Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 52: Level 0 Spells and Staying at School During Holidays
Studying magic must be done from easy to difficult, especially since the spell system of DND is quite different from the magic world.

So Ted thought of starting with 0th level spells.

In the spellbook of the three-ring red wizard, the 0-ring spells are:

Mage's hand, repair, forbidden light, adhesion, arcane mark, magic tricks, detect magic, read magic, communication, freezing ray.

For example, teleportation, I have already developed similar abilities through psychic power, so I don’t need it.

There is a similar magic to adhesion in the magic world, called the "Permanent Adhesion Spell", which is even more powerful than this one.

Some wizards with profound magical powers and proficient in spells can cast spells that can make two objects stick together for dozens or hundreds of years, as if they were born together, and ordinary magic cannot remove them.

There is also a repair spell to compare with the repair spell. The 0-ring repair spell can only repair some simple minor damages, while the repair spell can even restore things that have been broken into pieces. Complete victory!
The rest is that the effect is unique and it will be difficult to find magic with similar effects in the magic world for a while.

The Mage's Hand can use magic to form an invisible magic hand. The specific effect depends on the proficiency of magic and the strength of magic. It is a very practical spell and a must-have for mages.

No-Light can turn a small area into black, so that light cannot penetrate.

The secret mark is also a must for spellcasters. Everyone will form his or her own unique secret mark, which is like a "magic ID card".

Detect Magic is used to detect magical effects.

For example, if you find a magic item and don't know what the consequences will be, you can use this to detect it. You can also detect whether a certain place has been cast a spell.

Reading magic can decipher magical writing on objects - books, scrolls, weapons, etc. This reading does not usually trigger the magic contained in the writing.

For example, if there is a cursed black magic book, and one glance at it will cause blindness, you can use reading magic to see the real text on it without triggering the curse.

The freezing ray can fire a frost ray, and the target it hits will suffer from frostbite or even freeze.

Is it a weakened version of the Frost Arrow? It loses its penetration and its lethality is greatly reduced, but the freezing effect is preserved. And it is easy to cast, just a simple word or a gesture is needed to cast it.

Ted finally decided to start with the "freeze ray".

Because he is now very proficient in freezing magic. After all, he has already studied Frost Armor and Frost Arrows, so it should not be difficult for him to get his hands on Freezing Rays.

Once there is a breakthrough and the spell casting mode is successfully studied, it will be much easier to study other spells.

The spell model of the Ice Ray is a very simple three-dimensional model, which mainly attempts to construct it with magic power and how to activate it quickly without a magic network.

After two days of trying, Ted finally managed to cast the freezing ray, but it was far from a success because it took eight seconds to cast and was almost useless.

The next step is to streamline the steps and optimize the process of mana operation and spell model construction.

……

In about five days, Ted completely cracked and "localized" the spell of freezing ray.

All you need is a finger and a simple musical scale "ice", without even a wand, to shoot out a blue-white ray with a range of up to seven meters, enough to cover a wooden stake with a thin layer of ice.

In terms of practical value, it is indeed not great, but it is mainly a process of learning and cracking.

After Ted successfully cracked the ice ray, he devoted himself to cracking and developing other magics.

The following arcane mark and the wizard's hand only took four days in total!
This feeling of learning and mastering magic is really addictive~
But soon his research was interrupted.

His ghost friend came.

"Helena? Why are you here?!"

Seeing Helena walk through the wall and come to the abandoned classroom, Ted put down his wand.

I think the last time I met Helena was last time.

Well, it's been two weeks. I was so focused on studying new magic that I completely forgot about it. What a sin.

Helena saw the messy books and notes on the table in front of Ted, as well as the training dummy in the distance, and nodded slightly: "I have checked some of the information left by my mother. Maybe my mother did leave something behind in the last stage of her life."

"Statue?" Ted asked.

"Yes. Mother must have cast a spell on her statue, a special kind of magic related to the mind and soul..." She looked at Ted's expression carefully, not missing a single detail.

In fact, she had found many clues a week ago, but hesitated for several days before coming to Ted.

The boy is excellent, considerate, intelligent and willing to learn. At the same time, you can see his obsession with magic. But this is also a problem for Helena.

Because the last similar boy really cheated her so badly that she even developed post-traumatic stress disorder.

This is also the reason why many Ravenclaw students have felt that the resident ghost, Ms. Grey, is unkind in the past thirty or forty years.

At this moment, she observed Ted carefully, because she was afraid that she would see the ambition and fanaticism in his eyes that she had seen before.

However, for Ted, the mind magic studied by Ms. Ravenclaw did seem very interesting, but for him, there was completely different magical knowledge every month, so he didn't care much about it.

He would not be like Voldemort, who was afraid of death at a young age and became obsessed with Horcrux magic in order to escape death.

"So, it's possible that Ms. Ravenclaw left something for you in her statue?" Ted asked.

Helena breathed a sigh of relief. "Maybe, I don't know. I'm a little scared..."

At this moment, she felt a mixture of longing for her mother and a sense of guilt that she was afraid to face.

The words "I'm sorry" that I couldn't say for a thousand years are so heavy.

The two chatted for a long time, and finally decided to solve the mystery left by Ms. Ravenclaw to see what she left behind in the last moments of her life.

It is very inconvenient because the public lounge is almost always full during the day.

Ted and Helena go out at night.

To this end, Ted even studied the level 0 spell "Detect Magic" in advance.

But the fact that Ms. Ravenclaw's magic could be hidden in the statue for a thousand years speaks volumes.

This is not the kind of magic power + will = magic in the broad sense, but a completely different system.

At least on the statues, there was no magic to be detected except that provided by the castle to keep it clean and intact.

Helena said to Ted, "In her last few years, mother has begun to study some concepts from ancient magic. That is an area that no one has ever touched before. Mother said it is about the subject of mind and soul..."

Helena took out some of Ms. Ravenclaw's notebooks, which were thousands of years old and even written in Old English. Ted used "reading magic" to understand them.

The notes recorded some of Ravenclaw's ideas and inspirations. They did not explain the specific casting methods and principles, but mentioned many related effects.

After reading it, Ted only understood that Ravenclaw had given up the route of magic casting and turned to studying the power of the soul, the power of thought and will. But he had no idea what it was and how it was done.

Now, using his psychic powers, he could vaguely feel a group of thoughts that were there and not there. Apart from that, no magical means could detect any abnormalities in the statue.

There is nothing we can do about the stagnation of research.

After all, Ted was only a first-year student, and he had almost no in-depth research on magic.

It would be strange if he could solve it right away.

After being impatient for a day or two, Helena calmed down. A thousand years had passed, and for a ghost like her, time was the least valuable. Take your time.

It's already mid-December.

Professor McGonagall and the others began to take a piece of parchment and write down the names of students who would stay in school for the holidays.

Christmas is just a week away, and the deans of each college will take down a list of students who will stay on campus instead of going home for Christmas.

The holiday will start in a few days. The Christmas holiday will last until early January, which is half a month.

Most students and teachers will "go back to their own homes".

Hermione persuaded Ted again: "Are you really not going to my house for Christmas?"

Ted thanked again: "Thank you Hermione, if I have the chance in the future, I will go. This time I will spend it at school first!"

"OK then!"

Thanks to book friends “The little one picking mushrooms??” and “尾号3713” for the 100 rewards.

Thank you both
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(End of this chapter)