Chapter 40.

  From the day Sot his wand at Ollivander's, he realized that his wand amplified his ability to cast dark magic.

  He still remembered learning his first jinx, the "Snot Curse," in his first year—this curse was supposed to create effects simir to a severe flu, making the victim sneeze tinuously or causing tears and mucus to flow incessantly. However, Soren mao use it to produ effect that made the subject colpse directly, causing Dobby, the test subject, to faint from excessive mucus.

  Fortunately, Soren had prepared a stimunt; otherwise, Dobby might have been bedridden for days.

  Although naturally suited for learning dark magic, Soren had no iion of being a powerful dark wizard. He studied dark magic books to gain a more prehensive uanding of magic, rather than just learning the biased knowledge that had been harmonized by the Ministry of Magid Dumbledore.

  Soren uood the harm that learning and casting dark magic could do to one's soul.

  Casting dark magic requires malicious i as a foundation, which gives dark magic characteristics simir to addictive substances in the Muggle world. Each time dark magic is cast, it releases the evil and sihoughts within a person's heart, digging up the darkest ers hidden within. Over time, one's personality and soul bee distorted, being increasingly brutal and untrolble.

  This is not Soreending to be virtuous; the importance of the soul to a wizard is on knowledge among all wizards. Ohe soul is corrupted or twisted, it will eventually lead to a day of backsh from dark magic.

  This is also the greatest differeween Grindelwald and Voldemort, the two geions of dark lords.

  Grindelwald used dark magic to reform the wizarding world, striving to achieve his ideals. In his heart, he believed it was just a side, although many is were iably harmed in the process.

  Voldemort, oher hand, used dark magic for his selfish desires; he did not want to be an anonymous person. He wahe whole world to know his name, for which he specifically named himself "Lord Voldemort," pced a name curse on it so that people would not even dare to mention it, and engaged in as like anizing the Death Eaters and creating the Dark Mark, all to create and spread terror for his own fame.

  This led Voldemort to ultimately meet a tragid in the inal story—his soul was too twisted, so time and again he was restrained aed by "Pure Love." There are still many mysterious and unresolved aspects in the magical world, such as love and causality, and Soren does not want to one day inexplicably be restrained by these mysterious forces.Back to the three books of dark magic.

  Among them, "The Fallen Beings" surprisingly records the creation of Dementors and various secrets. Dementors are a type of "Non-Being" that exists in a state between life ah; they do not reproduce but grow like fungi in deg pces. Furthermore, Dementors ot be destroyed by any magid only be repelled by the Patronus Charm.

  You may wonder, since Dementors ot die and ot be destroyed by magic, why have the ever-growing number of Dementors not been able to domihe wizarding world? This is because, although Dementors ot be elimihey be made to perish by creating a special enviro for them. Dementors feed on despairiions, and draining people's happiness is merely a means to create despair. If they are in an enviro where no despairiions be found to replenish their energy, theors will eventually perish.

  The first to discover how to trol Dementors was the dark wizard during the medieval period. The exact time when Raczidian lived is unknown, only that it was before the establishment of the Wizarding cil (the predecessor of the Ministry of Magic). At that time, the wizarding world adhered to the jungle w of the strong prevailing over the weak, allowing him to study and use dark magic openly.

  He discovered the secret of Dementors by d researched a method to produce them in rge quantities—he established a secret chamber in his dark fortress filled with shadows and decay, allowiors to thrive in su enviro.

  He also created a uhod to trol them, enabliors to raid the nearby wizarding vilge. After being blocked by a young man named Elias using the Patronus Charm, he attempted to imitate the other's use of the Patronus Charm, intending to restraiher's Patronus.

  Unfortunately, he did not know that one of the ditions for casting the Patronus Charm is to have a pure heart of prote, and as a result, he was met with backsh of his own spell—his wand summoned a swarm of biting flies that quickly devoured his entire body.

  Soren's greatest gain was the method to trol Dementors; if operated correctly, he would gain a signifit boost.

  In the book "Dark Potions," Soren also found a very useful potion recipe—the Amplifying Potion. The Amplifying Potion is banned iernational magical unity because its required ingredients involve dark creature materials, and the process of taking it carries siderable risk. Aion during the brewing process could lead to the user dying from a magical surge.

  After taking this potion, the body experieemporary disfort, such as warmth, weakness, blood vessel dition, and increased heart rate, requiring a certain endurance for pain. This is because the potion catalyzes the magical potential tained in the blood, intensifying it into usable active magic. If one ehe torment for those few dozen minutes, a signifit increase in magical power be achieved.

  Soren had long entered a bottlene his magical research due to insuffit magical power, and how to enhance his own magic had always been a top priority in his mind.

  It should be hat Soren, who is well-read, o theoretical knowledge of magic, but due to the limitation of his magical power, he is uo use the vast majority of spells. If he could overe the issue of magical power, he would be able to cast many high-energy-ing powerful spells, elevating his strength to another level.

  The brewing of the Amplifying Potion is not particurly difficult; the biggest problem in making it is that all the required ingredients are extremely precious and rare. The rarest and hardest to obtain ingredient in the Amplifying Potion recipe is the venom of a basilisk.

  This raw material is the biggest hurdle for others, but it is not a problem for Soren at all. Soren had already collected a rge amount of various preaterials from the bodies of the basilisk during the Chamber of Secrets battle, and the stock of snake venom is enough for him to brew several bottles of amplifying potions.

  Unfortunately, due to the toxicity tained in the enha potions, each wizard only take otle in their lifetime. This limitation did not surprise Soren, after all, enha potions use the toxicity of snake venom to stimute the magical potential in the bloodline. No matter how successful the brewing is, there will definitely be some toxicity remaining; however, uhe limit of oion's tent, that toxicity is not enough to harm the human body.

  Other materials are also not easy to obtain, among them a type of Illusionary St Grass is cssified as a Css A prohibited trade item. Soren pns to try his lu the bck market of Knockturn Alley, and if that fails, he will have to sider raiding Snape's boratory.

  As for the remaining materials, he has asked Dobby to help him purchase and gather them from various apothecaries.

  Soren made quite a bit of money selling spider venom and basilisk flesh at the end of st semester, yet even so, in order to purchase the materials needed for the enha potions, he spent most of his savings, leaving only 1,000 Galleons for emergencies.

  "The Abattoir Volume One" is the book that surprised Soren the most among the three. The book almost enpasses all magical fields in the magical world, c areas such as spell theory, magic meics, transfiguration, curse theory, barrier theory, curses, mental magid soul magifortunately, this book was divided i volumes due to a great war in the Middle Ages, scattering them far and wide.

  The copy Soren holds only be sidered one of the fragments of the eight volumes, and most of its tent revolves aroual magic. From this, it be inferred that the third-geion aor of the Malfoy family, Armand II Malfoy, must have obtaihis book by d gained inspiration from it to create the family's signature spells, as many of the mental spells Soren learned from the Malfoy family spells be found in this book.

  Although this book ot teach Soren any spells or enhance his power in the short term, it allows him to gain a deeper and more solid uanding of the essenental magic theory. In the long run, this is more valuable than learning a new spell.

  Furthermore, Soren also took out the Malfoy family's secret spells for further study. Indeed, after reading "The Abattoir Volume One," his uanding of the family spells increased a level, and he successfully discovered the true iance of the Malfoy family—mental magic.

  Armand II Malfoy was a natural mind master and an expert ial magic. His naturally powerful mental strength merged into his bloodlier his death, passing on to his desdants. This expins why Soren, who activated his bloodline power, easily learn profoual magic.

  The Malfoy family spells include many a and unheard-of mental spells, many of which fall uhe category of dark magid are sidered forbidden spells, powerful enough to be pared to one of the three Unfivable Curses.

  For example, the legilimency, the fusion Spell, the obliviate spell, the Hypnosis Spell, the Memory Manipution Spell, the Gaze of Fear... Just hearing the names of these spells makes one feel an overwhelming sense of evil and terror.

  This iably makes Soren curious as to why such powerful spells have never appeared in the inal story's Malfoy family, and how the Malfoy family, possessing such a strong iaill o humbly submit to Voldemort. Soren only specute that perhaps the loss of bloodline power has led the desdants of the Malfoy family to increasingly rely on schemes and pce importan politid business, thereby ing the ianagic.

  Such examples are not uo the Malfoy family. As far as Soren knows, the great Slytherin truly mastered snake nguage spells that rely on the pronunciation of Parseltongue. Without the ied talent for Parseltongue from Slytherin's bloodline, one ot learn them. After the dee of Slytherin's bloodlihe magic of Parseltongue was also lost.

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