Newt Under Attack

While the Young Wizard Xiwen returned to Hogwarts to continue his studies, the Ghost Xiwen inexplicably became involved in Dumbledore's "plan".

However, this plan is precisely what is called "no plan," so Ghost Xiwen is now very confused.

"Helena, why do you think Dumbledore dragged me into his 'plan'? If he wanted to learn about the Mirror Dimension, he could have just told me directly!" In the dungeon room, Xiwen complained to Helena.

"Now that Dumbledore knows you come from another world, he certainly won't let you sit idle in the castle!" Helena said with a smile. "You know so many strange and wonderful otherworldly spells, it'll be easy for the wizards here to catch you off guard. Maybe Dumbledore will assign you an important mission to launch surprise attacks!"

"But Grindelwald can foresee fragments of the future, and I'm not sure if he could know my abilities in advance," Xiwen said gravely, frowning.

Xiwen now knows from Manto Trelawney that his young wizard body cannot be observed by the "Third Eye," but the Seer can see the location of his soul.

Based on Trelawney's abilities, many of the Seer's precognitive abilities work on the souls of others. Therefore, Xiwen was unsure whether Grindelwald could directly foresee images of his own Soul Body.

"You don't need to think so much!" Helena grasped Xiwen's hand and said earnestly. "The most important task now is to improve your own abilities. If you could reach Dumbledore's level, would you still need to worry about Grindelwald's threat like you do now?"

"You're right!" Xiwen nodded emphatically and said, "It seems the combat power of the Soul Body also needs to be improved."

In fact, Xiwen, who still primarily uses Kamar-Taj magic for attack and defense, has most of his combat power in his Soul Body. Even though his Sub-Soul has fully developed, his mental strength is still less than one-third of that of his true Soul Body.

The strength of one's mental power plays a decisive role in the skill level of casting spells in Kamar-Taj. Only those with strong mental power can borrow power from higher dimensions, and controlling various more powerful energies also requires strong mental power.

However, the Ghost Xiwen also has its flaws. As a mere soul, he possesses no magical power within him. Therefore, he can only cast spells by borrowing power or drawing upon the surrounding magical energy.

For example, the Combined Spellcasting spells and incantations that Xiwen created not long ago requires the magic power of a wizard to use, so it is difficult for the Ghost Xiwen to cast them.

Xiwen now deeply feels that twenty years in Kamar-Taj was still too short.

In his previous life, aside from the first few years when he was learning to speak, he spent most of his time learning knowledge. A large part of this knowledge consisted of learning various languages to understand different kinds of books and consulting ancient books and documents to solve problems related to the soul, while learning magic only occupied a small part of his learning life.

Not to mention that most of the spells Xiwen learned were basic spells. He had very few powerful spells that could be cast by borrowing power from other dimensions. Most of them he secretly learned by reading forbidden books in the library.

As the saying goes, "You only realize how little you know when you need to use it," Xiwen, who began to delve deeply into the various powerful magical knowledge in his mind, truly understood the meaning of this ancient proverb...

The Young Wizard Xiwen was also busy after the start of the school year.

Besides attending classes during the day and studying Combined Spellcasting at night, he also didn't neglect his weekend alchemy studies. However, his alchemy teacher Dumbledore to Nick Flamel.

Every weekend, Xiwen would use the Phoenix Relief Book to locate his position and open the portal to Flamel's safe house. Madam Flamel was always delighted by his visits and would often have Alchemical Automaton prepare all sorts of delicious food and drinks to entertain him.

Xiwen would also often bring some special England gifts for the two elderly people who were nearly 600 years old.

At the same time, Flamel taught Xiwen increasingly profound and complex alchemical knowledge, and sometimes even imparted to him other useful knowledge he had gained over hundreds of years of life.

It's clear that even though Flamel didn't say it aloud, he already had the attitude of regarding Xiwen as his successor.

Time flies, Xiwen has spent a fulfilling month like this.

One weekend in February, in Flamel's safe house.

Xiwen was carving some intricate Ancient Runes on a small piece of metal. Flamel smiled, admiring Xiwen's work with great satisfaction.

Suddenly, Flamel seemed to sense something, his expression turned serious as he frowned, and then he hurriedly went into the workshop.

Seeing Xiwen quickly followed Flamel into the workshop and, at Lemaître's prompting, took out the deluxe edition of the Phoenix Relief Book.

"Someone is contacting me through the Two-Way Mirror, and on an emergency frequency!" Flamel frowned and quickly flipped to the glowing page.

"Mr. Scamander!" Xiwen exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the person in the photo frame.

In the framed picture on the page of the Phoenix Relief Book, Newt is leaning weakly against a rock, his lips pale and his face bloodless.

"Newt, what happened?" Flamel asked worriedly, looking at Newt's terrible condition.

Newt gasped for breath before catching his breath and weakly said, "It's great that Xiwen is here too! Quick, take me back!"

Xiwen quickly used the Two-Way Mirror in Newt's hand to determine the coordinates and opened the Dimensional Gate.

As the golden halo opened, the two Alchemical Automaton in the Flamel household hopped and skipped outside the halo, working together to carry Newt into the safe house. Xiwen also helped by using Summoning Charm to retrieve Newt's suitcase from the ground.

Only after closing the aperture did Xiwen have time to observe Newt's current state.

Newt, covered in mud and half-drenched in clothes, leaned weakly against the Flamel family's Alchemical Automaton.

Despite his extreme weakness, he still held an unknown Fantastic Beasts tightly in his arms, patting its back gently from time to time to soothe it.

"What happened?" Madam Flamel asked, coming down from the second floor after hearing the commotion. Newt's mud-covered state startled her.

"Oh! Newt, poor lad! What happened?" Madam Flamel said, bringing over a glass of water and bending down to feed Newt.

Seeing her struggling, Xiwen quickly took the water glass from her hand, squatted down, and carefully fed Newt water.

Newt, having taken a sip of water, seemed to have regained some energy and spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Grindelwald's men killed the mother Qilin and kidnapped the other baby Qilin!"