Chapter 12 - Level 9. New abilities and Library books (1/2)

I am an idiot… No other explanation… JUST wanna die.

I was waiting for so long to improve my studying tier 1 ability and even postponed my experiment with using books from library in case upgrade can give some bonuses, but …

〖Remarkable Comprehension 1/3 (30)〗

I needed level 30 to upgrade it and not 25. Damn it all. I must have mistaken it with the speech ability. How the heck did I forget about it? It is so exasperating and worst of all, I could have checked it any time, but I was so self-assured that didn't even bother.

Thankfully nobody will ever know about my stupid mistake. And I myself will never write it in my biography. Never!

For the next 10 minutes I was berating myself and thinking how stupid I am. However, I needed to focus on the task of picking useful abilities and thankfully there were some new abilities from magic skill trees and tier 2 abilities in old trees.

*15 minutes later*

『 Magic Theory 』

〖Better concentration 1/2 (45)〗

〖Increase in concentration during any use of magic. Helps in casting magic and focusing power.〗

『 Magic Gesturing 』

〖Less Gestures 1/2 (50)〗

〖It is easier to learn to use simple magic without using gestures. Spells you know well and studied for a long time can be used without gestures subconsciously.〗

I stopped on those 2 abilities, because they can increase my personal strength in an absolute way. New abilities from Speech, Alchemy, Herbology and other skills were incredible as well, but I was leveling slowly and no matter, what I needed first is to ensure my survival. That's why, whatever can increase my strength or help me in a dire situation is going to be a first pick.

I expect it to be great. Otherwise I will go for Magic Chanting ability.

After that, I checked time at Gryffindor common room. And yes, there was apparently clock there. I have no idea why I didn't notice it before.

It was 8pm. Just enough to experiment with 'using' library books before curfew.

While going to the library, I was counting how many books I finished during this period and apparently it was a big number. Thanks to fast reading, better comprehension and memory I could breeze through most of books, while still having a good level of comprehension.

Finally, I finished counting and the number was staggering 51 books.

'Wow… Is that 51 skill raises I am seeing here. Hope system won't fuċk me up by creating some stupid reason for not being able to use these books.'

While on my way on to library, I decide to check my saves and deleted second and third saves. The ones that I created right after appearing here. One of them was before answering Hagrid and the other one after a first level up. I did not need them now.

I decided to delete them because my space for saves was close to null. Before deleting, I had only 2 free slots for saves. Having more save slots makes me feel safer, plus I do not want to make a mistake in the future and accidently overwrite an important save.

While doing all that I reached library and went for the books I've finished reading and the first one was about wand making. Just to have a returning point, in case books somehow charmed, I saved.

First, I put a book into an inventory. Then I waited for a 5 or maybe 10 minutes. Nothing happened. Thank god, it's safe.

Then I focused on the taken book, to see options on how I can interact with. Thankfully, I could use it, so no problem there.

'Use'

『 Wand Making 19 ➔ 20 』

It worked! Oh my god, you woke a leveling beast here. Let the leveling spree begin.

*30 minutes later*

'System show me my progress since entering a library, excluding first raise in wand making.'

[Affirmative. Collecting information… Modifying output… Compressing information… Done! Outputting…]

『 ➣ Skills progress:

Magic Chanting 15 ➔ 20 | Magic Theory 18 ➔ 30 |

Herbology 20 ➔ 22 | Alchemy 20 ➔ 23 | Astronomy 19 ➔ 20 |

Wand Making 20 ➔ 26 | Riding Expertise 18 ➔ 20 |

➣ New Spells added to your spellbook: