From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 374 Planar Fortress and Tuning Fork

Successfully using the wish spell to create the Death Magic Vortex allowed Ivy to gain a new level in the legendary profession [Realm Explorer].

For a profession that must rely on legendary milestones to advance, creating a magical hub that can affect thousands of square kilometers of land is certainly a legendary feat.

The level of [Realm Explorer] reaches level two, and also provides Ivy with a new professional feature called [Plane Fortress].

The so-called [Plane Fortress] is a private demiplane that Ivy can retreat to at any time to rest and plan.

Under initial conditions, the size of the demiplane is a circle with a radius of 200 feet, and every time Ivy improves two levels in the [Realm Explorer] profession, the demiplane will automatically expand by 100 feet in radius.

As the owner of this demiplane, Ivy can freely decide the ground conditions, lighting levels, shape boundaries, and more in the demiplane.

Therefore, after obtaining this professional feature, Ivy immediately thought of his Room of Requirement.

The Room of Requirement is actually an independent demiplane, and it can be adjusted just right according to his needs. If this professional feature of the Realm Explorer can be combined with the Room of Requirement, it would seem to be a perfect choice.

Ivy immediately went to the ranch space in the House of Requirement and began to build the [Plane Fortress].

Although the four pastures in the House of Requests look very wide, and there are a series of magnificent scenes such as mountains and oceans in the distance, they are actually just something like background maps that can only be viewed from a distance and cannot be touched, and they are simply unreachable.

The area of a circle with a radius of 200 feet may not sound large, but it is actually equivalent to the area of a large shopping mall.

Moreover, this area does not limit the height. If Ivy uses magic to build some structures of sufficient height in the demiplane, it will expand the usable area.

However, before turning the demiplane from a characteristic into an actual existence, any more assumptions would be useless and redundant. Ivy calmed his mind and officially began to cast the spell.

The mountains in the distant view of the pasture space began to become distorted and broken, the illusory colors gradually became real, and the light cast from behind the clouds began to flicker.

The various horse-like magical creatures that were originally scattered everywhere and grazing leisurely raised their heads and watched Ivy gradually floating into the air.

Under Ivy's manipulation, the broken mountains turned from virtual to real, and the land emerged from nowhere, just like the transparent sea water receding to reveal the new ground.

The new surface looked dull and lifeless, for there was no trace of plants or insects to be found on it.

As the demiplane land appeared, Ivy had an idea and summoned many musical instruments to play the music he learned from the creator god Alda.

With the blessing of the Words of Creation, the demiplane expanded faster. In addition to the dull soil, stones of various shapes began to appear, followed by things that looked like minerals, but the number was too small to form a scale.

The Room of Requirement seemed to have sensed Ivy's spell and began to cooperate actively. The original pasture space extended outward to border the new ground created by Ivy. The false sky curtain was lifted, and scenes of cliffs, swamps, and seaside caves appeared one after another, bordering the new continent together with the panicked magical animals on them.

With these four different views, the demiplane Ivy created would no longer look so empty. The door that was originally used to connect to the Room of Requirement had disappeared, replaced by a luxurious manor.

In other words, Ivy's plane fortress has a total of four different terrains, each occupying a fan, and the center of the circle is the original Room of Requirement.

Although the area of the demiplane that Ivy can create is not small, it still won't take too long for a legendary spellcaster.

Now that the most important foothold has been settled, Ivy will begin to create the boundaries of this demiplane.

After all, the ability is limited and this demiplane has a fixed size. It would be bad if the magical animals standing on it fell into the void.

Ivy expanded the sea surface of the seaside cave, allowing it to wrap around the entire demiplane and serve as the boundary of the entire space.

The sea surface does not really exist, but is a soft boundary. All creatures that enter the sea surface will appear from the corresponding other side. This is a simple self-circulating spatial structure.

In addition to boundary structures and lighting conditions, [Plane Fortress] also allows Ivy to create a specific and continuous structure, such as a tree connecting the world, a castle floating in the air, a giant maze with countless forks, or a majestic mountain range.

This structure does not require Ivy to polish it in detail. Once a theme is determined, the demiplane will automatically generate the corresponding details. Although the speed will be slower, Ivy does not need to spend extra energy.

Therefore, in order to continue to expand the usable area of the [Plane Fortress], Ivy chose to create a floating castle. Once this structure is completed, it will not be too late to integrate the entire Room of Requirement with it.

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The celebrations in Strixhaven were numerous and intensive. On every street, students were asking about the new Professor Doom. Many people had heard that Ivy had superb swordsmanship, and there were even bets about what courses he would teach in the new semester.

Among them, the class with the lowest odds is the swordsmanship class. No one knows why so many students in this magic university think that a swordsmanship class should be offered.

Several members of the Nemesis Team still gathered at the Gongmo Tavern.

This was their last semester at Strixhaven, and since they had already been awarded the title of Outstanding Graduates, the five friends were a little lazy. The thought that they might never see their classmates and friends again made them unable to resist attending one party after another.

Unfortunately, not everyone was like the five of them who did not have to take the graduation exam, so in the end, it was still the five of them sitting at the small table in the tavern.

"I haven't returned the Battle Poet's book to Dean Ambers yet." Grayson took out a small scroll and placed it on the table. "To be honest, I really don't dare to look him in the eye..."

"Is Dean Ambers really that scary?" Ruth asked doubtfully.

"Anyway, it's a hundred times scarier than you think!" Grayson replied seriously, "Even when you played the scariest monster in the drama club, you would yell 'I'm going to bite your ass'. I know you don't have any concept of horror in your mind!"

"I heard that one of the first-year students this year is the son of Dean Ambers." The Minotaur pushed his glasses and turned the newspaper in front of him. He was looking for all the reports related to the Nemesis Squad, cutting them out and saving them, and making a booklet to give to his companions.

"I've heard about it, too." Bastion hummed the Elephant Man's song with his nose and answered without raising his head. "And Professor Ambrose is very strict with his son. He even planned to punish him by imprisoning him in the Rot Swamp! If it weren't for Dean Shayir's persuasion, maybe we would have met this future Silver Dollar student that time."

"Oh..." Grayson sighed heavily. As the heir of a prominent family, he could empathize with the situation of the director's son, but he didn't have a father who worked in Strixhaven. So he thought that this "son" whom he had never met was more pitiful.

"Professor Doom." Aurora stood up from her seat and saw Ivy and Kemina who had just come in from the door. "Sit down." Ivy waved at them, stopping the other students from standing up to greet them.

Ever since they witnessed Ivy's magical ability to build a castle in an instant, the students in front of them had a higher level of respect for him.

"Have you decided where you're going?" Ivy stood beside the Minotaur Dradromir and the Elephant Bastion, and held down the two students who were about to stand up. "I heard that you're going to join the Dragon Guard? Mr. Sovich?"

"You should call me Bastion. Almost no one here calls me by my last name, and it's still too difficult for humans without long noses to pronounce." The elephant man smiled shyly. "As for the Dragon Guard, they did send me an invitation... But I'm still thinking about it. The Dragon Guard has a heavy responsibility, and I'm not sure if I can do it."

"If you can't do it, then there won't be many graduates in Strixhaven who can take on this responsibility, Fortress." Ivy followed suit and took out a scroll and placed it on the table. "I heard that you are still looking for books on magic energy conversion in Maodian Pavilion? You can take this scroll. It contains some of my experience."

"This is too expensive!" Bastion held the scroll in both hands and refused. "I have received too much care and favor from the school. I can't accept it!... If the magic book in Maodian Pavilion was not more willing to take the initiative to find the magician, perhaps I would have found the magic book long ago..."

"If you become a dragon guard, you won't have so much time to stay in Maodian Pavilion." Ivy helped Bastion put the scroll back into his pocket. "Okay, that's all I have to do here. You guys continue."

"Wait! Professor Doom!" Silver-haired student Grayson suddenly called out to Ivy.

"Anything else?" Ivy turned his head to look at him. The boy's face was red and he looked embarrassed to speak.

"Can you help me return this scroll to Professor Ambers?" Grayson said hesitantly, "In the end, I didn't use it. Its pitch is too high and I can't sing it..."

"Have you ever thought about using something else that can produce high notes instead?" Ivy asked.

Looking at Grayson's expression of "it turns out this is possible", Ivy knew that the problem had been solved, so he shook his head and sat at another table with Kemina.

"Order whatever you want. It's my treat." Ivy pushed the menu to Kemina.

"Why are you so generous today?" Kemina shook her honey-colored hair and asked with a smile, "Do you have a favor to ask of me?"

"That's right." Ivy nodded in agreement, "I want to study the teleportation magic of the Planeswalkers."

Kemina rolled her eyes. "I've said it many times before. It's a talent. It's not some magic with a fixed form or structure! It's a spark of the soul! Even the teleportation abilities of each Planeswalker are very different. You can never figure it out by studying it!"

"How can you know the result if you don't try first?" Ivy was not ready to give up.

"No." Kemina shook her head firmly, and after hesitating for a moment, she pushed the menu back to Ivy.

"I'll pay." Ivy pulled out a handful of gems. "Lots of money."

There was no doubt that Kemina was moved, because she couldn't move her eyes away at all, and her breathing and heartbeat became rapid.

"...No." Kemina finally closed her eyes and pretended to stand up. "If you say another word, I will leave right now!"

"What a shame." Ivy put away the various gems on the table and changed his conditions. "How about taking me on a time travel? Go to a world with unique magic, and then the gems will be yours."

Kemina sat back on her seat and sighed heavily: "You don't know how much I want to agree to you, but..."

"Or not?"

"It's not that I can't do it, it's that I can't do it..." Kemina rested her forehead on the table, her honey-colored hair seemed to have lost its luster, "Planeswalkers can only carry very small amounts of inorganic matter to travel through time and space..."

"But you can travel through time and space with an owl," the owl on Kemina's shoulder looked at Ivy warily, "What if I become an owl?"

"The problem is not the species! It's the soul!" Kemina scratched her hair. "If we don't connect our souls, it will be impossible to travel through time and space with you. Besides, your soul is much more complicated than that of an owl! I dare not even think about the variables involved!"

"Okay." Ivy nodded to show that he understood. It was impossible for him to open his soul to Kemina. "Let's discuss this issue later."

"Can I still order food?" Kemina raised her head and asked cautiously.

"Again, whatever you want." Ivy waved his finger.

Kemina chuckled and held the menu in front of her.

After helping Kemina finish her order, the waiter suddenly asked, "Do you remember me, Professor Doom?"

The person serving them was the tiefling waiter from the last time at the Arch End Tavern. Ivy still remembered his wonderful journey.

"Of course. Who could forget your amazing matriculation journey?"

Tiefling looked relieved. "Great... Then you should also know that I have a treasure that belonged to Archmage Silvira Savicas. I want to sell it to you."

Ivy remembered that the thing was something the Tiefling mentor had put on him, but now it had become a treasure.

"You're not going back to Faerun?" Avicii asked, "If your former mentor knew about this, he wouldn't be happy, right?"

"I have to finish my studies at Strixhaven first..." Tieflin sighed, "My graduation project did not pass the assessment, so I have to study for another year... But the tuition at Strixhaven is too expensive, and repeaters cannot enjoy the tuition reduction policy... So I need money..."

"How much do you need?" Ivy asked.

Buying a piece of merchandise from the Archmage of Faerun and funding the studies of a Tiefling student isn't a bad deal.

"You decide what to give..." Tiefling took out a tuning fork from his back, "because I'm not sure how much this thing is worth."

(End of this chapter)