Hogwarts Card System Chapter 035

Having made up his mind, Ted consumed 1000 experience points and leveled up his wizard to level 2!

His character panel immediately gained 1 attribute point and 1 skill point.

He thought for a moment and added the attribute point to his spirit, reaching 10 points, double that of an average person.

Spirit attribute is very important for wizards and psions, and it is highly valuable.

As for the skill point, he added it to mana, reaching Mana Lv 3!

Ted extended his hand, sensing the mana within his body; it had become much stronger! Very much stronger!

His mana was at least twice what it was before!

A surging feeling arose within him, as if he wanted to smash something~

“I really want to level up again!” Ted murmured to himself.

Of course, he was just saying it; leveling up too quickly wasn’t a good thing.

Power like this only counts when one truly masters it; otherwise, it’s just theoretical strength.

Imagine getting Mana Lv 9, but being unable to control it, constantly having mana riots, or even turning into an Obscurus bomb!

Although the October otherworldly knowledge, The Book of U’ll, was unreliable, Ted still had the September otherworldly knowledge waiting to be studied.

The spells used by Dalaran to train cannon fodder mages also held immense value.

Previously, because he had just enrolled, he had to focus on textbook spells, and Ted was also worried that he wouldn’t be able to handle them and cause problems.

One should know that the spells of those cannon fodder mages were very destructive; if something went wrong, it wouldn’t be a small matter.

Now that he had learned most of the first-year spell content in a month, and his mana had greatly increased after leveling up, he could try to dabble in them…

Ted had played World of Warcraft on and off for about ten years, entering, going AFK, and re-entering the game. So, he was naturally very familiar with it.

Although he hadn’t deeply researched the mage class, he had leveled up alt characters.

Compared to the Archmages of Dalaran, the city of mages in the lore, the mages in the game, who only mastered combat spells, could naturally only be considered cannon fodder mages.

Dalaran must have a large number of non-combat and daily life spells, similar to Lumos, otherwise, would the Archmages have to do all their daily chores themselves?

How could magic be so inconvenient?

Although Ted only got a low-level combat mage training manual, there were still as many as 16 spells, which shows that even cannon fodder mages weren’t just anyone.

Spells were divided into three schools: Frost, Fire, and Arcane.

And in the story background, there were also: otherworldly summoning spells researched by U’ll and Arugal, forbidden necromancy spells secretly researched by Kel’Thuzad, Shadow power mastered by Warlocks, and even time magic like “Time Warp”!

But those had nothing to do with him.

Just the conventional three schools of magic were enough for him to study for half a lifetime.

In the manual, Frost spells included: Frostbolt, Frost Armor, and Frost Nova.

Fire spells included: Fire Blast, Fireball, and Flamestrike.

Arcane spells included: Arcane Intellect, Arcane Missiles, Conjure Water, Conjure Food, Polymorph, Slow Fall, Counterspell, Blink, Evocation, and Teleport: Dalaran.

This was roughly the level of a Level 20 mage in the game.

It was naturally fine for fighting bandits, beasts, kobolds, murlocs, and gnolls. But if he wanted to contend with dangerous monsters or powerful factions, he would be gone in minutes.

Facing the knowledge in his mind, Ted was also pondering. Which spell should he start researching?

This wasn’t the first time he had thought about this question, and he already had some ideas.

First, he wasn’t pursuing destructive power.

He was only in his first year, what danger could he encounter?

To take a step back, even if he encountered danger, would a Frostbolt or Fireball be useful?

So the best choice was actually the Arcane school.

If he could research Arcane Intellect, the spell that buffs intelligence, it would further improve his learning speed.

Now that the young wizards were all at the same starting line, a single step faster meant countless steps faster! The future gaps all started from now.

He already had the blessings of “Mind Flow,” “Mental Stimulation,” “Memory Palace,” “Reading Technique,” [Stamina Recovery (Green)], and [Ravenclaw’s Wisdom (Blue)], giving him a huge advantage.

If he learned Arcane Intellect and added more intelligence to himself, wouldn’t that be amazing! Absolutely no less than Tom back in the day!

But the problem was that Arcane spells were more complex than elemental spells; they weren’t as simple as just “pew pew pew” and “bang bang bang” like Frost and Fire!

Moreover, Arcane Intellect had to be used on people—either himself or an ally.

What if the magic wasn’t used properly and turned into a Weakness Charm?

It was better to wait until his spell level was higher before attempting it. Playing it safe was never wrong.

As for Conjure Water, Conjure Food, and Arcane Missiles, he didn’t need them for now.

Slow Fall had alternatives like Hover Charm and Cushioning Charm.

Teleport: Dalaran was out of the question—too difficult, no need to consider it before learning Apparition and Portkeys.

And there was no Dalaran in this world, so don’t teleport randomly!

Arcane Intellect, Polymorph, Counterspell, and Blink were all a bit too difficult for him. And researching and practicing them were too dangerous.

Evocation was a means for mages to quickly reawaken the mana within their bodies, a powerful way to restore mana.

Ted didn’t even understand the basic principle of this spell; it probably couldn’t be researched within a year or two, requiring a deeper study and understanding of mana.

After some thought, Ted chose a defensive spell—Frost Armor.

Frost and Fire spells were relatively simple, and since this was his first time encountering magic outside the magical world, starting with the simplest was naturally the most suitable.

Frostbolt was the first spell for mages in the game, possibly even simpler than Frost Armor.

However, offensive spells could be troublesome if considered dark curses or malicious hexes.

Even prank spells like “Jelly-Legs Jinx” were considered dark curses, so it was better for him, a pre-school wizard without a foundation, not to stir up such trouble.

Frostbolt required a relatively long casting time, commonly known as “channeling Frostbolt.” A casting time of over two seconds was a bit too long in this world.

But Frostbolt’s power was not small; according to the data in his mind, its physical damage alone could penetrate a one-centimeter pine board from ten meters away.

A person wearing only ordinary cloth clothes, if hit in the head or chest, would have a very high probability of dying on the spot.

Even wizards with Lv 1 magic resistance, if they didn’t cast defensive spells, would be severely injured, and if they didn’t receive timely treatment, they might even die.

He was here to study, not to purge.

Instead of pursuing mastery of lethal magic, it was better to learn “sending up sparks”—calling for help when in danger was more reliable!

On the other hand, Frost Armor was excellent.

Before learning Protego, this was his only means of defense.

What, why not research Fireball? Because playing with fire was dangerous!

Fireball was much more dangerous than Frostbolt.

…

Azerothian spells and the magic of this world were vastly different. The casting method of incantation plus gestures needed to be converted to incantation plus wand waving, and he also needed to analyze the spell model to reconstruct it with mana.

Ted now needed a place to train magic.

The magical world certainly had many private spells like Snape’s invented Levicorpus, Muffliato, and Sectumsempra.

But spells like Frost Armor had a slightly different style, and being seen might inevitably attract attention.

A secret place to train magic was necessary.

Ted began to try to analyze the spell model of Frost Armor and attempt to convert new incantations.

The key to this spell was: cold, shield, and defense.

He decided to study “Freezing Charm,” “Impedimenta,” and “Protego” while researching.

Protego was an advanced spell, difficult to learn in a short time, but he could utilize its concepts.

The other two were relatively simple, and given Professor Flitwick’s fondness for Ted, asking him privately was no problem at all.

Ted applied to Professor Flitwick for a deserted, unused classroom and also found several old training dummies, beginning his focused research.

…

A week passed, and Ted used almost all of his free time to research and practice new magic. The result could be said to be smooth, or it could be said to be not smooth.

It was smooth because he had successfully analyzed it and developed an incantation, being able to successfully cast Frost Armor.

It was not smooth because the current incantation was very long, with seven words, and the wand movements were complex, requiring two or three seconds of waving.

Moreover, the mana consumption for casting was enormous; one Frost Armor cast was equivalent to casting seven or eight Expelliarmus spells consecutively!

This should be due to problems with his converted incantation and gestures.

The incantation was lengthy, the wand’s trajectory was cumbersome, the mana mobilization effect was poor, and the casting will was not clear enough… It still needed further optimization.

The magical world spells he was currently learning had been optimized by countless wizards over thousands of years and were already the optimal solution.

Although they might not be the most effective, they were easy to learn, easy to master, and had low consumption.

Thinking about it this way, Snape had already developed Levicorpus, Muffliato, and Sectumsempra in his sixth year, especially the last one, which was a top-tier dark magic!

His talent in dark magic was absolutely very high!

Because the Appraisal Charm had a very poor effect on people much stronger than himself, and it was very easy to attract attention and dislike for sensitive people, Ted had never dared to use it on the professors.

But thinking about it, in the entire school besides Dumbledore, the strongest in combat should be Snape, although his age might be the youngest among the four heads of houses.

If he hadn’t been plagued by love, he would definitely have been a great dark wizard whose name would be remembered in magical history!