Chapter 281

Allen’s improvement direction was to add wand movements and incantations as information into the parameters to be transmitted.

Since Jodel defected, he had opened more of his memories to Allen—mostly memories of studying magical books from Hogwarts’ library, especially those in the Restricted Section; Jodel had nearly read every magical book in the Restricted Section, and Allen viewed these memories to read the magical books he found interesting.

Because he had prematurely encountered advanced and forbidden knowledge, Allen began consciously learning advanced casting techniques, such as silent casting and wandless casting.

He discovered that silent casting and wandless casting shared similar principles: silent casting involved silently murmuring the incantation in one’s mind using a special technique, while wandless casting involved visualizing the wand’s movement in the mind using a special technique.

Allen quickly mastered silent casting, because he realized that the silently murmured incantation was translated into an ancient magical rune parameter and added to the parameters to be transmitted.

Wandless casting operated on the same principle—the imagined wand movement was translated into an ancient magical rune parameter and added to the parameters to be transmitted—but Allen had not fully mastered wandless casting, because he found he could only cast the Transfiguration Spell, Unlocking Charm, and Lumos Spell wandlessly; other spells simply could not be cast wandlessly.

This made Allen vaguely realize something: Transfiguration was the spell he had studied most deeply, while Unlocking Charm and Lumos Spell he had perfected to their utmost limits, becoming an Ultimate Spell Wizard; the magical power of these two spells had been doubled—apparently wandless casting had limitations, requiring a spell to be studied to a certain degree or its power enhanced to a certain level before it could be cast wandlessly.

However, wandless casting was mentally exhausting, so Allen still preferred using his wand in daily practice.

Allen’s intended modification to magical scrolls was to directly embed the incantation and wand movement parameters into the scroll’s parameter memory.

This improved magical scroll became extremely simple to cast: one merely had to point at the target to be transfigured, open the metal ring binding the scroll, and the modified Transfiguration Spell would activate.

But Allen had not yet designed any powerful new transfigured beasts.

He was still in the phase of collecting parameters, especially after he began randomly obtaining various Pokémon body parts, which dramatically increased his possible combinations.

He found that compared to native magical creatures in the Harry Potter world, Pokémon’s abilities were generally more powerful—though each had strengths and weaknesses—and Pokémon’s abilities covered an extremely broad range.

Recently, Allen had been randomly obtaining all sorts of strange Pokémon body parts, each often carrying unique abilities.

For example, one day he randomly obtained a strange foot that carried the abilities Sand-Attack and Dig; Sand-Attack directly turned Allen’s first-year idea of sprinkling lime into reality.

Moreover, Pokémon abilities were mostly instant-cast, and there were simply too many of them—far more than the spells he currently knew—and he now felt his wand growing increasingly useless.

But Pokémon abilities were generally weaker in power; otherwise, Professor Oak would have died long ago.

Magical creatures and Pokémon abilities each had their pros and cons: for instance, fire-breathing—the dragon’s breath and Charizard’s Flamethrower were entirely different concepts; the dragon’s breath was far more powerful, but its drawback was poor sustainability—once the magical secretions in its sac were expended, it had to wait until the sac refilled before breathing again; Charizard had no such limitation—its Flamethrower was nearly unrestricted.

Then, dragon scales from the Harry Potter world were the strongest magical defenses Allen had ever seen, but in the Pokémon world, there were no body parts with defense as strong as dragon scales—or rather, Allen simply hadn’t randomly obtained any body parts with defense stronger than dragon scales.

Allen’s favorite ability was “Quick Attack.”

This ability was practically divine in the HP world: while a wizard was swinging his wand and chanting, Allen had already decided which direction to dodge—evading spells in duels was incredibly effective.

So Allen wanted to combine these different body parts.

Every night, he secretly slipped into the tunnel leading to the Chamber of Secrets, fell asleep under the gaze of the Basilisk, and obtained the parameters for the body parts he would randomly receive the next day—he had now collected numerous Pokémon body part parameters.

He was growing increasingly free within Hogwarts—even though he was a student of special importance to the professors, he still roamed the castle without restriction.

Harry lent him something called the “Marauder’s Map,” warning him to be careful when wandering; although Allen was very interested in this magical item, after studying it, he found it had little practical use for him.

Because when wandering around Hogwarts, Allen always transformed into his Animagus form—he had specifically chosen the bat form—and thus no one had ever discovered his traces.

But thinking of bats made Allen angry: Snape, that old bat, had consistently refused to share with him the method for preserving magical materials produced from his transfigured body parts; worse still, he refused to share any of the preserved magical materials he had processed for long-term storage.

These magical materials were all collected from Allen’s own body—he deserved at least a share—but that old bat Snape refused to give him even a single drop.

These long-term-preserved magical materials were crucial to Allen: designing and testing transfigured beasts consumed them, and specifying transfigurations required consuming them...

In short, Allen urgently needed to master the preservation method.

Finally driven to desperation, Allen transformed into his beetle Animagus form and flew into Snape’s office.

He was quite familiar with Snape’s office—it was a place he visited once a month.

Allen deliberately waited until after Snape had just collected the magical materials before following him into the office; he watched as Professor Snape immersed the freshly collected materials into a jar of specially prepared potion.

Fortunately, Snape had collected a large quantity of magical materials that day and found his existing potion insufficient, so he prepared another batch of the preservation potion—and Allen hid nearby and observed the entire process in full detail.

He memorized the entire process of making this potion; any minor details he could later verify and fill in by reviewing his memories.

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