Inside the stronghold, Ethan opened the panel, and as expected, there was a prompt for completing the achievement.
Moreover, three of them came at once.
[Unscrupulous Merchant]
Blinded by greed and losing their moral compass, integrity and ethics are abandoned. Inferior goods are sold as quality products to deceive people, with the quality being questionable and unguaranteed.
Achievement goal: Cheat customers (1/1)
Achievement reward: A random black magic
[Deceiving the Teacher and Destroying the Ancestors]
The teacher's kindness is as vast as the warm sun, and despite the hard work of educating and teaching, the rebellious disciple remains defiant.
Achievement goal: Rebel against the teacher and cause harm (1/1)
Achievement reward: A random ancient magic
[Hero]
Light and darkness collide, the hero wield their sword to show their prowess, and the devil is defeated with nowhere to hide.
Achievement goal: Defeat the Dark Lord (1/1)
Achievement reward: Random talent
These achievement rewards are not bad; his battle with Voldemort wasn't in vain after all.
Last time it wasn't a random talent, but something related to Parseltongue, which was useless. I hope to get something more powerful this time.
Familiar information flooded into his brain.
After a moment of trance, Ethan understood the rewards he had received.
First, this black magic is a possession spell.
Isn't this the magic of Voldemort?
It can force the soul to leave the body when dying and attach to other life forms to continue existence.
"Voldemort's condition is unusual. He isn't dying, but he also cannot fully die at this stage. With only a fragment of his soul remaining, he can attach to other life forms indefinitely to continue surviving."
For Ethan, it is essentially a useless black magic.
The second reward is an ancient magic called Gungnir!
It complements Mjolnir, which was drawn before. Both are magic used by the Nordic barbarians in the Middle Ages. Mjolnir is a massive lightning hammer with a wide attack range and high damage.
Gungnir is a lightning spear that is projected, causing concentrated penetration damage with a must-hit effect, meaning it cannot be dodged, but it can be defended against.
Similarly, when receiving the information about the ancient magic Gungnir, Ethan also learned some details about ancient magic.
It can only be said that none of these ancient magics are simple, and they all come with a lot of additional knowledge.
Recently, Ethan has been learning ancient magic and alchemy, so this wave of knowledge supplements is really timely.
The last talent extraction can only be described as what he wanted.
Lightning affinity.
It's the same as the fire affinity he had extracted before.
This lightning affinity improves the affinity and power of lightning magic.
Both Mjolnir and Gungnir can be used, and he can also go to Cassandra to learn a weather manipulation spell.
After sorting out his rewards, Ethan was ready to go home. Naturally, this wasn't by Muggle means, since Wales is not close to London.
According to the information revealed by Dennis before, Ethan soon found an old drunkard, who was also a wizard.
There was only one semi-gathering place for wizards here, so naturally, there wouldn't be a merchant responsible for teleportation.
Only fools would come to a place without business.
This old drunkard had cooperated with Dennis before. Regardless of who you were, as long as you gave him some money for wine, he would lend you the fireplace and provide a handful of Floo powder.
After paying ten Sickles, Ethan came to the fireplace. With the precise place name and firelight, Ethan disappeared instantly.
Floo powder was also cheap, and the fireplace network could be applied for as long as your identity wasn't an issue. The trouble was building wizard huts everywhere.
Portkeys were not easy to make. Dennis and his friends only had one. They could use the Portkey to come but not to go back.
This was used to escape and transfer goods in an emergency and would not be used easily.
Back at the base in Knockturn Alley, Dennis and the others had returned before Ethan.
"Boss, this is your dragon egg."
The first thing Dennis did when he saw Ethan was hand him the dragon egg.
"How do you hatch this dragon egg?"
In the original book, Hagrid studied several books on hatching dragon eggs and then put them in the fireplace to burn. Although it was successful, Ethan still felt that it was a bit unreliable.
"Use the fire spell to roast it. Generally, hatching dragon eggs requires the assistance of dragon flames. Ordinary fire can also hatch dragon eggs, but the dragon's physique will be weaker after birth."
As smugglers of magical creatures, Dennis and his friends naturally knew this information.
"What about other flames? For example, Fiendfyre!"
Ethan proposed his own idea. Since flames are needed to hatch the egg and it won't turn into a roasted dragon egg, then stronger flames might hatch dragons with stronger physiques, right?
"We haven't tried that, and it's very risky!"
Dennis said cautiously. Who would use Fiendfyre to hatch eggs?
That spell can even burn the soul. If you throw a dragon egg in it, you probably wouldn't even find the eggshell.
Of course, no one has tried it. A dragon egg is still very precious.
"Okay, I got it!"
Waving his hand, Ethan sent the three away and went to Bruno's room, where potions were made.
"How is the magic potion going?"
This was what Ethan was most concerned about. Ethan had spent more than 1,100 gold galleons on materials. If it failed, it would be a big loss.
"Everything is going well!"
"That's good!"
"By the way, you said you wanted to open a potion shop. I agreed. Have you chosen a location?"
The last time the two went to buy the materials needed for the magic potion, Bruno mentioned this idea to Ethan.
Potions do make money, but it's mainly the high-end potions. For ordinary potions, most wizards make them themselves.
The Polyjuice Potion and Wolfsbane Potion that Bruno knows are more valuable, especially the Polyjuice Potion, which is still very popular in the black market. Although the Wolfsbane Potion is high-end, werewolves are poor, so it's of little use.
Polyjuice Potion, combined with some other potions, along with some alchemical products from Ethan, should make the business good.
Originally, alchemy was just a hobby, but in the Forbidden Forest, he picked up a lot of materials, plus a bunch of unicorn tail hair given by Hagrid. It would be a pity not to use so many things for alchemy.
"The owner of Archibald's Alchemy Goods Store died in an explosion during an alchemy accident half a month ago.
His son is now managing the store.
His son doesn't have the talent and wants to sell the store.
The location is not bad, only two hundred meters away from the entrance of Knockturn Alley."
Bruno explained in one breath. He had taken a fancy to this store before joining Ethan.
He learned about this news in a tavern a few days after coming to Knockturn Alley. After some inspection, he felt that the location was good and the price was right. He could take it. Anyway, he couldn't go back to France, so settling down here was an option.
But everything that happened later was too different from what he expected.
"How many Galleons do you need?"
"1200 gold Galleons should be enough. You know, the houses in Knockturn Alley aren't that valuable, and he's eager to sell."
If it weren't for the good protective magic inside, these 1200 gold Galleons wouldn't be worth it.
Some houses in wizard gathering places are more valuable than those in Knockturn Alley. It's really because the environment here is too bad, and those who come here aren't good people. There are risks in doing business and living here.
If you're brave and do it secretly, you can live in it directly after eliminating the owner.
"Okay, here's 1500 gold Galleons. The extra is for you to buy potion materials."
It's a little more expensive than a bottle of potion, so what's there to refuse?
The reason the Weasley twins were able to successfully open a shop with 1,000 gold galleons was because the shop was definitely rented. No one with a brain would sell a shop in Diagon Alley. It could be passed down for generations.
Ethan immediately handed over 1,500 gold galleons and some materials collected in the Forbidden Forest to Bruno.
Another achievement completed.
[Spend a Lot of Money]
Money is like sand, slipping through fingers, just for that moment of vanity and joy.
Achievement goal: Use 1,000 gold galleons at once (1/1)
Achievement reward: One random magic
Didn't the materials for the magic potion cost more than 1,000 gold galleons before?
Doesn't it count if I bought them from several shops separately? This time, I just gave 1,500 at once?
Forget it; there's no point in worrying about a system that doesn't even have an instruction manual.
He accepted the magic , and what he got wasn't bad at all.
The Fidelius Charm, a rather complex and profound spell, uses magic to bury a secret forever in the soul of the selected Secret Keeper. Unless the Secret Keeper voluntarily tells it, no one can find the hidden person, even with a lot of magic.
This is one of the strongest protective spells. It's not easy to break it unless the Secret Keeper betrays the secret.
However, if the secret keeper dies, then everyone who knows the secret will become the secret keeper, so the secret keeper must be carefully selected.
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In the next few days, Ethan spent most of his time using alchemy to refine goods in order to fill the goods counter in "Bruno's Magic Potion Alchemy Shop."
Ethan went to see it. The location was good. It was not far from Borgin and Burkes. The first floor was the storefront, and the second floor could be used for living. The layout inside did not need to be changed; it could be used as soon as it was purchased.
It was not until the first day of school that Ethan was freed from the tedious alchemy.
He arrived at King's Cross Station, passed through the pillar, and arrived at Platform 9¾.
After Ethan stepped onto the Hogwarts Express, he prepared to find the location of Cassandra and the others.
"Lee, have you finished your homework? Lend me your homework."
"Homework? What homework? Oh, Mike, lend me your homework!"
"Do you think I've done my homework?"
"Sorry, I misunderstood you!"
As Ethan passed by a carriage, he heard a conversation inside and looked over. It turned out to be Lee Jordan, the roommate of the Weasley twins, and a few Gryffindor students.
It should be said that they were true Gryffindors—they didn't want to do homework no matter what.
It's just homework, which he hadn't seemed to have touched yet.
For some classes, Ethan didn't have homework, such as Transfiguration and Charms, because this knowledge does not improve excellent students. They should understand what they need to understand, so these professors exempt homework according to the situation.
It's just that Ethan needed to do homework on potions, plants, and the history of magic.
It was similar to the break in asian schools. During the two-week holiday, the professors at Hogwarts also assigned a lot of homework.
"Senior sister has become even more beautiful!"
In the corridor, Ethan met Penelope.
"Really?"
"Of course!"
Ethan nodded with a positive look.
"Okay, go tell those three!"
"Just go a few cars back; they're already here."
Penelope couldn't help but curl up her lips, but she still acted as if she didn't care.
After saying goodbye, Penelope went on patrol. When there were no professors present, they, the prefects, needed to be more serious.
When Ethan reached the back car, he said hello to Cassandra and the others and sat down directly.
Ethan's arrival did not interrupt their chattering. Of course, it was mainly Hermione who was talking and Cho Chang who was listening. Most of their conversation was about things in Santa Claus Village.
As for Cassandra, she still maintained her aloof look, although she couldn't be cold around Ethan.
"Whose homework can I borrow?"
Ethan looked at Cassandra and Hermione. They were in the same grade. Although they were not in the same house, their homework was the same.
"Ethan, you have to do your homework yourself. You can't copy homework. The professors assign homework for..."
"Ah!"
While Hermione was still talking about the disadvantages of copying homework, Cassandra had already taken action.
She opened her suitcase, took out the homework, quill, and ink, and placed them in front of Ethan without any hesitation.
A decisive move!
Hermione lowered her head, looking quite helpless.
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