Tree-shaped Model Successfully Replicated

Regulus stood under the tree and placed his palms on the trunk.

Yesterday, I soaked in the Natural Magic Power" for most of the day, and the Whomping Willow" has already identified its Magic Power as a harmless environmental factor.

Now he mixed the Natural Magic Power with the Magic Power of the Whomping Willow itself, and followed the roots upwards, climbing along the main path to the end of the branches. Guiding didn't require any effort; the Whomping Willow's Magic Circuit were completely unguarded against Natural Magic Power. He only needed to channel his own Magic Power into its circulation and follow along.

He guided the Magic Power of the Whomping Willow from the tips of its branches, the first drop condensing in his palm.

It's larger than Mandrake, Mandrake is a small plant about a foot tall, from which only a few drops can be extracted.

The Whomping Willow is a 25-foot-tall mature giant, and its total Magic Power power is on a completely different level. The Magic Power stored in a single branch is probably equivalent to that of a dozen Mandrake.

This Magic Power drop is yellowish-brown, highly transparent, and has extremely fine vibrational ripples at its edges.

Unlike the Magic Power of Mandrake, which stays quietly in the palm of your hand, it moves.

The entire drop of Magic Power trembled, the ripples at the edges flickering at a high frequency, irregular and chaotic, yet there was an overall harmony, as if constrained by some kind of internal logic, maintaining a stable structure amidst the disorder.

His Magic Power surged instinctively; his Magic Perception was so acute that any contact was amplified.

This drop of Magic Power was so vibrant that the vibrations traveled along the contact surface into his Magic Power, like placing his hand on a high-frequency vibration source, causing his Magic Power to automatically surge up to counteract it.

He suppressed his own Magic Power, letting the drop of Magic Power from the Whomping Willow vibrate freely in his palm.

He looked at it, lost in thought for a moment.

The Severing Charm comes from death, allowing the whole to return to its original state.

Natural Magic comes from life, restoring the damaged to its wholeness.

Dark Enlightenment the spirit, allowing the will to override the will.

This drop in my palm is different from all of them.

It is purely physical, neither cold nor warm, without any bias or stance, and does not point to life, death, or the spirit.

It's like a tremor; if it shakes something, it shatters; if it doesn't, it simply dissipates.

This was the first time he had directly obtained this kind of Magic Power from nature.

The decomposition of death attributes, the restoration of life attributes, the domination of mental attributes, and the destruction of physical attributes.

Four completely different sources of Magic Power, four completely different paths.

He has now reached the entrance to the fourth path.

What's ahead of us?

Is the opposite of pure physical combat pure Magic?

A power that completely disregards the laws of physics, is not bound by the conservation of energy, ignores causality, logic, and structure, and operates purely on the basis of Magic itself?

If so, what would it be like?

What about spatial attributes?

He can already Transfiguration space; what type of Space Magic Power?

What about time?

Time reversal is a controlled technology of the Ministry of Magic. The existence of the Time-Turner has proven that time can be interfered with by Magic. Does that mean there is also a kind of Magic Power specifically related to time?

What about foresight? What about Prophecy? What about ritual?

These thoughts flashed through his mind before he pulled them back.

The road is too long; we've only reached the entrance to the fourth path so far. But that's where the Magic's true allure lies. For now, let's get on with what we're doing. He crouched down and pressed the drop of Magic Power onto a stone.

The stone's surface remained unchanged, but his perception reached inside, where vibrations spread for three seconds before decaying to almost zero. The single dose was too small, only enough to create a few micro-cracks inside, not even affecting the surface.

He continued to extract samples, taking samples from different branches—one, two, five, ten.

The Magic Circuit structure of each branch is identical, with the same entrance angle, number of internal loops, and node positions.

It's simpler Mandrake. Its Magic Core is hidden deep in its roots and stems, with a complex and intertwined circuit structure. You have to peel it layer by layer to find the core decomposition tendency.

The circuit of the Whomping Willow" only has two and a half loops. The core is right there on the table: Conduction and oscillation. The key is the oscillation turning logic at the nodes. The structure is simple, but the operation is precise.

He dripped the extracted Magic Power into different things and tested it.

Stone is the most effective material; tightly structured minerals are most easily broken apart from the inside under vibration.

Iron sheets also work well; the metal's structure is orderly and dense, allowing vibrations to Conduction quickly and far within it.

The effect of using wood is somewhat diminished, as wood fibers have a certain degree of elasticity and can absorb some of the vibrational energy.

Water has almost no effect; it disperses as soon as it's shaken. Water lacks a rigid structure, so shaking it won't find any points of connection to break it. The denser and more rigid the structure, the better the effect.

The looser and more flexible something is, the worse its effect.

Then he went to find the Gnomes.

In winter, Gnomes hibernate. You can find a nest of them by digging just two feet down under the bushes at the edge of the Plantation. The tiny, scrawny creatures huddle together in their mud burrows, purring softly.

He gave birth to one, and lifted it by the ankle to an open space.

The Gnomes woke up, squeaking and waving his short, thick arms wildly in the air.

Regulus dripped the Magic Power of the Whomping Willow onto the goblin, Gnomes body stiffened and then convulsed violently.

Starting from the point of contact, the skin and muscles were ripped apart, torn apart from the inside out, the bones broke into pieces, the internal organs ruptured, and blood and bits of flesh were splattered all over the ground, leaving the person collapsed in a heap.

It has a completely different effect from the Severing Charm.

When the Severing Charm hits Gnomes, it disintegrates from the level of existence; the skin, flesh, and bones lose their definition layer by layer, until only a small clump of ash remains.

This is physical pulverization; the meat is still meat, and the bone is still bone, but it's been shattered.

It shattered on the ground, blood gushing out, and white fragments of bone and red remnants of muscle fibers could be seen in the shards.

Regulus caught two more and increased the dosage, giving each two drops.

The effect was even more intense; the entire body shattered into dust, leaving no intact bone fragments. It shattered so thoroughly that what was a pool before was now a pile of dust.

He continued testing, with larger doses, smaller doses, single application, and multiple applications; one application would shatter, multiple applications would explode.

The Plantation Gnomes suffered again after six months, disappearing in droves.

But it doesn't matter, these things are pests, and pests are characterized by their rapid reproduction. Regulus left a few nests, and they can continue to be effective next year. As evening approached, he stopped, and the test results came out.

It works best on rigid structures, its effectiveness is reduced on flexible structures, and it is almost ineffective on loose media.

Effective against living organisms, physically pulverizing them with visible results.

After a day of extraction, the first Whomping Willow was not in good condition; the branches no longer swayed, drooped, and the tips dragged on the ground, and the knots on the trunk looked drier and harder.

The Magic Circuit was still running, but the flow rate was extremely slow. The continuous, oscillating cycle had slowed to an almost imperceptible level, and the Magic Power of the entire tree had been drained.

It is still alive and barely maintains basic functions, but its aggression has vanished.

Half-dead.

The other plant was intact, and he didn't touch it.

Regulus returned to the Cabin.

Agnes brought in stew and bread, along with a pot of hot soup. Baruk lay comfortably in his usual spot in front of the fireplace, about two feet away, his eight legs sprawled out.

He sat by the window, closed his eyes, and began to construct the first version of the Magic Power model in his mind.

The weather was fine on the third morning, with a light sea breeze. The half-dead Whomping Willow from the night before was still drooping its branches, while another tree seemed quite cheerful.

Regulus stayed in the Cabin all morning without going out, and the Magic Power model in his mind was taking shape.

Similar to the Severing Charm Spell, first, accurately replicate the complete Magic Circuit in your mind, then pour your own Magic Power into it and run it around until the Magic Power that comes out carries the target attribute.

The Severing Charm's model is a spherical, multi-layered mesh with multiple entrances and one exit. Magic Power repeatedly travels between the mesh openings, flowing out with disintegration properties only after seven and a half cycles.

The model of the Whomping Willow" is Tree-like Branching Structure, with a thick and shiny main trunk, and branches that branch out layer by layer from the nodes, becoming thinner and thinner, with the smallest compression and release port at the very end.

The Magic Power flows in from the main trunk, is distributed proportionally to the branches at the fork, undergoes two and a half cycles of oscillation and modulation, and finally narrows, compresses, and releases at the end.

On the first attempt, the Magic Power dispersed at the first node after flowing in, and the branch angle was off by less than two degrees, so the entire branch was completely unaffected. The angle was adjusted, and the first node was reconstructed.

The second time, when the Magic Power completed its circuit and came out of the release port at the end, it did not exhibit any vibrational properties.

The oscillation turning logic of the number of cycles and nodes is not matched. Two parameters were adjusted for one node, but the overall ratio is still not right. The third node cannot oscillate.

Continue adjusting.

The third time, the oscillation went out of control within the model, shattering the entire tree-like structure in the Consciousness Space, with the oscillation and Conduction mixing together. He caused the Magic Power to start oscillating within the Conduction path, resulting in it oscillating from beginning to end, shattering itself before reaching the end. He stopped to analyze.

The Magic Power of the Whomping Willow is that it first Conduction and then vibrates. During the Conduction process, the vibration is confined within the path and is only released at the end.

His model failed to do this; the oscillations leaked out during the Conduction process.

He continued to adjust, modulating the Conduction path and oscillation into two levels.

The Conduction layer is responsible for direction and constraints; it is the outer conduit.

The oscillation level is responsible for energy accumulation and final release, and is the inner core.

Pipes within pipes, Conduction runs on the outside, oscillation runs on the inside. The main channel only transmits without oscillation, while the branches modulate in segments, only opening the release port at the very end. The fourth time, Magic Power flows in from the main trunk, the outer layer Conduction steadily, and the inner layer accumulates oscillations. After passing the first node, it continues to run. At the second node, after running two and a half laps, it reaches the end.

The outer and inner layers converge at the tip of the needle, narrowing and combining the Conduction and oscillating Magic Power. The Magic Power is then compressed to its extreme at the tip and released.

A surge of Magic Power with vibrational properties erupted from the end of the model.

He opened his eyes, looked down at his palm, and saw a small ball of yellowish-brown light condensed in his palm. The edges were vibrating, high-frequency, irregular, and chaotic, but the sense of structural harmony was completely preserved.

It's done.

This Tree-shaped Model embedded in his Consciousness Space was now his own, just like the previous spherical mesh model, and he could access it at any time. He pushed open the door and directed the modified Magic Power to a granite slab.

There was no change on the surface, but you could feel the inside starting to vibrate for five seconds, and then it split into three pieces from the inside out.

The mineral particles on the cross-section are loosely arranged and their connections are broken by the vibration, just like the effect of pulling out the Whomping Willow.

The same cracks from the inside out, the same intact surface but broken interior.

The Basic Oscillation was successfully replicated.

He found an even bigger stone and Magic Power pressed it onto it.

Five seconds later, a dense, crackling sound came from inside, like hundreds of ants gnawing on a biscuit.

He removed his hand, took a step back, and gave it a light kick.

The stone split into four large pieces from top to bottom, each piece covered with a dense network of cracks that stretched from the inside to the surface. He squatted down to examine the cross-sections and nodded.

In the afternoon, I conducted repeated tests, going through all the different materials, and confirmed that the Basic Oscillation was completely stable and the effect of each output could be precisely controlled. The harder the material, the better the effect; the denser the material, the farther the oscillation Conduction; and the looser the material, the worse the effect, which was completely consistent with the pattern I had observed before.

In the evening, Regulus sat in a chair in front of the fireplace, his palms outstretched.

A small ball of yellowish-brown light condensed in his palm. He had reduced the vibration to a minimum, so it was almost imperceptible, but one could feel it in his hand, like holding a slightly trembling insect.

"Baruk, come here."

Baruk was warming himself by the fireplace when he heard the sound. He propped himself up on his eight legs, and a strand of spider silk swung onto his wrist.

Regulus gestured to it. "Try it."

Baruk lifted his upper body, craning his neck, and peered at the glowing object with his eight eyes before jumping inside.

It's been tamed.

Baruk lay in his palm, enveloped in a yellowish-brown light, and the entire spider went limp.

With its eight legs fully extended, belly down, carapace up, chelicerae relaxed, bristles standing up and then softening, it resembled a fluffy blanket.

"... So... so... so... comfortable... comfortable..."

Regulus looked at it, a slight smile playing on his lips.

Outside the Cabin, the abandoned Whomping Willow tree drooped its branches, while another one swayed slowly.

The sea breeze blew in from the east, carrying the saltiness and coolness of the night fog.

Agnes walked over from the stone path at a distance, carrying a food box in her hand, her apron pockets bulging.

Baruk was still lying there, all eight legs outstretched, his chelicerae twitching occasionally.

The model is stable, the replication is complete, tomorrow, the incantation.