Chapter 72: Summer Vacation (Edited)

[Dungeon Mission: Kingdom War].

Tom looked down the familiar hallway ahead of him, which seemed like a lifetime ago. Only the beeping of the system in his head and the vague ache in his body proved that he had just been through a bloody battle.

Standing in the corridors of Hogwarts, Tom felt a strong sense of unreality and a feeling of listlessness. He wanted to know what would happen to that commander, what would happen after that battle, what would be the future of that nation...

Unfortunately, he could not see it, the dungeon was over, and his hands touched the helmet again, but there was no response, the helmet had become an ordinary artifact.

Tom leaned against the wall and slowly sat up. Although the dungeon had done him no harm, mental exhaustion was inevitable and, for psychological reasons, Tom felt pain in some parts of his body.

It took some time to recover. He clicked on his system and claimed the reward for the mission.

[Reward for dungeon].

[Reward: Boggart's ring square upgrade]

[Reward: Magic Stones Obtained: 1920]

Tom pondered for a moment and asked the system a question, "System, is what I have experienced a real event in history?"

"Yes, and no."

Tom: "..."

What is it with this system and the riddle?

He didn't want to dwell on this dungeon, but he had received his reward anyway. He had more important things to do.

He asked the system to upgrade the undead bird square in his ring, and the system agreed.

[Improved undead bird trait! Traveler - Immortal bird form gains Nirvana ability]

Seeing his new ability, Tom smiled happily, but then thought of something else: Fawkes' Nirvana was to turn to ashes and then be reborn as a young bird. If he died and was reborn from ashes, would he also be reborn as a baby? If so, that was a bit of a problem.

He leaned against the wall, smoothed out his clothes, and went back to the Common Room. He wanted to take a nice hot bath to get rid of his mental fatigue.

"The rewards in this dungeon are quite generous." This was Tom's opinion of the dungeon. Not to mention the ring upgrade at the end of the dungeon, but the key was that he got 1,920 magic stones for the dungeon! Next time - if there is a next time - you can get more magic stones if you are more skilled.

1,920 stones, that equals ten consecutive draws and two individual draws. Before getting the monthly card, Tom needed almost 50 days to save such an amount, and even if he got the monthly card, it would take him half a month.

It's not easy to get magic stones!

Looking at his balance of [32,240], Tom sighed.

In his last remaining time at school, Tom had also upgraded his quill, converting it from Refinement 2 to Refinement 3, and changing the text: [Quill (Five Star - Refinement 3): a quill that can write without ink, corrects mistakes with the user's knowledge, requires Divination talent to use].

"That's interesting," Tom said, looking at the updated information, and felt that this pen was no longer useless. Refinement pen two could automatically correct errors, while refinement pen three could automatically correct errors, provided, of course, the user had the knowledge to do so.

For example, Tom cannot write a sentence like "the nine planets of the solar system" with this pen because he knows that Pluto is going to be demoted. If the media in Europe and the United States used this pen to write articles, they would all be out of a job. Of course, the pen won't save you if you are really uneducated: because there really are a lot of Americans who think Africa is a country....

...

Like magic,

Students' lockers were emptied, all luggage was stuffed into suitcases, and notices were handed out not to do magic during the vacations: the old double standard, which students from wizarding families could use to wipe their backsides and young wizards from Muggle families had to dutifully follow.

This prohibition, which has always existed, has been quietly broken by most wizards, a bit like science on the internet. Most witches consider this ban to be unreasonable, that if they can't use magic during the vacations, then they can't practice the spells they have learned... Is a witch who can't use magic really a witch?

So adult wizards have always turned a blind eye to their children secretly using magic during their vacations. In the Weasley household, for example, Fred and George's pranks were clearly not created without wands.

However, young wizards from Muggle families could take advantage of the situation by finding a temporary home with a friend from a magical family or by moving to Diagon Alley. Harry, for example, could use magic when he moved in with the Weasleys, or during the time he lived in Diagon Alley, he could use magic.

The fundamental purpose of the ban was not to prohibit underage wizards from using magic, but to prohibit underage wizards from using magic without the supervision of an adult wizard.

Tom took the notice with mixed feelings and boarded the boat with Hermione, carrying her suitcase; the freshmen would also take the boat across the Black Lake when they left school.

By eleven o'clock noon, they were on the Hogwarts Express to London.

Before the train got underway, Harry, Ron, and Neville carried a large bag of sandwiches to Tom and Hermione's compartment, where the five of them squeezed into a compartment, eating, drinking, and laughing all the way.

Tom told them over and over again about the exciting adventure under the trapdoor, to the amazement of the three: they couldn't believe that Snape wasn't the villain!

Finally, the train stopped at King's Cross station, on Platform 9, and the young wizards exited the platform, bit by bit, under the direction of Ministry of Magic employees. The Ministry of Magic had posted guards at the exits, allowing only two or three people through at a time, so as not to draw Muggle attention to a large group of people exiting one wall at a time.

In Tom's opinion, this was an unreasonable design. Why not pay for a convenience store at the train station? If that doesn't work, you can join McDonald's and then use the restrooms.

At McDonald's near train stations overseas, you can't use the restrooms, you have to order food at the counter and get a code that you have to enter to open the door.

Little wizards can give a code when they order at the counter, get a special code, and then enter the correct code to get to platform 9. And to avoid escapes, they can also do what the walls of the Leaky Cauldron do, and in one of the cubicles in the restrooms, tap a specific tile with their wand to teleport.

It's not flashy, and after all, many people take their luggage to the bathroom at the station, so no one will mind.