HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

The McFastie family's laboratory is a hollowed-out valley, with a huge space and enormous equipment inside.

The most eye-catching feature is the ten transparent stone pillars that stand outside the magic array.

Although it is called a stone pillar, it is actually more accurate to describe it as a glass test tube.

Hidden in the shadows of the laboratory, Silver-haired Teach used his petrifying magic eye to see that the 20-meter-high, 1-meter-wide glass test tube was filled with natural magic power stored and injected by wizards.

The experiment officially began when the scientific wizard filled the last glass test tube with the last bit of magic.

The scientific wizards stood at different corners of the alchemy circle, then took out their wands and carefully poured magic into the circle, slowly preheating it and gradually activating it.

While the other wizards were at work, the research elder entered the magic circle and came to Xia Ke and the struggling young dragon, inserting several IV tubes with needles into their brains, hearts, organs, and limbs respectively.

Then, he dipped his finger into the pure black dragon blood in the bowl and used magical runes to write on Shake and the young dragon.

During this time, he chuckled and explained to Xia Ke, who was filled with fear, "Miss Xia Ke, you are honored. You are special. I have never done an experiment with 20-year-old half-blood wizard material before."

"Since you are past the optimal age for experimentation (18 years old), and your dragon has only just hatched, I need to supplement this part with adult black dragon blood mixed with magic."

"What makes you special is that between you and your young dragon, your wizarding power and life force dominate, unlike the energy balance between ordinary material wizards and their young dragons."

"I have a feeling that using you as an experiment will yield different results."

After the veteran of the research clan finished writing the Dragonblood Rune script, he took out his magic wand and cast a spell on Xia Ke and the young dragon: "Human-Dragon Unity".

As the spell was unleashed, Runeven invaded the bodies of Shake and the young dragon.

Suddenly... a hint of ferocious bestiality appeared in Xia Ke's eyes, while a hint of intelligent humanity appeared in the young dragon's chaotic eyes.

Finally, the elder of the research clan cast the incantation once more: "Blood returns to its source."

Fresh blood flowed from the IV tubes inserted into various parts of Xia Ke and Youlong's bodies. The two types of hot blood collided, converged, and merged, then flowed into their bodies as one, indistinguishable hot blood.

At this moment, the bestiality and the young dragon's humanity in Xia Ke's eyes, through a process of diminishing one and increasing the other, ultimately reached a balance of wisdom.

After careful observation, the elder of the research clan nodded in satisfaction, put away his wand, and left the magic circle. Then, seeing that the magic circle had been preheated and activated by natural magic, he waved his hand and said, "Let's begin!"

"Yes, Elder xN."

The research wizard standing beside the magic circle drew his wand and inserted it into the ten huge magical energy storage glass test tubes, beginning to continuously absorb the magical energy inside and then transferring it into the magic circle through his body.

A wizard's body is a filter; although it can use unlimited natural magic, it cannot release unlimited magic flowing into its body.

Natural magic is like the seawater on Earth, and the wizard is like a small household faucet that acts as a filter.

Turn on the tap, and the magic will flow out continuously, but the amount is always limited to the flow rate of one tap.

The magic power in the ten giant test tubes visibly decreased, while the light from the magic array gradually became brighter and more dazzling.

Once the magic power within the magic circle reached the required level, the elder of the research clan commanded all the wizards present: "Everyone, follow me and wave your wands, then recite the incantation—Holy Dragon Divine Incantation."

"Holy Dragon Divine Mantra xN".

With the combined spells of dozens of wizards, Xia Ke and the young dragon let out a soul-wrenching scream within the alchemy circle.

From the shadows, the silver-haired Teach watched everything intently with his petrifying demonic eyes, observing the changes in the person and the dragon within the magic circle.

As Xia Ke's flesh and blood and the young dragon's flesh and blood were partially melted and decomposed, they flowed into the connected infusion tubes and began to pull and struggle to break free.

Both want to grab the other, drag its flesh into their own bodies, and then devour and absorb it.

In the long struggle of devouring and pulling, the young dragons gradually lost their strength and were eventually pulled into the IV tube by Xia Ke, whereupon the human and the dragons merged into one.

At that moment, the elder of the research clan urgently ordered: "Quickly, now! Quickly wave your wands and inject all the magic power in the alchemy array into the experimental subject's body."

As the surging natural magic was infused into her, Xia Ke's body began to change.

Suddenly, her pupils turned into vertical pupils, and her eyes became blood-red mutated dragon eyes.

Immediately afterwards, black and red bone spurs emerged from Xia Ke's fair and smooth face. At this moment, Xia Ke's entire head began to change, transforming into the shape of a dragon's head.

Then, Xia Ke's body began to swell, her clothes were torn, and dragon scales appeared on her skin.

The hands and feet transformed into the dragon's limbs, and the human-derived tailbone began to grow wildly, resulting in a thick dragon tail.

Finally, when the transformation was complete, Xia Ke transformed into a 15-meter-long mutated black dragon in his youth form.

Seeing this result, the elder of the research clan gritted his teeth in resentment, waved his wand at Xia Ke, who was in the form of a dragon, to imprison and bind her. After observing her, he shook his head at the assembled research wizards and announced, "...Failure. As always, a complete and utter failure."

"After the experimental subject successfully inhaled the young dragon, and under the enhancement and fusion of our immense magical power, the final result was that it did not retain a perfect human body, nor even exhibit any dragonification phenomena; it was completely transformed into a mutated dragon."

"But... in the failure, there was also a success, which is that it retrieved the human wisdom that had flowed into the young dragon's body."

With that, the elder of the research clan ordered, "Record all the experimental data and information from this experiment word for word. This mutated intelligent dragon before us will be another branch of our research on failed experiments."

Having said that, the elder of the research clan raised his magic wand, preparing to cast a forgetting spell on Xia Kelong under the intensely hateful and angry gaze of his dragon eyes, and then set up other spells to control him.

Seeing this, the silver-haired Teach, hidden in the shadows, took out a sniper rifle he had trained, but just as he was about to pull the trigger for a fatal shot, a piercing warning sound suddenly rang out in the laboratory.

[Fuck, this damn magic alarm can actually detect someone's murderous intent.]

As the alarm sounded, the research wizards in the laboratory tensed up instantly and quickly sought cover to protect themselves.

'Completely crushed to pieces'.

The elder of the research clan unleashed an attack spell, aiming precisely at the shadowy spot where the silver-haired Teach was hiding.

Having been exposed, the silver-haired Teach dodged the Shattering Curse and appeared in the bright spot of the experiment. Ignoring the attack spells sent by the wizards, he quickly rushed toward the wizard who was recording the experimental data while using his Mystic Code to block them all.

"You damned thief, don't even think about it..."

The elder of the research clan saw through the silver-haired Teach's intentions at a glance. After angrily rebuking him, he hurriedly waved his wand and cast multiple binding and blocking spells. However, Teach was wearing the Crimson Protector, a magical costume, and was unstoppable in the laboratory, as if it were empty.

The research wizard who was recording data was grabbed by the silver-haired Teach and then knocked unconscious.

With no one able to stop him, the silver-haired Teach used teleportation magic to appear beside Shake, who had transformed into a dragon, and then used his grappling hook dagger to break the magical restraint on Shake.

Finally, in less than half a second, Teach drew a teleportation array on the ground.

The research elder stared in disbelief as the silver-haired Teach drew the alchemy circle. His eyes widened, and he urgently ordered the wizard closest to Teach, "Quick, quick... kill her!"

"No~ Grab him quickly, we absolutely can't let her get away, we absolutely can't."

But, it's too late.

In a burst of light, the silver-haired Teach, along with Shakelon and the captured recording wizard, disappeared into the teleportation array.

Before the glow of the completed array could dissipate, the research elder, like a madman, pushed aside the foolish wizard blocking his way, knelt down in front of the teleportation array, and began to frantically search it, trying to find the entrance where the silver-haired Teach had disappeared in the array. He even used a spell to reveal himself.

But under the manifestation spell, what appeared were more than 40 transmuted grenades and explosive packages weighing in tons.

That evening...

Everyone on the island, whether pure-blood wizards, half-blood wizards, or Muggles, heard the deafening explosion.