Chapter 11: The Road Ahead

"Carl, you are becoming magic itself. ”

Dumbledore looked at Karl with burning eyes.

Karl understood what Dumbledore meant.

In a sense, the Black Abyss is the embodiment of his magic.

And Kurobyss's barely end-to-end growth was filling his body with this almost embodied magic.

Sooner or later, his body will be filled with this embodied magic, and then, as Dumbledore says, he will become the embodiment of magic.

But the crux of the matter is sooner or later.

Unless there is a huge external force directly infused like the previous Devouring Poseidon, the growth of the black abyss can only rely on the accumulation of time.

The only, and greatest, advantage is that it doesn't stagnate at a certain age like ordinary wizards.

In other words, as long as Carl lives long enough, his magic will continue to grow without stagnation.

In addition, the existence of the black abyss also makes Carl's magic unique.

Before Karl, no wizard had possessed near-embodied magic.

Although even this kind of near-embodied magic is still not a real entity, Karl's magic is indeed much better than other wizards in terms of 'quality'.

This was Dumbledore's conclusion after careful confirmation.

At this point, for Dumbledore, who had already used his magical perception talent, he could keenly perceive the difference between the magic power on Carl's body and ordinary wizards.

However, when Carl asked Dumbledore how much it exceeded, he stumped Dumbledore as well.

"Carl, I'm sorry, although I promised to teach you in person, but I can't answer the first question you asked me. ”

Dumbledore said guiltily.

"It's okay Professor. Carl shook his head, his chin in his hand, and thought to himself.

He had asked casually, but Dumbledore's answer made him think a lot.

Actually, he wasn't surprised at all.

As far as he knew, so far, a standard indicator of the strength of mana did not exist in the wizarding world at all.

A perception of magic is only the talent of a few people, and the vast majority of wizards are not even sure if magic really exists.

Second, because magic is so idealistic, most talented wizards like Dumbledore focus their magic on the subjective level, which leads to almost no objective view of magic itself.

There's nothing wrong with that, magic isn't science in the first place, and wizards of Dumbledore's level, their talent has almost brought them to a point where I want to be stronger, and I can get stronger.

As a result, they hardly ever think about questions like, 'How many times more powerful is my magic than a normal wizard?'

Anyway, no matter how big an ant is, it's just an ant, and no one thinks about the boring thing of 'how much weight am I as an ant?'

And there are only a few wizards like Dumbledore with similar talents, and they can be counted in a single slap.

And these people are all standing at the top of the pyramid, and no one is going to run to the ant hole and shout to the ants, 'How many times my weight is you?'

But the thing is, wizards are not ants.

Wizards have brains.

However, even if it is not like magic, which is not imperceptible to ordinary wizards, there are other magic-related indicators that wizards rarely quantify.

Thinking about it, Carl suddenly realized that in the wizarding world, the concept of quantification almost never appeared.

When asked about a wizard's level of magic, there is little truly quantifiable data to refer to, except for a few specific levels of wizarding exams like the Ordinary Wizard Rating Exam and the Ultimate Wizard Rating Exam as a rating metric.

The results are generally something like 'much stronger than so-and-so', or 'unusually powerful', 'terrifying beyond imagination', etc., but there is no 'so-and-so's magic strength is several times that of so-and-so', or 'what is the unit of so-and-so's mana strength'. Such an answer.

Obviously, you can use evaluation criteria such as 'A's stun spell is twice as strong as B' to evaluate the strength of a wizard's magic level, but the truth is that there is no such evaluation system in the wizarding world.

Beginning in Merlin's time, magic has evolved over the millennia, gradually forming its own system and having its own theories.

But in the past two years, Carl has read hundreds of magic books written by wizards, many of which deal with the theory of magic.

But such knowledge, without exception, is all a summary of experience.

No wizard had ever really calibrated magic from a mathematical point of view, and all of the books Carl had read about the idea of magic had been vague and ambiguous when it came to data that needed to be quantified.

Even if you really need some data to support it, the data used is all confused, ambiguous, or even contrary.

The whole article is full of wishful thinking, subjective conjecture, speculation, and exaggeration.

Even Voldemort failed to break out of this invisible circle.

When Voldemort first taught him magic, he generally commented on him: he was very fast, quite fast, fast.

But there is no concept of data that is accurate to the nearest tenths of a second.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that even Muggle-born children have only just graduated from primary school when they enter Hogwarts.

In other words, the highest level of education in today's wizarding world is no higher than that of elementary school graduates.

At this age, the outlook on life and values have not yet been formed, even if there are occasionally a few geniuses like Hermione, who have learned relatively solid cultural classes in primary school, but they are quickly assimilated after entering school, and their ways of thinking and behavior have gradually integrated into the wizard's vague cultural system.

Even Carl, if you think about it, in the past two years since he entered the wizarding world, he has gradually been distorted by this kind of thinking.

The whole article in my head is full of those magic systems and magic theories that are too idealistic, but the only thing missing is the quantitative data and indicators of the previous life.

Thinking about it, he had never tried to measure the temperature of the Flame Spell in the past two years.

How many TNT equivalents can be converted to when an Avada Kill hits a wall.

Or, as I said, it took a few tenths of a second between the time he pulled the wand out of his bosom and the time the spell was released.

All of this......

Even if the magic system itself could not be explained scientifically, the external appearance of this manifestation at the level of the objective world could still be easily quantified, but these were all ignored by him.

It's really a big no.

Through the strength of a stun spell released by a wizard under normal conditions, the strength of 100 wizards is collected and the average is taken as the standard strength.

This makes it possible to use this as a criterion to evaluate the strength of a wizard's mana, and then analyze it together from several other interrelated indicators.

In this way, the strength of a wizard can be intuitively displayed.

These are the directions that Carl will strive for in the future.

He had to build a framework of his own magical system.