Chapter 181: Learning Defensive Spells

"You're saying that because you stayed up late reading with the senior, you accidentally fell asleep together."

"The next day you were almost solo-killed by the senior's father, and now you don't dare to go play at the senior's house?"

At this moment, at Titus's home.

John was lying on Titus's bed eating snacks, while Titus was sitting on the side, retelling John's encounter amusingly.

"It's not that I don't dare... it's just that I feel I need to be fully prepared..."

"Two days ago, Hermione called me and asked me to go over early, but I said wait a little longer..."

John scratched his head helplessly and said.

Hearing this, Titus on the side laughed like crazy.

Time flew by, and it was already the second month of the summer vacation.

Ever since he was caught by Mr. Granger that day, John had lingering fears about visiting.

But Hermione obviously didn't intend to let him off.

She always called every few days, her tone full of gloating laughter.

At this point, he had no choice but to run to Titus's house.

By the way, share his embarrassing story with his good brother.

Titus laughed so hard he slapped the bed, and potato chips spilled all over the floor, but he couldn't bother to pick them up.

John rolled his eyes and grabbed a pillow to throw at his face.

Titus then waved his hand, his shoulders twitched a few times, and he stopped laughing.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this."

"Didn't you say in your letter last time that you wanted to come here to practice spells."

Titus asked while waving his wand seriously to clean up the potato chip residue on the floor.

As mentioned before, in a wizarding family, even if little wizards like them cast magic, they wouldn't be held accountable by the Ministry of Magic.

So during the summer vacation, if you want to practice magic, you can only come to Titus's house.

"Yeah, speaking of which, I also want to ask you, your house seems to have some defensive spells set up."

Hearing Titus talk about business, John also raised his head and asked.

Titus nodded.

"Definitely, normal wizarding families will set up some defensive spells more or less, and our house is no exception."

"The most basic one is naturally the Muggle-Repelling Spell, but because my mom has a good relationship with the neighbors, someone occasionally visits, so our house's repelling spell is all set in these tent rooms."

No wonder the layout of Titus's living room outside is similar to a Muggle family; it turns out Mrs. Claude entertains neighbors from time to time.

"Besides that, it's just the more ordinary fire and theft prevention, automatic cleaning, soundproofing, and so on."

"However... recently my dad strengthened it again, saying he added a series of protective measures such as early warning, anti-intrusion, enemy suppression traps, Confundus Charms, etc., and also specially installed a Dark Magic sensing device."

Hearing this, John nodded in understanding. Voldemort has resurrected, and it will inevitably cause turmoil in the wizarding world in the future.

Those rats hiding in the gutter will sooner or later emerge to make trouble, so strengthening protection is indeed necessary.

He came here also to learn the layout techniques of these defensive spells on the spot.

Now besides here, he has nowhere else to learn.

Sirius's place? No, it's not as comfortable as his good brother's place.

And also, regional defensive spells all need maintenance.

Only passive-triggered magic like the Warning Spell can be effective for a long time.

But leaving only a Warning Spell is like a mere formality; when the enemy comes, it can only warn, and cannot block anything at all.

So it's safer to leave defensive spells.

And like John going to Hogwarts for a few months, he naturally can't maintain it from time to time, so he has to find a way to improve the spell structure so that the spell can be maintained for a longer time.

The prohibition of casting spells outside of school includes Apparition. If you want to rely on Apparition to go home and maintain it from time to time, it won't work.

Apparition is for emergencies, and can only be used forcibly when the house is really attacked.

So John told Titus about his considerations, wanting to improve the spells.

Titus was surprised after hearing it, but thinking of John's talent, he didn't feel surprised.

Improving spells, although rare in the wizarding world, happens every once in a while.

After all, existing magic is evolved bit by bit over thousands of years by ancient magic to adapt to the current environment.

Only that kind of ancient magic is preserved with its original structure intact.

"Then let's try it, you try to create a defense, and I'll try to invade."

Thinking of this, Titus was rarely excited.

If he could really improve spells with John, he would have to leave a mark in the history of magic.

John nodded. Mr. Claude is not at home now, so it's just right to practice first, and then ask Mr. Claude for advice at night.

The two immediately cleared the furniture in the center of the room, using the round carpet as a boundary, and began to try to set up spells.

Titus was responsible for invading outside to see the effect and feedback.

Learning while practicing.

Until night.

"Hmm, very interesting idea."

"Connecting the Warning Spell and the Anti-Intrusion Spell, and then performing remote maintenance through the magic circuit connected to the Warning Spell."

"But the distance you experimented with is too short. When you really get to Hogwarts, wanting to maintain that distance of maintenance will be a massive consumption for you."

After Mr. Claude understood John's request, looking at John's notes and his demonstration, he gave a review.

One sentence sent their whole day's creation back to before liberation.

Indeed, long-distance magic maintenance is like a thin thread hanging a tripod.

He simply couldn't afford it.

"Hmm... come with me."

Mr. Claude also understood the problem John was facing, pondered for a while, thought of something, and took John toward the study.

They came all the way to the depths of this small library.

Mr. Claude took out a book that looked "hard" from the bookshelf.

"This is a classic record of ancient magic, written in Runic, but even if you can read it, it's difficult to understand the deep meaning inside."

"Ancient magic possesses a logic completely different from modern magic. They are generally durable and powerful, but the power they are linked to is not purely magic."

"So it may not be able to provide you with an answer directly, but perhaps you can find some inspiration from it and apply them to modern magic."

John took the ancient book with a hard cover in surprise, and then looked at Mr. Claude again.

"This... can I really read it? It looks very precious..."

He could see the extraordinary nature of the book at a glance, so he was a bit worried, wondering if it was someone's family heirloom classic that couldn't be read rashly.

As a result, Mr. Claude waved his hand and smiled.

"Oh, what's wrong with that? Ancient magic being lost is not because ancient books are lost, but because modern wizards lack the ability to understand its deep logic."

"There are a bunch of such classics in the Hogwarts library, but most of them are in the Restricted Section."

"And this one in your hand was given to my father by my grandfather before he passed away, and then my father didn't understand it and gave it to me, and I only understood it half-heartedly."

"So you can read it boldly, my grandfather was a Silent for a lifetime, although I don't know where he got this book, it shouldn't be a fake book that cheats people."

Hearing Mr. Claude's relaxed complaints, John finally felt relieved.

Although he doesn't know Runic, Hermione does.

After asking if he could read it with others, Mr. Claude also readily agreed.

Saying it wouldn't matter even if it was lost... ===== CHAPTER 182 =====