Phantom Kid in the World of American Comics

Chapter 79: The Season of Transition

Barbara became suspicious of the true purpose of the Rising Tide organization, and she wanted to investigate this mysterious hacker organization properly.

“Maybe, I can try to get inside it first.”

Thinking of this, Barbara sent an email to the virtual email address that was displayed after the deep male voice sent the final invitation, indicating her intention to join the Rising Tide.

As well as some brief personal information, which was requested by the Rising Tide organization.

And of course, personal information was all forged.

Even if the Rising Tide organization conducted an investigation of Barbara’s identity, they would only find that the person Barbara forged was real.

She also claimed to have the best hacking skills in Pennsylvania, hoping to be taken seriously by the organization, rather than starting as peripheral cannon fodder.

At this point, Barbara was doing so well at hiding her real skills.

In fact, with her skills today, she is a top-notch worldwide hacker.

Although Barbara rarely makes use of these hacking techniques, she is at least the daughter of a police officer, she is still more decent to break the law.

It didn’t take long for the Rising Tide to reply.

“Dear Miss Guenscheid, we gratefully welcome you to join us. According to what you said, you are quite confident in your hacking skills, which is really great. We are surely in need of talents such as yourself.”

“But before you officially join, we need to put you to test, to make sure that you are not a liar or a spy of other organizations. I hope you understand.”

“If you agree, please send ‘Rising Tide’ at this email address… in a month’s time, and we will tell you the next instructions at that time.”

After receiving the reply, the first thing Barbara did was not to read the contents but to immediately trace the IP address of the sender.

No doubt she failed in the end, as the target she traced was a computer in an Internet cafe somewhere in Cleveland, Ohio.

Barbara was not discouraged, if it was so simple to find out the other party, then the Rising Tide Organization is too weak.

In any case, it is an organization that can steal information from the government’s secret database, and their strength is not to be fooled with.

“A month later? Interesting…”

The next day, inside the stronghold of Phantom Kid.

Mathison was experimenting with how far he could use the Mending Charm.

He first found a wooden stick and broke it, then extended his hand to the broken stick while reciting an incantation on his mouth.

“Repair!”

Only to see a flash of light and the two broken sticks slowly coming together!

Mathison stopped casting the spell and took the repaired wooden stick up to take a look at it. He found that something was not right.

This stick has become much longer and thicker than before…

This…

It seems that the consumption of mana could also be a bit problematic. Repairing an ordinary wooden stick used up about one percent more of the required magic power.

Mathison mused.

He casts spells completely according to the memory transmitted by the system. The theory is unlikely to be problematic. After all, this memory according to the system is Dumbledore’s experience.

“Then it should be due to mana.”

The source of the magic power of wizards in the Harry Potter world has always been a mystery.

However, it is indeed much easier for people with the blood of wizards to learn magic than ordinary people. Except for some of the geniuses who can reach a high position, pure-blood wizards and mixed-blood wizards are far better than non-pure-blooded wizards.

Of course, the family heritage of the wizard is an important factor, but Mathison believes that magic is perhaps the most fatal gap.

It took Mathison a good share of practise to learn Red Magic, for example. Akako Koizumi, who has the blood of a witch, possesses decent magic powers since she was born. While practicing Red Magic, she can often get twice the results with half the efforts, and she has a natural attraction to the opposite sex.

But Mathison can only rely on meditation to enhance his mana, and he does not have a physique that attracts the opposite sex. At best, he can only improve his own appearance.

In the Harry Potter world, there is already a significant difference between the magic of pure-blooded wizards and ordinary wizards. Mathison’s magic naturally leads to widening the gap between him and the wizards of the Harry Potter world.

After all, the mainstream magic of Harry Potter is White Magic and Black Magic, which are completely different systems from Red Magic.

It is not surprising that the excess loss of magic power occurs when Mathison uses white magic with Red Magic power.

Sure enough, after adjusting his magic output several times, Mathison found the point where Red Magic and White Magic were optimally converted.

It allowed him to achieve a restoration with the same effect with the same amount of mana.

“Your OCD is a bit serious. 1% of magic power is very negligible. According to your statement, using Mending Charm with your usual magic output of red magic causes only 7% more loss rate than White Magic.”

“Really when it comes to formal use, there is no significant difference at all, right?”

Charlie watched as Mathison happily tried out new ways of casting spells and couldn’t help but complain.

“Charlie, you are too much of an optimist. You know, when it really comes to critical times, even one ten-thousandth of the mana may affect one’s victory or defeat.”

Mathison said with a serious face.

“Ha, in the end, you lack both strength and mana. You should concentrate on making your magic power stronger.”

Charlie stared at Mathison and said with dead-fish eyes, “And then again, you are a thief and not some superhero, do you really care whether you win or lose?”

To Charlie’s relentless tirade, Mathison had nothing to reply back with.

He could only continue to practice the new spell.

This time, he began to try to restore different items.

For example, Phantom Kid’s costume, the poker gun, and so on.

In this way, time was spent in training as well as occasional shopping with Barbara.

It’s another year of school season!

Mathison has completed two years of studies at Gotham University.

In his junior year, He is going to New York University for further study, as an exchange student.

On the passenger ship to New York, Mathison held Charlie and sunbathed on the deck.

Barbara laid beside him.

In the heat of the day, the two were wearing only their respective bathing suits.

Mathison wore sunglasses while his eyes were admiring Barbara’s chiselled figure in her bikini swimsuit.

Meanwhile, Charlie was staring at him with a pair of contemptuous dog eyes…

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