144 Evolved Gem...

Three days later...

"Hey, have you seen Gray or Perona?!" Hermione looked around the school for some time and didn't find either Gray or Perona which made her feel weird... So she asked Harry, who was feeling troubled about the next game round...

"No... Since the dance... party they didn't appear..." Harry said this with a little weird face... That night was wrong for them... in many different ways...

It has been three days already, but both Gray and Perona disappeared which made both of them feel wrong...

How to say it... The next game will start soon enough... Normally the champions should be searching for a way to unlock the next game mastery, but Gray and Perona disappeared, and none of them appeared since then...

In fact, not only them but even professor McGonagall was worried after not finding them anywhere...

Why looking for him... Well... Her students went missing for three days was enough to make her worried... Let's not say Gray was one of the champions...

Gray left the school, even before the crown starts sucking his life and it was just as it started awakening... So no one noticed anything...

After all, at that time most of the young students already left the dancing place, while only a few stayed and were busy with their partners...

Naturally, the others won't keep looking at Gray and Perona all the time...

When Gray and Perona disappeared in a second... No one really found it... Of course, Expect Dumbledore...

When the crown awakened, even though it was only for a second... He felt it...

But he didn't feel it clearly, after all the crown weirdness was way beyond magic, and it had just been activated, so he didn't have the chance to feel it clearly...

But still, he felt the ominous breath for a second...

Even though Dumbledore doesn't use dark magic... But his understanding of it was as good as those dark lords through history... Or this old fox won't plan Voldemort's death smoothly...

Gray even suspected if this old man had a Horcrux somewhere... Let's not say Dumbledore phoenix should be the best Horcrux... With such a Horcrux in this world, He can really be an immortal...

Well... That was just a thought... Since he knew the story, even though his idea makes sense, still he knew that there was no such thing...

So from this little feeling, Dumbledore wanted to follow and take a clear look...

Dumbledore has his ways to follow those who use apparition through space.. but because Gray was very unstable and the crown awakened at the moment he moved through space... The location that he, Perona, and Nagini flew to was not according to his wish...

In fact, Gray's luck at that time can be called ridiculously good that he survived and didn't lose a part of his body in the prosses... After all unstable apparition can lead to space accidents... Like losing an arm, leg... Or even his head...

Not only him... Even Perona and Nagini...

Apparently, his [+4] luck attribute saved their lives again...

So Dumbledore couldn't find Gray's location...

Dumbledore watched Gray for a few years already, so he knew that Gray was not a weak student... So after some thought, he didn't try to trail him...

Since Gray decided to leave the school by himself, he should have his reason...

Besides he doesn't think there will be a threat similar to the book that Gray and Perona opened in the first year... And that weird book was destroyed by them...

For now, he has another problem to be busy with... To find the mice that put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire... Voldemort's servent...

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In the city...

The city was always the center of gathering for normal humans(Muggles)...

The streets were full of people... most of those people have their lives their problems or their goals...

Some were walking alone not caring about anything around them just going in their directions... Some were walking together talking happily... Some were taking a break and just stood there watching the others...

Normal city...

Normal city life...

In one of the highest buildings in this city...

A long white-haired young figure wearing normal black clothes about 12 to 15-year-old was sitting alone there looking at the familiar yet odd scene in front of him with calm eyes...

Every time he sees the city, he couldn't help but think of the main world before the apocalypse...

It should be so similar to this scene... but now...

Well... That was just a flashing thought...

*Sigh* After watching the city for some time, the figure sighed helplessly and lowered his head looking at the gem in his hand...

Even though he was somehow lost but nothing can be done... So he watched the gem...

"So.. this is what you meant by useful at that time, Tauriel..." Gray watched the gem on his hand and said to himself with a weak smile...

He never thought that in this world the one who will save his life turned out to be Tauriel...

Yup... The one who saved him was really Tauriel...

Not knowing how long it has been, when he realized, there was already another figure sitting beside him looking at him...

"Gray... Are you okay?" Perona looked at Gray who was watching the city silently all the time and asked a little worried...

"Yes... Just thinking of something..." Gray thought for a second and smile at Perona and said...

Was he okay?... In fact, he was pretty good at this moment...

After the crown awakening, he lost consciousness for about a day and a half only...

Unlike before, he didn't use any ability of the crown that could backlash on him like before... And because of the gem help, his body and mind were perfectly fine!

So he only needed some rest...

Not only this, even Gray felt his body was many times stronger than before... At least his look grew up so much... Even though he still looks so young, but Gray was so satisfied with this...

But after awakening, Gray felt a little silent on his heart... Through the awakening Gray's mind was chaotic, but he can still remember everything he went through... After all, all that was saved in his memories...

Which scared him... he had never been so close to death like this before... not even once... Even when he fought the dragon Smaug before, he didn't feel the death so close like this...

Which made him realize that what he was facing wasn't a life span problem only... if his body didn't bear the crown awakening he will die... If he didn't endure the pain he will die... If his soul was not strong enough... He will die...

There were many things if he didn't fix... He will die!

Gray was in a hurry to get more life span before even though he has a very long life and can bear a few awakenings, soon his life span will be used... Then?...

But now he realized how naive he was... What he was facing wasn't a life span problem only...

If he didn't get strong...

This time his life was saved by the gem... But next time? The next awakening will take 1 million years... Next time the pain will be ten times stronger...

For the first time, Gray felt glad that his dark shadow ability disappeared... After all, the side effect of this ability was not something he could handle with the crown on his head...

Dark shadow source was made from combining both the dark source and shadow source...

What was the bad thing about the dark source? The double pain!

And the damage he will receive will be doubled!

If the pain were doubled at that time...

Thinking of this, Gray's body couldn't help but shiver...

If the source comes back then the next time will be... twenty times the pain this time...

So Gray's heart at this moment was like a drum telling him to get stronger... Get stronger or you will really die!

The crown really became like a bomb on his head!

And that's not the only problem here... Gray found that he can't feel any new ability... His extraction chances added one... But other than this... Nothing!

So he felt really helpless... To be tortured by the crown in exchange for some ability, he can accept it somehow... After all, the crown abilities till now were extremely useful for him... Or can be said, 50% of his power, actually built from the crown!

Thinking of all this again, Gray felt a heavy head...

"Gray... this gem..." Perona looked at the gem in Gray's hand and said weirdly...

When Gray woke up she and Nagini were so happy that he was absolutely fine, but they saw that his mood was not right, so she didn't bother him and kept watching while making sure that he was really fine... After all Gray almost died at that time...

Perona watched Gray with calm eyes unlike her usual and slowly moved her eyes toward the gem...

To tell the truth she's dying to know what was this gem actually...

"Ah... this ... It's the Arkenstone, the jewel of the king... king under the mountain... The ultimate treasure of the dwarves..." Hearing Perona's voice, Gray cleared his mind and looked at the gem on his hand, and said with a weird smile.

'Even though it's not the same gem anymore...'

"Ha? dwarves? Arkenstone?" Perona looked at Gray and felt that she doesn't understand... Even Nagini who was hiding in Gray's hair came out and looked weird...

Apparently, she was also interested in this gem... After all the flame felt so familiar to her...

Well... Let's talk about the gem origin... Or the necklace history...

Some time ago, When he was about to leave the second world he crossed *The middle earth* Thorin came to him and gave him a gift...

Which was a beautiful necklace with a wonderful gem in the heart...

What was the gem inside the necklace?

It was a very beautiful gem, shining with a sparkling inner light as if there was a world of massive energy inside, it looked so beautiful and precious...

The Arkenstone!!!

Then?

Gray gave it to Tauriel because he found that she liked this stone...

But again, before leaving One Piece world, The Arkenstone was back in his hand... In the last few hours before leaving One Piece world, Tauriel gave this necklace to him and said that she put something inside it which might be useful!

When she gave it to him, Gray only smiled and accepted it... At that time Tauriel was also worried about what Baccarat told them that something bad will happen... So he could understand her feeling at that time...

Then?

What was Tauriel's source again?

[Reality modifier Phoenix source]

The name of this source alone can be called a cheat!

What was the meaning of this ability? what could it do?

Well... Without much guessing the name alone shows many things...

Tauriel on that day, as soon as she got this ability, she felt that she could do many many things!

And what she did to the Arkenstone was one of the many things she could do!

Phoenix's source... This source's regenerating power was so strong... Strong enough to make her an immortal!

And Taureil herself mastered the unique elven medicine that was so magical to save the almost broken souls, and even the dragon blood inside Gray was cleared by her...

So what she did to the Arkenstone was simply adding a copy of her magical medicine skill mixed with the flame of regenerating seed of her source! Weird? She modified it so it works...

So that's why the flame took her shape!!!

And the way it works was simpler... The moment Gray's life is damaged... the gem will wake up and heal him directly... whether it's a soul or a physical wound!

When Gray gave this source to Tauriel he told her that her source was the strongest between them, and he didn't joke... In fact, it's really the strongest!

The merged source usually has all the normal abilities that both sources have, plus new abilities the new source itself possesses!

Gray doesn't know what were her new abilities since he didn't have the chance to see her developing them completely... But he knew that it gotta be so strong...

When he found himself alone after going back to the main world... Gray wore this necklace all the time under his clothes...

The warmth he felt from the necklace always reminded him of what he should do...

Well... was it strong enough to save him from such a death? After all, even though Taureil ability was so strong... But she only got that ability on that day...Naturlly it won't be so perfect... So of course the gem won't be as strong as the crown...

But this was where the gem itself evolved...

When he was caught during Nagini's evolution when he merged the phoenix and the basilisk blood to her, the gem itself swallowed most of that flame at that time...

Which made the seed Tauriel added inside grow up!

And the second time the gem evolved was when Gray added the three hard get life seeds into it...

How?

Well... For this... Gray also felt confused...

When he was about to reach his death, a strong desire to live appeared on his heart, a desire like no other, which gave him the strength to move his hand...

And about this... Gray always felt like something happened but he can't remember... As if he forgot something... But his E disk didn't show him anything...

At that time he didn't feel what he touched and his mind was so chaotic... His idea was so simple... To merge the [Life seed] to himself... Was it bad, was it good... As long as he can survive...

But his hand actually landed on the gem...

The moment the three life seeds were added to the gem, the gem evolved completely into another kind of treasure...

It really has become a magical treasure!

Just holding the gem in his hand, he can feel the limitless warm life energy that was slowly moving through his hand warming his body endlessly...

Just holding the gem like this, even if he was seriously injured, his wounds will disappear in no time...

The gem became a real-life fountain?? Somehow... Gray felt like he created another weird treasure...

Gray looked at the confused Nagini and Perona and smiled...