Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 51 The Pain Mask
Xie Lin wandered around first, and then went to Lihen Bookstore to buy the textbooks needed for this semester.

Xie Lin first took two copies of all the textbooks, including Draco's one. Xie Lin saw that his parents and brother hadn't arrived yet, so he read books leisurely in the bookstore. During this period, he helped the bookstore manager deal with the violent and biting "Monster Book of Monsters", and he got a rebate coupon for buying books, which saved Xie Lin 10 galleons of pocket money.

These 10 galleons can just be used to offset the amount used to bribe Draco to keep him secret this morning.

After a while, the parents and elder brother arrived late, and the family boarded the Thestral carriage and returned to Malfoy Manor.

On the way, Narcissa asked about Schelling's experience in Diagon Alley today. Schelling naturally didn't confess that he sneaked into Knockturn Alley, but changed the topic: "I went to Ollivander's wand shop again today, and asked him to help me maintain my wand..."

Xie Lin organized his language and asked his doubts: "I found out that his business is actually not very good - one of his wands only sells for 7 Galleons. You must know that wands are not consumables, and the maximum number of wizards who enroll each year is only 80. Even if you include the famous young wizards from foreign countries, there are at most 100 people..."

"If we're lucky, there will be about 50 adult wizards who need to buy new ones because their wands are broken that year. Wands are the wizard's second life. 50 such idiots are already a lot. I counted 150 of them, equivalent to 1050 Galleons. Assuming that half of the cost of making wands is deducted, he only makes a net profit of 525 Galleons for the whole year. This does not include the rent, maintenance and other expenses required for opening a shop. I feel a bit unbelievable..."

(Note: According to the advertisement in the Daily Prophet, the monthly salary of the striker of the Ministry of Magic is 700 Galleons, and the monthly salary of the assistant manager of Lihen Bookstore is 42 Galleons, which means that the monthly income of Ollivander, a big boss, is worse than that of a bookstore wage earner)

Lucius nodded with satisfaction, "Schelling, you really inherited the family's excellent business talent, and you were able to think of it so quickly. In fact, there are many hidden rules in the wizarding business world. Taking Ollivander as an example, the greatest significance of the existence of this wand shop is that it is a sign that allows him to maintain the family's prestige. Whether or not the wand shop makes money is not that important to him. There are many cooperative research projects between him and the Ministry of Magic. If it weren't for the fame brought to him by this long-established wand shop, those cooperation opportunities might not have fallen into his hands..." After finishing speaking, he snorted coldly.

So, is Ollivander taking advantage of the low price of the wand shop to monopolize the market, and then using his status as the market leader to seek other benefits?Schelling was thoughtful.

Lucius continued: "Don't look at this old man as sanctimonious. In the past 1000 years, there have been many talented new staff makers wanting to open a shop in the UK, but they all failed to apply for a certification license from the Ministry of Magic. I dare say that the trick of the old man Ollivander is definitely behind this. This trick is famous in the business world, called "competition moat". The effect of the entire industry. And as long as he maintains a monopoly position for a day, the Ministry of Magic must cooperate with him if they want to study wand science. How about it, has it opened your eyes to the dark side behind the business world?" He ended with a sneer.

(Note: According to the Daily Prophet, Willie Wagstaff was warned by the Bureau of Magical Equipment Control for selling wands without the "Ministry of Magic Seal of Approval", so legally sold wands need to be authorized by the Ministry of Magic.)
Xie Lin fell into deep thought. It turns out that the wizarding business world also has these methods. It seems that I was able to enter the broomstick market before and made a fortune because of it because I had the benefit of being able to predict the plot and a lot of luck!
Huh?Aren't the other senior traversers able to easily monopolize the entire wizarding business world as soon as they come out, with a wave of their arms and a shock of their tiger's body?Could it be that they are all born with bastard spirits?Or is it the halo that makes other wizard merchants and pure-blood families automatically reduce their intelligence?Xie Lin fell into envy, jealousy and hatred...

During the family dinner that night, Lucius once again sternly asked his two sons to remember the honor of the family, and after raising his requirements for academic performance, he said: "Especially you, Draco, focus on your studies and don't mess with Potter and the others. You should also know that Hogwarts will not be peaceful this semester. Now I will tell you some inside stories that the newspapers did not say. The real purpose of Black's escape from prison is to kill Harry Potter!"

"What?" Schelling, who had known the plot for a long time, looked calm, but Draco, who fell in love with Harry Potter all the way, cried out in surprise.

Lucius stared at Draco indifferently, and said: "Blake was my junior at the time, and he was close friends with Harry Potter's father, James Potter. In the end, he betrayed his friend to the Dark Lord, resulting in James Potter's tragic death. He escaped from prison this time, apparently to kill Harry Potter. Although I wish this bastard had a tragic death, I don't want you two to be involved in him for some stupid reason, and get yourself involved."

Lucius paused for a while, then continued, "Although everyone says that Black is crazy, he may be crazy, but he is smart enough to escape from Azkaban-this is something ordinary people can't do. If Black can escape from Azkaban, I think he can rush into Hogwarts. Black once brutally killed more than a dozen innocent passers-by on the street. If you are unfortunate enough to meet him, I don't think he will show mercy to your men, and it is more likely that you will be killed by him Silent, so as not to reveal his whereabouts. Do you understand?"

Both Schelling and Draco nodded hastily in understanding.

That night, Xie Lin took out the pain mask that he bought today in the dormitory, put the mask on his face slowly, activated its effect with magic power, then took it off, and looked at it squarely.In Xie Lin's eyes, the mask seemed to turn into a black hole, or a vortex, slowly pulling Xie Lin's gaze into it.

A sense of fear for no reason appeared in Xie Lin's heart, but within a few seconds, Xie Lin broke free from this strange state.

"Is it only to this extent? Or is it only effective on people with low magic power?" Xie Lin muttered dissatisfiedly, but he felt absurd in his heart. He never thought that the first person to deal with this mask after buying it would be himself.

Xie Lin picked up the magic eye and concentrated on feeling the magic fluctuations from the mask.It also seems to be guided by another unseen mobilization of power, unlike the magic used to cast a normal spell.

It is an indescribable mysterious power, it surrounds the magic power on the mask, it is invisible, bodyless and weightless, but it seems to act directly on the soul.

"If this is soul magic, is it equivalent to temporarily stripping part of consciousness and attacking other people's souls?" Xie Lin felt as if he had grasped the essence of soul magic.

He tried to use Occlumency to empty all his thoughts, and then tried to split a small strand of his consciousness into the magic power. The magic power he could feel suddenly increased greatly after being integrated into his split consciousness body.

He concentrated his magic power into a needle shape, and slowly stabbed towards the mask, as if he had collided with a solid wall. Xie Lin was dizzy for a while, and only after recovering did he find that his forehead was wet with sweat, and the pain mask had split into two pieces.

Xie Lin thought for a while, and immediately understood the principle of soul attack. It was just a simple and rough contest between him and the conscious body in the mask of pain. The soul power of the mask of pain was not strong, so the mask was easily smashed by him.

If the mask is replaced by the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, the consciousness of the four founders is enough to last for thousands of years. With the meager soul power that Schelling has never exercised, he will definitely end up in a fiasco and become an idiot.

Schelling suddenly thought of the nature of magic again.The so-called magic power should be determined by the strength of the soul to accumulate the magic power pool, while the strength of the spiritual power determines the wizard's control over the magic power and the output rate of the magic power flow.

From this, Schelling can be sure that magic power is by no means increasing naturally at a fixed rate over time as most wizards think. After all, Grindelwald and Dumbledore, two monsters, have dominated the European magic world in their 40s, and those older wizards are far from rivals.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore did not use black magic to transform themselves beyond recognition like Voldemort did, so the magic power of the two can grow faster than others, and there must be unknown reasons behind it.

This point was not mentioned in the original book. This may be because the two of them did not know the reason behind it. It was just because they were born with soul strength and strong mental power far beyond ordinary people, which caused their magic power growth rate to get an astonishing increase under the addition of these two factors.

Various thoughts turned in Xie Lin's mind, and an imperceptible light flashed in his eyes, as if he had discovered the most amazing secret in the wizarding world: the secret of how to enhance magic power.

The strength of the soul determines the amount of magic power stored, and the spiritual power determines the utilization rate of magic power.The human body is adaptable, and strong mental power greatly increases the use rate of magic power, which increases the body's demand for magic power, and this demand will in turn stimulate the growth of magic power.

That is to say, a strong soul and mental power cannot suddenly increase one's magic power like the magic enhancement potion, but it can increase the growth rate of magic power.If he wanted to catch up with Voldemort and Dumbledore's strength before the troubled times came, he would definitely need to find a way to increase the strength of his soul and his spiritual power.

Being able to discover such an astonishing secret, even if the pain mask worth 29 Galleons was scrapped like this, Xie Lin didn't feel bad at all.Xie Lin checked the fragments of the painful mask again, only to find that the fluctuations of magic power attached to it had dissipated along with the collapse of the consciousness body, and the mask had become two ordinary fragments, so he threw the fragments into the trash can without hesitation.

　The real business world is inherently cruel, whether it is reality or the wizarding world.In those fan works, the protagonists who are Muggle-born and have no background just invented wands, broomsticks, and new potions before graduation, but they monopolize the sales as soon as the products are released on the market-I can only say that the authors who can write like this must have no business experience.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)