Chapter 109: The Path of the White Demon King

Another new day had begun.

Early in the morning, Allen received letters delivered by three owls: two from the Ministry of Magic and one from Dumbledore.

The first was a commendation order issued by the Experimental Spell Committee, a subordinate body of the Ministry of Magic; they confirmed that Allen's improvement to the Lumos spell was effective, so they awarded him the commendation order and rewarded him with 300 Jin Jin Jialong, adding that a deposit slip for 300 Jin Jin Jialong was enclosed with the letter, which could be withdrawn at Gringotts Wizarding Bank at any time.

However, Allen turned the envelope over and over several times but could not find the deposit slip anywhere.

Soon, his doubt was answered in the second letter.

The second letter came from the Logistics Department under the Minister of Magic's Office; its main content stated that upon discovering the Experimental Spell Committee had rewarded Allen with 300 Jin Jin Jialong, and since Allen still owed the Ministry of Magic more than 9,000 Jin Jin Jialong, they had intercepted that 300 Jin Jin Jialong deposit slip, and then, as always, enclosed a receipt for 300 Jin Jin Jialong with the letter.

This matter of transferring money from the left hand to the right left Allen completely speechless.

The third letter came from Dumbledore, who had sent a copy of the Daily Prophet from a few days prior, on which two news items were circled in red ink.

One was the front-page headline, recounting this year's Hogwarts admissions accident; the article subtly criticized Dumbledore, yet nowhere in the entire piece was the true reason mentioned.

After reading it, Allen felt only that the article was guiding attacks against Dumbledore, while his own issue was subtly suppressed.

The other was an article squeezed into the gaps, briefly introducing Allen's improvement to the Lumos spell, phrased in very official terms.

After reading these two news items, Allen became somewhat unclear about Dumbledore's intentions, and in the end, he could only interpret it as Dumbledore reminding him to keep a lower profile.

Then Allen continued with the work he had arranged for himself today; he wanted to make a summary of the invention and modification of magic spells in this world.

To this end, he proposed a series of hypotheses.

First, magic spells were not invented by wizards but existed within this world itself; the so-called inventors of spells merely discovered the methods to use these spells by observing magical phenomena within some primitive ancient rune ruins.

Because wizards only observed the surface manifestations of magical phenomena, yet a single magic could not completely display all magical phenomena; just like the Lumos spell, its inventor might have observed only a white sphere of light, so the initial spell could only summon a white sphere of light.

Whereas another wizard, seeing a red sphere of light elsewhere, discovered that the Lumos spell had a hidden parameter of "color," which constituted an improvement to the Lumos spell.

Therefore, the process by which wizards improved spells generation after generation was precisely the process of discovering the hidden parameters within spells.

When all hidden parameters of a spell were discovered, the first wizard to fully release that spell would receive a gift from the source of magic, thereby becoming an "Ultimate Spell Wizard."

This was somewhat like how the first person to successfully pioneer in a game would receive a unique reward.

Such a method of inventing and improving spells meant that many hidden parameters within spells were destined to remain undiscovered, implying that the potential of many current spells had not yet been unearthed.

Later, because wars destroyed many primitive ancient rune ruins, wizards lost the ability to directly invent and improve spells by observing magical phenomena.

However, wizards' research and improvement of spells did not cease, because they could use the method of exhaustive enumeration to invent and improve magic spells, which was also the primary method of modern magical research.

This was also somewhat like the method of modern scientific research: determining a research direction through theory, then obtaining the correct result through continuous experimentation and trial-and-error via exhaustive enumeration.

Therefore, under this model, the line of research thought became something extremely important.

For instance, Allen discovered that the Qing Quan Zhou had a hidden parameter of "temperature," so could this "temperature" parameter be applied to other spells?

For example, regarding the spell "Scourgify," if the temperature parameter were added, could it summon a gust of hot wind that baked people dry,

or a cold wind that froze people stiff?

For instance, the Lumos spell had a hidden parameter of "cycle count," and this hidden parameter would only take effect when the value of "cycle count" was set to a power of two within the range between 64 and 1024; could this line of thought be applied to the improvement of other magic spells?

The answer was certainly yes; since spells existed within this world itself, their creation must certainly follow certain laws, and there must certainly be commonalities between spells, which was precisely why wizards placed such great importance on research lines of thought.

Allen's advantage was that the observational ability of his Thunderbird eyes could easily discover hidden parameters, and these hidden parameters each represented a correct direction for improvement.

The significance of a correct direction for improvement went without saying; taking the Qing Quan Zhou as an example, surely many wizards had thought to add the "temperature" parameter when casting a spell, but after testing values from 1 to 100 degrees and finding no effect, they would only conclude that this direction was wrong.

But Allen would not; he knew his direction was certainly correct, so he could have more patience to experiment, even testing some counter-intuitive parameters.

Allen had recently checked the records concerning Ultimate Spell Wizards in the history of magic; historically, there had been only a limited dozen or so Ultimate Spell Wizards, and the spells they had improved to perfection were also listed one by one, numbering only a dozen or so, which corroborated Allen's above idea—that the potential of many current spells had not yet been unearthed.

Allen realized this was an extremely vast track, and on this track, he was far ahead, while the prospects of walking further down this track were so broad.

As long as he firmly walked down this track, unearthing the hidden parameters of spell after spell.

First, the gift from the source of magic would double the power when he cast a spell improved to perfection.

Then, he could use his improvements to relatively powerful spells as his trump cards to enhance his strength, while improvements to some useless spells could be thrown out to rake in money and reputation.

When he lacked neither strength, money, nor reputation in this world, then power would naturally fall into his hands.

At that time, he would become the undisputed White Demon King of the Wizarding World.

Because by then, his achievements would be well-known to all, his reputation would be what everyone expected, and his promotion of the entire Wizarding World would be indisputable.

By then, the Wizarding World would be completely under his control; this method of peaceful rise was far more reliable than Voldemort's brand of terrorism.

However, only he could walk this path; others simply did not possess the capital to walk this road.

At this moment, Allen finally found his direction!

He wanted to become the White Demon King who controlled the Wizarding World!

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