Chapter 377

Harry Potter was snoring loudly. He had sat in the study for less than half an hour, trying to fill his workbook with some content, and then he fell asleep. One side of his cheek was pressed against the ink-stained parchment, his eyes were skewed to one side, his mouth was wide open, and a trace of crystalline saliva soaked a few lines of handwriting on the workbook.

"I thought you were really doing your homework." When the minute hand of the clock reached the very bottom, Ivy pushed open the door and walked in, "Why don't you go back to the bedroom to sleep?"

"Ah?" Harry woke up groggily, and he subconsciously reached out to adjust his glasses, "Oh right, Zhang Qiu said she would arrive at two o'clock."

"Yes, and Luo En is already downstairs." Ivy knocked on the tabletop, "Are you going to wash your face?"

"Yes, yes." Harry took out a handkerchief to wipe his wet cheeks, then pulled open the desk drawer and took out a slightly curled piece of parchment, on which some words were written in a rounded, neat handwriting. This letter had been sent a long time ago, but Harry had only read it once or twice.

Dear Harry:

If everything goes well, my martial uncle and I will visit Tang Dun around 2:00 PM on August 26th. We will take you to visit the great changes in the Wizarding World that have not been seen for thousands of years, and we warmly welcome you to participate in it.

In addition, my martial uncle also invited your best friend Ronald Weasley. I hope you can invite him to Tang Dun to meet up in advance.

If there are any changes, please reply in time. See you then.

Yours most sincerely,

Qiu Zhang

After reconfirming the time and date, Harry stuffed the letter into his pocket and walked out. He had certainly been curious about what the so-called "great change" was: the last time someone used this term was when Flitwick described the duel of Elizabeth Smalingi, where the invention of the Disarming Charm caused ancient magic to almost completely disappear in the long river of history. Today, these powerful but extremely long-chanting spells are only used by a very small number of people with ancient inheritances.

"Could it be that the people of the Heavenly Dynasty have developed some new invention that can completely defeat modern spells?" Harry couldn't help but think this as he walked down the stairs.

"Hi, buddy." Luo En greeted him while sitting on the sofa. Having not seen him for nearly two months, Harry found that his good friend had lost a little weight.

"Long time no see, Luo En," Harry patted his arm, "Have you finished your homework?"

"Sort of." Luo En obviously didn't want to talk about this topic, "Zhang Qiu is coming soon, right? Oh, and her martial uncle, do you know that person?"

"I think, perhaps we have met." Harry recalled the young man at Sirius's funeral, "But I didn't say a few words to him either."

"Is that so?" Luo En stood up, and the two of them stared at the foyer together.

"Zhang Qiu mentioned some things, let me think," Harry said, making small talk, "She said her martial uncle is very good at alchemy. Yes, it is said that he was originally a stranger with amnesia, and it was only after meeting Ge Xuan by chance that he became Zhang Qiu's martial uncle. Looking at it this way, perhaps his surname is also Ge..."

A crisp sound interrupted his words. Zhang Qiu appeared alone at the gate, her face showing a hint of displeasure.

"Oh, Harry." She said in a complaining tone, "I don't know what happened, but in short, my martial uncle and my master had a big argument last night. When I got up this morning, he said he was grounded."

"Grounded?"

"You can understand it as being confined, but in short, my martial uncle won't be able to go out for a long time." Zhang Qiu scratched her head in distress.

"Then that thing you mentioned before," Harry asked tentatively, "the great change, are we still going to see it?"

"Uh, originally he wanted to introduce it to you personally," Zhang Qiu reached into her sleeve to rummage, "but now I can only bring it to you."

She took out a buckle with a slot and two small white bottles.

"Here you go, Luo En." She said, "This is armor developed based on alchemy. Its most powerful point is that you can be immune to spells while wearing it."

"What?" Luo En took the buckle somewhat blankly; he didn't seem to understand yet.

"Really? This is incredible." Harry quickly realized how amazing this invention was, "You sit down first, and we'll talk slowly."

"I don't know much either." After sitting down on the sofa, Zhang Qiu hesitated and spoke, "My master looked very unhappy, so my martial uncle and I didn't say much, but fortunately, he gave me all his memories at once. We should be able to find all kinds of details on how to use it in there."

"As for this belt, its principle is to use the shaping effect of the Sorcerer's Stone on magic power, which is to draw out the magic power from your whole body to form a suit of armor outside the body." Zhang Qiu gestured, "After the armor is formed, other people's spells shot at you will just be bounced off. This is because of the nature of magic power... in short, you have all seen the professor use a wand to flick away spells, right?"

"That is to say, you used some special properties of the Sorcerer's Stone to replicate the effect of flicking away spells onto the armor, and covered the whole body?"

"Strictly speaking, this is a question of magic power concentration, but you can understand it this way. Of course, this is just one of its advantages. Its other wonder lies in the fact that because this armor is formed entirely by your own magic power, it not only does not affect movement, but can also increase your strength, agility, defense, etc."

"Yes, you have such technology." Harry naturally thought of the armor Luo En got in Avalon. Looking at it this way, that might have been a prototype. Thinking even deeper, the people of the Heavenly Dynasty didn't iterate the technology to this point within a year; they might have had corresponding ideas long ago, but were just afraid to take them out due to the gaze of Death.

"But this also has flaws," Zhang Qiu scratched her head, "The disadvantage is that transforming will extract all the magic power from your body, so you can't cast magic after transforming."

"Ah? Oh, right, in principle it is indeed like this." Harry felt that he couldn't turn his mind around all of a sudden, "But since this armor can increase physical fitness, does that mean it can still easily defeat ordinary wizards?"

"Yes, never mind what spell he is preparing to chant, just rush up and give him two punches." Luo En waved his fists.

"At present, for a knight against an ordinary wizard, they must either immediately Apparate and escape, or use Transfiguration to transform various things to block him." Zhang Qiu added with a hint of pride, "But according to some actual combat, a knight's punch can easily shatter concrete. In other words, the Transfiguration we commonly use basically has no effect on him."

"Do you call this kind of armor a 'rider'?" Luo En felt a little uncomfortable, "But I feel it should be called a 'knight'."

"This is the language habit of the Heavenly Dynasty; after all, this is also an invention of the Heavenly Dynasty." Harry didn't care much about this point, "And I can feel that this is indeed an epoch-making invention that will have a major impact on the pattern of the Wizarding World."

"Yes, with the advent of the Rider system, we predict that the battles in the Wizarding World in the future will enter a pattern similar to the Middle Ages," Zhang Qiu commented, "Knights in heavy armor fighting each other, while wizards play an auxiliary role from the sidelines."

"It's just changing the form of combat, how is it epoch-making?" Luo En was a little puzzled, "Didn't we often fight with fists or swords before? It's just that now it's changed from an optional choice to a mandatory one."

"Because this Rider system seems to be the patent of the people of the Heavenly Dynasty." Harry examined the buckle known as the driver, "If it cannot be easily counterfeited..."

Has Master Xuanjun, who has been watching for so long, also decided to start placing pieces in the Wizarding World? Harry thought, Zhang Qiu's martial uncle might not have really argued with Master Xuanjun; all of this was performed for her to see. That's right, if there is anything they don't want Harry to know, first of all, they must not let Zhang Qiu know...

"I still don't quite understand, can I try it?" Luo En's question interrupted his thoughts, "How is this used again?"

"I don't have a manual." Zhang Qiu said helplessly, "However, I entered my martial uncle's memory when I was in the second year, so I have seen roughly how he used it: you buckle the driver on your waist, then insert two energy bottles, and then shake the handle, and you can transform."

Luo En stood up and put the buckle on his waist with suspicion. Sure enough, a yellow belt appeared automatically, firmly fixing the entire device to his waist.

Harry also watched him curiously. Immediately after, Luo En inserted the bottles into the belt, but nothing happened, and the handle wouldn't turn either.

"What's going on? Did I do something wrong?" Luo En said, completely confused.

"Uh, I remember that these bottles should contain some kind of element." Zhang Qiu touched her inner pocket unnaturally, "It should be that you need to extract certain elements, and it seems you also need to purify something... forget it, let's look at my martial uncle's memory first to figure out the correct usage, and then you can start trying."

"Then we have to go back to school first and borrow the Pensieve in the Headmaster's office." Harry said, "The Pensieve is said to be a very ancient magical creation. I have never seen a Pensieve anywhere else."

"That's not necessary, he gave it to me in the form of a videotape." Zhang Qiu pointed to the sky secretly, "Let's not go find the old bat, uh, let's go to the Chamber of Secrets to watch it after returning to school."

"Oh, then what about now?" Luo En grabbed the belt with some disappointment and took it off easily, "There is still a week before school starts, are we just going to wait like this?"

"Let's go back to the topic at the very beginning." Harry adjusted his mood quickly, "Have you finished your homework?"