"Expelliarmus!"
"Immobulus!"
"Lock Tongue Seal Throat!"
The two young wizards began a duel in the corridor without any warning, which ended with one of them having his tongue stuck to his palate and being unable to speak.
"That's great, Harry!"
"You gave Malfoy a hard time!"
Judging from the fact that the surrounding wizards skillfully cast protective spells on themselves and took it for granted, such duels seemed to occur frequently.
Diana, who had just arrived at the castle, also noticed it.
"This is Hogwarts?"
"No wonder my brother likes it so much."
Even though the wizard was still a student, he was so full of Wude and as warlike as an Amazon. She couldn't help but feel a sense of goodwill towards this place.
Not to mention Ares, the god of war.
"Is it possible that the original Hogwarts wasn't like this?" Basil suggested.
"Master, you're not going to spout nonsense like you'll get locked up for dueling in the corridor, are you?" Diana scoffed. "You always like to tease me."
She then remembered being deceived when she was a child, believing that kissing between a boy and a girl could result in a child.
"So, Diana can only kiss me when she grows up."
She still remembers the tone of Basil's voice perfectly.
It was serious with a hint of irony.
"So you're the same people Headmaster Lupin said?" Professor McGonagall, who had just appeared, wanted to clarify things for Hogwarts, saying it wasn't like this before, but Basil's figure made her swallow her words. "You're here again?"
She pursed her lips and glanced at Diana. "Another girl."
"My brother is the principal?" Diana realized.
As for McGonagall's use of the word "again," she was already immune to it.
"Your brother?" Professor McGonagall couldn't help but scrutinize Diana closely. "Your half-brother, right? You're so beautiful."
"Well, it is true." Diana wanted to refute, but that was indeed the case.
Ares' mother was Hera, and her mother was the Amazon Queen.
And their father was Zeus.
"Please follow me." McGonagall casually transformed a magical ray into a paper crane. "Please don't misunderstand, the school wasn't like this when Headmaster Dumbledore and all the previous headmasters were in charge."
She paused, remaining silent for several seconds before finally coming up with an adjective. "A complete mess."
"Are you very unhappy with my brother?" Diana stopped in her tracks.
"No," McGonagall shook her head. "He was undoubtedly a hero. The most powerful wizard I've ever seen. But as the headmaster, I can understand it; that's how the Marauders were back then."
"I would use spells on my classmates whenever I felt like it."
"But it must be said that the quality of students was highest at that time."
"After he became the principal, the students' magical literacy improved rapidly."
"Even first-graders these days are proficient in no fewer than ten minor curses."
"The [Duel Staff] is available every day."
"Hospital Wing that's even more luxurious than St Mungo's's."
"Safety measures applied to each little wizard's wand."
"These measures not only eliminate risks to almost nothing, but also ensure that every graduating Hogwarts student is a well-trained Auror."
"If Voldemort were still alive, he and his Death Eater would not be able to cause as much trouble as they have in the past, even without Principal Lupin."
She had already brought Diana and Basil to the Seventh Floor.
"But I still hope that, in addition to lounges, libraries, Great Hall, and classrooms, corridors and staircases can also become truce zones."
"The portraits, though the armor was protected by protective spells, but..."
Her gaze fell upon a movable suit of armor that stood in front of her, holding up a red helmet, and she waved her wand.
The helmet gleamed silver again.
The armored vehicle returned to its position, satisfied, and remained motionless.
"That's the reason."
"Hundred-armed Giant!" she shouted the command.
Two Greek-style sculptures jumped aside, revealing the entrance to the Headmaster's Office.
"These are Athena and Apollo," Diana recognized them at a glance. "What a twisted sense of humor."
McGonagall, who was about to say goodbye and leave, asked with interest, "How did you figure that out?"
She was very curious about this because her name was Minerva.
Minerva, the Roman name of Athena.
"It couldn't be clearer," Diana said, "Not to mention the obvious features like the Attic helmet and the Gorgon shield."
"His posture, ready for battle, the sacred serpent Tony under his feet, and the spear he held in his hand were enough to make it clear."
"You must be Diana." Lupin appeared before the three of them in a spiral magic elevator.
He had originally planned to wait for the two of them to go up.
But even though his buttocks were numb from sitting so long, and the gatekeeper statue had been activated, no one knocked on the Headmaster's Office door.
"My sister."
Just as Ares possesses Lupin's memories and powers, Lupin also possesses Ares's memories and powers.
Ares saw Lupin's original future.
Lupin also saw Ares' original future—to be killed by Diana.
"Hello, my brother," Diana, pulling Basil over to her. "This is Basil Granger, my mentor and boyfriend."
Because the Dragon Country "master" and the British "professor" used different terms, McGonagall did not show any change in expression. Instead, she arranged a time and place for her next meeting with Diana and then left.
But Lupin.
The power of God gave him a stronger learning ability than he had before.
In order to control the divine power within him, he also consulted countless ancient books, including the works of Zou Yan, a 4th-century BC Dragon Country wizard who had appeared on Chocolate Frog Card.
I also learned both ancient and modern Dragon Country.
After McGonagall left, he led the two of them into his office via the magical spiral elevator. Lupin, who could no longer contain himself, finally broke down. "Hermione Granger, who else is she besides this girl?"
"How dare you deceive my sister! You're her master!"
If he hadn't already known he was no match for Basil, he would have struck him down with a War Lightning imbued with the Cruciatus Curse long ago.
"There was no deception," Diana said. "For immortal beings, age is not an issue; what matters is the maturity of their character."
"Moreover, it was my master whom I actively pursued."
"He only accepted me after I had completed my apprenticeship and come of age."
"I call him Master, it's just a bit of fun between Master and me."
Silence, utter silence.
Lupin was speechless.
Because he suddenly remembered Nymphadora Tonks.
There is also a significant age gap between him and Nymphadora Tonks.
Knowing his future in advance, his relationship with Nymphadora Tonks is similar to that of Basil and Diana.
"Let's eat." Lupin waved.
Jin Guang emanated from the desktop.
At the same time, the enticing aroma of food also appears.
"Golden Apple Pie, Fairy Wine, Braised Blast-Ended Skrewt, Re'em."
"The Temple of Olympus and the food of this world."
"You probably haven't eaten this before."
Lupin's face showed a hint of nostalgia.
He was not as reckless and ignorant as human legend portrays him.
It also has nothing to do with Aphrodite.
He was more interested in stirring up trouble and discord with the goddess Eris, who doesn't actually exist; the reference is actually to him.
After the famous apple dispute, in order to incite conflict between Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, he specially learned how to cultivate golden apples, and then sent them to each of them a core with the stem, peel, and pulp.
They mocked Athena, who should have been born as a male god, for lacking the ability to conceive and give birth.
It mocks Hera, the Patronus of marriage, for being unable to protect her own marriage; as she grows old and loses her beauty, the beautiful apple peel is just what she needs to replenish her vitality.
They mocked Aphrodite as a vase with nothing to offer, and gave her fruit pulp to make up for it.
This is indeed very effective.
"Did you cultivate the golden apple?" Diana didn't eat it immediately, but instead had a strange expression.
The impression that Ares was an extreme environmental terrorist was reinforced in her mind.
The god of war learned cultivation methods that Shendu of agriculture did not possess.
Ares nodded. "It took me a lot of effort."
"Helga Hufflepuff's magic has been a great help to me."
"It's a pity that even I am unable to break through the Misty Realm and go to the afterlife."
"Otherwise, I must have a good talk with the great Hufflepuff."
"Why don't you talk to death itself?" Basil said.
The moment his words fell, a bright mist appeared, and from the cloud-like steam, a pink-haired girl emerged.
She is death.
With Basil's permission, she became the ruler of death in the afterlife, possessing only the will of chaos.
"Hello, Remus Lupin." Death put his arm around Basil's other arm.
The deathly aura before him was even more refined and powerful than Hades's in his memory, yet Ares was not stunned by the pink eyes that reflected the death of all things. "She's another girl?"
Before Basil could answer, Death nodded first, "I am indeed pursuing Basil."
"You—" A Spark flashed in Diana's eyes.
She could tolerate Basil having other women, provided that those little bitches didn't show up in front of her.
"I will show you the power of Hera's jealousy."
Lupin chimed in, "I suggest we don't. My mother has been missing the point. Instead of cursing Zeus's lover, we should cut off the root cause of Zeus's infidelity."
"Let him be like our great-grandfather Uranus."
"Perhaps another goddess of beauty will be born on Olympus."
What are you saying, you dog?
Even if Basil's reproductive power cannot be severed in this way, his true nature is actually the dream itself that pervades countless Cosmic Cluster.
But Basil couldn't help but block the cold.
"What are you saying!" x2
Diana and death both turned their gaze toward Lupin.
If they could sing 'What is Happy Planet?', they would definitely think the answer lies with Basil.
"No, nothing." Recalling the past, Lupin, whose troublemaker Ares' true nature resurfaced, instantly became honest.
Just now, he, a god who should have no end, saw his own death aura.
These were just embellishments of Basil's life.
His true form continues to spread in the true void, engulfing the Cosmic Cluster along its path.
Then he manifests in various avatars in the universes that interest him, assigns tasks, and sends Gardener to prune the gardens he is too lazy to tend himself.
Nothingness, devoid of color, sound, shape, and all concepts.
An all-encompassing light burst forth, and a colossal Giant, whose size was as vast as an infinite number of infinite things, appeared.
It illuminated a reef called the Cosmic Cluster, submerged beneath an ocean of nothingness.
Only System Component can make him pause briefly.
In a universe where fate constantly destroys worlds, creates perfect humans, and perfect humans create the Ancient One that created the world, he found the [Update Component].
[Bite!]
Perhaps because the system was nearing completion, the crackling sound of electricity stopped.
[Update] The component has been recycled; the installation package is downloading. Please wait.
This statement stunned countless manifestations of Basil in the universes.
Download?
From where?
Does this mean he can return to Li Lin's world?
Install?
Does this mean that the system's underlying code is fully exposed?
For a moment, Basil abandoned all thoughts.
All his attention was focused on the system that had long since become one with him, on the installation progress bar displayed on the system interface in his mind, which contained images of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, London, illuminated buildings, and white mist.
The Astronomy number of gems began to burn, with a constant, clattering sound as they were consumed.
The shadow of a blurry world began to appear before my eyes.
The office was brightly lit.
A building with a 'pig farm' sign.
An avatar began to appear and disappear outside, flickering with Spark.
A faint, almost imperceptible thread traveled from Youzhou.
It was a dark-haired man whose breathing had just stopped.
The moment the threads connected, the man resumed breathing, and his complexion began to regain its color.
Overtime has begun.
The Novel Harry.
Basil appeared in Granger's old house, which he hadn't returned to for a long time.
"So, I never died."
"No, I died, but I returned the next second after I died."
Feeling yourself truly alive in that world.
A realistic tactile experience.
Basil took a sip of the chilled Pepsi he had taken from the Fridge in that world.
But the next second, he frowned.
He had just tried to modify the data in his game, but the data on his [Grimoire] remained unchanged.
The changes to the game had no impact on the system he owned.
His system was simply modeled after that game.
Its essence is a broken, unknown, and strange object that has no origin or form and can exist in true nothingness.
After the core merged with him and the main body became the game, the remaining fragments became the 'missing' components.
Therefore, even if his world, which is still Li Lin's, is destroyed, it will not affect his system or the power he possesses.
This is a good thing.
But it's also a bad thing.
He could no longer directly modify game data to cheat in this world where everyone has their own rules.
Within the club.
"Why has the [club] changed again?" Sophie, the vice-leader, was extremely surprised, even forgetting to continue suspending in the air to maintain her height and majesty.
"It's been updated," Basil said. "It's the [Update] component."
Before recharging was possible, Club Emblem were derived from club activities.
There are four club activities: Herbs, Quiz, Quidditch, and Prom.
Now only the herbs have disappeared.
"No, to be precise, the herbs did not disappear."
"What has disappeared is actually the answering of questions, Quidditch, and the ball."