7 Months Later

Seven months quickly passed, the cold autumn wind drifted by, the winter blankets of snow melted and the spring flowers blossomed and the summer heat was starting to die down. Diagon alley was the same as any ordinary year before this one. Students and parents filled the alley streets as they bought the required books and items for the coming school year. There were reports on few incidents on dark wizard activities and the Jacob brothers coming across another cursed vault in Hogwarts and solving another puzzle in the ever wonderous school for young wizards and witches.

Kenneth showed care for none of the changes, he had become a hermit that never left his house, his schedule consisted of making items, reading books, learning and creating new magic that might help him in the upcoming training programme. There were only occasions that took Kenneth's time from his training. Just like how magical families celebrated when their children got the letter from Hogwarts school of Witch craft and Wizardry, Nagini had thrown a party when the letter of admission for the training programme came for Kenneth. It also became a tradition for Webb family of two to have dinner with the Greengrass family of four at least once a month.

The completion of his mind scape had reached 50%, he and Nagini frequently had mind art duels to test and train their occlumency and legilimency. She could never beat him, this was mainly due to his time in the soul world, his soul and consciousness was incredibly sharp. But she never gave up and continued to challenge him.

Since he had limited time to train himself, he did not focus too much on offensive and defensive magic. After all, his innate magic gave him a huge edge, what spell was more destructive than his black flame? What spell could provide better defence than his elemental manipulation magic? what spell could cure all things like his white flame? What spell was had better movement capabilities that his spatial magic? What spell provided better support than his gravity magic? the only innate magic he had to use carefully was time magic, every time he used time magic on himself, he was faster overall, faster reaction time, faster movements, faster at processing information. However, the down side was stamina and overheating issues, his whole body, like his organs, muscles and brain was working at a faster speed, this burned his stamina too quickly and since only he is affected by the magic, the rate of heat dissipating into the surrounding air was still the same, this led to overheating. So, he could only use time magic when it was absolutely necessary since it could only be activated for a few minutes. Even though he did not practice offensive and defensive spells, he still memorised them so he could recognise them when his opponent used them. However, if he really wanted to, he believe with his affinity to magic, he could cast them with just a bit of practice.

Instead, what he worked on mostly was reconnaissance magic. From observing the duel with the Corrow siblings and the aurors, the biggest problem he had right now was being aware of his surroundings. Especially when there was multiple wizards and witches throwing spells at each other. He got his first idea from bats, dolphins and whales, it was echolocation. These animals were able to locate and navigate by using an echo and the feedback they got from it. Kenneth tried to replicate this effect. After experimenting for a few times, he created two type of reconnaissance magic; one for long range detection and the other which is more detailed for short range detection.

The long range spell sends a magical pulse from his body and monitors the changes in the magic in the surrounding atmosphere through his soul eye, currently his maximum range reached 500 meters. The image he got from the feedback was all magical signatures, living and non-living (like curses, permanent spells and traps) in the surrounding. However, the image only told him how many and the direction of the magical signatures was in the surroundings, it did not give him details of the targets. The short range one was an expansion of the first reconnaissance magic, in addition to the pulse, Kenneth immersed himself in feeling the fabric of space and observing the changes and the vibrations in it. The resulting image gave him details of everything in 20 meters of himself. It was like his entire vision turned everything inanimate into silver and grey, while all the living things and magical things onto colour coded beings, "I wonder how this vision is compared to mad-eye Moody's," he thought. He could not teach Nagini the long range spell as she did not have a soul eye, but he did teach her a simplified version of the short range spell that used her innate talent for space.

There was one problem, he was still only able to cast a single spell at a time. He could not multi-task. To counter this, he had a more brilliant idea, at least that's what it was in his opinion. His idea came from the human body, more specifically, the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is a powerful force to be reckoned with. It makes up around 95% of our brain power and handles everything our body needs to function properly, from eating and breathing to digesting and making memories. It's a very strange being when you think about. The subconscious mind isn't creative, it doesn't understand jokes, it can remember everything you have ever done, said or witnessed and response impulsively to any situation. The remaining 5% of your brain, the conscious mind, as the sole purpose of interacting with the physical world.

Kenneth needed something like the subconscious mind to work for him in the background without interfering with the decisions of his conscious mind, at the same time, be able to take order from it and work independently. He achieved this by collecting his consciousness into a white orb then connecting it to all of his memories, he was worried that it might lead to him having two of his own voices in his head, but thankfully it never happened. Instead, he was able to multi-task, to solve two different quadratic equations with both had become possible. He decided to call the white orb, Secondary processing unit. He went into creating more, however, he found that his limit was only 6. So, including his main soul body, Kenneth was able to cast 7 spells if he wanted to. Multi-casting was something Kenneth also taught Nagini, the stronger she is, the more assured he was being away from her.

"Have you got everything you need?" asked Nagini for the 100th time. It was early morning; he was about to make his way to the meeting point indicated by the admission letter.

"I got everything on me," Kenneth patiently answered for the 100th time as well.

"Be careful, okay?" said Nagini.

"Gini, it's a training programme, no one will die, even if people did get hurt, I'm sure they have top notch healers available," said Kenneth.

They said their goodbyes and Kenneth made his way out of the shop, when he looked back at the shop, he saw Nagini standing in the doorway with a very familiar look on her face. A look Kenneth knew all too well, a look that told him she had planned something and he better be ready to be surprised, a look that a hunter had when looking at its prey. Kenneth sighed to himself and thought, "I better be prepared," he thought for a bit more, his eyes widened while he mumbled, "She wouldn't, would she? Damn it, she absolutely would!! No wonder she had been isolating herself just like me in the past 7 months!" He sighed and continued walking as though he did not notice, since she wanted to surprise him, he might as well wait for it.

After leaving the alley, Kenneth drew his wand and pointed forward in the direction of the street. A few seconds later, there was a loud apparating sound and a purple triple decker bus was in front of Kenneth. He had never been to the place where the training programme was held, so he had to get there by the knight bus.

"Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand with your wand hand, step on board, and we can take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Stan Shunpike, and I will be your conductor this fine morning," said Stan, he was wearing a white shirt with brown over vest and black trousers with a round brown top hat.

Kenneth got on the bus and Stan asked, "Where'd you wanna go?"

"West Enfield, Auror training grounds," said Kenneth.

"Hear that Ernie, a another auror wanna be," said the shrunken head that was hanging next to the driver's seat.

"That will be 7 sickles," said Stan, Kenneth paid the conductor.

"Take it away Ernie! Take it away!" shouted the shrunken head.

Kenneth knew what to expect, but it still took him by surprise, the acceleration and the deceleration of the bus was so high that it made Kenneth want to puke, it even apparated a few times in the journey. He had to use gravity magic to keep himself in place, he even used gravity magic to keep the content inside his stomach not tumble around. Thankfully, they arrived at his destination after couple of stops.

"West Enfield, Auror training ground," said Stan, "Thank you for using the knight bus service! We hope to see you again!

Before Kenneth could reply, he heard, "Take it away Ernie! Take it away!" and the bus accelerated out of sight.

He stood in front of a large black metal gates and fence that blocked the view inside the gate, however, one could see a forest towering over the fence. On the metal gate there was logo of DMLE on it. Through his soul eye, he saw multiple wards placed on the fence, anti-muggle, anti-apparition and anti-trespassing wards was few of the many. His long rang recon magic picked up 7 blue magical signatures and around 50 purple magical signatures coming from inside the fence, but the range of his magic was still 500 meters, he knew that there were probably more people deeper into the camp. One of the magical signatures that came from right behind the gate, he was all too familiar with, Kenneth sighed and though, "She really did."

He knocked on the gate and a small compartment open up and a man asked, "Yes?"

"Jason Kenneth Webb, reporting to Auror training camp for the first time, here is my letter of admission," Kenneth said.

"No need, we knew you would be coming, well, come on then!" said the man said as he opened the small side door.

The moment Kenneth stepped in, a women jumped in front of him and said, "Surprise!"

Kenneth's facial features did not budge even a bit as he rolled his eyes at the women.