The story of Nordic mythology comes to an end for now, Joel successfully obtained the mission reward.
At this time, he was sitting at the table in his dormitory studying wandless spellcasting.
After learning all the uses of runes, Joel found that he could cast spells without a wand freely, and the runes provided an intermediary support for mental power and magic.
This magical ancient text is born with infinite magic power and is an excellent medium for connecting spiritual power and magic power. Before using a wand to cast a spell, Joel silently recited the runes with corresponding attributes in his heart. The effect of the spell is only
Slightly weaker than wand casting.
Regarding the properties of runes, this is very special. Joel sorted out the data in his brain and found that at the beginning of the Middle Ages, there were no unforgivable curses in the world, and wizards had not yet adapted to the changes brought about by the wand.
Ancient wizards mostly relied on instinct to cast spells, so they possessed a variety of magical powers.
Some people are good at using lightning to cast spells, and accidents of ball lightning accidentally entering Muggle homes often occur. After the establishment of the Ministry of Magic, such accidents were treated as natural phenomena by the staff.
Some people are good at fire spells, and many forest fires are caused by them.
After wizards generally became accustomed to using wands, the modern magic system gradually took shape. All kinds of novel spells emerged in an endless stream. The textbooks in the hands of students were even updated every two years, and spells sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The knowledge of potions, herbal medicine, astronomy, protection of magical animals and other subjects was rapidly improved, and an effective system was built for future generations to use.
Therefore, wandless casting cannot cast all spells. The attribute limit of 24 runic characters allows Joel to only cast magic with natural attributes, most of which are fire in the palm, ball lightning, powerful water flow, etc.
stuff.
But he did not give up. Now he can only cast these low-level magics because the 24 rune characters limit him. What if these rune characters are developed again?
After he became proficient in wandless casting of various magics, the system sent another prompt.
The quest to seek ancient magical secrets is completed, and you will be rewarded with silent spellcasting (advanced level), basic theory of magic spells (advanced level), disappearing spells (master level), and ten lucky wheel draws.
This task was released before Christmas last year, and Joel delayed completing it until the task time limit was about to end.
Needless to say, the mission rewards given are very generous. Silent spell casting and disappearing spells are very practical. As for the basic theory of magic spells, it is an important step in Joel's future planning.
There was nothing much to say about the ten lucky wheel draws. Joel worked hard to draw ten times and saw a piece of black quality items... and a sparkling orange prop.
Joel rubbed his eyes and looked at the light in the plain system panel in disbelief.
Click on the lottery items in the lucky wheel one by one, and open the nine black boxes, which are all daily necessities. According to the regulations of the system, these items cannot be given to others, so you can only make do with them.
With the last orange item left, Joel lay on the bed and rubbed his palms together, clicking open the shiny box with great anticipation.
After a wave of fifty-cent browser game special effects, Joel saw an all-too-familiar spear placed in front of him.
Congratulations on winning the right to use the Eternal Spear Gangunir once (time limit: 1 minute).
Joel felt like his breathing stopped for a moment. He stayed in the World Tree for more than a month and deeply felt the extent of the perversion of the Eternal Spear Gangunir.
One minute is enough for Joel to use Gungunir several times.
Joel carefully kept the right to use this precious item and planned to wait until the critical moment to take it out and use it.
Hogwarts encourages students to spend their day-to-day college life in an orderly manner.
On the night after the Halloween party, the students of Gryffindor House were surprised to find that the Fat Lady guarding the passage to the common room had disappeared, the portrait was torn into tatters, and large pieces of the canvas had been torn away.
It was obviously a malicious sabotage, and Peeves testified that Sirius was the culprit.
Upon hearing the news, the students present were frightened.
Professor Dumbledore, who came after hearing the news, had no choice but to activate an emergency plan and let all the students at Hogwarts sleep in the auditorium for the night.
"The President of the Student Union is responsible for managing all students in the auditorium." Dumbledore waved his wand and placed rows of sleeping bags on the open space in the center of the auditorium. "If you find anything suspicious, report it to me immediately."
"No problem, Mr. Headmaster!" Percy Weasley, the then president of the Student Union, straightened his back and vowed.
Professor Dumbledore nodded and left the auditorium with the deans of the four houses. The huge auditorium immediately filled with excited chatter. The Gryffindor students were busy telling other students what they had just heard.
What happened.
"Merlin..." Haylis slowly opened the sleeping bag, "Last year at this time we also spent such a difficult night in the auditorium."
"Yeah," Qiu agreed, her face flushed. She and Cedric had a great time at the Halloween dinner that just ended, and she was in a good mood at the moment, "I really miss it now that I think about it."
"That's just because you didn't encounter danger," Joel complained at the side. "If you had met the basilisk last year and Sirius this year, would you still be so relaxed?"
Joel wasn't very worried now. Sirius was not a bad guy, and he couldn't be linked to the murderer. He just fished in troubled waters.
However, he saw that Sergey's face was not very good, and the dark circles under his eyes were very serious. This had never appeared on Sergey who usually paid great attention to rest. "Have you encountered anything troublesome recently?"
He took the initiative to express concern. Joel knew that this roommate was usually a boring gourd and liked to keep everything in his heart. If he didn't take the initiative to ask him, he would never be able to explain it.
"Well..." All the things that happened in the past two years have made the relationship between Sergey and Joel good. He looked at the noisy classmates around him and hesitated, "I'll find a place where no one is around tomorrow.
Let me talk to you again."
"You can say it now." Joel didn't want to leave this question until tomorrow.
He pulled Sergey and ran to the corner of the auditorium. There were only two Hufflepuff prefects chatting in a low voice within a radius of five meters. It was very quiet.
"I told you about my father before, right?" Sergey tried to organize his words, and then slowly said the reason, "He had a huge gambling debt in the United States..."
Joel had known this story before.
"He has been writing to me these days, threatening me to sell the Rowe family's ancestral home." Sergey lowered his head and stared at his second-hand leather shoes. "I don't have a penny now...
"
"Isn't your father only owed a few thousand galleons? How could it be so serious?" Joel also noticed these details. Sergey's academic robe was already a bit short. Normally, a large part of his wrist would be exposed. Look.
It turns out I haven't had a new robe cut for a while.
"Thousands of galleons?" Sergey smiled bitterly, "That was the number a long time ago. It's impossible for me not to give him money when he lives in the UK. The dividends from CLBT's shares basically fall into his hands."
"When he had money, he kept gambling, always thinking that he would make a lot of money, but he owed more and more..." Sergey sighed, "By the time I found out about this, it was already too late."
"He threatened to sell the old house in Rowe if I didn't pay him back..." Sergey choked up at the end.
He is only 15 years old, a bit autistic and introverted, and his behavior is no different from that of a child. It is natural that he would be flustered when encountering such a thing.
"Don't worry, you can always find a way..." Joel squatted aside to comfort him. At this time, the prefects of the four colleges were patrolling the auditorium, specifically catching those unlucky children who were still chatting without sleeping.
Joel dragged Sergey to the gathering area of Ravenclaw College. Along the way, he also found out all the gambling debts Sergey's father owed - 10,000 gold galleons, which happened to be no change.
This is a huge sum of money for Sergey. In the past two years, he has relied on the dividends from CLBT and gold reselling to pay off the huge medical expenses owed by his grandfather before his death. His life is already stretched, let alone burdened with more.
A debt of ten thousand gold galleons.
Joel thought about how he could help Sergey through this difficult time. He was not a saint, and he was helping Sergey because of his past friendship. It was not realistic to help him pay these ten thousand galleons.
When gambling dogs get money, they will gamble again, try to turn around, and then lose even more miserably. Just giving them money will not solve any problem at all.
Joel had to think of a more effective solution.
"Lights out now!" Percy yelled. "I want everyone to get in their sleeping bags and stop talking!"
Percy Weasley is a petty official. He admires all power. Even urging people to sleep now makes him feel happy. He proudly walked around several Slytherin students. These students only need a little
If you speak out, you will receive a glare from him.
Before going to bed, Joel chatted with Haylis for a while and coaxed the little girl to sleep before closing the sleeping bag and falling asleep.
But he didn't fall asleep. He fought intensely in the World Tree for a month. The experience was so real that Joel was now suffering from a neurasthenia and had to use Occlumency to force himself to rest.
After sleeping in a daze until dawn the next day, Joel got up early for morning exercises as usual. He jogged along the campus, but unexpectedly he met Dumbledore halfway through.
He seems to be in a very average state of mind due to his travels. As he gets older, he needs more sleep at night to replenish his mental state.
"Joel," Dumbledore also looked very surprised. He looked at Joel's posture and asked, "Are you here for morning exercise?"
"Yes, Professor Dumbledore," Joel responded, "I don't want to waste my body."
Dumbledore nodded and walked towards the castle. He also wanted to go to the office to catch up on some sleep before working hours.
"By the way, Professor," Joel suddenly remembered something, and he called Dumbledore, "I want to see the papers my parents published back then. I searched for them in the library for a long time, but I never found that they won the Merlin Award.
That article…”
"Ah," Dumbledore sighed, "the theoretical value of that paper is quite strong. The field of research at that time was somewhat partial, and it was a small branch of rune research. It had also been placed in the library before, but it was borrowed
There were very few people, so I arranged for Mrs. Pince to put the paper in my office."