Everyone spent a happy afternoon having a furious snowball fight on the grounds. Then, cold, wet, and gasping for breath, they returned to the fire in the Gryffindor common room, where Ryan invited the amazed people to his new arcade room and they had a spectacular time with the twins and Percy trying out video games and muggle junk food for the first time. Ron was pretty jealous but also had a blast he was still upset everyone but him got new trunks well Percy didn't but he's not a person so. after that they all played some chess with Ryans new board made smores in front of the fire and had a pretty good Christmas. That night everyone played with their new Christmas presents like the trunks and Ryan noticed Harry sneak off under his cloak at about midnight probably to have a visit to the library and use his 'dad's' cloak.
It was time for a bit of an upgrade to the kingdom in Ryans opinion. He locked himself in his trunk and teleported off to his realm to meet Cassie and get some new backgrounds and use some items he had locked away in his inventory.
The first thing he did was be affectionate with Cassie for a few hours and chat she had been taking care of everything while he goes to school most of the crops are automated so it's not too much stress right now she mostly had to give food to the 2 house elves and just enjoy some books.
Next he took put the cloak and got a notification. [Death's Cloak of Invisibility found do you wish to bind to your soul?] [Y/N] Of course he picked yes. [Binding Initiated....25%...46%...77%..100%...Complete.. New abilities and passives gained X2.] He got 2 things from binding the cloak which was sucked into his soul and felt like a part of him now. the first was the ability to turn invisible at a thought. This didn't hide his smell or any sound he made but it hid him from everything else including magical sight. The second was a passive ability which hid his thoughts like a mental invisibility cloak. so he couldn't be seen by mind probes or anything like that it was like his mind just want there and there was no way to latch onto it it was as if your trying to grab wind. Now the cloak was inside him but he could control it to come out and it could be used as a regular cloak it wasn't able to be torn or damaged and could change its looks to add a hood or turn into a cape with different colors of course. Next he had an item he had been holding onto since the room of requirement it was a cursed item called [Hand of Glory: Notes:Insert a candle and it gives light only to the holder! Best friend of thieves and plunderers! ] The Hand of Glory is a dark artefact, a shrivelled hand which gives candlelight only to the holder. It can even shine through the veil created by Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder, which is resistant to most light-creation spells. Just like the cloak he bound the shriveled thing to his kingdom and gained a passive ability any light he held or cast such as lumos he could choose if he wanted to have others see it. He could see it coming in handy in a few cases. That sidenote though he really is turning into a thief king. He finished moping about this and went to his farm customization screen. He bought an orchard a meadow 2 fields a Forest and an empty plot of land for 500kgp he moved the now 20x growth dirt thanks to the busted timeturners from the room of requirement and started to use the overhead to set up various fruit trees that will grow at 5x sadly he can't auto harvest trees in that area so he upgraded the servants quarters in the castle and bought 10 more house elves to help out. He did the same with the meadow only this time he planted nothing but flowers and set up about 50 different bee hives. For the field landscape he bought a barn some troughs for water and feeding troughs set up a few fenced in areas and bought animal kibble chicken coops a couple of horses a few cows pigs chickens and rabbits. This will do until he unlockes the ranch.As for the forest he planted different kinds of trees in rows for the production of syrups and some darker areas for mushroom growths the other field he set up rows of trellis and planted different grapes and rows of fruit bushes like strawberries and blueberries. This will be for wines and jams. as for the empty plot of land he bought a basic building with a basement and bought winery items such as stills barrels seasonings all that for production. He sorted the elves to specific areas to either take care of the plants and animals or watch over the crops it will take a bit to get everything running. he was down to about 4 million gold at this point he spent another 100kgp on an area near the castle it was just flat land he spent 3mgp more to build basic roads leading to the castle. about 500 small houses that can be upgraded proper sewage pipes for the building interconnected running water a shopping area with 5 bigger buildings a medium sized park and and just some minor upgrades he has about 750kgp left when he was done but it looked nice and the area could be expanded. he spent 500kgp on the blueprints for the Gate of Babylon an empty one cost about 10mgp but he wouldn't be able to use it for the kingdom so he would have to buy pieces and build it from scratch which costs double but it can be used for the kingdom it's the only way around the shop upgrade thing and only a few items work that way he can't just build Excalibur but the gates of Babylon is only a soul bound storage container like his inventory so he can work around it so now he's pretty much broke but has goals.