Chapter 61: Spell Refinement Function? Might as Well Just Rob Gringotts!
"The simplest thing is, even after Dumbledore died, he didn't know the locket was a fake."
This point alone was enough to show that Dumbledore wasn't omniscient; he wasn't a god and had his moments of distraction.
Moreover, Dumbledore had a fatal weakness, and that was his sister.
It was precisely because of this weakness that Voldemort had Dumbledore wear the ring embedded with the Resurrection Stone, causing him to suffer a terrible curse.
"However, if Dumbledore had discovered the old locket was a fake before he died, he might have been even more gratified."
This would mean that he wasn't alone on the path to destroying the Horcruxes.
"Of course, before I've developed into a wizard comparable to Dumbledore, Voldemort, or even Grindelwald, it's better to lie low if I can."
Dylan felt that he was only a first-year wizard, and lying low didn't mean anything.
At most, it showed he was cautious enough.
After simply and completely mastering the counter-curse for Fiendfyre, Dylan opened the system panel.
Dylan had used almost all the other system functions, except for one that he hadn't tried yet.
That was the Spell Refinement function in the magic wand icon.
Initially, Dylan didn't have any spells that could be refined.
And after having the three max-level Unforgivable Curses, he didn't feel there was any need for refinement.
But now, as he learned more and more spells, there were actually quite a few spells that could use this function.
And the reason Dylan hadn't used it all along was because...
"It's really damn black!"
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[Name]: Dylan Hawkwood [Refinable Spells]: Levitation Charm, Transfiguration Charm, Fiendfyre, Scourgify, Incendio, Lumos, Crucio, Imperio, Morsmordre, Ennervate, Avada Kedavra, Rictusempra [Refinement Cost]: 10000 Galleons/time
[Note]: When a spell reaches level seven, the refinement function will automatically unlock. Levels eight, nine, and ten will each grant another refinement opportunity.
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Seeing the cost of one refinement, even though it wasn't the first time Dylan had seen it, he couldn't help but sigh.
Who could afford ten thousand Galleons for one refinement?
This was much more expensive than any wand or robe enchantment!
A spell could be refined four times in total from beginner to max level.
That was forty thousand Galleons!
If he wanted to refine ten spells, that would be four hundred thousand Galleons!
And how many spells were there in the entire world, let alone ten?
If he wanted to refine a hundred spells, that would be four million Galleons!
Was this spell refinement?
This was practically robbing Gringotts directly!
This number was too terrifying.
Because a cheap wand only cost seven Galleons, four million Galleons could buy five hundred and seventy thousand wands.
Changing one every day, he could go over fifteen hundred years without repeating one.
Within a year, even if he used one and threw away ten, he still wouldn't run out!
Besides, according to the casual chats Dylan had with Professor McGonagall during their extra lessons,
a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks only cost a mere two Galleons.
Four million Galleons could buy two million servings!
He could drink people into a giant corpse and still not finish it!
Fortunately, Dylan hadn't mastered a hundred spells yet, and even fewer spells had reached the refinement level, only those few on the panel.
If it cost ten thousand Galleons per refinement, he could still afford to refine a few times.
After all, although it had only been a short half-semester, Dylan had still earned a considerable amount of British pounds through his parents' help.
And he had invested all of it in Gringotts, exchanging it for Galleons.
Perhaps because the goblins at Gringotts looked down on Muggles and didn't think any Muggle-born wizard could deposit large sums of money into Gringotts,
after Dylan's several attempts, he discovered that these goblins really hadn't set any exchange limits between British pounds, or even rubles and other human currencies, and Galleons.
Dylan still held a considerable amount of British pounds, but he hadn't directly dumped it all into Gringotts.
Because he was also afraid that after exchanging a huge sum of Galleons for him at once, the goblins would notice this and directly patch up this loophole.
So even when Dylan went to exchange money, he did it little by little, in small amounts and many times, and he didn't exchange all of it for Galleons either. There were also many Sickles and a small amount of Knuts.
By exchanging these smaller denominations first, he could then exchange them for Galleons more freely.
And every time the goblins saw him, they exchanged only a small amount of Galleons for him, and even some Sickles and Knuts.
This led to them still looking down on him even though he had already exchanged nearly a hundred thousand Galleons from Gringotts.
They still thought of him as a poor kid who could only bring such a pitiful amount of British pounds to exchange each time.
However, other people's arrogance could all be turned into Dylan's profit, going into his pocket.
Dylan didn't care about this and even wished these goblins would continue to look down on him.
This way, he could exchange more Galleons until he had enough capital to do other things.
But for now...
"Most of my spells are at level three to five proficiency. There's no way around it, even with several max-level spells as a foundation, I've learned too many spells, and they're too varied."
Dylan's principle was that in the current stage, he would never solely refine a few spells if he could learn more.
After all, no matter how he learned, how could he simply learn a spell to max level?
In other words, no matter how hard he tried, the spells he learned wouldn't easily reach the level of his existing max-level spells.
So instead of only learning a few individual spells, it was better to go through all of them.
And it was precisely because he had several max-level spells as a foundation that his starting point for learning other spells was far beyond others, allowing him to master a spell more easily.
Starting at level two, three, or even four proficiency.
With this kind of benefit, Dylan would naturally learn as much as he could and never be easily satisfied with his greed!
Steady progress was another of Dylan's life principles~
"I have twelve spells that can undergo initial refinement. Six of the dark magic spells can each be refined four times, the Rictusempra is the same. Lumos, Incendio, and Scourgify are already level eight and can be refined twice. The Levitation Charm and Transfiguration Charm are both level seven and can only be refined once."
Using spell refinement for the first time, Dylan had to carefully consider which spell to refine.
"Since it's the first time, I definitely have to refine the most useful one."
And which of his spells was the most useful?
That was of course...
Avada Kedavra!
After deciding on the spell to refine, Dylan glanced at his panel.
[Money]: 94508 Galleons, 8600 Sickles, 10000 Knuts, 100000 British Pounds
"Ten thousand Galleons for one refinement. I wonder if I can use Sickles or even British Pounds instead of Galleons?"
(End of chapter)
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