Harry Potter and the Berserker

Chapter 63

Disclaimer- Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling and Berserk is owned by Kentaro Miura. I own nothing.

"A month," Harry heard Guts grumble to himself later that day.

"Don't sound so grouchy, this was your idea to begin with," Casca had told him.

"Yeah, I know it was," Guts agreed. "It's just ridiculous is all."

"It was my money that paid for it," Harry pointed out.

For the right price, the goblins were agreeable to making a custom suit of armor for Casca. They did charge a hefty price that took a sizable chunk out of his trust vault, but if they were as good as they claimed to be at smithing, it would have been a price well paid. And besides the price in gold that had to be paid, there was another toll; time.

It would take at least a month for the armor to be fully completed. And that was with the best goblin smiths working on it as well.

Guts was none too happy about that fact as they were already on a limited time as it was. According to that talk they had with Luna, the wedding would be taking place at the beginning of what would be August in this world. Already, the season here was transitioning from the balanced weather of spring to a more sunny and warm temperate. That left them three, maybe four months at the maximum to not only return to Midland but also come up with a way of stopping the Neo-Griffith and his army of apostles.

Taking an entire month, while beneficial, still consumed a great deal of time.

But, even still, that month of waiting would be spent on managing the time they had wisely. The trip they had taken did come with some benefits as well.

There had been a variety of spellbooks that were unique to this world only that Schierke had been studying over. It seemed to help understand the main difference between how each side was able to use magic. The mages here didn't seem to have a solid understanding of od and its full potential, hence why the spells here took far less time to cast without the use of spirits but consumed more od in the process. That wasn't to say that there weren't spells that were quick to cast with some understanding as Flora had shown them such as the basic elementals. Perhaps it had even been something she had learned from Merlin.

And speaking of Merlin, there had been quite a number of different texts concerning him and his history.

Much like how films and television often showed, he did indeed seem to be a good friend of the once King of Camelot, Arthur. The story was a bit different in varying books; some claimed that Merlin was a young man when he met King Arthur, others said that he was already an old and wise wizard when they first met while another claimed he was actually young and was just using a glamor to disguise his appearance.

But aside from that, it also seemed to be a common agreement that there was some initial hostility when they first met. And much like his appearance, different sources gave different explanations as to why. They varied from Arthur having a distrust for magic due to his upbringing with his father and others say it was nothing more than a simple misunderstanding.

Most of his personal information such as his varying aliases, deeds, and other accomplishments seemed to be more common knowledge. It was common knowledge that Merlin had a staff that he won from a sorceress named Morgana and the full extent of it was known only by what Merlin himself wrote down in his own research which was later publically distributed.

The staff was said to collectively store magic from each previous holder, making it effectively more powerful with every new wielder. Due to this, spells that were either previously unknown by the wielder could almost seem like second nature or their hand was being guided by a different castor. Because of this, using the staff could be especially draining the first initial times around.