Chapter 46: Chapter 46: The Occamy and spell advancement missions (Edited)
Hermione, dressed in a thin white sweater over a yellow plaid vest, walked down the hallway, making a crisp sound. She opened the classroom door before Tom and turned on a lamp.
In the dim light, they waited together for the first rays of morning sunshine. As soon as the sun appeared in the sky, Tom took out a second bottle of magic potion and dropped it on Occamy's egg. As soon as the potion was applied, the egg began to shake violently, and some snake-like lines continued to appear on the surface.
"Is it going to hatch?" Hermione was a little surprised, she hadn't expected the magic potion to have such an immediate effect.
Soon, with a snap, a gap opened in the shell of the silver egg and a sharp yellow beak emerged first, followed by an ever-widening gap and a head of a bird-like snake also protruded from the egg, with beautiful yellow eyes and a small black dot for a pupil.
If the head was able to emerge, the whole body had no difficulty in doing so, and it twisted and turned its body, widening the gap a little and dropping silver grains on the table. Soon, it emerged from the egg.
The first thing he saw when he came out was Tom's surprised face.
Tom hadn't expected the Occamy to be so beautiful and gorgeous. The Occamy was less than 20 cm long, covered with small purple scales and had a pair of small wings with blue feathers on its body. If there was one animal that could describe the color of the snakebird, it would be the hummingbird. The scales on the Occamy's body and its wing feathers are as bright as those of a kingfisher.
The Occamy chirped merrily to Tom, but in November in Scotland, even indoors, it was a bit chilly and he felt a bit uncomfortable. He looked around and saw a black hole in the big face in front of him, so he gave birth to a bold idea.
He swooped and flew, and the first target of his life was Tom's mouth.
With a thud, he rushed into Tom's mouth.
Tom: Whoa!
He felt as if a banana had been shoved into his mouth, felt the bird snake's beak pecking at his throat, and felt the urge to vomit.
The Occamy smelled a bad odor, so it activated its talent and, with a hiss, shrunk to an unknown size and found a random hole in its mouth to hide in.
Without the Occamy's stimulation, Tom gradually calmed down. Then he realized something important: The Occamy was gone!
He panicked. If the Occamy accidentally fell into his stomach, it would be digested. Tom opened his mouth wide and asked Hermione to take a look.
Hermione inserted her small wand into Tom's mouth, and used the Charm (Lumos). She looked deep into his throat and saw nothing, but when she glanced at Tom's wisdom tooth, she felt it was different than the one she had seen before.
She looked closer, there was an Occamy curled up in the wisdom tooth socket!
Hermione was surprised.
"The Occamy has made a home in my wisdom tooth?" Tom was flabbergasted, there was something very wrong with this Occamy! This is outrageous, I, his mother, became his nest, how outrageous!
Often when people get a clogged tooth, their first reaction is not to reach for a toothpick, but to test it with their tongue and see if they can pull it out with their tongue. Tom's first reaction was the same, his tongue fiddled with the wisdom tooth.
The Occamy had enough of that, and poked its body out, the front half grew quickly, but the tail remained unchanged, still on the tooth, and half of the Occamy came out of Tom's mouth. The Occamy looked around, hissed a couple of times and retreated.
"Hiss~ (If any more bastards come to cause trouble, I'll welcome them!"
Tom had a look of utter dismay, he hadn't expected the Occamy to be infatuated with his wisdom tooth.
Hermione covered her mouth and giggled, "Looks like I can't get Dad to pull that wisdom tooth for you!".
"Ugh..." Tom sighed, "Let's eat first."
They headed for the Great Dining Hall, which by now was a bit uninhabited: it was Saturday, and anyone who could get up early on a Saturday morning was a ruthless person.
When Tom poked a piece of bacon with a fork and popped it into his mouth, the Occamy suddenly poked its head out of its molar and took the bacon with it.
Tom: "????"
He picked up another small sausage and the exact same thing happened.
Tom: "..."
His brain ached a little.
"It's okay, pets eat first..." Tom fed the Occamy in his mouth for a good five minutes before he got full, and was relieved when, dazed, he took a small sausage without it being eaten. In these few minutes, the Occamy devoured all the food that went into his mouth.
"You're eating a lot today, aren't you?" Hermione noticed the abnormality.
Tom covered his face, not wanting to speak.
After dinner, it was a quiet, peaceful Saturday, the kind of day when even Tom didn't want to go to the library to study. Hermione had her own ideas, and she made her way to the library with a stack of books, and Tom could only look at her with admiration and a lazy aura.
Tom leaned back lazily in an armchair, looking out the window at the sky. To others, he was in a daze, but in fact he was exploring his own system. More specifically, he was looking at the way he had broken through.
For the moment, after two months of classes and self-learning, Tom had reached full expertise in all his spells and had reached the threshold of his knowledge in his magic bar. At this point, the advancement requirements for spells had also been met.
For example, the first spell Tom drew, (Lumos), had an advancement requirement of Enchantment level 1, proficiency level 1 and full experience, with only the Enchantment not yet met. The task of advancing the spell is not complicated, he just had to go to Professor Flitwick's office, let him test him on the final exam level, if he passed Professor Flitwick's test, he could advance the spell and the Enchantment theory of knowledge.
If he passed the test, he could advance to level 1. When he reached level 1, the Charm (Lumos), which met the prerequisites for advancement, would naturally become level 1. However, there was a very serious problem, because some of the prerequisites for advancing the spell, Tom had not unlocked, such as the Protego Charm, which required Charm and Defense Against the Dark Arts, but he had not unlocked the Defense Against the Dark Arts theory, so he could not advance the spell level.
He was glad he had been taught by a teacher he trusted for almost all spell advancement, otherwise he would have been stuck.
Chapter 47: Chapter 47: Modified broom (Edited)
"Knock, knock, knock!"
"Come in!" Professor Flitwick's high-pitched voice echoed through the office, and at the sight of his visitor he gave a slightly embarrassed smile, "Yodel, I haven't finished modifying the broom yet, but I'm getting somewhere..."
"Professor, I didn't come to ask for a broom, I want you to test my learning," Tom said.
"Not for a broom then? What?" Professor Flitwick looked up in surprise, glaring at Tom, "What do you want me to test you on?"
"Professor, I've been studying on my own all semester, I'd like to ask you a series of questions to test the results of my self-study." Tom respectfully stated his request to Professor Flitwick, he could not help but be respectful, if Professor Flitwick refused to test him, he would have to wait six months. He wasn't afraid that Professor Flitwick would question him, he was sure of himself, and besides, wasn't it normal to call Tom an exceptionally talented wizard?
It was the first time Professor Flitwick had seen such an outrageous request. He looked at Tom, a little speechless, "Do you think it's that easy to think of final exam questions? It takes a professor a weekend to think of one: not too easy, not too hard, preferably differentiated, not exaggerated, and with careful consideration of a second answer, which is hard for a professor!
The most painful thing is that you have to write all these questions yourself. Without a computer, this is a real headache. I'm afraid it's hard for moderns to understand the difficulties of 20th century scientists who didn't have computers.
For example, Jack Heatherington, a professor at Michigan State University, published a very influential paper in 1975, but the funny thing is that he used a lot of first person "we" throughout the paper, but at that time there was a rule that if you used first person "we", there must be more than one person authors, but the if the author signed for only one person, then this kind of paper cannot be published. The problem was that there was no word replacement or one-click replacement and he had to type every word of the paper on his typewriter....
So he had an idea, he named his Siamese cat as the second author of the article, he called it: F.D.C. Willard (Felix Domesticus, Chester; Chester Willard domestic cat, Willard having been Chester's father's name) and successfully published the article. So there was an article with the name of the cat, and the impact factor of many people's lives may not be as great as this cat.
Oh, and this method is not recommended for other people, because immunologist Polly Machinger did the same thing and was banned for life by the grumpy editor-in-chief of a magazine....
"Show me all those spells in the book." Professor Flitwick decided to start with a pretest.
So Tom started with the spell (Incendio), showing Professor Flitwick the spells mentioned in Standard Spells - Beginners, some of which he had learned from the draw, some of which he had learned during self-teaching, and some of which Hermione had taught him. They all had one thing in common: they hadn't improved in a long time.
Professor Flitwick's expression gradually turned to one of surprise. When Tom finished the last spell and opened a small, delicate lock, he couldn't help but clap his hands, "Very good! You really got everything right, although some things aren't quite right!"
He pulled a piece of paper and a small delicate box out of his drawer, "Come on, let this box run around the table first."
Tom did as he was told. Although it was a little stumbling, but the box moved on its four little legs. Then Professor Flitwick handed Tom a piece of parchment, which contained the questions from last year's final exam.
It was an hour later when Tom finished writing the paper. Professor Flitwick took the paper and corrected it. He corrected it quickly, returning it in less than five minutes.
"Alright, with the grades and the practical work just done, you can barely get an 'O'!" Professor Flitwick looked very pleased.
Tom had also passed the spell casting test, but strangely had not reached level 1. Confused, he waved goodbye to Professor Flitwick, but Professor Flitwick stopped him before he left his office. Professor Flitwick took a small book from his desk and floated it over to Tom.
'This is a bit of my experience with the second year textbook, Standard Spells - Level 2, and contains my second year syllabus, so as you have already mastered the first year, there is no need to delay, read it in advance.' Professor Flitwick smiled with relief: it had been a long time since he had seen such a talented and hard-working young wizard.
Tom took the book, bowed to Professor Flitwick, and left the office.
When he returned to the Common Room, it was not yet lunchtime, so he skimmed through Professor Flitwick's notes, and by the time it was dinnertime, he had passed level 1 in his Enchantment theory, and at the same time, many spells advanced to level 1.
Now, he knew the key to working his way through the various theories of knowledge. But he didn't rush to ask the other teachers for an advancement test, because he wasn't too sure about the rest of the subjects, and in a class like Snape's Potions, if you didn't know what you were getting into, it was the same as dying.
But the key reason was that the Wandless Casting technique required the spells to be at level 1. What he should do now was to familiarize himself with these spells and practice them to become more proficient. After all, his highest proficiency spell, (Lumos), was only 17%, which meant a 17% success rate in wanting to use it without a wand.
After Halloween, it was November, and in the Scottish Highlands in November, it was very cold, cold as hell. That's when Tom thought of Beauxbatons magical school, which is in the south of France, and it's not too cold in November, and the pretty ladies at the school do their best to look their best....
But the cold could not dampen the enthusiasm of the young wizards, not in terms of learning, of course, but in terms of Quidditch. On the first Sunday in November (November 3), Tom received his broom: it had taken Professor Flitwick almost two months to complete the modification.
Of course, if you're a regular buyer of custom figurines and keyboards, you'll be used to this sort of thing.
Tom took the broom, played with it for a while, and watched as his magic item bar in the system changed: [Flying Broom - Sweeper Seven (modified)]
[With Professor Flitwick's modification, this broom can instantly accelerate for 1 second, with a 1 minute cooldown].
This ability, which seems fine, is too short and a bit annoying for other positions, but it's a nice change for Hunters.
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