I ran my right hand over the red wounds. A slight burning made itself known...
The consequences of absorbing too large an amount of magic.
But the internal damage was much greater...
Large fractures had formed in my Magical Core. Because of the huge amount of magic I had absorbed, fractures had occurred.
The amount of magic I had absorbed was roughly one and a half times as large as my Magical Core.
To accommodate the enormous amount of magic, my Magical Core had to adapt...
Its size grew by 50 percent to be able to take in that quantity of magic.
The cracks that marked every centimetre of my core were the result of this.
I did not consider this normal in any way.
It could have ended much worse!
The procedure I carried out to absorb magical power from the environment turned out to be far more dangerous than I had thought...
In the worst case, my Magical Core would have imploded from the pressure or exploded from the sheer amount of magic.
If that scenario had occurred... well, I would have become a Squib or, in the worst case, a No-Maj.
Unable to practice magic...
In my chest I still felt the aching fire that slowly diminished.
It looks like I won't be able to use magic for a few days...
Until the cracks in my Magical Core are healed, that will be difficult.
It's good that I attempted this while my mother is away for work.
She will be gone for a few more days...
Hopefully the damage will be healed by then.
But it was worth it anyway!
I mean, everything I can theoretically do with infinite magical power.
The curse of my natural Occlumency can be counteracted!
Who needs emotions when channeling spells, if you can balance it with magical power?
Freaking no one!
But a lot still has to happen before that can happen...
I need to find a method to absorb magical power without causing myself physical pain and accidentally shredding my Magical Core.
Again I rubbed my chest to ease the irritation.
Well, now I can occupy myself with the mental arts.
For that I don't need magic...
I ran my hand through my soft golden hair and sat in lotus position on the carpet.
I closed my eyes and concentrated on my Inner Landscape.
When I opened my eyes again I found myself in my Inner Landscape, painted silver.
Well, hopefully that will change soon.
On the left side were my violet-black Occlumency shields.
When I turn eleven, in other words, when I enter Hogwarts, my Occlumency shields will be black—meaning the Master level. From that level, I will be able to perform cognitive enhancement.
From the Grandmaster level I will be able to split my consciousness.
Ah, what I could do with all that, I thought.
I am now at the Advanced level. At this level one can, with a mental technique, develop a perfect photographic memory.
Which, by the way, I have achieved.
Every single memory is imprinted in me down to the smallest detail.
This life, and my previous one as Arlo Flord.
Thus I also know every single line of the Harry Potter books.
Well,... almost all of them.
Some are shrouded, as if in fog.
This fact is probably due to the Fidelius Charm.
Whatever.
At the Advanced level I am able to massively change my Inner Landscape.
Theoretically you can build whole cities, castles, or constructs.
At that point only your imagination is the limit.
As a Master you are literally a god in your Inner Landscape.
Not to mention the Grandmasters—that is a whole other league.
That is why many mental artists consider it more important to develop the Inner Landscape than to strengthen the Occlumency shields.
From the point of a Master, progress becomes significantly more difficult, which explains this standpoint of those mental artists.
As a natural Occlumens, I am, without being arrogant, incredibly talented in the mental arts.
The progress I have made in these few years would take talented non-natural Occlumens decades, if not centuries.
Only because of my... incredible genius do I dare to change the basic concepts of the Inner Landscape.
The Inner Landscape is, in its reach,... limited.
It may be that with each level it expands exponentially.
But it is still... jokingly limited.
That is why I want—no, I will—add a concept.
Infinity.
An infinitely large Inner Landscape.
If my Occlumency shields are infinitely far away, how could potential Legilimens ever reach them?
Their failure would be inevitable.
To achieve this in my Inner Landscape I will simulate the presumed theory of the origin of the universe, the Big Bang.
I will compress my Inner Landscape into such a small, dense point, and trigger a "Big Bang".
Space will expand at faster-than-light speed without ever stopping.
Even if this theoretically will never be infinite, it will come closest, since it never stops expanding.
But that also means I must compress space along with it.
The simulated "Big Bang" should then carry space beyond its original boundaries.
Achieving that will be... difficult.
Extremely complicated.
I will probably only manage my first attempt at that as a Master.
Now, I will try to deform space.
That way I will slowly gain the expertise and experience to carry out my Big Bang.
I inhaled and exhaled briefly.
Slowly I stretched out my left hand.
Concentrated on the authority I have over my Inner Landscape.
Specifically, I focused on space.
Theoretically I could change the color of my Inner Landscape.
Or turn the water I stood on into a green meadow.
But I didn't want that...
My fingers touched the actual foundation of the Inner Landscape.
Space.
So strong and yet so... fragile.
One small mistake and it could escalate.
Cautiously, my fingers touched the threads that had become visible under my Inner Gift.
I pulled them lightly.
The change was instantly visible...
An imperfection had formed in the landscape.
The imperfection: a ridge that deformed space.
The silver lines, which usually branched and formed like a neural network across the sky, showed an abnormality.
When they hit the invisible ridge the light—or rather the space—deformed around it.
The silver streaks curved into a semicircle around the "ridge."
It was, so to speak, a kind of straight-lined "black hole" that distorted space.
Because light cannot reach there due to the strong gravity, the threads take a detour.
What I am doing right now, however, is not space manipulation.
It is gravity manipulation.
But to create the "Big Bang" I must manipulate space.
I tried for several more hours to manipulate space... but without success.
However, my gravity manipulation had improved.
I could simultaneously create stable "black holes."
I placed these around my Occlumency shields.
They serve as the first line of defense for now.
But that was not my goal.
Legilimens also partially have authority over my Inner Landscape.
So it's only a matter of time until they figure out how to overcome the black holes.
But they cannot overcome an infinite Inner Landscape.
It is impossible.
Maybe I will be able to use space manipulation when I become a Master.
Until then I will keep trying.
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[A/N:
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