Harry Potter And The Dual Lord

Arthur smiled and said "Come on, I assure you, we don't want to stay here too long."

Arthur began walking ahead and Elena tagged behind, looking around with curiosity. Although Oakshaw wasn't as beautiful and mesmerizing as Diagon Alley, it still was impressive to see all those shops selling products coming from every corner of the world.

Arthur stopped at a potion shop and asked the shopper "How much for this vial of Felix Felicis?" The shopper looked at him suspiciously and asked "Aren't you two too young to be here alone? Shouldn't you be at school?"

Arthur raised an eyebrow and said "We are. Is that a problem?" The shopper was a man in his mid thirties with clear Asian traits, most probably Japanese from his accent and the fact many Asian wizards come from Japan.

The eastern man smiled and said "Not at all. Felix Felicis? Very difficult to brew, and very rare. To enhance luck for a limited time… It is very expensive, you know that right?"

Hearing him Elena's eyes grew wide and said "Brewing luck is really possible?!" He nodded and said "Wonders of potions. 500 Galleons."

Elena exclaimed "Are you kidding us?!" However it wasn't the seller who explained, but Arthur "It is understandable. It takes 6 months to brew, selling it is illegal and is mostly made in potion contests. 500 Galleons is a rather fair price."

Elena protested "But that's as expensive as the best brooms on the market!" Arthur rolled his eyes and said "I would rather have this than the best broom in the world. A slightly less expensive broom would only be a little slower, but there is no downgrade version for this. It literally gives you good luck. Used well, you could stumble on an ancient vault hidden in the wild and gain many things, including money. And brooms are legal and widespread, but this is rare, even here, and illegal to sell."

But even after all those explanations she wasn't convinced. Arthur ignored her turned to the Asian man who asked "Do you even have that money?"

Unexpectedly Arthur shook his head and said "No, but I can exchange for something as valuable, right?"

The middle aged man raised an eyebrow and said "Of course, but I wonder what kind of object you could possess valuable enough to exchange for this?"

Arthur smiled and replied "Do yo take me for an idiot? I wouldn't dare bring anything valuable here. What I have isn't an object, but information. Very valuable information."

The man smiled and said "Would you two follow me inside?" Elena tugged at Arthur's sleeve to tell him this was a bad idea but he took her by the wrist and led her inside.

Behind them, the Asian man looked around suspiciously and waved his wand. Every article outside flew inside, and when everything had entered, he entered himself and closed the tent.

Once inside, he saw Arthur and Elena were both sitting on chairs, chairs that weren't his.

He smiled and said "I thought of you two naive, but it seems you are quite good yourself."

Arthur smiled back and replied "It is a must here."

The Asian man sat on his own chair and extended his hand at Arthur and said "My name is Ishida Yuji. You?"

Arthur took his hand and said "You don't know me? I'm quite famous. I'm the scion of my family, a famous one." Ishida frowned and said "So it wasn't my mistake, you do seem familiar, must have seen you in the papers. Mind refreshing my memory?"

Arthur replied "Not so long ago I was named Arthur Holly." Ishida made a dangerous face and said "Do you? From the American Holly family? They do have famous members, but if my memory serves me right their scion is a girl called Jessica. You don't look like Jessica my friend."

As he said that his magic began fluctuating, and a faint killing intent emerged from Ishida. But it was too faint to affect either Arthur or Elena.

Killing intent can be used in two ways. The first, the most accessible, can be used by anyone, and it only demands the user to kill people. But it isn't very useful as it can only frighten inexperienced people.

The second way though, is more useful. It also demands its user to kill, but the effects are amplified by mind arts. Actually the first also relies on mind arts, but unless someone has a special energy used to cultivate the mind, such as magic, then it wouldn't change anything.

Here, Ishida clearly isn't well versed in mind arts as his attack wasn't strong and would only scare children. So it should have been enough to use against Arthur.

But when Arthur felt it, his overwhelming killing intent was released as he said "As I said, I was previously known as a Holly. But nowadays, I am known as Grindelwald!"

But Ishida wasn't scarred. His previously feeble killing intent rose suddenly, to the point it almost matched Arthur. Noticing it wasn't enough, he poured in his magic too.

For spreading killing intent, magic can also be used to strengthen the effect. And now, although Arthur's mind arts were obviously superior to Ishida's, the latter intended o overwhelming him with his superior magic.

Unfortunately for him, he fell upon the wrong target. Although Arthur's magic was indeed lesser despite having finished its natural growth, his body had become one with two elements, light and darkness.

Some would think that darkness would be the best element to strengthen killing intent, but it is actually light.

Darkness is a physical element, that is used to temper with the real world, while the Light element affects the mind.

Anyway, Arthur poured his magic and the light elements around in his killing intent. Ishida held on for ten seconds before he dropped his own killing intent, sweating, and said "Alright, you win. What a surprise though. I guessed you would be talented, but who knew you would also be an ex member of the Holly family."

Arthur smiled and dropped his killing intent too and said "So, interested in the information?"

Ishida nodded and said "Despite your identity, I doubt you could have anything that would interests me much."

Arthur smiled and said "I have so much info that I could make you exchange your life with it. But it doesn't matter. How about I tell you which portkey I'll take?"

Ishida laughed and said "What could I use this for boy? I don't dare following you." Arthur wanted to explain but was curious about Ishida's reason. He asked "You don't?"

Ishida shook his head with a laugh and said "I always specialized in potion. Even back in Mahoutokoro I had bad grades in spells related subjects. I should only be able to match up to a fifth year average student. I guess you aren't that far behind, but without greatly overpowering you, who would dare chase a Grindelwald?"

Realization fell upon Arthur when he heard what Ishida said. He had always rated others using the years they spent in Hogwarts. He himself thought to only be able to match a fourth year thanks to his huge amount of magic, but that is only if said student is good at dueling.

Now that he thought of it, Arthur could probably take on seventh years bad in charms and DADA.

This cheered up Arthur who said to Ishida "Anyway, you can use that information to make money. If you sell it to the right people and quick enough then you could potentially win more than this potion could bring you. Imagine all those people wanting to kill me, wouldn't they pay a lot for my location? Especially those who had their family members killed by my Great grandfather."

Ishida frowned and considered the offer. Arthur was right, he could probably win a lot of money, but his greedy side wanted to ask for more. But his reason won over. What if Arthur decided to attack him? Or attack when he has m.a.t.u.r.ed?

Although Ishida has the protection of Oakshaw, if Arthur ever becomes as great as his ancestor, killing him wouldn't be that hard. That's why Ishida eventually said "Deal."