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That is without using a wand or touching the wood.

With your eyes closed, you can tell the difference between different types of wood.

Ollivander didn't expect Dolly to figure it out from scratch on her own, so he just told her the trick.

That is to let your magic stay at your fingertips, then let the magic at your fingertips come into contact with the wood, and finally judge the type of wood based on the different flow of magic returned.

When Dolly first heard it, her mind went completely blank.

Grandpa, are you sure you're not just bragging?

Ollivander clearly realized that Dolly didn't believe him, so he blindfolded himself and personally demonstrated the miracle in front of Dolly.

To be precise, Ollivander's fingers were a full centimeter away from the wood, yet he still managed to discern the wood beneath them with a mere touch, as if playing the piano in mid-air.

Even when Dolly stacked the three types of wood together, she couldn't fool Ollivander's senses.

Only then could Dolly be certain that there really were people who could control magic to this extent and who had a different perception of magic than others.

This made Dolly think of Luna.

Perhaps Luna, the crazy girl, wasn't just echoing her father, but that she genuinely felt something that ordinary people couldn't.

With that thought in mind, Dolly began her experiment.

She tried to gather magic at her fingertips, and then she found that she couldn't feel any magic flowing at her fingertips at all.

How can magic flow out when there's nothing on your fingers?

And ultimately, what exactly is magic?

Magic is something invisible and intangible, and now she had to make it stay on her fingertips. Dolly felt her mind go blank.

In this state, Dolly has no chance of succeeding.

Because the first element of casting magic is belief.

Only when you believe in the existence of magic and miracles can you successfully cast a spell.

Dolly herself didn't think she could gather magic at her fingertips, and in the end, even when Dolly kept rubbing her fingers against all kinds of wood, she didn't get any response.

This hurdle has kept Dolly occupied for another week.

Ollivander's initial anticipation gradually turned into disappointment.

Although he never showed it to Dolly, Dolly could tell that he was genuinely disappointed.

He might even be considering finding a reason to stop Dolly, as he was worried about hurting her pride if he continued.

After all, being a wand maker isn't a profession that everyone can do, and it's not something a junior wizard would be willing to risk everything to get into.

After all, this industry doesn't actually make much money.

Because the costs are high and sales volume is relatively fixed, it's impossible to make a lot of money.

Just before Olivander was about to make a decision, Dolly started to move.

She simply pushed all the wood away from her eyes, stared at her fingers, and began to seriously consider the relationship between magic and fingers, or rather, the human body.

Since Dolly can cast spells with ease using her wand, it's impossible for her not to be able to gather magic at her fingertips.

Because Dolly's spellcasting process is essentially the flow of magic from her palm into her wand and then the casting of the spell, except that this flow is like a person's heartbeat.

You can be aware of its existence, but you cannot control it.

So what Dolly needs to do is at least perceive this process.

She decided that from now on, she would use her index finger as a magic wand.

Since magic can flow from the palm into the wand, it can also flow from the palm into the fingers.

The so-called staffless spellcasting is itself a similar process.

Since spellcasting without a staff can be acquired through training, then at least the process of gathering magic at the fingertips can also be acquired through training.

So Dolly started waving her fingers, pretending to experiment with spells or cast magic.

Ollivander was initially confused, but when Dolly started chanting incantations and trying to cast a healing spell, Ollivander's mouth dropped open in astonishment.

He now understood what Dolly was trying to do.

Most importantly, he felt that Dolly did the right thing.

Isn't his so-called process of sensing the wand itself the process of casting spells without a wand?

However, what their family learned was not actual spellcasting, but rather the perception of wand materials.

It was only because Ollivander had never thought of combining the two that Dolly's actions opened his mind.

He turned around, picked up his quill, and began writing a new page in his notebook.

If Dolly fails, Ollivander will need this knowledge to teach new apprentices or future generations.

Based on Dolly's performance so far, Ollivander already felt that the past two weeks had not been wasted.

Just as Ollivander put the quill back, intending to encourage or comfort Dolly again,

Dolly stopped.

Dolly's fingers, which had become congested due to constant shaking, are now recovering at a visible speed.

This abnormally fast recovery speed indicates that Dolly really did cast a healing spell, albeit a very unsuccessful one, not even up to the level of a beginner.

But this proves that she really succeeded, and it could even be said that she touched the threshold of staffless spellcasting.

Unfortunately, the ability to cast spells without a staff is not included in the skill set.

Otherwise, Dolly would definitely raise it to level four or five before doing anything else.

I put my finger to my lips and blew on it to help it return to normal.

Dolly then began to recall the feeling she had just experienced.

She soon realized that, just as the professors had said, the essence of spellcasting was a process of believing in and then changing the world and creating miracles.

Dolly had just been so numb that she had forgotten that her finger was still a finger, as if she were really holding a magic wand.

Only in this way can she achieve success.

Unfortunately, this is not enough; at least it is not possible to analyze the timber provided by Ollivander.

She needs more meticulous control, as well as a more concrete imagination and control.

Is there any other way to do this?

Dolly thought for a few seconds and looked at her attribute points.

At this point, Dolly's attribute points were still the same as when she beat up Quirrell.

Strength and Charisma are 5 points, Stamina, Agility and Willpower are 3 points, Magic is 2 points, and Intelligence is only 1 point.

The attributes do not include the bonuses from the Warm Jade and the Magic Wand; these are Dolly's most basic attributes.

As for attribute points, there are still a full 21 points left.

It has to be said that after acquiring the Bone Spirit, Dolly's speed of gaining attribute points increased significantly.

The problem is that I can't brew Life Essence during summer vacation, so for the next two months I can only restore my attribute points to 12 per month.

Even so, by the time Dolly graduates during the summer vacation, she will have enough points to raise her magic power to 3.

But before that, she wanted to try adding a little intelligence.

It's time to explore my own Miss Door more deeply.

So Dolly immediately chose to allocate points, raising her Intelligence stat to 3 in one go.

After all, it only consumes 3 attribute points, which is still manageable for Dolly. Besides, 3 points of intelligence should be more effective than 1 point, right?

Dolly thought this to herself and unconsciously continued to flick her fingers.

Then she seemed to see the magic wand on the table flicker.

140 Craft your own wand

Dolly stopped and looked at her wand in surprise.

She then tried to touch her wand from a distance, but this time the wand did not move, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

However, Dolly did not give up. Instead, she continued to move her finger closer to the wand until it was about to touch the wand, perhaps only a few millimeters away.

The wand floated up from the table and landed in her hand.

From the outside, it looked as if Dolly had simply picked up her wand; there was nothing strange about it.

But Dolly felt a surge of emotion, because her knowledge told her that she had indeed lifted the wand from a distance.

This seems to be even stronger than Ollivander's ability to remotely determine the properties of materials?

Dolly then placed her hand on the nearest piece of wood, and then she understood.

I still have a long way to go to reach Ollivander's level.

Because only Dolly's wand responded to her, and the wood remained lifeless, with nothing strange about it.

Dolly's wand was enhanced by Dolly using attribute points, which she obtained by exchanging her own life essence.

Perhaps they have already established some kind of connection in the dark.

But these pieces of wood are now lifeless, so it would be strange if they could respond to Dolly.

However, Dolly could already feel the differences in the wood.

Although she can't do it remotely, Dolly can sense the difference in wood simply by placing her finger on it.

It's as if magic has turned into ripples, or waves on your fingertips, which, after colliding with and blurring the texture of the wood, bring back a different kind of magical flow.

Dolly, however, perceived this flow of magic in reverse, and thus experienced a different sensation.

It's so subtle, like a needle tip gently gliding across your fingertip while writing.

Dolly couldn't yet tell what the words were, but she could already distinguish the differences between the different fonts and remember the types of wood that corresponded to those differences.

She succeeded.

Indeed, intelligence and magic power are positively correlated.