36 Azure Corn Potion

After 3 Weeks of brewing the Azure Corn Potion besides Lessons, it was finally complete. Matthew used 3 of his 4 vials of his low-grade magical essence and produced nine dosages of the Potion, which according to Sarah's Calculations should be enough to reach the peak of a First Rank Wizard, or in Wizarding World terms, he would be reaching the peak of a pre-OWL Student.

For the first time he would consume the potion he waited for the weekend, so he would have enough time to figure out a solution if any problems should occur. He couldn't go to Professor Snape to test his Potion, this was something he didn't want to share with anyone since either such Potions didn't exist in the Wizarding World, he at least never heard in the Books or Movies of it, or it was Family magic, probably one of the greatest secrets of old Pureblood Families to secure their superiority. If he asked Professor Snape for Guidance, Dumbledore would definitely learn of the Potion, although Dumbledore was a good person, he wasn't sure what kind of crazy ideas he would come up with, for the greater good.

He could just force me to give him the Formula so he could help Harry become stronger, or he could even share it with all the students, which would force a huge target on Matthew. The Purebloods would focus their anger on the creator, who they also could see as a danger to them. Or even worse he could just oblivate Matthew and keep a close eye on him, so he wouldn't become a dark lord or cause more conflict between the Purebloods and the rest of the Population. All of these were real possibilities since Dumbledore was a good character but perceived in such a way, that in Matthew's past life they created theories and Fanfictions that he was some kind of Dark Lord or gone crazy with his greater good that he would do anything for it.

Letting Snape check out the Potion was out of the question, he had to trust in Sarah's absolute efficient and logical algorithms that everything was working correctly, even in magic.

On Friday afternoon after his classes and the study session with the first-year Ravenclaw Students, he left the Common Room and secretly sneaked through Hogwarts until he reached the Room of Requirements. Before the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy where he teaches trolls ballet. He walked three time times up and down the opposite wall while wishing for a room where he could safely consume the Azure Corn Potion.

He entered the room as the door appeared on the wall, inside he found a wide room with a comfy bed, a burning fireplace, some chairs, and a table. Matthew took the Potion out of his trunk and observed it. It was an azure-blue glowing potion, in a lighter color than the magical essence which was dark-blue.

Sitting down on the bed, he gathered all his resolve and gulped the Azure Corn Potion down all at once. In the first few minutes, he felt nothing, but suddenly a warm feeling spread through his whole body, into all of his limbs. The warmth became warmer and warmer until it started to burn. His blood felt as if it was burning out his veins, for a moment he thought someone cursed him with the blood-boiling curse. Until he heard through his Pain, Sarah's familiar voice inside his mind.

[Beep! Registering an abrupt rise in host magical energy levels. Calculation in process: 36.6 … 37.0 … 37.4 … 38.3 … still rising. 39.8…] [Beep! Warning! Hosts cells reaching critical damage threshold.] [Beep! The magical Energy level is stabilizing. Registering new Magical Energy Level.]

'Fuuck. That hurt like hell. I hope it was at least worth it. Sarah please scan my Body and show me my new Status.' Requested Matthew while trying to recover from the immense pain.

[Beep! Hosts Body scanned. Displaying new Status.] [Matthew Mason, Wizard(Rank 1), Strength: 1.9, Agility: 2.0, Vitality: 2.0 (0.8], Magical Energy: 44.2 Status: Body damaged on a cellular level. Recommending immediately taking some Health Potions to assist the Body natural recovery rate and starting to rest.]

'Well, that's a nice rise in magical energy, whole 7.8 units with only one potion. I still have another seven, although the Potion will be less effective after each time consuming it. But to reach the magical energy limit of 80 that a pre-OWL student has before Maturing is absolutely possible.' Concluded Matthew, while taking some Healing Potions that he had on stock out of his trunk. 'Blergh. Be it magical or non-magical Medicine always tastes horrible.' Complained Matthew, while drinking his Potions.

Afterward, he changed into his sleeping clothes and entered the comfortable-looking bed, and closed his eyes. While his whole body hurt, he slowly fell asleep. His damaged body needed all the rest it could possibly get.

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Matthew woke on Saturday late in the afternoon up, he slept through the whole night and the morning like a stone. After resting he packed his stuff into the trunk and left the Room of Requirments for the Kitchen, where he got fed by a flock of worried House-elves.

Afterward, he returned to the Ravenclaw Tower, where he pretended as if everything was ok. But Cho at least must have seen that he was hurt since she looked at him with worried eyes.

"What happened to you?" she asked silently with worry in her voice.

"Nothing, no need to worry. It's just a side effect of a training exercise I had to do. It will be healed after a few days." Explained Matthew without sharing any details.

"I hope so! If not I will drag you myself to the medical wing and let Madame Pomfrey check you thoroughly." She replied with conviction in her eyes. While starring at him.

"Ok, ok. No need to trouble Madame Pomfrey. Everything is fine." Replied Matthew while joining his friends, he rested the rest of the day with them. Until he turned early into sleep.

The Next Seven Weeks passed similarly, he consumed one potion every weekend to use the most out of his time. During the weeks he couldn't do much since his body was strained the whole time and always needed time to rest. He only practiced magic during class, in his free time he spent more time with his friends or experimented with different kinds of potions and ingredients.

By the blink of an eye, the weeks passed and he finally consumed the last potion, he already endured the pain without any troubles at this point. The last potion only raised his magical energy by 3.3 points. But these few points finally should have helped him to reach the limit of a rank One Magus or pre-OWL Students.

'Sarah please scan my new Body and display my new Status.' He requested from the AI Chip.

[Beep! Stats calculated. Displaying new status.] [Matthew Mason, Wizard(Rank 1), Strength: 2.0, Agility: 2.2, Vitality: 2.4 (1.5), Magical Energy: 81.1, Status: Damaged. Recommended Action: Rest for the next few days.]

'Yes finally. Now I only need to train and grow normally in the next few months, a spiritual maturity should happen naturally. Huh, it seems the damage from the potion helped to train my Vitality. It grew as fast as never before. But I am no masochist, so no training through pain. Since at some point it would also reach the limit naturally. I still need to find a way to surpass the limits of my body.' Mused Matthew while returning to the Ravenclaw Common Room to rest for the night.

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