As a student, doing homework every day is considered the norm.
However, Hogwarts students are undoubtedly lucky; the workload here is light, and homework is usually submitted every other week, which means students have plenty of time to complete it.
They can save all their homework for Saturday and Sunday, or even wait until the day before submission to borrow and copy someone else's.
In fact, this situation is not uncommon.
Hogwarts is touted as the best school of magic; however, there is only one such school in all of Britain, so it is naturally the best.
Of course, these matters have nothing to do with Albert.
Well, Albert was already a rather selfish person.
For him, it was enough as long as he could learn the knowledge he needed at school.
Possessing the extraordinary power of magic is undoubtedly an exciting thing.
If Albert were to say what was most exciting, it would never be power, nor rolling around with women, nor injecting himself with strange things, but rather becoming stronger, gaining power.
Watching himself gradually grow stronger and gain power felt incredibly satisfying, even addictive.
Those who claim that pursuing power leads to degradation are, for the most part, weaklings.
For others, pursuing power might be difficult, but for Albert, making himself stronger was actually very simple: just learn more panel skills and upgrade their levels.
One of Albert's secrets to becoming stronger: doing homework.
For others, doing homework might just be for the sake of doing homework.
But for Albert, doing homework was also a way to gain experience; only with experience could he upgrade his skills and become more powerful.
However, how to extract more experience from homework was also a discipline.
Albert would ask himself, what content is in this assignment? Why write this part? What is its use?
These three consecutive questions help keep the brain active and strengthen memory.
Well, actually, all of that is nonsense; the main reason is that Albert found that thinking while doing homework helped increase the experience gained.
It usually fluctuates between one and three times.
Of course, although it might take a bit more time, it is entirely worth it.
"What's wrong?" Lee Jordan asked.
Fred and George entered the Great Hall looking dejected and plopped down on the chairs to Albert's right.
"It's Filch. He just gave us trouble because we tracked mud footprints on the floor when we came back," George said through gritted teeth. "On a rainy day like this, coming back from training outside, how could we not leave wet marks? Filch actually made us mop up the mud and water marks on the floor."
"Use a spell," Albert said.
"What a thought process you have," Fred couldn't help but retort, "Filch is getting back at us!"
"I know," Albert said without hesitation. "If Filch insists on you using a mop, you should go blow up his office another day."
Albert naturally knew what was going on.
Last semester, the Twins made Filch's office smell strongly of garlic; he was now looking for trouble with them.
"It seems we need to mail-order some more dungbombs," the Twins said in unison.
"I still have some; I can support you as a friend," Lee Jordan grinned.
"By the way, what are you doing?" Fred asked, frowning, staring at Albert's wand.
"Practicing how to make the light sphere detach from the wand," Albert flipped through his notes and continued, "This morning, when I went to have tea with Professor Smith, I specifically asked Professor Smithabout this."
Whenever Albert communicated with others, he would take a moment to ask them his questions, and they would usually help Albert answer them.
"Can you do it?" George was even more curious.
"No! Not yet, at least."
Albert whispered an Incantation, making the tip of his wand light up again. Then, he gently shook his wand—yes, he just shook it, as if trying to shake the light off the tip of the wand.
Albert's Lumos Charm had already reached level two, and even he himself wasn't sure when it leveled up, but undoubtedly, he was using his Lumos Charm more skillfully than before.
Currently, it even showed a tendency toward silent casting.
As for why there was such a change?
It really had to be attributed to Albert raising his Wizard Bloodline to level four.
After graduating last semester, the Gryffindor's Glory quest was successfully completed. This quest gave Albert 1 skill point, plus the two points from the Rescue Operation quest, so Albert raised his Wizard Bloodlineto level three.
After reaching level three, Albert felt a significant change in himself; his magic power greatly increased. Then, he directly accepted the Wizard's Path quest and raised his Wizard Bloodline to level four.
Um, actually, Albert was worried that skills could only go up to level five.
Calculating based on level three requiring ten thousand experience, the skill levels would not be too high; otherwise, even if they were, the experience gained wouldn't keep up.
If after level two, the experience needed to upgrade skills had to be multiplied by five, level five would require two hundred and fifty thousand experience, which is an almost impossible gap to fill.
So, Albert's judgment was that skills capped at level five.
He wouldn't risk waiting until level four to try; if it could only go up to level four, Albert would cry himself to sleep in the toilet.
Of course, there was another reason for choosing to level up at this time: he wanted to stir up trouble.
Stirring up trouble required strength, and strength was the source of confidence. Increasing his magic power was undoubtedly the fastest way to increase his strength.
Therefore, Albert was very confident when facing Hertok Dagworth and also wanted to extract some quests from him, but the result was a bit disappointing.
As his magic power increased, Albert's magic would also become stronger, and he would learn magic faster than before. Moreover, he might have a chance to try to enter the Forbidden Forest to search for the so-called Gryffindor treasure.
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As for how much benefit he could gain from this quest, Albert was quite looking forward to it.
"Stop shaking it; you're almost poking someone's eyes out," Sanna complained.
No sooner had she spoken than a faint ball of light separated from the wand, slowly flying up like a firefly, and then disappearing without a trace.
"Did I just imagine that?" Sanna rubbed her eyes, muttering.
"No, you didn't imagine it; I just saw it too!" Lee Jordan's mouth dropped open in surprise as he looked at Albert. "How did you do that?"
"Hmm," Albert recalled the feeling just now, "It seems like…"
Then, under everyone's gaze, another ball of light separated from the wand, also failing to last long before disappearing into thin air.
"I wanted it to separate from the wand," Albert said softly, "but the light ball doesn't seem to be under my control."
According to Smith, after the light ball separated from the wand, it could be simply controlled according to his will.
Albert had not completely succeeded, but this was undoubtedly a good start. Now, he just needed to practice more according to the method Professor Smithtaught.
"I never knew the Lumos Charm could be used like that," Sanna pulled out her wand and tried, but unfortunately, she didn't succeed. So, she couldn't help but ask, "Is there a trick to it?"
At this moment, everyone pricked up their ears, afraid of missing the so-called trick.