Harry Potter: Transmigrated Detective Link

Facts proved that there was indeed a slight gap between ideals and reality.

What Link believed to be that final critical step wasn't truly completed until sometime in February.

["Blood of Boreas" LV1 acquired!]

Looking at the crimson-red potion in the bottle before him, which looked just like blood, and at the subtitles on his retina, Link felt quite emotional.

Potion research was truly not easy. In the past half month, he had almost every day spent several hours in the Room of Requirement developing the "Blood of Boreas," but the constant stream of problems caused the research progress to remain stuck.

Fortunately, in the end, he still succeeded.

Link raised his head and drank the potion from the glass bottle. A swelling sensation spread from his legs, while at the same time, his brain felt a bit of a stinging pain.

Fortunately, Link's mental strength and brain had already been tempered to extreme toughness by the Hyperesthesia Spell and Occlumency, so this bit of burden wasn't much.

Immediately afterward, under Link's mental control, the Room of Requirement's interior changed.

It ultimately transformed from a potion laboratory into a field covered with various barbed wires, trenches, and obstacles.

With a stomp of his foot, Link shot out like a blur.

Under the effect of "Blood of Boreas," all of Link's physical qualities, even his neural reaction speed, were greatly enhanced. He darted through the various obstacles like a monkey, moving with ease as if walking on flat ground.

After completing a lap, Link, whose breathing was now slightly disordered, took out his pocket watch. The time displayed was 1 minute and 21 seconds.

This caused a satisfied smile to tug at the corners of Link's mouth.

The world record for a 500-meter military obstacle run was 2 minutes and 9 seconds. Link had exceeded that record by a full 48 seconds. If you also considered the denser arrangement of obstacles in the Room of Requirement, that meant Link's agility after drinking the "Blood of Boreas" had reached nearly twice the conventional human limit.

This was actually a rather terrifying increase, especially considering that Link had replaced many of the original recipe's precious ingredients with common ones, resulting in a greatly weakened effect.

Moreover, the "Blood of Boreas" could also be consumed together with the "Polyjuice Potion."

Though intense activity would cause the invisibility effect of the "Polyjuice Potion", which was already not full invisibility, to weaken further, combining it with the extremely high movement speed could still achieve an extremely terrifying effect in battle.

If one were to describe it, the visual effect of combining "Blood of Boreas" and "Polyjuice Potion" was somewhat like the Ghost Step skill from Dungeon Fighter Online's Ghostblade class, except without the invincibility.

Satisfied, Link put his pocket watch back and walked out of the Room of Requirement.

Outside, it was already late at night. The corridor of the eighth floor of Hogwarts was deserted and silent, completely dark, like a typical horror film setting.

But Link, who had walked this path countless times, felt nothing. He yawned and walked straight into the darkness, not even bothering to cast the Lumos Charm.

Recently, Link had been cultivating so fiercely for the potion's development that it was about time to catch up on some sleep.

However, if you walk the night road too often, you're bound to encounter something strange.

Link had only walked a few steps when a sinister voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

"Link."

As these words rang out, Link was startled all over. His sleepiness vanished without a trace. A flash of black light shone in his hand as a black wand pointed toward the source of the voice.

But in the next moment, Link breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his wand.

"Professor Snape! Next time could you please make some noise when walking? Scaring people can literally scare them to death!" Link said resentfully.

At these words, the person stepped out from the darkness, none other than Snape in his black robes.

Only, unlike usual, Snape today was especially gloomy. He coldly said, "You've been avoiding me lately?"

"Ah… this…"

At these words, an awkward expression flashed across Link's face.

Link knew better than anyone how petty Snape was. So, after knowing that he had directly caused Slytherin to lose 300 points and almost lose eligibility for the House Cup, Link had been avoiding direct contact with Snape.

After all, forcing Link to extract two hundred servings of fire dragon dung in one night was exactly the kind of thing Snape would do.

But this kind of reason was really not something to admit out loud.

Just as Link was caught up in awkward thoughts, Snape's nostrils flared slightly, then he glanced toward the Room of Requirement and said suspiciously:

"I smell potion ingredients. Were you brewing potions here?"

At these words, Link's expression relaxed. He never planned to hide the "Blood of Boreas" from Snape in the first place, so he directly pulled out another sample from his pocket and handed it to Snape, saying:

"That's right. I recently had some discoveries while studying the Slytherin Pharmacopoeia, so I came up with something new."

Snape didn't respond to Link's explanation, but directly pulled out the bottle's wooden stopper and sniffed.

"'Blood of Boreas'!?" Snape said in shock, his gaze toward Link filled with surprise. "You actually managed to create the 'Blood of Boreas'? That's a mid-to-high difficulty potion in the Pharmacopoeia."

"It's just the weakened version. Not a big deal." Link waved his hand and said with a tone of pride.

To be honest, he himself was quite proud of being able to create "Blood of Boreas."

But Snape, upon hearing this, fell silent. He looked at Link with a complicated expression, and after a moment, squeezed out a barely audible line from between his teeth:

"Well done."

"Hehe! It's all thanks to your teaching."

Link's smile became even more radiant. He knew clearly that although Snape was cold, this was the highest form of praise Snape was capable of giving.

However, in the next moment, Link's smile froze.

Because Snape showed no intention of returning the sample of "Blood of Boreas", instead, after sealing the bottle, he stuffed it straight into his own pocket.

The atmosphere between the two suddenly became a little awkward.

Snape's expression remained stiff under the effect of Occlumency, but Link was surprised to notice that Snape's facial muscles seemed to be twitching slightly.

Clearly, even Snape himself felt somewhat embarrassed about taking his student's sample potion.

After a long time, Snape finally coughed twice and said, "I know you reported Draco. And I also know you believe he's the so-called heir."

Link's expression turned a bit pained upon hearing that.

He wasn't surprised that Snape knew everything. After all, while Dumbledore might keep this from students, he would definitely not hide it from Snape.

What really made him uncomfortable was that this seemingly straightforward man, Snape, had now learned to shift the topic like someone with high emotional intelligence, smoothly brushing off the matter of the potion.

Seeing Link remain silent, Snape continued, "You should be mentally prepared. The outcome of this matter may not go as smoothly as you imagine."

"What do you mean by that?" Link's eyes narrowed as he spoke coldly.

But Snape just shook his head and turned to walk back into the darkness.

After a while, his cold voice echoed again, "You'll find out soon enough."

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