Chapter 4: Hit the Training Montage!

After Rigel and Draco were 9 years old, Lucius and Narcissa felt that they had reached the age when their children wanted to make friends and perhaps they saw that Rigel was on the track to being a hiki-neet they began to invite some children of similar age, and similar standing to their home to play, in hopes that Rigel and Draco can find like-minded friends before they start school.

However, almost all of the children invited from the so-called "family proximity" come from pure-blood families with similar status and status to the Malfoy family, such as Theodore Knott of the Nott family, and Pansy Parkinson of the Parkinson family. Millicent Bulstrode of the Bulstrode family, Gregory Goyle of the Goyle family, Vincent Crabbe of the Crabbe family, and so on...

Draco was awe-inspiring. With the help of the Malfoy family, he easily made Goyle and Crabbe become his followers. Although these two big boys were a bit stupid, their sturdy figures were very good bodyguards, meatshields, and excellent lab rats.

Pansy Parkinson seemed to have a liking for Draco and admired Draco's slightly naive arrogance. To be honest, Pansy at this time has short black hair, bright eyes, a very small nose, and two small cute dimples.

She looks very cute, but her personality is very bad, except for the times she was before the elders. Even with Draco and Rigel, her speech was very acrimonious, and she always took pleasure in others' misfortune. Goyle and Crabbe privately referred to her as the 'little witch'.

Theodore Nott was one of the few people who did not lay down on Draco's feet to cater to flattery. The Nott family had a reputation in the British wizarding world and owned a lot of industries for making alchemical objects.

Theodore's own talents are not bad, but his personality is a bit stinky, which is simply unbearable narcissism. But Draco liked him a lot, he told Rigel more than once that he felt Theodore was the only person of their generation worthy of equal contact.

Whenever these little boys get together, Rigel will find all kinds of reasons to decline to join them and, if the meeting place is in Malfoy Manor, he will find the opportunity to sneak out in advance.

Draco indulged in the mutual flattery between several people. He was very keen to participate in the various activities of this small circle. Rigel could often see him hanging out with friends to play and party.

Rigel was also invited by them several times, but after being rejected by him on several occasions, Draco felt that his bookish brother didn't seem to particularly like to hang out with his friends, so he didn't bother him anymore.

From then on, everyone at the gathering will automatically exclude Rigel. Narcissa was not very happy when she learned about this, she had nagged Rigel several times. But she saw her younger son was not going to change, she knew that he had inherited the Black stubbornness in aces, and had relented on that front.

However, after Rigel noticed the rotund and tall figures of Crabbe and Goyle, he also began to exercise his body to enhance and facilitate his growth.

Being unable to learn spells does not mean that one cannot enhance one's physical strength or skills like fencing and calisthenics.

In the wizarding world, the battle between wizards, under normal circumstances, depends on the power of the spells, the hit rate of both sides, and the rate of spell shielding, dodging, and negation.

After all, it's only effective if it hits, and only in a few very rare cases, the battle between wizards will be dragged into a protracted battle due to the same levels of strength, and the total amount of magic power will become the final factor in winning.

It can be seen that for combat wizards, physical quality is actually very important, and only agile wizards can have a great survival rate in the melee fights.

Without the knowledge of his family, Rigel began to conduct physical training secretly with Dobby every day in the dead of night. He wanted to puke blood when he remembered what he read in the novels written by JKR.

The little wizards of Hogwarts never participated in any physical training, they focused their time on gaining knowledge and mastering spells for seven years. The only thing in Wizard's education system that can be associated with physical education is the first-year flight class, and it only lasts for a short year, unless the student is in a quidditch team.

It's no wonder that the little wizards can understand so many spells, but their actual combat performance is extremely disappointing. This may be because in the peaceful age, unless someone aspiring to become an Auror, no one bothers to pay attention to their physical fitness.

The little wizards might as well learn a few housework spells to be more practical instead of spending time doing it physically. Back in his previous world, he was a renowned adventurer and archeologist, he had great accomplishments in physical fitness and combat, armed and unarmed.

Based on the description of the battle between wizards in the original book, he borrowed the training methods of the Muggle world, he specially designed a systematic physical training process for himself.

He asked Dobby to aim at himself to release harmless marking spells (being hit by a spell will only leave a mark like ink), and he tossed around in a small space, polishing his reaction time and dodging skills. With one step at a time, he allowed Dobby to speed up the casting speed to increase the intensity of the spellfire.

After practicing the dodging skills, Rigel would make Dobby use flying spells to create flying paper birds. He used needles and knives to practice aiming and shooting. The goal was to practice until he could shoot down every paper bird.

During the daytime, Rigel had cultivated the habit of reading the Daily Prophet diligently every day, and took the initiative to understand the big and small things happening in the magical world in the peaceful age.

In his spare time, he remembered that in the original book, the Wesley family's eldest Bill seemed to have a pen pal in Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in France. On a whim, he wrote a letter to The editor-in-chief of the newspaper saying that he would like to borrow a small column to publish an international dating revelation under the pen name of "Cupid".

What he did not expect was that the newspaper's response came extremely quickly. Within a few days, he received a reply from the editor of the newspaper. He agreed to promote the exchange of international magic circles and publish this friendship revelation for Rigel at no charge.

He couldn't help thinking, that perhaps this is because the newspapers in the peaceful era lacked material to publish.

A few weeks later, he had received several letters from friends and successfully made a few foreign pen pals. Among them, the ones who communicated most frequently and most in harmony was a pen pal living in North America and a pen pal far away in Japan.

The correspondence exchange also gained a preliminary understanding of the magical world outside the UK. Since then, on weekends every week, Rigel had made another habit of reading and replying to letters.

After his parents knew about this matter, Lucius curled his lips in disdain but declined to comment. In Lucius's eyes, the British magical world is the most powerful and noble wizarding world in the world, and other places are just remote and blackwater barbarians...

People with this kind of thinking were not a few in the British magical world. After all, the heritage of North American wizards comes from the United Kingdom, while the distant East is recognized as being somewhat backward in both economic and political terms.

When Rigel told his parents that he had finished reading the hundreds of books in the family library, even the cold Lucius couldn't help showing a surprised and happy expression. So Narcissa proposed to take Rigel to visit his maternal grandmother, Druella Black.

Druella visited their home once when Draco and Rigel were very young, she loved the naturally intelligent and mature Rigel very much. In fact, he and Draco were also the only two grandsons she recognized.

Rigel has two aunts, Bellatrix who joined the Death Eaters after she got married and did not give birth to any children, and the second aunt Andromeda, who was removed from the family tree because she married a Muggle-born...

Druella lived alone in a small house in Wiltshire, when she saw her favorite grandson visiting, her face was full of excitement. She was so happy to hear that Rigel wanted to stay for a few days. So when Rigel suggested that he wanted to take a look at the collection, Druela took out all the books at home in one breath to let her darling grandson read them.

The collection of books in Druella's family was inherited by her and her dead husband Signus Black from their respective families. Druella was originally the daughter of the Rosier family before she was married, so part of the books in the collection are from the Black, while some books are from the Rosier family, a part of which was sent to Malfoy Manor with Narcissa's marriage very early.

Then aunt Bellatrix and her husband were arrested after the First Wizarding War and sent to Azkaban, the Wizarding Prison. They were also sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the Wizarding Property Law, they were excluded from the Gringotts vault. The property was transferred to Druella's name.

This allowed Rigel to find an unexpected bonus, he not only found the classics of the Black family and the Rosier family in the Druella's collection but even found some of the Lestrange family's collections, though fragmentary, they added up to more than a hundred books.

Although Druella is old, she is not demented, the books she brought out for Rigel did not contain any dark magic books. However, some of the secret spells of the Black family, the Rosier family, and the Lestrange family were given.

Rigel knew that these were the most precious knowledge of the pure-blood families, and used the hourglass every day to greedily absorb all the knowledge he could absorb. After living in the grandmother's house for a month, Rigel and Narcissa said goodbye to Druela, who was full of dismay.

Druella was very bold and gave all the books she had to Rigel and ordered Sasha, the house-elf, to deliver the books directly to Rigel's bedroom in Malfoy Manor, while the 'special' books would come only when he grew up.

When Narcissa saw Rigel's bedroom full of books, she thought that it was both helpless and funny. She bought a portable bookcase engraved with an untraceable shrinking charm and a spatial expansion to make the space inside like an empty library.

This let Rigel store tens of thousands of books and he liked this gift very much. It made him feel as if he had his own private library. He couldn't wait to arrange all the books from Druela's house neatly into the bookcase, only to find that he can barely fill up ten percent of the bookshelves in the space.

A/N: The second chapter of the day and this is to mark the starting of it all...