Chapter 25: Goddess of the Women's Restroom

"Thunderbird!" Allen silently chewed on this unfamiliar word.

"Yes, the characteristics of your eyes are very similar to a Thunderbird's, but after all, I am not an expert in this field, so I cannot be completely certain right now," Professor McGonagall explained.

"Then if I want to ask about knowledge regarding magical creatures in the future, who should I consult? You know, today's situation will absolutely not be the last time; I need more knowledge and information on this subject," Allen said hurriedly.

"The one at Hogwarts most proficient in this knowledge is Professor Kettleburn, who teaches Care of Magical Creatures, but he spends his time off with his little creatures, so you might not be able to find him," Professor McGonagall hesitated as she spoke.

"Actually, what I want to recommend to you is Hogwarts' gamekeeper, Mr. Rupert Hagrid; he is also very proficient in various knowledge about magical creatures, especially large magical creatures!" Professor McGonagall specifically emphasized the word "large" when she said it.

"The Thunderbird is also a type of large magical creature, so for more specific information, you can consult Hagrid," Professor McGonagall added.

"Oh, I understand, then I will return first," Allen found he had nothing else he wanted to ask.

"Don't rush; although we cannot take a sample, I still need to take a photo," she said as a huge old-fashioned camera flew into Professor McGonagall's hand.

Allen had no choice but to cooperate with the photo taking.

"After the photo develops, I will give you a copy," Professor McGonagall pondered, "If you can prove later that you can still manifest parts of magical creatures, then Professor Dumbledore and I will consider adding a salary for your cooperation in the research. Transforming into magical creatures has always been a hot topic in the academic world, but it is still stuck in the theoretical stage, and no one has achieved substantial success yet. You are becoming more and more valuable for research!" Professor McGonagall added.

"(⊙o⊙)..." Allen didn't know what to say, so he took his leave and departed.

After leaving Professor McGonagall's office, Allen realized he was so hungry he could eat a whole pig; seeing that lunchtime had not yet passed, he hurried to the Great Hall to eat.

After a bout of wolfing down food, Allen felt his whole body finally had sufficient nutritional supply and began to feel drowsy, but Allen clearly knew he could not sleep now; he still had so many things to do.

The Thunderbird's eyes will disappear when I sleep at night; who knows when I will randomly get them again! If I don't hurry up and do something, then I will have lost out too much this time.

Fortunately, today is the day! Try to record those characters again. Allen secretly made up his mind.

Allen returned to his dormitory, found all the textbooks and notebooks he could write in, filled a bag to the brim, and went back to the abandoned restroom he had visited in the morning; Allen then discovered this was a girls' restroom; he had been too hurried last time to notice.

But Allen could not worry about these things now; time was passing quickly, so he should hurry up and work; he quickly observed the surroundings, saw no one was around, and quickly entered this girls' restroom.

In the same corner stall, Allen carefully hung his backpack on the wall and began a new round of recording and experimentation.

This time Allen was much more experienced; he first tore open an old notebook, then began a new round of casting.

He quickly cast all the spells he mastered; this time he did not use time slowdown, but instead quickly estimated the number of characters on the light screen produced by each spell.

The final conclusion was that Lumos was the shortest, and the Transfiguration spell was the longest; to be precise, the Transfiguration spell was over a hundred times longer than the other spells combined; actually, a hundred times was just Allen's rough estimate,

because the flow speed of characters on the Transfiguration spell's light screen was particularly fast, so fast he couldn't even see them clearly.

With this result, Allen began to execute his plan; he planned to concentrate his forces to fight a war of annihilation; he first chose Lumos, which had the fewest characters, preparing to "annihilate" this one first.

When entering the time slowdown state again, Allen carefully felt his own state, simultaneously quickly wrote down two characters, then rapidly copied them onto parchment; this time Allen copied these two characters onto ten pieces of parchment, then entered the time slowdown state again, wrote down two characters, and then copied the characters onto nine of these ten pieces of parchment; continuing this way, after entering the time slowdown state ten times, he stopped because he felt his body had reached its limit and prepared to rest for a while; finally, he obtained ten pieces of parchment recording twenty characters, eighteen characters... down to two characters respectively.

He was testing how many characters a single piece of parchment could withstand.

During the rest interval, Allen did not completely stop; he carefully felt his own body; this time his mood was very calm, without the excitement from the morning, which allowed him to feel more things; combining this with the feeling of entering the time slowdown state, Allen quickly reached a conclusion.

Entering the time slowdown state is a subjective perception of time slowing down for himself, not an objective slowing down of time.

That is, the time slowdown state is essentially a sensation that time has slowed down in his senses, but the flow of time in reality has not changed. This conclusion made Allen feel somewhat disappointed in his heart, feeling he had lost a very awesome skill.

Allen also reached another conclusion: entering the time slowdown state is essentially a single casting utilizing the power of his eyes, but the mechanism of this casting is obviously different from the mechanism of a wizard's casting; however, both are without consumption to oneself, as the World Will manifests the magical effects, but because this magic acts upon Allen himself, it brings a great burden to his body.

After feeling his body had rested well, Allen began the cycle of entering the time slowdown state again...

Two hours passed; Allen finally recorded all the characters of Lumos completely, and the original ten pieces of parchment used to record characters had undergone obvious changes; the parchment recording more than ten characters changed very obviously; the more characters recorded, the worse the condition of the parchment became. The parchment recording two characters had absolutely no change.

Finally, Allen chose the safest method—recording only two characters on each piece of parchment.

He quickly recorded the characters of Lumos he had written down in this manner; while recording, he also copied the characters onto different positions on every page, so that when the whole notebook was closed, all the characters would not overlap.

Maybe this could reduce the probability of the notebook burning. Allen silently comforted himself in his heart.

Then Allen calculated the time again; combining the time he spent recording Lumos characters, Allen quickly decided to use the remaining time to record the characters of the Cleaning Charm.

It was another rest interval; Allen leaned his head against the wall and thought self-mockingly: "If others found out about my business in the toilet, after I become famous, will they crown me the 'Goddess of the Women's Restroom'?"

What Allen did not notice was that, outside the stall, a hand silently picked up a piece of parchment from the floor...