Chapter 4 - Free and Friendships

For a whole month, Harry entered daily into the Labyrinth of eternity. Not only was it a great place to train but it was also possible to get many items inside, the group he formed with Angela, Alexander, Mark and Jamie, met almost every night to explore the dungeon.

Their group strengthened quickly and soon they reached the sixth floor, and the whole team already reached level 50. While they were not at the top of Pheles agreement they were at least class D, which was considered quite decent.

Harry himself had already reached level 61 and was considered a Class C magician.

Angela and Jamie preferred to focus on magic, they put most of their attribute points in intelligence and wisdom, while helping them learn about magic, Harry has gained the tutor skill and can teach them spells without having to use skill books.

Alexander or Tig and Mark preferred to focus on fighting and put their attribute points on strength, vitality and dexterity. They learned martial arts from books bought at the abyss auction and body aura techniques.

The floors of the Labyrinth from eternity to the seventh were not a big challenge for them, so they could get good items easily in them.

The first floor of the Gnolls left the armor of blue scales, the second floor, the goblins floor left the goblin king's ring.

The third floor of the centipede was crowded with thousands of huge centipedes, the smaller ones were almost as big as a car, the guardian of that floor was a gigantic green centipede called the king centipede and left the venous ring upon his death.

The fourth floor was the floor of bones, and it was crowded with different types of skeletons, some wielding knives, swords or bows, and others used ancient muskets and magic, the guardian was called a general skeleton and left the general's bone ring.

The fifth floor was the floor of the wolves, it was full of huge wolves, its guardian was the king wolf that left a glove with four claws of metal, called claws of the king wolf.

The sixth floor was the jewelry floor, and was filled with different animals with precious stones on their bodies, the guardian of that floor was a huge crab made of several different gemstones called a crab-jewelry, he left the diamond shield and a short sword called black prey.

He had not gone to the higher floors mainly due to Pheles who had forbidden him to try the floors above the sixth without her.

He gave him several magic books that the clan possessed and taught him different ways of using them, he even showed how to make a dog almost die of fright by making a flower bark at the animal.

Between spending his time inside the labyrinth of eternity, learning magic with Patrick and studying, Harry almost never saw the Dursleys. He could sleep in an illusory barrier and could eat wherever he wanted with the money he earned from the monsters he defeated.

The few times he met them, it was at the school's door or when he was in the neighborhood visiting Mr. Castle or Mr. Hale's house. Out of the neighborhood these two were the only ones Harry liked.

Mr. Hale would always have interesting things to show or teach, such as painting, drawing, photography and movies, the man was an art enthusiast and would always love to share that interest with others, especially after Harry showed a wolf he'd carved after that Mr. Hale always said that he had a talent and that he should be cultivated.

On one of those visits he met his daughter Rebecca, she was a college student in arts from some college away, she was quite fun and lively always playing and making different sweets and snacks for the three of them.

Old Mr. Castle was also a fun man, he loved cars and races, and he could spend almost all day talking about it, Mr. Castle's wife was also very funny, she adored Harry and would always make cakes, cookies or candy when he she used to love races like her husband and had a habit of cursing that she would vehemently deny.

As he spent less and less time in the neighborhood, he saw fewer and fewer these people.

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The library and the clan house of the red oak leaf clan were where he would spend almost eighty percent of his free time, when he was not training with Pheles.

After the first week living in the clan, Pheles presented him with something he had long wanted, freedom from the Dursleys.

She brought him a document signed by her aunt, who relinquished her guardianship to Pheles, who in turn passed into an empty identity in the abyss, effectively leaving him without a "legal guardian," when Harry reached the age of 14 he could, to pay into the abyss for a document of emancipation, which would give him full rights over himself in the common world.

To commemorate this fact, Patrick bought an entire building in central London that was a few blocks from his clan's building and gave Harry as a gift.

Harry tried to refuse, but the old man strongly urged and even had the place reformed, Pheles was not far behind and presented him with a huge piece of land a few minutes from London with a small mansion in it.

As he could not refuse, Harry only accepted the gifts with gratitude, and consoled himself with the fact that at least now he had a place to live.

This thought was quickly broken when Patrick announced that he had already prepared a room in the clan, where he would live until he was 14 or for as long as he wished.

Meanwhile, Harry would be not only a guest of honor but also a temporary member of the clan. That would give Harry full rights of clan members, like any other of the ȧduŀts present.

About 10 days later he got word that his uncles along with 54 passengers on a plane had died in an accident, his cousin who was passing some time at a friend's house, was taken to live with his Aunt Marge.

In addition, the team he led through the first two floors of the labyrinth had been introduced to the clan by Harry and even received some training and clan work. This helped to cement a friendship between them.

Alexander or Tig as he preferred, an ex-soldier, now a mechanic, who worked in a workshop of his own, he was the kind of person the Dursleys lived by criticizing, he lived a turbulent life, had several passages and had already been arrested for ȧssault, bustle and robbery.

Mark and Jamie were two troublemakers who practically had people like Tig as a model, they wore jeans and black jackets, listened to loud rock, and spent the night drinking, pounding walls, and coaxing, coincidentally their group lived near Surrey. Besides them, there was Ryan, the boy who had left before they went to the second floor.

Apparently this one ended up imprisoned in a correctional institute by robbery, days later.

At the insistence of the clan the members of the group had moved into an apartment of the clan and when he found out that he was going to live there they insisted on being close to Harry, so they were all accommodated in rooms on the same floor, which practically belonged to them, since there were only them and empty rooms on that floor.

Tig, Mark, and Jamie moved into houses within the clan and were hired as a private mechanic and apprentices. This was due to the need to have a way to prove where the dungeon's money they earned came from.

At the end of the second week that he was living in the clan building, Patrick asked if he wanted to go back to school or to get private teachers, after considering for a while Harry chose the second option.

There was not particularly anything that interested him in school, so having private teachers would not only help him get a degree, but he would also save his time.

As time passed, Harry wondered when the man claiming to be his grandfather would show up.

Shortly before the end of the month, with all the members of his clan recovered from old Feng, he announced that he would soon leave for his country. Harry felt a little sad about his departure.

Before leaving, however, old Feng, Patrick and Pheles decided to explore the maze of eternity.

Climbing the floors with the three was a new experience for the young man, the first five floors were quickly cleared by gusts of wind from Pheles or the intense fire of old Feng, Patrick preferred to study the walls and the place and did not bother to use any spell.

On the sixth floor they reached the guard room easily and old Patrick acted for the first time easily immobilizing the guardian of the floor at Harry's request, the young dark-haired man very much wanted to try to make this guardian a relative because of his powers.

Because Harry needed precious gems for jewelry witchcraft, the guardian of the sixth floor who could produce different types of gem in large quantities would be perfect.

For the ritual Harry created a magic circle on the floor and used his blood and hair strands. The spell had to be cast a few times before the young man finally succeeded, after the contract was formed, the huge crab became a redheaded woman.

As the contract magic created a link between the two of Harry's knowledge and skills passed to her, unfortunately the same did not occur in reverse, to the young man's unhappiness.

Harry named her as Helena and gave her a set of armor to wear, and used the observe to analyze her attributes.

Name: Helena

Breed: Jewel Crab

Class: Familiar

Level 1

Strength (STR): 140

Vitality (VIT): 140

Dexterity (DEX): 90

Intelligence (INT): 60

Wisdom (WIS): 80

Luck (LUK): 70

Char: 150

Points:0

A huge Jewel crab, turned into a Familiar by Harry Zelretch Potter. It is an independent entity that does not function as a summoned beast.

The next floor was the nest of insects, they took quite a while here because Patrick, stopped to study each insect individually, at Patrick's request, Harry turned several of them into relatives so they could be taken out of the dungeon, the guardian of that floor went a huge purple centipede, and left a skill book called Toxic Fog and a Poisoned Sword.

The eighth floor was the hall of alchemy, filled with strange monsters called homunculi and monsters who looked like humans called a crazed alchemist, they attacked with spells and thrown pots with viscous, poisonous, acidic, and explosive liquids. The guardian of this floor was called Celizey's crazed alchemist, he left a book of skill alchemy, a cookbook and a golden cauldron.

The ninth floor was called the turtle's walk, the floor was full of different kinds of strange turtles, Harry thought I'd become some of them in their relatives, but the guardian of that floor was a huge black turtle that left the tortoise-shell armor.

The tenth floor was called the lichs' den, there were skeletons mage and zombie wizards that left several spell books when destroyed, the guardian was king lich Vargo, he left an empty phylactery and an item called the orb of the dead.

As they advanced to the next floor, they stopped in front of a huge store full of items, the salesman was a fat goblin dressed in fine linen cloths full of jewelry.

This goblin offered to trad items for points that could be used to buy items in the store, as the goblin was not hostile, they did not attack and Harry traded a lot of worthless items for points, but didn't buy anything.

after a brief pause for shopping they continued up to the 20th floor, whose guard was a General Goblin. After defeating the guardian, they again returned to the goblin shop, however this time there were many more items and better quality.

They deduced that apparently every 10 floors the store would appear.

After the twentieth floor they left the maze of eternity, the only unhappiness for Harry was that since they were not in a group, he cannot raise the level by hitchhiking in the older trio.

The twenty-first floor was the simian floor, the monsters on this floor were chimpanzees, the guardian was the ape king, a huge gorilla in thick armor of golden metal.

From then on came the floors, 22nd floor of the reptiles, 23rd floor of the canine, 24th floor of the poison jug, 25th floor of the tigers, 26th floor of the birds, 27th floor of the ice, 28th floor of the light, 29th sacred floor and last 30th floor.

The 30th floor was a huge lake, and to follow up Harry had to use a spell that allowed him to breathe under the water, the place was crowded with ȧssorted creatures, carps, turtles and snakes, Patrick and Feng seemed quite interested in this walk.

After eliminating several monsters, they found the guardian of the floor, was a huge creature, had a snake-like body covered by blue scales, four paws with sharp claws and two horns on the head. It was called the flood dragon.

According to Feng, it was the middle stage that a creature passed before turning completely into a dragon, had something to do with Chinese culture, which made Harry remember to study about different cultures and myths, mainly from his country and anywhere he would visit in the future.

After Pheles destroyed the 30th guardian, Harry collected the spoil, most intriguing was a small bottle of blood. It was called the lineage of the dragon, when given to a compatible creature would give this the lineage of a dragon.

When he asked about it, old Feng replied that according to Chinese myths, creatures compatible with dragons were, carp, turtle, snake that were said to be able to evolve into dragons and the lion and crocodile, according to certain myths and legends

The carp he could understand, there were many myths about how a carp turned a dragon, the tortoise, the snake and even the crocodile, he could already understand that they were reptilian, but he had no idea how a lion was compatible with a Dragon.

Unless it was in those stories where the dragon crossed with any females leaving hybrids out there.

In search of more of this material, the team cleared this floor ten more times, each time Pheles and Feng alternated between them, and as they fought, they gave Harry hints and advice on how to fight with stronger opponents than him.

After ten times, they got only 8 bottles, including one they had previously obtained. Pheles got one, Feng got 2, Patrick got three, and the other two stayed with Harry. After that they left the dungeon.

The next day, Patrick officially started his tutelage, he would teach his druid and shamanic magic, along with other subjects such as, fundamentals and magic bases, basic politics and etiquette.

Patrick was a hard teacher, but most of his classes were quite entertaining, mainly because he showed several different uses of theory in practice. Before learning the basic spells of a druid, Harry spent several nights and days in an illusory barrier behind a large mountain of different books.

During this time, Patrick stayed with him about 12 hours a day, giving advice tips and explaining calmly about any topic he was studying.

Patrick took a whole week explaining the basics and fundamentals before he started teaching druid spells to Harry slowly, first was the skill, talk to animals, then they were basic spells of the four elements, followed by spells that allowed, speak, control and grow plants, healing spells and some other spells.

When the basics were learned, Patrick began to teach Harry medium-level spells, anything of a greater degree, would be left until Harry was older.

Among the medium spells, the polymorph spell was one of those Harry liked best, this spell allowed the user to transform his target or himself into different animals, unfortunately the spell did not have much effect on stronger enemies that could withstand the magic.

This spell, made him remind of Circe, a sorceress who loved to turn mans into pigs.

As the time passed, harry made friends with some members of the clan, among then William the son of old Patrick and his daughter Lucie and his nephew Wilson. Later he discovered Wilson´s father was part of the people of the clan that he healed.

He also heard of their older siblings that were studying in others cities.

There was also, Samuel a kid two years older than harry, and almost as big as Dudley, however he was not fat, he had a sturdy body with incredible hard muscles for his age. Samuel was a nice kid and he and Harry became friends quickly, mainly because the fact that both just loved games so much.