18 Chapter 15
Outside, hidden from the outside world by the veil of an invisibility cloak, a pallid frail man in tattered black robes watched him with hungry eyes.
That night, as his punishment, Harry's uncle had told him that he was to have no dinner. However, having learned some seriously world altering truths throughout the course of the last few days, Harry was in no mood to listen to their self-aggrandizing drivel. He promptly flipped them off from under the kitchen counter, stole most of the dinner leftovers by stuffing them into his inventory, and just because he was feeling extra vengeful towards his Aunt for lying to him about his mother, polished their silverware with his own spit.
Judging that to be enough revenge for the one night, Harry went and shut himself in his cupboard. He had no plans to sleep that night.
He had a stone to find after all.
That night, it was time to test out his new Apparation skill. Focusing long and hard on the Dursley garden, and just like he had done with all his magic till then, focusing incredibly hard on his desire to make the Apparation happen, he drew on his mana.
Feeling his mana slowly envelope his body, Harry turned on his spot just like he had seen those wizards do, and hoping to all heavens that he would stay silent, apparated.
If Harry felt that it was slower this time, and even somewhat a bit more comfortable, he was right. Picking up on his desire for silence, his magic had deliberately slowed his apparition down.
When apparating, a wizard left behind him a vacuum of space unoccupied by air. Hence, when the process happened incredibly fast, there would be a bunch of air rushing into the space, trying to fill in the vacated space, and much like in the case of Muggle Fighter Jets, cause a loud pop similar to a localized sonic boom.
Furthermore, in a vacuum, there would be no air pressure to counter human blood pressure, which was the reason why the wizard's blood pressure would try to burst him open like an astronaut without a spacesuit in space.
Summed up, all that would make for a rather painful ride.
However, Harry's slow apparition allowed air to slowly take over the space he vacated, thus removing the sound and the vacuum attributes of normal apparition, making his ride a much quieter and smoother one.
Thus, it was hardly surprising that once Harry landed, he immediately heard a ping.
Ping!
Due to constant usage skill has evolved!
Silent Apparition Lv-2 (64%)
Destination, Determination and Deliberation. Apparition is a magical method of transportation and is basically the magical action of traveling by having the user focus on a desired location in their mind. It is by far the fastest way to get to one's desired destination, but is tricky to pull off correctly and disastrous if botched up.
Cost-70 MP per use
'Bloody Hell!' Harry couldn't help but curse under his breath. His Gamer's Mind abilities were working in conjunction to boost his learning speed like all hell. This apparition jump had not only turned his apparition silent and leveled it up, but it had also decreased the amount of mana it used!
After a moment of gaping, Harry waved it away and started searching for the cause of his fainting again, this time taking a different approach.
Magic.
If the stone was magic and he was magic, then maybe he could…summon it? The logic behind it was iffy, but the logic behind his entire life had been blown to trash since the last few days, so it was worth a try.
He tried Accidental magic, but it didn't quite work as well as expected, so Harry decided that maybe spells were what he needed to give his magic that extra boost.
"Whoosh" Harry whispered as he tried to use his mana to pull the stone out of hiding.
"Come to me you thingamajigger!"
"Alakazam!"
"Accidentalus magickus!"
"Wiggle wiggle wiggle!"
Unfortunately, Harry's attempts at finding some sort of secret summoning spell were unsuccessful, and soon he was forced to resort back to scrounging through the bushes and grass hoping for some clues.
As he was just about to give up, his eyes caught sight of the pile of grass and leaves that sat unassumingly near the back fence of the garden.
Near instantly, his Gamer's Mind made a set of connections in a truly Sherlockian fashion.
Once he'd have passed out on Sunday, his Aunt would've probably been the first one to find him. She would've certainly seen him holding on to or touching the stone, and either afraid or repulsed as usual by anything unusual, she would've tossed it into a nearby pile of garbage. A pile of garbage that hadn't yet been cleaned up, since he hadn't been there since the last few days.
It was scary how much his relatives depended on him just to maintain a normal living standard.
Emboldened by his new theory, he renewed his search efforts, starting with the trash bin in front of the house. Not finding anything there, he turned to the leaf pile near the back of the garden. After ruffling through it for a while, he finally struck gold.
His hand brushed again onto a smooth surface, and Harry's vision suddenly flashed red. He panicked for a moment, afraid that he was going to pass out again, until he realized that his mana wasn't falling.
Warily, he looked at what he was touching.
It was the same stone he remembered, except now he sort of recognized that the squiggly lines as some of the runes he had read about in the book 'Ancient Languages of the Rare Kind'. He used observe on it.
Lily Potter's Blood Wardstone
Mana : 5,000,000/5,000,000
Ancient wardstone modified to use Lily Potter's blood to protect those bearing her blood. Center and anchor of Surrey wards. Multiplies supplied power by 50,000 to support the protective spells anchored to it.
Choose one of the following perks.
Forever protected : You will gain a permanent private ward, giving you Home turf boost
Home Sweet Home : Number 4 Privet Drive will gain a permanent ward, protecting it from any adverse influences until you turn 17.
Current Choice: Home Sweet Home
"Mother of God!" Harry muttered, eyes wide as tennis balls as he looked at the wildly large amount of mana stored in that stone.
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