The Admiral of Hogwarts

After racking his brains for a while, staring at the completely sealed metal container, Hugo suddenly realized that he had gotten into a dead end in his thinking.

Because he realized that this was, after all, an exam, and the examinees were a group of pure novices who had been exposed to alchemy for no more than a year, so it was impossible to pose a question that even the most powerful wizards in history could not answer accurately to test them.

"In other words, in this sentence, the so-called most powerful force should be a general term, and a force that most people can master or understand," Hugo thought.

However, after pondering for a few minutes, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and went to the table to pick up the book list placed on the table to observe.

Because he suddenly thought that although he was the youngest of these contestants, the oldest of the contestants was less than 17 years old, so everyone would definitely not be able to be comprehensive in terms of knowledge reserves.

Therefore, the books listed in this book list must have something to do with how to open this metal container, otherwise, the event organizers would not put these things here as decorations.

"I think your guess should be right," Indomitable's voice rang in the Admiral Network. "At least the first question is not too difficult for most wizards who have solidly studied alchemy for more than half a year."

"There may be many people who cannot complete these tasks within the specified time because they are slow or stupid, but for most people, this level of knowledge does not require them to search for additional information."

Realizing this, Hugo immediately began to analyze this book list, and soon he found something very interesting on the book list.

"《The Essence of Magic》, why would such a purely theoretical book appear in this place, and this book is the kind that I have never seen before?"

"Not only have you never seen it, my dear Admiral," Indomitable said to him through the Admiral Network after being stunned for a few seconds after seeing the title of this book, "I can guarantee that this book has never appeared on the market at all."

"What?" Hugo's face immediately showed a surprised expression when he heard this. Because he knew that Indomitable could be said to be well-read in this regard, if she had never seen it, it meant that these books must be very rare.

"That's right, this must be a very important book, you must go and see it," Indomitable's voice became hurried.

"Anyone who dares to give this book such a name is either a madman or a true master, and I think in this kind of competition, they shouldn't put a madman's book here, so you must take a look at that book."

"Understood." Hugo nodded slightly, then took out his wand and gently tapped the name of the book. A few seconds later, with a slight crackling sound, a book appeared on the table.

The first time Hugo saw these books, he realized that he had found a treasure, because the book from the cover to the inside paper was all made of dragon skin, and there were also some special alchemical powers used to preserve the book.

After spending an hour on inspection, Hugo finally uploaded all the contents of this book to the Admiral Network.

However, unlike what he had imagined, there was no detailed content about alchemical methods in this book, but rather the results of research on the most core part of alchemy and some guidance on major directions.

"This must be something written by an alchemy master, or even Nicolas Flamel himself," Indomitable said very seriously. "Because the core of this entire book is that magic is actually a pure power that comes from the heart."

"For example, you know the Transfiguration spell," Indomitable immediately gave an example to explain after seeing that his Admiral seemed a little confused after listening to what he said.

"If we remove magic, turning one thing into another is itself a very strange thing, because it completely violates the physical principles we know."

"What you said makes sense." Hugo also reacted at this time. Unlike the purely materialistic world of his previous life, this world has elements of idealism. And magic is a prominent manifestation of idealism.

For example, the spells cast by wizards around the world often have the same effect, but their incantations, gestures, and even tools are not the same, and there are no rules in this.

And although alchemy looks close to rigorous scientific experiments, in fact, there are also a large number of black boxes in it, and these black boxes cannot be analyzed at all.

However, according to the theory in the book, these technical black boxes are actually not black boxes at all, but a special manifestation of the power of the heart leveraging reality.

"Is this the legendary mind over matter, psionic ascension?" Under the explanation of Indomitable and Salem, Hugo initially understood these knowledge that was completely beyond his age.

And it was in this situation that Hugo realized what the line on the metal container meant.

"If magic comes from the power of the heart, then this so-called most powerful force should refer to the power originating from the caster's heart." Speaking of this, Hugo suddenly thought of something.

In the original novel, Dumbledore has been proclaiming that love is a powerful force. There is indeed an idea of establishing a correct outlook on life for Harry, but in fact, it also implicitly states a certain fact about magic.

"In other words, to open this metal container, you need some kind of magic that contains your own will." Finally, Hugo finally thought of a way to open this container.

"Let me think about which spell is better —" "The Killing Curse, the Cruciatus Curse, the Imperius Curse, and the Fiendfyre Curse are all spells of this kind," Indomitable's voice rang in the Admiral Network.

"And it is because of this reason that these spells have a power far stronger than other spells."

"You're right, but the problem is that this is a competition." After listening to the examples given by Indomitable, Hugo felt quite speechless.

"If I dare to use these recognized dark magic, it's a small matter if I can't win the competition. I think there is a high probability that a group of Japanese law enforcement officers will rush in at the door and put me in a Japanese wizard prison to sing Iron Window Tears."

"Then we only have one way, learn the Patronus Charm." Enterprise's voice squeezed into the Admiral Network at this time. "Compared to those dangerous curses, only this curse is safer."

"Are you kidding me?" Hugo didn't quite agree with Enterprise's suggestion.

He admits that he is now much stronger than most of his peers in terms of spellcasting, but top-level curses like summoning a Patronus are definitely not something that can be learned in the remaining four days.

You must know that not many adults in the British wizarding world have mastered this magic.

"I'm not kidding." Enterprise said very seriously.

"Of course, I don't expect you to be able to summon a corporeal Patronus, because this is a very unrealistic idea, but it shouldn't be difficult to just reach the level of summoning some silver mist."