Chapter 409: Summer Life at Beauxbatons

At noon, the sun shone through colorful glass mosaics, leaving dappled shadows on the ancient stone pillars and arches of Beauxbatons Academy of Magic.

At the very edge of light and shadow, a handsome boy sat at an exquisite long table.

He sat quietly in a black wizard's robe with an indescribable temper.

The young man's brows were slightly furrowed, and he concentrated on the parchment before him.

He was about twelve or thirteen years old and had an attractive face.

His black hair was soft and slightly curly, and his eyes were slightly blurred; violet light seemed to flow across his face. In his approach, one could vaguely notice a hint of childishness.

Ivan had been in this position for a long time. He was studying the ancient magical inscription on the parchment before him. That was Flamel's task for him.

The scroll was full of complex and esoteric magical symbols, and he stared at these ancient magical texts for a long time.

Suddenly, with a flash of inspiration in his mind, he seemed to finally understand.

With pen in hand, beautiful magical words were written one by one.

Under the influence of magic, the air swirled inside the circle half a meter away from Ivan. He was in the center, and seemed to be inside a gently spinning transparent crystal.

This was the power of the deepest magic writing of antiquity, invented by the ancient sorcerers. It was originally created to better record and use magic.

Although Ivan did not use incantations, the power of the ancient magic text still faintly resonated with the magic in his body, forming a wonderful rhythm.

A few minutes later, he breathed a sigh of relief, put down the pen, stood up and drank half of the juice on the table.

Ivan took a sip of juice and looked at the work he had just successfully completed.

With Flamel's help, he had now mastered over 300 ancient magic words.

This meant that Ivan was just getting started.

He was able to identify the vast majority of the magic words written in ancient magic scripts.

In fact, his learning all these words in such a short time was hardly a miracle.

In fact, unlike the ancient magical inscriptions already published in the wizarding world, many of these magical inscriptions that Ivan had mastered were collections unique to Flamel.

Some of them took him dozens or even hundreds of years to decipher, and it only took Ivan a month to learn them. Not starting from scratch was proving to be extremely useful.

For a month since the start of the summer vacations, Ivan had been at Beauxbatons.

During the day, he followed Flamel to learn ancient magical writing, listened to him about the contents of the "Dictionary of Hieroglyphics", basic knowledge related to alchemy, as well as all sorts of magical secrets, and occasionally shared classical operas with him.

There were many things that interested Flamel, and in a sense, he was even more knowledgeable than Dumbledore.

Although they were not deliberately collected, more than 600 years of life were enough for him to know many things that had been forgotten and lost in the long history.

Listening to Flamel recount them as a witness, the effect was several times better than looking them up in books.

Every night, Ivan spent most of his time in the library. At Dumbledore's request, Maxime allowed him to use the Beauxbatons library.

However, if he wanted to read forbidden books, he had to get Flamel's consent.

Flamel didn't mind at all, which meant that Ivan could go through Beauxbatons' magical books collected over hundreds of years at will and without worry.

He enjoyed his current life very much. He was freer here than at Hogwarts.

At least Madame Pince did not let students arbitrarily browse through the dangerous forbidden books. Even if they had the professor's approval, it would still be a problem.

Needless to say, Filch would appear in every corner of the castle, keeping an eye on the students at any time and place, not allowing them to do this, not allowing them to do that....

Due to the vacations, the current Beauxbatons campus was quiet.

There was no one else on campus except the Flamel couple, Ivan, Sirius, a handful of professors and ghosts.

Every night, if Ivan got tired of reading, he would go with Sirius to practice his spell-casting skills....

Because of the curse, he couldn't use much magic, but it gave Ivan a chance to practice those low-level spells and various casting skills.

Sirius could not help Ivan much in matters of professional magic such as magic and alchemy in ancient times, but he was absolutely the most proficient teacher in defending and fighting the dark arts. He had many unique training methods. Although it was very difficult, Ivan had to admit that the effect was very good.

It was from many years ago when Sirius had taken the Auror test. His training methods came from that.

After passing all of them, he was eligible to register with the Ministry of Magic to become an Auror, and was the youngest Auror ever.

In short, despite not having learned more powerful magic, through more than a month of practice and improvement, Ivan's overall strength had definitely increased and more than doubled.

His current level of strength had completely surpassed the level a young mage should have.

In fact, not just young mages! In many spells, even the well-known adult wizards who had graduated from Magic School were no better than Ivan.

All went very well, and all that was left was to find the piece of the Philosopher's Stone taken by the fallen centaurs, and to break the curse Voldemort had left on Ivan.

But there was no word from Dumbledore. Shortly after the start of the summer vacations, he and Maxime had left Beauxbatons.

Sirius said they had to return to the British Ministry of Magic to discuss the upcoming Wizard Tournament with the headmaster of Durmstrang and Ministry officials.

Under the joint initiative of Fudge and two other ministers of magic, the entire European wizarding community and the three wizarding schools were interested in restoring this ancient event.

They intended to use it as a platform to strengthen communication and exchange between students.

The Triwizard Tournament had been very popular in history. It was an ancient tradition among the three schools. However, it was gradually abandoned due to the large number of deaths.

Since then, there had been no formal communication platform between the three wizarding schools. Due to the secrecy of their own magic and teaching methods, the tendency for closed doors in the three Wizarding Schools had become more and more obvious.

All in all, this was not conducive to the development of the European wizarding world.

Especially in recent years, under the leadership of the Magical Congress of the United States of America, the American wizarding world had shown a different prosperous scene from that of Europe, and its overall strength had increased enormously.

In this context, the European ministries of magic, especially the major ministries in Britain, France and Germany, were under great pressure and were often criticized by the mainstream voice for being too conservative.

They had to try to make a change, and the first step in that direction was to restore the Triwizard Tournament, which had been suspended for almost a century.