Although Gellert Grindelwald had not touched a wand for over forty years, when he cast magic once again, its power was no different from the days of old!
Standing to the side, Albus Dumbledore's face showed a complex expression. This breathtaking scene happening before his eyes felt as if time had reversed for an instant, returning to that glorious era that belonged to them.
Recalling the catastrophe of Gellert setting fire to Paris back then, although he hadn't been present, he had heard about the thrilling scene from his 'favorite' student.
It was said that the fire burned so fiercely it nearly swallowed the entire city of Paris; faced with such a terrifying disaster, many elite Wizards had to gather and collectively cast a powerful Finite Incantatem just to barely withstand the spread of the flames.
Adelaide, who had also witnessed the Blue Fire Swan, couldn't help but widen her eyes in amazement, then quickly exchanged a meaningful look with her Great-Granduncle beside her.
Adelaide turned to Dumbledore and said firmly, "Mr. Dumbledore, in order to master this powerful spell as quickly as possible, I hope to come here and practice intently every Saturday and Sunday when there are no Quidditch matches."
Hearing this, Dumbledore blinked and glanced sideways at Gellert Grindelwald, who was half-sitting on the bed. This Dark Wizard, who had just displayed such powerful magic, now looked weak enough to die again.
"Cough, cough, Albus, with this body of mine, I don't know how much longer I have to live. Since Adelaide has the talent to inherit the magic I created, let her learn it as quickly as possible."
Dumbledore curled his lip. Gellert's 'illness' was truly flexible; despite a massive loss of magic, he still had the ability to intercept and cast a variant Fiendfyre!
With his wisdom, he naturally saw through the little schemes in the hearts of these two Grindelwald drama queens.
However, after some careful consideration, Dumbledore found that the mountain of school affairs from before had mostly been dealt with. The mole hidden inside Hogwarts had been successfully removed, and even Nagini, the Blood-Cursed Beastman, had been safely sent to a sealed underground ward at St Mungos Hospital for permanent treatment.
Furthermore, with a hardworking and excellent Cat Assistant at school to grade a large number of documents for him, Dumbledore did indeed have quite a bit of free time on his weekends.
Thinking of this, Dumbledore mused to himself: perhaps spending more time with this cranky old friend during the leisure weekends before exam week wouldn't be such a bad thing.
In the following days, under Gellert's guidance—under the careful instruction of this experienced and exceptionally capable mentor—Adelaide was like a rising star of spell-casting combat, her progress staggering.
She not only quickly mastered the Fiendfyre Loyalty Curse, a sophisticated composite spell, but also successively learned many practical magical techniques such as Protego Totalum and Finite Incantatem.
After Adelaide learned the Fiendfyre, Dumbledore relaxed his restrictions on her learning spells. Many spells that were previously strictly forbidden could now be attempted by Adelaide as long as he was personally present to supervise, with the only exceptions being the notorious Three Unforgivable Curses.
Regarding her inability to access these three forbidden curses, Adelaide herself did not show much regret or dissatisfaction.
As a student of Ravenclaw House, known for her wisdom, she firmly believed that she could solve most problems with her own intelligence without relying on those overly cruel and extreme Dark Arts methods.
In her eyes, spells like the Imperio for controlling the will of others, the Cruciatus Curse for torturing people, and the Avada Kedavra for directly taking life were far too inefficient and lacked creativity. Only the workhorse tools from Slytherin and Gryffindor liked using them.
What era was this, still playing around with single-target kills and torture? It was almost the millennium; society years from now would value efficiency!
Compared to The Three Unforgivable Curses, the powerful area-of-effect Dark Arts spell Fiendfyre was simply the perfect curse for killing and looting. It could turn a large number of targets into ash at once—achieving twice the result with half the effort and fewer mistakes, a one-step process with no complaints; the ashes go straight into a box, and you can bury them with a cross!
Under the tutelage of Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore, the two top Wizards of the age, Adelaide's progress in spells was rapid. Meanwhile, she never neglected those precious hybrid plants in the Iceland plantation.
After a long period of careful cultivation and experimentation, she had already achieved remarkable results—successfully hybridizing the offspring of magic Bean x bubotuber and magic Bean x snargaluff to give birth to a brand new, mysterious hybrid magic bean.
This new hybrid magic bean displayed a charming pink hue and reached a staggering height of seventy meters! Even more terrifying was its intense aggression; any living creature that accidentally touched its body would immediately suffer a violent attack from it.
As the saying goes, the pinker the color, the harder the fight!
Of course, faced with this groundbreaking achievement, Adelaide was not satisfied.
She already had a plan for the next step: she prepared to hybridize the highly poisonous venomous tentacula into the magic beans. This way, the vines of the magic beans would not only grow sharp, keen thorns but also carry lethal poisonous attributes, becoming an even more powerful and fearsome existence.
Not only that, Adelaide had an even more ingenious idea, which was to graft the mature forms of Chinese Chomping Cabbages directly onto the main trunk of the vines and the tips of various branches.
This way, when an enemy approached, the magic bean wouldn't just have the two attack methods of actively using vines to strangle the opponent or using poisonous thorns to pierce them; it would add a third highly lethal attack method: biting and injecting toxins into the body.
One could imagine that once these modifications were complete, this hybrid magic bean would surely become one of the most terrifying and effective secret weapons in Adelaide's hands.
Through hard training and the hybridization and grafting of magic beans, Adelaide's strength had risen to a quite terrifying level.
For Adelaide, the biggest problem currently was the lack of actual combat—the Diadem Horcrux was destroyed, and the escape of the cockroach soul made the entire situation confusing. Those vicious Death Eaters seemed to have suddenly lost their backbone and had been completely quiet lately.
For Adelaide, who was eager to find actual combat opportunities to test her newly learned skills and improve her combat experience, the silence of the Death Eaters was undoubtedly a heavy blow—they were all excellent experimental subjects!
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