HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Teach Carr opened the door, revealing a fully furnished four-bedroom, two-living-room house.

After checking the room one by one with a magic circle and finding no magical surveillance, Teach felt relieved and began to cook.

In the evening, Xia Ke returned looking haggard, as if she had lost too much blood, and she was holding a dragon egg in her arms.

Although there was no magical surveillance in the room, Teach didn't want to lose more than he gained, so he immediately went over and affectionately helped Xia Ke to bed to rest. Then he thoughtfully brought her a blood-nourishing soup made from medicinal herbs and fed it to her spoonful by spoonful.

With blurry eyes, Xia Ke watched as Titch pulled her into his arms, then blew on the hot soup with the air conditioner, and finally fed it to her with utmost care.

The blood-nourishing soup was a little bitter, but Xia Ke found it very sweet at that moment.

After finishing the blood-nourishing soup, Titch didn't stop. He went to the kitchen to bring the food to the bedside and continued feeding the child.

The warmth, thoughtfulness, and sense of reliance that Teach provided were things that Xia Ke had never experienced before. Although Xia Ke knew it was fake, she was still infatuated with it and enjoyed it.

......

Inside the sealed coffin, as Xia Ke's happiness flowed in, a command came from within: "No need to monitor them anymore, they're fine."

As the order was given, a thousand meters away from Teach and Shake's residence, a wizard named MacFastie put away his wand, lowered his telescope, and silently disappeared into the darkness.

......

After feeding Xia Ke, Titch laid her down comfortably and picked up the dragon egg to examine it. Then he asked, "Is this a black dragon egg? The one you had back then?"

"Yes, I never expected that the family would store this dragon egg away, waiting for me to return to continue the experiment."

"How much blood did you bleed tonight?"

"Five hundred milliliters. I will water it every three days from now on, using the heat from the blood to incubate it."

After listening, Teach stared at the bloody dragon egg for a while before slitting his wrist and pouring his own blood onto it.

Blood was flowing down, which prompted Titch to look questioningly at Xia Ke in the bedding.

Xia Ke explained, "The dragon egg was refined by the family using some kind of magic, making it only react to the first blood. In other words, this dragon egg has already established a connection with me, and it only accepts my blood."

Teach suppressed his urge to open the dragon egg and examine it, and then asked again, "How long will it take for this dragon egg to hatch?"

"No more, no less, exactly one month, because I watered it back then, so the hatching time will be much shorter... And the day the dragon egg hatches will be when I turn 20."

Seeing that Teach still had doubts, Shake continued to explain: "When the child is 5 years old, a black dragon mark is drawn on him. Within one to two years, he eats the flesh and blood of a black dragon to complete the transformation of his blood. Then, when he is 7 or 8 years old, he will be given a dragon egg."

"The young dragons are hatched, and those hatched and nurtured with blood will develop a sense of affinity for the person who hatched them. After raising the dragons to adulthood, the children reach the age of 18."

"This stage was when the McFastie family took the children and dragons away for experiments."

"18 is the best age for the experiment, and 20 is the latest. So, I, who was protected by my mother with her life, will be directly put into the experiment along with the baby dragon in a month."

Seeing Xia Ke's despair, Teach tossed the dragon egg in his hand and comforted her, "Don't look so hopeless in front of me. I've taken on your hatred, you're mine now, so how could I let you go to your death?"

"Don't worry, I'll step in when it counts."

"Now, turn off the lights and go to sleep!" Teach Carl tossed the dragon egg aside, then pulled back the blanket covering Shake and lay down beside her.

Nothing more was said that night...

Xia Ke couldn't sleep at all, smelling Teach's scent and feeling Teach's body temperature.

In contrast, Teach slept soundly.

......

The next morning, Teach got up, prepared a light breakfast in the kitchen, kept it warm for Shake, and then went out.

Following the address on the job recommendation letter, I wandered around until I arrived at a small forest.

The wizard outside the cabin took the letter, glanced at it, and then explained the job to Teach: "Your job in this forest is to take good care of the young black dragons inside."

"You feed the baby dragons once a day at a fixed location, and then observe and record their health. Once you've done these two things, you can go home."

"It's normal for the Little Dragons to have internal conflicts, resulting in minor injuries and disabilities. You don't need to worry about being punished. But if the Little Dragons start fighting to the death, you need to stop them, separate them, or arrest and imprison them."

"You don't need to worry about your safety. The little black dragons here have been specially bred by the junior wizards in the family academy. Their temperament is not as irritable and ferocious as rumored. They will not harm people without their master's permission."

After explaining the work instructions to Teach, the wizard left the small forest.

Teach stood outside the cabin, his eyes scanning his surroundings, his mind habitually racing: [Master? Every black dragon has a master?]

[A fire dragon that cannot be tamed in the outside world is actually being ridden by the McFastie family here!]

[What method was used? Were they incubated by watering the dragon eggs with blood?]

Teach already knew this method was used on experimental subjects like Shake, so what method did the pure-blood wizards of the MacFastie family use to tame the black dragon?

With questions in mind, Teach entered the cabin, then picked up a bucket of beef and mutton and headed towards the feeding point for the baby dragons.

On the way, Teach saw in the distance a young black dragon that had just been born and could fly and breathe fire, but these little black dragons were different from the wild black dragon cubs he had seen on Islay.

It's not pure black, but a dark reddish-black.

His eyes weren't pure purple, but rather blood-red sclera and black vertical pupils.

It is clear that these black dragons mutated under the MacFastie family's experiments.

Even the young dragons have such obvious mutations, so Teach wondered what the adult black dragon would look like. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and a smile involuntarily spread across his face.

Teach placed the meat at the feeding point, then stepped aside and began to record each flying baby dragon in his notebook. After recording all fifteen baby dragons, Teach went home.

It's not even afternoon yet: [Just as the wizard who was supposed to help said, the work is easy and the pay is good].

When Teach got home, he happened to see Shake eating breakfast.

After a night, thanks to the effects of the blood-nourishing soup, Xia Ke's complexion improved significantly.

After dinner, Teach took Shake's hand and led her out for a stroll to learn about the lives of Muggle men who had married into the family on the island.

Wizards live for two hundred years, while ordinary people live for an average of seventy or eighty years.

With a lifespan difference of 1.5 times, Teach couldn't believe that a Muggle and a wizard could be happy together unless the Muggle was given a potion that would extend his lifespan.