Chapter 82: Hogwarts Master and Spell Casting
After struggling through Tuesday afternoon's herbology class and history of magic class, Xiwen's life as a student seems to be finally back on track.
No more people destroying the castle's magic nodes all day long, no more professors staring at Xiwen all day casting confusion spells, and no more dark wizards sneaking into the Forbidden Forest to make big news......
Although life at Hogwarts has become stable, the often restless kitten breaks the heart of the "old father" of Sven.
She had to leave the dormitory every day and go out for a whole day, and it was only in the evening that she remembered that Xiwen, the "nominal" owner, would go back to the cat cage and sleep on her own.
I don't know where the kitten will run to sprinkle every day, and often puff up the whole white hair, and often have mud on its paws.
After several unsuccessful attempts to bathe her, Xiwen had to secretly recite a cleaning mantra every day after she fell asleep to clean up the unreassuring cat, so that the kitten would not completely become a gray cat......
After Sven the ghost Sven's secret observation and inquiry, the little wizard Sven sought the help of Professor Kettleburn, and he finally learned what the kitten was doing every day.
It turns out that the kitten has to patrol different places around Hogwarts every day, as if he were patrolling his own territory. The key is that she can also teleport, and she is still the kind that the castle's anti-illusion transformation charm can't restrict, so few people can find her specific traces.
Luckily, Professor Kettleburn is also a veteran street slicker, and he has seen kittens in the Forbidden Forest a few times. The kitten seems to be very unhappy with Professor Kettleburn's previous attempt to feed her stinky mice, glaring at him with displeasure every time the professor finds out, and then swaggering away.
In addition, when Professor Kettleburn went to the island of Tree Protector on the Black Lake to take care of the Tree Tree, he accidentally found a kitten there. She seems to get along well with the small magical creatures of the Tree Protector Cauldron, and is even allowed to climb one of the Guardian Trees they live in.
Professor Kettleburn said to Shevan, "According to the habits of felines, your kitten probably regards the whole of Hogwarts Castle and its surroundings as her own territory, and those of us who often take care of her are two-legged beasts who serve her, and friendly magical creatures like the Tree Protector are her friends." ”
"Usually the feline fantastic beast is that the stronger the magic, the larger the territory demarcated for oneself. Judging from the territory occupied by your kitten, her future is limitless! The professor said with emotion.
The corners of Xiwen's mouth twitched.
I'm still worried that she won't be bullied by others if she doesn't have a good life. The lovers have already been crowned the masters of the entire Hogwarts themselves!
Seeing that Xiwen finally stopped worrying about the kitten's living situation, he even felt that he was not worthy of worrying about the "Lord of Hogwarts" as a cat slave......
He silently shifted his attention, and then saw the wooden leg outside Professor Kettleburn's trouser leg, and asked a little unbearably, "Professor, is your leg really okay?" ”
"How many times have I told you, I'm completely fine!" Professor Kettleburn lifted his two wooden legs and said with a big grin. "These are my feats! After the fire dragon and the Kemera beast, there is an additional poisonous leopard, tsk. ”
Xiwen: "...... It's good if you're happy. ”
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Since Wednesday, Xiwen has resumed his morning exercises, but because his body is still slightly uncomfortable, he decisively lowered the training volume for himself.
When you reduce the amount of training, you spend less time exercising in the morning. So Sivin had plenty of time to harass Miranda.
"What? Do you want to learn combo spellcasting? ”
On the lawn of the teaching area, Miranda looked at Xiwen with wide eyes.
"You've only been in school for a few days, and you want to learn this kind of content that is not taught much in the upper grades?" She asked.
"I didn't want to learn it right away." Xiwen said with a big smile on his face. "Just want to know if you've ever taken any notes, the kind related to spell combinations!"
Ever since he saw the professors cast spells on Halloween night, Shewin had been fascinated by the combination of spells. He even had the idea that he could use a combination of Kama Taj's spells and the world's spells by referring to the professors' coordinated spell casting.
However, the first thing to do is to figure out how the spells work together.
Xiwen didn't think that asking the professor directly at this time would get an answer, and the professors would most likely think that he was too ambitious. In fact, it is true, he has not mastered the spells that need to be learned thoroughly, how can he directly jump to the combination of spells?
So Shevin thought of Miranda, the Ravenclaw college bully, who could write spell notes into a "book of spells".
"No, don't think about it, learn your basic spells!" Miranda wanted to send Xiwen back with a negative trifecta.
However, Xiwen was not discouraged, but lowered his requirements a little bit, and said to Miranda: "In this case, you can roughly show me how to use the combination spell, and I can increase my knowledge." ”
"That's easy." After all, Miranda couldn't resist Xiwen's entanglement, snapped and closed the notebook in his hand, stood up and said. "Actually, the way I told you last time to clean up the dirt is to use the cutting spell first and then the repair spell to barely be considered a combination spell."
"Tell me about it?" Shewin nodded, thinking of the cleansing, cutting, and repairing spells that several professors had been working on at the same time, making the dungeon clean in a few breaths.
"This combination is the easiest." Miranda explained. "Cast spells that work together in a coherent manner to achieve an effect that can't be achieved by spells alone."
"But you'll find that such a combination isn't necessary. Casting the spells you need to use one by one can do the same, but it's a little less efficient. ”
Xiwen nodded knowingly. Compared to the way the professors cast their spells, the efficiency of cleaning up the dungeon itself is obviously more than a step slower.
"Similar to that, there's a combat-type combo spellcast." Miranda continued. "For example, if you're going to use a spell like Serpensortia to fight, an Engorgement Charm will undoubtedly make the snake you summon more combative and intimidating."
"Combo spells during battle are different from life spells that can be cast one by one, because every second in battle is precious, and if you can complete your spell in a split second, you have a better chance of winning than your opponent. Therefore, this kind of combination casting should use a higher-level casting technique - silent casting! ”
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