The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 167 Druids and Arcanists

The next morning, Ryan had just finished washing up and went out when he saw Hermione coming out of the room next door with dark circles under her eyes and yawning. Seeing Ryan looking at her, Hermione turned her head away embarrassedly and said, "Yesterday I learned that we were going to Mahogany Town, so I was looking for information about it at night. I didn't expect there was so much information about Mahogany Town, and I accidentally stayed up very late."

"I'm impressed by you. It's just a relaxing vacation, but you can make yourself so tired." Ryan said he couldn't understand the mentality of Hermione, a genius student.

"Because Mahogany Town is a very important place. Many important things in the South American magic world happened here. For example, the phantoms that appear day after day on the Crocodile Pyramid, and the site where the Brazilian Ministry of Magic was established in the 18th century. In short, it can be said that this town condenses the history of modern magic in South America. If you travel to such an important place without making preparations in advance, wouldn't it be a waste of an opportunity to learn about this place?"

"So this makes you a panda?" Ryan joked, gesturing with his hands beside his eyes.

It was obvious that Hermione knew about pandas. After all, in the autumn of the year she entered school, a giant panda named Mingming settled in the London Zoo. Hermione had also visited the London Zoo to see pandas during the Christmas holiday. So when Ryan made the gesture, Hermione knew that he was talking about her dark circles.

"Are my dark circles that obvious?" Hermione asked nervously. Even though she might be a little unkempt at ordinary times, in such a group activity, Hermione still hoped that she would not look too bad. Especially after entering puberty, she seemed to be more sensitive to this than before.

"It's pretty obvious," Ryan added, seeing Hermione's expression fall. "But I have a way to solve this problem now."

After saying that, Ryan took out his wand, pointed it at Hermione's face and said, "Natural Soothing." As Ryan cast the spell, a pure force of nature slowly poured into Hermione's body. Hermione felt as if she had woken up naturally after a nap in the embrace of nature. The fatigue in her body and the soreness in her eyes were swept away.

After the magic was over, Hermione took out the small mirror she carried with her and found that the dark circles on her face and the bloodshot in her eyes had disappeared. She looked at Ryan in surprise and wanted to say something.

"Stop, I will definitely not teach you this magic. I know you definitely want to use this magic to facilitate all-night study in the future. But even magic can only be used temporarily to temporarily recover from fatigue, and it cannot replace rest. Not to mention that you will definitely not be able to learn this magic."

"Well, I do want to learn this. But why do you say I can't learn it?" Hermione asked curiously.

"It's very simple. How's your understanding of the meditation method I taught you during our practice last Saturday?"

"Apart from helping you sleep better after meditation, there's no use for it," Hermione replied.

"This is why I said you can't learn it. The magic just now requires the help of natural forces. The meditation method I taught you is the entry-level method of practicing natural forces. You have been studying for so long and still can't communicate with nature, which means you really have no talent for this path. You must know that in the world of magic, many things are based on talent. Hard practice alone is useless." Ryan shrugged and said.

"What a shame." Hermione looked a little depressed. But she cheered up soon. "But I have learned all the runes you taught me last time, and I can even modify the magic." After that, Hermione took out her wand and chanted the spell: "Fluorescent." A little white light appeared on the tip of her wand, and then slowly turned red. Then she said a little embarrassedly, "Now it can only turn red, and the magic consumed is more than three times the original."

"Huh? You learn much faster than I thought. You can even modify the spells by yourself." Ryan said with some surprise. After discussing the establishment of a reading club with Hermione last time, Ryan taught Hermione the basics of runes and natural meditation.

When imparting knowledge, Ryan wanted to improve Hermione's level, after all, improving his friend's ability is also indirectly improving his own strength. On the other hand, Ryan had too many paths of power, and he couldn't practice all of the existing ones, so he didn't have the energy to innovate. After all, for him, being able to thoroughly learn and understand the things in the inheritance had already occupied almost all of his energy. In this case, he had always planned to pass on some of the knowledge to reliable people to see if he could research something new.

After the last discussion, Ryan confirmed that Hermione, who had a good personal relationship with him and shared the same ideals, was reliable. So he gave her part of the natural heritage and part of the rune heritage of the Nordic wizards. Unexpectedly, she made a breakthrough in rune research so quickly.

Now it seems that Hermione is not interested in natural forces at all, but she seems to have a talent for runes, which are purely brain-burning things. This shows that she is a natural arcanist rather than a druid.

"Now the most I can do is change some minor spells, but after the changes they are not as good as the original spells. I don't know what the point of this change is?" Hermione took this opportunity to express the confusion that had been bothering him for a long time.

"How could this be meaningless? It can even be said that this is one of the foundations of the strength of those pure-blood families. All the common spells on the market are indeed the result of countless efforts by our predecessors, but the price of increased universality is that these spells are difficult for wizards to use skillfully. A powerful wizard will inevitably transform these common spells into magic that suits him. For example, almost everyone knows the Fire Spell. But Dumbledore can use the improved version of the Fire Spell he researched to defeat dangerous dark wizards when fighting against them."

"So that's how it is. Thank you! Now I seem to have a vague idea of ​​what path I will take in the future." After Hermione finished speaking, she smiled at Ryan, and she looked a lot more relaxed.

Looking at Hermione's smiling face, perhaps because they had known each other for a long time, Ryan suddenly felt that whether it was the messy brown hair, the thick eyebrows that had never been trimmed, or even the rabbit teeth in her mouth and the little face that had just grown after entering puberty, Ryan found it a little cute.

Shit, Ryan suddenly felt a chill on his back. Was this because he had been single for too long? Not really.

Thinking of this, Ryan immediately warned himself: The girl in front of you is just a child now, and the relationship between you and her is just pure friendship. Teaching her so much knowledge is just a kind of help to like-minded partners, yes, that's it.

Thinking of this, Ryan calmed down. But Hermione didn't know what Ryan was thinking at this time. She raised her arm and looked at her watch and said in surprise: "Oh my God, it's almost 7:30 now. We have to go to the hall to eat. After all, we have to go to Mahogany Town today."

After that, Ryan was dragged by Hermione to have dinner together.

(End of this chapter)