Chapter 109: Pet Space Suitcase! System, You...
"Young man, you're really to my liking!"
Florean chuckled heartily, "This sundae is on the house for you!"
Dylan blinked. "Then thank you very much. Also—can I get another one to take away?"
Florean was taken aback, then burst into another hearty laugh.
"Of course, no problem!"
"No problem at all? Aren't you making any money?"
"Making money is secondary. Anyway, there will always be wizards bringing their children here to spend money—I certainly won't give them freebies."
Florean winked at Dylan.
Dylan scooped another spoonful of ice cream into his mouth.
"I didn't expect pure-blood wizard children to like cold drinks too."
"I don't like the way you said that. Pure-blood wizards also have the right to choose what they like—they're not emotionless gods."
Dylan nodded. "You're right, I was being presumptuous."
Florean changed the subject. "But some pure-blood wizards even act so arrogant when eating ice cream—I usually give their kids a smaller scoop so they'll buy another cup from me."
Dylan pursed his lips. "You're really honest..."
Florean chuckled. "That's just my personality. As an excellent Hogwarts student, have you been taught by Snape? —I mean privately."
"He especially loved eating my ice cream when he was a kid, but he hasn't come back even once since he grew up."
Florean muttered, "I should have known not to let him eat so much for free back then."
Dylan's eyes widened slightly. "Professor Snape also likes your ice cream?"
"Of course!" Florean said proudly, "He's the Potions Master at Hogwarts now, tsk tsk, quite young and promising!"
Dylan took a bite of the ice cream, the coldness making him feel comfortable.
Unexpectedly learning a little gossip about Snape made him even happier.
—When he returned to school, he would have many things to talk about with Professor Snape.
"Professor Snape also teaches me how to brew potions. Under his guidance, I've learned a lot of knowledge."
"Oh! It seems those little wizards were right. You are indeed a little wizard who can win the favor of the professors."
Dylan subtly guided the conversation. "It seems most of the professors don't have much of an opinion about me, except for some professors I'm not very familiar with, like the one who teaches History of Magic."
"Hahahaha! You mean Professor Binns? He's always like that, but if you can get on his good side, you can occasionally learn some historical secrets from him."
"—That sounds quite interesting."
Dylan raised an eyebrow. "It sounds like you're quite knowledgeable about history."
Florean smiled. "I just have some understanding of the witch hunts in the Middle Ages."
Dylan blinked curiously. "The Middle Ages? When I was a Muggle, I heard some legends, like the hunting of witches."
"Were they all true?"
"Half true, half false,"
Florean waved his hand.
"Do you want to learn about that period of history?"
"I'm a bit interested. If you're willing to talk about it, I'd be happy to listen."
Florean immediately became interested and pulled up a stool. "Actually, a long time ago, the magical world wasn't as well-hidden as it is now."
"The Muggles at the time were full of fear and misunderstanding of wizards, and they hunted us everywhere. As mentioned in A History of Magic, the witch hunts reached their peak in the 14th century."
Dylan had read this book thoroughly and naturally knew what Florean was talking about.
However, he was more interested in hearing what historical details the other person could tell him.
"And then? For example, how did they identify witches?"
Florean shook his head. "There were many methods, and they were all ridiculous."
"Some Muggles would throw people into the water. If they sank, they were ordinary people. If they floated, they would be considered witches and burned to death."
"Others would use so-called magical items, such as stones that were said to be able to identify witches—but they were actually just tricks."
"You know, wizards are also human. Sometimes, if wizards were too careless, they might be persecuted by those Muggles, but overall, most wizards could hide themselves very well."
Dylan nodded. "So how did the wizards resist back then?"
"Hiding, mostly. I mean, most of the time."
Florean shrugged. "Wizards could use magic to fake their deaths, and in fact, there weren't any real large-scale wars or conflicts between Muggles and wizards."
"A large part of the people they executed were just ordinary people."
"It was quite easy for wizards to hide."
"For example, Isolt Sayre—you know who she is, right?"
Dylan nodded. "One of the founders of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in America."
"That's right, she went to America during the most rampant witch hunts in Europe."
"Besides that, many wizards also chose to directly use magic to hide their whereabouts."
"It wasn't until the Ministry of Magic issued the International Statute of Secrecy, completely separating the magical world from the Muggle world, that the so-called witch hunts slowly subsided."
Dylan nodded. "A very interesting story, but it's not much different from what Professor Binns teaches."
Florean paused, then burst into laughter.
"Looks like I need to improve my storytelling skills."
Seeing that Dylan's sundae was almost finished, he scooped another one for him.
"You can take this one to eat later."
Dylan also stood up, took the new chocolate raspberry sundae. "Actually, I wanted to try a different flavor, but this is fine too."
Florean blinked twice. "Come visit often in the future. I have a feeling we'll become good friends."
"I'll come to patronize your business often," Dylan smiled, then left with the packed sundae.
After going out, he saw a few Aurors patrolling back and forth on the street, but Dylan didn't pay any attention to them at all, just walking on his own.
"Probably because it was the first time we met, he seemed to say a lot, but actually didn't say anything at all."
Dylan shrugged. "I'll come a few more times in the future."
Mr. Fortescue was a really nice person. It was a pity that he was later captured by Voldemort and died tragically at his hands.
—Then he wouldn't be able to eat free and delicious ice cream anymore.
"So, if I run into little Voldy again in the future, I'll have to give him a good lecture, and by the way, spread my names of Karthus and the Fool."
Leaving Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Dylan ran to Quality Quidditch Supplies and bought ten Nimbus 2000s, which he could give away as gifts for birthdays or other occasions in the future.
Afterward, he went on a shopping spree in Diagon Alley.
Especially all kinds of magic books, as well as weeklies, monthlies, and annuals...
He bought them all.
It wasn't until he had spent a full ten thousand Galleons that Dylan stopped.
"Writing letters to mail-order purchases didn't even count towards achievements. This time I personally came shopping and spent so much money in one go, it should light up quite a few achievements, right?"
In fact, when he bought things at school, it wasn't as if he didn't unlock any achievements at all.
At least there was one achievement called [Just Love Buying Things Online, So What?] which rewarded him with a hundred Galleons.
"I haven't checked achievement rewards for a while. Let me find a place to sit down and take a good look."
Generally speaking, Dylan would check his achievements in batches every once in a while.
This was his experience.
After all, previously, doing almost anything would trigger an achievement, but the rewards were either insignificant materials or pitiful coin rewards.
If they popped up continuously, it would significantly affect Dylan's usual classes and studies.
Therefore, Dylan would basically keep the achievement notifications turned off.
Then, after a period of time, he would extract all the rewards at once.
So, since he received another max-level advanced spell last time, Dylan hadn't checked any newly achieved achievements until now.
He walked into a dessert shop, ordered a small cake, and sat down at a small table, eating while checking the system panel.
When Dylan clicked on the magic scroll icon.
A series of achievements popped up.
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[Achievement]: I Just Love Spending Money Too Much
[Description]: I have a little money, I have to spend it! It really makes me uncomfortable if I don't spend it!
[Unlock Requirement]: Personally spend ten thousand gold Galleons (10000/10000)
[Achievement Reward]: Pet Space Suitcase
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"Oh? A suitcase? But what does it have to do with pet space?"
Dylan looked at the system prompt, slightly taken aback.
He didn't expect that spending ten thousand Galleons in one go would reward him with a suitcase, but it was related to pet space... Could it be a suitcase that could connect to pet space?
The image of Newt's magical creature case immediately popped into Dylan's mind.
That is, Newt Scamander's case.
The latter's magical creature case was unlike the usual pockets enchanted with the Undetectable Extension Charm.
Because it could also hold living creatures, and even simulate environments. Whether it was a swamp, a snowy field... all kinds of ecosystems were available. It could even be considered another small world.
Magical creatures could live freely and comfortably within it.
Simply using the Undetectable Extension Charm obviously couldn't achieve this.
In addition, it must involve a series of complex magical spells to assist, along with various precious materials, to create such a magical creature containment case.
And his...
Dylan directly extracted the achievement reward into the inventory of the system panel.
It was immediately successful.
"It actually works?"
According to Dylan's guess, this suitcase might be connected to his pet space, which meant it might contain living creatures.
However, even so, the inventory of the system panel still recorded it...
He couldn't help but quickly check the system description of the suitcase.
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[Item]: Pet Space Suitcase
[Description]: From now on, whether it's pet #3, #4, #5, or #6, you can raise them all here. Happy, right?
[Abilities]: Space Connection, Space Expansion, Internal Ecosystem Self-Circulation (To Be Unlocked), Pet Location and Summoning (To Be Unlocked), Ecological Environment (To Be Unlocked)...
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Dylan's eyes lit up when he saw that the suitcase had several abilities.
But when he looked closely, he found that apart from the two unlocked abilities, all the others were in a gray, locked state.
"...?"
Dylan almost rolled his eyes to the heavens.
"You already gave me the reward, but now you're telling me you only gave me half of it? Are all the abilities to be unlocked later obtained through achievements? How am I supposed to know what achievements can unlock these abilities???"
Dylan was a bit angry.
But suddenly, he noticed something.
"Hmm? These locked abilities seem to be clickable..."
Dylan tried it, and it really opened a new system prompt box for a locked ability.
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[Ability to Be Unlocked]: Internal Ecosystem Self-Circulation
[Price to Unlock]: 1,000,000 Gold Galleons
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?
The system prompt that suddenly popped up in front of him made Dylan's gaze become somewhat dazed.
Especially that string of zeros, it made his eyes spin.
How, how much??
"One, ten, hundred, thousand... million?!"
One million???
"Are you really planning to make me short-sell Gringotts?"
Through the previous beautification of the wizard robes, including unlocking the advanced spell refinement missions, Dylan knew that this system would rip him off.
But he couldn't believe that this system was so good at ripping people off!!
"One ability, you want a million Galleons from me, isn't that a bit too much? I might as well spend money to have someone directly build me a magical creature containment case!"
Dylan found that the details of the abilities to be unlocked could also be viewed, and he angrily clicked on it.
"I want to see what kind of ability this is that's worth so much money!"
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[Internal Ecosystem Self-Circulation]: No matter how many ecological environments you unlock, they can be perfectly integrated and naturally transitioned, ensuring that there will be no conflict between ecosystems, regulating the climate, and ensuring the water cycle of the entire ecosystem, etc.
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After reading the description of this ability, Dylan couldn't help but fall silent.
After a moment, he muttered softly in his heart, "It's just an ecological cycle ability, I still don't think it's worth a million!"
Moreover, the ecological environment still needed to be unlocked...
Dylan felt a bit of a headache, as if his dad had flicked his forehead ten times.
"I think you're really money-crazy..."
Dylan sighed deeply in his heart.
He had no way to deal with such a greedy system.
However, since each ecosystem had to be unlocked independently by him, then this ecosystem cycle was actually very important.
—Dylan seriously suspected that without the self-circulating ecosystem, causing the ecological environment he unlocked to collapse, he might have to spend money again to unlock it.
—Maybe even have to spend money to eliminate the impact of the collapsed ecological environment before he could spend money again to unlock and build a new ecological environment.
Dylan felt that this was quite likely to happen.
"But that's a million..."
Dylan thought for a while, experimented, and found that besides Galleons, he could also use pounds to exchange for abilities.
However...
"Ten million pounds?? Isn't that the same as robbery?!"
Dylan closed his eyes, not wanting to open them and see the system's charging prompts.
After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Perhaps, it's time to make my name of Karthus resound throughout the wizarding world."
Just one ability in a pet case dared to ask him for a million Galleons directly.
Dylan couldn't even imagine what price he would have to pay for other abilities, including items he might obtain in the future.
Relying solely on his parents' efforts.
Even if they worked their whole lives, they might not be able to afford him!
"Then let others work hard, and I'll just rob them."
Thinking of the forty thousand Galleons he had knocked... earned from Mr. Borgin today, Dylan felt that this matter should be very promising.
"Hmm, that's decided then."
Dylan didn't dare to look at the other locked abilities anymore.
Because the internal ecosystem self-circulation ability was placed first among the locked abilities by the system, the system's meaning was also very clear—
That was to make him quickly unlock this ability first!
Otherwise, all other abilities would be useless!
Taking a deep breath, Dylan looked at the two abilities that were already unlocked.
The two most basic abilities.
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[Space Connection]: Your Pet Space Suitcase is connected to your Pet Space. Your pets can travel between the two at any time.
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"Just connection, is there no option to close the passage?"
As soon as Dylan's thought emerged, a locked ability popped up in front of him.
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[Ability to Be Unlocked]: Autonomous Closure of Space Channel
[Price to Unlock]: 100,000 Gold Galleons
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"...You win."
The system's heart was too cold, he didn't dare to touch it.
Then, Dylan looked at the next unlocked ability.
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[Space Expansion]: The space of the suitcase can always accommodate your pets. Your pets will never feel crowded.
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"That's it?"
Dylan suddenly realized something and quickly looked at the basic space size of the suitcase.
"One hundred thousand cubic meters... not bad, not bad."
Dylan breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed that wanting to make the suitcase's space larger would probably still require spending money to unlock it.
But for now, one hundred thousand cubic meters was barely enough to accommodate his two pets.
In fact, it was more than enough.
Even when Norbert grew up later, it would be enough for his daily activities, just not enough for unrestrained free flight.
"But there isn't even an ecological environment now, what's the point of flying?"
(End of chapter)
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