Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 68 [The Ashes of a Lone Wolf (Green)]

After leaving the Great Hall, Ted asked, "Who is that tall student in Slytherin wearing the purple coat of arms? He looks like a first-year student..."

Ted just saw someone among the first-year students whose expression was noticeably different from the other Slytherins.

Moreover, after Ted's psychic abilities reached level 2, he was able to easily analyze the other party's attitude from their expressions and demeanor—this Slytherin had no ill intentions towards them, only curiosity.

That's really rare!

To date, there are very few Slytherins who have no ill intentions towards our group, or rather, only one or two.

I don't know this person personally, but I saw him at the Sorting Ceremony, though I didn't remember his name.

Harley said, "You must be talking about Andre Lothar. The Lothar family is a very old family. They have a good reputation and have kept a low profile for the past few decades. I heard from Sirius that even during the years when the Man from the Lost City was at his most rampant, no one from the Lothar family joined the Death Eaters!"

A person's behavior can be faked, but their mindset and thinking are very difficult to fake.

There's only one character like Snape, a master of double agents, who can outmaneuver both of the two legendary wizards of our time.

To be honest, Ted even felt a little sorry for Snape. If it weren't for Lily Evans, he would definitely have had a chance to become a legend!

Although the old bat had a gloomy face and greasy hair that looked like it could be used to extract oil, he was only 32 years old this year!

Can you believe that?!

He is the youngest of the four deans, but he is the strongest.

Master of Dark Magic (Dark Magic lv8), Master of Potions (Potions lv8), Spells, Transfiguration, and Herbalism are all lv7!

He even had Occlumency and Legilimency spells at level 8, which gave him the confidence to act as a double agent in front of Dumbledore and Voldemort, two contemporary masters of Legilimency.

In the original story, Lupin and Sirius described him as "knowing more spells than a seventh-year student right from the start." By fifth year, he had already invented several spells, including the top-ranking spell in dark magic, Divine Strike.

Although Ted himself has "invented" more than a dozen spells, that is reverse engineering, a kind of platform transformation!

It's like turning a PC game into a mobile game, which greatly reduces the difficulty.

This person was only 38 years old when he died in the original story.

If he can live to be sixty or seventy, he could indeed become a legend.

Sometimes when Ted looked at Snape's profile, he would wonder: Did Voldemort also sense the threat Snape posed to him, which is why he took action to eliminate him?

After all, the Dark Lord certainly doesn't want to see another Dark Lord born.

Getting off-topic, Ted snapped back to reality and realized that this Slytherin was quite special and worth keeping an eye on.

……

The Easter holiday wasn't actually that fun.

Although Ted and his gang searched almost half the castle inch by inch during their two-week vacation, it was because two of them were "homework terminators."

Other students can manage to get by by simply "borrowing" a little bit of information; otherwise, life would be unbearable.

Perhaps because there are many students staying on campus during the Easter holiday every year, professors often tacitly assign a lot of homework to prevent students from causing trouble when they have nothing to do.

It takes a normal young wizard three hours a day for ten days to complete most of his assignments.

This workload is so intense, even a dog would shake its head.

The young wizards were suffering terribly and complaining bitterly.

Before the holiday ended, Hermione switched back to her study mode, carrying a book and notebook with her everywhere, copying and organizing at any time.

A dark cloud immediately descended upon the hearts of the group, a cloud called "sinking to death"!

In the empty classroom, the friends gathered; some played chess, some played magic, while Hermione recited her lessons.

Ron asked cautiously, "Hermione, are you alright? Did Ted do something to provoke you again? Tell us, we'll get revenge for you. Don't be like this, it's too scary!"

Jerry nodded repeatedly: "Yeah, yeah, don't be angry, look at us, aren't we doing great? Right? Hahaha~ (awkward laugh)"

Neville, his tall figure hidden behind Harley, cautiously glanced at the book in Hermione's hand, gasping in disbelief—the title was too long, making him dizzy just looking at it.

Harley was more direct, asking simply, "Hermione, what are you doing?"

Hermione replied matter-of-factly, "Of course I'm preparing for the exam."

Upon hearing the word "exam," Ron's red hair practically stood on end: "Exam! What exam?"

Ted shrugged. "Hermione must have been referring to the final exams."

Jerry grinned. "That's still two and a half months? You scared me!"

"Maybe..." Ted was about to make a joke when he noticed Hermione staring at him, so he quickly changed his tune, "Of course, it's better to be safe than sorry!"

All I can say is that Hermione takes final exams seriously.

Speaking of which, their six-person group is doing quite well now.

Ted Hermione goes without saying; he was the designated top two contestant in the grade.

Harley's grades occasionally rank in the top five, depending on whether the questions are ones she is interested in and good at.

Although Ron and Jerry copied a lot of homework, they were also influenced by it and their grades were quite good.

Even Neville gets high marks in herbalism, while his grades in other subjects are around average.

Therefore, none of them need to worry about exams.

Of course, it's understandable that students are naturally afraid of exams.

The kids' magic skills are actually quite good now. In terms of actual operation, they have completely surpassed students of the same grade. In fact, second-year students may not use magic as often as they do.

Speaking of which, the most impressive spell the group used was actually the Revealing Charm (revealing one's true form). Their exploration of Hogwarts had given them a kind of occupational hazard; they found everything suspicious and wanted to use the Revealing Charm on every place.

It's been used far too much!

……

April has arrived, and new knowledge from another world has come to me.

"Ding~ The talent [Otherworldly Knowledge (Gold)] has been triggered, and the method for making [the ashes of a lone wolf (Green)] has been discovered."

The "Recipe for Making the Ashes of a Lone Wolf (Green)" describes how the witch of the Gap Land makes the ashes of a lone wolf. It requires 260 experience points to exchange for.

It's still not very useful!

The ashes of a lone wolf—this must be a summoning item from the Elden Ring.

Ted hasn't actually played the game himself; he usually just listens online.

But as I said before, now that we're wealthy, and we don't need much experience, we might as well exchange it for it; maybe we'll find a use for it someday.

260 experience points is nothing!

After acquiring it, Ted discovered that this thing was far beyond his imagination; it was not a typical magical realm at all.

If Ted were to make some similar material substitutions based on the information in his mind, he could probably also create something that could summon "spirits," but the general principle would be difficult to understand.

If you want to study this thing in depth, you might have to do many experiments.

Actually, what Ted can understand and digest the best is the magic of Azeroth and the D&D world. Although they are very different in many ways, they do not go beyond the scope of magic.

Therefore, by making some local substitutions, conducting more theoretical research, and trying out practical methods several times, we can always achieve good results.

Secondly, there's psychic ability, which is similar to many forms of magic in effect, but the underlying principles are quite different.

Ted often conducts his research using the psychology of Muggle society. That's why his progress isn't as fast as with magic.

The technique for "cremation" is truly bizarre; it's a field Ted has never encountered before, nor even imagined. It's probably related to some kind of "spiritual" theory.

Ted later did some research and found that some primitive religions in Northern Europe had similar "magic" hundreds of years ago, but it has now declined to the point that it hasn't been heard of for a long time. It might even be extinct!

Ted: "Am I doing magical archaeology?!"

After exchanging for new knowledge of the otherworld, Ted pondered for a moment and decided to level up his Mind Mage!

I've been leveling up my wizard class, but now that I've reached level 4 and received the reward talent, I'm really stuck. Leveling up to level 5 requires 10000 experience points, and even with the talent bonus, it still requires 9000!

Even saving this much for a year might not be enough!

So first, level up your Mind Mage and get the reward attributes.

The Talent God reduces the cost by 100 points, requiring only 900 experience points. The Mind Mage levels up to level 2 and gains 1 attribute point, which Ted allocates to Spirit.

However, leveling up as a psychic doesn't grant skill points; instead, it directly increases the levels of psychic abilities and psychic resistance.

Ted is now at level 3 in both psychic abilities and psychic resistance.

(End of this chapter)