Chapter Summaries

Irina successfully made three Apparition Keys, and Newt set goals for improving her Portkey crafting before teaching her his latest ideas. He explained a new design that combined Apparition with Portkeys, but warned that Irina could not learn Apparition while her body was still growing.

• Newt tested Irina's three Apparition Keys and confirmed that all of them worked.
• Newt told Irina to improve her Portkey-making speed and said he would teach her his new Apparition Key insights during July.
• Newt explained that his new Apparition Key design combined Apparition with Portkeys so users could choose a destination without preloaded coordinates.
• When Irina asked to learn Apparition, Newt warned that a growing wizard's first spatial framework could become unusable as their body matured.

Newt taught Irina how to make an Apparition Key by infusing Apparition into a semi-finished Portkey, letting its user choose a destination. Irina succeeded on her first try, and Newt confirmed the new type could be widely adopted.

• Irina worried that she could not learn advanced Apparition before coming of age, and Newt explained that an Apparition Key avoided the need for her to build a spatial framework.
• Newt gave Irina the Apparition incantation and explained that combining Apparition with a Portkey could produce a practical travel spell.
• Under Newt's guidance, Irina made a semi-finished Portkey from a teacup and infused it with Apparition, creating a timed Apparition Key.
• After ten minutes, Newt used the teacup to travel to the villa's front door and confirmed that Irina's Apparition Key worked.
• Newt concluded that Irina's success showed the new Apparition Key could be widely adopted, while Irina noted it was faster and could travel as far as the Portkey allowed.

Irina improved her Portkey-making and created an Apparition Key that could carry someone to New York. Linley visited Nicolas Flamel, who decided to teach him how to combine alchemy with contract magic for the next half month.

• Irina discovered that her Apparition Keys' maximum range depended on her magic power and, by July 31, made one that could reach New York from Europe.
• Irina reduced her crafting time to just over a minute for a Cross-border Apparition Key and under a minute for ordinary Cross-border Portkeys.
• On August 1, Green took Linley by timed Portkey to visit his teacher, Nicolas Flamel.
• Nicolas congratulated Linley on reaching the Demon King level and learned that Linley had studied contract magic under Green throughout July.
• Nicolas criticized Green for not teaching Linley how to combine alchemy with contract magic and took over Linley's instruction for the next half month.

Nicholas taught Linley how to combine alchemy with contract magic by replacing a contract’s penalty for breach with an Alchemy Formation. Linley realized the formation could provide positive enhancements when he deliberately breached a contract.

• Nicholas took Linley to the training ground and asked him to create an ordinary Magical Contract.
• Linley explained that wizarding contracts were defined by the parties, an event, and a penalty for breach.
• Nicholas said an Alchemy Formation could replace the breach penalty, then demonstrated a flame formation that punished a violator.
• Linley asked whether a positive enhancement formation could activate for him if he breached the contract.
• Nicholas confirmed that the method could turn a negative penalty into a positive enhancement.

Linley learned how to replace Magical Contract breach penalties with Alchemy Formations that granted buffs or inflicted persistent punishments, and began practicing the technique. Meanwhile, Newt took Irina to the Walterson Magical Plant Garden in Berlin, where they met its owner, Vivian Walterson.

• Nicolas explained that Alchemy Formations could turn contract breaches into buffs and create punishments that continued until their stored magic ran out.
• Linley practiced replacing breach penalties with formations that enhanced his speed, strength, magic power, and endurance, and imagined using contracts like talismans.
• Newt asked Irina to make a Cross-border Portkey, and they traveled from his villa to Berlin.
• Newt showed Irina the protected Walterson Magical Plant Garden and revealed that fewer than ten wizards possessed tokens that allowed access.
• Vivian Walterson welcomed Newt and Irina, and Newt introduced Irina as his student.

Irina met Vivian Walterson at the Walterson Magical Plant Garden and learned that Vivian's family shared a strong affinity for magical plants. Vivian showed Irina new ways to use plants in wizard battles, then welcomed her to spend half a month exploring the garden.

• Irina greeted Vivian as Mrs. Walterson, then corrected herself to Ms. Walterson after Newt explained that Vivian had never married.
• Irina showed Vivian that a Chinese Mangle-Snapper was docile with her, but Vivian also touched it safely and explained her family's affinity for magical plants.
• Irina admitted she cultivated Venomous Tentacula and Chinese Mangle-Snappers for combat, and Vivian suggested using plants such as Magical Belladonna to weaken enemies and shape a battlefield.
• Vivian inspired Irina to think beyond directly attacking foes by hiding plants in advance and luring enemies into traps.
• Vivian led Irina into the cottage and promised to show her every magical plant in the garden during their half-month stay.

Vivian showed Irina the rare and dangerous magical plants in Walterson Magical Plant Garden, then brought her to the Temple of Maya, where every plant had gone extinct outside the garden. Vivian warned that the plants’ effects were too dangerous to reveal and explained that they died completely after blooming once.

• Vivian guided Irina through the garden and offered her seeds after Irina admired its large stocks of Venomous Tentacula and Chinese Mangle-Snappers.
• Vivian showed Irina rare plants, including Gloomy Lucifer, Rainbow Bridge, and the Twelve-Winged Angel, and explained their powerful effects.
• Vivian told Irina that the Walterson Family had nearly been wiped out while protecting the garden from wizards who coveted its plants.
• Vivian led Irina into the Temple of Maya, where fewer than ten of each extinct magical plant had been cultivated.
• Vivian warned Irina not to learn the plants’ effects and revealed that they died permanently after blooming once.

Linley learned to use his Demon King-level magical power as tangible defenses, blades, and beams under Nicholas’s guidance. He began adapting to his new power by turning Nicholas’s attack back on him.

• Vivian explained to Irina that Maya Grass matured into the Temple of Maya by transforming its entire body into the palace.
• Linley mastered combining alchemy with contract magic and prepared more than a hundred enhancement contracts.
• Linley asked Nicholas to teach him combat techniques suited to a Demon King-level wizard, and Nicholas explained how he could shape dense magical power into tangible forms.
• Linley formed protective Airwaves around himself and shaped his magical power into blades.
• Nicholas attacked Linley with tangible magical blades, and Linley redirected them with his Airwaves toward Nicholas.

Linley learned that Demon King-level battles depended on developing specialized spells, then realized his alchemy had reached a bottleneck and decided to focus on fire magic. He began searching for a power unique to fire that could lead him to a breakthrough.

• Linley used Tai Chi principles to redirect Nicholas’s magic blades, and Nicholas explained that tangible magic was easily countered by wizards of equal rank.
• Nicholas told Linley that Demon King-level battles were decided by new applications of mastered spells or powerful original spells.
• Linley recognized that his fire magic and alchemy had not given him a decisive advantage, and concluded that he needed to advance in fire magic to break through his alchemy bottleneck.
• Nicholas gave Linley a token to practice alone at the square training ground, then left him there.
• Linley studied the flame in his palm and considered what unique property of fire could inspire a new spell.

Linley sought inspiration for developing his own flame magic and chose to model it on Ziwei Heavenly Fire by harnessing stellar power. He returned to Nicholas, who revealed he had studied the stars with centaurs and agreed to teach him.

• Linley considered legendary flames from his previous life and decided Nether Ghost Fire was unsuitable because he lacked knowledge of souls.
• Linley chose Ziwei Heavenly Fire as a model and planned to use stellar power to create a new flame.
• Linley considered seeking the Forbidden Forest centaurs' star knowledge, offering wealth and protection or resorting to coercion if necessary.
• Linley returned to Nicholas and said he wanted to continue learning Demon King-level combat techniques while postponing his flame studies.
• Nicholas told Linley he had learned about the stars from centaurs more than two hundred years earlier and claimed his knowledge rivaled that of the young centaurs near Hogwarts.
• Linley sincerely asked Nicholas to teach him the mysteries of the stars.

Nicholas taught Linley centaur stellar divination and gave him a Starry Sky Visualization Chart to help him cultivate an affinity with the stars. After a week of practice, Linley showed signs of progress, and Nicholas came to check on him.

• Nicholas explained to Linley how centaurs used planetary movements to glimpse major events, and predicted that war would soon erupt in the British wizarding world.
• Linley studied stellar divination with Nicholas for three days, focusing on star symbolism and planetary movements so he could harness the stars' power.
• On August 10, Nicholas took Linley to a hillside and gave him the Starry Sky Visualization Chart he had created a century earlier.
• Linley meditated on the chart beneath the night sky each evening for a week, and starlight began to show around him and in his eyes.
• Nicholas visited Linley ahead of schedule, saw the signs of his progress in broad daylight, and nodded in satisfaction.

Linley used Nicholas’s Star Nexus to sense and control stellar power, then returned to Hogwarts to attempt the final step of his starry-sky magic. He ended on the far shore of the Black Lake, calling for the stars to descend.

• Nicholas gave Linley the Star Nexus and taught him to connect it to his Wand to amplify his perception and control of stellar power.
• Linley spent three days practicing with the Star Nexus and focusing on the Big Dipper, while continuing to study the stars at night.
• On August 20, Linley left Nicholas and Green, traveled to King’s Cross Station, and took the Hogwarts Express back to Hogwarts.
• Linley asked Dumbledore for permission to practice starry-sky magic by the Black Lake, and Dumbledore welcomed him to stay at Hogwarts.
• After Linley left, Dumbledore opened a special notebook to the page marked “Nicolas Flamel” and contacted his old friend.
• Linley raised his Wand and Star Nexus toward the night sky and called for the stars to descend.

Linley used the Star Nexus to connect with all seven stars of the Big Dipper and discovered that they had placed wisps of Star Origin in his heart. He realized that he needed this Star Origin, as well as stellar power, to create a flame like Ziwei Heavenly Fire.

• Linley drew stellar power from Dubhe and Merak but struggled to communicate with the other five stars.
• Linley used the power of Dubhe and Merak as a medium to connect with Phecda, Megrez, and Alioth, then formed their gathered stellar power into a translucent flame.
• Linley spent half an hour connecting with Mizar and Alkaid, completing his link to all seven stars of the Big Dipper.
• Seven sparks entered Linley's body through the Star Nexus and settled in his heart, where he recognized them as wisps of Star Origin.
• Linley concluded that he needed the Big Dipper's Star Origin to condense a flame similar to Ziwei Heavenly Fire.

Linley fused with the Big Dipper’s Star Origin and used it to create Ziwei Heavenly Fire, a star-powered flame with extraordinary heat. After testing it on the Black Lake, he discovered that it continued to burn and expand under Mana Suppression Power.

• Linley exchanged his magical power through the Star Origin to form a violet flame and named it Ziwei Heavenly Fire.
• Linley threw a small amount of Ziwei Heavenly Fire into the Black Lake, where it evaporated water and reached more than three thousand degrees Celsius.
• Linley recalled the Ziwei Heavenly Fire and wondered whether its power would grow much stronger at night.
• Linley tested Mana Suppression Power on the Ziwei Heavenly Fire, which kept burning despite the suppression.
• Linley activated a Mana Suppression Scepter that weakened his own power, but the Ziwei Heavenly Fire remained unaffected and expanded.

Linley discovered that Ziwei Heavenly Fire resisted Mana Suppression Power and decided to stop researching star power beyond mastering the flame. He brought the flame to Dumbledore for a test, and they traveled to the Atlantic Ocean to begin their battle.

• Linley realized Ziwei Heavenly Fire and the Star Nexus were unaffected by Mana Suppression Power because they relied on star power rather than magic.
• Linley decided to focus on other fields, removed the Star Nexus, and practiced guiding star power into his body while retaining control over Ziwei Heavenly Fire.
• Linley showed Ziwei Heavenly Fire to Dumbledore and asked him to test its power.
• Dumbledore took Linley to the Atlantic Ocean, warded the area against Muggle ships, and invited Linley to attack.
• Linley reattached the Star Nexus and concentrated his power into Ziwei Heavenly Fire for the test.

Linley’s Ziwei Heavenly Fire pursued Dumbledore, who used water, shields, Vanishment, and Apparition to withstand it. Linley realized the flames had not reached their full strength, empowered them with starlight until they turned purple-gold, and left Dumbledore struggling against the intensified fire.

• Linley sent a vast expanse of Ziwei Heavenly Fire at Dumbledore, who protected himself with the Water Prison Curse and a Shield Charm.
• Dumbledore used the Vanishment Charm to erase the flames, but discovered it consumed far more magical power than Linley had used to create them.
• Dumbledore Apparated away and used huge waves to disperse much of the fire, while Linley sensed the Ziwei Heavenly Fire was not at its full power.
• Linley realized he needed to actively direct the flames to absorb starlight, then transformed them into purple-gold fire over ten minutes.
• The purple-gold flames grew hot enough to evaporate the distant sea, and Dumbledore struggled to evade and defend against their pursuit.

Linley tested the Ziwei Heavenly Fire against Dumbledore, learned that its offense outweighed its defensive power, and decided to focus on mastering flame magic. On August 15, Irina and Newt prepared to leave Vivian’s magical plant garden, where Vivian transformed a crystal leaf into a token matching Newt’s admission token.

• Dumbledore’s Disarming Charm broke through Linley’s Ziwei Heavenly Fire, but Linley stopped it with Mana Suppression Flame.
• Linley recalled the Ziwei Heavenly Fire and told Dumbledore he planned to pause his alchemy research and devote himself to mastering flame magic.
• Dumbledore removed the protective spells over the sea and returned with Linley to Hogwarts Castle on Fawkes.
• Irina thanked Vivian for her hospitality as she and Newt prepared to leave Walterson Magical Plant Garden for England.
• Vivian infused her blood into a crystal-clear leaf, which transformed into the shape of Newt’s admission token.

Irina received a soul-bound admission token to Walterson Magical Plant Garden and a collection of precious magical seeds from Vivian. After planting them and carefully setting up her Magic Plant Bag for Maya Grass, she returned home to find her parents had left on a road trip without her, so she wrote Linley to arrange a meeting.

• Vivian gave Irina a pendant that bound to her soul and revealed temporary coordinates for Walterson Magical Plant Garden.
• Vivian gifted Irina one hundred rare magical-plant seeds, including Maya Grass, and Irina promised to care for them.
• Irina returned with Newt to his villa, prepared plots for the seeds, transplanted her Chinese Mangle-Snappers and Venomous Tentaculas, and planted Maya Grass in her Magic Plant Bag.
• Irina left Newt and Tina’s villa and returned home, where she discovered Igor and Carolina had gone on a road trip without her.
• Irina wrote Linley to arrange a meeting outside Roer Castle on the morning of August 21st.

Linley reunited with Irina at Roer Castle, and the two traveled to France to explore Magi-Gold Street. After Irina eagerly shopped for alchemical gadgets, Linley led her toward a shabby shop at the street’s end.

• Linley rested at Roer Castle and welcomed Irina when she arrived by Portkey the next morning.
• Irina created a Cross-border Apparition Key, and she and Linley used it to travel from Roer Castle to Magi-Gold Street.
• Linley explained how the French wizarding world embraced Muggle-inspired ideas and alchemy as they explored the street.
• Irina bought more than a hundred alchemical gadgets, and Linley happily paid for them without revealing how easily he could recreate them.
• Linley noticed Irina was reluctant to leave and led her by the hand toward a shabby-looking shop at the end of Magi-Gold Street.

Linley brought Irina to Magi-Gold Street’s vast alchemical trading platform and placed a cloak that could block the Imperius Curse three times on a display stand. An astonished alchemist examined it and asked Linley to name a price because he had nothing suitable to barter.

• Irina sensed powerful spatial magic in the shabby shop and followed Linley inside its plaza-sized interior.
• Linley explained how the trading platform worked and paid ten Galleons to rent a display stand for a day.
• Linley placed his cloak on the stand and added a description of its ability to block the Imperius Curse three times.
• An alchemist read the description, marveled at the cloak, and asked Linley to name a price.