Ravenclaw's Diadem was currently inside his Object-Storing Talisman, and the panel had indeed rated it as a high-grade magical artifact, on the same level as this brooch.
It seemed that Rowena Ravenclaw's alchemy was at least on par with an artifact refiner in the Cultivation World capable of crafting high-grade magical artifacts.
"I have another question that might be rather presumptuous. I'm not sure whether I should ask."
"Go ahead, young Green."
"Are you a spiritual entity in your current state, or something else? I've never seen magic like this. I mean, I just saw you pick up a cup and a wand, your fingers can touch physical objects, and the tea in your cup really did decrease when you drank it. But the History of Magic textbook says you passed away long ago. And you don't seem like a ghost in this state, either. Ghosts can't touch physical objects or drink tea."
"As you suspected, I do have a physical form, unlike those ghosts, but that is only possible within the world inside the painting. Just like the other portraits you've seen, they all have physical forms within their painted worlds, and they can get hurt if they're hit." Helga chuckled.
Gerald suddenly thought of Barnabas the Barmy, who was always being beaten by trolls and let out exaggerated screams every time he was struck.
He had always assumed that was merely some sort of performance mechanism in the portrait, but now it seemed that Barnabas the Barmy really was being beaten by trolls within the painted world.
Perhaps this was due to the power of aether. The power of the soul gave these portraits a form of existence resembling conscious entities, granting them perceptions and the ability to act almost identical to those of real people within their