Chapter 247: Racial reveal

Chapter 247: Racial reveal

"Looks like I'm going to need your help to learn arithmancy early." Nick said slightly irritated. "Why would you need that for right now?" Helena asked confused. As far as she could tell he should be focusing on increasing his power now that his control was at an acceptable level. "I need to modify a few rituals and can't do it without knowing arithmancy." Nick said honestly. She was taken back by this as she quickly went through her memories but couldn't see any ritual that would need modifying. "Modify it in which regard specifically?" she asked with narrowed eyes.-

Nick was a little reluctant to say that he wasn't human despite her being unable to share that information. Steeling his resolve he flat out told her that he stopped being human over the summer. "I-I don't understand? What do you mean you stopped being human , you look and seem human to me?" she asked horribly confused. He sighed "I am an elf now , no not a house elf or some half breed of it. An actual elf like from the legends , Do you remember that strange illness I had last year that had me losing blood and flesh yet was perfectly healthy after diagnosis? That was my physical body transforming into what you see now." he said honestly.-

"So Slytherin didn't actually care about bloodline purity then?" he asked and she shook her head. "The truth of that matter had nothing to do with bloodline but rather education. You see at that time most muggleborns came from commoner households and as such lacked any knowledge in science or even how to read and write. Slytherin thought that it was a waste of time to teach them such fundamental information just so that they could actually learn magic. It certainly didn't help that the witch burnings were quite common at the time." she said honestly.-

"So you don't care that I'm not human?" Nick double checked cautiously. Helena shook her head "Not at all since unlike house elves , giants or goblins whatever you are seems to be mostly human in all regards except superior in some way I can't put my finger on." she said with a shrug. "That would probably be the spiritual nature of it or maybe it's the immortality?" Nick theorized out loud this time making Helena speechless. "You're immortal!?" she exclaimed in shock. He grinned "Technically ageless but yes." he said cheekily.-

"Are you going to look like this forever then?" she asked worried but Nick scoffed. "No , I will continue to age until I reach the age of twenty and then I simply won't anymore. I can still be killed though so that's a still a thing." he said honestly. "Mother and the others would be so jealous , they all sought a way to have what you do by default." Helena said with a mocking look. The sheer irony of that was not lost on her at all and she couldn't help but feel a bit bad for the founders.