Carefully locking the door, Ron also drew the heavy curtains across the window, making sure no one could spy on what was happening inside.
He took out a set of protective runes. It was a standard protection kit he had purchased from the School's material shop not long ago, and it could isolate the leakage of mental fluctuations to a certain extent.
Following the instructions, he affixed the rune kit to the four corners of the room. Then he took out several special incense sticks and lit them. The incense contained trace amounts of ingredients that stabilized the mind, helping reduce the discomfort that might arise from first coming into contact with the Advanced Meditation Method.
"First, I'll follow Mrs. Allen's advice and make sure the environment is safe." Ron spoke to himself inwardly as his fingers carefully added the final activation rune along the edge of the Magic Array.
Accompanied by a faint fluctuation of energy, the Magic Array activated, emitting a barely perceptible pale-blue halo that gently isolated the area where he sat from the outside world.
Everything was ready. Ron took a deep breath, sat cross-legged in the center of the Magic Array, and adjusted himself into the most comfortable position.
"Knowledge always carries weight..." He recalled Mrs. Allen's warning and grew quietly cautious.
The more profound the Meditation Method, the greater the risks it contained.
As the famous ancient saying in the wizarding world went—"True knowledge is a burden, and wisdom often walks with madness."
The Basic Meditation Method merely guided mental power through a specific cycle, like swimming in a safe little stream;
but "Whispers of the Star Eater" guided the practitioner's mental power into an unknown ocean. What awaited him was boundless possibility, and its danger was self-evident. He could not afford the slightest