Considering the upcoming Death Eater uprising, he planned to design a golem capable of assisting the Aurors—or rather, the Aurors under Tonks's command—in combat.
In fact, in the world of Harry Potter, creations similar to golems existed in abundance.
The statues and suits of armor within Hogwarts Castle had mostly been enchanted. Whenever necessary, these decorations could temporarily transform into a defensive force.
But that was all they could do.
Their combat ability would not surpass that of a genuine knight wearing armor.
Another application was Wizard's Chess.
The rules of Wizard's Chess were identical to those of ordinary chess, but its pieces were alive.
Whenever a player captured a piece, they could actually watch the pieces engage in a brutal battle across the chessboard.
If these pieces were enlarged proportionally to the size of ordinary humans, could they possess powerful combat abilities?
Lewis remembered that during his first year, he had witnessed Professor McGonagall create a gigantic chessboard.
That enormous game of Wizard's Chess had indeed been spectacular.
But it was only spectacular in appearance.
The Wizard's Chess pieces were actually quite fragile. A simple [Smashing Curse] could easily destroy them.
If that was all a magical construct could do, it would be completely incapable of participating in a battle between wizards.
True constructs capable of taking part on a wizarding battlefield should be like the golems of the DND world or the arcane constructs of WoW.
They needed to be tall, sturdy, possess a certain degree of magical resistance, and be capable of withstanding a certain amount of magical damage, serving as cannon fodder charging into battle and as physical shields for wizards.
Among the arcane spells, there were already a large number of spells that could be used to create golems.
[Animate Objects: 6th-circle Transmutation, granting an inanimate object the ability to move and the characteristics of life.]
[Command: 6th-circle Mind Control, granting a creature a magical command according to your wishes, causing it to perform certain services or preventing it from taking certain actions or behaving in certain ways.]
[Antimagic Field: 6th-circle Abjuration, creating an invisible barrier within which most magical effects cannot enter. At the same time, it prevents all magical items and spells within the area from functioning.]
[Resurrection: 7th-circle Divine Magic, capable of restoring life to any dead creature and completely restoring its strength. The condition of the creature's remains is irrelevant; as long as even a small portion of its body still exists, it can be resurrected.]
A permanently maintained [Animate Objects] could give a golem its basic ability to move.
Through a permanently maintained [Command], the golem could gain the ability to receive orders.
[Antimagic Field] could grant the golem magical resistance.
And a permanently maintained [Resurrection] would allow the golem to automatically restore itself after being destroyed.
These were the primary spells required to create a golem.
As for the others, such as the various [Transfiguration] spells used to shape materials, [Masterwork], [Stone to Mud/Mud to Stone], [Stone Softening], and so on, they went without saying.
The most troublesome issue was still the golem's intelligence.
Lewis needed to choose a living soul to serve as the golem's core.
Only then could it function like a butler.
As for the source of such cores…
The usual method in the DND world was to use spells such as [Planar Binding] to retrieve a powerful earth elemental from an elemental plane, obtain magical life from the elemental soul, and bind that soul to an artificial body, allowing it to possess a higher level of intelligence.
The problem was that the world of Harry Potter was neither DND nor WoW.
There were no elemental planes here.
Under these circumstances, the earth elementals Lewis summoned and the water elementals Gianna summoned were merely condensed masses of elemental energy. They possessed only the most basic intelligence and were not much different from golems that had merely been given [Animate Objects].
Of course, wild spirits and other naturally occurring souls could also occasionally be used as substitutes.
Unfortunately, Lewis only had three soul fragments in his possession, all of which had been obtained from cleansing Voldemort's Horcruxes. They were nowhere near enough to create even a single golem.
If Lewis only wanted to create the simplest kind of "puppet," one that moved whenever he gave it an order—for example, the wooden golems he used as training dummies—then there would naturally be no need to consider so much.
But the golems Lewis intended to design were meant to cooperate with wizards in battle.
Such golems absolutely needed sufficient initiative and autonomy.
Therefore, Lewis, who had always been too lazy to study soul magic, finally began considering how to obtain some souls.
But after thinking about it carefully, was such a thing really difficult?
When had this world ever lacked the dead?
Take Rwanda in 1994, for example.
Lewis asked the team for leave, bid farewell to his companions, and secretly traveled to Rwanda, where he stayed alone for an entire week.
But when Lewis returned, his entire aura was like that of a necromancer.
Everyone else could sense the chill from five meters away.
Aiwu, meanwhile, burst into tears the moment she approached him.
For the next three whole days, the little dragon refused to leave Lewis's side. Even Luna's visit could not make her go away.
As Aiwu put it:
"I can't let Lewis be eaten up by that terrifying emotion."
Of course, Lewis would not be affected by any cruel emotions.
But his trip to Rwanda had indeed yielded tremendous results.
His [Soul Control] specialty had even advanced into [Soul Spell Mastery].
And from then on, whenever he created golems, he was almost never short of soul stones.
Of course, using soul stones to grant a golem sentience did not mean directly using a soul as the golem's core.
The golem would not inherit the soul's consciousness or memories.
However, using the soul of an ordinary person had another consequence.
It could not be used to create more advanced golems.
Those golem constructs capable of completely acting independently, handling matters like humans, and even casting spells like wizards required souls with greater spirituality, souls that were more closely connected to magic.
For example, the soul of a wizard.
The golems intended for the Aurors certainly did not need to be that advanced.
Lewis also wanted to create several construct maids for himself to handle his daily chores.
He needed them himself.
And don't ask why he did not simply use house-elves.
The answer was: "Absolutely not. They're too ugly."
Obtaining a wizard's soul was much more difficult than obtaining a Muggle's.
The wizarding population was simply too small, and there were many methods of detecting the deaths of wizards. Killing someone casually would bring endless trouble.
Moreover, Lewis was not the kind of person who could kill indiscriminately and remain completely at ease.
Relying on wizards to die accidentally was even less reliable.
However, there happened to be a perfectly legitimate opportunity to collect souls right before him:
The Quidditch World Cup final.
The Death Eaters who would attack could serve as raw materials for his future construct maids.
For this reason alone, Lewis had to properly design several golems to assist the Aurors in battle.
Combining the ancient magical golem-making inheritance obtained from the Map Room with the spells for creating golems from arcane magic, Lewis soon produced his first batch of finished products:
Iron Golems.
From the outside, these golems looked as though knights clad in full armor from Dark Souls had suddenly appeared in the real world.
Originally, Lewis had wanted to design them to resemble armored heroes or power armor.
But considering the "classical aesthetic" of these wizards, he ultimately chose a more fantastical design.
These Iron Golems were armed to the teeth.
They had full-body armor, magical swords, defensive shields, and everything else a warrior could possibly need.
Lewis only enchanted the armor with [Lesser Antimagic Field], which could resist a limited range of spells.
As for [Antimagic Field], it was enchanted onto the shields.
This way, the golems could reduce costs while still retaining the ability to resist powerful spells.
It was practically the perfect solution.
The second Iron Golem was not equipped with a shield.
Instead, it carried a massive greatsword.
Lewis had enchanted [Antimagic Field] onto the greatsword.
With that, it possessed the ability to break through the defenses of [Iron Armor Charm].
After creating them, Lewis placed the golems in the training ground.
The two golems were engaged in a brutal battle.
If a stranger had witnessed the scene, they would certainly have mistaken it for a duel between two knights.
Their magical swords flashed with dangerous light.
The collision of sword and shield produced deafening metallic clangs, and the fierce battle seemed as though it would never end.
Under their repeated blows, the two golems quickly became battered and broken.
Yet even if their legs were chopped off or their heads were severed, as long as their cores remained undamaged, they could stand back up and return to battle.
And when someone finally managed to completely destroy a golem, its master could choose to detonate the core.
The resulting power was enough to give any opponent a serious headache.
"Stop!"
Lewis shouted as he rushed toward the final confrontation between the two Iron Golems.
If those two magical swords completely pierced their armor, then he and his five days of hard work would all go to waste.
The new spell he had learned—[Soulfire Blast]—could completely burn the soul fire and detonate it.
The destructive power produced by that was no joke.
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