HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

Three days later on the island.

Teach Carl remained unconscious for three days, while Shake remained kneeling motionless for the same period. Before Teach woke up, the aftermath on the island had already been handled by Andrei and the others.

After Yeva's search and confirmation, no other life forms survived on the island besides them and the ordinary black dragons they brought.

According to statistics, Marcus, along with the wizards in the McFastie family, killed more than 3000 people on the island.

According to statistics, more than 1000 black dragons, regardless of size, were drained and killed by Marcus and turned into blood corpse dragons.

Fortunately, Marcus doesn't eat eggs and didn't touch the dragon eggs.

With these 54 black dragon eggs, the complete human-dragon experiment can continue, allowing the Karl family to become a true dragon witch family.

Teach slowly woke up in Xia Ke's arms. His heterochromatic eyes, one gold and one black, looked up at Xia Ke, whose hair was hanging down and who was watching him. He said a warm thank you.

The first thing Teach did upon waking was to ask if the McFastie family's experimental data had been destroyed by the flames spreading from the dragon's breath. Upon learning that it had not, he breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Although Teach deduced the process and conditions of McFastie's dragon experiment based on fragmented information and advanced Shake, who failed in the experiment, to the 'dragon' level, the exact premise of the 'dragon' experiment is still unclear. Therefore, it is very necessary to use the knowledge of magic to sort it out by referring to the relevant information.

Upon entering a well-preserved castle, Teach gasped as he looked at the mountain of experimental data and documents that the Sibyl sisters had organized.

But after calming myself down, I patiently flipped through the books one by one.

While reviewing the information, Teach would make separate notes of important details and then call Andrei and others to ask them about the relevant details in the early stages of the experimental culture.

Tichy's study of the experimental data documents continued until dusk.

As night fell, Teach suddenly felt the dormant bat blood poison within his body begin to stir. Startled, Teach quickly suppressed it. After a struggle between the two, the blood poison was enveloped in his heart by life magic and calmed down: [It seems that until I find a way to eliminate it, I have to suppress and guard against it every night.]

When the blood poison was suppressed, Xia Ke, who had been standing outside the door, said, "Master, it's time for dinner."

"Xia Ke~, I'm not used to being called Master, could you change it?"

"Okay, master."

Hearing that Xia Ke hadn't changed how she addressed him, Teach had no choice but to give up. After tidying up the messy files around him, he left the database.

In the hall, a 20-meter-long dining table was displayed in front of Teach.

The long table was laden with luxurious and abundant food, and the atmosphere was enhanced by candlelight, making the scene resemble a banquet.

When Andri and the other three men in their seats saw Teach, the head of the family, arrive, they all stood up to greet him.

Teach tilted his head, clearly disliking these medieval aristocratic rules. After waving for Andrei and the other three to sit down, he gently tapped the long table with his finger, and the matter conversion alchemy array transformed the long table into a 2-meter-long round table.

After sitting down, Teach said to everyone, "Although I am the head of the family, and our Karl family is a noble family with hundreds of years of history, I don't like rigid rules, so... when the family eats together, there's no need to be so distant."

After saying that, Teach instructed Shake: "Shake, cut and tear down the ceiling of this hall. Since we are family, your dragon mounts, which are like relatives to you, will also be seated here."

Upon hearing the command, Xia Ke smiled and controlled the natural magic to gather and cut, then unleashed a fiery dragon breath that burned the roof to ashes.

Xia Ke's masterful control over the raging fire ensured that not a single speck of dust from the burning fire fell onto the food on the round table.

As Andrei and the others called out in their hearts, four dragons flew out of the valley.

At the banquet between humans and dragons, Teach casually asked Shake, "Shake, what's the date today?"

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.

Meanwhile, in Granger's two-story house, there was also a warm candlelight.

Corey Bab arrived early at noon to celebrate Hermione's birthday, bringing gifts from him and Maggie.

In the candlelight of her birthday celebration that night, the Grangers and Corey sat at the small dining table, watching Hermione blow out the candles from the cake, then close her eyes and make a wish.

Of all the wishes that no one knew, Hermione asked for nothing. The only thing she wanted most was for her teacher, Teach Cal, to arrive as promised.

After making her wish and blowing out the candles, Hermione's smile held a hint of melancholy.

Hermione was very understanding and didn't show her disappointment; she knew...

Her birthday was not only a joy for herself, but also for those celebrating with her. Therefore, she would not let her sadness affect the happy mood of Uncle Corey and her parents.

After finishing the cake, the family sat on the sofa in the living room, happily watching TV.

Corey Bab didn't leave at this point; he wanted to stay with Hermione until Teach appeared.

Corey could see the emotions hidden in Hermione's smile, which made him curse Teach inwardly: [You little brat, how dare you make Hermione sad? I'll make you pay when you get here!]

As I watched TV, it was already 10 p.m.

As time ticked by, Hermione's sense of loss grew stronger, and she held back her red eyes, trying not to let the tears fall uncontrollably.

The Grangers were so engrossed in the captivating storyline of the TV series that they failed to notice their daughter's emotional state.

Seeing this, Corey took out a tissue and quietly wiped Hermione's stubborn yet fragile eyes.

'Thump thump thump thump~~~'

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

The knocking made Hermione jump up and run to the door like a madwoman, then flung it open: "Teacher, you're finally here..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was abruptly stopped by something at the door.

The owl, 'Hydway,' stood at the door with a letter in its beak and a birthday present in its paws. It then stuffed everything Harry Potter had entrusted to it into Hermione's arms, whose eyes had lost their luster.

Corey gently patted Hermione's head to offer silent comfort, then opened the birthday greeting letter from Harry Potter for her and read aloud, "Hermione, happy birthday..."

After reading it aloud, Corey opened the gift box, inside which was a book of magical knowledge.

Hermione hugged the gift Harry had given her tightly, then forced a smile and returned to the sofa to watch TV with her parents.

A short while later, the knocking on the door started again.

This knock was very different, making Hermione both expectant and nervous as she arrived at the door.

Finally, after mustering her courage, Hermione quickly opened the door. In an instant, the immense anticipation and anxiety in her heart plummeted to the bottom of an abyss.

It turned out to be Ron's clumsy owl, who had also come to deliver a birthday present to Hermione.

At 11:30 p.m., the TV series ended, and the Grangers sternly ordered Hermione to go upstairs to bed immediately, as children's sleep is an important matter of concern for parents.

At this point, Corey left despite the Grangers' warm invitation to stay.

But Corey didn't actually leave. Instead, he used Blink to hide on a rooftop where he could see directly into Hermione's window.

Thinking that if Teach forgot the time and didn't show up, he would take out the gift he had prepared and lie to Hermione, saying that it was Teach who had asked him to do it: [That wretched little Teach, he always makes his uncle clean up after him].

Hermione lay in bed, looking at the clock on the wall, watching the hour hand reach the 12 o'clock position.

At this moment, Hermione finally couldn't hold back her emotions any longer. She covered herself tightly with the blanket and cried out in heartbreak, trying to hide it from everyone.

'Da da da da~~~'

The sound is the sound of a glass window being knocked on.

The sound made Hermione, who was exhausted from crying, turn over in bed. There she saw... her teacher squatting outside the window, waving and greeting her with an apologetic smile.