Chapter Summaries

Aaron used Magic Points to become a Magus and help Abei evolve into a Holy Dragon with Dragon Breath. He then bought Apparition and prepared to test it inside his bedroom.

• Aaron spent Magic Points to raise his Magical Energy to 3,000 and became a Magus.
• Aaron evolved Abei, whose panel showed Dragon Breath as a new talent.
• Abei transformed into a three-meter-tall Holy Dragon and nearly tested its fire in the bedroom before Aaron stopped it.
• Aaron bought Apparition from the System Mall and gained extensive knowledge of the spell.
• Aaron chose a bookshelf ten meters away as the first target for his Apparition test.

Aaron successfully tested Apparition, then concealed his Magus advancement and weighed his remaining shop purchases. After learning that Dragon Language could enable a dragon Patronus and a risk-free dragon Animagus form, he bought the language.

• Aaron Apparated beside a bookshelf, then discovered that Gaius Castle's protections prevented him from Apparating outside his room.
• Aaron decided to hide his Apparition ability and Magus advancement from his family and enemies.
• Aaron bought the Water-Repelling Charm and refreshed the shop, revealing Dragon Language.
• The system explained that Dragon Language could support a dragon Patronus and a risk-free dragon Animagus form.
• Aaron purchased Dragon Language and mastered it.

Aaron began his holiday at home and learned that Vico had arranged intensive training for him because he had become a High-level Mage before turning twelve. After hearing that exceptionally talented heirs faced even more lessons, Aaron decided to conceal his true strength.

• Aaron woke at six, dressed Abei, and watched Jeans give the hungry dragon only an apple for breakfast.
• Aaron told Jeans he could understand Dragon Language, claimed he had learned it at Hogwarts, and admitted he did not want to reveal how.
• Jeans told Aaron that Vico and his wife had left early and would be away until school started, then explained that Aaron’s holiday training could not be postponed.
• Jeans showed Aaron keys to the armory and Secret Chambers and said Vico had ordered him to learn swordsmanship and at least three other useful skills.
• Jeans explained that Gaius heirs who became High-level Mages before twelve had to learn close combat, while Vico had once fought twelve opponents at once.
• Aaron learned that a famous Magus in the family’s history had mastered at least twenty skills by twelve and resolved to hide his own true strength to avoid extra lessons.

Aaron tried to enjoy his holiday despite Jeans assigning him eight hours of daily classes, and he found a loophole in his guardians’ surveillance at Ollivanders Wand Shop. There, he resolved to train in wandless magic, only for Ollivander to reveal that wand-making could become another subject.

• Jeans reduced Aaron’s cram school schedule to eight hours a day and gave him a catalog of magical weapons to study.
• Aaron left Jeans in charge of the shop, wandered Diagon Alley with Abei, and noticed two bodyguards following him.
• Aaron took refuge in Ollivanders Wand Shop, where he practiced wandless casting and briefly stirred the shop’s Wands with his magic.
• Aaron decided to train to cast spells without a Wand, but suppressed the disturbance before his bodyguards could come inside.
• Ollivander offered to teach Aaron wand-making and told him that Jeans had already arranged for it to be added to Aaron’s holiday subjects.

Aaron began his first swordsmanship lesson with Jeans in the Secret Chamber, struggling through basic techniques under his strict instruction. After a weeklong goal for mastering the movements, Jeans prepared to begin practical combat by animating a suit of armor.

• Aaron declined wandmaking lessons because his schedule was already full, and Jeans explained that the Gaius Family offered many inherited courses.
• Jeans taught Aaron the core sword movements and corrected his form throughout an exhausting practice session.
• Jeans called Aaron the worst student he had taught and said Aaron's father had completed the same movements faster, despite being hit more often.
• Aaron improved his pace during the rest of the lesson, and Jeans said he could master the basics within a week.
• Jeans put away Aaron's sword, tapped a suit of armor with his wand, and brought it to life for practical combat training.

Aaron began swordsmanship training against enchanted armor, but Abei intervened when the armor nearly struck him and destroyed it. The incident left Aaron praising Abei and Jeans explaining that real enemies would show no mercy.

• Jeans revealed that Aaron's training opponent was enchanted armor and explained that Aaron's achievements made him responsible for a strict family rule and heavier training.
• Aaron refused to ask Jeans about the ancestral rule and prepared to fight the armor, which Jeans animated after casting an Iron Armor Charm on him.
• The armor struck hard enough to crack the floor and nearly hit Aaron in the head, but Abei appeared and smashed the armor to pieces.
• Aaron praised Abei and promised it extra roast chicken, while Jeans expressed alarm at its unexpected size and the damage it caused.
• Jeans insisted Aaron had not been in mortal danger and reminded him that future enemies would use any effective attack without mercy.

Aaron trained against enchanted suits of armor, learning that he needed greater strength and adaptability, before Jeans showed him the hidden chambers holding his elective lessons. The chapter left Aaron choosing among thirty courses, after he firmly rejected the winery chamber Jeans recommended.

• Aaron attacked a second suit of armor, which trapped his sword and kicked him across the chamber while Jeans restrained Abei.
• Jeans recorded Aaron's lack of strength and combat adaptability, then explained that Vico had defeated armor by drawing his Wand and casting Shattering Curses.
• Aaron teased Jeans about the training and learned that swordsmanship was required while he could choose at least three elective courses.
• Jeans revealed that the armory concealed 197 chambers, with Vico having narrowed Aaron's options to thirty highly ranked courses.
• Jeans recommended the winery chamber, but Aaron rejected it because he was only twelve, and Jeans insisted that Aaron would eventually need to know how to drink.

Aaron explored the family’s forging Secret Chamber and met the memory of Argel Gaius, who recognized Aaron’s hidden strength and made him his disciple. Argel opened the next chamber and ordered Aaron to study forging with him for an hour each day.

• Aaron rejected the thirtieth keyhole after Jeans hinted that its chamber might offer an unsuitable lesson, then followed him into the volcanic forging room.
• Aaron activated the chamber’s stone pillar, which summoned Argel Gaius, the family’s forty-seventh head and a master blacksmith preserved through memory magic.
• Argel saw through Aaron’s disguise but promised to keep his strength secret, and he explained that his lingering memory retained part of his former power.
• Aaron declined to study forging, arguing that he wanted to reach the pinnacle without relying on weapons, but Argel made him his disciple in exchange for keeping his secret.
• Argel counted forging as a required course, opened the second door, and ordered Aaron to visit him for an hour daily; Jeans expressed concern, but Argel trusted Aaron’s abilities.

Aaron entered the second Secret Chamber, where ancestor Mol appointed him as his medical disciple despite his reluctance. Afterward, Aaron and Jeans reached a music-filled third chamber, and Aaron showed interest in its course.

• Aaron found a room of specimens and corpses, then learned that its owner was ancestor Mol, a renowned doctor who had helped maintain peace between vampires and werewolves.
• Aaron activated the chamber’s black stone pillar, and Mol appeared and ordered Jeans to tell Vico that Aaron would become his disciple.
• Mol scheduled daily medical lessons for Aaron, who agreed while protecting Abei and keeping his concealed strength secret.
• Aaron and Jeans entered the third Secret Chamber and found it filled with instruments from many eras.
• Aaron said he was interested in learning music, and Jeans pointed him toward the rising black stone pillar.

Aaron visited the third and fourth Secret Chambers, where Vaughn agreed to teach him music and he learned about an ancestor famed for cooking. A family rule forced him to summon the fourth ancestor, Salks, who arranged another course and told Aaron he still had to meet more than twenty ancestors.

• Aaron summoned Vaughn, who recognized his exceptional talent and scheduled music lessons once every three days for an hour.
• Jeans explained that the fourth ancestor had become a legendary chef by studying how foods affected every race, but Aaron declined to take his course.
• A family rule prevented Aaron from skipping the fourth ancestor, so he summoned Salks from the black stone pillar.
• Salks arranged a half-hour lesson every two days and reassured Aaron that the ancestors would not harm their descendants.
• Salks opened the next door and told Aaron that he still had to meet more than twenty ancestors and could not refuse their lessons.

Aaron toured the Gaius Family’s Secret Chambers, where the ancestors assessed his potential and assigned him lessons. By nightfall, after meeting twenty-eight teachers, he felt overwhelmed and helpless under their expectations.

• Salks predicted Aaron could rank among the top three in the Gaius Family’s history and told Jeans to keep the judgment secret for a year.
• Ancestor Lant asked Jeans to bring Aaron for regular visits, and Aaron rushed through the library lesson, which its ancestor allowed him to treat as self-study.
• Aaron impressed Weihert enough to become his student and began lessons in Magic Arrays.
• A muscular ancestor insisted Aaron take physical training lessons, and Jeans recorded the schedule despite Aaron’s reluctance.
• Aaron and Jeans toured all twenty-eight Secret Chambers, where the ancestors assigned lessons and left Aaron feeling like a helpless rabbit among wolves.
• The final teacher, a Family Head with the ability to read hearts, saw Aaron’s deep dejection and world-weariness.

Aaron struggled with the overwhelming curriculum his ancestors had assigned, then vented his anger in a chamber built for that purpose. He left feeling calmer, but found the statues restored and headed toward a chamber full of wine.

• Flor told Aaron he could skip the class but had to visit him every three days for psychological care.
• Jeans explained that Aaron's father could remove unwanted classes, but Aaron refused to involve his parents and entered the twenty-ninth Secret Chamber alone.
• Aaron cursed his ancestors and destroyed their statues while Jeans and Flor waited outside.
• Flor explained that the chamber was designed to restore itself and let heirs vent their frustrations; Aaron emerged calmer and thanked him.
• Aaron found the statues restored, then asked Jeans for alcohol and learned that the thirtieth Secret Chamber contained fine wines.

Aaron began his intensive training under Jeans, while Abei was forced to exercise for its food. After Aaron used a spell to destroy his armed training opponent, Jeans took away his Wands and resumed the lesson, leaving Aaron enduring repeated defeats but insisting on continuing.

• Jeans woke Aaron before six and told him he would study sixteen to eighteen hours a day across twenty-nine courses.
• Jeans put Abei on an oversized hamster wheel and offered its lunch as a reward for meeting its exercise target.
• Aaron knocked the helmet off an enchanted suit of armor during sword training and celebrated his improvement.
• Jeans armed another suit of armor, but Aaron shattered it with a spell before the fight could begin.
• Jeans confiscated Aaron's Wands and had him fight the armed armor, which repeatedly struck him as Aaron got back up and called for another round.

Aaron endured a day of lessons from his ancestors, training in swordsmanship and smithing before witnessing a dissection and recovering with a Calming Draught. He began his Magic Arrays lesson with Weihert, who knocked him unconscious to teach him.

• Aaron finished swordsmanship practice with Jeans, reclaimed his Wands, and destroyed a suit of armor with the Shattering Curse before rewarding Abei for running in its wheel.
• Argus gave Aaron a hammer and a booklet on smithing, then had him strike hot iron more than a thousand times.
• Mol made Aaron observe a corpse being dissected, and Aaron vomited before collapsing from the experience.
• Jeans gave Aaron a Calming Draught, and Abei offered him an apple to help him recover.
• Weihert told Aaron to memorize a Magic Array and knocked him unconscious so he could enter Aaron's dream.

Aaron learned the Heart Concealment Technique and rapidly advanced in Magic Arrays and physical training, but his growing skills brought an even heavier schedule. With school only days away, he felt close to collapsing under the pressure.

• Weihert explained the limits of the Cerebral Sealing Technique and taught Aaron that he needed Flor's Heart Concealment Technique to defend against mind control.
• Aaron memorized a Summoning Magic Array in under two hours and summoned Abei, impressing Weihert with his talent.
• Aaron spent lunch with Abei, whose stolen food was confiscated by Jeans as punishment.
• Over two months, Aaron completed Vaughn's lessons, learned the Heart Concealment Technique from Flor, and greatly improved his physique and combat skills.
• Jeans filled Aaron's newly freed time with longer forging and Magic Array lessons and daily operating-room training with Mol, leaving Aaron overwhelmed just before school began.

Aaron complained to Flor about his exhausting schedule and begged him to make Jeans give him time off, but Flor refused to intervene yet. After Aaron asked how talented heirs before him had handled their studies, Flor revealed that some had skipped class, leaving Aaron tempted to try it.

• Aaron brought Abei to the Secret Chamber and begged Flor to persuade Jeans to give him free time.
• Flor refused to grant Aaron leave, saying he was tired but not close to a breakdown and needed to persevere.
• Aaron asked about talented Gaius heirs, and Flor described one who mastered every course in under two months and may have become a God of Law.
• When Aaron pressed Flor about how other heirs had managed their studies, Flor said they had skipped class when asking for leave failed.
• Aaron realized skipping class was an option and considered trying it.

Aaron sought Flor’s advice on skipping class and began planning an escape that would evade Jeans and his two secret bodyguards. He narrowed his destinations to Malfoy Manor and the Weasley home, The Burrow, and prepared to act the next day.

• Aaron asked Flor how a student had once succeeded in skipping class, and Flor explained that the student had hidden in a secret chamber that was now sealed off.
• Aaron and Abei clung to Flor until he agreed to share advice, then Flor told Aaron to choose several destinations, avoid places Jeans knew, and evade his bodyguards.
• Aaron asked how to escape the bodyguards, and Flor said Aaron’s only advantage was that they did not know he planned to run away before sending him out of the secret chamber.
• Aaron returned to his bedroom, resolved to make his plan that night, and set aside his remaining Invisibility Potion to slip past his bodyguards.
• Aaron crossed out more than twenty possible destinations before choosing Malfoy Manor and The Burrow as places he could alternate between if discovered.

Aaron prepared supplies and money for his planned departure, while disguising his intentions from Jeans by claiming he was visiting his great-uncle. He reached Ollivander's Wand Shop with Abei and left the chapter preparing to speak privately with Ollivander.

• Aaron emptied Abei's pocket of most of its snacks and packed a tent, clothes, a backpack, and money for their trip.
• Aaron and Abei ate a lavish breakfast, and Aaron told Jeans he was bringing candied fruit to visit his great-uncle.
• Aaron traveled through the fireplace to Gaius Beverage Shop and told Jeans he was heading to Ollivander's Wand Shop.
• Aaron met Colin at the wand shop, where Colin asked him to obtain an autographed photo from Harry Potter.
• Aaron left the candied fruit for Ollivander and went upstairs while Ollivander attended to Colin.

Aaron escaped his bodyguards and left Diagon Alley with Abei, flying toward Malfoy Manor. Ollivander found Aaron’s note and alerted Jeans, who realized the escape had been planned.

• Aaron changed clothes, left a note asking Jeans to prepare for school, and slipped out of Ollivanders while invisible.
• Aaron chose the Leaky Cauldron over Knockturn Alley, borrowed brandy on Jeans’ tab, and walked into the Muggle world.
• Aaron let Abei out in an alley, shared the Invisibility Potion with the Holy Dragon, and flew with it toward Malfoy Manor.
• Ollivander found Aaron’s note and rushed to tell Jeans that his grandnephew had run away.
• The bodyguards discovered Aaron was gone and went to report their failure to Jeans.

After Aaron ran away from home, Jeans concealed the full extent of the boy’s packed vacation schedule from Ollivander and organized the Gaius Family’s guardians to search for him. The guardians split up to look for Aaron while Jeans prepared his school supplies, hoping he would return before Hogwarts began.

• Ollivander questioned Jeans about Aaron’s note, and Jeans claimed he had arranged only a few extra classes before Ollivander warned him not to pressure Aaron and urged him to find the boy.
• After Ollivander left the shop, Jeans reprimanded Aaron’s two bodyguards for losing him and ordered them to help search.
• Jeans warned the bodyguards that Aaron’s disappearance was a planned escape, then summoned four more guardians to join the search.
• Jeans assigned the six guardians to investigate Diagon Alley, the Gaius Family’s contacts, the Muggle world, Gaius Castle, and Knockturn Alley, while Anna stayed at the shop.
• Jeans said he would prepare Aaron’s school supplies in case the guardians failed to find him before Hogwarts began.