Hogwarts: Through the Veil of Time

Now, for a week, I will have to go to the toilet more often, drink more water and eat well. The first week is a cleansing of the body, removal of various microcysts and other junk. Then, for another week, there will be a smooth restructuring of the genome from obviously harmful genes that can cause diseases if not in me, then in the next generations. Nothing super-radical, or even just radical - the junk is removed and instead, based on the existing genes, something useful is selected. Of course, there will be some minor improvements. Vision that will not deteriorate with age, a wider range of hearing, etc. Increased endurance and muscle strength to volume ratio, but completely insignificant, can be neglected. Slightly stronger bones, slightly more efficient body work in general. A sort of Captain America on the minimum, if only I knew who he was...

After that, the construct will switch off and disappear. In two weeks, the channel with the life energy measurement will stabilize, and I will undergo the initial course of treatment. The genetic changes themselves will take effect, God willing, in two or three years. Most likely, there will be no external changes at all - perhaps the proportions will change slightly, but everything can be attributed to simply growing up. The only thing that will need to be done every week is to reactivate the Minor Purification complex. And so on until all the changes have passed, and then, until I'm twenty, once every three months. Otherwise, all my manipulations will not be of much use. And now to sleep...

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August is a wonderful time. I have always liked this time of year. Always, but not now. I am used to a different climate, and here in England everything seemed a little wrong. Sometimes it is cloudy and foggy, sometimes it is hot. But humans are such creatures - they get used to everything. Gradually I got used to it too, and considering the frequent trips to the city with my parents, where they told me and showed me absolutely everything - from parks to museums and theaters. It was interesting. It seemed that my parents were trying to show me as much of the world around me as possible before I went away for ten months to a castle in the hills and forests of Scotland - according to my sister's letters, Hogwarts is somewhere there.

Regarding self-study. Since the beginning of August, I wanted to sit down and study the local school curriculum to form my own opinion about magic, but I decided that books won't run away, but it's high time to start training complexes for physical exercise. But for this, I need to decide - what kind of training?

I decided that it would be worthwhile to start with the elven equivalent of gymnastics and develop speed and flexibility. At the same time, this can be combined with a semblance of strength training - you create a sword or a training bracelet with magic and do it. Elves, in principle, do not have strength exercises like lifting weights and the like. Their development can be called natural and harmonious. The only thing they complicate their lives with during training is a magic bracelet that simulates increased stress on the body, complex. This is how they get around that bar when the armor and sword become too light to consider working with them as stress.

Creating a sword is a matter of minutes. All you need is earth and knowledge of a couple of magic seals and contours. But where to put it then? Problem. The solution does not immediately come to mind, which means that the idea with the sword should be put aside for now. Especially since the guy looking at me from the mirror is a very cute brunette guy, but painfully puny. I even want to shed a stingy tear. And I still can't eat my fill - in that "vegetative" state, I ate just enough to not feel hungry, and this is really not enough. For me, trying to practice with a sword now is a sophisticated suicide attempt.

Having dotted all the i's, one day, while my parents were away at work, I made my way into the high bushes, knelt down, smoothed the ground at the roots with my palm and imagined a round outline of three rune circles forming on the surface. I have no earth energy, and transforming it from the ground under my feet is tantamount to damaging the landscape and briefly increasing the magical background. Therefore, I directed neutral energy into the imaginary outline and as it filled with energy, the outline began to glow dimly gray in the visible spectrum, gradually turning brown. The calculated energy expenditure exceeded twenty percent and only after that the outline was activated.

The result is a simple and thin metal bracelet. I thought about it with my head and destroyed it, creating a wider one. The thing is that the enchantment is quite voluminous, and it is problematic to make it too small without tools. Here, it would seem, is an experienced magician, but we depend on tools like an ordinary person on his technological environment. And to make a tool, you need another tool, and for it - another. And so many times. Horror!

While thinking about the tools, I created a magic circuit to secure the transformation of the resulting bracelet and then shoved an enchantment circuit to emulate physical activity into it. Externally, the bracelet did not change at all, remaining the same simple, wide, with a metallic sheen. Without a doubt, having put it on my hand, I did not feel a single gram of weight, and the bracelet also tightened exactly along the width of my hand. Running my finger along it exactly as in my memories, I felt a heaviness from which I hunched over a little. It was hard to move, as if in wet clothes. In a lot of wet clothes. Hmm. This can be used on a permanent basis, only a little weaker. The bracelet will always adapt the force of the impact, and I will not feel any improvements, but at the same time, after turning it off, there will be no need to adapt to these same improvements. And also, the load from the bracelet will not inhibit the growth of the body. Well, it simulates the load in a complex way, and under the constant influence of gravity the body may develop differently than it should - this is not here.

Having entered the house and washed off the sweat that had appeared from the intense concentration in the shower, I went to empty the refrigerator, and then, until the evening, sat with books, occasionally interrupted by a kind of gymnastics, squats and push-ups. Trivial, but useful.

In the evening my parents came home from work and over dinner I shared with them my impressions of the books I had read.

In this vein, one day after another flew by. Every week I renewed the magical contours in my body, read a variety of books, got irritated by the uselessness of the computer, persistently did physical training, tried to eat and drink a lot.

My memory worked perfectly, and I really remembered everything the first time, and not only literally, but also in a certain sense, with the understanding of what I read and saw. Textbooks on local magic gave me some idea of ​​the school of magic in this world. It combined both witchcraft through will, desire and fantasy, and through various runes, mathematical calculations, interpretation of the meaning of numbers for mystical meaning, and so on. For example, transfiguration. From experience I can say that it is possible to transform one object into another by means of naked will. However, textbooks talk about the need to know formulas and precise calculations. This can also be called correct, because the mind gives form to magic. Let me express myself not entirely correctly, but by passing energy through the prism of the mind holding the magic formula, at the output we really get the desired transformation.

Spells are witchcraft through gesture, word, will, fantasy. Yes, you can cast spells without all of this, if you have the appropriate energy in large quantities and a couple of basic contours and symbols, but here... It's all somehow strange.