31 30. Persona.

Severus's POV

"* Puff* *Puff* 766"

"7.....767. *puff* Maybe I should increase the weight gradually."

I removed the weights on my back and stood up.

I dried off the sweat using magic and dematerialized the weight that I conjured to exercise.

Just like I thought, for the first time since that night, I had a peaceful night.

A night without nightmares plaguing me.

I closed my eyes and teleported into my shadow realm.

Teleporting myself in & out of my realm was much easier now. I didn't require shadows to enter the realm now, as long as I willed to enter it, I will be teleported into it.

It has been a month since I noticed how this realm or a dimension outside the ambient reality had its own set of rules.

This realm was bottomless, endless, cold, and reeked of the sensation of death.

A living person apart from me can never enter this realm, only the dead or the shadows can enter or be swallowed into this realm of eternal darkness.

I control every single thing inside, I can conjure any complex structures just with a mere thought inside here.

I summoned the letter I received from Tor and Flammel.

I opened Tor's letter.

"Greetings Mr. Prince,

I have written this letter to congratulate you on becoming the author of the best-selling book of this year. I have received multiple letters from different magical communities publishers asking permission to sell your book.

Color me impressed, that day when you first made the deal with me, I didn't think I would have made this much profit. I didn't think much of your book, but your work proved me wrong.

As you instructed, I gave rights to popular publishing houses around the world to sell your book and received some pretty good shares. I mean pretty good share, hehe.

I don't know how you anticipated the success of your book and international demand for it before you even pinned the idea to me. Well, I don't care how you knew since I am making a profit from it.

I had to fight off constant requests from various potion guilds for your identity, so I request you increase my pay, Mr. Prince since I have to face a lot of things both internationally and domestically, the workload has increased than I initially thought.

-TOR"

I shake my head as I read Tor's letter, "Pretty good he says, I am sure he sucked the publishers dry of their pockets"

I was confident about the success of my book from day one, the potions that were mentioned in it might not be new but I invented a new process for each potion which cost less in making and was less time-consuming.

For example, I made a process through which a potion that took 30 days to make can be made in just 2 days. This was the increase my book was ranking up in the sales.

It wasn't a book with some new potions, it was a treasure to many potioneer out there. That is why my book is being valued some much.

I purposely published the book under the alias of Half-Blood Prince since I wanted to create a persona before the war is truly over and I have substantial power in Wizarding communities around the world.

The book and potions that I invented would garner the recognition I require in my plans.

I choose to adopt this persona since I didn't want to bring attention to Severus Prince, while some may theories I might be related to Half-Blood Prince, no one would actually believe that I am the half-blood prince due to their own arrogance and I can pretty much lie even when I am under truth serum.

This persona can help me sink plans into international magical communities after I leave Hogwarts by next year.

Then there is the other persona, the leader of the League Of Shadows, which will remain unknown but would serve as the figure of fear.

These are two of many personas I will be wearing till the end of the Wizarding war. Until now, everything has gone according to my plans, just the merlin and these sorcerers weren't a part of it.

" Greeting TOR,

I am pleased with your work, so I will grant your wishes and increase the share of the profit you receive by 0.0001%, which I think would be still a good amount for the work you do.

Do you know anything about sorcerers? If you do, send me a detailed file on them.

I would like to know if you extend your services to the muggle world since I am interested in investing now.

-Half-Blood Prince"

I knew Goblins were more involved in muggles than wizards, it was known that Goblins recirculated the muggle currency that they received in the muggle world and some profit from it.

Next, I read Mr. Flamel's letter.

"Greeting Mr. Half Blood Prince,

Recently I had the pleasure of going through your full book that was recently released here in Paris. I am honestly shocked by the modification you did to these potions.

You sure made a storm in potioneer communities around the world. I have been working on some notes you sent, I can guarantee you that this potion you have made would surely take the wizarding community by another storm.

I have added some notes of my own, where you can make some adjustments to this potion.

I would like to invite you to my house, we have been communicating through letters for a month and a half.

It has been decades since I have had the pleasure of exchanging profound conversations on magic and the use of alchemy for crucial roles in the wizarding populace.

- N Flammel"

I have been exchanging letters with Mr. Flammel for quite a while now.

The potion he mentioned was a potion that work as a medicine for many diseases. Instead of different potions for different diseases caused by common reasons, this potion would act like a medicine and prevent the person from catching any of those diseases for at least two months.

I wrote back To Mr. Flamel,

"Greetings Mr. Flamel,

It is an honor that the immortal alchemist thinks highly of me. I would love to visit Paris and do research along with you but right now, I would have to decline, I hope you understand.

I am thankful for your insight on this potion and your other notes.

- Half-Blood Prince"

Other notes Mr. Flamel sent were about on healing potion I have been working on. Since my mutation allows me to retain the ability of the potion permanently, I started improving different healing potions and mixing them to create a potion that has the highest potency.

This potion had the effects of skull grow potion and other healing potions that had a specific function of healing.

The potion was still in the modification stage, I still need to increase its potency before I can take it.

I teleported back into my room after writing the letters.

I am finding staying at Hogwarts more useless as days go on, the only things that interest me here are the cursed vaults, Hogwarts castle, recruits, and of course Cissy & Lily.

Once I find all the cursed vaults I will leave Hogwarts, maybe take Cissy along with me if she is up for it.

I find myself smiling at the memory of the passionate night I spent with Cissy.

I closed my eyes and remembered the smell of the sweet aroma of her body, her curves, her eyes that were filled with love, her passionate kisses, and her moans, each second of the memory sent a bolt of desire down my body.

I cleared my head of the thoughts of that night and went out of the room to attend the classes.