[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts":3,"chapter-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-55":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Transfiguration Master of Hogwarts",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2320760,4539,"Chapter 55: Dragon Out of the Cave","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-55",55,"\u003Cp>At night, Allen still didn’t waste any time; he pulled his curtains tightly shut and began attempting to record the ancient runes of the Transfiguration spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he encountered the same problem again—the transformation spell had too many key-value pairs; even though he slowed down the incantation as much as possible, he still couldn’t make out the ancient runes on the screen, leaving him discouraged, yet once again aware of the spell’s uniqueness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Allen feel even more strongly that the transformation spell held immense untapped potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since no effective observation method had been found yet, he could only set it aside for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waking up the next day, Allen began organizing the notes he had copied the previous day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The day before, he had recorded the keys for five spells with empty values: Petrification, Leg-Locker, Repair, Clear Water, and Levitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the value for the Repair spell was completely filled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the remaining four spells, Allen’s current knowledge of ancient runes was still insufficient to decipher their meanings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This disappointed Allen, but it also drove him to work harder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen filled every moment of his day—during free time, he either studied ancient runes or practiced spells; his dedication left Harry and Ron in awe, and perhaps only Hermione could match him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry and Ron only saw Allen during classes, meals, and sleep; at all other times, he was nowhere to be found.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made them sigh at how vast the gap between wizards could be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor Quirrell kept his promise faithfully, beginning on Saturday nights to teach Allen dark magic and ancient runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first dark magic spell he taught Allen was called “Dragon Out of the Cave,” which summoned a venomous snake, allowing the wizard to establish a connection with it and control or guide its attacks in real time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen was quite satisfied with the spell’s effect—the summoned snake was highly concealable, and if the ambush succeeded, its venom could instantly incapacitate an adult wizard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This spell reshaped Allen’s understanding of dark magic and gave him a greater sense of security.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Allen feared snakes in both his past and present lives, survival now outweighed his fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell also gave Allen many new tactical options; he disliked the conventional dueling style of wizards, finding it rigid, like modern pistol duels or the energy-blast clashes in comics and games, where the weak stood little chance against the strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a transmigrant, Allen felt no psychological or moral burden toward ambushes—why fight head-on if you could strike from the shadows?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he greatly favored the “Dragon Out of the Cave” spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t it better to summon several snakes and hide them in the dark for ambushes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in a surprise encounter, you could hide behind cover, summon a swarm of snakes, and strike when the enemy drew near—wouldn’t that be better?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen despised the rigid tactics of wizards; he had once seriously considered carrying a pouch of quicklime, throwing it at danger to create a wide-area attack—so long as he watched the wind direction, it would be far more effective than the slow, mechanical incantations and wand-waving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since quicklime couldn’t be found around Hogwarts, he had to abandon the idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although establishing a connection with a transfigured target was fundamentally similar to establishing one with a summoned creature from “Dragon Out of the Cave”—reducing Allen’s learning cost—he still needed extensive practice to master the spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to practice in secluded places, avoiding Hogwarts’ ever-present ghosts; eventually, he found the Forbidden Forest ideal, though this inevitably increased his training time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Allen even busier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time flew by, and before he knew it, it was December; Christmas was approaching, Hogwarts had seen several snowfalls, and the weather had grown colder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Allen went to work with Hagrid, he had to dress even more heavily to stay warm during his patrols in the Forbidden Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Hermione noticed Allen’s hardship and gave him a bottle filled with blue magical flame, which he could carry in his chest for warmth—this greatly eased his discomfort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been one and a half months since Harry was attacked during the Quidditch match; during this time, Hogwarts had remained calm, as if the hidden hand that infiltrated the school had vanished, making no overt moves—but Allen never let his guard down, believing the longer the hand remained silent, the greater the blow it would strike when it finally acted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In these one and a half months, Allen had largely mastered the “Dragon Out of the Cave” spell; Professor Quirrell was satisfied with his progress and planned to teach him the Fiendfyre spell next—a spell whose very name sounded terrifyingly powerful, so Allen looked forward to it with great anticipation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Professor Quirrell was somewhat disappointed by Allen’s accounts of his Forbidden Forest experiences; fortunately, Allen’s acting was convincing enough that Quirrell never suspected him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen also visited the library to look up information on Newt Scamander and discovered he was a renowned scholar of magical creatures; as he read through Scamander’s biography, Allen felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if he had seen the name before while browsing videos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Allen pushed these thoughts aside, believing that connecting with a renowned magical creature scholar would offer little benefit to his current situation and would only waste his precious time, so he abandoned the idea of contacting Newt Scamander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, Allen was surprised to notice that Harry’s trio frequently used break times to search the library; Hermione going to the library wasn’t surprising, but Harry and Ron doing so startled him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He later learned they were researching the name “Nicolas Flamel” obtained from Hagrid, so he voluntarily joined their search.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione pulled out a list from her pocket, detailing the topics and book titles she intended to investigate, and assigned half of them to Allen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Ron wandered among the bookshelves, randomly pulling books off the racks with no clear goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, they checked every book on the list but found no trace of “Nicolas Flamel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The December transformation of the Lei Niao’s eyes allowed Allen to record the ancient rune key-value pairs for “Dragon Out of the Cave,” but he still couldn’t decipher any useful keys, leaving him feeling stuck in a bottleneck in his ancient runes research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many things troubled him, but the most pressing now was Christmas approaching—he needed to prepare gifts for his friends, yet as a penniless beggar who had never even held a Jin Jialong, this was a serious problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horn of the Jiao Tuo Beast in his trunk hadn’t found a buyer yet, so he couldn’t sell it for money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been thinking about this for several days and had gradually developed some ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>",1129,"2026-06-20T16:09:23.977Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b758c6d7542267499fb596f1f5ff9ebfc77545431371514ab74ffad5feb8a800","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-56","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-54",284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]