Chapter 3.

  Sihe i with Soren that triggered the magical turmoil, Lucius has eagerly fostered Soren's studies in magic. To the astonishment and delight of the whole family, Soren's talent for learning surprisingly exteo the realm of magic.

  Soren has also shown remarkable talent in learning magic, mastering various magical knowledge almost immediately, and even occasionally posing questions that Lucius found himself a little troubled while answering. Before long, Lucius gave up on personally guiding Soren, allowing him to explore and resear his own.

  As a top student in his previous life, Soren skipped the process of learning nguages and characters, iing an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a diligent attitude towards learning starting from the age of four, often immersing himself in the family's colle of books.

  For turies, members of the Malfoy family have been enrig the family's library, with a vast array of book gehat cover history, spell studies, transfiguration, herbology, magical beasts, and even obscure a magical literature and alchemy.

  Among these are maremely rare and valuable first editions; a single copy of a rare magical book is priceless and be sidered invaluable. These are the foundations ied by pure-blood wizarding families, and unless absolutely necessary, no one would bring them out.

  Soren's favorite books were historical ohrough the family's historical dots, he gain a deeper and more plete uanding of this magical world than what is presented in the inal work.

  He deeply uands that this is a plete magical world, where every person is a living character. This world is not only home to the savior Harry and his friends, nor is it just about the dark lord Voldemort and his followers; it also includes diverse individuals and lives, such as curse-breakers of the Egyptian pyramids, traveling magical biologists, and alchemists who create wondrous items.

  uzzles and founds Soren is that, as a family aligned with Voldemort in the inal work, there are surprisingly no books on dark magi the library. Could it be because books on dark magic carry i danger, and his parents are worried about him and his brother actally entering them, leading them to be hidden away?

  Well, it's not impossible; Soren suspects this possibility is quite high. In the sed installment of the inal work, when Harry and Ron impersonated Goyle and Crabbe to extraformation from Draco, Draco actally revealed that there was a hidden chamber uhe manor's living room, used to store the Malfoy family's traband.

  The pure-blood families, especially the Sacred Twe, possess an a and profound historical legacy.

  Despite the portrayal of a few pure-blood families being submissive to Voldemort in the inal story, their true strength has never been dispyed through violence or bat; rather, it is rooted in monopolizing lucrative industries within the magical world to trol its eic lifelihereby amassing unimaginable wealth and maintaining signifit political influence.

  What ehem to achieve this is not merely the iance of wealth, but rather the various preagical secrets that these a families possess. For example, the Ollivander family, which has a history of over two thousand years, thrives by trolling the secrets of wand-making and thereby monopolizes ohird of the wand industry in Europe to create wealth.

  The dots rec family secrets are the most precious treasures of a family.

  Soren knows that Voldemort's return is only a few years away, and if he wishes to protect himself and safeguard his family, he must seize every moment to enhance his strength. Being a past life top student, he diligently absorbed all the knowledge in the family's library even more than others.

  Soren has a good retionship with Dobby, and after several years of coaxing, he finally succeeded in persuading Dobby at the age of five to take him along while the family was out, to sneak into the hidden chamber located beh the living room.

  The entrao the hidden chamber is blocked by heavy protective magid ot be entered without the correlog spell. However, protective magi the wizarding world has a vulnerability: it often uimates the magic of creatures they sider inferior, such as house-elves. Therefore, Soren relied on Dobby to use house-elf magic to gairy into the hidden chamber.

  The ceiling of the secret room was adorned with several skulls emitting a strange fluoresce, filling the dim space with a faint light.

  On all four walls, rows of shelves were visible, brimming with bizarre items that were clearly infused with dark magic—bck skulls, blood-stained daggers, oddly shaped masks, rusty s, and so on.

  These items came without any descriptions, leaving Soren pletely in the dark about their names and uses.

  Soren moved cautiously in the cramped secret room, carefully avoiding tact with any of the items.

  It was no joke; even someone like Dumbledore could meet death by actally toug Voldemort's cursed objects. Given that his own father was a former Death Eater, Soren was sure that such terrifying dark magical items were definitely part of the colle.

  Among the many items, Soren reized one: an old-fashioned notebook with a bck cover, looking exceedingly ordinary, much like an everyday diary in the Muggle world, with the om Riddle inscribed on it.

  Sorehis was Voldemort's first Horcrux, and with his current strength, he wouldn't rashly touch it to avoid trouble.

  After hastily gng over these dreadful dark magical items, Soren made his way to a er dedicated to books. The books here were particurly a, some even so worn that the titles were unreadable.

  From the pile of books, Soreed three magical tomes: "Dark Potions," "Fallen Beings," and "Abathar Volume One."

  These three books looked very old, with much of the tent written in a runes.

  Then, he found the family spell notebook in a hidden partment, taini spells limited to family heirs, and had Dobby copy one for him. Since young wizards were not allowed to possess wands before the age of 11 in the British wizarding world, Soren could only note down the principles ahods for casting spells but couldn't actually learn to use them.

  ["Dark Potions" obtained! "Fallen Beings" obtained! "Abathar Volume One" obtained!]

  [Malfoy family spell obtained!]

  Just as Soren was about to leave, satisfied with his haul, he caught sight of a dusty, decrepit hss in the er. If not for the faint magical aura detected by his magical eye, the item's old appearance would have gone unnoticed.

  In the magical world, hsses, pocket watches, and simir items that emanated magical energy usually meant ohing—this item was infused with time magic!

  With excitement, Soren decided to take the hss as well. He summoned Dobby over and, using the elf's unique magic, crafted imitations of the spell-book and hss to pce them back, then carefully erased all traces before leaving with Dobby via apparition.

  [Time Hss obtained!]

  Ihis time hss was a time-turner, a prototype that had been passed down sihe Middle Ages.

  Ier texts of the inal story, when all known time-turners had beeroyed, Lucius was still able to have Theodore Nott create two braime-turners from scratch. While Nott had some talent, Soren had always beeical of his ability to produce a time-turner without any samples or reference diagrams.

  At this moment, Soren firmed his previous guess—Lucius had long possessed the oldest time-turner, and Nott had merely improved it to create a more practical version.

  Time magic is one of the most mysterious branches of magid Sore came with many rules; he did not wish to provoke terrible sequences by breaking them.

  This oldest time-turner, while only capable of sending Soren bae hour at a time, was quite suffit for him. What he needed was merely more time for reading and studying, simir to Hermione's excessive studying ihird year in the inal story.

  To gain such a cheat right from the start, Soren couldn't help but feel incredibly lucky.

  Although the time hss had no limitations on usage, excessive and frequent use would still impose a burden on the body, as seen with Hermione in the inal story wheimately had to give up due to exhaustion. Therefore, Soren only flipped the hss four times a day, using the extra four hours for studying, being increasingly absorbed in reading and learning day by day.

  The colle in the library has more than a hundred books, but with the help of the time hss, Soren mao read all the books by the age of 9, acquiring a level of knowledge that is unattainable for ordinary people.

  As for the three books on bck magic, Soren does not pn to touch them for the time being, as books on bck magic are usually ily dangerous, and it would be reckless and foolish for him to approach them with his current strength. As for the magical teags of the Malfoy family, although Soren has not practiced them, he has already memorised the steps for casting spells and various details.

  With nothing else to do, Soren began to e up with mischievous ideas again.