8 Chapter 8: Room of Requirement and Show of authority

Chapter 8: Room of Requirement and Show of authority

After searching for a while, finally I found the room of requirement on the seventh floor, opposite a tapestry showing Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet.

First I asked for a place to hide something. I wanted to check if it works the same way and if all the items in the movie was there. It was! Mountains and mountains of forbidden items. I was sure that there are many cursed items. So I postponed looting the place.

I tried something else. Someplace to hide money. To my surprise a door opened. And there was maybe around 1 to 2 thousand galleons there! Also many sickles and nuts. I didn't know if it was one of teacher's personal stash of money that secured here because he/she doesn't trust goblins, or it is Hogwarts vault of money. Anyhow, I didn't have the tools to move these. I needed an inventory. Which I can use after level 5.

Then I need to focus on my leveling. To level up I need more deals, and somewhere to kill people and get some souls. Souls … Souls … the only being related to souls in Harry Potter series is the dementors. If I could extract souls from them or even consume them, it might help a lot. I took a mental note of that and added the idea to a list of projects to take on in the future.

I turned the room into a room filled with chairs.

'Let's practice telekinesis! Or mental levitation as the system says'

{And I'm right. Telekinesis is a form of mental power, it is more focused and more powerful. Mental levitation doesn't have that much power behind it. But for you it's different. You can level up the skills and increase its potency and power. So with some training you might get the Telekinesis, or even something better.}

'Speaking of the devil'

{…}

'I mean thanks'

{Even your dishonest gratification is welcome host}

'Cheeky brat'

{I am older than this multiverse but ok}

' … '

'You don't go and drop the A (Age) bomb like that! '

{I'll be careful next time host.}

I didn't say anything and started my training in "mental levitation". I didn't have any progress, but I got familiarized myself with the power. For now, even if I use this to shoot an item to someone it doesn't pack a punch, but as system said, I had a lot of room to grow, and I needed a telekinesis ability as one of my main tools.

After 3 hours of work, it was finally 12 and I changed the room into a gym. I started with 20 minutes of stationary bicycle, and surprisingly I got a +1 VIT out of it. It seemed that having near zero stat helps you with building it up.

In my previous life I attended the gym for a short time. It was a pathetic try to get out of my mediocre life. But at least I learned how to use the tools and the routines. So the room used my imagination to make these stuff.

Because of the lack of Stamina, I had to stop each time after 10 minutes of exercise to cool down and regain my stamina.

I loved my body. Not in a weird narcissistic way, no, I loved the fact that my body followed the gaming rules! It regained stamina by 0.5 a minute. Which meant before I got my VIT stat and had 5 stamina, I could regain all my physical energy in 10 minutes. The rules my body followed were gaming rules, not physical rules!

I practiced till morning and I was happy with my progress. I wouldn't ever spend a stat point where I can train and gain that power myself! Maybe I use them in just one stat. For example the DEX, so I could be so fast, I could kill every enemy without them knowing. And I say "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru", and they say "nani?" and die.

My physical Stat gains were like this:

STR: 2 -> 4

VIT: 1 -> 3

DEX: 5 -> 6

'System, what is the normal stats of an adult?'

{Normal untrained stat of an adult: 15

Normal trained stat: 40

Genius: 50-60

Augmented :??}

'My stats look so sad. Can you guess how much time it takes for me to reach the trained or genius level of physical stats?'

{Calculating … Calculating … 15 years until well-trained level and 43 years until genius level, with the pace you are going. Genius level physical body examples: Hawkeye}

'Why so slow?'

{1. It takes couple of years for you to just reach 20-25 stats which is a normal adult who casually trains. From there it gets harder.

2. You are starting at the age of 16, if you had a younger body, the results were better.

3. You have a limitless potential, and to be limitless, you need a strong foundation, which you have none.

4. You are malnourished, and it has been going on for a while. It take a lot just to fix what went wrong with your body.}

'Maybe I should use Stat Points here.'

{It is not a wise decision host. When you can train yourself, why waste them.}

'Ok shut up.' I was annoyed.

I went to take a shower and started meditating.

*Ding*

Magic Ability – School of Mind Arts - Meditation /Basic/ (1/5) (Passive/Active)

In its passive form, Meditation calms the mind and increases the information processing speed by 1%

While active, it doubles the Mana Regeneration.

Next Level: 3% processing.

'As I also have the divinity of the mind, that's the least I can do to improve in that route. '

Then I went to the Main hall for the breakfast. It was around 6 and no one was awake. And some people were just showing up. I started my food and to my surprise I saw a +1 VIT again! I could increase my VIT with food?! I kept eating twice the normal amount I was used to, but nothing happened. I stopped eating and sat there and chat with professors that came to the hall.

They were friendly and as I didn't know which one of them Dumbledore trusted, I didn't say anything and stuck to the story.

[Acting Skill Level up!

Skill - Acting /Basic/ [Level 2/10] (Passive)]

There was two days left of Christmas holidays and there weren't a lot of students.

Headmaster Dippet introduced me to the students, which made them look at me suspiciously. None of the staff in the history of Hogwarts were as young as me.

I saw Tom and waved for him. I was at the staff table and we couldn't eat together.

After he finished his breakfast I got up and excused myself from the table.

Tom and I went for a stroll around Hogwarts for an hour and he showed me the lake and the forbidden forest. But went back to the library. I gave him a book of introduction to Mind Arts as I knew all the books that was there. And I started reading the list Dumbledore gave me. First was etiquettes and then system of government.

Some students came to the library ignored me, some asked questions, it looked like a normal and happy day until around 11am that a Slytherin student came in.

When I looked at him I could see the I-am-a-rich-cocky-entitled-son-of-a-bitch aura around him.

He came to me and said with a sneer "I heard you went on your knees for Dumbledore to get this job. How magical is you techniques? Who taught you that? Your mother?"

Everyone in the school knew me as a foreigner, but with my last name (Green), it was obvious that I didn't come from any of the renowned magical families in the Europe.

His name popped in my head. Why? I think because the idea of banning him from the library passed my mind. His name was Theodore Flint. Related to Marcus Flint? Probably his father or uncle or someway related.

"Mr. Flint, You know as a student you are supposed to be respectful toward the staff? Even though I am around your age but I have the authority to give you punishment or take points from your house."

"Who the fuck care about those stupid points! My sister asked for an assistant Librarian position and was rejected. They said it wasn't available. How they make you, a no name, qualified and they open a job for you, and not a Flint?"

I looked at him coldly and tried to be respectful, "Maybe because your sister wasn't qualified enough. And maybe she goes on her knees for wrong people, as you are informed of how this technique works in depth." I said tried.

I could see his veins throbbing, he went for his wand and I said "Do you want to be banned from the library?" he stopped. "Good."

And I continued to read my book and I heard "Flipendo" "Protego"

The spell that was coming my way was stopped by the shield charm Tom made.

I was furious, he dared to send a knockback spell at me in MY LIBRARY.

"I, Michael Green, by the authority of knowledge banish you, Theodore Flint, from this sanctum of knowledge, so mote it be."

Suddenly he was grabbed by an invisible hand and was tossed outside. He tried to come back but he couldn't, and also none of his spells could pass the boundaries of library.

I didn't care about the eyes of people on me. Mostly the Ravenclaws who were scares shitless and went pale. I had the power to take this source of knowledge from them, which was like water and air to them.

I looked at Tom and said "Thanks man. You were a lifesaver there."

He was also looking at me with wide eyes. Finally he got the power to speak and said "Dude! That was awesome! How did you do that!?"

I chuckled and said "I don't know! You used to tell me that Hogwarts is alive. Maybe the school gave me the authority."

I got a bit worried and said "Aren't you worried that you went against an upper year student?"

"Don't worry about it." He came closer to me and said "I am kind of a big deal in Slytherin. I have a study group for dark arts and near half of the students who hasn't passed the owl listen to me. They know they can't mess with me."

"You need to let me join!" I smiled," now that I can finally use magic I want to learn everything!"

"Of course. You are like my brother anyway. We could be our generation's powerhouses and lead magical communities. But learn the basics first and reach second year stuff. I'll teach you battle magic and dark arts."

"What an honor to learn the dark arts from the future dark lord." I said with a grin.

"Stop buttering me up." he laughed.

'If I play my cards well, I can have a Dark lord as an ally. This is fun!'