Chapter 66.1 New Encounters

The staff was simply given to me. We also worked out the terms of my training separately. We agreed on distance learning, meaning that I would be given tasks, I would master them, the masters would check them, and then we would move on.

I don't want to sit in Boisselier's workshop without being away, so I proposed this option, but if necessary I can always stay for the necessary period of personal communication with the masters. In this way, I will be able to study at the Magic School and receive knowledge from two respected masters.

They gave me a lot of money, but I was stuck with the fact that in France the Gringotts Bank rules, and I don't feel like getting in touch with the goblins, but it's also not much fun to carry around a mountain of gold. We settled on this option: the money is in Boisselier's account, and I have an official bill of exchange and can take all or part of the money at any time.

They even offered to give me the family's empty mansion, but without the source of magic, which is slightly more valuable. But I decided to hold off on getting my own place. I'll look around first, and then I'll decide. As for the specific solution to the couple's problem, I quickly made a plan of action.

 For the next two weeks, the workshop suspends its work, that is, the manufacture of new sticks, selling finished will be one of the former students. During this time, the couple will observe a special fast and perform small purification rituals four times a day. This will greatly help in the fight against the planted creature, reducing its effects and weakening it.

Then I will perform the ritual. Then they will go through a treatment with potions and special exercises to dissipate the life currents for some time. Only then will they take the potion. If everything goes as planned, you will have at least two children. By agreement, they will answer questions honestly, hiding only the fact of the potion's existence. It's a win-win for everyone, and for me it's advertising.

Madame Dunois just warned me that it's better to pay taxes so that there are no problems. Well, I do not want to ruin my life preemptively, and three percent of the profit is not fatal, and it is very evenly distributed. At the end of our meeting I was loaded with a portion of specially copied literature with a detailed list of instructions-tasks, and then we said goodbye to Boisselier.

— How do you register your wand? — I asked on the street.

— Very simple. In every shop where wands are sold, there is an artifact connected to the French Ministry of Magic. When the wand is chosen, the shopkeeper places it on the artifact, which fixes the imprint of the magical pattern and gives it to the Ministry. Also, until the age of seventeen, wizards can only conjure in certain authorized areas, and then anywhere else. We don't put monitoring charms on the wand — it distorts the wand's work, and it's an invasion of the wizard's privacy. — Lucy replied, and I smiled gratefully and nodded.

I like it here already, but we'll see what happens next. And then we walked along the alley to the next portal, where Madame Dunois took us to her home. The second time we were transported, we caught the echo of the magic used to apparate.

When the world returned to normal, or vice versa — we returned to it — I was able to clearly grasp the difference in the world's perception of "there" and "here". I simply hung a sign "busy" on the environment and went into the unfolding sensations and the thoughts that followed, the opening of understanding.

According to my first sensations, it was as if we were spinning around the axis, squeezing hard, squeezing somewhere "out there". Why is it like that? Why the "spinning"? Why such a narrow "passageway"? Why such unpleasant sensations?

 I felt that the answer was close and I couldn't miss it — it was important. For a few minutes or more (?) I "savored" the sensations, immersed myself in them, until a screw appeared before my mind's eye.... Yes, yes, the most ordinary screw.

Why is it turning? So that the thread can tighten and move forward. Why does it feel so bad when you move it? Man has no threads, and during the transition from the material world through "nothing" back into the material world, we are surrounded by a dense shroud of magic that creates a "thread" to move us exactly where we need to go. Why is the "tube of transition" so narrow? The narrower the tunnel — the less energy is used, and the most efficient tunnel is created for each mage, into which the mage is "screwed".

A single burst of magic and a thought-image of the destination point instantly makes a "path-pipe", screws the mage in, gives the impulse of movement, and no further energy is required, only time and the absence of extraneous thought-images, so as not to make a branch where the mage can try to be pulled in and the mage will suffer. What are magicians transported through?

I don't get it. "Tunnel", "pipe", "path" are paved with magic, creating a defense against the possible aggressiveness of the "nothing" environment. To investigate, it is necessary to break through the wall of the "pipe" at the moment of movement, stopping the movement. What's the danger? Danger. The conditions for laying a path and creating a directional impulse of movement are unknown...