Chapter 11 - Level 6 [ part 2 ]. Two months in Hogwarts. (2/2)

After days were filled with nothing but memorizing and studying. Hermione already memorized most of the mandatory books if not all, but lessons were not only in books. There was a lot more things we had to read than just one book per subject. We also had to research on our own and stuff like that. Anyway, it was boring and annoying honestly.

After the end of the first month I was completely ready thanks to all my studying skills. I also learned all spells but wasn't quite good at using them yet. I also got better with transfiguration and overall my skills experienced a huge raise. I got a level up closer to the end of the month.

But no matter what, it was undeniable that memorizing same things from same books for prolonged amounts of time does not really increase my skills as fast as grinding in library for new knowledge.

That is understandable, because reading a new book is similar to delving into a new pond of knowledge, where you can easily consume it, while memorizing is like coming to dried out pond where you need find all these scraps of water to consume. It helps in consolidating the knowledge, but not acquiring it.

Moreover, level gaps became huge. I even felt it was exponential at some point. Despite memorizing, I improved skills plenty of times, but got enough experience to level up only after 2 weeks since previous level up.

I have raised all skills that started with 0 to at least 13 except for Magic Channeling. I was able to raise only to 4. But it felt like a drop in the ocean.

So, I asked if system can show me how much experience each skill raise provide in percentage. System agreed and the provided info shocked me silly.

Raise in study skill from 20 to 22 gave me more experience than raise in all magic skills I achieved so far. Earlier I thought it was easy way to level up, but now I know that raising them is easy cause they are worthless to my progression until they reach 15. And that lower border will only increase in the future.

Currently, I am only level 6. Can't and honestly don't want to imagine how much experience will be needed to reach level 10 or 20.

I mentally sighed once more.

Anyway, I was more or less ready to exams. I will just go through information before exams and will continue training my spells. Plus, training helps improving magic channeling, so it's kind of a grinding as well.

Library, dear, I am back!

For the next month, I was grinding and keeping an eye out for main story progression, but everything was quiet there.

I did not discover any new skills but have improved many skills that I already have, and consecutively got 2 more levels thanks to that. Although, I leveled up whenever I had enough experience and improved Magicka, I still did not spend any skill points, because there was nothing interesting to spend on.

My research into magic was going very slowly because it was not the main focus right now. But nonetheless I was able to raise all my magic skills at or even above 15, except for channeling. It was at level 14.

I was also able to raise speech by 2 levels due to being active on lesson and answering questions from teachers.

Even sneak was raised in the last month due to me being staying late in libraries and sneaking to common room after the curfew. First few times it was an accident, but after I leveled up my sneak skill once, I decide to do this every day to grind that skill as well.

Finally, a few days before Halloween I reached the mark, where I decided to spend some skill points. My studying skill was 25 at last. I can upgrade the tier 1 ability now.

'Save progress'

〖Save ⟳〗

And then…

'Skills progress'

〖Skills〗

『 Studying 25 | Speech 21 | Herbology 20 | Alchemy 20 』

『 Wand Making 19 | Astronomy 19 | Sneak 18 | Riding Expertise 18 』

『 Magic Theory 18 | Magic Chanting 15 』

『 Magic Gesturing 15 | Magic Channeling 14 』

『 Level 8 ➣ Not enough experience 』

『 Health ➣ Improvement : 0 』

『 Magicka ➣ Improvement : 7 』

『 Stamina ➣ Improvement : 0 』

『 Number of skill points: 3 』

'Now, stop! Hammer… Um, I mean skill time!'