After taking care of those two, Sean checked his panel to see what he'd gotten from the duels. Two notifications popped up, one after the other.
[Duel Won!]
[Conditions Met: Victory Against Phineas Burke.]
[System Commencing Random Ability Extraction from Defeated Target: Phineas Burke.]
[Extracting...]
A quick mental buzz.
[Extraction Complete!]
[New Ability Acquired: Cutting Curse (LV1)]
And then the second one appeared.
[Duel Won!]
[Conditions Met: Victory Against Hector Rook.]
[System Commencing Random Ability Extraction from Defeated Target: Hector Rook.]
[Extracting...]
Another buzz.
[Extraction Complete!]
[New Ability Acquired: Disarming Charm (LV1)]
So, the abilities he got from Phineas Burke and Hector Rook were the Cutting Curse and the Disarming Charm, and both were already at Level 1.
Sean had already been learning the Disarming Charm, so getting this just stacked on top of what he already knew, making his understanding and experience with the spell even better. The Cutting Curse, though? That was totally new to him. He'd basically just gotten a brand new magic spell out of thin air.
So far, the two abilities that had been converted into talents, Giant Strength and Giant Hide, had been quite helpful to Sean. However, Sean was well aware that these two talents would only be significantly helpful until about his third or fourth year. By the fifth year, the dueling experience of most students would have reached a new level, and relying on these two talents to win would no longer be realistic, unless Sean could find a way to further enhance them.
However, even if these two talents could not be further enhanced, it did not mean they were useless.
It was important to remember that the boost these two talents provided to Sean was permanent. In other words, they would make his physical fitness surpass that of most wizards, similar to Hagrid. When fighting others, his stamina would far exceed that of ordinary wizards, allowing him to fight continuously without feeling weak, and his defensive capabilities were also extremely impressive. Being hit by a magic spell might only cause momentary pain before he could quickly recover.
This was the effect of magic resistance. Although the resistance granted by Sean's Giant Hide talent was not as strong as Hagrid's, which came from his giant bloodline, it could still help Sean resist a certain degree of magical damage, which was already sufficient.
Many people know about what happened tonight, Sean thought, reviewing his alibi. Everyone thought I was in the common room, and everyone saw me defeat Phineas Burke and Hector Rook just now. No one would think that I, as a first-year student, would still have the spare strength and energy to perform a curse outside the school after defeating two third-year wizards.
Thinking of this, Sean reached out and took out the box from the depths of his desk drawer. It contained Tarquin's hair and teeth soaked in potions, as well as his diluted and stored blood and the unicorn blood, also preserved with potions.
He also took out some materials needed for the curse ritual from another drawer. Sean did not bring Kulkan this time but instead cast the Disillusionment Charm by himself and quietly left the Slytherin Common Room.
He did not choose to perform the curse in the Forbidden Forest. The things Quirrell had done in the forest before, as well as the fire Sean himself had started, had made Hogwarts's watch over the Forbidden Forest much stricter. If Sean were to enter it again rashly, he would easily be discovered. Therefore, Sean had already made the decision to leave Hogwarts again through the passage under the Whomping Willow to the Shrieking Shack, find an uninhabited place around Hogsmeade, and perform the curse.
Skillfully leaving Hogwarts through the hidden passage, Sean left the Shrieking Shack and quickly ran in the opposite direction of Hogsmeade. He remembered that the great figure of Aberforth was still in Hogsmeade. Although he was not as formidable as Dumbledore, he was not someone Sean could afford to provoke.
After running for a while, Sean finally found a small grove by a stream.
Walking into it and making sure there were no large wild beasts, Sean then waved his wand, burning all the weeds and poisonous insects on the open ground in front of him. He extinguished the flames before stepping into the cleared space.
"First, a usable altar."
Pointing his wand at the ground in front of him, the soil and stones on the ground continuously rolled up, gathering into a small mound, and then became flat under Sean's repeated spellcasting.
After doing all this, Sean took out the various materials from his person and, with the help of magic, quickly set up the altar for the curse. Looking at the magic circle drawn on the small altar with powders ground from various materials, he saw it was covered with ancient runes that he had copied from his grandfather Gavin's notes.
Regarding these Ancient Runes, Sean only knew how to use them but not why. He was like a poor student who only recognized the twenty-six English letters but, when they combined into words, didn't recognize a single one. Sean could only engrave the Ancient Runes on the altar using materials according to the records in the notes and knew nothing else.
"Preparation is complete. Next, it's time to perform the real curse."
Sean had already memorized the detailed content of this curse, so he did not hesitate at all and directly took out the four most crucial core materials, first taking out Tarquin's tooth.
He lightly pointed his wand at the tooth, and under its guidance, the tooth slowly fell onto the center of the altar. At this moment, the incantation from Sean's mouth also sounded.
"The teeth of the enemy turn into the bones of the curse…"
The tooth made a cracking sound and gradually elongated and deformed, turning into a small thumb-sized humanoid skeleton, trembling involuntarily.
"The blood of the enemy, turn into the flesh and blood of the curse…"
The potion with diluted blood in its bottle suddenly boiled. As the boiling continued, the potion gradually changed from light red to its original colorless form, and a single drop of blood separated from the liquid. Under the guidance of Sean's wand, it drew an arc and fell onto the small humanoid skeleton on the altar.
The moment the blood fell onto the humanoid skeleton, a large amount of flesh and blood immediately grew with the blood as the center, completely enveloping the small skeleton. At this time, the small humanoid trembled more and more violently. It struggled continuously, but no matter what, it could not escape the restraint of the altar.
Sean looked at the small humanoid on the altar. Vaguely, he could feel a considerable degree of evil aura brewing within it. However, he remained as steady as an old dog and continued, opening the third bottle. He pointed his wand again, and the hair inside immediately flew out of the soaking potion and towards the altar.
"The hair of the enemy, turn into the form of the curse…"
As Sean's words fell, the hair was thrown onto the small humanoid, immediately causing the figure, which previously only had flesh and blood, to develop a front and back. Seven black holes representing eyes, ears, mouth, and nose appeared on its spherical face, and its four rod-like limbs developed hands and feet.
At the same time, with the appearance of the small humanoid, its body trembled and struggled more violently, and a piercing wail came from its mouth and nose.
"The form of the enemy, construct the medium. The blood of magic shapes the curse words."
The last, fourth bottle was opened. The silver unicorn blood, which looked like mercury, flew out of the bottle and hovered in front of Sean. With the waving of his wand, it gradually turned into an extremely complex rune, full of a sense of evil and mystery that went against the sacredness of the blood itself, yet was perfectly integrated.
At this moment, a large amount of cold sweat had appeared on Sean's forehead, and his head was extremely painful, as if an axe was chopping at his skull with each beat of his heart.
Taking a deep breath, Sean tightly gripped his wand in his right hand, guiding the rune formed by the unicorn blood, little by little, down onto the humanoid on the altar.
Accompanied by the increasingly high-pitched screams of the humanoid, the rune was successfully branded onto it by Sean.
In an instant, the humanoid and the rune merged, turning into a small vortex of flesh and blood, rapidly shrinking. Finally, it transformed into a seed of flesh and blood emitting a silver halo, which fell onto the altar and, as the altar collapsed, fell to the ground with the fragments, burying itself deep within.
The curse was complete.
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