The Memory Palace was the signature skill that made the great detective Sherlock Holmes famous.
It was a highly systematic, visualized method of organizing memory and thought used by the protagonist Sherlock Holmes in the detective novels created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The "Memory Palace" was essentially a mnemonic technique. Its formal name was the "Method of Loci," and it originated in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. By visually associating information that needed to be remembered with specific locations in a familiar spatial environment, this method helped the brain store and retrieve information more efficiently.
In Sherlock Holmes's context, the "Memory Palace" was portrayed as a virtual space within his mind—a vast, orderly, clearly structured "building of thought." He "stored" every observed detail, deduction process, case clue, scientific fact, past case, and more in different rooms, bookshelves, drawers, or corridors of that palace as though they were objects. Whenever he needed them, he would "walk into" the corresponding location and swiftly retrieve the information.
Although the term "Memory Palace" never directly appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original works, its core concept was deeply rooted in Sherlock Holmes's way of thinking and cognitive techniques.
Ian was also a Sherlock Holmes fan. That was why, after gaining the ability to create magic, he had used magic to recreate his own Memory Palace.
It was not particularly brilliant magic, but it was certainly extremely practical. These days, he had even begun promoting this miraculous learning technique on a small scale in Hogwarts' Small Class.
Of course.
Though it was merely minor magic to Ian, the Memory Palace spell still had a certain learning threshold for most Hogwarts students.
However, that did not stop Ian, who had mastered his self-created magic to perfection, from absorbing the knowledge of this era on the