Ye Ting's efforts had not been in vain. After about a week, he had figured out the structure of flying brooms and the effects of the various spells placed upon them.
In fact, if he had not been proficient in Ancient Runes, he would not even have been able to complete the first step of dismantling a broom.
Flying broom manufacturers usually placed confidentiality enchantments on their brooms. If Ye Ting had not used the correct methods during dismantling and broken those enchantments, they would have completely ruined the dismantled broom.
This design was meant to prevent others from copying their technology by taking their products apart.
Like a professional hacker cracking a firewall or jailbreaking an iPhone, Ye Ting perfectly bypassed the broom manufacturers' various defenses, exposing every secret of the flying broom to his eyes.
However, cracking them was easy; making them was difficult.
Unlike several centuries ago, ever since the three Ollerton brothers—Bob, Bill, and Barnaby Ollerton—founded the Comet Trading Company in 1926, flying broom production had moved away from individual handcrafting and toward mass manufacturing by companies.
Under such circumstances, broom production had become an assembly-line process, while the designs of the brooms themselves and the spells used on them had grown increasingly complex.
The most advanced brooms available now, such as the Nimbus 2001 and the Firebolt still being designed, were all completed by several or even dozens of specialist wizards working together. This was especially true for a top-tier product like the Firebolt.
Only a genius like Ye Ting, who possessed not only sufficient learning ability but also an exceptional memory, could completely grasp the full, cutting-edge manufacturing process of modern brooms on his own.
During this time, Penelope gave Ye Ting tremendous help. She patiently assisted him in sorting and categorizing broom parts,