Chapter 538 Tracking and Countermeasures
The mission reward of "Magic Forbidden Zone" is the level of a certain skill +1, which means that the higher the level of the skill, the more valuable the reward will be.
At present, the highest level among Albert's skills is the level 5 wizard bloodline. The second highest level is Occlumency at level 4, and the remaining skills are only at level 3, 2 or 1.
After thinking carefully for three seconds, Albert finally accepted the reward of the mission and upgraded the wizard's bloodline to level six. Although the improvement of the bloodline had little significance for his own strength, Albert still gave the skill to Upgraded.
Perhaps, the wizard’s bloodline can be passed on to one’s descendants?
Of course, it’s also related to Albert’s desire to see where the level limit of his skills is!
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 difficult.
The further you go, the higher the experience required, and the harder it is to gain experience using skills.
It only takes 100 experience points to upgrade to level 1; 2,000 experience points are needed to continue to upgrade to level 2; 10,000 experience points are needed to continue to upgrade to level 3; 50,000 experience points are needed to continue to upgrade to level 4; 200,000 experience points are needed to continue to upgrade to level 5. .
As for level 6, Albert doesn't know. He only knows that his experience pool has 65,300 experience points, which is enough to directly upgrade a skill to level 4, but that's it.
Even in the near future, it is destined to be unlikely to master too many third-level skills.
Albert drew out his wand and cast a barrier spell on the battle puppet in front of him. The puppet flew out as if it was hit by a truck and hit a wall far away, making a loud bang.
“The spell is more powerful.”
The wizard bloodline has been upgraded to the full level, and the overall effect is still very good.
The most gratifying thing is that the threshold for learning silent spells and wandless spellcasting has become lower.
There is a reason why pure-blood wizards pursue magical power. Those wizards with stronger magical power can learn most spells more easily than others under the same circumstances.
"Next, there's the problem of the basilisk." Albert put away his wand and began to think about how to use the basilisk incident to gain another wave of experience.
The basilisk is still something that scares Albert.
He wanted to use the basilisk incident to get another special contribution award. Then, with the help of the Blake incident next year, we will completely complete "Three things happen".
Among the many panel tasks, "Three things happened" is probably the most valuable task of all, "Acquire a designated level 3 skill."
This means that Albert can let himself learn to make the magic stone; or directly skip the complicated process and quickly master the transformation of Animagus; or even master the hour reversal spell, a super dangerous and unstable spell, time conversion There is no need to worry about the manufacturing of the device.
While it is true that Albert did not know when Ginny Weasley would open the Chamber of Secrets and come into contact with the basilisk, the first attack occurred on Halloween.
It is actually very simple to know the whereabouts of Ginny Weasley, that is, through the Marauder's Map, but it is very troublesome to find people through the Marauder's Map.
He planned to use the Tracking Spell, the Tracking Spell and the Tracking Spell to create a simple map specifically for tracking Ginny Weasley's location.
It’s just that Albert doesn’t know how to use the trace curse yet.
After thinking twice, Albert planned to ask Professor Flitwick to teach him this spell. The relationship between the two parties was not bad, and the possibility of the other party teaching him was quite high. Having a good relationship with the professors would always bring some benefits.
Albert went directly to Professor Flitwick's office, and happened to meet Lockhart on the way, who was "sent away" by Professor Charms.
"Good evening, Professor Lockhart." Albert greeted Lockhart with a smile.
"Good evening, Mr. Anderson. Do you have anything to do with Professor Flitwick now? Maybe I can help you solve it!"
However, as soon as Lockhart finished speaking, he began to regret why he had said so much.
"It's like this. When I was in the United States last time, I saw a spell called the Human Trace Charm in the spell book of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and I wanted to ask Professor Flitwick for advice."
"Human Sign?" Lockhart said after pretending to think, "It's a pity that I don't have much research on the Human Sign. Professor Flitwick is in the office. Maybe he can answer your question."
After saying that, Lockhart walked away quickly.
After Lockhart left, Albert turned around and walked to the Charms Office, raised his hand 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 from me?” Professor Charms smiled and invited Albert into the room.
"Is such that…"
Albert simply made up a story, saying that when he went to the United States during the summer vacation, he found the Human Trace Curse in an American spells textbook, so he came to ask Professor Flitwick about the Human Trace Curse.
"Is it the Charms textbook from Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States?" Professor Flitwick seemed to be very interested in the Charms textbooks from the United States.
“The spell textbook at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is called ‘The Magic of Chadwick’.” Albert explained: “It is somewhat different from the ‘Standard Spells’ we learn now.”
“I don’t know if it can be obtained in China. If not, I’m afraid I have to go through other channels.” Professor Flitwick murmured.
"Professor Flitwick, I have one if you need it."
"That's great, about a week is enough. Oh, I almost forgot, the trace curse!" Professor Flitwick took out a piece of parchment, drew a simple map on it, and then demonstrated it to Albert The process of casting the human trace curse.
After the spell was cast, there were more footprints marking the names of the two people on the parchment.
"This is the Human Tracking Charm." Professor Flitwick explained. "This spell is usually used with a map. The locations of everyone within the map will be displayed on the map in the form of ink dots, and as each person The position moves and changes.”
“The larger the scope of the human trace spell, the more people will appear, and the higher the requirements for the spell will be.”
After Professor Flitwick taught Albert the spells and wand movements of the Trace Curse, he let Albert try it on his own. This spell is very difficult and it takes a lot of effort to learn it.
However, Professor Flitwick was shocked to find that it didn't take much time for Albert to initially master the Human Trace Curse.
"Although I don't know what you want to do, I hope you won't put other people's information around, and I don't think you will do that." Professor Flitwick reminded.
"I just want to use this spell to lock my cat." Albert explained casually, "His name is Tom. He is just a very ordinary Muggle pet cat, not very smart. Last time, it came from my dormitory. After it ran out, I almost lost it. I am so scared that I dare not bring it to school now. If I can master this spell, I can find Tom's location as soon as possible."
Professor Flitwick looked at Albert and reminded: "If you want to lock a cat alone, I'm afraid you need to practice the spell harder to achieve precise control. Are there any other questions?"
“Is there a counter-curse to the Human Trace Curse?” Albert thought for a moment and asked, “Is there any way to block the Human Trace Curse?”
"This..." Professor Flitwick said, "It should be no problem to use a shielding spell. A powerful 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 spell to block the human trace curse. After Professor Flitwick used the shielding spell on himself, only Albert's footprints were left on the map.
Albert was silent. He had tried a shielding spell but failed. Now he tried again, looking at the footprints on the map, but still failed.
“Your shielding spell is not strong enough,” Professor Flitwick explained.
"Is it related to the advanced use of the shielding spell?" Albert couldn't help but raised his eyebrows, "Professor Flitwick, can you teach me the advanced use of the shielding spell."
"You want to learn the advanced use of shielding spells?" Professor Flitwick raised his eyebrows slightly.
“I heard that the Ministry of Magic used trace silk on students.”
"You want to block Trace Silk?" Professor Flitwick looked at Albert in surprise, then shook his head and said: "Even a powerful shielding spell may not be able to block Trace Silk."
"Why?"
Albert couldn’t help but ask his doubts.
"Tracing Spell is a kind of contract magic that is improved based on various spells such as Tracking Charm, Trace Charm, and Tracking Charm. It is not so easy to be blocked." Professor Flitwick recalled, "The Ministry of Magic is designing this kind of spell. At that time, I had considered this issue. When the prototype of Trace Silk was originally designed, it was planned to use it to monitor certain wizards, so that we could know where they were and what spells they used at any time and at any time."
“However, mistakes and misjudgments will also occur in Zongsi.”
"It's normal, because trace silk needs to be used in conjunction with special magic props." Professor Flitwick explained, "But students are not criminals or suspects, so the Ministry of Magic later changed it to the form of a contract to monitor students. Is there anyone using magic in the surrounding area?"
“You can find loopholes to bypass magic contracts, but it’s difficult to block or crack them.”
In the end, Albert got his wish and asked Professor Flitwick to 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. As a way to teach Albert how to master the advanced use of the shielding spell, Flitwick Professor Liwei asked Albert to publish a paper on the shielding spell in "Magic Innovation" after he learned the advanced use of the shielding spell.
(End of this chapter)