Kate lay on her back on the bed alone, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Her stiff body finally regained a bit of sensation, but it was immediately followed by an unignorable feeling of numbness.
“System, what exactly did I do wrong?” Even now, she hadn’t figured out why she had suddenly collapsed just now.
[The casting of charms is primarily determined by a combination of the Wizard’s Total Magic Power, Physical Constitution, Soul Strength, and proficiency with the charm.]
The system displayed a sentence on the screen without rhyme or reason, and then went silent again.
Kate stared at those few lines of text for a long time.
Her Total Magic Power was undoubtedly up to standard, and had even exceeded it by quite a bit.
As for Soul Strength, she didn’t know if a transmigrator’s soul would be higher than the world’s original inhabitants, but it should be at least average.
The only two things lacking should be her Physical Constitution and proficiency with the charms.
Currently, her constitution indeed desperately needed improvement, and those charms were all cast for the first time today.
So, she just needed to train her constitution and practice more, and this situation wouldn’t happen again? magic… is it really that simple?
With today’s lesson, Kate couldn’t help but doubt her own judgment, yet she had no evidence to prove her point.
Ultimately, it was because she understood too little about this thing called magic.
Simply rote-memorizing various charms and common knowledge of the wizarding world could indeed let her quickly understand the wizarding world, and even pull ahead of her peers in some subjects.
But even if she memorized so much knowledge and gained so many abilities that Wizards her age couldn’t obtain, she could still only lie here now questioning her life.
Staring at the conspicuous 4/5 on the progress bar of the system’s daily task for a long time, Kate finally spoke up hesitantly.
“System, what is your criterion for judging the mastery of a charm? Does simply casting it count as mastering it?”
“…Or rather, must one have a certain level of understanding and proficiency for it to count as completely mastering a spell?”
Even without the system, the talent of this current body was astounding enough; she could easily cast charms relying solely on the massive magic power within her and her rote memorization of the spells.
To some extent, as long as Kate was willing, she could easily cast the vast majority of spells in the world.
But this was a result built on the foundation of her massive magic power and excellent talent, and had nothing to do with whether she truly understood the charm. You are reading on novelping . com, the official source.
Even if she strengthened her constitution and improved her charm proficiency in the future, would she then be able to understand the essence of the charms she cast?
Just like in her past life, she could recite ancient poems and texts fluently, but when it came to reading comprehension, she was completely in the dark.
If she was lucky, she could get some high scores; if not, she would be miles away from the standard answer.
However, at that time she could always speak with conviction, saying that most reading comprehension answers were completely different from what the author intended to express.
But every time she saw the rows of red ‘X’s on her test paper, she would still feel dejected and unwilling.
Then, after achieving a high score on the next exam, she would agree that this was the most standard answer.
Perhaps magic followed the same logic; the results everyone cast were mostly the same, but different people would have different understandings.
As long as these understandings were built on a foundation that didn’t go wrong in the general direction and were personal understandings, they could ultimately cast the magic perfectly.
In that case, could that count as thoroughly mastering a type of charm?
Just as the thought formed in her mind, the screen before her eyes seemed to suddenly glitch, abruptly turning dim.
Immediately after, the progress bar on top began to rapidly reverse, from 4/5 to 3/5, 2/5, 1/5, and finally to zero.
Besides that, the prefix before the progress bar also silently underwent a slight change.
[Daily Task 2: Please have the Host understand and preliminarily master one type of charm before the end of today (0/1).]
[Host’s query accepted, the system is undergoing an update.]
[Update successful!]
[The Charm Interface is now being opened!]
Under Kate’s bewildered gaze, the system changed rapidly as if it had caught a virus, finally settling on a grey interface.
Just as the numbness in her hands had faded, Kate skeptically swiped a few times on the screen.
Only then did she discover that the grey English characters on it were all the various charms she had previously memorized.
Tentatively clicking on the Levitation Charm at the very top, the system interface immediately jumped.
[Charm Name: Levitation Charm]
[Charm Effect: Makes objects float in the air.]
[Mastery Level: 0/∞ (Level 0)]
[Please practice and understand more, Host, to master this spell as soon as possible!]
Kate, who had already begun to feel it was somewhat useful, started to doubt the reliability of this thing again.
A system that relied on her own enlightenment to update and upgrade—no matter how she heard it, it sounded very idealistic.
It seemed magic itself was also quite idealistic.
Then it’s fine.
Just as Kate wanted to study this newly opened interface more closely, a knock sounded at the door.
“Little Kate, how is your body recovering? May I come in?”
“Of course, please come in!” She quickly sat up; although her body was still a bit numb, it was much better than the previous situation where she couldn’t move at all.
Newt came in carrying a cup of hot milk, “Here, I warmed a cup of milk for you. Drinking it will help your body recover faster.”
“Thank you, teacher.” Kate held the cup and took a sip unnaturally, then looked up somewhat hesitantly, appearing as if she wanted to say something but stopped.
Although she had already thought through what happened just now, she really didn’t know how to explain it clearly to Newt for the moment.
As an old hand, how could Newt not see her current state?
“You know, Little Kate, you should be the most talented Child I’ve ever seen,” he took the initiative to speak.
“Um… being able to complete these charms is already a remarkable thing, so what I want to say is—”
He hesitated, his gaze subconsciously wanting to avoid Kate’s inquisitive look, but finally he met it head-on.
“Perhaps to you, these spells count as being successfully cast, but to me… none of them count as qualified charms.”
Ouch, that hurts.
Even though she knew he was telling the truth, Kate still inevitably felt disappointed.
“But it doesn’t matter!” Newt himself was also a bit flustered, “You must believe in yourself; among your peers, you’re already very good!”
This was also the truth, after all, no young Wizard could make up for the quality of a spell with sheer quantity of magical power.
Kate silently took a breath and suddenly raised her head.
“Teacher, please start teaching me with the simplest Levitation Charm!”