great-warnovel Chapter 103 Daily Life of a Second Grader
Chapter 103 Daily Life of a Second Grader
Chapter 103 Second Grader's Daily Life
After the defense lesson ended, exciting news spread like wildfire throughout the castle. The second graders were the first to know. Defense lessons would be held in the next day or two, and as for the first graders, sorry, they still had to spend more time learning tactical rolling. Outdoor practice was still too early for them.
Professor McGonagall originally disagreed with having second-year students participate in fieldwork, but unfortunately, this year's class had Hermione...
The thought that if she wasn't allowed to participate, she would come to her with her big, watery eyes begging for his help made Professor McGonagall's heart soften.
This kid's fighting ability is stronger than many professors. It's only good for him to experience the wild early on, isn't it?
Thinking this way, she ultimately rejected the first-year outdoor practice class. After all, these little kids hadn't even learned a decent levitation spell yet, so why would they go out into the wild to catch mice?
Except for the first-year students who were utterly dejected, all the other students were happily discussing where they would be going on their field trip.
Hogwarts is currently still in Italy, but according to the route, it should continue westward towards Spain. "Provence! I bet we'll go to Provence! I heard my mother say that in the caves of Verdon, there's a monster called the Lord of the Abyss! It breathes flames and lets out a terrifying roar at Great Wind Pass!"
"Will we encounter a Picardo? My father's aunt told him about it; it's a large bird that lives in Spain, with huge wings and sharp claws, that it snatches people's souls and eats them?"
"These rumors are all false! If you ask me, we'll run into UMNO! Maybe we'll even cross their lines with Muggles?"
But no matter how enthusiastically the students discussed it, the field trip wouldn't come anytime soon. Everyone had to finish the first practical class of the semester before they could look forward to going out again.
Hermione didn't care about any of that. She was busy enough. During the day, she had to attend classes, complete the assignments given by her professors, and read through this year's textbooks and the Weasley twins' textbooks ahead of time. In addition, there were many magical books in the library for further reading, all of which she found very interesting.
Besides learning these things, she also needs to consolidate and develop the magic of the borderlands she brought with her. Although most of the radiant stone magic can now be cast normally, other factions such as death, fire, and sin have some elements mixed in with faith, so she has to find a way to remove some of them and reproduce them with pure magic.
While both can unleash powerful flames, whether it's a lava ball, Grimr's Wrath, or the more powerful Raccard's Wraith, their power far surpasses that of pure fire. Of course, not a single Raccard has died in this world.
This gives him the opportunity to unleash the spell of the Raccard Wraith, but other lava spells also contain the secret spell of the volcanic serpent, a terrifying power called blasphemy. Although they all exist in Hermione's mind, translating them into the magic of this world is much more difficult.
As for the Giant Flame of the Prayer series, including other prayers such as Dragon Offering, Beast, Golden Tree, and Mad Fire, they require a higher and purer level of faith, and she has not yet come up with a suitable translation method.
Currently, aside from the most advanced brilliance stone magic, gravity and cold magic are the easiest for Hermione to master, as they don't require much faith. As for death magic, although she uses it quite often, she's only at the level of igniting spirit fire. She can't use more advanced spells like summoning vengeful spirits, which require faith, in battle. Of course, she can still do things like setting up rituals or calling on the soul of a dead person.
It is worth mentioning that, due to the sensitivity brought by her powerful soul, she not only activated her third eye, but also had a natural bonus to the Oracle series of magic. This kind of magic that blows out oracle bubbles is not actually suitable for combat. They are more like a tool to assist in divination. The priests of the ancient dynasty of the borderlands—the mud people—could see the oracle from the floating, beautiful bubbles, which is why this magic is named after them.
However, Hermione does not have faith in God now, and her soul is not connected to any supreme will. Therefore, there is no so-called divine oracle in the bubbles she blows. They are just unstable magical bubbles that will explode when touched. However, their slow floating speed means that this magic is almost useless in battle. Of course, perhaps it can be used as an aid for the Heavenly Eye later.
In Charms class, Professor Flitwick encouraged Hermione to continue publishing papers on Brilliant Stone magic. He believed that Hermione had made a good start last year, and after more than half a year of development, the outside world's recognition of Brilliant Stone magic was gradually increasing. However, if it was only introductory-level magic, wizards would probably not be willing to invest too much enthusiasm in its research. Therefore, Professor Flitwick hoped that she could choose two suitable spells from her own development and continue to publish them.
Hermione pondered this matter repeatedly. The advanced research into the magic of the Radiant Stone had a very high probability of going into taboo territory. Whether it was the value system of Professor Ceremony, which treated human life as worthless, and the eventual fate of becoming a ball of magician's head, or the forms of the two Origin Wizards, she was very worried. The lower limit of the wizards in this world would probably only be lower.
But Professor Flitwick's suggestion was also reasonable, and Hermione suspected that without guidance, the sapphire magic that merged with radiation in this world might be misinterpreted into something even more outrageous. Therefore, she needed to select two spells that were the least dangerous but more difficult than sapphire magic stones.
Ultimately, she chose the spells "Shattering the Rock" and "Demonic Power from Above".
The blasted rock formations came from the miners of pyroxene. To orthodox academic mages, their magic was outdated, but it was exceptionally efficient at quarrying rock. This outdated magical philosophy might be more suitable for the wizards of this world, preventing them from too quickly straying onto forbidden paths. Furthermore, quarrying rock and expanding caves helped in developing settlements.
Therefore, it became the preferred choice.
As for the magic that descends from the sky, this magic comes from the Crystallizers and is also known by wizards as subtle thoughts in stone. Unlike the Originists who focus on studying the stars, the Crystallizers pay more attention to those crystallizers that are so clear and translucent. Regardless of the achievements and power of the two factions, Hermione felt that the Crystallizers were much safer.
Furthermore, since the Crystallizers do not exist in this world, wizards have no other way to quickly achieve theoretical breakthroughs. They can completely control the progress of crystallization magic, which minimizes the probability of magic from another world going out of control.
Having made her decision, Hermione had to carve out some of her already limited time to work on her thesis. Fortunately, Professor Flitwick wasn't in a hurry. In his view, being able to publish one valuable thesis in an academic year already surpassed almost all other students. Moreover, judging from Hermione's intentions, it should be two spells and two papers, since the theories of shattering the rock and the magic from the sky couldn't be explained in a single paper.
Besides spells, Hermione also discussed the possibility of invigorating incense and iron potion with Lily in Potions class, feeling that it would be difficult to find suitable materials quickly on her own.
Professor Lily was surprised by her ingenious idea, but instead of rejecting it outright, she decided to go back and think about it, hoping to find the potion ingredients that met her needs.
Hermione had to temporarily halt her perfumery work and instead dedicate that time to training Harry, Neville, and his trio. She took up most of their nighttime outings, teaching them Brilliant Stone magic in the Room of Requirement. Harry, already proficient with magical weapons, was teaching Neville how to use them, while also continuously improving himself – he was captivated by the visceral thrill of hammering. Hermione, on the other hand, passed on her magical shield to Ron. The red-haired boy's control had indeed improved significantly after receiving a suitable wand; he quickly mastered the basic casting method, with only practice and combat application remaining.
What really gave Hermione a headache was Colin, a first-year student. He always liked to follow her around like a little shadow, loudly echoing everything she said and not allowing anyone to disagree. He would throw his paints around and try to give his sketches of Hermione to everyone he met, forcing her to hide from him everywhere, even running to the Brightstone Hall on the fourth floor, where other students were not allowed to enter.
It was here that she discovered that Hagrid, who had been missing for a long time, had returned, bringing with him some unexpected surprises.