378. Vigilance, Normalcy, Nightmares
Before falling asleep, Scott, who was lying under the covers, held the golden card between his fingers, and a lingering sense of absurdity filled his heart.
After the crossing, there will really be a "system", he thought a little funny, online literature is not a fool.
He looked at the card in his hand.
It's just that this "systematic" scholar alliance has one person, and there is nothing beyond the norm to exchange, and it seems that some can't be put on the table.
Thinking of this, Scott sighed silently.
Sure enough, no matter how you restrain your heart, the emotion called "slacking" will still run out from time to time.
He didn't expect such an unrealistic fantasy to pop up in his heart-
Imagine yourself like the time-traveling protagonists in those online literature I have seen in my previous life, and have a system that only needs to sign in and draw cards to become invincible.
You can't think so.
Scott quickly regained his attention and stopped having such joking thoughts.
He really understands that he is just passing through reincarnation, and he is not a protagonist, nor does he have a powerful golden finger.
In this real world, all he can rely on is his relatively good talent and hard work.
Everything else can only be icing on the cake.
It's like the [Book of Prometheus] connected to the [Knowledge Bank], although it looks a lot like a "system" or "golden finger", but in the end, it's just a magic device built by wizards more than a hundred years ago, and it's a tool.
Tools can only provide him with some convenience at most, and cannot replace any effort.
He must not develop any psychology of dependence on it, nor can he let his heart breed greed and slackness.
Scott thought about this, and after being vigilant to himself several times, he slowly fell asleep.
Because he slept too late, at breakfast time the next day, Scott and his roommates yawned and looked sluggish when they walked into the auditorium.
But they didn't forget to give a teasing smile to Fred and George on the Gryffindor side.
"Good morning."
Once seated, Scott greeted the couple of Dylan and Kayla sitting across the table with sleepy eyes.
"Good morning, what's wrong with you guys, haven't you slept well?" Dylan looked at the four of them and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"I slept too late." Scott pulls out a box of instant coffee pods and makes himself a cup.
"Oh, Scott." Kayla laughed and said, "Look at those junior kids, you're a respectable prefect. ”
Scott glanced across the long table as he handed out the instant coffee pods to his roommates.
Many of the junior students who had been secretly observing him just now withdrew their gaze.
"It's good to have you here." Scott took a sip of his coffee and smiled at Kayla, "I'm not a good role model. ”
"yes, you've been a prefect for almost a year, Scott. But you've never been in charge of the discipline of the house, and you've never taken care of the kids in the lower grades. Kayla said unceremoniously.
"Hmm......" Scott thought for a moment and nodded approvingly.
If you think about it, the only thing he's done since he became a prefect is to inspect the carriages on the cashback train.
Think about it this way......
"I'm really incompetent." He said.
"If you know, it's good." Kayla said.
Scott nodded again and began to eat.
"Hey, shouldn't you take the initiative?" Kayla opened her mouth with some dissatisfaction.
Scott looked up and gave her a puzzled look.
Although Scott has not fulfilled his duties as a prefect, he knows that Kayla has been doing well. Today she suddenly said this, obviously not because she wanted to complain.
Kayla said why, "This Saturday night, there's a book event in the college library in the common room that you have to attend. ”
"What kind of activity is this?" It was the first time Scott had heard of this kind of activity in Ravenclaw.
Just then, Penelope, the seventh-grade female prefect, walked over.
"I organized the event." She said.
"Please." Scott motioned for her to introduce herself.
Penelope sat down next to Kayla and said to Scott, "This semester is coming to an end, exam week is just around the corner, and this event is here to help you revise better." ”
"Are you kidding?" Eddie, who was sitting next to Scott, said in surprise, "It's only early April, and exam week is the first week of June!" ”
Penelope looked at Eddie with a smile, "What's wrong?" Is it still far from the first week of June? ”
"Also...... It's not very far either. Eddie immediately flinched.
"You have to come to the event." Penelope then said to Scott, "A lot of kids in Ravenclaw are looking forward to getting up close and personal with you. ”
Kayla nodded in agreement, "Especially the first graders, they've all heard about you, and a lot of them adore you." ”
Scott asked Penelope with some confusion, "Is the reading activity long-term?" Until before the exam? ”
Penelope nodded, "Time before the exam, once a week." ”
Scott said, "If I'm not mistaken, you in seventh grade are going to be preparing today. S, and in the fifth grade, we have to prepare."
"Don't worry, it won't take up so much of your time, busy man." "But you have to be there for the first event of the week. ”
"Well, in that case, I'll go." Scott agreed to her request.
He thought about it, he was indeed incompetent as a prefect, and this time he should be performing his duties.
"Good." Penelope smiled.
At this time, Eddie deliberately asked her again, "Are you going to take the child?" Don't worry about affecting your own exams? ”
"I'm fairly confident in my exams." Penelope smiled slightly, "Besides, I'm about to graduate, so I think it's the last thing I'm doing before I leave the academy." ”
With that, she stood up.
"After all, I don't have the talent to make a college promotional video like you, so I can only do such small things."
After she said this, she shook her long hair and turned away.
At the end of the day's lessons, Scott went to the Room after dinner to show his [Book of Prometheus] to the painted Ravenclaw tutor.
"Interesting design, worthy of the alchemist who successfully refined the Philosopher's Stone."
The Ravenclaw in the painting is intrigued by the book in Scott's possession that is remotely connected to the [Knowledge Bank], especially the alchemy part contained therein.
She said in a somewhat regretful tone: "It's a pity that I can't get my hands on it now." ”
"I have a way." Scott said to her.
He exchanged 480 credits for an obscure ancient magic recorded in the books in the outer study, and then spent 1 credit for Nicol Lemay's "Records of the Construction of the Core of the Knowledge Bank (Alchemy Part)".
After redeeming the knowledge, you can click on the page to view it.
Nicol Lemay's "Record of Construction" doesn't contain much content, and when expanded, it only occupies a dozen pages of the book.
But as Scott expected, he really couldn't read most of it.
Even if you can understand the part, you can't operate it.
The pinnacle of an alchemy master who has reached the pinnacle is not something that an apprentice like him can easily understand.
Scott simply copied the original content on parchment and showed it to the Ravenclaw in the painting.
That's where he excels.
It doesn't matter if he can't read it, as long as the Ravenclaw in the painting can read it.
As long as the instructor understands this knowledge, he can teach him this apprentice.
Scott let the parchment float in front of the Ravenclaw portrait and ran to Helena's study to start collecting wool.
A complete unincluded knowledge of ancient magic can be exchanged for about 500 points, and Scott feels like he is about to make a fortune.
But the process of redeeming credits was not as easy as he imagined.
Because the [Knowledge Bank] has a hard and fast rule that knowledge that can be redeemed for credits must be handwritten on the [Book of Prometheus].
It is said to be for "respect for knowledge".
[Especially knowledge that you have not worked on yourself, but should write it down with a devout heart for knowledge.] ]
Scott receives such a warning when he tries to cheat with props like auto-transcribe quills.
Until curfew, Scott, who had carefully copied for 4 hours, earned a total of 1,367 points.
Helena, the girl who sat in the painting on the wall and looked at him, was a little overwhelmed.
"Their rules are too rigid, what's the point?" "I think you've wasted four hours of studying, and time is precious to you these days," she said. ”
Scott agreed.
He redeemed a piece of knowledge about the Animagus that was useful to him at this stage, and the credits were almost spent.
He copied the knowledge on parchment and immediately turned the book into a card.
It was indeed a waste of time, and he decided not to rush to redeem the credits, but to wait until he needed them.
He didn't even look at the other [knowledge] content and [item] content that the credits could be redeemed for.
He already had his goal of learning and improving at this stage.
He can use a tool like [knowledge bank] to speed up the pace and shorten the time to reach his goal, but he should try to avoid letting other things disrupt his pace.
After figuring this out, and with the novelty fading, he began to really treat [the Book of Prometheus] with a normal heart.
After leaving the Room of Requirement, Scott encounters a spirited Harry in the hallway leading to the stairs.
Scott was taken aback when he saw him.
I haven't noticed it for a while, and this kid looks a lot haggard.
"Good evening, Harry." Scott took the initiative to greet him, "What's going on?" You don't look good. ”
Scott hadn't gone to see the Quidditch match between Ravenclaw and Gryffindor the week before, only to hear that the Ravenclaw House team had won the game and that Harry had not played well throughout.
But he didn't expect Harry to look so bad.
"Good evening, Scott." Harry spoke a little weakly, "Oh, I don't want to sleep every day now. ”
"What happened?" Scott asked him.
"You know." Harry leaned against the stone wall in the hallway, rubbing his forehead with his hand, "I've always dreamed about Voldemort during this time. ”
Scott glanced at his somewhat pale face, "What did you dream about?" ”
"It's a lot, it's a mess." Harry frowned, "He'...... The demon, although he still hasn't regained his strength, has planned many attacks, the ones that have been reported in the newspapers, and of course, some that have not been reported. ”
"Does Dumbledore know about this?" Scott asked again.
Lately he'd been affected by the prophecy and had paid less attention to other matters, and hadn't "listened" to the "report" of the Harry doll he had given Harry.
He didn't know how the recent events outside the school had affected Harry so much.
Harry was a little upset, "I told him, he asked me to learn a kind of Occlumency. He wanted Snape to teach me, but I refused. ”
"It's a really good idea to learn Occlumency." "You have to learn to prevent anybody from getting into your brain," Scott said. ”
But Harry was visibly a little grumpy, "yes, that's a good idea, but only if it's not Snape who is in charge of teaching!" Everyone knows that his most hated student is me! Of course, I don't like him either. ”
In fact, Scott also felt that it was not a good idea to put Snape in charge of teaching Harry Occlumency.
Learning Occlumency requires emptying his brain and controlling his emotions, and Harry should not be able to calm down in Snape's usual cynicism, he is probably used to fighting the Potions professor.
He said to Harry, "But you can't go on like this, this matter affects you too much." Now you can see his actions in your dreams, and maybe in the future he will also be able to read the memories in your brain through this connection. ”
Harry immediately looked extremely disgusted.
"I wanted Professor Lupin to teach me, but Professor Lupin said he wasn't good at that magic either." "I'm ready for my godfather to teach me during the summer," he said...... By the way, do you have Occlumency? ”
He looked up at Scott expectantly.
"I will." "But I taught myself based on books in the school library and wasn't very proficient." ”
"Can you ......" Harry tried to ask Scott for help, but he was too embarrassed to say much.
"I can lend you my notebook." Scott took the initiative to say, "In addition to excerpts from the knowledge in the book, there are also some of my thoughts in the notebook. ”
"Thank you." Harry looked a little disappointed.
"Because my level in this area is limited, even if I teach you personally, I can't say anything more than what I learned in my notebook."
Scott reached out and patted him on the shoulder.
"The notebook is in the dorm, I'll give it to you tomorrow morning at breakfast."
With that, he waved his hand and turned to walk down the stairs.
"Goodbye." Harry whispered behind him.
"Goodbye." Scott replied.
He wasn't lying to Harry.
Although partly because he didn't have time to teach Harry Occlumency himself, but more because with his level, he really couldn't teach anything.