Chapter Summaries

Anduin used enchanted Spirit Binding Snakes and a swarm of Explosion Spiders to attack Runic Snake, but Runic Snake survived the blast behind a powerful Magic Shield. Runic Snake then lifted the mansion into the air with Anduin still trapped inside.

• Anduin sent invisible Spirit Binding Snakes to drain Runic Snake's clones and shock them with pain, disrupting their shared mental link.
• Runic Snake dismissed his remaining clones, but Anduin's Explosion Spiders detonated beneath him and blasted a huge hole through the mansion.
• Runic Snake emerged unharmed inside a pale green Magic Shield and angrily vowed to make Anduin suffer.
• Runic Snake flew above the mansion and used magic to make the building and everything around it rise into the air.

Anduin and Runic Snake faced off in the sky after Runic Snake lifted his manor to expose him. Anduin’s strongest attacks failed against Runic Snake’s mysterious Magic Shield, while Runic Snake turned the shattered manor and a barrage of spells into a relentless assault.

• Runic Snake raised his manor into the air, exposing Anduin, who flew up to confront him.
• Anduin drank Felix Felicis and attacked Runic Snake with Storm Blade and Blue Fierce Fire, but the Magic Shield absorbed both attacks without letting him move.
• Anduin reasoned that Runic Snake’s enormous Magic Power Reserve might explain the shield’s strength.
• Runic Snake shattered the manor and hurled its debris at Anduin, forcing him to dodge through a circling field of fragments.
• Runic Snake sent dozens of energy snakes after Anduin, who deflected the spells and used debris as cover.

Anduin escaped Runic Snake’s crushing debris trap with help from Thor and Erin, then tried to work out how to pierce Runic Snake’s Magic Shield. He realized the shield might have a limit to the force it could withstand and began planning a powerful instant attack.

• Runic Snake trapped Anduin inside a sphere of debris while his Strange Snakes and Gravity Spell hindered him.
• Erin appeared in a burst of flame, and Anduin escaped the collapsing sphere by grabbing her talons and riding away on Thor.
• Anduin thanked Thor and Erin, healed himself with Phoenix Tears, and told Shalltear to deploy the Anti-Apparition and Anti-Portkey Jammers around the valley.
• Anduin estimated that Runic Snake’s Magic Power Reserve was too vast for him to drain through ordinary attacks.
• Anduin recalled that Runic Snake feared Thunderbird-Gerard and reasoned that the shield might have a limit to the force it could withstand.
• Anduin decided to seek a spell capable of unleashing enormous damage in a single instant.

Anduin kept the Runic Snake occupied while Thor summoned a powerful thunderstorm, then absorbed its lightning to unleash his modified Overload technique. He struck at the Runic Snake as the enemy’s escape methods failed and his clones scattered.

• Anduin asked Thor to summon a fierce thunderstorm while he continued fighting the Runic Snake.
• Anduin used his Thunder Ravens and Phoenix’s Apparition to attack the Runic Snake, but the opponent’s shield held and his strength overwhelmed Anduin in close combat.
• Anduin and the Runic Snake settled into a prolonged fight as Thor gathered lightning overhead.
• Anduin escaped into the storm clouds, drank his last bottle of Phoenix Tears, and absorbed the gathered lightning to cast Overload - Modified.
• The Runic Snake failed to escape by Apparition or Portkey, split into clones, and fled in every direction.
• Anduin saw through the clones, identified the real Runic Snake, and plunged down with a lightning-charged sword, shouting, “DIVINE! ANNIHILATION! SLASH!!!”

Anduin survived using God Annihilation Slash to kill the Runic Snake, but the attack left him gravely injured. An Mie transformed after absorbing the creature’s magic power, then healed and strengthened Anduin, raising his Magic Value to 1,083.

• Anduin’s lightning strike killed the Runic Snake, and Shalltear, Thor, and Erin found him unconscious beside its charred corpse.
• Erin healed Anduin with Phoenix Tears, and Shalltear helped him recover with Nourishing Agent.
• Anduin explained how he overcame the Runic Snake’s powerful Magic Shield by concentrating his amplified magic into one attack.
• An Mie absorbed the Runic Snake’s magic power, transformed into a sacred artifact, and sent energy flowing into Anduin.
• An Mie’s energy healed Anduin and strengthened his body, widened his Magic Power Channel, and increased his Magic Value to 1,083.

After killing the Runic Snake, Anduin searched his hidden manor and entered the vault beneath it, where he found portraits of former Silver Spear members and the recipe for the Snake Slough Potion. The group had yet to explore the vault’s storage room and private library.

• Anduin examined the Runic Snake’s surviving Space Bag, found Elixirs of Immortality and other Potions, and led Shalltear and the others to the hidden Snake Residence.
• Anduin broke the Protective Charms on the vault entrance and found a hall lined with portraits.
• Beaumont Marchbanks mistook Anduin for Goodwin, accused him of betraying the Silver Spear, and described the rooms behind the hall’s doors.
• Anduin entered the Alchemy Room and found a bloodstained platform, Potion-making stations, and a notebook containing the complete Snake Slough Potion recipe.

Anduin uncovered how the Life Alchemy Array produced the toxic Life Essence used to make the Elixir of Immortality and worried that An Mie might also absorb harmful energy. He searched the Runic Snake’s storeroom and library, finding supplies and extensive records, including six chests of personal notes.

• Anduin learned that Life Alchemy extracted Unstable Life Essence from living creatures, and that its Mind Toxin caused dangerous side effects in the Elixir of Immortality.
• Anduin wondered whether the energy An Mie returned to him contained Mind Toxin, and decided to study the Life Alchemy Array and compare its essence with An Mie’s energy.
• Anduin found finished Elixir of Immortality and Magical Creature by-products in the storeroom, but no Galleons or Alchemy Materials.
• Shalltear reported that she had collected the surviving Magical Creatures, and Anduin ordered her to move the storeroom’s by-products to the laboratory.
• Anduin entered the Runic Snake’s library and, with Shalltear, sorted its books and discovered six chests of personal notes, mostly diaries about the Club.

Anduin studied Gravity Spell and discovered Essence of Pure Source Secret Techniques, a Chinese magic book left to Runic Snake by an Eastern wizard named Chen. As he read about its spells and training methods, Anduin recognized that its Body Strengthening Technique could explain Runic Snake and Ashwinder’s unusual physical abilities.

• Anduin learned Gravity Spell in minutes and considered adding it to his Flying Cloak to improve his speed.
• Anduin found Essence of Pure Source Secret Techniques in Runic Snake’s private file box and read Goodwin Nicklaus’s diary about how Chen had given the book to Silver Spear.
• Anduin recognized the Shuttling Charm as the book’s Earth Element Technique and learned that its secret arts relied on physique, a calm mind, and hand seals rather than fixed incantations and gestures.
• Anduin found that the book’s first stage of Body Strengthening Technique closely matched his own training method, while its second stage used Magic Power to strengthen the body.
• Anduin connected the technique’s extraordinary physical effects to Runic Snake’s durability and agility and to Ashwinder’s speed.

Anduin studied the secret arts in the essentials, testing Strange Snake, Spirit Shield, and the Clone Technique while considering how their costs and requirements limited their usefulness. He learned that the Three Purity Incantation could create two independent physical clones, but required the Clone Technique and a dangerous-to-skip Spirit Splitting Potion.

• Anduin read that the Body Strengthening Technique could make strenuous training controllable, then continued studying the practical secret arts.
• Anduin summoned a Strange Snake and considered adapting it into a Lightning Snake, but decided Wild Thunder suited him better.
• Anduin learned that Spirit Shield could block many kinds of magical attacks but consumed too much magic for him to use for long.
• Anduin created a Clone Technique clone with nearly 100 points of magic, but the clone held only 40 points and seemed weak.
• Anduin learned that the Three Purity Incantation created two permanent, independent physical clones and required the Clone Technique and a Spirit Splitting Potion.

Anduin finished dismantling the Silver Spear in Germany, gathered its resources and records, and agreed to remain there for six months as an Auror Training Instructor. Afterward, he planned to return to Britain before pursuing research, business, and Thunderbird-related goals abroad.

• Anduin studied the Physical Clone method, considered its risks, and decided to examine its principles before trying it.
• Anduin won the portraits’ loyalty, then returned to Silver Spear headquarters in Golden Flyer’s guise and killed the Ashwinder.
• Anduin examined the Ashwinder’s body and found that [Body Strengthening Technique] had increased his Magic Value by about 1,000 over twenty years.
• Anduin found the Silver Spear Archive and gave its records on Short Spears to Director Andre.
• Anduin and his companions spent two days stripping Silver Spear headquarters of its supplies, documents, and fixtures.
• Anduin agreed to stay in Germany for six months as an Auror Training Instructor and outlined plans to return to Britain, visit America, and expand the Silver Flash Merchant abroad.

In June 1991, Dumbledore decided to ask Anduin to return to Hogwarts to teach Training Studies and improve Defense Against the Dark Arts instruction. After discussing his plans with McGonagall, he went to the Silver Flash Merchant to meet Anduin, where Eeyup escorted him upstairs.

• McGonagall questioned Dumbledore’s plan to invite Anduin back to Hogwarts, citing his reputation and many responsibilities.
• Dumbledore explained that Hogwarts needed Anduin’s expertise and revealed that a boy starting school next year needed him.
• After McGonagall left, Dumbledore recalled a prophecy about the Chosen One and Silver Lightning, then Apparated to Diagon Alley.
• Dumbledore visited the crowded Silver Flash Merchant and asked Hoag to take him to Anduin.
• Hoag sent Eeyup to escort Dumbledore upstairs, and Eeyup explained that he usually managed the British flagship store.

Dumbledore visited Silver Flash Merchant and saw how the company had expanded, including Vivian’s busy Mahjong club and Anduin’s impressive headquarters. After Anduin handled international requests and Dumbledore agreed to wait, Fudge asked what important matter Anduin had invited him and Bardeno to discuss.

• Eeyup explained to Dumbledore how Qiqi and Vivian’s other responsibilities left him looking after the shop, then showed him Vivian’s Mahjong room and its thriving business.
• Shalltear brought Dumbledore into Anduin’s office, where he found Anduin meeting with retired Minister Bardeno and current Minister Fudge.
• Anduin rejected a German minister’s offer to lead an international department and recommended Asha Berry, then assigned Acelia to help Durmstrang establish a Training Studies course.
• Anduin asked Dumbledore to wait while he discussed official business with Bardeno and Fudge.
• Fudge asked Anduin what important matter he had invited them to discuss.

Anduin presented the Ministry of Magic with a plan for a magical communication network and demonstrated prototype terminals that could make real-time calls. He assured Bardeno and Fudge that its independent magical signals would not violate the Secrecy Law, then asked the Ministry to provide space for a relay station in exchange for payment.

• Anduin explained that his system would link communication terminals through a central Alchemy Relay Station, letting users contact one another by number.
• Anduin distributed prototype terminals, and Bardeno called Fudge so they could see and speak with each other through the devices.
• Anduin described plans for broadcasts and moving images, prompting Bardeno to warn that a wizard television channel might breach the Secrecy Law.
• Anduin said the network would operate independently of Muggle systems, and Dumbledore agreed that it would not violate the Secrecy Law if Anduin's claims were accurate.
• Anduin asked the Ministry to provide an Alchemy Room for the relay station and offered to pay for the Ministry's magical power.

Anduin persuaded Fudge to sign a deal for a free Ministry relay station, tying the Ministry’s interests to Silver Flash’s expanding magical communications and entertainment network. He also proposed an emergency dispatch service and recruited retired Bardeno to promote the system abroad.

• Anduin offered the Ministry revenue shares, taxes, and communication equipment in exchange for backing Silver Flash’s Magic Communication System.
• Anduin offered to build the Ministry’s first Alchemy Relay Station free if it supplied materials, and Fudge signed the contract.
• Bardeno recognized that the arrangement could give Anduin control over Britain’s magical communications and entertainment industries, but chose not to challenge the deal.
• Anduin explained that a Rapid Response Alarm Module could support a new Magical Communication Dispatch Center for distress calls.
• Anduin asked Bardeno to negotiate with foreign Ministries of Magic, then offered her a 2,000-Galleon salary and commissions for each deal.

Anduin hired Bardeno to help establish a Magic Communication System and discussed the project with her and Fudge. Dumbledore then asked Anduin to teach Tactical Training Studies at Hogwarts, explaining that he wanted him there to help protect the school when Voldemort returned, but Anduin remained unconvinced until Dumbledore offered to sweeten the deal.

• Bardeno accepted Anduin's generous contract to persuade other wizarding communities to adopt the Magic Communication System.
• Anduin, Bardeno, and Fudge arranged project details, including the Alchemy Room, its location, and coordinating staff.
• Dumbledore asked Anduin to help Hogwarts adopt Tactical Training Studies, and Anduin offered to send Meiweis as an instructor instead.
• Dumbledore revealed that he wanted Anduin himself at Hogwarts because he feared Voldemort would return and target Harry.
• Anduin said he would oppose Voldemort but argued that he could protect and teach Harry without taking a Hogwarts post.
• Dumbledore asked Anduin to hear what he could offer him.

Anduin agreed to teach Tactical Training Studies at Hogwarts after Dumbledore offered access to Nicolas Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone, support for his Magic Communication System, and help with Sirius Black. He laid out demanding course preparations and told Shalltear that she and Hog would return to school with him.

• Dumbledore offered Anduin five pieces of Lehmer Alloy, then proposed asking Nicolas Flamel to lend him the Philosopher’s Stone for research.
• Dumbledore also promised to promote Anduin’s Magic Communication System and look into arranging Sirius Black’s early return to Britain, persuading Anduin to accept the Hogwarts teaching position.
• Anduin demanded full support for Tactical Training Studies, gave Dumbledore a list of supplies for students from first through seventh year, and said he would send a special timetable.
• Anduin scheduled a July 15 planning meeting for the Heads of the Four Houses, the Medical Room matron, and Hagrid, insisting the course required coordinated planning for students’ diet, medical care, rest, and schedules.
• After Dumbledore left, Anduin told Shalltear that she and Hog would return to Hogwarts with him, and Shalltear questioned who would manage the Magic Communication System.

Anduin returned to his home in Godric's Hollow, where he caught Ginny and Neville slacking off during training and learned that Neville's parents were beginning to respond to treatment. He asked Neville how he felt about starting Hogwarts, and Neville revealed that his grandmother expected him to be sorted into Gryffindor.

• Anduin arranged to have Professor Bones help with the German communication network and sent Shalltear back to Hogwarts.
• At his home in Godric's Hollow, Anduin found Ginny and Neville playing at training with Thor instead of practicing seriously.
• Anduin scolded the children for slacking off and advised Ginny that real combat required hiding her intentions and catching opponents off guard.
• Neville told Anduin that Frank and Alice were showing signs of recognition after taking Anduin's soul-healing potion, though their treatment would take another year or two.
• Anduin asked Neville about starting Hogwarts, and Neville said he felt anxious because Augusta expected him to be sorted into Gryffindor.

Anduin prepared to return to Hogwarts as a teacher while reflecting on how killing had made him increasingly indifferent to life. At the July 15 planning meeting, the professors debated his appointment before he arrived with a stack of parchment.

• Anduin reassured Ginny and Neville about their futures, hinted at a surprise for the coming school year, and sent them home after a meal.
• Anduin reviewed how An Mie and Savage Lightning refined life energy, recognized that killing had made him colder, and decided to focus on teaching and his business.
• Anduin spent the following month working at the Ministry, preparing lessons, and setting up an Alchemy Room for the Magic Communication System contract.
• Snape complained that Anduin had called a holiday meeting, while Dumbledore, McGonagall, Flitwick, Sprout, Hagrid, and Madam Pomfrey discussed his return to Hogwarts.
• Anduin arrived at the staff room, greeted the professors, and joked with Snape about his appearance.

Anduin presented Hogwarts’s Heads of House with his plan for Tactical Training Studies and requested their support for its demanding curriculum. The meeting ended with Dumbledore backing the plan, while Snape remained alarmed by the training and the injuries it might cause.

• Anduin explained that Tactical Training Studies would combine foundational training with combat tactics, partly overlapping with Defense Against the Dark Arts.
• Anduin divided students into basic, intermediate, and Professional groups, warning that intensive training would leave younger students tired during an initial adjustment period.
• Anduin asked Dumbledore to arrange nutritious meals and asked Flitwick to teach first-years the Levitation Charm during their first month.
• Anduin outlined combat training for third- through fifth-years and gave Snape and Madam Pomfrey lists of potions to stock for likely injuries.
• Snape questioned the severity of the plan, but Dumbledore agreed to let Anduin proceed and Anduin reassured them that no student would die.

Anduin outlined demanding Tactical Training Studies options for sixth- and seventh-year students, then sought Hogwarts approval for outdoor training space and practical lessons in the Forbidden Forest. Dumbledore approved both requests with conditions, and Anduin proposed an annual school-wide Safety Drill.

• Anduin offered sixth- and seventh-years the option to apply for Tactical Training Studies, warning that the course would prepare aspiring Aurors to Reserve Auror standards and require a demanding Ultimate Exam.
• Dumbledore agreed to let the older students decide whether to take the course after Anduin explained that its certificate could qualify graduates for Auror work.
• Anduin requested a practice area between Hagrid's Cabin and the Circular Stone Pile and asked Hagrid to assist with practical lessons; Dumbledore and the staff approved.
• Anduin requested access to the Forbidden Forest for practical lessons, and Dumbledore allowed supervised trips to its outer reaches with Hagrid present, provided no accidents occurred.
• Anduin proposed holding a Safety Drill for the entire school once every academic year.