The Secret of Bloodlines

After returning home, Lin An Alvin went straight into a sealed room.

The room was completely empty, save for a suitcase lying quietly in the center of the floor, surrounded by complex defensive spells.

He stepped forward and pressed lightly. The lid opened.

It was not an ordinary space, but an entrance leading to his private world.

—His true laboratory.

The space inside the suitcase had been enhanced with an extremely powerful Expansion Charm, making it even larger than Newt Scamander's case.

Countless rooms, corridors, and experiment tables lay scattered within. Rune arrays flickered, and magic flowed like veins.

In one of the main laboratories, ten werewolves lay sleeping on the floor, their chests rising and falling faintly.

Yet those were not the most horrifying sight.

Dozens of towering test tubes lined the room.

Emerald-green solution churned within them, with various magical creatures floating inside—

Dragons, Hippogriffs, Vampires, House-elves, even merfolk.

Hundreds of glass jars containing preserved organs were displayed on the shelves as well.

All of it served only one purpose:

Bloodline research.

Lin An wanted to discover the essential difference between magical creatures and ordinary living beings.

What gave them magic? What secrets were hidden within their "blood"?

If he could find the answer, he would uncover the origins of Wizard Bloodline.

When he was seventeen, the growth of his magic reached a bottleneck.

Before that, he had used potions of his own making to accelerate his magical growth, increasing his power to twenty-five times that of an ordinary adult wizard within a single year.

Yet that growth came to a complete halt at that point.

At first, he thought that was his limit.

Until he discovered that Dumbledore's magical power was fifty times that of an ordinary person.

The discovery shocked him.

He spent an entire year researching it before finally realizing that "twenty-five times" was merely the ceiling for most genius wizards. Legendary figures such as Dumbledore and Grindelwald had clearly broken through that barrier.

The question was—how had they done it?

In search of an answer, he had once infiltrated Nurmengard Castle under an alias and personally observed the imprisoned Grindelwald.

He confirmed that the Dark Lord had likewise reached fifty times the magical power of an ordinary person.

Thus, he concluded—

They had found a way to break the limits of wizards.

Dumbledore might have drawn upon the power of the Phoenix, Fawkes, while Grindelwald might have relied on the Elder Wand.

And Voldemort had achieved the same breakthrough through Horcruxes.

Lin An did not choose their path.

He set foot on a path of his own—the path of bloodlines.

He proposed a startling hypothesis:

The earliest wizards had not been born with magic, but had accidentally absorbed the blood of powerful magical creatures.

Their bodies had then mutated, giving rise to humanity's first magical bloodline.

If he could analyze the essence of that bloodline and reconstruct its structure, he could break through that barrier—

Perhaps even open the door to a higher dimension.

So he began hunting magical creatures, collecting blood samples, breaking down tissues, and verifying his findings through scientific methods.

He had also stolen several machines from the Muggle world for observing DNA, but the limitations of their technology had yielded little.

So he began operating on a global scale.

He secretly contacted the world's leading scientists and engineers, forcing them to cooperate through money, threats, or magic.

He controlled several world-class billionaires, providing his research with unlimited funding.

Within a year, an entire set of hybrid equipment combining magic and technology had been created.

At that moment, those achievements stood displayed before him.

Lin An waved his wand and awakened a werewolf.

The man was still groggy when he opened his eyes, but a gesture from Lin An immediately left him rigid.

Blood Curse—an Eastern forbidden art, similar to bloodbending in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

He had the werewolf enter a white Chamber of Secrets, separated from the room by glass.

As a rune lit up, an alchemical device on the ceiling projected artificial moonlight, bathing the man in silver radiance.

The werewolf let out a low growl as his body began to twist, his bones churning beneath his skin.

At the same time, the equipment began operating, while complex molecular structures flickered across the display.

Lin An watched the screen, recording every genetic change without missing a single detail.

He was searching for that mysterious bloodline chain—the source of all magic.

Several hours passed, yet there was still no result.

With a light wave of his wand, the werewolf collapsed unconscious.

The next moment, a Muggle man was brought into the room.

Before he could speak, the werewolf pounced on him and bit him.

Lin An immediately separated them, using magic to stabilize the Muggle's life.

He watched calmly—the changes in the DNA appeared once more.

Unlike an ordinary infection, magic produced a far more intense reaction within the Muggle's body.

"Just as I thought, werewolves are the only race capable of altering bloodlines through saliva and blood," he murmured.

That was precisely why he had chosen them.

He intended to trace the source of that bloodline and find the crucial point where magic and life merged.

The data on the screen began to race.

A new chain flickered beneath the microscope, an energy fluctuation never seen before.

Lin An's heartbeat quickened—

That might be the origin of Wizard Bloodline.

He pressed the save button, his eyes gleaming with an intermingling of reason and fervor.

"Human evolution begins anew today."

He raised his wand and sealed the entire laboratory. All the instruments fell silent.

The ten werewolves remained deeply asleep, while the Muggle's body floated slowly in luminous fluid.

In the night, he returned to the entrance of the suitcase and murmured to himself:

"Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Voldemort... You may all have broken through your limits, but I will surpass you.

"I will not merely be a 'powerful' wizard—

"I will become the first being to reshape bloodlines and command dimensions."