From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 585 Legendary Destiny
To gain a deeper understanding of this absurd timeline, Ivy chooses to investigate Diagon Alley, the largest wizarding enclave in London, located behind the Leaky Cauldron.

“No matter which magic school you end up attending, textbooks and a wand are essential.” Ivy gestured to the cook, Bobby, “Take Cassandra to change her clothes; we’re going shopping.”

Cassandra obediently stood up, but did not act immediately. Instead, she looked back upstairs. In the master bedroom of Worley Manor, her parents lay peacefully in bed, indistinguishable from those who were clearly asleep.

“I’ll put them all in a magic book until I awaken them all.” Ivy flicked little Cassandra’s nose. “Go on, I’ll wait for you downstairs.”

Watching Cassandra go upstairs, Ivy once again took out the Grimoire of Destruction.

Since leaving the world of Toril, he hasn't had a chance to carefully examine how his attributes have improved.

The first thing that catches his eye is the profession category. In addition to the usual [Wizard] profession, there is now a part-time job as [Mind Scholar]. He already knew this, as Comet Prince Orpheus's level nine psionic spells share a mental barrier, which he also learned by relying on the characteristics of this profession.

In addition, the [Spiritual Scholar] also comes with a psionic pool, which serves as a resource for releasing psionic energy and [Wizard] spells.

The calculation method for psionic pools and spell slots is different, and it is more like the mana bar mage in MMORPGs. Under this system, a level 1 psionic spell only consumes one psionic point, and for each additional level, the psionic spell will consume an additional two psionic points. For example, a level 9 psionic spell like Shared Mind Barrier requires seventeen psionic points.

As a level 17 [Spiritual Scholar], Ivy has a total of 251 psionic points, enough to unleash level 9 psionic energy more than ten times.

Because of the exceptional ease of psionic spellcasting, its flexibility is also limited. Ivy can cast a maximum of nine different psionic spells per day. Unless her level increases, Ivy cannot cast a tenth psionic spell before getting a long break, otherwise she risks being hit in the head by a psionic spell.

Through the Grimoire of Destruction, Ivy also learned that under normal circumstances, a Mind Scholar has five selectable bonus feats and one unique class feat. However, due to class fusion, these rewards that would be obtained in subsequent leveling up are no longer available to Ivy.

Ivy was somewhat interested in the unique professional expertise of the [Spiritual Scholar]: [Affinity Crystals].

This specialty introduces a special type of servant—the Spirit Crystal Servant, similar to the familiars that arcane spellcasters can summon. However, the Spirit Crystal Servant is a fragment of its master's personality, so psionic energy and spells that work on the caster also work on the Spirit Crystal Servant.

This miniature construct looks like a crystal with regular geometric features, and it displays different colors depending on the personality fragments that its owner gives it.

Ivy wasn't particularly interested in the psionic assistant itself, but she was very curious about the personality aspect described in the description of the psionic servant.

Spirit Crystal Servants are considered a type of construct, and as intelligent constructs, their personality traits are highly correlated with the personality fragments bestowed upon them by their masters.

If this technology of giving personality could be applied to the artificial mind of constructs, could we skip certain basic steps when creating androids, thus avoiding guiding newly created androids to acquire a basic personality from external feedback?
For example, if Ivy wants a batch of omnics to be used for engineering construction, then he can give them the personality fragments of focus or craftsmanship, while laboratory assistants can be given the personality of meticulousness or wisdom, and guards used in combat can be given the personality of heroism or perseverance.

Even with just a brief description, one can already sense the vast potential of this technology. If there were extra skill slots available, Ivy would definitely choose this skill.

Besides the "Spiritual Scholar" entry, another item in the Book of Destruction that Ivy should pay special attention to is in the Traits section.

Originally, there was only one "Perfect Part-Time Job" option here, which was the key factor that allowed Ivy to take on so many part-time jobs without penalty.

Now there's a new item in the traits section—

[Legendary Destiny - Ascension to Godhood]: Having received the generous gift of Losanda, the God of Dawn, you have acquired the divinity of the sun. You have begun to transcend the nature of mortals, and the radiance of your divinity will eventually make your name, your nature, and your achievements known to the gods of all planes. You have gained a divine rank, currently 0.

The level of divinity is the standard for measuring the extraordinary power of a divine being. Even though Ivy's current level of divinity is 0, it can still bring him a series of benefits.

Divine beings with a divine rank of 0 are called quasi-gods or heroic gods. Generally speaking, the offspring of gods are born at or above this rank. Although they cannot bestow divine arts upon other mortals, they are still immortal. Irene, the daughter of Serene, who is very familiar with Ivy, is a divine being of this rank.

The most direct benefit of gaining solar divinity and becoming a divine being is the attribute bonus called "Divine Spark." Ivy can choose any two attributes and add two points to each. Undoubtedly, Ivy adds them to Intelligence and Charisma, as these two attributes affect his maximum number of spell slots and are crucial for spellcasting, making them the primary investment. In this way, including the intrinsic bonus from Prayer, Ivy's Intelligence and Charisma both reach 30 points, providing a +10 attribute modifier. Furthermore, he gains 17 bonus spell slots each from spellcasting classes with Intelligence and Charisma, including one ninth-ring spell slot each.

As a newly ascended quasi-god, Ivy's physical body far surpasses that of mortals. This is reflected in the data of the Grimoire of Destruction: his defense rating receives a skew bonus equal to his charm bonus, and the base starting point for his defense rating is raised to 13 instead of the usual 10 for humans. This value is comparable to that of a warlock with dragon blood. Including the intelligence modifier from [Smart Defense], Ivy's current base defense rating is 40 = 13 (base defense rating) + 10 (Smart Defense skill bonus) + 10 (divine creature skew bonus) + 7 (agility bonus). If we also consider accessories that provide innate defense ratings or protective spells that increase armor, he could even stand before an entire army and withstand attacks without retaliating.

The sheer numerical values ​​gave Ivy the greatest confidence, and this was far from the limit of a god. As long as Ivy could continue to raise his godhood level, his defense level could even gain a divine power bonus equivalent to his godhood level. However, Ivy's godhood level was currently 0, so there was no question of a divine power bonus.

The level 0 godhood directly granted Ivy the ability of immortality. His body wouldn't age with the passage of time, and he didn't even need to eat, breathe, or rest. As long as he wasn't killed, he wouldn't die. Moreover, even if he were killed, the resurrection spells he had left behind as a mage would still be effective. What Voldemort had painstakingly pursued was obtained by Ivy so easily, and he was extremely unwilling to accept it.

A mortal who embarks on the path to transcendence will inevitably have to interact with believers if he wishes to continue on the path to divinity. If Ivy were to truly accept the faith of mortals, it would essentially mean binding him to a group of intelligent beings in a certain plane of existence. It might sound like he'd gain a group of followers and subjects, but in reality, aside from certain deities representing specific entities in the world, all deities that rise based on faith will also decline because of faith.

Leaving aside distant examples, wasn't Amanatar, the original owner of the Sun God and widely worshipped in the Netheril Empire, indirectly destroyed because of Karthus's questionable actions? Even the God Godhood was passed on to Ivy by Losanda. Although the believers still exist by relying on Losanda's church, the God God himself is sinking into the void, and it is unknown when he will truly awaken.

Everything has two sides. Ivy gained a series of benefits from becoming a divine being because of the divinity of the sun, but conversely, she also had to bear the disadvantages of being a divine being. On a huge time scale, no one can say for sure whether this is good or bad for Ivy.

However, gaining the divinity of the sun did indeed add a new research direction to Ivy's magical studies—divine power and divine magic.

Generally speaking, those professions that serve deities and gain the ability to cast spells through the power of the deities are collectively referred to as priests.

Ivy once believed that if one wanted to become a divine spellcaster, one had to obtain divine spells through the hand of the gods.

But after transforming into a divine being, he made a new discovery: the source of divine power is not only the gods themselves. In addition to being extracted from the faith of believers, those conspicuous entities that can be observed by intelligent beings with the naked eye can also become the source of divine power.

Besides the mountains and rivers that can influence the survival of many humans, the celestial bodies hanging in the sky—the sun and the moon—are also among the foremost sources of divine power.

With the divinity of the sun, Ivy doesn't even need to do anything fancy like practicing her own faith to draw divine power from the sun. In most worlds with intelligent life, there is no exception that there is a sun. In some lucky worlds, there are even multiple suns serving a planet. How could that be anything but blessed?

In this timeline, the sun is the same for wizards and Muggles. However, by slightly expanding his senses, Ivy gained a new part-time job through the flowing power of the sun god—[The Ruler of the Sun].

[Sun Dominator] is actually a priest, and a powerful priest with advanced effects. After obtaining the priest class rank, Ivy not only gained the third key attribute for spellcasting—Perception, but also automatically acquired a feat.

【太阳主宰】每三级获得一个专长（1、4、7、10、16、19），四级提升一点属性。是个比较常规的职业。

As a special advanced priest class, the [Sun Lord]'s first class ability is quite remarkable.

【Sacred Realm - Sun】not only allows Ivy to directly enter the Sun Realm, but also provides him with an additional realm option.

For Ivy, both of these domains are his primary priest domains, and he can automatically learn all the priestly spells offered by the two domains, and master the divine abilities of the domains at the corresponding priest level.

The so-called domains and their divinely bestowed abilities are roughly analogous to different schools of magic, except that these domains are more finely divided for priests, and each unique domain grants priests unique powers strongly related to that domain.

For example, Shadowheart, who was once a priestess of Shar, can use her divinely granted abilities in the field of trickery to create phantom clones and attract the enemy's attention.

The solar realm that Ivy enters will not only provide him with one known divine spell from the first to the ninth ring, but also grant him the divine power to guide the power of the sun god to harm all enemies.

[Guiding Divine Power] is a standard class ability for priests, typically used to damage undead or dispel magical effects. Some priest abilities also require a [Guiding Divine Power] charge to cast; this charge is equal to 3 + Perception modifier for all priests. Guiding Sun God's Power, however, can damage all enemies, making it more versatile than regular [Guiding Divine Power]. But it's useless for Ivy because the damage is too low, only 2d6+1 (priest level). He can easily surpass that with a simple area-of-effect spell.

When the guiding divine power of the solar realm harms undead, it prevents these undead from calculating their guiding resistance, and those that fail to pass the immunity are directly destroyed. This is remarkably effective against large numbers of low-level undead, but becomes less effective against high-level undead. After all, aside from some special worlds, Ivy couldn't imagine himself standing in a sea of ​​the dead, unless he created it himself.

Therefore, the divinely bestowed abilities in the solar realm were somewhat of a waste for him.

Fortunately, based on the characteristics of his profession, Ivy could choose another field. Unsurprisingly, he chose the field of magic as his second field.

The first-level divinely granted abilities in the magical realm are also two. The first is that when preparing spells each day, one can choose a spell faction, which grants the caster level +1 when casting spells of that faction. The second is that one can channel arcane power, radiating an aura centered on oneself. All friendly arcane casters standing in the aura will gain either a caster level +1 or a spell DC +1 when casting arcane spells.

The second divinely granted ability requires one use of [Guiding Divine Power] and must be guided by a standard action. Ivy couldn't imagine what kind of caster would be worthy of him, an archmage, using a single action to assist. However, this could be shortened to a single reaction action as Ivy's level increased. At that point, combined with the first divinely granted ability, it could increase the caster level of a specific spell by two levels, which was still quite straightforward.

The first-level [Sun Domination] class has one final ability, [Solar Radiance], which doubles the area of ​​effect of any spell with the word "light" in its description. Simple and practical, it benefits all of Ivy's favorite rainbow-based spells.

(End of this chapter)