Chapter 135: Respect Magic

"Amato, Animo, Animato, Animagus."

Early morning, Murphy recited this spell to himself for the umpteenth time.

While reciting the spell, he was also further depicting his needs in his mind.

Both the Spell and Transfiguration Research Groups believed that when reciting the spell to oneself, applying the guidance of will would better induce the Animagus potion to mutate, allowing it to change in the direction he expected.

"Maintain the original human form, do not change appearance, retain the wizard's original abilities, possess higher neuronal density similar to birds, become smarter, more agile, no bad mutations, no deformities, no lesions, no cancer, more stable genetic structure, night vision, far vision, flight ability, improvement in physical fitness…"

This was almost like another kind of "spell" he had used before.

The human experience test for High-level Animagus transformation hadn't been completed yet, but in order to save time, Murphy's Animagus was being conducted synchronously with the verification test.

In the past month or so, he had repeated this process dozens of times, usually without any special changes.

But this time, when the depiction in his mind was less than halfway through, his heart suddenly jumped heavily.

Then a subtle throbbing knocked deep in his chest.

"At some point, you will feel the second heartbeat in your body…"

Murphy immediately recalled the steps in the Animagus transformation.

In fact, this was already much later than the wizard who was conducting the verification at the same time. The other party had already felt the heartbeat a week ago.

Murphy felt this might be because his spell was more complex and he had more requirements…

Now was not the time for random thoughts. Murphy restrained the various messy thoughts in his mind and continued to carry the depiction in his mind to the end, "No loss of function, no change in body structure, if there is a contradiction in requirements, keep the status quo, no malignant mutations, health as the first priority…"

…

Time stepped into September amidst various rapid advances.

On this day, the Transfiguration Research Group finally brought Murphy a piece of good news.

"Director! Success! Wizard Winston successfully became a High-level Animagus using the Patronus Induction Method!"

And Murphy had also been waiting for this news for a long time. After feeling the second heartbeat last time, he had been waiting for the verification over there to pass.

Previously, with the "unpaid assistance" of Peter Pettigrew, the Transfiguration Research Group quickly completed the theoretical verification and calculated the success probability. After using the method of adding Polyjuice Potion to capture the wizard's "breath" to increase the success rate, reducing the possible fatal probability of transformation to less than 5%, they applied for human experiments.

Murphy issued an announcement among the researchers, recruiting wizards to participate voluntarily, and promised rewards enough to make any wizarding family immediately enter the upper class. Many wizards in the institute signed up.

Murphy selected the wizard who had always performed the most outstandingly and had the highest recognition of the institute — it happened to be his former classmate Winston Robinson — the Wood siblings had higher loyalty, but their talent for transformation was insufficient, so Murphy didn't let them participate.

"Notify Newcastle, no need for artificial rain, let the clouds gather, I need a storm."

Murphy placed his potion in Newcastle, the city in the UK where thunderstorms appeared most often, but in order to wait for the verification results from Winston's side, he had the Umbrella Company communicate with the local Muggle government, finding an excuse to frequently perform artificial rain. Once the cumulonimbus clouds began to gather, he would let it become rain first, avoiding thunderstorms and stormy weather.

"What is the fatal probability calculated this time?" Murphy asked.

"Less than 3%. The probability of success is higher than 76%, of which the probability of perfect transformation without side effects has also increased to 9%, and the probability of failure but not fatal is 21%."

"Hmm."

It was not much different from the previous theoretical values, and this was already the best state they could achieve at present.

Although the 3% fatal probability was a low-probability event, it still carried danger, but wanting to eliminate this 3% probability would require at least ten years of research, and he couldn't wait.

If you don't want to take any risks, how can you achieve the achievements you want?

Come on, let the storm come more violently.

…

"Amato, Animo, Animato, Animagus."

In a country villa in Newcastle, Murphy recited the spell to himself once again, and also described the "spell" in his mind once again.

Feeling the throbbing in his chest that had become even more intense than his original heartbeat, he knew the time was almost up.

Walking out of the room, looking at the overcast clouds coming from afar, Murphy was slightly excited.

Today was the day the storm arrived. Some time ago, they constantly evacuated the cumulonimbus clouds in advance through artificial rain, but the repeated suppression seemed to have angered nature. According to the weather forecast, today might usher in a super storm that hadn't been seen in a hundred years.

The closer it was to this moment, the more Murphy calmed himself down. He finished his dinner unhurriedly, then came to the attic, squatted down, and began to meditate.

He didn't continue to imagine those "spells". He had already done all the preparations he should do. Excessive pursuit of "perfection" might make his mood become anxious.

He wanted to be able to calmly welcome that moment more.

Before nightfall, the sky had completely darkened, and then the wind started.

The wind grew stronger, howling, as if all things were crying.

Then it started to rain. At first, it was just a few raindrops, but in less than half a minute, it turned into a torrential downpour.

The storm seemed to shroud the whole world, and it was pitch black outside.

This made Murphy feel a bit emotional. Even if he became a High-level Animagus and became stronger, even if he could become a wizard like Dumbledore or Voldemort in the future, in front of such natural violent power, he would still appear a bit small.

His road was still very long.

Thinking this way, he slowly calmed down, closed his eyes, and immersed himself in an ethereal realm of no thought, his body seeming to become light.

Outside the wind and rain were gloomy, but he felt unprecedented tranquility.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning lit up in his mind. He opened his eyes abruptly, and saw that there was indeed a strong light flashing outside the window.

It's here!

"The moment the first lightning flashes, rush to the place where you placed the potion."

This step flashed through his mind. Before the thunder could pass, he prepared to take out his wand to Apparate, but suddenly found that he was already in the rain.

He had appeared on a mountain top at some point, and not far away was the cave where he placed the potion.

This…

Apparition without a wand?

What happened?

But at this moment, he didn't have the energy to think carefully. He walked into the cave and saw a huge metal iron door that looked like a bank vault. He entered the password, opened the vault, and silver-white brilliance immediately flowed out from it, illuminating the entire cave.

A pure white raven was standing in that pure black super-clean room. Under its feet, on a pure silver workbench, a crystal bottle was fixed by 7 brackets.

The moment Murphy looked over, the potion in the crystal bottle gradually turned from a pure black to blood red.

"Hard work." He stretched out his hand, and that raven Patronus landed in his palm, then turned into a wisp of light smoke and vanished.

Murphy walked out of the cave with the potion, came to the open field, and held up the crystal bottle to the violent world.

"Respect magic."

After speaking, he drank it in one gulp.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 136 =====