Having escaped famine, I was accepted into Hogwarts.

Chapter 162 Oh, Merlin! I've become a professor?

Chapter 162 Oh, Merlin! I've become a professor?

Since it was described as a surprise, Kane certainly wouldn't say anything more and walked into the Forbidden Forest on his own.

He was different from Lupin. Lupin hadn't seen Hagrid for a long time, and their reunion was that of old friends. But he saw Hagrid every day, sometimes two or even three times a day, so he certainly didn't have as much to say to him.

After entering the forbidden forest, he casually found a tree of moderate size, reached out and placed his hand on it, slowly letting his shadow envelop him.

As he sensed that the tree was becoming somewhat strange, Kane very naturally pulled an exquisite axe from his hat with a sly smile.

As for why we chose the traditional approach this time, instead of directly turning it into a living log with Shadow...

Humans, too, need a little bit of ritual every now and then.

Kane slowly exhaled. Thanks to the walking staff that increased his speed by 25% lying in the Shadow Codex, his tree-chopping speed was now ridiculously fast.

From the moment the axe struck the tree spirit for the first time, to the tree spirit howling and lying on the ground as a grotesque, lifeless log, it took less than three seconds.

After collecting the living wood, Kane wasn't in a hurry to leave the Forbidden Forest. After all, Hagrid and Lupin hadn't seen each other for so many years, and they probably had a lot to talk about. He certainly couldn't disturb them.

He simply sat down on the ground, took out two purple gems from his hat, pressed them together with the living wood, added a little bit of shadow erosion, and a rough teleportation wand with a strange beauty appeared in his hand.

Thanks to the fact that the Shadow Codex has been completely integrated into him, he can now integrate the teleportation wand into it without having to take the book out.

Unfortunately, using a teleportation wand alone is hardly convenient for personal use or combat; even running away can easily result in accidentally burning calories, because there's no teleportation focus on the wand.

It teleports you randomly. Unlike the special rules of the Eternal Realm that make the teleportation wand slightly more human-like, in the real world, being teleported to a busy highway late at night is considered good.

It's entirely possible that they could teleport you to the sky, the seabed, or even cause you to clip through objects.

However, having a teleportation focus changes things. It allows for controlled, specific teleportation, and long-distance teleportation, like a door key, is also possible. But that requires setting up the teleportation focus in advance, which is still somewhat troublesome overall.

But it smells much better when used at close range.

You can control the teleportation focus to appear within a considerable distance of your sight, achieving short-distance instantaneous teleportation.

If I ever encounter an old codger like Voldemort again, I'll definitely sew his eyes out.

In the very end, Kane used his last Galon to melt it down into his final gold nugget, which he then used to create a triangular teleportation point with the Living Wood.

Although theoretically this thing will consume three purple gems every time it is used for teleportation, those are outsiders to the Eternal Realm. They would have to go to the Eternal Realm to beg for food, so using the teleportation focus would definitely be expensive.

But I'm different. At least I've sat on a Shadow toilet before, so I must have some small perks that ordinary people don't get.

For example, if you place three purple gems on the teleport focus, you can use it an unlimited number of times.

How wonderful it is!

Kane quickly created the teleportation focus and then integrated it into himself.

This time, he didn't experience the same feeling of lightness that walking sticks had given him before.

If he hadn't consciously merged the teleportation wand and focus, but instead accidentally merged them together one night, he probably wouldn't have even realized he had gained these two new skills.

However, not feeling it is one thing, using it is another.

Kane looked towards a patch of shade under a tree not far away, where a purple triangular magic circle suddenly flashed, and he appeared there in the next moment.

After letting out a satisfied sound, Kane used the ability to move around the area he was looking at a few more times. And you know what? It really felt pretty good.

And so Kane moved out of the Forbidden Forest, only stopping when he was almost out of it.

Firstly, I'm starting to get a headache from teleporting, probably because my sanity level is getting too high.

Secondly, he didn't particularly want others to see that he could teleport.

It's not that I intentionally wanted to leave myself a backup plan; I was just too lazy to explain.

Kane climbed over the wall into Hagrid's yard and glanced at Hagrid, looking somewhat bewildered at the man who was in tears.

Kane was completely stunned.

"What's going on? Lupin, did you bully Hagrid?"

Hagrid waved his hand quickly upon hearing Kane speak: "No, I'm happy, after all these years..."

Upon hearing this, Kane knew what was going on, and then he looked at Lupin. He remembered that Lupin had said before that he would treat this as a surprise.

What? Hagrid grew up drinking truth serum, and so did you?

Kane certainly wasn't so rude as to say those words aloud, but Lupin was quite a clever fellow; he actually managed to decipher the meaning behind Kane's strange expression.

He spread his hands and shrugged: "It's a letter from Dumbledore."

Kane raised an eyebrow: "So Dumbledore really does care about that sense of ceremony. For something as important as clearing Hagrid's name, he didn't say it to his face, but instead wrote a letter..."

Well, it must be a tradition within the magical world, after all, Hogwarts' acceptance letter is also... wait... didn't I promise Dumbledore I'd frame the acceptance letter?

Did you frame it yourself? I don't think so.

Where's the letter? Under the bed...

hiss...

Kane gave himself a small task for later: to hurry back and find a frame to put the acceptance letter in, since he had already promised Dumbledore.

After taking over this task, Kane casually picked up Hagrid's unfinished letter. Because the letter was folded, Hagrid only read up to the part where his innocence was cleared before bursting into tears like a child weighing a ton, without opening the letter to read further.

Kane, of course, could take a good look at the letter and act as a letter reader for Hagrid.

But when he actually opened the letter, his expression turned strange again. Hagrid and Lupin were both curious about Kane's ambiguous smile.

Kane, true to the wizarding world's tradition of valuing achievement, folded the letter back up and put it back in the envelope: "Honestly, Hagrid, I think you should read this letter yourself."

Hagrid took the letter in his hand with a puzzled look and glanced down at it.

"Oh, Merlin! I've become a professor?"

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