Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 137 Grave
Long passages of text flooded into Mike's mind. These words were neither powerful spells nor unique spellcasting techniques, but Ms. Ravenclaw's understanding of magic.

What is magic?

Mike had also thought about this question in the dead of night.

Originally, he believed that magic power was a mixture of a person's physical and mental strength, that is, the combination of the two gave birth to the magic power that could cast all kinds of magical spells.

This also explains why the magic power of a young wizard will continue to grow rapidly until he reaches adulthood at the age of 17. This is because before the age of 17, a child's body and mind are constantly developing and becoming stronger. Naturally, the magic power based on these two will also continue to grow stronger.

As for the few old wizards like Dumbledore whose bodies have aged but whose magical powers are extremely amazing, it is because they have made their mental power stronger and stronger through continuous practice. The strong mental power not only strengthens their own magic power but also feeds back to their physical strength, delaying the aging of their bodies. This also explains why powerful wizards live longer than ordinary people.

But after accepting Ravenclaw's understanding of magic, Mike discovered that his original understanding of magic was completely wrong. Magic is magic, and it is not a mixture of physical and mental strength at all.

Magic exists in the cells of both Muggles and wizards. The only difference is that the magic in wizards is very active and grows stronger as their bodies and minds grow.

Strictly speaking, wizards are more like the product of a genetic mutation, but this genetic mutation is benign and will bring powerful power to the mutant.

This is one of the reasons why the concept of pure-blood supremacy has been so popular in the past few hundred years, because if this kind of genetic mutant combines with another genetic mutant, there is a high probability that their offspring will also be genetic mutants.

On the contrary, if a genetic mutant combines with a normal person, it is very likely that a normal person who cannot use magic will be born, the so-called dud.

Magic is not a dead thing. It is like a group of naughty children. In addition to using mental power to control them forcibly, if you want to control them freely, you also need to understand them and make friends with them.

Spells, wands and even emotions are tools to control the magic power and release it the way the wizards want. With these tools developed by the predecessors over countless years, people in later generations can manipulate the magic power more conveniently to release spells.

After figuring this out, Mike slowly woke up from the endless darkness. The moment he opened his eyes, a hint of blue flashed in his bright pupils.

Mike had no idea of ​​this and quietly came out of his occluded state, feeling the magic within him.

After gaining Ravenclaw's understanding of magic, Mike discovered that he could actually sense the emotions of the magic in his body.

Those magical powers seemed to have self-awareness, playing and frolicking in every blood vessel of Mike, conveying emotions of joy to him.

Mike tried to use his mental power to send them the emotion of playing together. Unexpectedly, these magic powers seemed to understand what Mike meant. They all gathered around Mike's mental power and rotated around him, very active.

Feeling the active magic around his own mental power, McFly was inspired and unconsciously recited his most familiar spell.

"The flames are blazing."

A dazzling purple flame gushed out from the tip of the blackthorn wood wand, forming a noble and gorgeous purple phoenix in the air.

This phoenix made of purple flames is almost an enlarged version of Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes. It has four purple tail feathers trailing behind it, and the patterns on each feather are clearly visible. It is hard to believe that it is made of flames. The purple phoenix flies and hovers in the air, and makes a cry from time to time.

Listening to the clear chirping sounds, Mike couldn't help but laugh.

These sounds were created by him manipulating the magic power and using the principle of flames heating the air.

His ability to control magic has greatly improved after absorbing Ravenclaw's understanding of magic. It's a pity that what he received was only the understanding of magic, and Mike did not receive the deeper knowledge of how to control magic. Otherwise, Mike would have become a master of spells.

The light of the purple phoenix illuminated the entire night sky, and thanks to it, Mike could also see the environment he was in now.

Behind him was the huge stone door, and the light of the magic lighting stone inside the stone door was faintly visible. Mike was surrounded by lush trees, and occasionally a pair of small eyes with glowing lights flashed through the trees, glancing at the purple phoenix in the sky before disappearing.

A little further in front of Mike was a large lawn. The lawn was very flat and was planted with a variety of beautiful flowers. Mike could smell the rich floral fragrance emanating from there from a long distance away.

In the center of the lawn is a huge stone platform. The platform is made entirely of black stone, and it faintly reflects purple light under the illumination of the purple phoenix in the sky.

Suddenly, Mike felt a tightness in his chest.

Knowing that this was a sign that his magic power was about to run out, Mike quickly dispersed the purple phoenix in the sky and used fluorescent flashing lighting instead.

The phoenix in the sky gave a final melodious cry before it turned into sparks that floated down the sky and disappeared before it hit the ground.

The forest without the purple phoenix returned to its original pitch-black darkness. Only then did Mike realize that the night sky above his head was also pitch black, with no trace of the moon or stars.

Mike suppressed his doubts and came to the black stone platform with the help of the weak fluorescent light. When he got closer, he found that there was another small platform on the platform, which was also made of black stone.

And on this small platform, there was a European-style long sword.

"Sword of Victory and Oath!"

Mike couldn't help but exclaimed the moment he saw the long sword. He was very familiar with the appearance of the long sword. It was the strongest silver sword that almost killed him - the Sword of Victory and Oath!
Mike, who had not activated the brain occlusion technique, could no longer suppress his inner joy. He took two steps at a time and rushed to the side of the European sword.

Looking at the sharp sword without a scabbard, inserted straight into the black stone platform in front of him, Mike became more certain that this was the sword of victory and oath that he had been thinking about day and night. It was also the strongest silver sword that could destroy the crown.

At the same time, Mike also noticed that on the black platform directly below the holy sword, there was a mysterious text engraved with the words that Mike had seen in the meditation method given by the raven statue:

"Rowena Ravenclaw and Geralt of Rivia's tomb."

(End of this chapter)