If you want to greatly improve your strength in the shortest possible time, to be honest, it is not completely impossible. However, the difficulty is undoubtedly enormous.

It is worth mentioning that it is even more frustrating if you have spent a lot of effort and have never achieved results, or even failed repeatedly.

In the past few days, the friends on the island have been studying and practicing hard under the guidance of Maca.

Hermione and Luna are immersed in the perception of the rules runes; Neville still held the bigger and bigger rocks to exercise his mental strength.

Ron was no longer lifting rocks with Neville all day - his mental strength was barely up to par and he wouldn't get himself down when using the rune arm shield again, so Maca asked him to take a small half day out every day and put it into arm shield training with Ginny, Hannah, and the others.

If you want to say that you have improved your actual combat ability the most in recent days, it must be Weili's father, Mr. Blois. Because of his solid foundation in rule runes, he has now begun to adapt to the compound rule magic that uses multiple rule runes to combine.

It has to be said that although there is a world of difference between the first-level rules and the second-level rules, the increase in the power of this compound rule magic has also greatly shortened this gap.

Of course, by far the most anticipated one is probably Harry.

Three days earlier, Harry, with Maca's consent, had locked himself in an unoccupied room with the Gryffindor Sword, as he had done at the beginning. Every day only Maca would go in and bring him water and food, and no one else would be allowed to enter or leave the room.

If Harry could really push his limits this time and get the Gryffindor Sword to recognize him as his master, then ...... Maybe Maca will really consider giving up her plan to go it alone, right?

Well, at least that's what Hermione thought......

"Hey! Ron, don't get distracted! ”

In the courtyard, everyone was studying and training according to Maca's arrangement as they had done a few days ago—and so was Ron, of course.

To be honest, his enthusiasm is still good these days, and this time with the "Rune Arm Shield" made by Maca, a magic prop that can exert great power even if he is not talented, he is very energetic every day.

Not to mention anything else, he didn't even get bored with the boring "stone lifting time" every morning, and even occasionally made it more difficult for himself.

But today, his already boring time lifting stones became even more difficult under Hermione's thoughts!

Hermione...... It's not that I want to get distracted, it's really ...... This ancient magic is really not for me! You see, these magic texts all look so similar, and ...... Why does this pen bend up from the left side to give this magic text the meaning of 'warmth'? I really don't understand......"

At this moment, it was the time for Ron to exercise his mental strength as he lifted the stone. Normally, he had focused all his attention on the large rock above his head, but now he had to focus on the notebook Hermione had placed in front of him to study the ancient scriptures.

And just as Ron couldn't help but complain, Hermione, who was studying the rule runes and supervising him next to him, immediately looked up and glared.

"Don't be verbose, you know what!" She said angrily, "What do you think makes that arm shield work?" If you could know more about ancient magic, you would be able to use it more effectively in battle, understand? ”

“…… Oh. ”

Ron was silent for a moment, then answered honestly.

But Ron didn't know that Hermione wanted more than just let him learn ancient magic, and if possible, she even wanted Ron to start learning the rules runes as well.

Within a few days of learning the rules, Hermione understood what it meant to learn these runes - they were not only the foundation of modern spells, but the source of all magic. Even a preliminary understanding of the mysteries of the rules can bring a qualitative improvement to wizards.

Now, with Delphi's help, she has touched the edge of the rule rune, and just like that, her gains are huge.

For example, her understanding of the "Impact" rune and the "Concussion" rune was enough to cause her to cast a stun spell that was far stronger than before.

In fact, her perception above these two first-level runes was only a layer of skin.

"Study hard......," after a moment's pause, Hermione whispered to Ron, "Trust me, I won't lie to you." ”

"I know."

When Ron heard this, he couldn't help but scratch his head, obviously knowing that Hermione must have good intentions for "torturing" him so much.

However, he was so distracted that he suddenly forgot that he was still casting a levitation spell against a large rock. When he subconsciously scratched his scalp, the spell was interrupted instantly, and the rock, which was larger than his whole person, immediately fell from mid-air.

"Be careful!"

When Hermione saw this, she hurriedly drew her wand and waved it backhand, narrowly stopping the stone right above Ron's big head.

"Forget about holding a rock above your head? How did you do that? It's so stupid, I would have known that it would have stoned you to death, so that I wouldn't have to trouble Helbo to kill you in the future......"

Just as Ron broke out in a cold sweat, Hermione couldn't help but scold him. But she scolded and scolded, and suddenly her eyes lit up as if she had thought of something.

The next moment, she casually threw the stone at Ron's side, and then stood there in deep thought.

"Ouch!"

Ron, who was hit in the stomach by the splashed stones, squatted down holding his lower abdomen, and was about to reason with Hermione, but saw that the other party seemed to have lost his interest, so he had to hold his belly and plan to take a rest.

But at this moment, Luna, who had witnessed all this from the side, looked at Hermione as if she was slightly aware, and then suddenly snorted at Delfinus.

"And voila! Hermione seemed to understand something? ”

"Oh?"

When Delphi heard this, he also looked back and forth a few times, and then said thoughtfully:

"Miss Granger...... You're working on the 'gravity' rune today, right? Well...... This is not an easy rule to understand. ”

However, Luna didn't seem to be worried about this, she just smiled and said:

"I'm sure Hermione can do it...... Speaking of which, Maca was right again! It seems that Hermione is going to comprehend the power of the rules first! ”

With that, she lowered her head again and returned her attention to her research.

"'Gravity'...... Is it? ”

In the distance, Maca looked at Hermione, who was thinking in the courtyard, and whispered to herself.