The Dungeon! Part-2
{Black Cottage, England}
{06:36 AM, 5th June, 1988}
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[You have slept in your own bed, HP and MP have been restored 100% each. All ailments and negative status effects have been cured.]
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Rigel noticed a couple of things as soon as he woke up, firstly, waking up to a water balloon popping on his head didn't feel great. Secondly, looking up at the glaring blue notification hurts his eyes this early in the morning. He wiped his eyes absentmindedly as he woke up, his wet bangs were sticking on his forehead and after glaring at a grinning Sirius the man finally waved his wand. The wetness disappeared as Rigel felt woozy from the whiplash as the blow of hot air flattened him back on the bed.
If it was 2020 he would have called the cops for child abuse and called it a day but he just grumbled and removed the covers.
"Hurry up, Hurry up we're going for a picnic, if Rose found out that we are late because of you she would scream your ears off." Sirius rambled.
By now Rigel had got his bearings right, he looked at Sirius who was dressed in an overcoat with a t-shirt and a pair of jeans beneath it.
"You just woke me up, if we're going to be late it just means you forgot to wake me up..." Rigel glared at the man once again before he dragged his feet to the bathroom that was attached to his room.
"Do you need any-"
"Go away!" Rigel shouted as he heard Sirius snickering as he left, he wasn't a morning person but his mood was still bright as he read through the notification again. While more questions popped up in his mind about whether he had to assign a bed as his main bed now, all in all, he was quite happy with this outcome.
He went to sleep last night after he was exhausted by trying to level up his levitation charm. Seeing that it took him just 1/2 mana for every cast it became the easiest way for him to try and level up, he just had to use the spell 177 times. While he didn't manage to level up last night he did manage to get close to leveling up his levitation charm before his mana ran out and he was getting bored of waiting for 10 minutes just to cast the spell two times.
'I just need to cast the spell 16 more times, I should do that before going through whatever joke Sirius had come up with.'
"~Recens Spiritus~" Rigel incanted as he pointed his wand at his mouth and then hurriedly opened his mouth for the spell to take effect. The Mouth-Cleaning Spell was a basic spell he learned yesterday, the magical world didn't exactly have toothpaste and toothbrush, and he didn't like going to Sirius every morning just to have him cast this charm.
'Tch- it burns, I wonder if the burning would go away if I level the spell enough.'
There is a slight burning feeling in the caster's mouth as a side-effect of this spell that lasts for a few minutes after the spell is cast.
After around 10 minutes Rigel left the bathroom, his hair was wet but he was content with rubbing them with an extra towel rather than having to go through being blown back by the hot air charm again. He picked up a white t-shirt and blue jeans again, it was his go-to attire.
"You ready yet?" He heard Sirius shouting from the living room, ignoring the shout he flicked his wand and concentrated, the blue jeans levitated from the bed towards him and he caught it before slipping them on. After a little game of throwing things around the room, he finished the required quota as he levitated his shoes to him. The level-up notification came as expected and he started going through it as he slipped his feet into his shoes.
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[Spell {Levitation Charm} leveled up!]
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[Levitation Charm(Active) Lv-3 (0/1000)]
[The very first spell and most basic levitation spell you learn in your schooling, works well on inanimate objects but needs a constant flow of mana to work.
-1/3 Mana used per Kg per minute.
50% success rate with silent casting.
5% success rate when cast wandlessly.]
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'Are we really going to count my mana in the decimal now, and what the fuck do you mean I have to do this spell a thousand more times to level up to improve my chances to do this spell silently...'
While the hope of wandless magic was good, his good mood still took a hit, according to this system if he wanted to master any important spell he would have to at least cast it 10,000, and that too if the end point of every spell was just level 5. What if there were more levels, how would that even be within the realm of possibility?
After tying his shoelaces he put his wand aside and completely focused on moving his pillow with the levitation spell. He held up his finger like a wand, and did the swirl and a flick motion as he cast, "~Wingardium Leviosa~".
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The pillow didn't budge but when he looked at his status he could see that his mana dipped a little bit so he surely did everything right. He focused again, repeating the gesture and the incantation, the pillow flicked upwards as Rigel exclaimed, "Yes!"
"What happened?" He heard Sirius's voice coming up, Rigel looked around and grabbed his wand as another set of notifications bombarded his vision.
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[Skill created {Wandless Casting}]
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[Wandless Casting(Passive) lv-1]
[You have begun on your journey to cast magic without a medium, this is an ancient method of casting magic and has slowly faded with time. While it is ineffective and unnecessary to learn it in modern times, with it you can escape the clutches of artifacts and cast magic as it was first intended.
+50% to Mana used for spells.
+5% to wandless spell success rate]
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"Your'e ready? Let's go everyone's waiting for you, you can play with your wand later when we come back, I'll leave you alone!" Sirius joked he looked especially proud of his pun but when he looked around there was no one there to appreciate it, he then turned back to look at Rigel's bland face.
"You're an idiot," Sirius brightened at Rigel's words as he shook his head and followed the man. His long hair almost wobbled with every step as they arrived at the fireplace once again. Sirius gave a handful of floo powder to Rigel who took it and under Sirius's questioning look threw the powder into the fire and steeped in as he spoke loudly, "Potter Manor"
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Rigel stumbled out at the Potter Manor once again, he dusted his white t-shirt once again before turning to face a growing Rose Potter, she was tapping her left leg in exaggeration with her arms folded on her chest. Her face was puffed up in anger but she didn't say anything.
She looked so cute that Rigel almost faltered in his anti-social facade. The Fire flared green once again as Sirius walked out of the fireplace, the girl now descended upon her target of indignation with righteous fury so Rigel moved along.
The small fight settled down and in a matter of moments Rose was perched on Sirius's shoulders, her expression proud as the rest of the Potters gathered around the room. Lily frowned at her daughter before she let it go and looked at everyone before she started speaking.
"Alright we'll go in pairs, Sirius you take Rose and then come back, you can then take Rigel with you, Harry you're coming with me, James will take Daniel and Neville."
With the arrangements made, Sirius made a joke about Rose inheriting Lily's temper and then popped with a hysterical Rose laughing on top of him. Lily let out an angry huff before she held her arms towards Harry and they both vanished with a pop too. James laughed out loud now that his wife was gone before he quickly held Neville and Daniel's shoulders before the three vanished as well.
Before you could entertain the thoughts about sneaking into the library Sirius popped/dodged into the room once again as he tumbled. Upon seeing Rigel's raised eyebrows he muttered something about redheads and temper before he grabbed Rigel's shoulder.
Rigel stumbled and fell flat on his bum, after being squeezed through the world's thinnest tubes it was difficult for him to regain his footing. Rigel stumbled back up and looked around, they were in a very nice garden, as he was surveying the garden his eyes caught the sight of the mailbox in front of the house.
'''4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey'''
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