A certain Hogwarts professor of runes.

Felix truly felt like he was back in his childhood, not this life's childhood, but his past life's. The familiar characters on the screen made him feel incredibly close to them, especially the young women dressed in light clothing.

"Brand's skills are so cool!!"

"The Ice Girl's ultimate skill is screen-wide, what do you know!"

Felix chuckled. Sure enough, gamers all over the world tend to have similar names: move signature + gender.

Just as I was about to turn and leave, a sudden thought flashed through my mind. Wait, what was I just thinking?

Fighting?

Figurines? Yes, figurines!

Felix's eyes lit up. He had finally found an alchemical artifact suitable for all five grades—complex enough, yet not too difficult. This was a figurine… no, this was a magical puppet!

His long-held thoughts could finally come to an end.

Using characters from fighting games as templates and ancient magic runes as a means of reproduction, some characters from the games are recreated!

These magical puppets (figures) are acceptable to children in the wizarding world, and Muggle wizards have no psychological barriers to them.

As for the difficulty, it is easy to adjust. For third and fourth grade students, he can complete the engraving of the main magic runes of the magic puppet, leaving some nodes and branch structures for them to complete.

Older students will need to complete at least one functional module on their own.

Felix became more and more excited as he thought about it; he could even organize a doll fighting tournament!

After all, children in the wizarding world have it too tough, with very limited entertainment options. What's so great about Quidditch?

His dislike for Quidditch was definitely not because he failed his first-year flying class!

A picture flashed through Felix's mind:

The two students met, each holding a palm-sized magical puppet, and struck a classic duel pose.

Come and join the thrilling magical duel!

Felix was lost in some kind of delusion, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily turned up high.

Chapter 8 Figurines

What does it take to create a "real" magical golem?

First, we need to understand what magical golems are. Simply put, they are things used for guarding the house and property. As far as Felix knows, Hogwarts School has a batch of stone golems, whose craftsmanship is extremely complex, and which have survived for thousands of years, always protecting the safety of Hogwarts.

But when it comes to teaching, there's no need to be so strict.

Find some good clay, mix in an appropriate amount of dragon dung, and add some blood from magical animals—dragon blood is best, of course, but teaching aids should naturally be cheap.

However, he could acquire some high-end combat puppets as part of his private collection...

Felix quickly submitted an application to Professor McGonagall, and after some complicated communication, Professor McGonagall finally agreed to his idea and let him give it a try.

The letter also included a formal letter of appointment and a small bag of Galleons.

Felix quickly gathered the materials for his student-version magical golem: he dug the clay himself, and sourced the dragon dung and magical beast blood from the black market. He then spent three more days traveling between Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, as well as various magical black markets around the world, finally collecting all the high-grade materials for his "deluxe" magical golem.

Felix then wrote to his "dear" Slytherin classmate, temporarily borrowing a house-elf from their home to create a magical version of the production line.

Felix emptied his house and used a Traceless Stretch spell to transform the room into the size of a plaza.

Before him stood a row of house-elves.

"Everyone, I'm counting on you all from now on!" After Felix demonstrated how to make the puppet model, he stepped back and delegated the task.

As for him personally, he's very busy! Besides redesigning his "deluxe" battle golem and adding various powerful restricted-level magic runes, he also has to take care of the food problem for his house-elves so that they can devote themselves to their work.

Felix wasn't just making this up; there's testimony from house-elves to prove it: "Mr. Hyp is truly amazing!"

Time slipped away day by day, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had quietly passed.

Felix looked at the hundreds of magical puppet models and was very satisfied, even though none of these models had any magic runes and could barely be considered as rough drafts.

But that's enough.

Before parting, Felix prepared a lavish farewell dinner for the house-elves.

"You are so generous!" xN

After reaping another wave of thanks, Felix saw off these "volunteer laborers."

Over the next week, Felix began carving ancient runes of varying difficulty according to the number of students in each grade, while using reinforcement spells to prevent damage, since these all cost money!

Felix worked himself to the bone before he finally got it all sorted out.

"I'm never doing this again! It's too damn tiring!"

Felix felt completely drained and his face was pale, but he had taken another big step forward in his understanding of ancient runes.

Picking up a half-finished magic puppet at random, it was a palm-sized (about half a foot) humanoid figure that looked like a scaled-down young man dressed in an Eastern-style school uniform, wearing fingerless black gloves, with golden sun badges embedded in the back of the gloves and the shirt.

After spending a few minutes completing the ancient rune circuit, he waved his wand, and the magical puppet immediately came to life.

First, it tentatively moved its hands and feet, kicking and punching. Then, it raised its index finger in a classic pose, paused for a few seconds, and then suddenly swung its arm. A ball of flame the size of a football was propelled from its finger along the predetermined ancient magic circuit, flying a good half meter away...

"Hehehehe..."

Felix's magical puppet, although inspired by a fighting game, is not a complete copy; its appearance and moves have been modified.

The magic puppets come in 12 different styles, including handsome men, beautiful women, old people, and children, giving students plenty of options to choose from.

Each puppet, in addition to its basic fighting style and moves, also has an "external skill" design. However, considering the practicalities, Felix didn't make it too complicated, but rather roughly divided it into four types: "fire," "ice," "lightning," and "cutting."

Taking fire as an example, considering safety issues (we can't underestimate the little wizards' savagery), the "external skill" released by the student version of the magic puppet is just the most ordinary fire, at most it looks cooler.

He was quite knowledgeable in this regard; he even modified a character's skills so that the ultimate move would transform him into a firebird—yes, a phoenix.

Felix was very satisfied; perhaps he could bring a new trend to Hogwarts!

Having settled on the teaching materials, Felix turned his attention to his "deluxe" combat puppet.

There are six in total.

If we had to assign a label to satisfy our imagination, it could be summarized by the following keywords:

The Flame Master is a beautiful young lady;

The Ice Master is a beautiful young lady;

The Thunder Master is a beautiful young lady;

A beautiful young lady who is skilled in cutting;

Speed ​​Master, a beautiful young lady;

Transformers: A Beautiful Young Lady;

Haha, the characteristics are surprisingly consistent!

In summary, he added two new types of figures to his collector's edition: the Speed ​​Assassin type and the Shapeshifter/Disruptor type. These six figures are not cheap imitations; they are alchemical creations that he completed using a lot of high-grade materials, inscribed with complex ancient runes, and protected with protective magic.

Take the Flame Master as an example. She is inscribed with a powerful magical flame that is extremely hot and can shoot up to 20 meters away. Its power is enough to shatter half a wall, and she can maintain this combat intensity for ten minutes.

According to his estimation, any one of these six magical puppets could easily defeat a seventh-year graduate.

The six figures combined into one possess ranged attacks, melee combat, speed, charging power, strong attacks, and interference capabilities. They can fight alone, in pairs, in groups of three, four, or even six, with their power increasing exponentially.

Well, Felix thought maliciously that these six puppets could easily hold off an unnamed potions professor for ten minutes!

The only drawback is that it requires a wizard to control it.

But the key point is that Felix himself is far stronger than the magical puppet...

"Useless, useless," Felix shook his head. "It seems there's still a lot of room for improvement."

They should at least be given some combat intelligence.

After looking at the remaining materials, he thought for a moment and decided to mix in some inferior materials to make five more puppets, stronger than the student version but weaker than the collector's version.

Consider it a prize for starting the course; one for each of the five grades!

perfect!

Felix took out a small box and put the teaching aids inside—needless to say, this box was also enchanted with a Seamless Stretch Charm.

Felix didn't think much about his six figurines. He waved his wand, making them float up and fly to a jade-green ring on the index finger of his left hand.

This object, which resembles a storage ring, is actually an alchemical artifact reinforced with a Seamless Stretch Charm and a Stabilizing Rune.

It also has hidden magic runes engraved on it to minimize magical fluctuations, so that from the outside it looks like a decorative gemstone ring.

But this ring held a third of his fortune from his travels all over the country!

However, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, and Felix already has two, with only one more to go.

He had already made progress on the third cave a few days ago.

Chapter 9 Three Caves

Felix gently rubbed the inside of his wrist, where there was a flesh-colored line about the size of a fingernail. Few people would notice this pattern unless they zoomed in and examined it carefully.

This pattern is actually an ancient magic rune circuit, with a small space hidden inside.

Inside the space was a spare magic wand.

After all, the pattern is too small, and there's not much it can hide. Moreover, this ancient magic rune circuit is actually always closed, and it can only be opened when certain conditions are met.

The condition for opening it is to smear a layer of one's own blood.

This is his most secretive and most difficult-to-detect backup plan at present.

When he finds himself in a disadvantageous position, or is disarmed, loses his wand, or even has his ring stolen, this rune circuit will help him turn the tide.

As long as he isn't killed on the spot, he has a chance to turn the tide.

The ring on the left hand is in the light, while the magic runes on the inside of the right wrist are in the dark, one in the light and one in the dark, almost perfect.

Now, Felix is ​​also preparing to complete the construction of the third cave.

His caution wasn't because Hogwarts was a den of dragons and tigers, hiding some great danger, or because he was planning to do something. Rather, he knew that from the day he became the Ancient Runes professor at Hogwarts, he had officially become involved in the "plot."

Given his limited understanding of the plot, it would be difficult for him to have foresight, so he had to take precautions early on.

He doesn't believe in so-called "fairy tales," he only believes in his own strength.