Chapter 64

Harry opened his eyes just to directly look into Bessita's face, who was staring at him.

"Did you just advance?" She asked him with curiosity from her bedside; she wore barely anything, and Harry had a good view of her white skin.

Bessita made a lot of effort to seduce him; she was like a shyer version of Lust. But Harry resisted the temptation, for now.

While technically they were the same age, both of them were 16; he should soon be 17 if he got his age right. World travel makes it confusing, but it still didn't feel right.

Mentally, he was over 30, and while many of these worlds had no problems with the Age of Consent and stuff like that, Harry had his own morality. Even if his situation was unique and girls were throwing themselves at him, he would at least wait till they were 18.

He also missed Skagos. He still had no idea when he was able to return. But he needed to become a Rank 1 magus, at least. That he was certain of.

"Yes, I became a Rank 2 acolyte tonight." Harry nodded as he closed his eyes again to feel the changes in his body.

His sea of consciousness, or mindscape, had become more solid; it actually felt more like his magical core. On the other hand, his magical core had somehow also become more accessible to him; it was as if he could look into both of them now.

He could never do that before. According to the AI chip, the data from his own advancement should be enough to display his own stats fully.

'Display my stats, please.'

[Harry Potter, Rank 2 Acolyte, Strength: 7.5, Agility: 6.7, Vitality: 7.0, Spiritual Force: 4.3 (223), Magic Power: 227, Status: Healthy. ]

His physical stats had been growing slowly over the past months, but the rate had become slower. He only gained such an effect thanks to a perfected Grand Knight training technique that the AI Chip had created for him from the different Knight techniques he had stolen through mind reading.

But he was reaching the limit he could reach as an Elvish/Human hybrid. He was already firmly in the range of superhuman strength. He no longer had a gamer system that could forcefully push him beyond that limit.

The best Grand Knights technique allowed the human body to reach a level of what was considered peak human in his past world up to superhuman.

The truly interesting part was his spiritual force and magic power.

He wasn't just on the level of a Rank 1 magus, but firmly in the range of a Rank 2 magus.

Sure, he was missing the innate abilities of a magus and didn't have the ability to materialize his spiritual force to make his spells even stronger than a Rank 2 magus could.

But in the quantity of spiritual force and magic power, he had reached a level beyond one; it just had the quality of a rank 2 acolyte.

Simply explained, he could cast the same spells as a magus; he just had to use more magic power.

'Any guesses why I am that way?' He asked the AI chip.

[ Beep! Analysis Complete. The structure of your magical core is the same as your sea of consciousness. It is an extension of a wizard's mind. Your intelligence stat affected the quantity of your spiritual force in a ratio of 1 to 20. While your wisdom stat is responsible for your natural talent, among other things, Thanks to the unatural properties of that gamer system, they have reached a level that shouldn't be possible. ]

'Oh, so my magic power seems to be the addition of both my magical cores. The regular one in my mind was formed by practicing a magus meditation technique, while the other was a natural one. Wait, if I have two of them, can I use two different meditation techniques?' This was an important question.

Wizards didn't have meditation techniques and never trained their magical core; they relied on their natural growth. But if they were the same as the Sea of Conciousness, a magus created with a meditation technique, he should be able to train it too.

[ Simulation complete! Affirmative. [The host is able to train in two different mediation techniques at once. ]

That was broken. If Wizardkind had developed meditation techniques or somehow traveled to the Magus World, they would be unbeatable on the same level. They would have twice the amount of magic power as a regular magus and twice the amount of innate spells.

As soon as he was back, he needed to find a way to the wizarding world. Wait, the Starks are descendants of Sirius. Their magical core just isn't developed enough anymore. But it is there!

This was all just something he had to remember for the future.

Right now, he feels much safer. He was not unbeatable, but he belonged to the Elite on the South Coast.

The strength of a Rank 2 magus was enough to lead a midgrade organization; the only ones stronger were the Handful Rank 3 magus ruling the South Coast.

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His advancement to Rank 2 Acolyte granted him officially the ability to learn spells. Of course he could have done that before, but he didn't want to show that ability off.

While wizards were chaotic and erratic in their approach to magic, going after the principle of creating spells only if they needed something, magus were the opposite.

Their approach to magic was very systematic and scientific. So were their spellings.

Instead of wand movements, incantations, mental images, and stuff like that, Magus used spell models. A systematic blueprint for a spell considers all kinds of factors, from materials needed to more magical factors.

Like the official magus ranking, spells were ranked similarly. Spells started with Rank 0.

An Accolyte could only use Rank 0 spells, the most simple and weakest kind of spell model; Rank 1 spells and higher had greater requirements.

Based on how he had categorized his wizarding spells, he was certain he could at least use Rank 1 spells.

In fact, some of his more powerful spells reached the level of rank 2, maybe even rank 3. And he was talking here about things like Fiendfyre and the Killing Curse.

Unfortunately, he was unable to test that hypothesis right now. Like Grine Water, Rank 1 spell models were restricted because they were one of the requirements to reach the rank of an official magus.

Without leaving the academy for a longer time, he had no way to gain his hands on a Rank 1 spell model.

But he could buy rank-0 spell models. With his steady stream of income through his Potions he was able to afford new Spell Models regularly until he had all of them.

With the AI Chip, his knowledge from the Wizarding World, the knowledge he had gained in the Gate of Truth, and the Ancient Language, he managed to create a multitude of spell models.

Every bit of downtime his AI chip had was spent creating new spell models, and it included all kinds of ranks from 0 to 3.

While rank-one spellings were quite common amongst the established families and organizations on the South Coast, Ranks 2 and 3 were strictly guarded secrets of the most powerful organizations.

If he had the strength to back it up, he could sell them to earn a bit of fortune. But it was too early for that.

While he could survive, he didn't have the strength to stand against any organization himself. He needed to get stronger and meet more people. Then he could afford the resources to search for a way home.

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A few months later

Mission Area of the Abyssal Bone Forest Academy

"What is he doing here?" Kaliweir gritted out the moment he saw Harry.

"Hmm? You agreed I could bring two friends of mine." Bessita replied innocently, as she stood besides Harry and Bicky, "Here they are!"

"But I-" Kaliweir got interrupted.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you, Harry!" A green-haired girl greeted him excitedly.

"Eh, Hello… Miss?"

"Oh, I am Lilisse!" The girl introduced herself.

"And I am Neela. It's nice to meet you, Sir Harry!" A red-haired girl greeted him with an excited glint in her eyes before she turned towards Kaliweir and his partner Raynor and asked, "Why didn't you mention you knew Harry Potter? An even greater genius than the Potion Genius Merlin?"

Raynor, a member of the Kaliweir clique, was also an acolyte from the Chernobyl Isles who had traveled with them to the South Coast. He looked bored by the whole exchange.

Kaliweir, on the other hand, had a massive scowl on his face. "He wasn't supposed to come."

"Eh, good old Kaliweir is a bit jealous. We are actually from the same region." Harry answered instead with a chuckle, "But why are you so excited to meet me?"

"My family is invested in many businesses around the Poolfield Kingdom. Ideally, I could recruit you to my family, but even a business partnership would be profitable." Neele explained.

"While I am not interested in joining a family at the moment, I am always open to business relations. Let's discuss this after the mission!" Harry offered that Neele was actually the reason why he bothered to appear here.

She helped Leylin sell a lot of his Potions, in a one-time deal. But Harry was planning to get more connections through her. After all, he didn't plan to stay at the Abyssal Bone Forest Academy forever.

Rather sooner than later, he planned to leave and find a way home. That didn't mean he wanted to lose access to many resources.

"Who said you could come with us?" Kaliweir interrupted with a hateful look in his eyes.

'That dude has a serious inferiority complex...'

"Well, if I am honest, I would prefer to have Harry with us!" Lilisse injected nervously.

"Me too; I heard he was already going on missions by himself. While many call him Lucky, there has to be more to it." Agreed Neele, with a flirty grin towards Harry.

"We would be too few people without him." Added Raynor, "I don't think his two friends would join us without him. Although I am quite impressed that you are already Rank 2 Bessita" he said while he was looking at Bessita and Bicky.

Bessita reached rank 2 a few days ago. Harry had even helped her learn a few spell models by implanting the knowledge directly into her head.

"I got quite lucky." Bessita chuckled while glancing at Harry.

Which wasn't exegerated. Part of it was because she was basically playing Pay to Win.

The food in the Premium Dining Hall actually helps with meditation and training. Harry had a steady income from his potioneering, and since he was pretending that his success rate was actually rising recently, he could sell more potions.

Additionally, Bessita had also started potioneering, and while she had some minor successes thanks to Harry helping her a bit, she was selling part of Harry's stock too. Which made people consider her a little talented herself.

And Harry was regularly completing missions, earning more magic crystals and contribution points. Which allowed them to regularly eat in the Premium Dining Hall.

But there was another reason, too.

Harry's experiments didn't end with spell models and Potions, he was studying different fields.

The AI chip is bound directly to his soul, and its processing speed and power are directly related to Harry's spiritual force. With spiritual force on the level of a Rank 3 magus, the Ai Chip is on a similar level.

Allowing Harry to research all kinds of things at a speed far beyond that of an acolyte. In fact, Harry was slowly running out of things to research. The knowledge available to athletes in the academy was limited, even if they paid for it.

He was keeping it up by stealing exclusive knowledge from other acolytes minds that they got from their professors. But there was also a limit to what Acolytes got.

And he wasn't confident in breaking into the mind of Rank 1 Magus without noticing. Soon he would be good enough to break into the minds of Acolytes with protective artifacts, but in the whole Abyssal Bone Forest Academy, he had only located seven of them.

All of them come from powerful families. They would be a treasure trove, but after that, his research would run out.

There was simply research he couldn't do in the academy because he didn't want to get discovered.

Anyway, he had also created a spell formation that allows one to cultivate faster on the level of an acolyte. He just had to power it with his magic, and the speed was raised by about 10%.

Considering that it required the magic power equal to a Rank 2 magus and only a handful of acolytes could use it at once, it was an extremely luxurious treatment that Bessita enjoyed for her own training.

He was even working on himself too. He was getting close to Rank 3 Acolyte.

"Fine… You can come too." Kaliweir finally relented, unwilling but overruled.

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