Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 438 Dementor Research

After getting hit hard by Old Deng, Sai felt very bored and decided not to get close to him in the short term.

The second semester of every year goes by very quickly and time soon enters February.

The benefits of abundant experimental materials were reflected. With the consumption of a large amount of experimental materials, he gradually grasped the essence of the Dementors' soul-flesh separation technology.

"This should be considered a rune." Sainz carefully felt the Dementor's "stomach".

There is no way. Dementors appear to have flesh and blood, but they cannot be dissected. If you cut them open with a knife, you will only see nothingness.

Sai was forced into a corner and had to adopt the "process of elimination".

The design plan of the elimination method is to use a method to gradually reduce the parts of the Dementor's body, such as cutting off the limbs first, and then let it perform the Dementor's Kiss. ​​If it succeeds, it proves that the limbs are not necessary.

And so on, until you find the part that corresponds to the Dementor's Kiss.

But he had given up hope before the experiment, and then he sighed in his heart, "It's not that simple."

When he used the mutant Patronus to punish the Dementors, he discovered that all the parts of the Dementors seemed to be a whole, and there was essentially no external difference in appearance such as the head and limbs.

Dementors appear to have limbs, but in essence they are just aggregates of soul and magic. Rather than being like humanoid creatures, they are more like slimes without a specific shape.

The Dementor was pierced all over with holes using the spikes transformed by the Patronus, which "burned" it so much that black smoke came out of its body. After the spikes were pulled out, no real holes were left on its body.

The only thing that gave Sai a little hope was that the guardian angel actually had no entity, and perhaps by using physical tools such as a knife, he could really cut off an arm.

It turned out that was just his wishful thinking. Ordinary knives without any properties would cause less damage to Dementors. After a cut, people with poor eyesight could not even tell whether the knife worked or not.

Sai had a good sense and he could confirm that the knife had indeed cut off the Dementor's limbs, but the limbs healed as soon as they were cut off, just like a knife cutting a stream of water, it seemed to work and yet it didn't.

This situation created certain obstacles to Sai's research.

However, a researcher certainly cannot have only one set of plans.

It can't be physically divided, just try another method.

A strong and thick body can block detection, but what about a thin body?

If an insect is wrapped in thick resin and the resin is not completely transparent, it is a bit difficult to see the insect inside. In this case, you might as well grind the outer resin thinner.

Analogizing to the Dementors, what Mr. Sai wants to "see" is the "structure" of how it performs the Dementor's Kiss; any other excessive redundancy is not necessary.

Isn't its body similar to slime or water? It is not easy to slice it thin with a knife, but you can use a pot to evaporate the excess water.

That is to use the Patronus branding iron to burn all the excess on its body into black smoke and dissipate it, gradually testing the smallest reminder that it can cast the "Dementor's Kiss".

An adult's chest wall is certainly thicker than a child's.

When enough "matter" of the Dementor is evaporated, its special performance when sucking souls will become more obvious.

Sainz thought of a kind of silver fish in the water, whose body was almost transparent and their eating process could be seen clearly.

When a large amount of the Dementor's body is evaporated, will its eating process become more "spectacular"?

It turns out that thin people’s “eating” movements are more obvious than fat people’s.

Regardless of whether you are fat or thin, you need to chew and swallow food, and the swallowing action of thin people is more obvious than that of fat people.

The quality of people's souls probably doesn't differ that much, and the "energy" required to be "absorbed and digested" should be roughly similar.

A strong Dementor and a weakened Dementor. The weakened Dementors require more "obvious" actions. After being weakened, the circulation of magic in their bodies is relatively more obvious.

This relative difference provides the possibility and convenience for Sai to deeply perceive the operation of Dementor's Kiss.

At the beginning of the research, the first problem that Sainz had to solve was not to perceive how the Dementor's Kiss worked, but to weaken them as much as possible to ensure that they would not die.

Fortunately, there are a lot of tattered cloaks wandering in the wild now, otherwise we wouldn’t dare to be too reckless when conducting experiments.

The process is a bit laborious, but the result is good.

He initially wondered if the Dementor's Kiss was a magic, a unique wandless and silent spell, which would be relatively more difficult to cast.

Silent spells are just advanced versions of vocal spells. If you only know the effects of a certain magic but not the content of the spell when learning it, it will definitely be extremely difficult to start with wandless silent spells.

Moreover, the silent spell is not without the mantra, but the spell has been practiced to a very deep level, and when it is cast, there is actually a process of chanting the spell in the mind.

If you only tell someone a magical result and ask him to perform it silently and without a wand, you are actually asking him to create a specific new spell based on this magical effect.

If that's the case, why did Sai go to so much trouble to study Dementors? He could have just created a spell based on the effect of "soul extraction"!

Isn’t it because it’s easier with a reference?

Fortunately, the situation with the Dementors was not like this, but a situation that was more favorable to Sainz.

They have a set of "Soul Extraction Rune Combination" in their bodies!

The way they cast magic is different from that of wizards. They are more like "an alchemical item" with powerful and specific functions.

Wizards, with a little training, can perform all kinds of magic.

And alchemical items, such as the Vanishing Cabinet and the Pensieve, are very powerful, but their functions are also very limited.

Then Sai thought, "This doesn't seem strange. Perhaps the situation with all magical creatures is similar."

He thought of the invisible beast and the ball-eating bird.

The Invisible Beast can become invisible at will, while the Orb-Escape Bird specializes in Apparition and can disappear from the hunter's sight at any time.

There is the invisibility rune, which he has studied carefully, and the ball bird probably also has a rune that specializes in space teleportation.

By extension, most magical creatures only specialize in one or two spells, and they probably all have similar combinations of runes on their bodies.

Some animals have more runes and more powerful magic, or perhaps they have more runes than other animals.

There should be both good and bad sides to this situation.

On the plus side, animals don't have to go through the process of learning magic; they can master it automatically once they grow to a certain size, and some can even master it from birth.

On the negative side, this situation probably also limits the animals' paths, making it impossible for them to master other magic, or at least making it extremely difficult for them to learn and master other magic.