v2 Chapter 5： wand making

In the middle of the night, Tom was still lighting the lights and fighting at night. The descriptions of various wand cores and woods in the illustrated book are very detailed, as well as the corresponding pictures. Together with the samples provided by Mr. Ollivander, Tom gradually has a better understanding of the materials used in wand learning.

[Acquire enough knowledge, hide the theory of knowledge - unlock the magic wand,

The wand learning talent will be displayed when making a wand for the first time]

[Wand Learning Level 0 (0/100)]

Tom: Yeah(＾－＾)V

Although he didn't know the use of wand learning, the pleasure of prostituting a skill was still very satisfying.

The next day, Mr. Ollivander was taken aback when he checked Tom's progress. Originally, he left three days for Tom to read the book, but Tom remembered it in one night.

So he started the next stage of teaching with great interest.

Speaking of which, Mr. Ollivander's work condition is much easier. Thousands of wands have been stored in his store, and the old money alone is enough for him to eat for several years. In addition, there are very few customers who come to the door before the school season, so he has always been in a leisurely state.

Idle is also idle, it is better to teach students.

"Tom, do you know what a wand is?"

Tom recalled the process of casting spells with his wand, "Magic Amplifier?"

Mr. Ollivander shook his head, "The wand is not an amplifier of magic power, in fact, it is more like an auxiliary prop..." Ollivander took out a huge piece of parchment on which was drawn a man and him 's internal structure.

"Beginners often have the misconception that the magic in a wizard is weak and needs a wand to amplify it. This idea is fundamentally wrong. If a wand is a magic amplifier, why would a wizard as great as Dumbledore contact him? Casting without a staff?"

This sentence confused Tom: Yes, the function of a magic wand is not to turn one unit of magic power into ten units in the body. If this is the case, what else do Dumbledore and the others learn to cast spells without a wand? Isn't this a disguised weakening of your own strength? If you use a wand, the wizard's attack power is 100, and the attack power without a wand is only 10. Dumbledore can't use a wand when he is full?

You are afraid of being disarmed in battle, so you can prepare a spare, or find a way to fix the wand on your hand. Isn't this much easier than casting spells without a wand?

"Wands simply help wizards channel their magical powers so they can focus on more complex magic. Most spells require a wand, but spells can also be cast without a wand. No wand Casting spells requires astonishing concentration and skill, and powerful wizards use it to hone themselves."

Tom roughly understood that the magic power within the wizard himself was extremely amazing. From the silence of the runaway wizard incarnation, it can be seen that this is indeed the case. Magic wands are more like those fancy auxiliary equipment on modern bows and arrows, which can help people shoot more accurately, but it does not prevent the big guys from holding a horn bow and piercing Yang at a hundred paces.

After explaining the principle of the wand, Mr. Ollivander told Tom how to make a wand.

"The combination of different magic materials will have different effects. Of course, the length of the wand will also have an impact."

Having said that, Ollivander greeted Tom to sit in front of the workbench together. He picked up a pine wood from the table and a unicorn tail hair that looked a little old. As he explained, he polished the pine, split it, and embedded the unicorn tail hair.

After inserting the core of the stick, Mr. Ollivander took out another small carving knife, the tip of which was as thin as a hair, and then wrote and scratched on it for a while. This step, he did not explain to Tom, but concentrated on the characterization.

After about a quarter of an hour, Mr. Ollivander took care of the inside of the wand, and took out a small note from the drawer, but he reacted and put the note back again.

"Engraving runes inside the wand can achieve various effects. It is useless to add a wand body and a wand core. The runes used by each wand maker are different. If you can, get that A wand, just study it..." Mr. Ollivander thought of something, and his eyes glowed with desire.

He closed the two pieces of pine, and then restored them to their original state, and a rough wand was made.

He waved his wand in disgust, and a shimmer of light appeared from the tip of the wand.

"Look, it's done like this. However, limited by the material, the quality of this wand is too average." Mr. Ollivander didn't say much, and broke the rough embryo of the wand. However, his hand strength was very ingenious, and he only broke the worthless pine wood, but did not hurt the unicorn tail hair inside.

He took out another roll of parchment, which was painted with all kinds of strange symbols.

"These are some basic runes in wand science, as well as some arrangements of runes. You can find a piece of wood and carve it according to it First carve bigger, then gradually shrink after you are proficient, and finally Make a rune the size of a grain of rice."

After Mr. Ollivander assigned the task, he let it go. Just leave a message and show it to Tom when he has carved it.

Tom found a workbench and sat down. He first turned on the magic lamp on the workbench—the lamp was an alchemical device, somewhat similar to the shadowless lamp in the Muggle-world operating room, and then fastened the parchment and carved planks to the table.

He carefully studied the rune arrangement on the parchment, and found that most of the arrangements are 7 runes, the beginning and the end are fixed formats, and the middle is all kinds of strange, and there are notes behind the arrangement, explaining what they can achieve Effect. These arrangements are basically in the pursuit of "stability", so that the magic power through them can run stably.

Tom chose a starting rune and started trying to carve it.

It was much more difficult than he imagined. A shake of the hand, the entire rune will be abolished - the rune is an extremely delicate thing, and a slight difference will cause the characteristics to undergo earth-shaking changes.

Tom spent nearly an hour sculpting his first rune, and in the end he could sculpt exactly the same thing, but the strokes of the entire rune, dark here and there, were simply unqualified products.

But when Ollivander came over, he was very happy and praised Tom: In his opinion, it was a gift for him to be able to carve like this for the first time.

Tom spent the next day carving runes. When he returned to the dormitory at night, he had already mastered the carving methods of six runes. What surprised him was that not only was the experience bar of his wand learning turned into a question mark, but he also gained some experience in alchemy.

It seems that wandology and alchemy have something in common.

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