Chapter 422: The Secret of Strength

Luo En's mentality indeed appeared to be extremely different. 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 Luo En bragging or repeatedly mentioning the super performance of Elemental Dragon. This didn't quite fit Luo En's consistent style, making people feel a bit surprised instead.

They spent the rest of the weekend like ordinary students, and then on Sunday night, Harry came out of the dormitory, preparing to go to the Torchwood gathering. He noticed Lu Na leaning against the railing alone, looking at her eyes, it seemed she was waiting for him.

"What's the matter, Lu Na?" Harry greeted.

"Oh, Harry, I want to ask you," Lu Na stated her purpose very directly. "Why is Luo En so strong?"

"Ah?" Harry was suddenly asked by this question. "Isn't it that theory? The negative emotions induced by the Dangerous Trigger, and positive emotions together provide amplification for the Knight. Cui Ge told me this."

"But the fact is, Fang Trigger, which completely controls negative emotions, can still only fight to a draw with the out-of-control OOO. I think this is not quite reasonable," Lu Na said. "Luo En 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 thinks it might be because he is naturally more optimistic, resulting in not having so many negative emotions," Lu Na said with some confusion.

"That's also a way of saying it. After all, Luo En 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, Luo En's emotions are actually very rich, so the power after he transforms is very powerful. Yes, that's it. When he transformed into 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?" Lu Na nodded thoughtfully.

"Perhaps 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," Lu Na 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 also smiled and nodded. "I just happened to remember that you have to take OWL this year. You know, the Patronus Charm is very bonus-adding in OWL."

"Thank you for your reminder, Harry," Lu Na's tone gradually became serious again. "I actually wasn't very entangled in the matter of emotions. What really makes me feel worried is the question of how Cui Ge should continue to become stronger."

"Ha?" Harry was stunned. And, he easily extended this question to Luo En. Finally, he could only spread his hands helplessly. "Zhang Qiu mentioned to me that one can constantly resonate with energy bottles in battle after battle, thereby becoming stronger."

"Is it just by the number of times?" Lu Na asked with some confusion.

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

"Looks like you are also confused," Lu Na smiled. "Alright, that's it, let's go to the gathering first."

At the whole gathering, the children were talking about all kinds of gossip, while Harry was a bit absent-minded, because he had been thinking about a question: if every Knight could eventually reach full bottles through resonance, then what confidence did Zhang Qiu have to make Luo En the strongest Masked Rider?

The combination Luo En used, and the elements he extracted... Harry pondered, a book of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, and a pile of swords, what was special about them? Or was the combination of storybook plus sword blade the strongest calculated by alchemy theory?

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

After returning to the dormitory, Harry immediately said to Luo En: "That storybook Deng Buliduo left you? I want to see it again."

"Why do you suddenly want this?" Luo En said while flipping through his box. "Any discoveries?"

"Indeed have a question," Harry took the storybook of The Tales of Beedle the Bard with a somewhat worn cover, pondering what Deng Buliduo'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," Luo En shrugged. "There are very few books with sheepskin covers these days. Maybe it's a hardcover version published before—I even suspect this one is the one Deng Buliduo 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 storybook of The Tales of Beedle the Bard he flipped through for the first time.

Harry reread it again and again. He had already determined in 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, the Babbitty Rabbitty corresponded to Animagi, and the Fountain of Fair Fortune corresponded to Felix Felicis, or could also be extended to the power of fate.

If Deng Buliduo 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 turning into or strengthening Luo En's power, nor could they be added to Saber's extracts, and Luo En 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 specialness of the book itself, he suddenly realized one thing: the master of the Elder Wand might not necessarily hold the Elder Wand.

This was a thing that was 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 Elder Wand's change-of-master mechanism: one must have taken the wand from the original master to truly obtain the Elder Wand's recognition, 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 tower of Trenzalore, Harry had been deceived and wounded Deng Buliduo, and then he took away the Elder Wand when he left time.

Harry admitted that he once fantasized about possessing 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 Luo En's silent disarming spell.

This was not strange. If one considered that the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts was a Celestial Empire person, and Zhang Qiu was glib-tongued and coaxed Luo En to add the concept of a wand into the "sword" energy bottle he extracted.

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

Harry glanced at Luo En who was doing 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 mentioned that the role of the energy bottle depends on the transformer's cognition of the elements in the bottle. That is to say, even if the power of the elements is very powerful, if the transformer doesn't realize it, they can't fully exert its power.

Then, as far as the current situation is concerned, in terms of the concept of the sword itself, the one recognized by the British as the strongest should be King Arthur's Excalibur. The so-called "Gawain's Wheel of Excalibur" that Luo En got clearly couldn't bear it, and there was a high probability that it was a replica.

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

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

Carrying this kind of 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 =====