Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

"Interesting..." Rice whispered softly.

"What's wrong?" Hermione took two deep breaths, recovered a little of her over-consumed strength, and turned to look at Les.

Les didn't say anything either, just pointed to the sun in the sky.

Hermione looked up and didn't notice anything unusual at first - the sun was no different from usual, why did she let me look at the sun?

Then she suddenly realized the problem. The position of the sun in the sky had hardly changed, but she and Rice had stayed in the library area for a long time.

If everything goes as usual, the sun should at least move westward.

"Let's go to the Great Hall." Without saying anything more, Les took Hermione straight to the castle.

Not far away, Helga, standing in front of the office window, narrowed her eyes.

Three seconds, a full three seconds! Salazar and Granger disappeared right before his eyes!

"What kind of realm did Granger awaken? It doesn't look like an elemental realm, but judging by her performance, it doesn't seem like she has only touched the threshold of the realm! Could it be that Hermione has awakened a complete realm?" Helga said solemnly.

A series of thoughts and doubts flashed through Helga's mind, as well as a hint of worry. She planned to talk to Salazar alone after he came up, but there was no doubt that Rowena had picked a good student!

Les and Hermione returned to the Great Hall and found that the time was almost the same as when they left.

Now Hermione could be sure that the time in her domain and the outside world were independent of each other. Several hours had passed in her domain, but the time outside had not changed much.

If that's the case, wouldn't I have more time to read? This was the first thought that came to Hermione's mind.

After paying special attention to the bulletin board and finding that the date had not changed, Rice concluded that Hermione's domain would "freeze" time.

Awesome!

Rice had nothing else in his mind except this one thought.

Anything related to time is extremely powerful and weird, whether it is time magic or the time field.

Although Hermione's domain is not a pure time domain, it can also establish a space where the flow of time is independent of the outside world, just like inserting a node on the normal timeline. When the node is expanded, it is a period of time that belongs to Hermione alone.

Rice felt that the pure time domain was probably the most terrifying domain, because no one could resist the erosion of time, including the four of them.

It's a pity that Hermione's cannot be regarded as a pure time domain, otherwise she would be the well-deserved owner of the first domain in Hogwarts.

But even if her domain was only slightly related to time, it was still a very remarkable domain. In Rice's opinion, although Hermione's domain was not elemental, it was not inferior to the complete version of Daphne and Cedric's domains - not to mention the level that they had not even crossed.

"Develop it well and study it when you have time later." Rice said to Hermione.

The strength of a domain is not constant, not to mention the secondary awakening after deep development. Different proficiency in the domain will result in different strengths.

"Okay." Hermione agreed seriously.

Even if Rice didn't say it, she would open her own field several times a day. Each time she opened her field, she could get three hours of extra learning time. Her field was enough to rival the time converter.

While it is not possible to turn back time, there is no risk associated with using a time-turner.

"You should have a good rest first. I'm going to go to Professor White." After instructing Hermione to develop her own field, Rice turned and walked upstairs.

Hermione felt tired and decided to go back to the lounge to take a short rest. When she regained her energy, she would open the domain again.

When Les arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, Helga was waiting for him.

"What realm did Granger awaken? Did she awaken directly or did she just touch the threshold like Diggory and the others?" Helga asked impatiently after Les closed the door.

"It's a direct awakening. She is different from Daphne and the others. Her domain is non-elemental, so she has an almost complete domain right from the start." Les didn't say anything more and directly shared the information he knew with Helga.

"Is that so..." Helga frowned slightly, and a hint of pity flashed in her eyes, as if to say "as expected".

Just as she had observed, it was a non-elemental field. Miss Granger was really pitiful.

As a wizard who had experienced the mythological age, Helga also understood the difference between elemental and non-elemental realms. So when Salazar told her in person that Rowena's apprentice had awakened to a non-elemental realm, her first reaction was sympathy.

Sympathize with Rowena and also sympathize with Hermione Granger.

Putting aside her identity as Rowena's disciple, Helga still had a deep impression of Hermione because she was a very hardworking and active girl in class.

No matter what the reason, Helga hoped that Hermione could inherit her teacher's wind domain. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned - if it really came true, how could Salazar allow his students to have the magma domain?

But in the modern magic world, perhaps non-elemental fields would be more popular? Helga thought about it and felt that functional fields were not as bad as they thought.

In the world thousands of years ago, survival was the most important thing. If a domain could not significantly enhance combat effectiveness, it would be meaningless in the eyes of old-school wizards like Salazar and Helga.

Even Helga herself only started to study food magic after she became strong enough. And at the beginning, her food magic also had strong practical value. The food she made had a series of effects such as quickly restoring the physical strength of teammates, accelerating wound healing, enhancing immunity, and detoxification.

When that dark and turbulent era ended and peace came to the earth, the things that wizards pursued seemed to have changed. The proportion of magic used for combat was decreasing, the proportion of life magic was increasing, and some combat magic was also turning into life magic. This was the general trend.

In other words, there should be enough places in the modern magic world for non-elemental fields to exert their abilities.

"Hey, what's that look in your eyes? Do you really think my field is rubbish? Miss Granger's field is related to time!" What is the relationship between Les and Helga? He could guess what she was thinking by looking at her expression.

Save your sympathy for your students, Helga! Hermione's field would have been quite powerful even a thousand years ago.

After all, for wizards, knowledge really is power, and Hermione can speed up the speed at which wizards acquire knowledge, and even share the knowledge in her mind.

Some wizarding families keep magic books as heirlooms. Hermione can replicate them in her field just by reading them once. This ability is simply incredible.

Is it related to time? Helga was stunned for a moment, and the sympathy that had just risen in her heart disappeared instantly.

I'm so stupid, really. I only knew that Hermione Granger's domain was a non-elemental domain, but I didn't expect it to be related to time? Then who should I sympathize with? I should sympathize with myself!

"Time?" Helga asked again, a little uncertain. At the same time, she remembered the scene she had just seen: Salazar and Granger did disappear for three seconds inexplicably, could it be that...?

"Oh? So we disappeared for a moment. Well, it seems that time didn't stop completely, which is normal. By the way, a big library won't suddenly appear in the same place, right?"

Les was relieved when he learned that they had disappeared out of thin air. It would be funny if a library grew out of the ground as soon as Hermione opened the field.

"What about the library?" Helga was curious about the "library" mentioned by Salazar. She wanted to know what kind of mental state Salazar was in to ask such a question as "Did a library appear on the ground when they disappeared?"

"Miss Granger's domain is to build or summon a library that can accommodate specific candidates to study in the library." Les briefly introduced the effect of Hermione's domain to Helga.

Helga:? ? ?

A hint of doubt flashed in her eyes: After living for so long, this was the first time she had seen such a field.

But if you think about it carefully, the effect of this field is really powerful. It can allow a person to have more time every day. This time can be used to rest or learn knowledge. It is really a powerful auxiliary field.

Just as Helga was about to ask for more details, a red flash suddenly appeared in Les's arms.

"It's Rowena." Facing Helga's confused look, Les gave her a brief explanation.

Les took out the crystal ball from his arms, placed it on Helga's desk, then patted it, and Rowena's voice came out from it.

"Salazar, what's going on with Granger?" Rowena's voice revealed a hint of anxiety, and it was obvious that she cared very much about her students.

"Rowena, I want to congratulate you. Hermione has just successfully awakened her domain!"

"Oh? Really? What type of field did she awaken?" Rowena was immediately happy upon hearing such good news, and couldn't help but ask Sarah through the crystal ball about the type of her student's field.

"Her domain is a non-elemental domain that is related to time. Her specific ability is to summon a library similar to the Hogwarts library to accommodate people to study. The flow of time in the library is different from that in the outside world. One hour in the library is only about one second in the outside world."

Rowena was stunned.

When Salazar mentioned the "non-elemental field", her heart skipped a beat, but when he mentioned that it was related to time, Rowena couldn't help but feel happy again, and her mood was as bumpy as a roller coaster.

But what the hell is a library? Can hanging out in a library every day have this effect?

Rowena felt like complaining, but she didn't know where to start: Isn't this her own fault? She specifically recruited students who liked to hang out in the library as her successor, so wouldn't it be reasonable for her to awaken a realm that could summon the library?

"Hermione's library field is very powerful, and it is obvious that there is still a lot of room for improvement. Rowena, you have found a treasure."

boom!

Rowena slapped the sand table in front of her hard, causing a small earthquake in the sand table world.

"What library field? Salazar, why are you so bad at naming?" Rowena said angrily, "Can't it be called the Knowledge Field or the Mind Palace? Library Field, isn't that too simple?"

Les:…

To be honest, the name Rowena came up with is indeed better than I expected.

"Then I'll ask Hermione later and see which one she would like to choose." Rice decided to return the naming rights of the territory to the owner of the territory.

After that, he ended the call with Rowena.

"Library Field... I think this name is okay, what do you think Helga?"

Helga curled her lips. She felt that Rowena was just being pretentious. What else could Miss Granger's domain be called if not the library domain? The two names she came up with were just nonsense.

"Ahem," Helga cleared her throat and did not directly respond to Salazar's question, but instead brought up a new topic: Is it time to consider the final exams prepared for the students this year?

"This year, the children have all been exposed to the realm, so the difficulty of the trials has to be increased." Helga's face flashed with embarrassment. As the children's strength increased, it became more and more difficult to arrange suitable trials for them.

Finding a dark wizard or a troll as the subject of the trial as before is obviously too simple.

Rice turned his eyes to an automatic combat doll standing in the corner of the office. It might be a good choice.

Following Salazar's gaze, Helga also understood what he meant. A trace of pain flashed across Helga's eyes: Do we really want to take it to the test? The problem is that they don't seem to be the opponents of these little guys. We can't take out several puppets at once to fight, right?

"The puppet's strength is a little too weak."

Helga's words elicited Les's approval, but he soon turned his attention to another thing: Godric's Armor, which they had previously used as a teaching aid for students, and perhaps it could still be put to good use now.

"But a teaching aid..." Helga frowned: "Will the pressure not be great enough?"

"Then I'll think of another way." Rice fell into thought again.

Hermione was almost done resting while Les and Helga were discussing the final exams.

She got up from the bed and stretched. Seeing that there was no one in the dormitory, she drew the bed curtain and expanded her territory in the dormitory.

Entering the library again and looking at the familiar building in front of her, she felt a flash of joy in her heart: let her read books for three hours happily.

But when she walked around the bookshelf and prepared to find a table to sit down, Hermione was stunned - she saw someone in her own library, someone other than her!

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Hey, today's update is much earlier~