Many people will not give up easily until they have faced setbacks.
Albert's roommate was no exception. After studying the first volume of "Practical Defense Magic and Its Countermeasures Against Dark Magic" for a long time, he finally couldn't resist giving it a try.
"Protect yourself!" Fred raised his wand and swung it down, chanting the spell as written in the book, but nothing happened.
"The book says the Ironclad Charm doesn't glow!" George reminded him, comparing the gestures of the two weapons.
"Come on, try again." Li Qiaodan picked up "Dark Powers: A Guide to Self-Defense" and threw it at Fred.
"Are you trying to smash me to death?" Fred jumped back quickly, glaring at Lee Jordan.
"Dangerous situations can unleash your potential, and a book certainly won't kill you," Li Qiaodan immediately retorted.
"Use this!" Albert threw Fred's pillow at Lee Jordan in an annoyed tone. He figured Fred was unlikely to succeed, and throwing a book was just asking for trouble.
In fact, Albert was right; Fred gave up temporarily after being hit by his own pillow several times.
Of course, neither George nor Lee Jordan succeeded.
"Alright, you two should just stick to practicing the simpler spells." Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes at the two of them.
What should we call this?
Overestimating one's abilities and being insatiably greedy?
Yes, I guess Professor McGonagall saw herself that way back then too.
However, Albert is different from the three of them!
He has a panel and an experience pool, and once he acquires a skill, he can consume experience to cheat at any time.
"Is there any quick trick to learning the Ironclad Charm?" Fred couldn't help but ask.
"The trick?" Albert thought for a moment and said, "Practice makes perfect—that's probably the fastest trick!"
"How did you master these spells so quickly? Summer vacation is only a short time!" George was a little annoyed. He realized that Albert knew quite a lot of magic!
This made him wonder who was actually born into a wizarding family.
"I think I can guess a little about the reason!" Albert said after thinking for a moment.
"What's the reason?" Fred asked immediately.
"Have you ever played a game where you can level up?" Albert glanced at the expressions on their faces. "Hmm, I guess you haven't. To put it another way, do you need to practice to become good at chess?"
"What does this have to do with playing chess?" the twins couldn't help but complain.
"Playing chess requires not only talent, but also practice to improve your skills. The higher your skill level, the better you are," Albert casually offered a somewhat inaccurate example. "Magic is similar; casting spells requires talent..."
"Are you saying your talent is better than ours?" Li Qiaodan interrupted him, sarcastically.
"No, what I mean is that you need to improve your magical power and control over magic through practice," Albert explained, somewhat speechlessly.
"You mean your magical power is stronger than ours, and your control over magic is better than ours?" the twins asked suspiciously.
"Yes, at least that's what I think for now," Albert nodded. "As I mastered more and more spells, I found that learning new spells became easier than before. I remember Professor McGonagall saying something like: Hogwarts can teach underage wizards how to control and use magic."
"I have a feeling you're trying to fool us?" Fred said, raising an eyebrow.
"I would never do such a thing, and as I said, this is just my guess." Albert shook his head repeatedly. He wasn't trying to fool the three of them. As the number of spells he learned on his own increased, his experience with failures while learning spells also gradually accumulated. This was the extra experience accumulation that was lacking when directly upgrading skills using the experience pool.
After repeated failures, the Weasley twins have temporarily given up trying to master the Ironclad Charm and are focusing their attention on the Unlocking Charm.
After practicing for an afternoon, Fred was the first to succeed, successfully using the lock-picking spell to open the drawer lock.
"That's amazing! How did you do that!" George looked at Fred with a hint of envy; his drawer remained untouched.
"Look, Fred learned the unlocking spell first, so I won." Albert, who was reading a book nearby, winked at Lee Jordan and innocently handed him a Pepper Sprite. "Eat it, a bet is a bet."
"What are you betting on?" Fred asked, puzzled.
"We'll bet on who masters the unlocking charm first," Albert said with a grin. "The loser eats this..."
As he spoke, he pointed to the Peppery Little Rascal he had bought at the Bee Duke candy store.
"Albert is right, you have to accept the consequences of your bet."
George patted his friend on the shoulder, looking at him expectantly. Indeed, he was eagerly anticipating Lee Jordan eating the candy and then breathing fire from his nose.
"It's all your fault," Li Qiaodan said resentfully. He unwrapped the candy, stuffed it into his mouth, and his cheeks flushed red, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
The next moment.
"It's so spicy..." When Li Jordan opened his mouth, a spicy flame really shot out of his nostrils, instantly covering George's face.
"Damn it, you definitely did it on purpose." George's face was a little dark and reeked of pepper.
"Cough cough." Li Qiaodan spat out some more flames.
However, after witnessing George's ordeal, Albert and Fred immediately hid far away, fearing they might suffer an undeserved misfortune.
That guy definitely did it on purpose, no doubt about it.
A few minutes later, Lee, who had just rinsed his mouth in the bathroom, looked at Albert with a resentful expression. The taste of pepper had not completely dissipated, and his nostrils were still red from spitting fire.
"Next time, I'm definitely not betting this with you," Li Qiaodan said irritably.
"Next time, let's try flavored beans," Albert said, blinking and randomly picking three with his eyes closed.
"That's a good idea."
"Aren't you going to keep practicing? Just because you succeeded once doesn't mean you can succeed every time." Albert popped a chocolate bean into his mouth and started flipping through "Selected Nineteenth-Century Spells" again. He had already read two-thirds of the book.
"How's your Disillusionment Charm coming along?" Fred asked, changing the subject.
"I haven't fully mastered it yet. That spell is much more difficult than the Unlocking Spell." Albert glanced at the panel information. He only had 35 experience points for the Disillusionment Spell. He still needed to train hard to reach the 100 points required for level 1.
"Is that spell really that difficult?" George asked with a suspicious look.
"Of course it's difficult." Albert couldn't help but roll his eyes. "I heard it's one of the spells that every Auror must learn. Hmm, by the way, what's an Auror?"
Albert certainly knew what an Auror was, but coming from the Muggle world, he shouldn't have too many experiments in the magical world.
"It's over!"
"What's over?" Albert asked, puzzled.
"We definitely won't be able to learn the Disillusionment Spell this year," the twins wailed, for it was an essential spell for nighttime outings.