After learning of Helga's condition, Tver finally relaxed.
He certainly did not want to have to deal with all four founders in the future.
"Then where is Lady Ravenclaw?"
Helga tilted her head mischievously once more. If she looked a little younger, she would have resembled an elf frolicking through the forest.
"Guess?"
However, she handed the badge back, hinting at something to Tver.
"You mean the badge can show the locations of the other three founders?"
Tver took the badge and examined it carefully.
Compared to the other three motionless animals, the Hufflepuff badger had become far more animated. Its eyes even shimmered with light, as though it had truly come alive.
But this time, no threads of will extended from it—not even Hufflepuff's thread remained.
Seeing Tver's puzzled expression, Helga chuckled softly. "You need to activate the magic within it before you can sense the guiding threads."
"Then how do I activate its magic? Before, whenever my understanding of magic deepened, the badge activated itself."
Helga's expression suddenly became very strange, but her question was even stranger.
"Are you normal?"
"?"
A question mark seemed to slowly pop up over Tver's head. "What do you mean by that?"
She wore an expression even more bewildered than his and said slowly, "As far as I know, to activate this badge purely through one's understanding of magic, one would need to make at least tremendous progress."
"If ordinary people learn magic by walking, then you must be flying through the sky—and very fast at that, so fast that even your shadow cannot be seen."
Helga abruptly rose to her feet, walked up to Tver, and looked at him even more seriously than before.
"That speed is already beyond what ordinary magic can achieve. At the very least, you would have