Chapter 46: The Occamy and spell advancement missions (Edited)

Hermione, dressed in a thin white sweater over a yellow plaid vest, walked down the hallway, making a crisp sound. She opened the classroom door before Tom and turned on a lamp.

In the dim light, they waited together for the first rays of morning sunshine. As soon as the sun appeared in the sky, Tom took out a second bottle of magic potion and dropped it on Occamy's egg. As soon as the potion was applied, the egg began to shake violently, and some snake-like lines continued to appear on the surface.

"Is it going to hatch?" Hermione was a little surprised, she hadn't expected the magic potion to have such an immediate effect.

Soon, with a snap, a gap opened in the shell of the silver egg and a sharp yellow beak emerged first, followed by an ever-widening gap and a head of a bird-like snake also protruded from the egg, with beautiful yellow eyes and a small black dot for a pupil.

If the head was able to emerge, the whole body had no difficulty in doing so, and it twisted and turned its body, widening the gap a little and dropping silver grains on the table. Soon, it emerged from the egg.

The first thing he saw when he came out was Tom's surprised face.

Tom hadn't expected the Occamy to be so beautiful and gorgeous. The Occamy was less than 20 cm long, covered with small purple scales and had a pair of small wings with blue feathers on its body. If there was one animal that could describe the color of the snakebird, it would be the hummingbird. The scales on the Occamy's body and its wing feathers are as bright as those of a kingfisher.

The Occamy chirped merrily to Tom, but in November in Scotland, even indoors, it was a bit chilly and he felt a bit uncomfortable. He looked around and saw a black hole in the big face in front of him, so he gave birth to a bold idea.

He swooped and flew, and the first target of his life was Tom's mouth.

With a thud, he rushed into Tom's mouth.

Tom: Whoa!

He felt as if a banana had been shoved into his mouth, felt the bird snake's beak pecking at his throat, and felt the urge to vomit.

The Occamy smelled a bad odor, so it activated its talent and, with a hiss, shrunk to an unknown size and found a random hole in its mouth to hide in.

Without the Occamy's stimulation, Tom gradually calmed down. Then he realized something important: The Occamy was gone!

He panicked. If the Occamy accidentally fell into his stomach, it would be digested. Tom opened his mouth wide and asked Hermione to take a look.

Hermione inserted her small wand into Tom's mouth, and used the Charm (Lumos). She looked deep into his throat and saw nothing, but when she glanced at Tom's wisdom tooth, she felt it was different than the one she had seen before.

She looked closer, there was an Occamy curled up in the wisdom tooth socket!

Hermione was surprised.

"The Occamy has made a home in my wisdom tooth?" Tom was flabbergasted, there was something very wrong with this Occamy! This is outrageous, I, his mother, became his nest, how outrageous!

Often when people get a clogged tooth, their first reaction is not to reach for a toothpick, but to test it with their tongue and see if they can pull it out with their tongue. Tom's first reaction was the same, his tongue fiddled with the wisdom tooth.

The Occamy had enough of that, and poked its body out, the front half grew quickly, but the tail remained unchanged, still on the tooth, and half of the Occamy came out of Tom's mouth. The Occamy looked around, hissed a couple of times and retreated.

"Hiss~ (If any more bastards come to cause trouble, I'll welcome them!"

Tom had a look of utter dismay, he hadn't expected the Occamy to be infatuated with his wisdom tooth.

Hermione covered her mouth and giggled, "Looks like I can't get Dad to pull that wisdom tooth for you!".

"Ugh..." Tom sighed, "Let's eat first."

They headed for the Great Dining Hall, which by now was a bit uninhabited: it was Saturday, and anyone who could get up early on a Saturday morning was a ruthless person.

When Tom poked a piece of bacon with a fork and popped it into his mouth, the Occamy suddenly poked its head out of its molar and took the bacon with it.

Tom: "????"

He picked up another small sausage and the exact same thing happened.

Tom: "..."

His brain ached a little.

"It's okay, pets eat first..." Tom fed the Occamy in his mouth for a good five minutes before he got full, and was relieved when, dazed, he took a small sausage without it being eaten. In these few minutes, the Occamy devoured all the food that went into his mouth.

"You're eating a lot today, aren't you?" Hermione noticed the abnormality.

Tom covered his face, not wanting to speak.

After dinner, it was a quiet, peaceful Saturday, the kind of day when even Tom didn't want to go to the library to study. Hermione had her own ideas, and she made her way to the library with a stack of books, and Tom could only look at her with admiration and a lazy aura.

Tom leaned back lazily in an armchair, looking out the window at the sky. To others, he was in a daze, but in fact he was exploring his own system. More specifically, he was looking at the way he had broken through.

For the moment, after two months of classes and self-learning, Tom had reached full expertise in all his spells and had reached the threshold of his knowledge in his magic bar. At this point, the advancement requirements for spells had also been met.

For example, the first spell Tom drew, (Lumos), had an advancement requirement of Enchantment level 1, proficiency level 1 and full experience, with only the Enchantment not yet met. The task of advancing the spell is not complicated, he just had to go to Professor Flitwick's office, let him test him on the final exam level, if he passed Professor Flitwick's test, he could advance the spell and the Enchantment theory of knowledge.

If he passed the test, he could advance to level 1. When he reached level 1, the Charm (Lumos), which met the prerequisites for advancement, would naturally become level 1. However, there was a very serious problem, because some of the prerequisites for advancing the spell, Tom had not unlocked, such as the Protego Charm, which required Charm and Defense Against the Dark Arts, but he had not unlocked the Defense Against the Dark Arts theory, so he could not advance the spell level.

He was glad he had been taught by a teacher he trusted for almost all spell advancement, otherwise he would have been stuck.