svetikya Chapter 53 The Vanishing Curse
Chapter 53 The Vanishing Curse
Sometimes, tears don't necessarily represent sadness.
Even sadness can be a "positive" emotion at times.
Feeling the surging emotions within him, Vaughn was speechless for a moment.
Hearing the meows of other cats, Guoguocha, who was in the bathroom, hurriedly ran out.
Upon seeing the silver-blue translucent Maine Coon lying lazily at Vaughn's feet, it immediately became so angry that its fur stood on end, it lowered its body, and hissed threateningly.
"Alright, alright, Fruit Tea, it's my guardian spirit, don't be jealous." Vaughn hugged it to comfort it for a while, until Fruit Tea still angrily scratched its guardian spirit twice, and saw its claws pass directly through the Maine Coon's body, only then did Fruit Tea realize that this thing was magic.
With the threat gone and her confidence restored, Guoguocha glanced disdainfully at the "idiot" that looked a lot like herself, then started meowing and rubbing against Vaughn.
You scared me, the kind of person who can't be calmed down with a small dried fish!
With the fruit tea interrupting him, Vaughn was able to break free from his intense emotions and successfully focus on the impact of the Guardian, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.
But only this time, through the points added in the system panel, he successfully awakened his long-forgotten memories of happiness and mastered how to cultivate positive emotions.
I won't lose my composure like that again.
Feeling the Maine Coon cat at his feet, a cat with a close connection to his thoughts and spirit, Vaughn pondered.
In the magical world, it is generally believed that a person's Patronus usually reflects their deepest fantasies and insistence on the concept of "beauty." It is the unchanging pure land in the chaotic heart, and it is a reflection of the wizard's emotions and soul.
Therefore, the image of the guardian deity is also symbolic; it represents the self and the most authentic personality traits.
"So, why is my guardian spirit a cat? Is it because cats represent unpredictability? Or, like in various magical storybooks, does the cat symbolize the embodiment of magic?"
Connecting this to his own obsession with magic, Vaughn felt that the latter guess was more likely.
As for why it's depicted as a Maine Coon...
Perhaps it's because I have a particular fondness for fruit tea, after all, I've only ever had this one pet in my two lifetimes.
Everything from the past life is irretrievable, and love in this life is more reserved and restrained due to adult thinking.
Only fruit tea not only embodies his longing for his past life, but also truly exists beside him.
Moreover, the specific form of the Patronus is not immutable; Snape is a prime example—when he fell completely in love with Lily Evans and regarded her as the most important person in his life, his Patronus became a doe.
Otherwise, based on Vaughn's understanding of the professor, his patron saint is most likely a snake!
After carefully experiencing the details of the Guardian Charm once more, Vaughn released the spell, and the silver-blue Maine Coon cat vanished into smoke.
His attention shifted to another spell that had reached LV1... Vanishing Charm!
This spell is one of the most dangerous spells Vaughn has ever encountered.
The Vanishing Charm makes a living or inanimate object disappear.
It's not invisibility, it's not teleportation to another space, it's true disappearance.
On the day Vaughn first prepared to practice this spell, he specifically went to consult Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall said, "It can reduce objects and life to nothingness, to the most basic state of all things. Mr. Weasley, I don't think it's something you should understand right now."
The so-called nothingness and the fundamental state of all things, in Muggle terms, is the breakdown of objects into microscopic particles!
This immediately dissuaded Vaughn from trying it.
LV0 spells represent beginners. At this stage, it is common for spells to fail or go out of control (which is why Vaughn has never dared to practice Fiendfyre).
If the spell simply fails during practice, that's fine. What Vaughn is most worried about is the spell going out of control.
Ordinary young wizards have weak magic, so even if they lose control, it is difficult to cause serious consequences. However, Vaughn is different. With his current magic power, which is almost comparable to that of an adult wizard, the consequences of losing control of a terrible spell like the Vanishing Curse would be extremely serious.
Although the Vanishing Charm is a relatively conventional spell, it also has a counter-charm, but no one knows what the consequences of an out-of-control spell will be.
Vaughn dislikes situations that are out of his control.
"Even with the system panel's skill point allocation mitigation to address the initial risks, this spell is still quite difficult. Although it's a spell, it heavily involves knowledge of transmutation, so its characteristics are similar to those of transmutation. Making inanimate objects disappear is the easiest, followed by organic matter, simple life forms, complex life forms, higher life forms..."
Waving his wand, Vaughn made a pebble he had casually picked up while playing at the Black Lake disappear. He carefully experienced the entire process of the spell taking effect.
"The Vanishing Charm omits the methods often used in Transfiguration, such as observing the structure of matter and projecting it into the mind. Instead, it uses the mystery of magic, emotions, and incantations to directly achieve the result of making this pebble disappear—it dismantles the basic structure of matter, causing the pebble to lose its macroscopic form."
but……
Vaughn stared at the empty table in front of him. As the caster of the spell, he could vaguely sense that the pebbles, when broken down into microscopic forms, had not actually been broken down.
The remaining power of the spell maintains its "existence". As long as the anti-spell is recited or the spell is broken, it will be restored and turn back from a microscopic particle into a pebble!
Of course, since it is only maintained by the residual power of the spell, this state is not stable and can be easily interfered with by magic or other spells.
By then, the pebbles will truly be gone forever.
Following that vague feeling, Vaughn broke the spell, and silently, the vanished pebble reappeared.
"How amazing..."
A glint appeared in Vaughn's eyes. He suddenly longed to find a living creature, such as a slug or other invertebrate—a Level 1 Vanishing Charm could only work on such simple life forms.
He wanted to know, if a life were to disappear, what state would it be in?
In the magical world, life is viewed as a duality, consisting of the body and the soul.
When a life's physical body disappears, can its soul be exposed?
Or, the soul may also be divided into countless parts as the body disintegrates, or perhaps into some kind of superposition state?
Various thoughts churned in his mind, but Vaughn did not act immediately.
He has not studied the soul much and lacks the means of observation and perception. Even if he finds a slug or snail and makes it disappear, he will not be able to "see" anything.
This matter can be recorded as a research project after the new potion is successfully developed.
Thinking of this, Vaughn became somewhat troubled again: "Research on the soul is taboo in this world. The three unforgivable curses are unforgivable not only because there are no counter-curses, but also because they directly affect the soul..."