin to mimic the surrounding enviro in an attempt to create a visual deception to achieve the effect of hiding their form; whereas, the most frequently used invisibility magi Japan is the "Wako Dō" spell, which modifies the body's shape and transluce, making the body transparent like dust so that light pass through. In simple terms, it makes the body truly transparent.

  These two spells, having undergone improvements eions of wizards, are now nearly perfe effect; however, Soren remains somewhat dissatisfied.

  There are actually many ways to see through invisibility magic. For example, the gsses worn by Mad-Eye Moody with a special spell attached see through the Disillusio Charm and invisibility cloaks; moreover, animals like cats and dogs use their keen sense of smell to detect the location of the invisible person, which Soren mainly siders iion to the students and Filch's pet cat, miss Norris; additionally, snakes, which sense infrared, detect the temperature of an invisible person.

  Soren's goal is to create an invisibility spell that overes the aforementioned fws, a pletely unique invisibility magic of his own.

  He referehe principles behind the Disillusio Charm and the Wako Dō spell, and sulted several Muggle books on optics, ultimately developing a brand-new invisibility spell, which he he "Invisible Phantom Charm."

  He tested all the anti-invisibility and anti-stealth devices collected by his family, and even borroair of x-ray gsses simir to those of Mad-Eye Moody from Lucius, uhe pretext of wanting to study the alchemical principles behind the gsses. To his surprise, he discovered that none of these valuable devices could see through his invisibility spell, indig that his invisibility magic surpasses even the invisibility cloak of the Deathly Hallows in terms of cealment. After all, in the inal story, the invisibility cloak could not hide from Mad-Eye Moody's x-ray vision.

  The "Invisibile Phantom Charm" bined with his merlin's robe—enhanced with features to mask presence, st, and body temperature—ehat even the most sensitive dogs or infrared-sensitive snakes ot sense his presence; even if Soren stands right in front of them, he would appear invisible.

  More impressively, he also successfully developed a brand-new bat teique, cleverly iing his invisibility magito his spell-casting process, making the spells released from his wand formless and without distinct features, impossible to trace with the naked eye, let alone defend against. Before this, only one spell could achieve su effect: Severus Snape's unique "Non-Corporeal Curse." Soren, however, incorporate this teique into all spells, which he he "Formless Casting" teique.

  [Invisibility Magivisibile Phantom Charm" Created!]

  [Formless Casting Teique Acquired!]

  In parison to the bountiful achievements of Soren, his brother Draco has been ing his studies, spending nearly every day of the holiday practig Quidditch with Goyle and Crabbe. Sed-year students are eligible to participate in the sele for the school's Quidditch team, and Draco has mentioned more than o home that he is determio join the Slytherin Quidditch team this semester.

  Through his relentless persuasion, Lucius personally iated with Marcus Flint of the Flint family—the Malfoy family would provide each member of the Slytherin Quidditch team with a Nimbus 2001 broom for free, in exge for Marcus Flint ensuring Draco passes the sele.

  The Nimbus series of flying brooms is the most high-end option currently on the market, and eaimbus 2001 costs 130 Galleons. Even for the affluent Malfoy family, purchasing seven Nimbus 2001s in one go stitutes a signifit expense, highlighting just how indulgent Lucius is toward his son.

  Soren has little i in Quidditch; his focus is solely on enhang his own abilities. Only after overing the crisis that Voldemort will bring in the ing years will he sider slowing down to enjoy the beautiful things in life.

  During these two months of summer vacation, his alchemy and charms skills have made signifit progress, and even his bat teiques have beile, varied, and effortless through daily practid improvement.

  As for the regutions in the "Reasonable Restraint on Underage Wizards Act" prohibiting underage wizards from using magic off school grounds? That's fgle families or weaker half-blood families. As an a pure-blood family, the Malfoy Manor is enveloped by powerful protective and shielding spells. As long as they are within the bounds of Malfoy Manor, the Ministry of Magi't track the magical activities of Soren and Draco at all.

  This shows that pure-blood wizards have far more advantages pared to wizards from Muggle families. In the inal story, if Draco didn't waste his time every day on schemes and b games, he wouldn't face the repeated humiliations of defeat in his series of struggles against Harry Potter.

  Speaking of Harry, his summer was incredibly miserable. Throughout July, all his magical items were fiscated by his Muggle retives, so for aire month he was uo access any magic.

  To make matters worse, he tried writiers to his friends to pin or seek help but never received any replies—his letters were intercepted by Dobby, which was Dobby's decision. Soren knew about this but did not intervene.

  These days of misery tinued until Harry's birthday—July 31, when Dobby appeared in his room to give him a nonsensical warning, and using a h spell caused Harry to receive a warnier from the Director of the Department for the Regution and trol of Magical Creatures, Mafalda Hopkik, regarding unauthorised use of magic.

  After being cruelly imprisoned by his Muggle retives for three more days, Harry was finally rescued by Ron and his twin brothers, marking the end of his disastrous summer vacation.

  On August 19, Lucius annouhat he o go to Knockturn Alley in London for some errands and invited Drad Soren to apany him, also to buy the required books for their uping term.

  Knockturn Alley, akin to a Muggle bck market, is adjat to Diagon Alley and is looked down upon by most wizards. This alley is filled with dark magic shops where many kinds of dark magical items be purchased.

  Serious wizards rarely frequent Knockturn Alley, which even harbors several notorious dark wizards, werewolves, and vampires. Aurors from the Ministry of Magic have made multiple attempts to eradicate this blot on the wizarding world, but they have ultimately retury-handed.

  Soren has always held a skeptical attitude toward this; he does not believe the failure to shut down Knockturn Alley is due to the inpetence of the Aurors—the real reason should be the prote offered by certain high-ranking officials in the Ministry of Magic—after all, how many hands in politics be pletely ?

  The entrao Knockturn Alley is right o Diagon Alley. Lucius skillfully led Drad Soren through the crowded streets into Knockturn Alley. Before them y a dirty alley; if Diagon Alley was already crowded, Knockturn Alley appeared even narrower, with strange buildings blog much of the light, creating a rather eerie atmosphere.

  Three shops directly fag the entrance were tightly shut, their dispy windows drawn shut with heavy velvet curtains, and the shop names above the doors were barely legible, indig that they had been abandoned for some time.

  Both sides seemed to be filled with dark magic shops. One shop's window dispyed shrivelled heads, while a rge cage was crawling with massive bck spiders. In a dim doorway, twed wizards were whispering as they stared at them. Lucius cast a disdainful g them; possibly due to the evideures of the Malfoy family, the two wizards shrank back their gazes, tinuing to wait for their prey.

  A shop selling cursed dles had an old wooden sign hanging out front, indig this was Knockturn Alley. After walking a short distance, Soren saw the rgest shop in Knockturn Alley, the crookedly signed "Bin and Burkes."

  It seemed this was their destination, and Lucius stopped, turned around, and pushed open the wooden door of the shop, walking inside. Soren was not pletely unaware of this shop, which held a slight reputation in the dark world of wizards.

  This shop erated by the Bin family, one of the Sacred 28 pure-blood families. Besides selling dark magical items, Bin and Burkes also fun as a pawnshop, and Mr. Bin particurly favored those bizarre and uable dark magical items. Whether a mutually satisfactory deal could be made depended on personal skill.

  Lucius did not waste any words a straight to Mr. Bin, the shopkeeper, to expin his iions—he wao sell some dark magic items from the Malfoy family's colle here. While Lucius and Mr. Biiated the price for each item on a long list of goods, Soren and Draco could only wander around Bin and Burkes, gaining some knowledge.

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