If you want to significantly improve your strength in the shortest possible time, to be honest, this is not completely impossible. However, the difficulty is undoubtedly huge.
It is worth mentioning that if after expending a lot of effort, you still get no results or even fail repeatedly, it will be even more frustrating.
In the past few days, the friends on the island have been studying and practicing hard under Maka's guidance.
Hermione and Luna were immersed in understanding the rules and runes; Neville was still holding up bigger and bigger rocks to exercise his mental strength.
Ron no longer lifts rocks with Neville all day long - his mental strength is finally up to par, and he won't knock himself down when using the rune arm shield anymore, so Maka lets him do it every day. I took a small part of the day out to train on the use of arm shields with Ginny, Hannah and others.
To say that the person who has improved his actual combat ability the most in recent days, it must be Mr. Blois, Willy's father. Because of his solid foundation in rule runes, he has now begun to adapt to compound rule magic that uses multiple rule runes to combine.
It has to be said that although there is a world of difference between the first-level rules and the second-level rules, the increase in power of this compound rule magic has greatly shortened the gap.
Of course, so far, perhaps the one that everyone is looking forward to the most is Harry.
Three days ago, with Maka's consent, Harry locked himself in an empty room with the Sword of Gryffindor as before. Only Maka would go in every day and bring him water and food. Other than that, no one else was allowed to enter or exit the room.
If Harry can really break through his limits this time and make the Sword of Gryffindor recognize him as its master, then... maybe Maka will really consider giving up her plan to act alone
Well, at least that's what Hermione thought...
"Hey! Ron, don't get distracted!"
In the yard, everyone was studying and training according to Maka's arrangements just like the previous few days - of course Ron was the same.
To be honest, his motivation has been quite good these days. This time, he has the "Rune Arm Shield" made by Maka, a magic item that can exert powerful power even if he is not talented enough. His daily spirit The heads are all full.
Not to mention anything else, he was not bored even with the boring "stone lifting time" every morning, and would even occasionally make it more difficult for himself.
But today, his already boring time of lifting stones became even more unbearable due to an idea from Hermione!
"Hermione... It's not that I want to be distracted, it's really... this ancient magic text is really not suitable for me! You see, these magic texts all look so similar, and... why does this stroke bend up from the left, so that Does this magic text have the meaning of 'warmth'? I really don't understand..."
At this moment, it was Ron's time to lift the stone to exercise his mental strength. Normally at this time, he would focus all his attention on the big rock above his head, but now he had to be distracted, staring at the notebook placed in front of Hermione to study ancient magic texts. .
And just when Ron couldn't help complaining, Hermione, who was studying the rule runes and supervising him, immediately raised her head and glared.
"Don't be nagging, what do you know!" She said angrily, "What do you think makes that arm shield effective? If you could understand more ancient magic texts, you could use it to fight more efficiently. do you understand?"
"… oh."
Ron pursed his lips and remained silent for a moment, and finally responded honestly.
But Ron didn't know that what Hermione wanted was not just for him to learn ancient magical literature. If possible, she even wanted Ron to start learning rule runes.
After only a few days of exposure to the rules, Hermione already understood what it meant to learn these runes—they were not only the foundation of modern spells, but also the source of all magic. Even a preliminary understanding of the mysteries of the rules can bring about a qualitative improvement for wizards.
Now, with Delphi's help, she has touched the edge of the rule runes, and just in this way, her gains are huge.
For example, according to her understanding of the "impact" rune and the "shock" rune, it was enough for her to cast a coma spell that was far more powerful than before.
In fact, her understanding of these two first-level runes was only scratching the surface.
"Study hard..." After a pause, Hermione whispered to Ron, "Trust me, I won't lie to you."
"I know."
When Ron heard this, he couldn't help scratching his head. He obviously knew that Hermione must have good intentions when she "tortured" him like this.
However, when he was distracted, he immediately forgot that he was still casting a floating spell on a big rock. When he scratched his scalp subconsciously, the spell was instantly interrupted, and the rock that was larger than his entire body immediately fell from the air.
"careful!"
As soon as Hermione saw it, she hurriedly took out her wand and waved it back, narrowly making the stone stop right on top of Ron's big head.
"You can forget about holding a stone above your head? How did you do it? You are so stupid. If I had known earlier, I would have let him smash you to death, so as not to bother Haierbo to kill you in the future..."
Just when Ron was breaking out in a cold sweat, Hermione couldn't help but cursed him. But while she was cursing, her eyes suddenly lit up as if she thought of something.
The next moment, she casually threw the stone towards Ron, and then stood there lost in thought.
"Ouch!"
Ron, who was hit in the stomach by a splash of stones, squatted down holding his belly. He was about to argue with Hermione, but saw that the other party seemed to have lost interest in him, so he had to hold his belly and plan to take a rest. .
But at this moment, Luna, who had witnessed all this from the side, seemed to be slightly aware of it and looked at Hermione, and then pursed her lips at Delphi with a look of confusion on her face.
"Look! Hermione seems to understand something?"
"oh?"
When Delphi heard this, he turned around and looked back and forth a few times, and then said thoughtfully:
"Miss Granger... Are you studying the 'gravity' rune today? Well... this is not an easy rule to understand."
However, Luna didn't seem worried about this. She just smiled and said:
"I believe Hermione can do it... Speaking of which, Maka was right again! It seems that Hermione wants to understand the power of rules first!"
After saying this, she lowered her head again and returned her attention to her research.
"'Gravity'...?"
A little further away, Maka looked at Hermione who was thinking in the yard and whispered to herself.