23 Who wants to be immortal in this wretched world?

"I am regretting, not asking her about this place earlier" Olivia said while comfortably reading a thick black book placed on her lap. Blair who was sitting opposite to her just nodded, He was busy reading his own book with the title 'Secrets of the Darkest Art', Him and Olivia both of them were sitting comfortably on the cushion chairs near the fireplace, In a room that was slightly smaller than the great hall. Aside from chairs and fireplace, there was nothing else in this room. It was an idle place for practising spells.

"It's a shame that we can't get books from Dumbledore's office" Olivia again said with a deep sigh filled with regret. Right after knowing about the speciality of the room, They both tried every single idea that came to their mind. After half an hour of going in and out of the room. They found out that they couldn't get one of the most important things in the castle, Dumbledore's personal library. It was probably protected by some enchantments. It truly was a regrettable thing to not be able to read the headmaster's personal collection. It was filled with rare and priceless books. Most of them were probably one of kind, filled with personal notes of Dumbledore.

As Blair was reading the book, He came across something, that caught his attention, After reading that whole topic. He looked at Olivia.

"Olivia, What do you think about being an immortal?"

"Immortality?, if being immortal means, leaving in this wretched World forever, No thanks."

"Good point" Blair nodded before continue reading his book. After an hour of reading, Blair slowly got up from his chair and walked towards the centre of the room, he took out his wand from his rob, the wand has begun to slowly change its appearance, It still had the spiral design, But the tip of the wand has sharpened a bit, It is so sharp that you could stab someone with it. Blair did some research about this change and found out that the wand changes its appearance according to its master. It reflects its master's personality.

He began to rotate his wand above his head in a wide circular motion before whispering.

"Incendia-dia-Verbero"

Slither of Black Flames began to burst out of his wand, Slowly shaping itself into a long whip. Unlike last time, He didn't lose his focus, He continued to rotate it until the whole whip was formed. Before flicking his wand towards the log, Which just appear in front of him. The whip encircled the log before tightening itself around it. The sizzling sound of the wood-burning began to hiss across the room. Blair gave his wand a retracting jerk. The flames slowly disappeared leaving deep black spiral burnt marks on the wooden logs.

Olivia who was blankly looking at his display of magic gave a bitter smile before going back to reading her book. She could never do the things he does with his wand. He was a natural-born prodigy in it. But on the plus side, she could perform way better in transfiguration and potions.

Day went by without any special events, Blair continued his practice in elemental magic and reading books from the restrictive section. The restrictive section was like a vast ocean of knowledge. It wouldn't end even if they read books for years. Blair's only focus was offensive magic and magical theory. Whereas Olivia's focus was transfiguration and potions. They both mostly read books on these topics. Everything else was useless to them.

The exams were held in the first week of June. Again, he scored outstanding in charms and DADA, Exceeds Expectations in transfiguration and Acceptable for rest of the other subjects. As the reason for his poor performance in these subjects. He didn't pay much attention to these subjects. His only focus was charms and DADA. After returning to the orphanage for his summer break, Blair again started to focus on Occlumency.