章節 4: Progress
Seeing all kinds of dishes appear on the table, Extimum marveled at the visual effect with which they appeared, however, he quickly returned his attention to the food and began to serve himself what he wanted, without neglecting the nutritional need too much.
While Extimum was eating and listening to the conversations of the surrounding students, a ghost suddenly emerged from the center of the table.
He was not surprised because he had already seen some on the way, rather he was curious about them, although he knew the theory of their existence, the fact that a wizard could immortalize their soul as a ghost was very interesting, although they would lose their magic, it did not change the fascinating nature of their existence.
The question arose about whether many other mythical beings, perceived as fantasy in the Muggle world, are real, beyond those seen in the series.
While he was thinking about it, he reached out instinctively to touch it, however, he was surprised to feel that he touched something, of course, he was not the only one surprised, although the others did not notice it, the same cannot be said for the ghost. who had introduced himself as Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington to those present.
The ghost gave him a confused and doubtful look, even Nicholas doubted what he felt, after all, it was known that ghosts could not be touched by normal means.
Helena Ravenclaw: "What's wrong, Nicholas? Have you taken a liking to a student from my house?"
Nicholas: "No, Lady Helena, it's nothing". Nicholas hesitated, but decided to dismiss the feeling when he saw that Extimum was still acting naturally, so he continued on his way.
Helena only gave the two a glance, but then returned to her own things.
Extimum continued to eat naturally, hiding the same doubts, while occasionally addressing a few words to the students around him who were having casual chats or introducing themselves out of politeness, he did not want to appear too withdrawn.
After dinner, the Ravenclaw prefect, indicating that they should follow him, led them to the common room.
The Ravenclaw common room was located in a tower in the west wing of the castle. On the way, Extimum observed the different paintings that were in the hallways and stairs, although in his house there were also some paintings that were alive, in general they were very few and not very talkative like the ones here.
As he admired the place, he made sure to remember the path to idealize the castle; He couldn't help but feel relieved to have an eidetic memory, because a path that changed frequently was sure to be difficult to memorize.
Luckily, their path did not require as many complications as the one they remembered in Gryffindor, since after some crossroads, the prefect showed them a passage that took them directly to the entrance of Ravenclaw tower.
Once there, the prefect demonstrated the correct way to access the common room, which was by solving a riddle that a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle asked the students who wanted to enter through the door.
That said, he also explained that if they made a mistake they would have to wait for someone else to try or they wouldn't be able to get in.
Extimum:' I wonder if I can find a hidden private room. I still don't know who my companions will be, I just hope they won't be annoying, besides, I would like a little privacy, especially since I still don't know if my bloodline will have reactions that I don't know about.'
Upon entering, there was a large circular room that had large arched windows decorated with soft blue and bronze silk, the walls were decorated with blue and bronze tapestries with a midnight blue carpet and a vaulted ceiling painted with stars, from the windows you could see The view of almost the entire school and on the floor was a navy blue carpet.
Tables, chairs, and bookshelves were arranged in the room, and a marble sculpture of Rowena Ravenclaw is placed next to the door that leads to the bedrooms.
After seeing that all the students had finished observing and had gathered, the prefect spoke again.
Prefect: "Now, the boys will sleep upstairs on the left side and the girls on the right side. They will discover that their belongings are already here."
Since it was already late, Extimum decided to explore tomorrow, hopefully he would find something, for now, he headed to his bedroom.
After finding his bed, he changed his clothes with a wave of his wand and settled into it, after all, he was also a little exhausted from the whole trip.
His roommates were surprised by his magic act, but since they were also tired, they continued doing their thing to go to sleep quickly.
In fact, Extimum's training in the 6 years after his awakening was not wasted, at first his progress was slow because there were too many things to learn, furthermore, his schedule not only occupied studying thousands of books on magic and related things, but also the physical exercise, the sword classes that, to his surprise, his mother agreed to get an instructor and his practice of wandless magic.
In his study, Extimum managed to lay a firm foundation of knowledge of all general topics of magic, he wouldn't say he knows everything, but at least he has a basic knowledge of most of the things a magician should know, as well as an understanding from the reach of magic.
He also delved into Hogwarts studies for the first 3 years and a little of the 4th year with complete mastery, that way, in these first years he could explore the library for any other topic of interest and be able to carry out the year of study more calmly. taking into account the challenges he may or may not have to go through.
In his physical training, his progress was perhaps the greatest. His physical abilities were constantly developing with his exercises and practice with the sword. Currently, if he were to measure his strength, he would say that he has the physical strength of 5 normal adult people combined.
His improvement had been general, not only in terms of brute strength, but also in agility and endurance, although that did not include mental effort, that being said, he still remembers an event that made him jump in fright in a training session with his instructor.
--FlashBack--
Enoch Mansion, Courtyard.
On a clear area, there were a man and a boy staring at each other, both had a sword in their hands and were facing each other in a posture to start combat.
Extimum was 8 years old this year and was wearing tight black clothing that covered his entire body except his face. This clothing had been specially designed to give him good mobility without neglecting defense, ensuring that any wound he might have was too deep or fatal. It had been especially recommended by his instructor.
Their instructor, on the other hand, was a middle-aged man, he had short black hair, with eyes of the same color. He had a compact physical build and was about 1.75m tall. He was wearing gray pants and a white shirt with a gray vest. Although his appearance was average, his posture exuded an elegance and sharpness that was impossible to ignore.
Since weapons training could only be truly learned with real weapons, and the instructor had already taught the basics of swordsmanship a few months ago, this match would be taken seriously. Although of course, the instructor would not give his all, but he would still give enough to put pressure on Extimum.
After a brief moment of silence, the fight began.
**Clank Clank**
It was a blink of an eye, but the sound of swords clashing was immediately heard in the silent courtyard.
The battle began with some quick and light clashes testing the strength of both parties and the firmness of each swordsman, but the more they crossed swords, the speed and intricacy of each blow increased.
The instructor put pressure on Extimum at all times with difficult angles and his great skill, quickly forcing him to adopt a defensive approach.
At some point, the instructor's sword easily dodged Extimum's attack and slid towards Extimum's ribs. The sword moved with such speed that it would be difficult for an ordinary person to grasp.
Extimum: 'He's too fast, I can only try to deflect his sword blade.' Extimum frowned slightly as he observed the difficult situation, his mind was completely focused on the battle, but this was his first combat with real swords and he couldn't help but be a little tense.
He had not forgotten the real danger of receiving a hit, but he knew that only in combat where there was a real threat could he improve quickly.
Extimum's sword moved just as he had expected, but just as he was about to deflect his instructor's blade, the instructor's sword turned and moved upwards cutting the inner area of his arm. Although the cut was small, it still hurt.
Instructor: "You should not let your opponent's sword get so close to your body unless you have complete confidence in your abilities to defend yourself, and even then, it is not without risk."
After that little reminder, the battle continued without any break. Naturally, Extimum couldn't do much and couldn't even touch his instructor's clothes with his sword. By the time he finished, Extimum was covered in cuts on his body and clothes and was exhausted.
After finishing, his instructor gave him some final advice and he left for the day.
Afterwards, Extimum dragged his tired body to his room. Upon arrival, he took off his clothes, leaving them on the floor, while he entered the bathroom to take a shower. However, when he was about to enter, he noticed something peculiar about his body reflected in the mirror out of the corner of his eye.
As he approached to check, he noticed that near his wounds, in addition to the red dried blood stains, there were also some smaller gold and purple stains. Both colors were not mixed and compared to the amount of red in his blood they formed a very small part.
Extimum: 'What are these gold-purple stains? My clothes had nothing that could come from them and before starting to train they already checked my health, I shouldn't be sick or something.'
While Extimum was reflecting on what those stains meant, he saw that from one of his wounds that had not yet closed and was still dripping a little blood, his blood when it came out was generally red, but it also contained small gold-purple parts.
Observing that, an incredible, but plausible idea immediately came to his mind: 'Could it be that... these golden-purple spots in my blood are the representation of my bloodline?' '.
This realization scared him a little, after all, no one knew he had a bloodline and there is no real reason for him to have one, while his physical features are quite special, his family did not find it strange because his mother, Ava , was metamorphmagus and that, in fact, Extimum was also one himself, which is why he never hid or changed his appearance, however, it was a completely different story if his blood is no longer only red, but also has another color .
Furthermore, he clearly remembered that his blood was completely red before his awakening, he had cut himself before by accident and his blood was normal, this could imply that it was not as simple as just having a common lineage that gives you abilities like in the stories that had read, but it could very well change part or all of what he is.
--End Flashback---
Since then, Extimum has been very careful not to let anyone see his blood or if necessary, try to hide it, luckily, with the physical improvement not only did his body become stronger, but his regeneration did as well, so otherwise, it would be very dangerous if someone noticed the color of his blood, even more so as over the years, the gold-purple in his blood has been thickening.
As for magical training, his improvement was also very significant, when he started practicing to see if he could perform wandless magic, he discovered that in fact, there were two things he could do with his magic, the first is basic telekinesis, although we say basic, he was not weak, but he could perform it stably, although he was limited in terms of the number of things he could control, with a maximum of 2 objects at the same time and the weight of a maximum of 150 grams, it was still quite enough decent.
As for the other, he had discovered it by coincidence when he didn't want his house elf, Bob, to see one of his magical experiments. Bob had arrived unexpectedly at that moment and had not had time to hide it, so he had subconsciously wished for it to be invisible or to disappear and to his surprise, when Bob approached, he could not see it.
Discovering that he could create illusions of various types.
His motive for wanting to hide his experiments in that lot was simple. It had to be known that, although Bob seemed loyal and complied with most of his requests, Extimum had discovered that he reported all his actions to his parents. Something that instinctively generated distrust and discomfort.
The illusion magic worked based on his imagination, he could cover a small area or a target to make them see what he wanted, as for the effectiveness of this, he tested it with his instructor secretly by wrapping himself in it to make himself invisible and discovered that despite his limitations, as long as he did not interact directly with the outside world it would be difficult to be discovered.
This was under the premise that his instructor was an accomplished and very experienced mage. If he had to give him a grade, Extimum guessed that his magical strength was at Mage level, although it was just his speculation and it was not certain because Extimum had not asked him.
As for normal wandless magic, it took him 1 full year to be able to perform even stable lumos, so he speculate that the other two skills must be because they had a high affinity with his bloodline, although he could do wandless magic, but he still had to make movements with his hands and say them in case of normal spells, mainly basic spells.
Currently, with his telekinesis (it is still magic, not a skill, his lineage only gives him affinity to make it easier for him to do so) he can control up to 5 objects at the same time and handle a weight of approximately 5kg, as for his illusion, improvement in terms of the area (30m) in which you can throw it, its realism and the time it remains (10 min).
As for his study of the academic material, he discovered that he has a great talent for transfiguration (although it is not a surprise since he is a metamorphmagus) and although he did not study much about runes, he also discovered that he could learn them with great ease.
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