Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 276 Transformation: Shadow Crow
Ted has put together a research and development plan for the entire project, breaking down each step and each link and marking the difficulties that need to be overcome.

To be honest, this thing is difficult and complicated.

From spells to potions, from runes to alchemy, they even have to borrow Gryffindor's ability to pull people into portrait battles and the technology from the Book of Adventure - the twins are extremely ambitious.

Although being able to control chess pieces to engage in magical battles was beyond the imagination of the two.

But when Ted talked about "magic helmets", "immersive experience" and "virtual reality", and then associated them with the experience in "The Book of Adventure", the two had a huge ambition - to let all the little wizards experience the pain of being abused by Gryffindor, ahem, I mean the opportunity to get taught by Gryffindor!
Ted assigned most of the subjects to Hermione, Clara and the twins, while he himself was studying other things.

I hope the twins won’t become Hidetaka Miyazaki and just develop some Souls series.

And Ted was recently caught by Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall is going to give Ted an intensive training in Transfiguration.

Ted knew his strengths and was not very optimistic about Transfiguration, but if it was Animagus, it would be a different story.

Professor McGonagall was a little helpless about this student whom she personally brought to school. Why can't you be more obedient?
But can obedient children achieve these achievements?

Finally, she decided to give her good student some special lessons. Yes, she wanted to teach Ted Animagus.

This thing is really difficult. According to the system, first you need to have level 5 Transfiguration, which is the most basic.

It was only after Ted entered school this year that he was promoted to Level 5 after taking Professor McGonagall's class on Human Transfiguration.

And the conditions for each subsequent step are also very harsh.

This kind of transformation spell does not seem to be something from the modern magic system of Great Britain. It should be ancient magic, and it is something passed down from Celtic Druidism.

The first step is to hold a single leaf of the Mandrake plant in your mouth continuously during a full moon until the next full moon.

At no time may the leaf be swallowed or removed from the mouth; if the leaf leaves the mouth the whole process must be started over again.

On the second full moon take out the leaves, fill a crystal bottle with saliva, soak the leaves in it and let it receive the pure moonlight.

If the night was too cloudy to see, they would have to find a new Mandrake leaf and start over.

Into a moonlit crystal vial add a strand of your hair and a silver teaspoon of dew, which must have been collected from a place that has not been exposed to sunlight or human contact for seven full days... and finally add a chrysalis of a hawk moth.

Keep this mixture in a quiet, dark place and do not look at or disturb it until the next thunderstorm.

During this time, the crystal must be left completely undisturbed and out of contact with the sun. Sun pollution will cause the most devastating mutations.

Then wait for the storm to come, and during each sunrise and sunset, point the tip of the wand to your heart and chant the spell: "Amado, Animaud, Animagus."

Just waiting for a storm to arrive can take weeks, months, or even years. Yes, there are always unlucky people.

Finally, in the storm, when lightning flashed across the sky, he immediately went to the place where the crystal medicine bottle was buried.

If you complete all the above steps correctly, you will find a mouthful of blood-red potion inside.

Point the tip of your wand over your heart, chant "Amado, Animaud, Animagus," and drink the potion.

If all goes well, you will feel intense pain and two violent heartbeats.

Your mind will imagine the creature you will transform into. You must show no fear... and finally, you will be greeted by your other form.

Ted understood some of the principles behind this as soon as he heard it.

Because they have strong similarities with the druids in the world of Azeroth.

The main difference is that the druids of Azeroth can transform mainly by communicating with the spirits of beasts. They can transform into more types and have more abilities.

The transformation in this world is to look inward for the animal image that one desires most or that is most appropriate to one's heart. There is only this one kind of transformation, and it is almost impossible to transform into a magical animal.

In history, there have been many famous shapeshifters who have attempted to transform themselves into magical animals, resulting in many tragedies, such as the five-legged beast, the human-faced monster bird, and so on.

Ted doesn't plan to get Animagus because it's too troublesome and not very powerful.

Even though there were no animal spirits in this world, it didn't mean Ted couldn't create one himself.

He wanted to modify the Animagus's transformation ritual magic, but ultimately chose the path of Azeroth Druid.

...Ted once again confirmed the process and safety of each part of the ceremony, and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that everything was correct.

Transfiguration is not something you can be careless about.

In the secret base, the red dragon egg was still absorbing the magic power and the materials in the magic circle. Three days ago, Ted monitored its first vibration, which meant that it was on the road to success.

Ted looked at the dragon egg and wondered if it could turn into a fire dragon, or even a giant dragon!
This time the magic experiment cannot be carried out in the castle, it must be done outdoors, and it will take a long time, perhaps two or three days.

Ted needed to ask Professor Flitwick for leave, and Professor Flitwick naturally responded to his beloved student's request, and even offered to protect Ted if needed. Ted thanked him and declined.

Before leaving, Ted went to see Hermione and the others.

They are now conducting research on magic board games in an abandoned classroom specially approved by Professor Flitwick. Mainly because it is big enough, more than 300 square meters!

Any size map can be laid out.

The twins and Hermione all have a lot of problems that need Ted to solve.

Because the main body of the chessboard was made by Ted using alchemy, and it incorporates complex magical circuits.

The core of the magic was constructed by Ted using his psychic powers in order to absorb the dissipated psychic power, so only Ted can solve this problem.

In addition, there are some problems with magic runes, spell attachments and materials. They have only been learning for a short time and need Ted's help to solve the problems.

Ted gave solutions or possible attempts one by one, and finally told his friends the relevant knowledge about the cursed corpse.

I won't expect to be independent, but being able to absorb some ideas from Japanese sorcerers would be a good supplement for making chess pieces.

Then Ted said goodbye to his friends and went to the Forbidden Forest.

……

At midnight, in the cave.

Ted took the inky black potion, sat in the magic circle to develop his spiritual world, and looked into Ansu's eyes.

Three minutes later, Ansu: What are you looking at? !

But Ted suddenly felt a second, different heartbeat in his chest.

Ansu: Damn, I ascended to heaven again? Hey, why did I say again?

In the spiritual world that was both real and illusory, Ted felt that he had become smaller, deformed, floating in the sky, and began to wander around.

It flies over the mountain peaks, across the treetops, picks the fruits from the bushes, and laughs at the eagles flying away...

In reality, Ted's entire body shrank rapidly, his robe twisted violently, and the whole person turned into a puff of black smoke in mid-air, passing across the stone wall like a black shadow and flew out of the cave.

Ansu: "Done?!"

An Su quickly flapped his wings and chased after him. It was difficult for a person to realize his true self during his first transformation, so he needed someone to look after him so that he wouldn't run to some strange place or encounter any danger.

Ansu followed Ted closely, watching him fly up into the sky, down into the ground, and enjoying the joy of flying. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that his master was too naive. What was so fun about this?

About half an hour later, a dark crow flew over the school wall and flew into an open window of the tower.

In a flash of black smoke, the crow turned into Ted.

At this point, it had been a day and a half since Ted left school.

It went relatively smoothly, and I completed my transformation plan - Shadow Crow.

It mainly imitates some of Ansu's abilities.

The reason why it seems so simple is mainly because the object Ted chose to transform into is a crow, and the object of communication is Ansu.

So there is no need for any trials. These few years of raising me are just a test. So I passed it in one go. It was easy~
……

When Ted found his friends, he discovered that they had already started the first "internal test".

Well, it ended up being a failure.

The chess pieces were slow to react, the chessboard settings were unreasonable, the mana consumption was too high, the control was difficult, and there were also accidents where the chess pieces flew directly into the sky...

How can this be called a test? This is far from being complete! Not to mention mature.

Ted thought that if they could get the 1.0 demo out before Christmas, it would be a success. The rest would be a matter of trial and error, as all the big companies do!

Thanks to the book friend "典中典之魔震人" for the 100-point reward!
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(End of this chapter)