Searching for the 'Room of Requirement'

Yes, Cypher didn't feel his mind becoming more active or his reactions becoming faster.

Thinking could also be cultivated through practicing magic.

Cypher quickly turned to Luna to ask.

"The effect is good, but I have a few questions."

At this, Iris and Luna both turned their gazes to Cypher, who was frowning.

"I feel that the Awakening Potion doesn't speed up my thinking or improve my reaction time; it just prevents me from getting tired."

"To make an analogy, the Stamina Potion only makes you feel energetic and prevents fatigue, but your physical fitness doesn't change, right?"

"The Berserk Potion changes your physical fitness..."

Luna quietly added.

Cypher paused. "Are there no side effects?"

"There are..."

Luna said, lacking confidence.

"Do you have any objections to running every morning from now on?"

"No..." ×2

Luna and Iris exchanged glances, saying in unison, weakly.

From now on, weekends will be for exercising in the morning, and in the afternoon...

After eating a lunch with a balanced mix of meat and vegetables, Cypher pondered the afternoon's plans.

Got it, I'll go find Professor Dumbledore.

Maybe he'll arrange an empty classroom for us.

However, Cypher's beautiful wish was shattered before he could even voice it.

I'm away on business and will be back on Monday!

Knocking on Professor Dumbledore's office, a string of golden-red words appeared on it.

"Huh?"

Iris exclaimed in surprise from the side.

"What's so surprising? This must be a method Professor Dumbledore developed specifically for you, to sneak in and take a letter while he's away!"

Luna rebuked her mercilessly from the side.

Causing Iris to cover her face in shame.

Cypher smiled, and suddenly, he thought of an excellent location.

Hogwarts Main Castle

Eight floors in total.

Here, besides the Headmaster's office, there's also the Gryffindor common room.

Although it was Saturday afternoon, the entire floor was quiet and deserted.

But with the arrival of the three, a touch of vitality was added to the still scene.

"Cypher, this is the Gryffindor common room!"

Watching Cypher heading straight for the Fat Lady painting with a clear goal, Iris couldn't help but speak.

"I'm just taking a look."

Cypher smiled.

"I guess we can't just go in."

"Of course, as long as you say the password correctly! Anyone can enter if they say the right password!"

The Fat Lady in the painting, half-dozing and half-asleep, said in a deep voice.

However, without waiting for the correct password or words of entreaty.

She suddenly opened her eyes, only to realize that the three in front of her were not students from her house.

"Children, you must be first-year students! Houses aren't allowed to visit each other's common rooms! Of course, Gryffindor is an exception, as long as you sincerely want to be our friends... I almost forgot, you should leave quickly! War is about to break out, and the school has started to enforce a curfew this semester. Even though the war has nothing directly to do with the school's young wizards, they've given our paintings..."

The Fat Lady, having woken up, was clearly full of energy, and she began to complain endlessly about the school's restrictions.

"Um, sorry to disturb you, Madam, we'll leave now."

Cypher couldn't stand this kind of enthusiastic exchange, gave a bow, and without waiting for the Fat Lady to react, he dragged the two away in a panic.

"Gryffindor is famous for its hospitality! Like in previous years, everyone knows that the Gryffindor common room is on the eighth floor. Even so, no one has been able to infiltrate their house's common room. It's no exaggeration to say that probably anyone pulled out of their house can skillfully say the names of every Gryffindor student in school."

Truly, Gryffindor is known for its hospitality!

Cypher clicked his tongue. In Gryffindor, friendship knows no age.

"Of course, our house doesn't hide our common room either."

Luna added from the other side.

"But very few outsiders can answer the knocker's riddle correctly."

"Then where are the other two houses? Do you know?"

Iris thought for a moment, "They should be on the first floor. I don't know exactly about Slytherin, but Hufflepuff is next to the kitchen."

"The kitchen?! You know where the kitchen is?!"

"Of course!"

Iris proudly puffed out her chest.

"Hehe—"

Cypher gave a strange smile.

Luna and Iris looked at each other, hugged each other, and pretended to be scared.

Just messing around.

The three returned to the eighth-floor foyer.

"Next, I need a little bit of your help."

Cypher took a step forward, turned around, and held up a finger, waving it at the two of them.

"Here? You want to practice magic here? See that stone beast? Behind it is our headmaster's office!"

"Cough cough, no, yes, um..."

"Cough cough, of course not here. Last night I heard an interesting story from a senior student."

Beckoning the two to come closer, Cypher, seeing that no one was around, lowered his voice and said.

"He was dating his girlfriend here and discovered a magical room here. Unfortunately, he only saw it once."

Cypher said nonsense with a straight face.

But Iris and Luna hadn't heard anything about a Room of Requirement or a magical room.

Nor did they care about Cypher's expression of making up a story.

The word "dating" alone made their heads spin.

The two tacitly didn't question Cypher.

They silently searched the entire foyer.

The two even used their wands to cast detection spells, constantly poking and tapping, trying to find hidden mechanisms.

Cypher vaguely remembered it being next to a painting.

However, Cypher passed all the portraits without the slightest change.

As the sun gradually set.

The two girls gave up. They came to Cypher's side and comforted him.

"Cypher, your information might be a prank, let's go back first."

"Yeah, this is Gryffindor territory after all. If we get surrounded, we won't be able to handle it."

It felt like he was missing something.

The portrait, could it be that the trigger mechanism in this world isn't the portrait?

Cypher tried hard to recall his vague memories, letting the two girls lead him.

Until the three passed the Tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy Being Bashed by Trolls.

Out of sensitivity to portraits.

Cypher glanced at the tapestry, and he understood.

What he thought of as a portrait was just a picture, ignoring that portraits don't necessarily only exist on pictures, and the portraits in his memory don't necessarily only exist on pictures.

Cypher broke free from the two girls' hands.

Under their gaze, he walked back and forth in front of the tapestry three times.

"Found it!"

Unsurprisingly, a door appeared opposite the tapestry.

Cypher pushed it open without hesitation.

"There really is a Room of Requirement!"

Iris exclaimed.

Luna quickly covered her mouth and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that there was no one else around.

Taking Iris's hand, the two girls also disappeared into the passageway.

Also disappearing was the door to this room.

Entering the room, looking at the scene in front of them.

Iris couldn't help but exclaim.

"Cypher! What exactly is this place!"