It took him two weeks to finally produce a working blood rune. Damian looked a little hagard, imagine having to learn the knowledge that will take years in just two weeks, and then doing countless practical applications to produce a single successful product.
This one is a typical example for that. As Damian spilled one drop of his blood on it, it started giving his mana signature. Then Damian took grabbed a black glass tube, this is also an enchanted product, it's given to him by Nicholas Flamel through Albus Dumbledore. This is also one of the conditions he agreed to take the test of Nicholas Flamel.
The old fossil sent him a letter reprimanding his rejection. For one week, the inn is filled with nagging and scolding howlers, then the next week it's asking about what he wants. Then on the first day of the third week, this enchanted bottle is sent to him with the letter.
It stated that Albus Dumbledore told Nicholas Flamel about what he is working on, and Nicholas Flamel gladly helped in exchange for one condition, Damian must take his test and pass. So yeah, the reason Damian looked this much haggard has to do with this two old fossils who lured him with the bait of replacing the trace on him.
He felt like hitting his head against a rock, even calming draughts are getting less and less potent now. His body started developing resistance to them. He really wanted to pull all the hairs of his headmaster's beard now. That way at least he will feel some satisfaction for these two weeks ordeal, if it wasn't for Albus Dumbledore's insistance he wouldn't have signed and accepted the trace. Damn that old man.
Damian complained inwardly many times. And the trace replacement began, Damian used the glass tube to extract the trace magic placed on him and checked the trace using his system. Only after the ding sounded that he slumped back to his chair with a sigh of relief.
He poured the trace magic on the blood rune. The rune stone glowed a little before starting it's function, every month he needs to add a drop of his blood to this rune stone for it function continuously or else the trace magic will again come back to him, and he needs to go through the trouble of making a blood rune stone again.
Damian then fell asleep as soon as he replaced the trace on him ignoring the system notifications. It's only after half a day that he woke up feeling somewhat rested. It's already mid night by that time. Damian opened the notebook given to him by Evelyn, this is the new information about the phantom guild that again trying to spread its influence in the wizarding world.
He marked his target, the first base is in a cave near the borders of Scotland, which is a few hundred miles from here, but that's okay, he has a perfect option for travel.
*Bang* *Boom*
He activated his obscurus after some distance from Hogsmeade. Aberforth sighed while looking out of the window. Albus Dumbledore also sighed when he saw that Damain left Hogsmeade. It looks like he can't stop this child at all.
Damian turned into black smoke like thing and flew towards the direction of this base at a fast speed. When Damian reached the location, he felt his body is prickled all over by the needles, moreover half of his mana is already burnt out. Even if Obscurus no longer consumes his life force, it's chaotic power still affects his body.
Fortunately for him, the Regeneration proved quite effective here. Damian took out his wand, his eyes resolute and cold. He entered the cave after scanning for any detection runes, as he sensed the murky mana around he frowned. This feels ominous and disgusting to him.
Damian saw the guards after some distance. He showed no mercy, he just clemched his fist, mana rose in the area, a slow voice sounded in the ears of the guards before they felt dizzy and pain," Earth Spike ", a very useful spell made by Damian after reading the grimoires. He used an inferior version in the duel with Gemma previously.
This spell though is an enhanced one that will send earth spikes towards these guys. They will be impaled with Earth Spike. Damian then entered the big entrance they're guarding with invisibility yet when he did, he felt the chaotic mana signature, the disgusting feeling increased even more.
He frowned and followed the path all while scanning the cave. In a distance foot steps echoed along with shouts," prepare for assault, the enemy already killed squad 3 ", a group of 20 members appeared with wands and strange looking black robes, their mana is also chaotic, more than that, they reek of an aura that made Damian irritated.
He lifted his wand and started using some strange language, the language used by wizards and witches in founders era, the rune script, thanks to this two weeks efforts he is able to understand some spells he can't previously, although they're low level, even the previously used Musphlehiem and Thunder God's Advent are not complete. They need the support of this language or a magic circle formed from runes or top mastery of mana transformation into elements to activate.
And Damian is a novice in this area. So he can only use their inferior versions. Air started vibrate around him beforeit transformed thin sharp projectiles. Before the squad can even understand what is happening, these projectiles drilled into most of them. Only few erected a full powered protego at the last minute.
The shield charm broke protecting them, before they understand from where the attacks appeared, an explosion blasted off one man's head in the next second, they tried to fire spells at the direction but then another person's neck got cut off from a spell fired from another direction. Damian is simply running around them with invisibility and silencing charm active around him.