Sequence 6 : Prometheus.

The resulting potion confused Loki a little.

It looked like lava that had frozen after coming to the surface of the Earth. The liquid was obsidian black with glowing red cracks as if a strange fire was trying to break free from the inside.

'Is this even a potion?'

Loki brushed the beaker with his fingers to see if it would be hot like its appearance suggested and much to his surprise, Loki found the beaker absolutely normal.

Loki blew on his soundless whistle, which he had remade to last longer than its initial few-year lifespan, and summoned Sunny.

"Keep a watch over me will ya?" Loki asked while tossing a gold galleon to the little Niffler.

"I work for the coin."

With a little apprehension, Loki picked up the beaker but was forced to stop when the Niffler spoke.

"In case you lose control, I want your ring!"

Loki spared an unamused glance at the Niffler and brought the beaker close to his lips and just like the previous three times, he swallowed the liquid inside it with a single gulp.

The mysterious concoction slipped down his throat and settled inside his stomach.

Nothing happened for a few seconds, but almost immediately after Loki placed the beaker on the table, he started to sweat profusely.

His clothes were drenched and Loki felt like he had to get rid of them because of how hot it was.

Loki exhaled a deep breath and found steam escaping his lips, his whole throat felt like it was burning, as if he could breathe fire without any effort.

Holding on to the sense of discomfort that had spread throughout his body, Loki rubbed his index and thumb fingers and entered cogitation.

His head rolled back as his eyes turned black.

His muscles turned and twisted but Loki remained still.

He used his entire focus to outline several spheres of light with different colours in each and began to stack them upon each other to remain awake and aware of everything that was happening to him.

A sudden assault of murmurings and screams reached his ears as he could make out the sounds he'd always been hearing in them.

"Hogwarts...Walburga...Hogwarts...Walburga...Hogwarts...Walburga...Hogwarts...Walburga..."

Just as Loki felt he was about to lose control when the potion inside his body split up and covered each cell in his body in a cocoon of fire, he heard a melodious tune.

It was Sunny, he was trying to lul Loki into a memoryless state of calm so that he could regain control over the changes that were happening inside his body.

The process lasted for nearly a minute when Loki slowly lifted his hand, indicating for Sunny to stop singing.

Loki opened his eyes, slowly.

He looked around the room and his gaze finally landed on his hand.

He clenched and unclenched his hand a few times as a small smile graced his lips.

'I can't believe it.'

Loki could feel the explosive strength running through his body, he could feel exactly how his spirituality had grown to augment his body.

If before he felt like he was able to control spirituality by focusing his thoughts, he now felt like he could control it through his intent alone.

With but a fleeting thought Loki felt his spirituality emerge out of his body and form various shapes that he wouldn't have been able to perform before.

'Ha! This will help me greatly to improve my magic.'

Taking a pause from examining his newfound familiarity with spirituality, Loki began to examine the other new abilities he had gotten from advancing to Sequence 6 Prometheus.

Loki felt greatly in tune with his surroundings.

Everything inside the room felt like it was within his reach.

Loki turned toward the Niffler who was carefully looking at Loki to examine for any side effects of the potion. Looking at the coin in Sunny's tiny hands, Loki just swiped his hand through the air and without anyone noticing, the coin that was just in Sunny's hands was now in Loki's.

"Wha- How did you do th- No give it back!!!" Sunny exclaimed, causing Loki to smile.

'I can teleport items within a fifty-meter radius to my hands?'

'How useful.'

'I wonder how it works…'

With a slight nod, Loki looked at Sunny who was rushing towards him.

Loki kept his arm outstretched and held the coin in his fingers for Sunny to take it back from him, but as soon as the Niffler's hands laid on the coin, Loki vanished from his place.

When Sunny looked around to see where Loki had vanished to, he found him standing right behind him, staring down at him with a smile.

'I can also teleport myself around in a fifty-meter radius.'

'I don't know how I'm doing it yet, but it feels weird…it feels like I deceived something that I am vaguely familiar with.'

'It is also much more convenient than apparition and Portkeys.'

Loki then activated his spirit vision and paid keen attention to the Niffler who appeared to be angry at having been stolen from.

Sunny's spirit body appeared to be covered in strange symbols which Loki recognised were combinations of different runes.

He had seen such a sight earlier in the year when he stole Cheek's ability to produce cursed black flames.

Each rune on Sunny's spirit body indicated a specific ability that Loki could steal and use.

With a simple swipe of his hand, Loki stole an ability from Sunny.

*Squeak* *Squeak* *Squeak?!?*

Sunny suddenly lost his ability to talk and looked at Loki indignantly with a frown on his face for being bullied like this.

"Can you hear me?" Loki asked, his lips not moving but his voice resonating inside the room.

Sunny's eyes went wide when he realised what Loki had done and began to launch a barrage of slaps on his arm.

Loki had stolen Sunny's ability to speak by vibrating his spirituality.

"I can't return it. It'll take a few minutes for your ability to speak to return, how about I give you two gold coins for causing you trouble." Loki said with a smile and tossed two galleons towards Sunny who opened his pouch and directly stuffed the coins into it.

'And my illusions seem to have gotten stronger again. I can fool Sunny into thinking that the coins I gave him were real.'

'They act almost exactly normal…but I'm sure pathways that could see spirit threads would easily be able to tell that mine were fake because they don't have them…'

'I wonder if I'll get the ability to see spirit threads eventually given how there's the Trojan Horse of Destiny that literally requires stealing fate and such…'

A smooth smile appeared on his face and Loki found himself in a good mood.

'What an amazing advancement. I can't wait to get to higher sequences.'

Loki then focused his spirit vision a little and suddenly as if shifting through layers of fabric he could see several blobs of light around himself and Sunny but that wasn't what surprised him the most since he'd seen souls earlier.

What surprised him were the veiny pathways that had appeared all around his body, it was as if someone had lit up his and Sunny's entire nervous system.

'These are my magic pathways?' Loki noticed.

He had the urge to look at Nicholas and Prenelle and examine the differences that way, but he stayed within reason and didn't do so out of fear of being caught.

For the last test of his abilities, Loki covered the Ring of Harvest in his spirituality and caused the runes on it to glow.

Suddenly, Loki could spot several mistakes and inefficient pathing of the runes on the ring, even after he had already edited it several times to make it more efficient and stronger.

'It seems like my ability to spot errors has also improved.'

'How nice! I guess this will help me immensely in making new mystical items.'

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