Chapter 24: Experiment of Love
"First experiment!"
"Lily Potter!" Alexander called out, picturing Lily's wedding photos vividly in his mind.
A strange, regretful magic surged toward the fractured dummy — the one he had decapitated earlier using Sectumsempra from the White Knight. The black magic lingering around the wound receded like a tide.
"Time: 3 seconds."
Alexander used Sectumsempra again and beheaded the dummy once more.
"Second experiment!"
"Lily Evans!" This time, Alexander conjured the image of Lily from her elementary school days.
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"2 seconds."
Alexander suddenly thought of something amusing and couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile.
He aimed again, decapitating the dummy a third time with the same power.
"Lily Prince!" — This time, envisioning Lily marrying an adult version of Snape.
The surge of magic that erupted was powerful — a mixture of regret and bittersweet joy. Miraculously, the dummy's severed head and body automatically reattached as if alive.
"Not even one second!"
Although Sectumsempra's counter-curse naturally possessed healing properties — similar to when Snape once reversed its venom on Draco by singing the full version of the spell — this level of restoration was astounding. Not only did it stop the bleeding like white blood magic, but it fully repaired the severed parts.
In this world, emotions are the strongest fuel for magic.
Alexander thought, Could it be that Voldemort, unable to feel love, chose a path filled with pain, fear, death, and other negative emotions to fuel his magic instead?
Maybe he himself was the embodiment of those darker sides.
From these three experiments, Alexander concluded: the less connected Lily was to James Potter, the stronger the counter-curse effect became.
Especially when imagining Lily Prince — a version Alexander favored greatly — the result was simply amazing.
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Meanwhile, on Alexander's panel:
Race: Wizard
Strength: 18 (Normal human limit: 10)
Constitution: 31 (Normal human limit: 10)
Magic Power: 26 (Normal human limit: 10)
Skills:
Thought lv.4 (3%)
Body Modification lv.3 (93%)
Alchemy lv.3 (17%)
Charms lv.4 (32%)
Potions lv.2 (15%)
Transfiguration lv.3 (7%)
Gunfighting lv.3 (5%)
Martial Arts lv.2 (25%)
Scouting lv.2 (63%)
Phoenix Incarnation lv.1 (79%)
Mind Communication lv.1 (89%)
Charms: Sectumsempra lv5 → lv6 ↑
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Unexpectedly, Sectumsempra was Alexander's first skill to reach level 6 — a level even its inventor might never have achieved.
After all, Sectumsempra was tied to painful memories for Snape. No wonder, in the seventh book, Snape accidentally wounded George's ear with it.
Compared to Avada Kedavra — which Alexander preferred to call the Death Curse — currently only at level 4, Sectumsempra felt like a sharper, more flexible weapon.
Combined with Alexander's high mobility, it was a deadly match.
"Today… let's indulge a little."
Taking a deep breath from a pipe lit with phoenix feathers, Alexander felt his Phoenix Incarnation skill's proficiency swell greatly.
This method came from an unknown notebook of Helbo's. Although it consumed many materials, it accelerated the Phoenix skill's growth dramatically.
Normally, training the Phoenix Incarnation required repeatedly summoning the avatar — which meant burning large quantities of precious phoenix feathers.
Now, by using an incense burner to slowly inhale the magic from tiny feather fragments — carefully lit using Gubler's Fairy Fire — Alexander could improve steadily without waste.
Of course, this wasn't ordinary smoking. Lighting phoenix feathers normally would be wasteful and choking.
Fairy Fire — also called the Eternal Fire — was crucial. It was a rare enchanted flame that burned forever.
Creating Gubler's Fairy Fire was a very high-level spell, typically unreachable until a wizard mastered magic at level 5 or beyond.
Even at Hogwarts, it was considered too advanced to teach.
Only Dumbledore was known to use it, probably due to his bond with the phoenix and the Elder Wand.
In fact, in Book Five, Hagrid once carried a piece of Fairy Fire as a gift for the giants. The flame alone almost swayed them. Only Voldemort's brutal interference ruined the chance.
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Interestingly, the Smith family once owned such a fire, but one clan leader long ago traded it to the Goblin Kingdom in exchange for their secret silvercraft techniques — an exchange both precious and tragic.
Since then, no Smith descendant had recreated Fairy Fire. Not from lack of effort — but because few had the talent, or the patience.
Why not store Fairy Fire in advance?
Because, unlike Fiendfyre which grows wildly by burning, Fairy Fire's quantity is fixed once made. There is no way to increase it.
Even worse, a wizard could only create one Fairy Fire in a lifetime. After crafting one, a wizard must either wait a very long time or change their methods entirely to create another.
Alexander, however, discovered something others missed.
Through his system panel and extraordinary talent, he realized:
The "one fire" limit wasn't an unbreakable curse. It was a flaw in methodology.
If the incantation and gestures were slightly altered the second time, another fire could indeed be made without waiting years.
Because Fairy Fire is born not only from the wizard's will — but also from resonance with the world around them.
To have another "child," one must change the song, or else wait for the world to forget the first.
And Alexander?
With his panel and unique magic system, he was already walking a path no other wizard had ever walked.
(End of Chapter)
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