#288 - Magic power increase (asking for monthly ticket recommendation)

When Anduin finished speaking, he looked at Tonks again and saw that she had already scurried seven or eight meters away, now looking at Anduin with the eyes one reserves for a monster.

"You really are a pervert! You deliberately tricked me into coming here, and now you want to draw my blood! Are you planning to use me for dark magic experiments?" Tonks looked at Anduin warily, then drew her wand and pointed it at him nervously.

At this moment, in her eyes, Anduin had transformed from the gourmet wizard he had been a moment ago into an evil dark wizard.

Seeing this scene, Anduin chuckled dumbly. This girl must have misunderstood the blood-drawing thing. After all, in the wizarding world, anything related to blood easily makes people think of dark wizards.

"You've probably misunderstood. The blood-drawing I'm talking about is just to measure your magic power value. It's a special method I've developed. You don't need to be so nervous," Anduin said softly, trying to reassure the girl in front of him.

"I don't believe you," Tonks shook her head warily, her hair instantly turning blue, as if to express her mood.

Anduin shook his head helplessly at the sight, and at this moment, the others practicing in the distance noticed the movement here. Seeing Anduin appear in the kitchen, knowing there would be something delicious, they immediately ended their training and gathered around.

"Anduin, what delicious food are you making today?" Bill approached with shining eyes, just in time to notice Tonks not far away. "Huh? Aren't you that Hufflepuff student who can transform at will? What? Did you come to freeload too?"

"What do you mean freeloading? You're standing next to a dark wizard, aren't you afraid?" Tonks looked at the others cautiously. She didn't understand why these Gryffindors were hanging out with a Slytherin.

"Dark wizard? Are you talking about Anduin?" Bill and Charlie next to him laughed heartily after hearing Tonks's words. "Are you kidding? He's a combat hero recognized by the Ministry of Magic! He's single-handedly captured several Death Eaters! You could say he's the bane of dark wizards."

"Then doesn't he draw people's blood all the time?" Tonks hadn't really paid attention to wizarding world news before. Maybe she had seen it, but Anduin had been quite low-key in the past two years, so no one had ever mentioned him to her.

"Draw blood?" Charlie raised his eyebrows when he heard Tonks's words, then turned his head to look at Anduin. "Are you planning to have her undergo training too? Is she special? You value her so much?"

"Her ability is very special. I want to see if I can help her develop this transformation ability, or perhaps find the secrets of Metamorphmagi," Anduin smiled and explained to Charlie.

Tonks was inexplicably confused when she saw that the others didn't react at all when they heard that Anduin was going to draw blood. "What are you talking about? Didn't you hear that he's going to draw people's blood? Only dark wizards do such evil things when they want to curse people."

"Uh, you might have misunderstood, Tonks," Charlie, who had run to the side after bringing her over, also came over at this time. "Anduin only draws blood to measure your magic power reserves. We've all had our blood drawn too. Did you know that my initial magic power value exceeded one hundred marks? Anduin praised me as a genius."

As a first-year student, Charlie was quite familiar with Tonks. Seeing him say this with a smug look on his face, Tonks felt a little hesitant.

Could she have really misunderstood him? These Gryffindors didn't seem to be lying. Tonks struggled for a while, then slowly lowered the wand in her hand.

"Then how can you prove it?" Although Tonks put down her wand, she still didn't approach, asking warily from a distance.

"Just test it on the spot," Charlie said with a grin, putting his hands behind his head.

Then Bill and Charlie personally demonstrated the magic power measuring device to Tonks. Under Tonks's stunned gaze, they measured their current magic power values on the spot: Bill 276 marks, Charlie 106 marks.

"This number represents the magic power contained in your body?" Tonks widened her eyes in disbelief and asked as she leaned forward.

"That's right. I remember I only had 143 marks when school started last year. It's increased so much in just one year. No wonder Anduin said that after the third year, wizards' magic power will increase significantly," Bill said, pointing to the value on the disc with emotion.

"Yes, Anduin said that the magic power value of a freshman is about 50-80. Exceeding one hundred when I started school proves that my magic talent is very high. Similarly, my brother Bill's is also very powerful. His magic power value is even higher than Charlie's at the same time," Charlie also leaned over to show off.

"That's because Bill started training a year earlier than I did," Charles said, holding a large pot full of cooked ribs and sitting next to the grill. "The Ann method of training can steadily increase the upper limit of magic power, but of course, the most obvious improvement is magic sensitivity."

Those who accepted Anduin's training privately called their training the 'Ann Training Method,' and Anduin did not specifically object to this.

"In addition to training, magic power growth is also closely related to nutrition," Anduin, who also came over, slowly sat down, then casually conjured a raging fire to light the grill.

"The magic power growth rate of underage wizards is already very fast. Generally, it's about 50-80 marks when entering school, and the natural increase in the second year is about 50 marks. With deliberate training, the increase can reach 60-70 marks."

Anduin continued while placing the ribs on the grill, "There will be a larger-scale increase roughly between the ages of 12 and 13. The increase varies greatly from individual to individual, generally between 50-100 marks. With training, it can be stably over 100 marks. Bill's increase can reach 130 marks, which is indeed very promising."

"This kind of magic power increase is crucial to a wizard's growth, but if it lacks guidance, it can also cause danger to the wizard. That's why wizards choose to send their children to Hogwarts during the magic power growth period.

I heard Professor Flitwick introduce that large wizarding schools have special protective magic to prevent wizards from being injured by the magic power in their bodies or turning into Obscurials. Since the invention of the wand, magic power guidance has become easier for wizards."

"After that, young wizards will continue to maintain the trend of increasing by 50-100 marks until the age of 15, which is the fifth year, and then it will slowly decline. The increase will return to about 50 marks at the age of 16 and 17, so by the time of graduation, a wizard's magic power value is roughly between 350-600 marks. The difference is still quite large. The average graduate is roughly four or five hundred marks."