Hogwarts: Lacus doesn't want to be a witch who destroys nations.

Lux finds herself standing on a platform inside an enormous crater.

Beneath their feet were glowing red rocks, and not far ahead, churning, boiling, dark red lava flowed slowly through a massive ravine, radiating terrifying heat enough to melt steel. Tiny sparks and ash floated in the air.

On the banks of the lava river, an unimaginably huge figure stood with its back to Lux.

The figure was as majestic as a mountain, with skin as rough as dark red rock, bulging muscles like molten steel ingots, and a head of messy, fiery red hair and beard that almost reached his waist.

He was naked from the waist up, and wore a huge apron made of an unknown animal hide around his lower body. Most striking were the two huge, curved ram horns on his head that gleamed with a cold metallic light.

He is none other than the Mountain-Hidden Flame, Ornn.

"Wait, where did I get here? Is this still in China?"

Ornn seemed completely oblivious to Lux's arrival. His enormous hand was gripping a giant hammer burning with flames, intently striking a huge, white-hot metal ingot in the lava pool before him.

"clang--!!!"

Each hammer blow was accompanied by a deafening roar and a burst of dazzling sparks.

The entire crater seemed to tremble. Under the forging process, the metal ingot deformed and stretched like dough. The impurities contained inside were squeezed out by the high temperature and force, turning into wisps of blue smoke and dissipating.

Ornn's movements may seem slow, but they contain the power to split mountains and shatter rocks. Each hammer strike is incredibly precise and carries an indescribable sense of rhythm.

Lux stared in disbelief, her mouth agape wide enough to fit a rumi.

Lumi was so frightened that she huddled in the wicker basket, trembling, and even forgot to say "bobo ro," turning the whole Poro into a furry ball.

Just then, Ornn suddenly stopped moving and slowly turned towards Lux, or more precisely, towards the invisible Heartsteel on Lux's body.

Two streams of sparkling white vapor spewed from his enormous nostrils, as if he had caught a whiff of something interesting.

Then, He stretched out His giant hand, large enough to grasp a small mountain, and made a grabbing motion in the air towards Lux.

Lux felt a sudden lightness on her body, as if something had been forcibly peeled away.

The "Heart Steel" icon in her equipment bar disappeared instantly.

"Eh?! My steel!" Lux cried out in distress; that was her hard-earned money that she had saved for so long.

Ornn seemed not to hear, and opened his huge palm, revealing the invisible "Heart Steel" in his palm.

A piece of thorn armor, shimmering with a dark metallic luster, looked no bigger than a thumb against the backdrop of Ornn's enormous hand.

Ornn casually tossed the Heartsteel into the churning lava pool beside him.

"Plop!" The steel billet was instantly swallowed by the dark red lava.

"My steel!" Lux felt like she was about to shed tears of blood.

But then, Orn extended two enormous fingers and, with the precision of plucking a flower, pulled the steel billet out of the lava pool! At this moment, the steel billet was glowing red-hot, like a flowing liquid ruby. The natural patterns on its surface seemed to come alive under the high temperature, flowing with a molten luster and emitting even more astonishing energy fluctuations!

Orn placed it on a similarly enormous anvil made of some kind of black metal, and then he raised the giant hammer that was burning with flames.

"clang--!!!"

The first hammer fell! Sparks exploded like a waterfall! The crimson steel billet trembled violently, emitting a clear, resonant dragon's roar!

Lux felt her heart skip a beat along with the hammer.

Ornn's movements quickened, and the massive iron hammer seemed as light as a feather in his hands, turning into a burning afterimage.

"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!..."

The sound of hammering, as dense as a torrential downpour, instantly filled the entire crater.

Ornn's beard flew with his movements, his molten lava-like eyes fixed intently on the work on the anvil. Occasionally, he would pause and blow a breath onto the steel billet. That breath, imbued with blue divine flames, instantly raised the billet's temperature to its limit, its internal structure being optimized and reorganized under the divine fire.

After an unknown amount of time, the intense hammering finally stopped.

Ornn stretched out his enormous hand again, his palm covered with a layer of flowing, chilling, deep blue liquid, and grabbed the now-cooled armor piece on the anvil.

Orn held it up to his eyes, his lava-like eyes scrutinizing it closely, his rough fingers gently tracing the surface of the armor as if sensing the flow of energy within.

Orn frowned very slightly, as if he was not satisfied with a certain detail.

He opened his mouth and breathed a sharp breath onto the armor.

"call--!"

A thin layer of white frost quickly condensed on the surface of the armor, but the dark red aura inside flowed even more actively.

Having done all this, Ornn seemed finally satisfied. With a casual toss, the breastplate transformed into a streak of light and instantly disappeared into Lux.

The steel of the heart has been forged into the armor of Leviathan.

Leviathan Armor (Ornn Upgraded Version)

[+1050 Health]

[+300% HP recovery]

[+25 Skill Haste]

[Giant Devour: When there is an enemy hero-level unit within 10 meters, it will continuously charge up a powerful attack on that unit over 3 seconds. The charged attack will deal additional physical damage based on the target's maximum health and grant you permanent maximum health equal to 10% of that damage (24-hour cooldown per target)].

[Goliath: Gain 3% lifespan for every 1000 maximum health points]

A power even heavier than the previous Heart Steel surged into Lux's body in an instant.

If Lux previously felt she could smash a giant monster with one punch, now she could smash the head of a fire dragon with one punch.

"Thank you..." Lux was about to say thank you when the scene before her eyes distorted violently again.

The scorching lava, the deafening roar, Ornn's enormous figure... everything faded away as quickly as a faded oil painting.

A wave of dizziness washed over her, and when she regained her footing, her nostrils were filled with the familiar scent of incense and expensive wood from the Rozier Manor.

She was standing on the soft, thick Persian carpet in her suite, with the Parisian sunset glow outside the window.

"Hey sis! My God! What was that place? It was so hot! Who was that big guy? He was hitting me with a hammer! I was scared to death!" Lumi shouted, still shaken, in the wicker basket, patting her chest with her little paws.

Lux looked down at herself. Eve was unharmed, but the surging life force within her was incredibly real.

With a thought, the icon for [Heart Steel] in her equipment bar indeed changed to a much heavier icon for [Leviathan Armor], covered in scale patterns.

"I've made a fortune!" Lux was so happy she almost jumped for joy. With these stats and passive ability, she could just stand there and let Tom hit her in a fight!

"Miss Laksana, I heard some noises," came the respectful voice of the butler, Durand, from outside the door.

"Is that you inside? Dinner is ready. Head of the Augustin family and Miss Malena are waiting for you in the dining room."

Lux then noticed that the sky outside the window was almost unchanged from when she was teleported away. She felt like she had been in Ornn's volcanic furnace for at least a few hours, but in reality, it probably hadn't been that long.

"Coming, coming!" Lux responded, straightened her clothes, picked up Lumi who was still babbling on and on, and opened the door.

Butler Durand stood meticulously outside the door, a professional smile on his face: "Miss, your complexion looks... exceptionally rosy and radiant."

He seemed somewhat surprised by the changes Lux had undergone in such a short time.

"Haha, I just had a good dream," Lux chuckled, heading towards the restaurant in high spirits.

Augustine and Malena were already seated at the dining table.

Seeing Lux enter, Augustine stood up, his face bearing a complex expression that was a mixture of respect and deference.

"Miss Laksana, you look radiant." Augustine gestured for her to sit down.

"There's something I need to inform you. Hogwarts will begin tomorrow. Professor Horace sent a message this morning reminding you not to miss the Hogwarts Express. Your luggage has been packed by the manor's servants."

"Tomorrow?!" Lux exclaimed in surprise, quickly counting the days on her fingers. "August 31st?! I'm in the volcano... no, I feel like only a little while has passed in my room!"

"You've been gone for about two weeks now."

Marlena glanced at her, her eyes filled with inquiry, but she didn't ask any further questions. She simply said, "Professor Slughorn also sent your potion thesis manuscript, saying it's for you to review and prepare for the club next semester."

She pointed to a thick roll of parchment bound with ribbon on the table.

Lux looked at the thick, brick-like paper and felt her joy at having just obtained the artifact diminish by half: "...The professor is really thoughtful."

Dinner took place in a subtle atmosphere.

Augustine became increasingly respectful towards Lux, even speaking with a hint of seeking instructions. Malena, on the other hand, remained much more silent, though her occasional glances at Lux still carried an indescribable complexity.

Armand, however, had disappeared again.

After dinner, Lux returned to her room and sighed as she looked at the suitcases her servants had already packed and the thoughtfully prepared thesis on the table.

"Lumi, pack your bags, we're heading back to Hogwarts tomorrow! Our Square Toe... no, our House Cup mission isn't finished yet!"

"Boo boo! It's good to be back at school! I missed the chicken legs in the auditorium!" Lumi rolled around in the luxurious wicker basket, then suddenly remembered something, and started scratching at the edge of the basket with her little paws. "Little sister, I think... I think I swallowed one of those Galleons that old man Augustine put on the living room decorative plate... thinking it was a cookie crumb..."

Lux: "..."

The next morning, escorted by the Rozier family's luxurious carriage, Lack, carrying Lumi and her luggage, returned safely to London and arrived at the Leaky Cauldron.

Vera and Holmes, carrying their luggage, appeared to have been waiting there for some time.