Chapter 422: The Secret of Strength

Ron's mentality indeed showed a huge difference. Not only that indifference in front of Hermione, but what surprised Harry even more was that after returning to the dormitory, he didn't see Ron bragging or repeatedly mentioning the super performance of Elemental Dragon. This didn't quite fit Ron's usual style, making people feel a bit surprised instead.

They spent the rest of the weekend like ordinary students, and then on Sunday night, when Harry came out of the dormitory, ready to go to the Torchwood gathering, he noticed Luna leaning against the railing alone. Looking at her eyes, it seemed she was waiting for him.

"What's wrong, Luna?" Harry greeted.

"Oh, Harry, I want to ask you," Luna stated her purpose very directly. "Why is Ron so strong?"

"Ah?" Harry was stumped by this question immediately. "Isn't it that theory? The negative emotions guided by the Dangerous Trigger, together with positive emotions, provide amplification for the Knight. This was told to me by Cui Ge."

"But the fact is, Fang Trigger, which completely controls negative emotions, still can only tie with the out-of-control OOO. I feel this is not quite reasonable," Luna said. "Ron became very strong after completely controlling negative emotions, but Cui Ge only got a little bit of improvement."

"This question... have you asked Cui Ge?" Harry scratched his head. He felt that Knight matters were really hard to figure out.

"Asked, he feels it might be because he is naturally more optimistic, resulting in not having so many negative emotions," Luna said with some confusion.

"This is also a way of saying it. After all, Ron actually has a lot of negative emotions suppressed in his heart. Maybe, uh, he has been suppressing them since the fourth year," Harry felt this explanation also made sense. "That is to say, Ron's emotions are actually very rich, so the power after he Henshin is very powerful. Yes, it's like when he was an ordinary Saber before, he was also a cut above Draco."

"Is that so? So Cui Ge easily controlled the Fang bottle that day, was it because he didn't have many negative emotions to begin with?" Luna nodded thoughtfully.

"Maybe so. He was originally a very positive person. He should be very good at the Patronus Charm, right?"

"Yes, he learned it as soon as he learned it," Luna laughed. "Very interesting, his Patronus is a person whose face cannot be seen clearly, and the head is pointed."

"This is also very magical," Harry nodded with a smile. "I just happened to remember that you are going to take OWL this year. You know, the Patronus Charm is very bonus-adding in OWL."

"Thank you for your reminder, Harry," Luna's tone gradually became serious again. "I'm actually not very entangled in the emotion thing. What really makes me feel worried is the question of how Cui Ge can continue to become stronger."

"Ha?" Harry was stunned immediately, and, he easily extended this question to Ron, and finally he could only shrug helplessly. "Zhang Qiu mentioned to me that one can constantly resonate with energy bottles in battle after battle, so as to become stronger."

"Is it enough just by the number of times?" Luna asked with some confusion.

"Shouldn't be," Harry subconsciously refuted this point, because this was obviously wrong. "Maybe she meant, fighting after emotional outbursts time after time, I'm not sure—sigh, when will Zhang Qiu come back!"

"It seems you are also confused," Luna smiled. "Alright, that's it, let's go to the gathering first."

At the whole gathering, the children were talking about various gossip, while Harry was a bit absent-minded, because he had been thinking about a question: if it was said that every Knight could eventually achieve full bottles through resonance, then what did Zhang Qiu rely on to be confident that she could make Ron the strongest Knight?

The combination Ron used, and the elements he extracted... Harry pondered. A Tales of Beedle the Bard, and a pile of swords, what was special about them? Or was it that the combination of storybook plus blade was the strongest calculated by alchemical theory?

In the noisy talk and laughter from time to time, Harry felt it was very difficult to concentrate. He simply left early during the first gap of eating snacks, wanting to return to the dormitory to explore this question well.

After returning to the dormitory, Harry immediately said to Ron: "That storybook Dumbledore left you? I want to see it again."

"Why do you suddenly want this?" Ron said while rummaging through his box. "Any discoveries?"

"Indeed have a question," Harry took the Tales of Beedle the Bard with a somewhat worn cover, pondering what Dumbledore's intention was. "Zhang Qiu's extraction of the sword can be said to be carefully selected, but why did she agree so easily to let you extract this book? I think there must be some secret in it."

"I've flipped through it many times too, didn't find anything special," Ron shrugged. "There are very few books with sheepskin covers these days. Maybe it's a hardcover version published before—I even suspect this is the one Dumbledore read when he was a child."

"If the book itself only has commemorative significance, then is the deep meaning in the story?" Harry flipped through the book at will. The content on it was no different from another Tales of Beedle the Bard he flipped through for the first time.

Harry reread it again and again. He had determined since the first year that Beedle the Bard didn't just compile some ordinary fairy tales, but recorded some of the most powerful magical achievements of that era.

The Hopping Pot and the Deathly Hallows were confirmed magical artifacts, the Hairy Heart corresponded to Horcruxes, Babbitty Rabbitty corresponded to Animagus, and the Fountain of Fair Fortune corresponded to Felix Felicis, or could also be extended to the power of fate.

If Dumbledore really wanted to imply some kind of power in his relics, then the first thing Harry thought of was the Hopping Pot and the Deathly Hallows—these were already in Harry's hands.

However, these things couldn't be seen to have any help in transforming or strengthening Ron's power, and couldn't be added to Saber's extracts, and Ron himself was unwilling to borrow power that didn't belong to him.

Just when Harry wanted to shift his train of thought back to the special nature of the book itself, he suddenly realized one thing: the master of the Elder Wand might not necessarily hold the Elder Wand.

This was something easily overlooked. If it weren't for the experience of once being obsessed with the Deathly Hallows in the first year, Harry wouldn't have noticed this. He clearly recalled the transfer mechanism of the Elder Wand: one must have taken the wand from the original master to truly obtain the recognition of the Elder Wand, and this taken wand didn't have to be the Elder Wand itself. Or, when the original master died, the Elder Wand would be loyal to the first person to hold it in their hand.

Then, this transmission chain was very clear: in the battle at the top of the Tranzero tower, Harry had been deceived and wounded Dumbledore, and then he took away the Elder Wand when he left time.

Harry admitted that he once fantasized about owning the Deathly Hallows, and this was also one of the reasons he brought out the Elder Wand. Then he basically never fought with anyone else, except—in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class at the beginning of the sixth year, because he was distracted and lost to Ron's non-verbal disarming spell.

This was not strange. If one considered that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was a Chinese, and Zhang Qiu had coaxed Ron to add the concept of a wand to the 'sword' energy bottle he extracted with her glib tongue.

At this moment, Harry boldly guessed that the Knight system's battle that didn't involve wand spellcasting wouldn't trigger the Elder Wand's transfer mechanism. This was Zhang Qiu's theoretical basis, because if Ron no longer used a wand to fight, it meant that he would forever be the last master of the Elder Wand. The 'sword' energy bottle he used for Knight Henshin would be the undisputed strongest.

Harry looked at Ron who was writing homework. He decided not to rush to tell him these things, because following the train of thought of the 'sword' energy bottle, he also thought of some other things.

Zhang Qiu had mentioned that the role of the energy bottle depended on the Henshin user's cognition of the elements in the bottle. That is to say, even if the power of the element was very powerful, if the Henshin user didn't realize it, they couldn't fully exert its power.

Then, as far as the concept of a sword itself was concerned, the strongest recognized by the British should be King Arthur's Excalibur. The so-called "Gawain's Rotating Excalibur" Ron got obviously couldn't bear the burden, not to mention that it was very likely a counterfeit.

And without knowing the ownership of the Elder Wand, Ron obviously wouldn't care too much about the wand contained in it. The Sword of Gryffindor was more symbolic than practical. So in Ron's heart, the 'sword' energy bottle truly exerted only the power from the Seven Deadly Sins. This was why the basic form of Saber contained dragon and flame elements, because Ron clearly knew that the Seven Deadly Sins were forged with dragon blood and Fiendfyre.

At this moment, Harry truly realized how huge Ron's potential was. He hadn't exerted Saber's main power yet, and he could already easily suppress any peer. And before Ron encountered any strong enemy he couldn't defeat even after trying his best, he could keep this secret in his heart first and see how far Ron could go without knowing anything.

Harboring this thought, Harry entered the next week with a relaxed mood, but soon, this mood was led elsewhere by a piece of bad news brought by Snape. ===== CHAPTER 423 =====