The Curse of Being So Close Yet So Far

Chapter 67 The Curse of Being So Close Yet So Far

Regardless of how Harry and his friends suspected Snape and how they managed to pry the name "Nico Flamel" out of Hagrid, the school's Quidditch match continued, with Hufflepuff facing Ravenclaw. Although these two houses committed far fewer fouls than the other two, their lack of drive compared to Gryffindor and Slytherin made the match less entertaining.

But this year, something unusual happened: the players from both teams openly stuffed dog food into the mouths of the entire school's teachers and students during their match...

On the field, when the Golden Snitch slowed down and appeared, Cedric and Cho rode their brooms side by side without any collision or obstruction. Led by the Golden Snitch, they traced a beautiful trajectory and flew across the field like butterflies. The other players on both sides simply stopped to intercept them and stood there watching the show...

Ultimately, Cedric succeeded in stealing the Golden Snitch thanks to his longer reach and a year of extra training—he couldn't afford to lose, carrying the glory of Hufflepuff.

After the match, I don't know what the others thought, but Avada almost gouged out his own eyes. But then he thought about it and realized that even if he gouged out his eyes, he would still have magical senses to directly see into the minds of others, and he would get to eat even more dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing romantic scenes), so he reluctantly gave up in the end.

To cleanse his eyes properly, he decided to focus entirely on his research for the next period of time. If all went well, he would soon see results in his spatial magic...

So, in an empty classroom in the castle.

"Bang."

With a soft popping sound, Avada appeared out of thin air from one end of the classroom to the other, then couldn't help but give a wry smile—

He broke Hogwarts' anti-Apparition spell.

The reason for his wry smile was that the principle behind this restriction was far more absurd than he had imagined: it actually consisted of only one magic spell designed to block the arrival of spiritual power!

As is well known, apparition requires a set of meditation techniques to allow the caster's mental energy to penetrate space in a super-geometric way and land at the target location, creating a channel in the spatial structure to instantly teleport the body. Therefore, by adding a layer of mental energy-restricting magic to the location that needs protection, preventing any mental energy from passing through, one can prevent apparition... In other words, the principle of apparition restriction is to prevent the target location from being locked onto by mental energy.

Reinforced space? Not available.

What's even more ridiculous is that this restriction can only block the mental structure of "humanoid life forms," ​​namely humans, giants or hybrid giants, fairies and centaurs, etc. But other magical creatures with apparition abilities are completely unprotected.

This is the underlying reason why house-elves and phoenixes can drill through any restriction like a sieve.

Having understood this, Avada simply needed to adjust the frequency of his outward-emitting mental energy to bypass the restriction. However, it was easier said than done; he spent several days searching for a way to adjust the frequency, and in the end, he had to rely on external alchemical artifacts and a complex meditation technique to achieve it.

The alchemical artifact wasn't expensive; he bought all the materials from Diagon Alley for less than seven Galleons. The final product was a watch-sized, lens-like device. By gazing at it while practicing a special meditation technique, one could tune their mental energy and then, like a house-elf, sift through any apparition restrictions set by a human wizard.

However, just in case, Avada decided not to tell anyone about his achievements for the time being, at least until he had developed a real restriction that could strengthen space.

"But that's just an extra bonus. My real achievement is this..."

Avada forced down her excitement, took a deep breath to calm herself and focus, and then slowly raised her wand...

He cast a curse on himself, like a bubble head spell.

Then he pulled his wand downwards, and the bubble that was only on his head suddenly expanded downwards, directly enveloping Avada's entire body, making him look like a transparent raincoat.

"Very good, the strength is up to standard. So, next..."

He waved his wand with a strange rhythm, his brow furrowed, and whispered the incantation.

"So close...yet so far!"

The next moment, Avada Kendavia vanished silently from the classroom, as if she had never existed.

He is currently in a wondrous world.

Absolute darkness enveloped him, making him feel as if he were in the universe. Yet, his magical senses clearly perceived the magical structures of the various objects in the empty classroom, preventing him from losing his awareness of the outside world. The "Bubble Head Charm" that enveloped his entire body remained perfectly still, leaving only a gap. He tried to take a few steps forward, but the floor was like a phantom, his legs passing right through it, offering no foothold—he was now silently suspended in place, unable to touch anything.

"Hiss... It's so cold. Luckily, I prepared some warm clothing in advance..."

"Okay, there's no light, so we can only 'see' the surrounding objects through our magical senses..."

Avada blinked, looking somewhat unaccustomed to the sight.

That's right, he finally succeeded in using his mental energy to cast the Traceless Stretch Spell on the spatial passage, and then, after confirming that there was no additional danger, he moved his body inside.

In the course of his research, Avada realized that he had gone astray—there was no need to cast two spells at the same time; he could simply combine Apparition and Unseen Stretch, which was not difficult for him, given his ability to see space and mental energy.

As long as we find a way to allow mental energy to penetrate space without setting a landing point, and ensure that mental energy can still be used as we please during the process, we can release a traceless extension spell on the spatial passage, no, it should be called a spatial cave, to create a small space nested inside the original space.

To put it simply, it's about using Apparition without actually manifesting, keeping the body inside the space, and then slowly expanding the activity space using the Seamless Stretch Spell, thereby jumping out of the Three Realms. Even if the outside world is raining down killing spells, it won't affect you at all.

In Avada's vision, the newly created space had no light, heat, or air, so the body had to be protected before entering. This is why the "Bubble Head Charm" was used to cover the whole body. In the hands of a powerful wizard, this thing could withstand the pressure of water thousands of meters deep. Even if Avada couldn't do that, it could still maintain the internal pressure and contain a little air for breathing.

Fortunately, he had anticipated these possibilities; otherwise, he would have been essentially in space, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Once I can cast this spell instantly at any time, it will be my ultimate trump card for survival!"

After the initial novelty wore off, a surge of ecstatic joy, making every strand of hair tremble, welled up in Avada's heart: "In this way, I will have an extra portable, mobile safe house. As long as I hide inside, even if Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Voldemort gang up on me, they won't be able to do anything to me!"

"As long as the air and heat source don't run out, I can stay here indefinitely, and I can also activate the latter part of Apparition at any time, ignoring the restrictions to go anywhere!"

"Furthermore, once I develop magic that allows me to fly, I'll be able to move freely within this space, passing through all obstacles in reality!"

"Am I invincible?"

(End of this chapter)