HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

As the magical energy dissipated, the transmutation circle drawn on Silver-haired Teach's feet activated, and after leaping into the air, it stopped on a floating transmutation circle plate.

Andri and the other three followed suit, flying into the sky instead of approaching, and looking down at Xia Ke's situation inside the giant egg.

Xia Ke was seen standing naked in the glow of the broken eggshell.

Her fair and flawless body was frequently covered with dragon scales, but Xia Ke suppressed them with her own willpower.

Silver-haired Teach understood clearly: the human-dragon formation had been successfully completed. At this moment, Xia Ke was trying her best to control her body, which was now surging with power and at risk of going out of control.

Despite her efforts to control it, Xia Ke's consciousness was outmaneuvered by her body.

Her slender hands and feet were covered in uncontrollable deep red scales, and then her limbs transformed into complete dragon feet.

The changes in her body that were hard to suppress were not yet over. Xia Ke's spine and coccyx began to grow longer and longer, and finally a dragon tail appeared.

After these changes, her eyes turned into purple dragon eyes, and her teeth became sharp.

This appearance is simply a beautiful 'dragon girl' form.

Silver-haired Teach looked at Xia Ke's current state from mid-air, frowning deeply. If Xia Ke's body continued to spiral out of control, she might revert to her dragon form.

Fortunately, the situation did not spiral out of control in the following period.

At this moment, Xia Ke's consciousness gradually regained control of her body, and the dragon girl transformation began to be withdrawn from her body. In the process of gradual erosion, the dragon transformation completely disappeared, and Xia Ke returned to her human body.

Silver-haired Teach jumped down from the floating formation, picked up a piece of eggshell, and fashioned it into a garment. He draped it over Xia Ke's smooth body and said with satisfaction, "Xia Ke~, very good, you did very well."

"From this moment on, you will become a completely new you."

"You are incredibly powerful, you are unique."

While Xia Ke was still conscious despite her deep exhaustion, Teach solemnly asked, "Xia Ke, would you like to join my family?"

"Would you be willing to give up the surname McFastie and change it to Carl?"

"Would you accept the name Shake Karl?"

With Teach's approval, Shake, exhausted, collapsed into the arms of the silver-haired Teach and whispered, "I didn't want the surname McFastie for a long time."

"Although my mother's last name is McFastie, I think... she also hated being born into the McFastie family."

"So, Master, please call me Shake Karl from now on."

After saying that, Xia Ke fell asleep with a smile on her lips.

Teach gently picked up Shake, who was recovering her strength and energy while she was fast asleep, and then collected some broken eggshells to make a soft bed so that Shake could have a good sleep on it.

After covering Xia Ke with the blanket, the silver-haired Teach turned around, then glanced at Andri and the others, each with their own thoughts, and said, "I know what you're thinking. Do you want to become perfect human-dragons like Xia Ke?"

Judging from the expressions of Andrei and the other three, the meaning was self-evident.

But to their surprise, Teach shook his head: "Andriy, I ask you, how many years have you been a dragon-armed dragonman?"

"In 231, my sister Anmoli transformed into a dragon at the same time as me."

"And Yeva, where are you?"

"Uh... let me think, it should be close to 200 years ago."

Upon hearing this answer, the silver-haired Teach nodded and said, "120 years for Xibilan, 101 years for Qiluoluo, and the time it took for your failed experiments to turn you into dragons was all over a hundred years."

"Over a century, the meridians and magical energy pathways within you have long been established, and this is not something I can change simply by wishing to alter them for you."

"Therefore, I can only make adjustments to your bodies gradually to meet your desires."

Teach's words... are false.

The analytical training array for decomposition and recombination can completely decompose the malformed meridians in the bodies of Andri and the other three, and then conduct experiments to correctly recombine them, turning them into 'human dragons' like Xia Ke.

But Teach wouldn't do much. Just drawing a human-dragon formation would consume 3 years of his lifespan. 4 humans and 4 dragons would take 24 years of his lifespan. 24 years! Just thinking about such a long lifespan is impossible.

Leaving aside the lifespans they sacrificed, just consider the loyalty of Andri and his three companions.

Teach Carl wouldn't trust the loyalty of someone who had only been with the Carl family for less than a day, so he'd leave the question of loyalty to time. He wouldn't draw up the Human-Dragon Training Formation for them until Teach had completely approved of them.

After explaining the 'situation', the silver-haired Teach comforted the four, saying, "Don't be so disappointed. With my gradual treatment, you will eventually be able to become dragons."

"Anyway, in your lifespan of hundreds or thousands of years, this little bit of time is nothing to worry about, right?"

That's what they say, but with Xia Ke as the perfect human-dragon, it's impossible for Silver-haired Teach to do nothing.

So Teach pulled up the adorable Kiraro's dragon arm and drew an extremely complicated 'Return to Origin Formation Array'. Half an hour later, the array was completed. After injecting a strand of life magic into it to activate it, Teach said, "Kiraro, try to control this dragon arm of yours, and control it in the direction of your original human arm."

Under the unwavering gaze of Andri, Yeva, and Anbilan, the scales on Qiluoluolong's arm began to close, then began to shrink and become smaller, finally disappearing beneath the skin.

Looking at her smooth, unblemished arm, Qi Luoluo burst into tears in disbelief.

Silver-haired Teach chuckled, reached out to wipe away her tears, and teased, "You're over 100 years old, why do you cry so much?"

An Bilan stepped forward, picked up her sister Qi Luoluo's arm, looked at it from all angles, and after confirming that it had really turned back into a human arm, she also raised her dragon arm in front of Titch and said arrogantly, "Um... help me turn back into a human arm too."

In describing Amblin, Teach explained, "Your arms that have turned back into human arms are just an external change, so don't worry about losing your power. You can control them with your mind at any time during battle and turn them back into dragon arms."

After Silver-haired Teach used the training array to restore the dragon arms of the four people to their original state, he began to discuss things by Shake Karl's sleeping bedside.

The topic of discussion was how to fulfill the request of Andrei and the other three to destroy the McFastie family.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

On the island of the McFastie family.

In the castle at the highest point.

In the dark room, with a creaking sound, the coffin, which had been sealed for hundreds of years, was opened from the inside.

A pair of withered, bone-deep hands emerged from the coffin, followed by a pair of blood-red pupils opening in the darkness.

Immediately, all the pure-blood wizards MacFastie remaining in the various castles felt a fear and tremor that came from their bloodline.