Summary

"Very good, Miss Granger. Combining the Wind element with the Levitation Charm was a choice that could earn extra points, and it left your opponent unable to dodge in the air. I can give you ninety points. Unfortunately, Mr. Weasley, many of your choices were flawed, so you must find another opponent and give me a satisfactory performance. Otherwise, you may have to repeat the year."

"Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy, I have to say that both of you performed quite well. Although Mr. Malfoy, your carelessness gave Mr. Potter an opportunity, and Mr. Potter seized it, overall it was still good. Don't be careless. In actual combat, you would already be dead. And don't forget, Mr. Potter did not surrender. Both of you passed."

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Five months was neither particularly long nor particularly short. In any case, Josh felt that he had lived those five months to the fullest. After returning from Hungary, Josh immediately threw himself into a frenzy of study. There was no need to elaborate on the appeal of Spatial magic; Josh had always looked forward to learning how to use it.

What Josh had learned before could only be considered the most superficial material, but it had still been useful. At the very least, it had given him a fairly solid foundation. Although he only half understood many things, since this world's use of space was not particularly advanced, it was enough for now.

Akathosh had once possessed the title bestowed by the world itself: Wing of the World. He was inherently aligned with wind, but once one's strength reached a certain level, many things could be done effortlessly. In his own words, even if he did not understand spatial attributes very well, he could simply turn around and appear somewhere else. Why waste the effort flying there himself?

Well, Josh truly had no way to refute that reasoning. He even felt that Akathosh's logic was absolutely right. In Josh's eyes, whether on the Muya Continent or in this world, many spells and forms of magic invented by mages had really been meant to improve life and reduce unnecessary trouble.

Just as the spatial magic of this world was practically used as everyday household magic, the Muya Continent also had plenty of high-end items like spatial rings. Even setting magic aside, the air conditioners, televisions, washing machines, and other appliances in Josh's previous life had all been made to save trouble and improve people's lives, hadn't they?

"Could it be that the greatest similarity between wizards and scientists is that they enjoy slacking off? No, it's benefiting humanity?"

Josh thought this with no small amount of malice. Of course, it was only an inward complaint. To be honest, without the efforts and creations of those pioneers, life would not be so comfortable now. Josh himself had benefited from it, and he could be said to enjoy the results of both worlds.

Akathosh's teaching style was actually extremely rough. He directly stuffed his own understanding into Josh's mind, only coming out to explain whenever Josh truly could not figure something out. As Akathosh put it, things you comprehended yourself were far more meaningful than things others taught you hand in hand.

Josh felt that made sense, so he began cramming all sorts of knowledge on his own—things like the nature of space, spatial activity, and the composition of space. However, Josh was surprised to discover that none of this knowledge mentioned parallel worlds or other worlds within space.

Much less the term "spatial barrier," which Josh had seen so often in novels in his previous life that he was sick of it. But thinking about it, that made sense. The Muya Continent was a mythical world rather than a scientific one. The people who truly knew such concepts were probably those at the absolute pinnacle—

Not beings like Akathosh, but those who had transcended the universe. Of course, that was merely Josh's speculation. Akathosh had said that someone had once used his people as mounts, and those people had already left that world. Josh naturally wondered whether they had transcended the universe.

"Why are you thinking about something so ancient? Even if you guessed correctly, what use would it be? In their eyes, you don't even count as a speck of dust. What meaning is there in it?"

Akathosh was extremely disdainful of Josh's wild thoughts. In his view, Josh would be better off focusing on improving his strength. If Josh could one day reach Akathosh's former level, he would already be standing at the peak of the world. Naturally, Akathosh could also restore his own strength through Josh's progress.

Now, because of his fusion with the Void element, and because his soul had already been tempered by this power before, Akathosh had quickly reached the fourth tier, the same level as Josh. This fourth tier was not the level he could unleash in his soul state; it was the real deal, a level achieved with a physical body and magic power.

Josh could feel it himself. Akathosh, having transformed into a giant dragon, was terrifying. Josh definitely would not be Akathosh's opponent. However, Josh did not care much about that. Because of their contract, he actually hoped Akathosh would grow stronger faster—then he could slack off.

While studying, Josh had not forgotten to properly teach the Young Wizards. After discussing it with Professor Flitwick, the Young Wizards' originally easy and relaxed first-year curriculum immediately changed. All sorts of spells began getting crammed into their heads.

In the past, because they had no way to refine magic power, they could only wait for their age to increase step by step before learning new spells. But now, with meditation, magic power was no longer a problem. Although talent differences did exist, in Josh's eyes, the differences in this world were practically negligible, because these spells only required a certain amount of magic power to cast.

If one had to talk about talent, Josh was surprised to find that there were still several first-year Young Wizards whose magic power grew very quickly. For example, Malfoy, Harry Potter, and of course, Hermione Granger, the little girl who had joined his House.

It was not that the three of them had already reached some extraordinary level of magic power. Rather, the growth of their magic power had completely surpassed that of their peers. They were first-year students, yet their magic power could already rival the naturally accumulated level of second-years, or even third-years.

Therefore, Josh was quite willing to spend some time nurturing the three of them. This also made Malfoy and Harry increasingly respectful toward Josh. Harry had already worshipped Josh intensely because Josh had killed Voldemort's avatar. Now that Josh often gave Harry special instruction, Harry had completely become Josh's little fanboy.

As for Malfoy, he probably no longer cared whether Voldemort would return. Even his father, Lucius Malfoy, seemed to have accepted his decision. Once, young Malfoy had asked Josh what he thought of Voldemort and what he would do if he encountered him.

At the time, Josh happened to be teaching a Combat class. He directly threw a Void Orb at the Quidditch pitch—and the entire pitch collapsed. Dumbledore had been so frightened that he thought Voldemort had attacked. Of course, Josh had to pay compensation because of it.

Well, or rather, under Josh's dark stare, Malfoy directly declared that his family would pay for it. That satisfied Josh. Combined with Malfoy's decent talent, Josh was happy to cultivate him a little. The more he taught Malfoy, the less Malfoy cared about Voldemort.

Because the more he interacted with Josh, the more Malfoy felt Voldemort's insignificance. Just think about it: someone only a little older than himself could casually cast a spell more terrifying than the most powerful Dark magic in his memories. What reason did Malfoy have left to think about Voldemort?

Although Malfoy occasionally still brought up theories about purebloods, Josh bluntly replied, "Your ancestors were not pure-bloods either. Mine were much the same. They were simply lucky enough to awaken Magic Seeds, and only after the passage of time did they become what they are today. If the students from the Muggle world were given time, sooner or later they would reach the same level."

After that, Malfoy never spoke to Josh about such matters again. Josh even heard that the boy had gone to the library and looked up the histories of many magical families. The results proved that Josh had been entirely correct, leaving Malfoy in a daze for several days.

As for Hermione, the little girl was far more direct than Harry and Malfoy. Since she was originally a Ravenclaw student, it was much easier for her to seek help or guidance from her Head of House. Whenever she had a problem, she would almost always come running to Josh. Josh could not exactly refuse her, so Hermione became a frequent visitor.

Of course, Josh would not let her off so easily. At the very least, he directly handed the cleaning of this room and his office over to the girl. Hermione was extremely unhappy about it, but there was nothing she could do. Malfoy and Harry, who also came by often, ended up suffering as well. The difference was that the two of them were clearly much more willing than Hermione.

Before they knew it, the semester had reached its final stage. Josh was assigned to test the students for their examinations. There was no point testing meditation, since it depended entirely on the individual and offered no useful standard of reference, so Josh directly decided to assess only the practical combat portion.

Although the results were more or less unable to fully satisfy Josh, and several unlucky students were sent back to prepare for a retest, Josh had not made things too difficult for them.

"I didn't expect to gain so much in a single year."

Josh was packing his things in the office. The end-of-term feast would begin later, and as a Head of House, Josh naturally had to attend. The feast would announce which House had won the House Cup. Josh did not care much about that; he felt it was merely meant to encourage the Young Wizards.

"Oh, right. Akathosh, do you have any magic that can track souls? The kind that can find and deal with every fragment even if a soul has split apart?"

Josh suddenly thought of something and asked. Although he had basically mastered the method of stabilizing the Void Gate, the feeling that there was always a rat in this world made him uncomfortable. Moreover, Josh had basically decided to treat this world as one of his reserve worlds.

The idea of reserve worlds had actually been proposed by Akathosh. If the world consciousness of the Muya Continent was still active, then once Akathosh returned, there might be obvious disturbances—after all, he had personally shattered that entire world. Keeping reserve worlds would make it easier to run away if necessary.

If it was not active, that was fine too. Even if the effects of altered time diminished—the Muya Continent was no longer frozen—Josh could still gain more time in this world to make up for and refine his cultivation. Naturally, Josh agreed with this arrangement. To be honest, the wizarding world felt more familiar to him than the Muya Continent.

"You want to deal with that rat?" Akathosh slowly drifted out of Josh's tattoo. "There is a way, but it requires materials. One is a fragment of the target's soul. The other is something that does not exist in this world."

"It's fine. I'm not in a hurry." Josh smiled. "We can make plans after we return. In any case, I'll be coming back here again. When the time comes, we can just deal with that rat directly."