That counts as completing the quest?
Listening to the system’s notification, Kate’s mind was once again filled with question marks.
So the so-called ‘refusing enrollment’ actually meant refusing Dumbledore’s suggestion to enroll?
Having completed a quest for the first time, she seemed to be getting a slight grasp of this system’s patterns.
[Main Quest 1 completed. Opening rewards…]
[Reward 1: Acquire fifty years of knowledge from the Legendary Wizard Albus Dumbledore.]
[Reward 2: Acquire fifty years of combat experience from the Legendary Wizard Albus Dumbledore.]
[Reward 3: Acquire fifty years of magic accumulation from the legendary Wizard Albus Dumbledore (Not recommended)]
Kate’s eyes widened.
Kate was shocked.
This reward… isn’t it a bit too generous?
Although the reward was halved due to gender, this was still fifty years of Dumbledore’s accumulated power!
She used to think that besides the starter pack, she could only obtain a target character’s random abilities once their favorability reached a certain value.
But now, completing a main quest could grant her random abilities from characters related to the quest!
If there were more main quests involving a wider range of characters…
With all those abilities stacked, could she grind Lord Voldemort to death just with her base attributes?
Hiss… the mental image was a bit too beautiful; she hardly dared to imagine it.
Seeing her habitually immersed in her own world again, Rand sighed softly and held back Dumbledore, who wanted to continue his persuasion.
“Albus, it’s late. Let the Young Mistress go up to sleep first.”
Dumbledore studied the silver-haired girl before him, whose eyes had suddenly lost focus.
Frowning slightly, he had no choice but to compromise.
“Young Mistress,” Rand quickly leaned down and patted Kate’s shoulder, “Go upstairs to sleep first. We can discuss these matters slowly in the future.”
Kate’s eyes gradually regained focus, and she blinked somewhat blankly.
Seeing Rand urging her upstairs, she finally revealed a faint smile befitting a young girl.
“Okay, goodnight Grandpa Rand, goodnight Mr. Principal.”
She was already impatient to try out her new reward.
The two old men watched as the little silver-haired figure ran upstairs with cheerful steps.
Only after hearing the door close above did they look at each other.
Compared to Rand’s worry, Dumbledore’s eyes held more confusion.
He had already sensed that this girl was different from ordinary children.
Few young Wizards at Hogwarts would suddenly lose themselves in a daze mid-conversation.
Combined with the girl’s isolated upbringing, it looked more like some kind of ailment.
“Rand, it seems you need to tell me exactly what has happened to Kate.”
Looking at the serious Dumbledore, Rand shook his head with a bitter smile, his wrinkled old face full of helplessness and heartache.
…
After a quick foot wash in the bathroom, Kate tumbled onto the bed with a somersault, staring at the light blue screen before her in a dilemma.
Any one of these three options would be a treasure to anyone in the Wizarding World.
But having all three placed before her to choose from was simply too difficult.
Whether it was Dumbledore’s knowledge, combat experience, or even magic power, she would need to enter the Wizarding World for them to be useful.
Otherwise… she didn’t believe a centenarian like Dumbledore would know Muggle subjects like calculus.
Her mind, which had been momentarily overwhelmed by the reward options, gradually cleared.
Kate couldn’t help but stick a finger in her mouth and start gnawing on it.
Ultimately, was the system’s intent for her to enter the Wizarding World?
“System, can you reveal what the next quest is first?”
She tried to communicate with the system first.
If entering the Wizarding World wasn’t mandatory, she could just pick option one.
Knowledge is never a bad thing, after all.
The words on the screen before her instantly faded, replaced by a new line of large text:
[Main Quest 2: Apply for a private magic tutor for a year of teaching]
Ha, as expected!
Kate looked at the quest with a grimace and asked tentatively, “What happens if I don’t complete the quest?”
[The system will forcibly detach and seek the next Host to help the new Host become a Delicious Girl.]
I told you not to use such an embarrassing title like ‘Delicious Girl’!
[Because the Host’s mental strength is insufficient, forced detachment will cause mental damage, with a 99% probability of death and a 1% probability of dementia.]
…System, you’re really blunt.
Kate truly had a headache this time.
It seemed her dream of peacefully slacking off in the future could only remain a dream.
Returning to the reward interface, she stared blankly at the three options.
Since returning to the Wizarding World was now a fixed reality, she first had to save her own life from the hands of the second Dark Lord.
Her gaze shifted to the third option.
[Reward 3: Acquire fifty years of magic accumulation from the legendary Wizard Albus Dumbledore (Not recommended)]
That final ‘(Not recommended)’ was very concerning…
Kate asked weakly, “What does this prompt mean?”
It had never appeared in previous options.
[Not recommended means it is not recommended for the Host to choose it.]
“…System, did you just say something completely useless?”
Kate tried hard to take deep breaths, striving not to be angered to death by the system before the Dark Lord could kill her.
Knowledge could be learned anyway, and no amount of knowledge could withstand a single Avada Kedavra.
So, was only the second option left?
Combat experience… it did seem like it would increase her chances of survival…
She wrinkled her small face, sitting cross-legged on the bed in distress, staring at the ‘Not recommended’ on the third option.
Humans are such perverse creatures.
Your brain tells you not to stick your hands into the rice bins at the supermarket, but your hands have already poked through every variety, even judging which rice feels best.
If the system hadn’t labeled it with that sentence, she might really not have considered Reward 3.
And compared to exquisitely controlling spells, smashing people with fifty years of magic power seemed like a pretty good choice too, right?
“I’ve decided,” Kate straightened up and spoke solemnly, “I choose Reward 3.”
In an instant, the room was enveloped by a storm.
The two old men talking downstairs noticed the commotion above.
They both drew their wands and used Apparition to arrive in the room.
“Young Mistress!”
Seeing Kate lifted by the storm, suspended in the air with her fate unknown, Rand instinctively wanted to wave his wand, but was stopped by Dumbledore’s hand.
“Wait, Rand,” Dumbledore’s blue eyes flickered with a strange light, “This is… a magic riot.”
But could such a massive amount of magic truly exist within an eleven-year-old Wizard?