v2 Chapter 9： Wand Making Apprentice

Mr. Ollivander stared at the light for a long time and exhaled, "Yes, your runes are already qualified."

"Qualified" in Mr. Ollivander's mouth means that it can be engraved on a wand. He stood up, moved out of position, and let Tom sit at his workbench.

"Come on, you can start making wands for the first time in your life." Mr. Ollivander showed a kind smile, as if an old farmer saw beautiful fruit from his fruit tree. At the same time, he also brought a large box, which was full of all kinds of wood he had collected. Tom even saw golden nanmu and bamboo in it.

"Choose whatever you want, you're welcome." Mr. Ollivander is quite generous. The wand maker's first wand can't make do with it. Although he knows that the first wand of a novice must be very good for the eyes, but That doesn't work either.

Tom thought for a while, then picked up a piece of wood. He didn't choose a partial wood such as bamboo or golden nanmu, but ebony.

Although the color of ebony wood is black, due to the tight material, the carving feels first-class, and the heavy hand can give people a great texture. Tom likes this denser material best.

Every lumber has been roughly trimmed by Mr. Ollivander, no longer than twenty inches in length. Tom took the ebony, trimmed it a little, cut it fifteen inches long, and split it. The wood has been selected, the next step is to choose the core.

Tom ignored the box of core materials provided by Mr. Ollivander, and took out a bright blue feather himself.

Ollivander was a little surprised, "Is this the feather of a bird snake?" He gently took it from Tom's hand and looked at it seriously for a while.

"It turned out to be feathers on the wings of birds and snakes..." Mr. Ollivander glanced at Tom, but did not investigate the source of the feathers, "Son, you have to remember that we wand makers have a basic principle that we try not to kill as much as possible. - Materials like the heart of a fire dragon are just looking for farmed commercial fire dragons."

Tom, of course, "borrowed" this bird snake feather from the bird snake Travieso, so Tom had torn the skin of its beak and persuaded it to give him a feather that was about to fall off.

The bird snake that Tom kept was named Traviso by him. The word comes from Spanish and means naughty, which matches the character of the bird snake baby.

Tom carefully inserted the feather into the wand, and then seriously began to carve runes inside the wand body. He didn't make any magic changes - the basic runes were carefully summed up by generations of wand makers, just like the basic formulas, it was difficult to delete them. Of course Tom will not superfluous. Just like calculating the potential energy of an object, it is natural to set the formula E=mgH, so Tom will not be smart to do flower work.

There were a total of seven runes, and Tom carved it very slowly, taking an hour and a half to complete. In a final step, Mr. Ollivander took out a long, thin note, stuck it on the wand, and took it off after a minute.

"The Ministry of Magic stipulates that all wands must have traces attached."

After adding the trace wire, Tom combined the two pieces of wood into one, and a rough wand was made.

The rest of the work is nothing more than sanding, polishing, waxing, adding bases and other finishing touches.

When Tom finished the last step, a simple wand lay quietly on the workbench. It was really super simple, and there was no decoration on the wand. At the moment of completion, the system also popped up.

[Successfully made the first magic wand in my life! The wand learning talent is unlocked, and the wand learning assessment is completed]

[Talent - Magic Wand: 8 (incomparable talent)]

[Complete the breakthrough mission, the magic wand breakthrough is completed! The magic wand has been upgraded, and the small wooden stick you made can already be called a magic wand]

[Wand Learning Level 1 (0/200)]

Tom picked up the wand and pointed at the carving knife on the table. The carving knife immediately became several times larger. Tom moved the wand away, and the carving knife returned to its original size.

"The feather of the bird snake is used as the core of the wand, and the wand prefers Transfiguration." Mr. Ollivander commented, he took the wand from Tom and looked at it carefully, "Your wand is qualified. You Can be called a staff apprentice."

He congratulated Tom. According to the normal process, after this step, the wand maker will teach the advanced runes that he has mastered to his disciples, but Tom is only a part-time apprentice, and he has never even worshipped a teacher. Such a relationship is not enough for Mr. Ollivander Hand over the runes that have been passed down in their family for thousands of years. He knew that there would always be an heir in the family.

What he taught Tom before was axioms, knowledge that any wand maker in the world knows, it doesn't matter what he teaches him.

But Tom is indeed gifted, so Mr. Ollivander thought about it and handed Tom a booklet.

"I have nothing to teach you. These are some runes I have exchanged around the world over the years, including some runes that are not commonly used by wand makers. They are all in it. You can comprehend it yourself. Hope you get something."

Tom thanked Mr. Ollivander, took the pamphlet from him, and went to the side to study for himself. Mr. Ollivander took out the wand inventory booklet that Tom had arranged before, and slowly looked at it.

This inventory booklet is Tom's job. He is responsible for making a count of the remaining wands in Mr. Ollivander's shop, and marking the wand body, core, length and position of the wand on the booklet, so as to facilitate Ollivander Mr. Explore a brand new wand combination. It's a very hard job with no technical content.

Tom looked at the rune booklet for a while and found that the runes on it were simply incompatible with the standard rune set. Many of the runes meant "expansion", "enhancement", "life plunder" and so on. It is also true that wand makers are looking for calming, neutral spells such as stability, guidance, and concentration. These runes are simply contrary to their philosophy.

But Tom, by analogy, thought of other ways. Since all the runes are carved on the magic material, so that the magic power flowing through changes, can he fix the runes on other carriers without using various kinds of wood?

So he asked Mr. Ollivander this question, and Ollivander was stunned for a moment and then burst out laughing.

"You think exactly the same as I did when I was young! I've also had such a whimsical idea. To be honest, the person who can come up with such an idea should be an alchemist rather than a wand maker."