Chapter 254: Cautious Snape
The first thing Link had to do was to continue summarizing and understanding the knowledge granted by Occlumency rising to LV5.
After all, before, just a preliminary sweep had already given him the skill Legilimency LV1, so if he continued to go deeper and consume it, he should be able to gain a large amount of Legilimency experience.
And in fact, it was indeed just as Link had predicted.
When he spent the entire month of February fully understanding all the knowledge, the level of Legilimency had already directly reached LV2.
Through mutual testing with Emily, Link also had a deeper understanding of the effects of Legilimency.
Among them, the effect of LV1 Legilimency was rather crude, if you wanted to use it, you had to, just like with other ordinary spells, recite the incantation and wave the wand, and only then could you invade the mind of the target.
And through this method, what you could obtain was only a part of the target's current thoughts and memory images.
To tell the truth, this was not very useful, because in battle and daily life it could seldom be brought into play, and even if used to interrogate prisoners after a fight, it could not obtain much information.
But LV2 Legilimency was a little more useful.
It could allow Link to test whether the target was lying in a relatively concealed situation.
Unfortunately, the success rate of this effect was not high, and the activation condition had to be that the target was completely unguarded.
Overall, for the time being, Legilimency could only serve as an auxiliary function for Link, and still a rather weak one.
But Link was not discouraged.
After all, he had the system, which could grant him skill points.
As long as he could endure and continue developing, sooner or later he would be able to gain a 'real-time mind-reading' ability like Dumbledore and Voldemort.
Next, Link took out the Potions notes that Snape had previously "gifted" him.
This time Snape had not lied; what was recorded in the notes was indeed his lifetime's learning.
Inside, apart from conventional potions such as Fire-Protection Potion, Beautifying Potion, Chattering Soup, as well as most of the regulated potions known in the world such as Polyjuice Potion, Love Potion, Felix Felicis, Veritaserum, and Wolfsbane Potion, there were also many potions that Snape had independently invented and not yet published.
Moreover, Snape had written in the notes detailed manufacturing procedures, experimental data, and possible improvements.
With the help of such babysitter-level teaching notes, Link believed that his learning speed in potions would be astonishingly fast, to the point that in less than two years, he could finish digesting all the notes and formally become a Potions Master.
And when he began learning basic potions in the order from easy to difficult, things did indeed go just as he thought.
During that period, as soon as Link opened those notes, the golden barrage representing the increase of potion experience and the upgrade of potion recipes on his retina would almost completely flood the screen.
But when he finally finished that part of the study and began trying to make extremely advanced potions such as Veritaserum and Felix Felicis, an accident happened.
Because Link discovered that although he recognized every single word written by Snape, when those words were strung together, he could not understand them.
At first Link thought that Snape had put some sort of restriction spell on the notes, but after he used the Super Sensory Charm to scan them page by page, he finally confirmed, the notes had no restrictions at all; the reason he could not understand them was simply because his level of knowledge was not enough to comprehend the contents.
"Phew!"
Finally confirming this point, Link let out a long breath of turbid air, then tactically leaned back and collapsed directly onto the sofa.
At this time, Emily, who had been accompanying Link in the Room of Requirement all along, saw this and asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
"I don't even know how to say it. In these notes Professor Snape gave me, the latter part is too hard, I simply can't understand it."
Link shook the thick notebook in his hand somewhat angrily and said, "Although this is entirely my own problem, I dare guarantee that Snape definitely did this on purpose!"
"He's just that kind of petty person! I should have known, after I made him so embarrassed before, how could he possibly just give me all his knowledge so easily!"
"Alright, don't be angry. He's always like that; it's not like it's your first day knowing him."
Link said nothing, only sighed softly again and slouched on the sofa.
He had spent several months on these potion notes, and now to come to such a result, he really could not accept it for the moment.
Seeing this, Emily covered her mouth and laughed softly, closed her book, and quite naturally sat down on the sofa as well, placing Link's head on her lap.
While combing through Link's hair, she said gently, "You should go out more, don't just hole up in the Room of Requirement all day; it will make you become decadent."
Link held Emily's small hand in his own, smiling mischievously as he said, "I understand. In a few days it will be another Hogsmeade open day; by then we can go on a date together."
"Let's set the location at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, they have very strict security there now, and we can just take the chance to finish what we didn't finish last time."
As soon as these words came out, Emily's face instantly flushed red.
She hurriedly pulled back her hand and her lap, stood up, and said in shy anger, "You, if you keep this up, I⦠I just won't talk to you anymore!"
"Alright, alright! I was wrong! Really, I was wrong, Emily, come back!"
Link, whose head had been dropped onto the sofa's leather surface, hurriedly begged for mercy, coaxing Emily for quite a while before he could once again enjoy Emily's lap pillow.
"I'm not saying you must go out to play with me, just that if you went out and walked around the school more, you might see some very interesting things!"
Emily rubbed the tips of Link's hair, speaking meaningfully.
Hearing this, Link was first stunned, then faintly felt a not-so-good premonition rise in his heart.
"The 'interesting things' you mean⦠what are they?"
"Here's a little hint," Emily swayed her body with a grin, "It's Harry Potter!"
Link instantly drew in a sharp breath.
Link knew Emily's personality better than anyone, though now she appeared so cute and obedient in front of him, in reality, this attitude was shown only to him.
Facing others, Emily was always strong and ruthless.
Back during the Sirius Black incident, with Harry and Hermione treating Link like that, Emily was bound to take revenge.
But the problem was, over Harry's head, there were still Dumbledore and Snape covering him.
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