Days passed quickly, it's already Christmas holidays now. Harry and Ron are playing wizarding chess at this moment. Damian is watching from the side, George asked," heh, look Fred, we have a Slytherin at the Griffyndor table ", Fred said," what are you doing here evil snake? Want to bite us? ".
" I think he will hex you instead Fred ", " oh don't be ridiculous George, Mr Knight is our dear friend, he won't do that right? ", the twins winked at Damian who looked at them with neutral face and answered," maybe you should change your tactics of distracting someone to mix something in their drink for the prank, it's getting old ".
Fred and George looked at each other," we are so stealthy about this. How did you find out? ", Damian looked at them weirdly, even before getting sage body and super sense, his sensing ability is pretty good. He can feel the changes of mana in near near him, and their small movements can't escape his eyes. Do these people really thought he can't see theirove.
Hermione approached with her packed luggage, she glances at the chess board where Ron's queen destroyed Harry's knight and exclaimed," that's totally barbaric ", Ron said," that's wizard's chess for you. I see you've packed ", Hermione said," and I see you haven't ".
Ron explained," my parents are going to romania for my brother charlie. He is studying dragons there. So I'm not going home for Christmas ", Hermione suggested," good then you can help Harry in the library looking for Nicholas Flamel ".
Ron yelled," we have looked for like hundred times ", Hermione said," not in the restriction section ", Harry and Ron looked at each other, while Damian blinked, is this really the rule abiding strict Hermione Granger they know.
" I think we have had a bad influence on her ", Ron said. Then he asked," Damian, have you remembered where you read about Nicholas Flamel yet ", Damian said nonchalantly," yes, it's behind a chocolate frog card, particularly one with Dumbledore ".
Ron and Harry exclaimed," what? ", Harry quickly ran to the dorms and cameback with a chocolate frog card," Albus Dumbledore discovered 12 uses of dragon blood with his close friend Nicholas Flamel in the field of Alchemy ".
Ron and Harry looked at each other," that didn't help much ", Damian said," it did, you just need to look for an alchemist named Nicholas Flamel ", Ron and Harry nodded before running off to the library. Damian meanwhile sighed inwardly, he is using them to find information. He felt bad for a second there.
Hagrid is a friend to Harry, and that guy will reveal everything to Harry sooner or later with that no secret keeping ability of his. Harry meanwhile believes him, so as long as there is enough information, he can make a move against the stone and steal it for the ritual, only the unicorn blood is a problem to get.
You need to slay a pure creature and get's inflicted with a curse for that, the half life curse is a consequence of drinking it's blood, but for slaying a unicorn, the nature will become hostile to you. For someone like him who has a sage body and super sense, it's easy to see the shift in air immediately. Getting hostility from the ambient magic around you, isn't exactly a good thing, it will not only hinder the senses but also leads you into a dark path, your magic will berserk and your mood will learn towards aggressiveness and also gradually makes you crazy if you're not careful. Yeah, that's a big red flag for him.
' how to get the unicorn blood without hurting a unicorn? ', Damian is racking his brain for this. He needs to be careful about this. Only the black market is an option for him, in the end, he put the thought to slay a unicorn away.
Damian got back to working on his strength, the room of requirement is a treasure trove, he can learn spells here. Damian clenched his fist, the spell books left by Rowena Ravenclaw herself along with those written by other founders, he found them in the room of requirement.
They're on another level compared to spells he learned, needs strong mana control, will to endure the burden brought by them and enough mana to cast the spell. Not to mention if your will isn't firm enough you will lose consciousness immediately due to the high mana demand it has and the drain on your mind for this extreme focus.
In short, it's sufficient to say, if the founders were to be here, they will sweep across the entire wizarding world with their terrifying might and spells. Only a handful can even put up a fight against them. Maybe Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Bagshot and Voldemort can. But others, they got zero chance against the founders.
At first he is also skeptical to believe this until he read these books. Unlike muggle world where predecessors are surpassed continuously, in magical world, it has reverse effect, as time passes powerful wizards started dwindle in wizarding world. Oniy a handful of people can be considered powerful.
And these spells, oh boy, their power is terrifying, one time Damian himself almost got burned to death because of the fire spell he used from the book. This spell is developed jointly by Godruc Griffyndor and Salazar Slytherin. Yep, these two rivals worked together to develop spells. Fascinating isn't it?
Damian tried other spells too, Rowena had a signature too. It's related to wind and ice, she creates a blizzard using that spell. A very powerful one and also something that demands huge mana reserves too. The deand is so high that even Damian who had superior mana reserves thanks to the obscurus immediately get's burn out if he uses spell just once.
But as they say, there is no free lunch, such powerful spells bound to have such requirements too. So Damian is planning to master them completely once he do the ritual of mana heart.