75: Curing Lupin's Lycanthropy

After finishing everything, Kasenhis stopped where he was and turned to look at Dumbledore through his monocle.

"…Nice glasses," Dumbledore remarked.

"Thanks. I was just making sure what the symbols of a normal person should look like… Want to try the grinding wheel?" Kasenhis asked.

"I am always willing to dedicate myself for my students," Dumbledore said as he extended his hand. "..But will it hurt..?"

"Pfft.. Forget it. When this is over, I'll buy you a drink as an apology for grinding your hand," Kasenhis said awkwardly before summoning another Enchantment Table and gesturing for Dumbledore to step onto it.

"Ow.." 

Kasen and Lupin: "Stings, doesn't it?"

"..."

As Dumbledore's symbols appeared in the enchantment book, Kasenhis carefully checked through them.

Once he confirmed that not a single one belonged to the "Beast" category, he finally sighed in relief.

After letting Dumbledore step down, he immediately turned back to verify Lupin's enchantment.

The moment it was completed, Lupin felt something being drawn out of his body. To be honest, he had never felt his body so light before, never sensed his magic flowing so freely.

And then—he promptly passed out—Thud!

The instant he stepped off the Enchantment Table, he collapsed onto the floor.

"…What's going on?" Kasenhis had just finished putting away the Enchanting Table when he turned around to see Lupin knocked out cold.

Dumbledore crouched down and ran his wand over Lupin's body, examining him carefully. "Nothing serious. If his body was once filled with both magic and lycanthropy, then now that the lycanthropy has been erased, his remaining magic alone isn't enough to sustain his current physical condition… He just needs a few days of rest."

"Oh… I see." Kasenhis nodded, then glanced at the golden apple that had appeared in his hand. 

Well, since he already had it… might as well, right?

Chomp!

"…That sounded quite appetizing," Dumbledore said calmly.

"Mm-hmm, it's kind of like a recovery potion. Want to try it?" Kasenhis held the golden apple up to Dumbledore's mouth.

"…Shouldn't you be giving that to Remus instead?"

"…Then you chew it up and feed it to him. I'm not about to do that." Kasenhis handed the bitten golden apple to Dumbledore, gathered up a few scattered books from the floor, and leisurely strolled out of the Headmaster's office.

Before leaving, he glanced back at Lupin, still lying motionless on the floor.

[Human] [Magic].

"Heh~ Heh~ Heh~ I'm a fucking genius."

With Lupin's T1 Event now successfully resolved, that only left a T2 Event—returning to his office. After traveling around the world for so long, who knew what kind of disaster had unfolded in there?

For all he knew, his Ender Chest might have turned into a surprise gift fountain again.

Opening the office door, he wasn't even surprised. As expected, it was chaos. It took him the better part of a day to reorganize everything. Once that was done, he set aside a small section of his office for a new project.

His previous plan to grow magic crystals? Completely scrapped.

Because he had discovered something important—so-called "magic crystals" didn't start out that way. They were just normal crystals that absorbed magic over time and became magic crystals.

That meant that even if he successfully grew crystals, they'd still just be regular, non-magical crystals.

But, after spending half the night devouring the Arcane Manual, he finally found a way to create actual magic crystals.

All he had to do was use his wand to transmute a cauldron into an alchemical crucible. Once that was done, he could use the crucible to produce magic crystal shards.

Shards? Whatever. If he needed bigger ones, he could just craft them together. No big deal.

But, of course, this brought up a few awkward little issues.

First off, Kasenhis had successfully transmuted an alchemical crucible, and… well…

Let's just say it had the durability of a bank vault.

In simple terms, normal everlasting flames couldn't even heat it up.

Typically, fire transfers heat from the hot part to the cold part. But if the cooling effect is stronger than the heating effect—like, say, the heat is leaking away faster than a magma block can supply it—then the fire just… poofs out.

Gone.

Extinguished.

Like a candle in the wind.

Fuck!

So, before he could even use the crucible, he needed to learn another spell—one that was conveniently recorded in the Arcane Manual.

It was called "Shining Radiance."

Basically, a perpetual energy source that emitted infinite light and infinite heat.

And learning this spell? Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

All he had to do was grab a piece of paper, pick up a pen…

…And start solving math-heavy alchemy equations.

Yeah. It was basically a chemistry problem—breaking down elements, analyzing their properties, and theoretically synthesizing Shining Radiance.

Once he figured out the theory, he just had to apply it in real life, control the right elemental forces, and cast the spell.

A true "STEM magic moment."

But before he could do that, Kasenhis ran into yet another prerequisite—he needed more elements to construct his theories.

And right now?

He only had a handful: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Chaos, Order… plus a few from his experiments—[Human] [Magic], and [Beast].

Not nearly enough.

"This is getting ridiculous… am I actually serving a sentence here?" Kasenhis slumped into his chair, visibly frustrated.

Fast forward to the dead of night, and he was back on the prowl. He stepped out of his office, activating his monocle, scanning everything within sight to extract more elemental data.

Of course, Kasenhis wasn't dumb enough to just start randomly pointing his magic Google Lens at anything and everything—he just needed enough of the basic elements before he could get back to his desk and craft higher-level ones.

By combining these foundational elements, he started synthesizing more advanced ones, following the Arcane Manual's instructions.

Soon, he built a magical machine core.

The Deconstruction Table which he called a "Deconstruction Workbench."

This beauty could break down ordinary materials into elemental components.

And guess what Kasenhis had a mountain of?

Ordinary materials.

Talk about a match made in heaven.

But standing next to the Deconstruction Workbench all day, manually feeding blocks into it? No way.

Time to engineer some automation.

With chests, hoppers, minecarts, rails, the workbench, and a well-laid Redstone circuit, he could build a fully automatic deconstruction system.

There was just one tiny problem.

His office was too small.

There simply wasn't enough room to set up his mini industrial revolution.

Kasenhis rubbed his chin in thought.

Then, he took action.

He packed up all the valuable and sentimental items in his office.

Then, in his hand, a small, shimmering crystal began to form.

An Ender Crystal!

BOOM

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