Not normal?

"I don't usually receive visitors, sorry there is no food here" An old white-haired man walked very short steps and sat in front of Gray and Perona.

Perona looked at the old man and smiled awkwardly.

She was so rude just now and called an old man who's dying a zombie...

'This is not my fault... who made him pretend to be a zombie!' But her thoughts were still going in the same direction...

Perona as the ghost princess, shouldn't be scared of zombies, but after seeing the illusion inside the book before and almost was being eaten alive by Moria's zombies, she's not very good with them... or it can be said, she hates zombies more than anything right now...

And Nicolas's personality was also good, so he didn't show any bad feeling for her and even smiled as if he heard a joke.

Gray smiled at Nicolas and introduced himself and Perona to him.

"Gray? Perona? You are the two Dumbledore talked about!" Hearing their names, Nicolas was surprised. Dumbledore told him about the fact that the stone wasn't destroyed by him personally but by another kid called Gray in his school.

And now hearing Gray introducing himself as a Hogwarts student and had the same name, he suddenly became interested.

Seeing Nicolas was so friendly, Gray was also interested in this old man and started talking about many things.

For example, a few problems he didn't understand about the alchemy in books, what this does, and that could be.

And like this, Perona on the side looked at Gray and Nicolas talking nonsense in front of her for a few hours.

Soon it was the night and Nicolas needs to get some rest so he invited both Gray and Perona to stay with him tonight, and Gray simply smiled and agreed.

So in the next week, Both Gray and Perona stayed with this old man, which made Nicolas's days more active.

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"Are you sure you don't want to stay for a few more days?" Nicolas looked at Gray and Perona in front of him who are ready to leave and said with a sad tone.

"Yeah... We have a few things to do, thank you very much Mr. Flamel for letting us stay this week and for all your help" Gray looked at Nicolas in front of him and said with a smile.

"Old man, we will visit you later if we came to Paris again!" Perona beside Gray also smiled and said. Even though this old man is kinda scary, but in fact, he's so funny and nice.

"Oh...Well... The next time..." Nicolas also smiled awkwardly and said... The next time... Will he be alive by then?

So Gray caught Perona's hand and ...

*WOOG* The space around them twisted and both of them suddenly disappeared.

Looking at Gray and Perona who used Apparition to leave, Nicolas felt weird...

Apparition is one of the hardest magic out there, can the students at this age use it so early like this? And looking at The way Gray left, it's not like he just mastered the skill...

So weird...

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In a forest somewhere around the world.

This is a very calm and dark forest.

You can't hear any sound inside from this deep forest as if there is no life around.

*WOOG*

In the void, a weird twist appeared, and two small figures came out.

They are Gray and Perona who left Nicolas's house just a few seconds before.

"It really worked!" Gray looked at the place suddenly changed around him and said.

The fact that he traveled in space wasn't a new thing for him, but this is the first time he uses magic to do this. The feeling is really unique... and twisted...

"Where are we?" Perona beside Gray looked at the dark forest around and asked.

"I don't know...." Gray also looked around and said. He's not sure where are they.

But they didn't come here by mistake... Gray took a big crystal ball and looked inside, but it showed nothing but a white cloud.

"Looks like we have to look around by ourselves," Gray said this and let Perona enter the ring and use her ghost body while staying in the forest.

While staying in Nicolas's house, Gray naturally copied many things.

And the reason he stayed a whole week there because he couldn't copy Nicolas's Disks so easily.

He couldn't find a good reason to come in touch with Nicolas, besides he wasn't really in hurry to copy everything.

So he copied what he really wants from Nicolas in the night before leaving.

Nicolas's home was more like a giant fortress filled with all kinds of weird enhancement, if it wasn't that he could move through things, he wouldn't have been able to enter Nicolas's room at night and copy his skills silently. No wonder this old man didn't have any real fight for a very long time.

Inside Nicolas's disks, Gray found many things.

Had to say this Nicolas is really a monster...

If Gray wanted to copy all the useless things inside his D disk won't fit!

There were many Defence and counter skills, and many weird things.

But most of them are Defence type...

But what Gray really wants was found and copied, which is...

[Apparition] - 16 GB

[Alchemy] - 32 GB

[Potions] - 21 GB

[Divination] - 15 GB

[Wandless and Non-verbal magic] - 10 GB

This is what Gray really needs from Nicolas.

Especially Apparition! This skill is so awesome! with it, Gray won't have a problem traveling anymore.

Let's not speak about Alchemy and Potions. Divination this skill alone is so useful for him right now.

He came here to search for someone, by using the Divination picture the crystal showed him before.

After all, if he wants to go somewhere by Apparition, he needs to know the place first...

And there is the wandless and non-verbal magic skill. This kind of skill is not so rare, but very hard to acquire, only when a wizard or witch reaches a very high of control over their magic he or she will be able to do magic relying on their own will only.

Like Quirrell before... That guy can lit up fire around the room where the mirror was in, by a simple snap of his fingers, which shows that even though Quirrell was funny somehow, but he's a good wizard... Which also the reason why Voldemort chose him to be a vessel...

Gray didn't feel the skill size is so small. After all, how could a six hundred year Alchemist skill size only be 32 GB?

Well... As said before the wizards and witches in this world rely on Blood to use magic. So those skills are more like a way to use this blood.

The size of those skills is already great!

But like all things, nothing is perfect, there are also many limitations, for example, Apparition this skill can't be used to travel a very very long distance as he wishes for, because of the further distance you use it, the more dangerous it is.

He found out about this just now while using it to came here. But this is not a real problem for Gray, such a problem is not a real problem for him... Sooner or later he will upgrade this skill to something more magic anyway. After all, he can merge similar skills.

And another example is the Divination skill he's using right now... Even though it brought him here, but it won't show him what he really wants to find so easily, he needs to search around the area to get the answer he wants.

Even though if he gave such skill to Baccarat things will be much different...

With all those new skills and memories inside his head, Gray already know how to create another stone.

But what made his feel sad is the material of making it... So the plan of mass-producing was stopped for some time.

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Moving around the forest, Gray, and Perona found nothing.

This forest in fact is like every normal forest is full of life!

But the area they fall to was so weird compared to other areas.

So Gray kept using his Haki all the time, feeling everything around him, while searching, and the same for Perona, she spread her ghosts all over the area looking for What Gray wants to find.

"Gray... Why are you looking for a snake? There should be many other interesting animals out there? How about we go and hunt a dragon?" Perona floated beside Gray and asked boringly.

"Because it's not a normal snake Perona..." Gray said while everything feeling everything around.

"Not normal? How not normal is it?" Perona looked at Gray and asked.

"There!" But Gray didn't answer and looked at the east.

Perona also looked in the same direction.

So both Gray and Perona run toward that place, and soon they reached it.

There was a big clean lake, with many magic herbs around it, and on the other side of the lake.

Gray saw Perona's ghosts, are flying around annoying a big green snake screaming at Perona's ghosts while trying to attack them from time to time.

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