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The room once again surprised Draco, as it could create a special space for magical battles, which he had been training in for a few days since discovering that the requirements room could create it.
And in this space Draco didn't need to fight in person.
Instead, a magical construct identical to him would fight to the death against opponents created by the room, and Draco could control this magical construct from a distance.
Draco just needed to sit in a special place outside the dueling field where these magical constructs would fight.
And being surrounded by a powerful barrier created by the room itself, no stray spell could accidentally hit him.
Upon closing his eyes, Draco's perspective would shift, and he would suddenly find himself within the dueling arena, where he took perfect control of the magical construct and could fight in his place without fear of being injured or killed in the attempt.
The battlefield could change at will, taking the form of landscapes of forests, mountains, deserts of sand or snow, beaches, or even the seabed.
Thanks to this last battlefield, Draco had fun creating spells to breathe underwater and defensive and offensive spells based on water and ice.
Draco had become very good at casting elemental spells before coming to Hogwarts, but it was thanks to the Requirement Room that he became a master at them, with the lightning element being his best element and the water element now occupying second place.
But tonight Draco wasn't here for physical training, magical battles, creating spells, or studying spells written in ancient books.
It is here to increase your magical energy.
Draco reached inside the collar of his shirt and found a secretly sewn-in pocket inside his clothing.
This pocket had a space-age charm like bottomless bags, and from it he took out a small box of matches.
Draco opened the box and inside he found not matches, but a magically shrunk suitcase.
Draco pulled it out and with a flick of magic the suitcase returned to its original size.
This suitcase could serve as a refuge whenever desired, and could also hold all the important items that he felt no one else should see.
Like what I was about to take out right now.
Opening the suitcase and finding a secret compartment, Draco carefully took out 7 red crystals.
If someone were to analyze these crystals, they would discover that these crystals were created using blood.
Specifically, Draco's blood.
In the magical world, blood is very important to a wizard, or rather the DNA within it.
Magical beings still have a connection to those DNA samples that won't be erased so easily, like blood and hair.
Wizards and witches with a certain level of power and/or knowledge regularly perform rituals to find if there were any traces of their DNA, such as blood or hair, lying around, and immediately perform another ritual to eliminate them from a distance.
The reason is that others can send curses through these DNA samples.
While they wouldn't be deadly curses, they would be annoying.
Like the one where you can easily obtain someone's location and ambush them.
Therefore, they are careful about this.
Especially with their blood, which they should never give voluntarily, since then the curses sent through that blood could be deadly.
There's a reason why wizards and witches are wary of blood contracts.
If they sign a blood contract, wizards or witches would be magically bound to its terms. This is extremely dangerous, especially if the contract is rigged.
Draco knew the importance of blood, and that is why he enchanted these blood crystals so that he could destroy them whenever he wanted or they would automatically self-destruct when they moved more than 100 meters away from him.
Of course, these crystals weren't going to last long in existence, so he wasn't worried about someone using them to harm him.
By making the requirements room create an empty room illuminated with a white light, Draco made the blood crystals float in the air and took off his shirt, leaving his upper body bare.
And if someone were to look at his back, they would see a huge blue Western Dragon tattooed on his back.
The beast had its jaws slightly open, showing its sharp fangs that would terrify anyone.
And with its wings spread and its front claws pointing forward, anyone would feel that the Dragon was looking them straight in the eyes as its next prey.
Draco didn't delay what he was going to do.
The floating blood crystals flew towards his back and landed on 7 points of the Blue Dragon.
One of the crystals settled on its head, its 2 wings, its 2 front claws, its neck, and the last blood crystal settled on the sharp tip of its tail.
Immediately, as if it had a life of its own, the ink of the Blue Dragon tattoo seemed to come alive and swallowed the crystals.
And as if nothing had happened, the tattoo returned to normal.
But Draco knew that wasn't the case.
Something had happened.
The blond man immediately felt the connection with the 7 blood crystals and sensed the magical energy contained within them.
Looking for some way to increase his reserves of magical energy, Draco sought out numerous magical rituals using his family's wealth and the help of the room of requirements when he had access to it.
As a school nearly a thousand years old, Hogwarts has housed within its walls numerous ancient books containing lost knowledge, and Draco gained access to them thanks to the room.
In addition, the room could create memories of the masters by casting spells, creating potions, and performing rituals, so Draco was able to learn from the brightest minds of the last thousand years.
After all, it wasn't just the teachers who conducted their research within the castle walls.
The directors did it too.
Due to Dumbledore's current fame, people forget about the school's former headmasters and the fact that they were mostly considered the best wizards or witches of their time.
There's a reason why magical Great Britain was considered the greatest magical power in the world in the past.
Although it was now debatable given the decline of education in the country.
But that last part didn't matter to Draco now, and instead he focused on his current situation.
Blood crystals were created based on a dark spell that worked by killing wizards and witches to extract their blood, crystallize that blood, and seal the victims' magical energy in those crystals.
In this way, the dark wizard could extract that previously sealed magical energy to increase his magical reserves at important moments such as battles or during experiments.
The downside was that when the magical energy ran out, the blood crystals would be destroyed, and the dark wizard or witch would have to repeat the process.
That is, to kill more wizards and witches.
It sounded great for a dark wizard or witch.
If they could increase the amount of available magical energy, they could easily kill hundreds of people a day.
The bad thing was that it was still a dark spell and affected the mind like all dark spells.
As they become more irrational over time, they would easily attract attention and be hunted down by magical governments.
Draco used the principle of this dark spell to use his own blood to create these blood crystals and has been sealing his magical energy into them every day.
And since he wasn't killing anyone and didn't need negative thoughts to cast the spell, his mind wasn't affected.
Draco could feel the connection with the 7 blood crystals and each one of them had its magical energy inside.
With each crystal having the same amount of magical energy as Draco, that meant Draco now had 8 times his magical energy reserves.
It should be known that Draco had 30% less magical energy than Dumbledore when he started Hogwarts and during the last 2 months of constant training in the Room of Requirement he has reduced it from 30% to 20%.
That means Draco now had 6 times the magical reserves of the headmaster.
A satisfied smile appeared on the blond man's face, and he felt that his efforts to review hundreds of books had been worthwhile when he found that well-hidden dark spell.
Draco knew that no matter how strong he was, he depended on his magic and would be at a serious disadvantage when his magical reserves ran out.
Therefore, he had always thought of ways to increase his reserves and was always researching.
Until he finally succeeded.
During his research, he lost a lot of time because most of the options for his desires involved dark rituals of sacrifice that he was unwilling to do.
Not to mention the consequences for their mind.
Over time he would go mad and very possibly become a dark lord.
It was after giving up on rituals that he thought of some kind of battery to store his magical energy beforehand for later use.
Unfortunately, such a magic battery did not exist in the magical world, and he had to research and create it on his own.
At that moment he remembered the blood crystals and began experimenting to modify the spell so that it would not be a dark one since it did not require killing people.
The blood crystals are the result of his research and I would say it was a resounding success.
The only thing missing was a way to carry the blood crystals with you at all times and access them immediately.
The enemy definitely wouldn't let him recover his reserves quietly, so he had to think outside the box.
This is where his past studies on magical tattoos came in handy.
Interested in the dark marks that Voldemort used on the Death Eaters, Draco studied everything he could find about magical tattoos.
With his family's influence and wealth, it was easy to kidnap a Death Eater who escaped persecution by the British Ministry of Magic and study the Dark Mark on his arm.
Confirming that it was a magic that affected the soul, Draco also confirmed what he already knew.
Voldemort could locate each of his Death Eaters, summon them to his meeting, and had the ability to absorb a small portion of the individual's magical energy whenever he wanted.
At that moment Draco realized how annoying it would be to fight Voldemort if he could gain access to his slaves' magical reserves.
Even if it's just a small part, almost minuscule one might say, together it would be a significant amount.
Draco studied the Dark Mark and was inspired by it to create the tattoo that Narcissa had.
In addition to using this magic to find Narcissa's location, Draco was also able to make the magical tattoos send written messages.
But it was the part about sharing magical energy that Draco used.
On each blood crystal, Draco had engraved his own mark, and that is why he had a connection with each crystal.
And unlike Voldemort, who could only access a tiny fraction of his followers' magical energy, Draco had full access to it because, to begin with, it was his magic.
The part about sealing the crystals on their backs was somewhat complicated.
But thanks to the help of the Room of Requirement, he was able to achieve it and confirmed it by using a human test subject.
Although Knockturn Alley's reputation is exaggerated, it was no lie that many dark wizards and witches frequented it.
Therefore, it was easy for Draco to capture some for his experiments.
When the crystals did not explode in the test subjects' bodies and everything was stable after a week, Draco decided to do it himself and it worked.