The news about Soul Hall that had come from the Duke's household might not have shocked Ian for an entire year, but it definitely left him completely stunned for several seconds.
There was no helping it.
Anyone in his place would probably have been just as bewildered.
If one insisted on calling Hogwarts' story a fairy tale, that would make sense too. But no matter what, Ian had never expected to hear the name of his old uncle's White Moonlight in this era.
Lily Evans!
A character who would not be born until over a thousand years later, the mother of Savior Harry Potter, was actually a witch of Soul Hall—and active in this medieval age of swords and magic.
This was information the Young Wizard had never anticipated. Perhaps it meant that Soul Hall possessed the ability to travel along the Timeline, and likely had some method of exempting or mitigating the effects such travel might bring.
At the very least, they had to be able to reduce the effects of traveling through time. Otherwise, if a group of people kept moving through the Timeline, no matter how careful they were, they would inevitably disrupt the original course of history.
"Could the method of exempting or weakening the cost be those shadows covering the entire body?" The first thing Ian thought of was the shadows covering the Big Bad Wolf.
The Big Bad Wolf he had captured seemed particularly concerned about that layer of disguise.
When Ian had previously tried to disperse the shadows around him, the creature's terror and fear had been extremely obvious. Perhaps this disguise came with a price while providing its benefits.
"Mm, that fits the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy." Ian had briefly studied those shadows before. What he could confirm was that