020 - The Origin of BloodLines

Ivan was walking through the library holding his glowing wand, without the slightest intention of staying in the normal area, he walked straight to the restricted section.

"Guide to Advanced Transfiguration"..."Ancient Magic"..." Contemplating the art of Mind reading"...

Ivan's gaze flicked across the multiple rows of bookshelves, and the large number of banned books whose names looked exquisite made Ivan greedy, there were even books he had been longing for like the one on Occlumency and Dementors.

If it was possible, Ivan would have used hundreds of master learning experience cards to sit here for ten days and a half, and then his strength would have risen exponentially.

But in the end, Ivan resisted the temptation. He didn't have enough grade points to carry out such a task, plus there was a different reason he was here for today.

Following the numbered bookshelves in the restricted section, Ivan quickly found the twelfth column bookshelf on the seventh row, but it didn't seem to be any different than others. A large number of books were neatly arranged on the bookshelf, and the books were all piled up not leaving any gap.

Ivan even tried to try to find a secret tunnel hidden in the books but found nothing. Instead, he accidentally bumped a book about black magic on the ground.

Even though there was no wind in the Library, the pages of the book automatically turning up as if the book had its own consciousness. After a few pages were turned, billowing black mist emerged from the pages of the book. Ivan could faintly see a man's head with his mouth hung open, Screaming loudly!

Even though Ivan didn't hear any sound, his eardrums began to bulge, and his brain gradually became a little dizzy, as if someone was actually yelling in front of him.

The thick black fog started gathered more and more, and the head seemed to burst out of the book for a while...

Pop~

Ivan closed the book abruptly and flattened the conjured head back on the page. As the book was closed, the black fog disappeared.

"It's just a book, what the hell is it made up of?" Ivan rubbed his ears and gritted his teeth.

After collecting himself, Ivan finally gathered the courage to pick it up. The cover of the book read "The Decryption of Advanced Black Magic". The feel of the cover was obviously different from that of other books, and it felt a bit like touching someone's skin.

'Is this made of human skin?'

This thought flashed through Ivan's mind, and he was scared. Thinking of the painful appearance of the man's head just now, the authenticity of the statement could be possible.

Ivan glanced at the reward task in the system, and there was no change, indicating that the book had nothing to do with the reward, he had just accidentally touched it.

Ivan shoved "The Decryption of Advanced Black Magic" back in dejection. He was planning to find the hidden switch again when he noticed something, the bookshelf in front of him seemed to be a little different from just now.

one two three four five six?

Every bookshelf in the restricted section was exactly the same. Books were divided into six rows and seven columns. However, Ivan observed that the twelfth column of the bookshelf was obviously missing one.

What makes Ivan feel a little suspicious was that there was obviously a missing cabinet here, but the entire column of bookshelves was still neat and tidy as if space here was distorted.

"Someone used the Confundous Charm here? He used it to hide one of the cabinets."

Ivan squinted his eyes. He had checked this bookshelf many times a few moments ago, the only possibility that he didn't notice until now was that someone had set a Confundous Charm here, which affected his judgment and because of the screaming just now, the Confundous Charm was broken.

Even if he knew what the problem was, Ivan was still in a bind. After reading "Basic Principles of magic", he was able to figure out that something was hidden here and someone used the Confundus spell, but he knows too little magic. None of them can come in handy in this scenario.

Ivan had no choice but to use his mind to try to recall the books he had read, and accidentally remembered a spell that Snape used in the original book.

"Aparecium!" Ivan used the spell on the bookshelf.

He whispered the incantation of the revealing spell and, the entire bookshelf began to shake slightly. After a while, a tiny crack appeared in the middle of the twelfth column of bookshelves, it suddenly expanded, and a new bookcase appeared in front of Ivan's eyes.

The hidden bookshelf looked no different than others. It was filled with thick books, Ivan reached out and scanned these books one by one. When he encountered the last book, the system's prompt sounded.

[Ding, the reward has been received.]

The corners of Ivan's mouth twitched, but his heart was frantically complaining about the system.

'That's how you are going to distribute the rewards? If it wasn't for my luck, and wit, Merlin knows how long it would have taken! This broken system did not care about me at all!'

Ivan can't help but feel a little depressed, he remembered reading about how people would always get a caring system.

Although his thoughts were wandering around, Ivan was excited as he pulled the book out of the shelf. The cover of the book was slightly rough, with the words "Origin of Blood" printed on it, and the paper pages were slightly yellowed because of long-term preservation. As far as the book was concerned, it looked ancient.

Ivan found that this was another magic book that was not mentioned in the original series. Since this was a reward given by the system, Ivan looked through it thoroughly.

After reading a few pages, Ivan was a little disappointed to find that "The Origin of Bloodlines" was not a magic book that contained powerful spells as he imagined. On the contrary, it was like a history book, and it records before the previous Wizarding Wars.

At that time, the wizards did not dominate the entire magical world as they do now, they were even unable to enslave house elves, which were magical creatures with strong spell-casting abilities as adults.

On the contrary, compared to these magical creatures that were all born with powerful powers or innately strong bodies, human wizards were all really weak and pitiful. Only by relying on their numerical advantage, they managed to occupy a place in the magical world.

Fortunately, humans have always been tenacious creatures, some wizards choose to specialize in mastering magic to create more powerful spells and enhance their strength. Others focused their attention on quick methods...such as taking the power of those powerful magical creatures!

Some wizards who succeeded in the second method had their strength exponentially improved. Even more this power seeped into their bloodline so that the descendants of these wizards can also gain power quickly.

Although the power of the bloodline will gradually weaken due to bloodline dilution, this discovery was enough to make more wizards go crazy!

However, the risk of blood fusion was extremely high. Except for a few successful people, most wizards died miserably during the process of experimentation and fusion. Some lucky losers survived, but at the price of their humanity, they became monsters, cursed for generations, such as werewolves, vampires, etc.

There were even wizards who choose to breed more powerful and more suitable magical creatures to conduct blood fusion experiments to enhance their own power.

This reminded Ivan of the basilisk sleeping in the chamber of secret and the eight-eyed giant spider in the forbidden forest...

The most backward method was that some wizards found out ways to choose not-so-unacceptable magical creatures to establish friendship between their bloodline, hoping that their off-springs can gain the powers of the other party...