Ivan is reminded of the protective spell Lily Potter placed on Harry.
In the old headmaster's words, it was the power of love!
Ivan's current knowledge of magic was not sufficient to understand how this power worked, and the only spell he came into contact with was the Summoning Guard, which turned emotions into power.
However, Ivan was able to confirm that the pendant had not been made in the last year or two, as evidenced by the slight wear on the metal.
Ivan's alchemical knowledge told him that the Crescent was made over a decade ago!
Putting the precious locket away, Ivan retrieved the Horcrux Diary from the depths of his wardrobe and sneaked out of the house without Alicia's knowledge.
It was close to midnight, and Knockturn Alley was eerily quiet. Everything was grey, and the only light came from the moon.
Ivan adjusted himself, intending to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Perhaps sensing that something was amiss, the Horcrux diary began to turn automatically, and lines of ink began to appear.
[What is it? Why did you bring me here, Hales?]
Ivan smiled and wrote in his diary with a quill.
[Practice some magic, of course. It's not very convenient at home!]
Ivan was not in the habit of being a commentator before his enemy's death. Letting his enemy die an unexplained death was more like it.
Tom Riddle in the diary fell silent for a moment. Ivan's words were not particularly glib, but there was something wrong with them.
Especially since it was getting late. Was it really necessary to come out and practise magic now?
The writing on the diary was disjointed, and the black ink on the white paper reappeared.
[Is that so? Then I'll stay here with you.]
The Horcrux diary was left open and unclosed, the pages turning on their own from time to time.
Ivan ignored it, sitting on a weedy rock and setting aside the Horcrux diary to activate the Ring of Fire.
At that moment, he was interrupted by a system prompt.
[Ding! System update complete. Please check!]
Accompanying the notification was a large amount of updated information.
After sorting through the information that had just popped into her head, Ivan paused in the act of destroying the Horcrux.
This was because, in addition to the update, the system issued another blood-fusion-related mission, which happened to be related to Tom Riddle.
[Mission: Blood Mystery
Objective: Find a way to fuse multiple bloodlines
Current Task Progress: 5%
Task Reward: Legendary Points*1
Task description: After experiencing the great increase in strength of the Fusion ritual, you will not be satisfied with the current situation and will continue to search for more relevant information.
Note: While merging multiple bloodlines means more risk, this is not an unsolvable problem…]
A blood mystery? Yvonne thought, looking at the extra tasks in her taskbar.
This was the first time he had heard of the ability to fuse multiple bloodlines. It must be noted that even in The Origin of Blood, the recorded bloodline families only chose to fuse the blood of one magical creature.
Fusing bloodlines was inherently extremely risky, and merging multiple bloodlines was obviously more difficult!
Yvonne wondered if the missing piece of The Origin of Blood might contain some information.
This was why he paused the destruction of the Horcrux diary.
According to Ivan's previous conjectures, Tom Riddle was the most likely person to have the ability to hide the book in the Restricted Section.
This was because when he first used blood magic, Voldemort instantly determined that he had not awakened his blood, but had completed the blood fusion.
If so, Yvonne suspected that Tom might have done what she did in her fifth year.
After all, with the ability to control the basilisk at will, extracting blood would be easy for Tom, and the ingredients for brewing the potion would not be difficult for him.
The only thing that could get in Tom's way was the difficulty of brewing a potion. A Level 6 Potions Master was not considered a master potioneer, but it was not an ordinary potion.
Of course, Ivan didn't think Tom Riddle, who was so good at sweet-talking, would be able to overcome this difficulty, as there were always people at Hogwarts who could.
With this in mind, Ivan laid his eyes upon the Horcrux diary,
The Basilisk's gift was most likely related to death and the soul, and Voldemort's ability to keep his wits about him even when his soul was being split in quick succession may have contributed to this.
[What's wrong? Don't you have to practice magic?]
Under the still night sky, Ivan's prolonged immobility confused Tom Riddle, so he warned him.
Ivan snapped out of his daze and was hit with another headache. 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to practise magic all night…'
"Split up!"
"Stupefy!"
"A flock of birds!"
…
In the vast, empty sky, multi-coloured rays of magical light flashed across the night sky from time to time. In the distance, trees were split in half and rocks were shattered…
In order not to arouse the suspicions of the Horcrux Diary, Ivan had to practise until the wee hours of the morning before returning home, too tired to check the details of the system upgrade.
Tom Riddle's suspicions were temporarily dispelled by Ivan's machinations, but he had a strange feeling that the young wizard in front of him might have a screw loose in his head.
…
Early the next morning, Ivan, having escaped the Horcrux surveillance, ate breakfast while checking on the changes in the system.
Open the status bar!
Ivan said the words to himself.
The next moment, messages appeared before him.
[Ivan Harls
Profession: Bloodline Wizard
Magic scale: 64
Magic Pane: Level 4 Fear Charm (15/1600), Level 4 Thunderbolt Explosion (7/1600), Level 4 Transfiguration Charm (1560/1600), Level 4 Call of God's Guard (500/1600), Level 4 Occlumency (4/1600)… [Other Three Levels Omitted]
Bloodline Magic: Unicorn's Shadow
Theory of Knowledge: Alchemy Level 4 (710/4000), Fundamental Charms Level 4 (916/1600), Potions Level 4 (1452/1600)
Magical Item: Ring of Magic
Magic: Strong
Mana Storage: 212/300
Effect: Gather magic and repel all objects within a three-meter radius.
…
Magical Item: Wand (Yew, unicorn hair, eleven inches and three-quarters of a length)
Magic: Strong
Magic Word Circuit: Concealment (passively reducing magical fluctuations during casting)
…
…
GPA: 575
Legendary Points: 3/3]
(P.S.: The Angel has finally finished setting up the character information. You are now free to view it.)