Hogwarts: A Chinese-Style Professor

Chapter 151 An Attempt at Palm Lightning
Harry spent his final week busy.

To his regret, senior student Joe Weili only taught them for two hours each day.

After 7:30, they would have a meal together, chat about the day's training, and then it would end.

Although getting up early is exhausting and training is tough, these two hours each day are indeed the happiest time for Harry.

If he could, he really wished he could stay at school instead of going back to that awful house during the summer vacation, and continue studying with senior Joe Willy.

However, given Harry's thick skin, he knew he wouldn't dare mention it, let alone in front of Professor Levy, or even in front of his senior, Jowell.

I am able to study under Professor Li Wei—although I am currently studying under senior student Qiao Weili.

For Harry, this was already an extremely lucky thing, and he dared not ask for more.

After having breakfast in the Great Hall, Harry watched his senior, Jowellie, leave, feeling a pang of emptiness in his heart.

Holidays should probably be used for rest.

However, with a corner of the vast magical world already unfolding before his eyes, how could he bear to stop?
Harry turned to look at Cedric and noticed that the other man also seemed somewhat uncomfortable.

He moistened his lips and extended an invitation:

"Cedric, how about we have a duel after dinner to help digest?"

“Great—or rather, it suits me perfectly.”

Cedric felt himself getting excited.

Li Wei also felt himself becoming excited.

With exam week over and students on holiday, he finally had some free time to properly study magic.

Normally, he might have gone straight into closed-door magical research—not contacting anyone, having Barton deliver his meals at fixed times, and devoting all his other time to magic.

As for now, he has decided to change his learning rhythm.

He still devotes himself entirely to magic, but those restrictions and closed-off behaviors are no longer necessary or even beneficial to him now.

Li Wei even felt as if he were in a dream when he looked back on those days.

More than a decade of similar and repetitive memories are compressed together. Looking back, it seems that every day was the same, and a lot of pain and exhaustion have been forgotten.

Although it was undoubtedly a very precious and inspiring memory for him, Li Wei sometimes couldn't help but sigh – how did he get through it back then?

Leaving the basement behind, in the spacious sunroom, Li Wei, bathed in bright light, began to study lightning magic.

As for Li Huo, he decided to put it aside for now—given that there were other projects to study, Li Huo wasn't actually a high priority.

Although this spell is incredibly powerful, it's not very effective in one-on-one wizard duels. Levi studied it only to explore some magical possibilities, not to try and use it as another weapon.

More than range and special effects, he sought the precision and power of magic.

And Leifa would undoubtedly be more in line with his needs.

Regarding lightning, there are two relatively common spells in magic that seem capable of doing so.

For example, weather spells can alter celestial phenomena to control lightning, but they have many drawbacks:

The preparation time is long, the scope is uncontrollable, and it cannot be moved.

It is extremely bulky overall.

The spell "Thunder Explosion" may seem to involve lightning, but it is actually just pure flame and impact.

Creating electricity using magic is a difficult task for most wizards—but Levi was able to easily take that first difficult step.

“Ziz—ziz—”

A dazzling burst of electricity gathered in Li Wei's palm. He recalled the magical symbol theories about energy and impact from "The Essence of Magic" and "The Guide to Magical Transformation," attempting to construct a perfect magic-electric circuit in his palm.

"Shoot."

A soft sound suddenly rang out in Li Wei's hand.

He opened his palm, and wisps of black smoke, tinged with a burnt smell, slowly rose, followed by a fleeting, faint orange spark.

He casually flicked his fingers across his palm, and the scorch marks on it faded away on their own.

After thinking for a while, Li Wei decided to take it one step at a time and temporarily give up on the method of directly discharging electricity through the palm.

He picked up his wand and used it as a track and constraint to control the magic. He focused his mind on the tip of the wand, imagining the magic being compressed, intensified, and then shot out like a grating cannon.

"Boom!"

The concentrated electronic beam bombarded the magic target at extremely high speed, leaving a thin hole.

A look of satisfaction appeared in Li Wei's eyes.

Although he could have produced a far more terrifying effect with any other spell, he had already seen the potential of lightning magic through this simple experiment.

The nature of this magic was indeed as he had imagined; putting aside its power, its speed was absolutely far ahead of other spells of the same level.

What remains is simply to continuously adjust the output and vibration frequency of magic, and through repeated incantations, to leave a clear and powerful mental image in the body and mind.

With Li Wei's current level of expertise and accumulated experience, doing these things is as easy as eating and drinking.

Just half an hour later, he suddenly seized the fleeting inspiration and swung his wand. The straight wand and his arm formed a straight line, and in an instant, abundant magic created countless nodes in Li Wei's right arm, advancing layer by layer.

Energy increases, condenses, and merges continuously through countless leaps.

A flash of blue light appeared.

A thick, condensed blue-white bolt of lightning flashed from the tip of Li Wei's wand and arrived at its target in the next instant.

Then, the sound of flashing electricity rang out simultaneously.

"Zilla—"

There were no signs of charring or explosion on the magical puppet. A small, smooth hole appeared at the point of impact, with crystallized melting marks on the hole walls and a wisp of smoke rising from it.

Although its power, range, and stability are far from reaching Li Wei's ideal state, it is undoubtedly a successful lightning spell.

However, it seemed to be different from the palm lightning he had expected, and its effect was more like burning. Li Wei waved his wand, and the magic puppet returned to its original state, with a transparent barrier appearing in front of it.

Li Wei waved his wand again, and the condensed lightning gathered and erupted once more—this was only the second time he cast the spell, but the spell was already twice as fast as the last time.

In less than a second, the blue and white lightning reappeared, and the next moment it crashed into the invisible barrier—the next moment, a circular gap was punched into the complete barrier.

"It has a certain armor-piercing effect—although it couldn't penetrate and cause damage, as long as the power and scale of the spell are increased, it should be able to ignore the Ironclad Spell and kill the enemy in one hit."

Thus, the value of this spell in Li Wei's mind quickly rose to the highest level, making it usable in actual combat.

The development of advanced spells can now officially begin.

　I've been suffering from severe insomnia lately, which has disrupted my sleep schedule. My head feels heavy and I can't seem to get anything done.

　　I'll write two chapters at midnight, and then I'll polish them up again tonight, trying my best to maintain the good habit of writing 0 words a day.

　　In the blink of an eye, the clumsy chicken claw has been around for 11 days. Looking back, it feels like a dream, just like Li Wei reminiscing about the past.

　　The chicken will continue to work hard.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)