Expelliarmus! Expelliarmus! Expelliarmus!
[Proficiency +2......... Proficiency +2............ Proficiency +2.........…]
[Disarming Charm Novice → Disarming Charm Proficient]
That was already pretty impressive. The unskilled state meant being clumsy with it, while novice level represented a stable grasp of the skill. Among lower-year students, only a small portion could be said to have truly reached novice level with basic charms.
Take Harry's friends around him as an example: even Hermione, the top student, still had a bunch of charms she hadn't reached novice level in.
Of course, [Novice] had its own degrees of proficiency. Some novices were complete beginners who couldn't do it at all, while others just had a lower success rate—it was actually quite different.
Back when Harry was ten and his strength was rated as zero by the system, he could still beat up a one-year-old baby without issue; he could even try taking on an eight-year-old.
And [Proficient] was generally the level where you could call yourself an expert—that was already in the professional realm.
Young wizards were clearly weaker than adult wizards in terms of maximum spellcasting intensity, mental willpower and skill proficiency, stamina, and casting speed. It was rare for a lower-year student to beat an upper-year one.
Most young wizards hadn't even reached novice level in the majority of their charms, while upper-years had novices in most of their commonly used ones. Harry, thanks to the system, had quickly reached novice level, giving him a different starting point altogether.
The higher [Mastery] level skills required both hard work and talent—neither could be lacking. In the eyes of ordinary people, masters were at this step; Professor McGonagall was probably a Transfiguration master.
In the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, don't be fooled by how Harry had grinded out a long list of mastery skills—that was because he'd been cheating the whole time. In reality, mastery skills were extremely rare, already at the limit of human potential. Even for Harry, it had taken a massive amount of time.
Harry was certain that even someone like the Sword of the Morning, who could take on five Kingsguard at once, was at most an exceptionally skilled master, because the skill cap in that world was just mastery.
The Disarming Charm wasn't the first charm Harry had learned, but it was the first to go from novice to proficient, and it might also be the first to advance from proficient to mastery in the future.
He'd already been quite diligent about it—there was just too much to learn.
But why was it that only this charm's proficiency increased faster than the others?
Harry practiced quite a few charms, rotating through them every day. Proficiency wouldn't decrease; once it went up, it stayed up. But the amount of proficiency gained was related to the completion quality of each practice session, the level of focus, and even the environment.
On top of that, rotating practices could yield more proficiency overall. Simply put, the first few practices of each skill per day generally had better results.
Asking professors for advice sometimes gave extra bonuses too. For other charms, multiple practices usually just added +1 proficiency, but with the Disarming Charm, it came so naturally to him, and he often got critical hits of +2.
Harry also persisted in sword practice every day. Back when the Sorting Hat sensed that Gryffindor didn't even have someone as skilled with a sword as Harry, he was already at [Two-Handed Sword · Legendary].
His proficiency had maxed out long ago, stuck at the world's cap of Qi Refining Stage Layer 100—just one step away from breaking through.
After Harry acquired his first legendary skill, he sensed that this world's cap was a bit higher than the one in A Song of Ice and Fire, but legendary skills were still the limit. They were a step below true divine techniques, yet already beyond mortal capabilities.
With divine power infused, legendary became demi-god level.
When he unlocked this skill with upgrade points, Harry finally felt confident......... Magical shields could block his charms, but they couldn't block his lightsaber.
Even if his condition still hadn't fully recovered and he was far from his peak form, he now had the qualifications to challenge and slay any enemy.
Even against Dumbledore, Harry had a fifty percent chance of taking his life—
Of course, that was assuming the distance between them wasn't too great.
When practicing charms, Harry's magic was only at two points, but it was actually sufficient for now. Those two points of magic represented an extraordinary amount of mana.
Moreover, he discovered that real magic wasn't like mana in a game, where you cast a few spells and then had to chug potions or wait a long time to recover. In fact, it was the opposite.
Even relatively weak wizards generally didn't run out of mana; it was just that if their mana was low, their spells would have weaker effects, and they'd easily get mentally exhausted or drain their stamina.
Harry found that the magic attribute was really similar to innate qi strength—a more fundamental energy source. In a way, silver attributes could interconnect, and as long as you didn't overexploit it, it wouldn't truly disappear; it cycled between the inner and outer heavens.
If the heavens and earth were called the great cosmos or great source, then his magic could be called a small cosmos or small source.
After attending all the required classes once, Harry gained another bronze attribute point. There were probably achievements at Hogwarts that could directly boost magic and charisma, but he hadn't encountered them yet.
Harry wasn't in a rush—this was only first year. In A Song of Ice and Fire, he'd waged wars for years and only managed to grind achievements for three points of charisma in the end, which was already lucky.
The extra two points of divine power at the end had lingering issues, so he'd added one more golden attribute point himself to coordinate with his past kingship and suppress the fusion.
It was the fruit of years of hard work.
Episode One: In the North, a Ten-Year-Old Kid's Desperate Survival.
Episode One Thousand and One: Strongest vs. Strongest! God vs. God, the Eternal Emperor Battles the Night King, the God of Winter Loses an Arm! The Emperor Ascends!
Episode One Thousand and Eighteen: I Haven't Been the Boss in Years.
Episode One Thousand and Thirty-Six: The Retired War God's Everyday School Life as a Soldier King.
In the past, you'd need deeds worthy of leaving your name in the history books to have a chance at attribute points and harvest the kingship power that changed fates. But in this [Harry Potter] world, you could get them just by going to school—it was exhilarating, like a fairy tale.
He'd never imagined that Hogwarts, which he'd thought of as a dragon's den and tiger's lair, would actually turn out to be so straightforward after living there for a while. It was like a fish in water; he really was suited for magical education.
And just like that, the early days of school passed quickly.
Harry didn't find studying boring at all—it was way more interesting than Muggle school.
Besides the classes themselves being engaging—including Potions, which he actually liked; it was like a potion-brewing simulator, he just didn't like the way Snape looked at him—his classmates provided plenty of entertainment too.
That "Seamus" Finnigan—Harry had thought Potions class was his peak, but it turned out to be just the start of his legend.
After a few explosions that Harry had stopped, it was like Seamus had unlocked his full potential.
He'd found his niche: some charms that were ordinary when others used them would come with explosive effects when he did.
Harry met up with him privately a few times and ended up personally guiding him on the Blasting Curse. Often, Seamus's flashes of inspiration and wild maneuvers would enlighten Harry, giving him extra proficiency in return.
That kid Seamus—forget the other charms—at graduation, he might just master the Blasting Curse to mastery level. All his talent was focused there: concentrate on one point and reach the pinnacle.
"Confringo" became Harry's second proficient charm, while the Unlocking Charm he'd been trying to use on the school's hidden doors lagged behind.
The required classes for young wizards taught truly useful knowledge, and first year even had a limited Flying class, with Gryffindor and Slytherin together.
Harry didn't know if his [Riding Mastery], which let him ride dragons in the sky and horses on the ground, would come in handy.
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