Chapter 270: Training

Chapter 270: Training

Nick left the headmaster shortly after that and spent the rest of the day slowly teaching his friends what he could. While most were slowly familiarizing themselves with crafting Harry and Luna were exposed to the terror that was Nick in duels. He might not agree with most of the man's ideas but the dueling club Lockhart would have eventually created was an excellent one. 'Since neither of them will learn a craft then I may as well train them up to fight." that was his thought on the matter. Neither of the two got any mercy from him either as he regularly destroyed them in the duels.-

They were fast learners however so they improved rapidly under the pressure he exerted on them. "EXPELIARMUS!" "STUPEFY!" Harry and Luna cast spells at the same time in the area Nick set aside in the workshop to hold these mock fights. Nick saw the two spells and casually flicked his wand "PROTEGO! FUMOS!" he spoke firmly and a thick circular barrier blocked the two spells before vanishing as a cloud of black smoke filled the area they were standing in. While their vision was obscured he moved quickly tapping his wand against the ground.-

"What did I say about sentence chains? they are vertical instead of horizontal by flipping them you need to adjust the angles slightly. Also this , this , this and this are all wrong." he scolded and then proceeded to show her the correct way to write the same sentence. He moved on to Ron after that who was still stuck on identifying the magical from nonmagical varieties of wood. "Remember that magical woods tend to look more vibrant then nonmagical ones." he said helpfully.-

Tracy didn't have any issues at the moment so Nick didn't bother her as she worked to memorize the various metallurgic facts he had given her. There was no point in her touching a single tool if she couldn't tell the difference between a suage block and hardy tool. Conjuring up an chair Nick went back to carving daedric runes to continue to familiarize himself with them. He didn't run any magic through the runic chains in his trial objects until he was in the designated testing area after the whole blood fountain incident.-

He finally completed his attempt at creating a water conjuring ring after the eighth try since the previous seven tries didn't go so great. Still he got points from the system for them as well as when he traded them in for more points. None of them were higher than uncommon rank wise but points were points so he didn't complain. "What sort of runes are you even working on anyways since I have never seen anything like that before." Hermione asked curiously after catching a glimpse of the daedric runes. "Demonic runes is probably the closest answer I can give that you would understand." Nick said casually. The origin of this chapter's debut can be traced to N0v3l--B1n.