บท 75: Little Trouble
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One thing that has been plaguing Edward for quite some time now was the Limiter. According to his calculation, his Life Code Modification should have allowed him to break two Limiters at once, but it did not. After realizing that something was wrong, he experimented and discovered a mysterious power similar to Death's Law Power on the Deathly Hallows that prevented the modification from breaking two Limiters at once.
Then, something caught Edward's attention regarding this matter from Nicolas Flamel's memories. After the Great Alchemist used his Philosopher's Stone to break his First Limiter, he could not break the second one despite having other methods--for example, the practice method that Dumbledore mentioned to Edward during their conversation in his office.
According to the memories Edward acquired, Nicolas Flamel soon noticed the side effects on the stone, so he did not want his wife to break the Limiter using the same method as him. So, he spent years developing a method of slowly practicing to break the First Limiter; by treating the magic core as a muscle, through guided training of destruction and reconstruction, the Limiter could be removed.
Eventually, Perenelle Flamel used that method to break that Limiter, and Nicolas even taught Dumbledore this method. Although Edward does not know whether the headmaster used this method to break the Limiter or another one.
Back to the topic, after inventing this method, Nicolas Flamel thought that he could use this method to break the second Limiter, but he failed. The Great Alchemist spent many years trying to find the reason for this failure, but it was to no avail.
However, another person managed to break the Second Limiter, his wife Perenelle. In her youth, she was also an ambitious witch. With the desire to stand on the same height as powerful wizards like Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, she went against her husband's decision and warning and used the Philosopher's Stone to break the Second Limiter.
As such, Perenelle Flamel became one of the few wizards throughout history that broke the Second Limiter. Unfortunately for her, she soon suffered the same fate as her husband; the resentments of the soul inside the Philosopher's Stone affected her magical powers. By the time she was 300 years old, she was reduced to being able to only use magic power 25 times the adult wizard--which is the standard before breaking the First Limiter. In the current time, she was reduced to an above-average wizard.
After summarizing this knowledge about Limiter, Edward first spent some time creating a potion that can break the Limiter with the help of Snape.
After that, he experimented with a different combination of breaking the Limiter on different dark wizards. He had some of them use the [Practice Method], then the [Potion Method], [Body Modification Method], finally, [the Stone Method].
He focused on trying different combinations of methods.
Since the [Practice Method] took time, Edward had to use the temporal power of his World Gate and send these experimental subjects back in time while controlling them to spend years constantly practicing until they broke the Limiter.
Using this method of experimenting, Edward was even able to create a wizard who broke all Three Limiters--reaching the realm of legendary wizards like Merlin and Morgana. Of course, these experimental wizards only had a massive amount of magic power after breaking the Limiters.
Just like Dumbledore said to him, having a large amount of magic power meant nothing if you do not know how to use them. A person that did not break the Limiter could easily beat someone who broke all Three Limiters if he or she was skilled enough with magic or spells.
Nevertheless, these experimental wizards did not live long as Edward did not allow such powerful and unstable people to stay in this world. As a matter of fact, these people would not live long even without Edward's interference.
Breaking the Limiters only allowed a wizard's magic power to grow on their own until they reach a certain level; it did not increase the magic powers of the wizard itself.
An example was that with Edward's natural talent, he should have touched the threshold of the First Limiter in his early 20's, which is very fast considering that Grindelwald's only reached that threshold in his early 30's. Most wizards do not even have the talent to reach that threshold in their entire life, while some can only reach it in their later years of life.
Using potions, Edward quickened the process of his magic power, so he reached the standard when he was 17 years old. After breaking the First Limiter, he also used a potion to have his magic power rapidly increase from 25 times of an adult wizard to 50 times--which is the threshold for the Second Limiter. Of course, he made sure that there were no side effects.
So, the wizards used in his experiments were forced to have their magic powers increase in a very rude way that focused on efficiency instead of stability. So, even the ones that broke all Three Limiters were very unstable and their bodies were on the verge of collapsing.
Nevertheless, Edward acquired a great deal of information regarding these Limiters.
For once, each Limiter required one different method to break it, meaning if a wizard used the [Body Modification Method] to break one Limiter, he could not use it to break any of the other Limiters.
Second, in theory, any of the methods could be used to break any of the Three Limiters. For example, a person could, in theory, use the [Practice Method] to break the Third Limiter.
Finally, and more importantly, a more powerful method is required to break the higher Limiters. For example, if someone used the [Body Modification Method], then that person cannot use the [Practice or Potion Method] to break the Second and Third Limiter.
However, if that person used the [Practice Method] to break the First Limiter, he or she could use the [Potion Method] to break the Second Limiter, then the [Body Modification to break the Third Limiter.
As in Edward's case, since he used the [Body Modification Method] to break the First Limiter, then he cannot use both the [Practice and Potion Method] to break the Second Limiter; he could only use the [Philosopher's Stone.
However, Edward knew that the [Stone Method] was the most powerful method that he currently possessed, so he was reserving it to break the Third and final Limiter. So, he needed another method to break the Second Limiter that was more powerful than Body Modification, but less powerful than the Stone.
'Should I try Grindelwald's method of using one of the Deathly Hallows? No, that method relies on the Power of Law of the Deathly Hallows, and I do not trust Death not to leave any backhand on these Hallows,' thought Edward to himself.
Then he started walking back and forth. "Then, I can only use that project to break the Second Limiter, then the Philosopher's Stone to break the Last One," muttered Edward.
"*Sigh* I would not have to go through all this trouble if my plan to replace the magic core with a Philosopher's Stone succeeded. Anyways, I should not be in too much of a hurry. According to my research, the Third Limiter or 100 times the magic power of an adult wizard is the highest level allowed in this Harry Potter Universe.
"However, if I can find a way to replace the Philosopher's Stone with my magic core, then I should be able to bypass this Law."
After thinking about this, Edward prepared to go do his research, then he suddenly remembered that his aunt mentioned days ago a little trouble that needed his help to resolve. However, he was so engrossed in his research that he forgot, and she did not want to bother him, so he did not even mention it during their recent talk.
After sighing deeply, Edward took a proper shower, dressed nicely before apparating back to Earth to deal with things properly.
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Next Chapter Title: The New Lord
บท 76: The New Lord
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Edward was standing in front of a manor waiting for someone. Fortunately, he did not have to wait long. After a few seconds of his arrival, another person apparated in front of him.
"Severus, how are things going?" asked Edward with a smile on his face.
"Everything is fine," replied Severus Snape with a look of suspicion on his face as he wondered what had gotten into Edwards today.
"What about the clones?"
"A month ago, I finally created a potion that stabilized their DNA. The muggle scientists were fascinated by this and claimed that they can develop new cloning technology by studying these clones. According to them, it won't be long before they could develop the technology to create perfect clones without any problem.
"Nevertheless, I still discover a problem."
"Oh, can you be more specific?" asked Edward with intrigue.
"I discovered that these clones have developed a brand new soul of their own."
"How intriguing. I will check it out when I have time, however, you do not need to worry as I can still remove these souls from their bodies when the time arrives."
Snape nodded his head before continuing: " I understand. So, why did you call me here?" He did not believe for a moment that Edward just called him to chat or ask about the state of the clones; he could just stop by the laboratory to check the result.
Edward did not immediately answer him, but walked next to the young potion master, patted his shoulder before saying: "Severus, how have I treated you the past few years?"
Snape frowned as he had an ominous premonition. "You have always been a person who keeps his words, so I have no complaints."
"True," replied Edward. "Compared to the two other Lords that you have served, I can be said to be the one much easier to get along with. Voldemort treated you like a servant and did not even keep his promise to you of not killing Lily.
"As for Dumbledore, he used emotional manipulation to keep you loyal to him, yet does not offer anything of value to you."
Snape remained calm on the surface, but a great inner turmoil took place inside him. And it was not just because of Edward knowing all his secrets, but also because he discovered that his memories were being read, forcefully.
He tried to use his Occlumency to stop the invasion, but it was no use; so, he created false memories in his mind. But, that also did not work as these memories could easily be discovered and identified as false.
'It seems that I was right. After my body modification, my already powerful soul became even more mighty, thus increasing the power of Spiritual Magic like Legilimency. Even a powerful Occlumens Master like Snape could no longer resist my power.
'Should I focus on spiritual magic like telepathy and psychokinesis? After all, I seemed to be very gifted with this kind of magic? Forget it. As a wizard, I should control the power of the elements like flame, ice, and thunder. Then, bend space and time to my will. That's what a true wizard should be like in my mind.
'Forget about spiritual magic or using weapons to fight like those barbaric knights. What kind of wizard confronts his enemy head-on. These people should be ashamed to call wizards or magicians.
'However, I could use this newfound ability to my advantage. I wonder if I could read Dumbledore's mind to acquire all his knowledge? Forget it, use the contract first, if that does not work, use the torture. I can only use Legilimency as a last resort. After all, Snape cannot compare to Dumbledore in terms of strength of the soul and mind.'
While all these thoughts were rapidly going through Edward's mind, Snape had a visibly disturbed look on his face. The reason being the fact that Edward placed a very memorable memory in his mind.
In this memory, he saw how he spent years secretly protecting Harry Potter under the order of Dumbledore. Then, the Dark Lord was revived using dark magic and recalled all the Death Eaters to once again serve him. He became a double agent for Dumbledore to spy on the Dark Lord.
The memories were not many or too small, but two of them caught his attention. One is when he is told by Dumbledore that Harry Potter--whom he was forced to protect for so long--had to die at the hands of the Dark Lord--essentially raising him like a pig to be slaughtered (which were the exact words his other self in the memory said to Dumbledore).
The second memory was his own death at the hands of the Dark Lord. Despite being so "loyal" to him, he still killed him without hesitation, just because of the Deathly Hallow. Finally, in his dying breath, he told Harry Potter the truth about him and Lily, and how he was always protecting him all this time.
After reviewing these memories, Snape took a few moments to calm himself down before asking with trembling words: "Is that…"
"Your future? Yes," replied Edward calmly.
Snape's hand trembled slightly, then used Occlumency to keep his rampaging emotions under control. "Why are you showing me this?"
Edward looked at him for a moment, then he said: "As Dumbledore already warned you, I'm about to create a new world order far more brilliant than any wizards throughout history could ever imagine. However, beforehand, I need to know where your allegiance lies."
Severus Snape frowned after hearing this as he began to think about the situation; he knew that he could not hide his thoughts from Edward, so he did not try to fake his response, but thought deeply about the issue.
'I have already served the Dark Lord, so there is no problem with serving Edward as long as he is powerful enough to prevent the previous master from getting his revenge. Additionally, Edward has allowed me to make amends for the mistakes of my past.'
So, Snape bowed to Edward while saying: "I pledge my allegiance to the Lord."
"There is no need for all of this as I am not Voldemort," replied Edward as he lifted Snape from the bowing motion.
"The reason that I need your allegiance is because, in the world that I am about to create, I will need talented wizards like you."
After saying those words, Edward paused for a moment before sighing: "I have to say, I do not think people truly realize how talented of a wizard you are.
"Back in school, you could create spells of your own. I know many powerful and influential wizards, but the ones that can invent spells as powerful as yours can be counted on one hand--not to mention the fact you could do such a thing at such a young age.
"Then there is your potion's talent. Being able to modify the potion book so easily is a level of talent that even I envy. If this was not the fact that you have suffered through so much psychological trauma throughout your youth, I could foresee that you could one day become a great wizard like Dumbledore and Voldemort."
Snape was a little surprised that Edward had such a high evaluation of himself. As a person who dealt with Edward since he was in the Fifth Year, Snape knew how much of a talented wizard he actually was. He spent many nights awake thinking of the terrible consequences that the magical world would suffer from if one day Edward decided to become evil.
At some point, he even wanted to warn Dumbledore to take action and prevent the rise of Edward. However, thinking about the possibility of one day seeing Lily again, he forced these thoughts deep in a corner of his mind.
"Thank you for the compliment," said Snape.
Edward smiled, "You do not need to worry about Voldemort. With me here, it is a question of whether I would allow him to resurrect. And even if he did, he would not pose much of a threat.
"Now, let's get back to business. Show me your Dark Mark."
Without hesitation, Severus showed him his hand with the mark, and Edward used his wand to activate it, calling all the loyal Death Eaters of Voldemort for an assembly.
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