Knowing Me Is Important

Regulus stopped shooting. Baruk stopped, his eight eyes fixed on him, and his forelegs rose and fell repeatedly.

Regulus looked at it and inexplicably thought it resembled a puppy.

He twitched the corner of his mouth, then asked, "You want the real thing?"

Baruk was silent for a moment, then opened and closed his chelicerae a few times, making a very soft clicking sound, "Want."

"Last time... the feeling... disappeared..." There was something indescribable in its voice. "Aragog's father... was stronger than me... I haven't changed at all..."

Regulus then asked, "Did you know that last time was a lie?"

"I know," Baruk tapped the ground again with his foreleg, "I want... really... I don't want... fake..."

Regulus stared at it.

A spider, temporarily imbued with arrogance by Light Magic, awakened its ambition.

This logic is somewhat absurd, but it holds true.

He thought for a moment and said, "Let me see what you can do now, and to what extent."

Baruk took a few steps back, then used all eight of its legs to spring forward, leaping off the rock and shooting forward at such speed that it left a trail of afterimages in the mist.

It ran back, raised its pincers, and grabbed a rock next to it. The rock was half the size of its body. Its edges were bitten by its pincers, and with a forceful bite, it broke into several pieces.

It retracted its chelicerae, and sprayed a spider silk from its abdomen, shooting straight at the trunk of a tree forty meters away. It stuck to the trunk, tightened its grip, and propelled itself forward.

It was incredibly fast; after landing, it looked back at Regulus.

It waved its chelipeds, opening and closing them twice, without caring whether Regulus could understand them, then ran towards the nest and disappeared at the entrance.

Regulus waited a few minutes.

Baruk dragged a deer out of the den. It wasn't big, and its front legs were still kicking; it wasn't quite dead.

It dragged the deer to the front of the rock, released its claws, and took a step back.

The deer struggled on the ground, pawing at the ground twice with its front legs, but couldn't stand up.

Baruk leaned in, opened his mouth, and bit the deer's hind leg.

The moment the venom was injected, the deer's body froze, and its muscles lost control in a very short time, spreading forward from its hind legs.

Its front legs were still digging, but it stopped halfway through. Its whole body went limp, its eyes were still open, but its pupils were dilated.

Regulus watched the deer die in less than a second.

He nodded slightly. "Not bad."

Speed, strength, and silk-shooting range are all strong among individuals of the same size and age; this spider's qualities are indeed quite good.

Venom is a good thing; it's quick to inject and takes effect, but the injection method is too primitive—it can only be done by biting.

That's all.

Regulus looked at it and found it somewhat amusing.

Baruk was a ready-made experimental subject, and his willingness to cooperate made him far more valuable than a subject that cooperated passively.

The next stage of Light Magic requires observing long-term effects and necessitates an object that can continuously undergo experimentation and provide clear feedback on changes in its state.

Baruk also enjoyed being experimented on.

Intelligent beings generally dislike having their brains tampered with, but it does.

There was something else that he found even more interesting.

What would happen if Baruk became powerful enough to break through the racial limitations of the Acromantula?

The Acromantula has a strong sense of group identity and naturally obeys its leader.

If it grows strong enough, will it challenge Aragog?

Spider-themed power grab?

But before that, you need to see it clearly.

Regulus said, "Stand still."

Baruk let out a short thud, retracted his front legs, and fixed his eight eyes on him, remaining motionless.

Regulus probed into the spider's Magic Perception, following the path of its Magic Power flow, disassembling and smoothing out the Acromantula's Magic Power structure in his mind.

He stayed inside for a while and came to a conclusion.

The Magic Power structure of the Acromantula is closed, rough, primitive, and has narrow circuits.

Magic Power originates from the core, circulates throughout the body, and returns to the core after being largely depleted, resulting in low utilization.

This is an innate limitation at the racial level; every Acromantula is born with this structure.

However, innate limitations do not mean that one cannot move.

Regulus withdrew his senses and fell into thought.

He thought of the Severing Charm.

The essence of the Severing Charm is to return matter to a malleable state; its underlying logic is to loosen things that have already taken shape, allowing organizational units to be rearranged.

Can it be used in reverse?

Reopen a sealed Magic Power system, putting it in a state where it can be reorganized, and then introduce new combinations during that window of opportunity.

However, there is a problem: he used the Severing Charm on organic life forms before, but that was for lethal purposes, aiming to completely disintegrate the structure.

No need to control Magic Power, no need to set boundaries, just attack directly.

What needs to be done now is something else entirely: loosen it partially, but not fatally, to keep it from collapsing during the period of chaos, while simultaneously guiding its reorganization.

He wasn't confident in controlling the Magic Power involved; it would take time.

Putting that problem aside for now, he thought that even if Baruk's Magic Power structure loosened and was allowed to recombine naturally, the result would most likely just be a return to its original state.

Because racial instincts drive Magic Power to find the most familiar balance.

For things to truly change, the direction of restructuring must be different.

He thought of Natural Magic.

The Forbidden Forest itself is a place with extremely strong Magic Power; Natural Magic Power permeates the soil, the air, every plant, and every stone.

These Magic Power have no the Master; they belong to the environment itself.

If we can guide the Natural Magic Power of the Forbidden Forest in during the window of opportunity when Baruk's Magic Power structure is still malleable.

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During the reorganization of Baruk's Magic Power structure, external Magic Power was naturally incorporated, forming an open interface.

After the reorganization was completed, its Magic Power reserves remained the same, but the circuits were wider, the efficiency was improved, and an additional channel for continuously drawing Magic Power from the Forbidden Forest was added, making its upper limit different from then on.

This direction is feasible, but we can't take action tonight.

The Severing Charm acts in reverse on the Magic Power structure of living beings. How to control the force, how to define the loosened boundaries—he needs to figure these things out.

Before we figure out how long the window of opportunity is, and how to introduce the Natural Magic Power during that window, we can't start. Starting now would just mean killing Baruk.

Come when you're ready.

Baruk remained standing there, motionless, with eight eyes fixed on him.

Regulus looked at it too. "I have an idea, but I need to go back and prepare; I can't move now."

Baruk stretched his front leg forward, then pulled it back. "When... did... that..."

"Quick," Regulus patted its front leg, "Don't tell the other spiders."

Baruk's chelicerae opened and closed slightly. "I won't tell."

It was silent for a moment, then its chelipeds twitched slightly. "Father Aragog... shall we tell him?"

Regulus said, "You decide for yourself."

Baruk didn't ask any more questions, and let out a short clatter.

Regulus nodded. "Let's go."

Baruk escorted him to the edge of the depression, stopping at the bottom of the steep slope with a series of clattering sounds, slow in rhythm and fading downwards at the end.

Regulus walked up the steep slope, glanced back at it from the top, waved, and then Apparition and disappeared.

Inside the nest, Mosag had returned to its depths. Spider silk sealed off the passage behind it, layer upon layer, from the ground to the ceiling, completely isolating the space inside.

Aragog lay in the center of the nest, its largest pair of eyes closed, leaving only a narrow slit through which a pale white light shone.

Baruk climbed back down the steep slope into the depression, through the mist, into the nest, past the crawling spiders, and finally reached Aragog.

Its forequarters were lowered, its eight legs were tucked in, its chelicerae were closed, and it shrank into a crouching posture, pausing for a moment in front of Aragog.

Completely different from the arrogance shown when demonstrating its skills, it is now submitting, a spider's instinctive posture towards its leader.

Aragog's eye twitched slightly, but he made no other movement.

Baruk maintained his low profile, slowly crawling past it without increasing his speed, until he turned into the passage deep inside the nest and disappeared into the shadows.

Aragog's eyes closed again.

Regulus landed in the pumpkin patch next to Hagrid's Hut. The lights in the direction of the Headmaster's Office were off, and only a few windows on the top of the towers of the Castle were still illuminated by the moonlight.

He cast Levitation Charm, his body levitating and drifting towards the tower.

The moon had already shifted to the west, hanging above the Forbidden Forest, lower and paler than when it arrived, and the clouds had thickened, obscuring most of the last bit of its silvery light.

When he flew over the Black Lake, the water was black, only flashing briefly when the wind blew, and then quickly darkening again.

Back in my Dormitory, I quickly washed up, drew the curtains, and lay down.

Even with my eyes closed, I could still think about what had just happened.

Helping Baruk become stronger was a spur-of-the-moment idea, but now that I think about it, if it could actually be done, the significance wouldn't lie in a spider.

The key is the method: using the Severing Charm in reverse, loosening a sealed Magic Power structure, allowing it to incorporate external forces during the reorganization process, and growing back into something new.

If this works, it won't just be effective on spiders or other Magical Creature.

Would a wizard work?

Magical Creature possess Magic Power, but their Magic Power is singular.

Fire Dragon breathes fire, and that's it; it doesn't do anything fancy.

The Occamy can both shrink and expand; shrinking and expanding are its entirety.

Thunderbird can summon storms, but the storms are not something the Thunderbird create themselves; they are inherent in the feathers on their bodies.

The Demiguise is powerful; it can become invisible and has a bit of precognitive ability, which is quite complex among Magical Creature. But invisibility is invisibility, and precognition is precognition; there's no third way to use it.

Most Magical Creature are like this: powerful as they are, their Magic Power manifests in a single and pure form.

This is their racial talent; they are born with it, and it becomes fixed as they grow up, never changing throughout their lives.

Wizards are different; wizards don't have racial talents, or rather, Magic Power itself is their talent.

When a wizard is born, Magic Power is a chaotic, unformed entity.

It was simply there, waiting for the wizard to shape it into something.

Therefore, wizards can learn Transfiguration, spells, Dark Arts, Alchemy, and can transform Magic Power into a hundred or a thousand different things.

The cost is that wizards have to spend their entire lives practicing. Some people are indeed born with certain skills, but they are a very small minority.

If he wanted to do the same thing to wizards, loosening the Magic Power structure, letting in external forces, and allowing it to grow into something new during the reorganization process, it would be more than just a technical problem to solve.

The Magic Power of Magical Creature is singular; take it apart, put it back together, and it's still in the same direction, just with some other things added.

A wizard's Magic Power is chaotic; if you break it down, what will it become?

Who sets the direction?

How can we ensure that no problems arise after the restructuring?

He couldn't answer any of these questions.

Therefore, we should try Baruk first to accumulate enough experience and figure out the pattern of Magic Power structure in the process of recombination before considering others.

What if it works out?

If we could do the same for wizards, rebuilding their Magic Power framework from the ground up, making their previously sluggish Magic Power flow freely, and enabling them to cast spells they couldn't previously use.

To give him talents he didn't have at birth.

Perhaps by then, background and bloodline will no longer matter; knowing him will be the most important thing.

Regulus twitched his lips and went to sleep.

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