Daily Life at Hogwarts

Chapter 536: Tracking and counterattack

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The quest reward for the "Magic Forbidden Zone" is the level of a certain skill + 1, which means that the higher the level of the skill, the greater the value of the reward.

Currently, the highest level of Albert's skills is level 5 wizard bloodline. The second highest is level 4 brain occlumency, and the rest of the skills are only level 3, level 2 or level 1.

After thinking carefully for three seconds, Albert finally received the reward for the task and upgraded his wizard bloodline to level six. Although the upgrade of his bloodline was of little significance to his own strength, Albert still upgraded his skills.

Perhaps, wizard blood can be passed on to one's offspring

Of course, it also has something to do with Albert wanting to see the level limit of his skills!

The answer is... Level 6.

Well, the wizard bloodline on the skill panel directly becomes max.

To be honest, the experience required to upgrade panel skills is actually very expensive.

The further you advance, the more experience you will need, and the harder it will be to gain experience using skills.

It only takes 100 experience points to upgrade to level 1; 2,000 experience points are needed to upgrade to level 2; 10,000 experience points are needed to upgrade to level 3; 50,000 experience points are needed to upgrade to level 4; and 200,000 experience points are needed to upgrade to level 5.

As for level 6, Albert didn't know. He only knew that his experience pool had 65,300 experience points, which was enough to upgrade a skill directly to level 4, but that was all.

Even in the near future, it is destined to be unlikely to master too many level 3 skills.

Albert drew out his wand and cast a barrier spell on the fighting puppet in front of him. The puppet flew out as if it had been hit by a truck and hit a distant wall with a loud bang.

"The spell is more powerful."

When the wizard bloodline is upgraded to the maximum level, the overall effect is still very good.

If there is one thing that is gratifying, it is probably that the threshold for learning silent spells and wandless casting has become lower.

There is a reason why pure-blood wizards pursue magical power. Those wizards with stronger magical powers can learn most spells more easily than others under the same circumstances.

"Next, there's the issue of the basilisk." Albert put away his wand and began to think about how to use the basilisk incident to gain more experience.

Albert was still quite afraid of things like basilisks.

He wanted to use the basilisk incident to win a special contribution award, and then use the Black incident next year to completely complete the "three times out of ten".

Among the numerous panel tasks, "Things Have Got Three Times" is probably the most valuable task of all, "obtain a designated level 3 skill."

This means that Albert can learn how to make the Philosopher's Stone; or directly skip the complicated process and quickly master the Animagus transformation; or even master the extremely dangerous and unstable spell of the Hour Reversal Charm, so there is no need to worry about the creation of the Time Converter.

While Albert did not know when Ginny Weasley would open the Chamber of Secrets and come into contact with the Basilisk, the first attack was on Halloween.

If you want to know the whereabouts of Ginny Weasley, it is actually very simple, that is to use the Marauder's Map, but it is very troublesome to find someone through the Marauder's Map.

He planned to use the Tracking Spell, the Tracking Spell and the Footprint Spell to create a simple map specifically for tracking Ginny Weasley's location.

However, Albert doesn’t know how to use the Human Traces Curse yet.

After careful consideration, Albert decided to ask Professor Flitwick for advice on this spell. The relationship between the two was pretty good, so there was a high possibility that the other party would teach him. Building good relationships with professors would always yield some benefits.

Albert went directly to Professor Flitwick's office, and on the way he happened to meet Lockhart who was being "politely escorted" out by Professor Charms.

"Good evening, Professor Lockhart." Albert greeted Lockhart with a smile.

"Good evening, Mr. Anderson. What do you want from Professor Flitwick? Maybe I can help you solve it!"

However, as soon as Lockhart said this, he regretted why he had said so much.

"It's like this. Last time when I was in America, I saw a spell called the Human Footprints Charm in the spell book of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, so I wanted to ask Professor Flitwick for advice."

"The Human Sign Curse?" Lockhart said after pretending to think. "It's a pity, I don't know much about the Human Sign Curse. Professor Flitwick is in his office. Perhaps he can answer your question."

After saying this, Lockhart walked away quickly.

Looking at Lockhart's departing back, Albert was a little disappointed. He originally thought that the other party would say something like "Do you need me to teach you?"

After Lockhart left, Albert turned and walked to the Charms office and knocked on the door.

The door opened quickly, and Professor Flitwick seemed relieved to see it was Albert.

"Mr. Anderson, what do you want to talk to me about?" Professor Charms smiled and invited Albert into the house.

"It's like this..."

Albert made up a simple story, saying that when he went to the United States during the summer vacation, he found the Human Traces Charm in an American spells textbook, so he came to ask Professor Flitwick about the Human Traces Charm.

"The spells textbook from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States?" Professor Flitwick seemed very interested in the spells textbooks in the United States.

"The spell textbook at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is called Chadwick's Magic," Albert explained. "It's a little different from the Standard Spells we're learning now."

"I don't know if I can get it in the country. If not, I'm afraid I can only go through other channels." Professor Flitwick murmured.

"Professor Flitwick, I have a set if you need it."

"That's great. It will only take about a week. Oh, I almost forgot about the Human Tracking Charm!" Professor Flitwick took out a piece of parchment, drew a simple map on it, and then demonstrated the process of casting the Human Tracking Charm to Albert.

After the spell was cast, footprints with two people's names marked on them appeared on the parchment.

"This is the Human Footprints Charm," Professor Flitwick explained. "This spell is usually used in conjunction with a map. The positions of all people within the map range will be displayed on the map in the form of ink dots, and will continue to change as each person moves."

"The larger the range of the Human Traces Spell, the more people will appear, and the higher the requirements for the spell will be."

After Professor Flitwick taught Albert the spell and wand-waving movements of the Human Footprint Charm, he let Albert try it himself. This spell was very difficult and required a lot of effort to learn.

However, Professor Flitwick was shocked to find that it didn't take Albert long to master the Human Tracing Charm.

"Although I don't know what you want to do, I hope you won't leave other people's information around randomly. I don't think you would do that." Professor Flitwick reminded.

"I just want to use this spell to lock my cat." Albert explained casually, "His name is Tom, he's just an ordinary Muggle pet cat, not very smart. Last time, he ran out of my dormitory and almost got lost. I'm so scared that I don't dare to bring him to school now. If I can master this spell, I can find Tom's location in the first place."

Professor Flitwick looked at Albert and reminded him, "If you want to lock onto a cat alone, you may need to practice the spell more diligently to achieve precise control. Do you have any other questions?"

"Is there a counter-curse to the Human Traces Curse?" Albert thought for a moment and asked, "Is there any way to block the Human Traces Curse?"

"Well..." Professor Flitwick said, "It should be no problem to use a shielding spell. A strong enough shielding spell can well conceal the existence of wizards and witches, making them untraceable."

Professor Flitwick personally demonstrated to Albert how to use the Shielding Charm to block the Footprint Charm. After Professor Flitwick used the Shielding Charm on himself, only Albert's footprints were left on the map.

Albert was silent. He had tried the shielding spell before, but failed. Now he tried again, looking at the footprints on the map, but still failed.

"Your shielding charm is not strong enough," Professor Flitwick explained.

"Does it involve the advanced use of the Shielding Spell?" Albert couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. "Professor Flitwick, can you teach me the advanced use of the Shielding Spell?"

"You want to learn advanced use of the Shielding Spell?" Professor Flitwick raised his eyebrows slightly.

"I heard the Ministry of Magic used Tracing Threads on students."

"You want to block the trace?" Professor Flitwick looked at Albert in surprise, then shook his head and said, "Even with a powerful shielding spell, I'm afraid it won't be able to block the trace."

"Why?"

Albert couldn't help but ask his doubts.

"Tracking Thread is a contract magic that is modified from various spells such as the Tracking Spell, the Human Footprints Spell, and the Tracking Spell. It is not so easy to block." Professor Flitwick recalled, "The Ministry of Magic considered this problem when designing this spell. At the beginning, the prototype of Tracking Thread was designed to be used to monitor certain wizards, so that they can know where they are and what spells they use at any time and anywhere."

"But even Trace can make mistakes and misjudgments."

"That's normal, because the trace thread needs to be used in conjunction with special magic props." Professor Flitwick explained, "But the students are not criminals, nor are they suspects, so the Ministry of Magic later changed it to a contract form, which is to monitor the area around the students to see if anyone uses magic."

"You can find loopholes to bypass magic contracts, but it's hard to block or crack them."

Finally, Albert got what he wished and had Professor Flitwick teach him how to master the advanced use of the Shielding Spell. However, the advanced use of the spell cannot be mastered in a short time. In order to teach Albert how to master the advanced use of the Shielding Spell, Professor Flitwick required Albert to publish a paper on the Shielding Spell in "Innovation in Magical Spells" after learning the advanced use of the Shielding Spell.