Chapter 117: Numerical Values

In November, a major event happened in Muggle society.

The Berlin Wall was torn down.

Muggle society was very lively, and people celebrated this historic moment, believing it to be a victory for freedom and democracy, but Murphy thought of another thing.

Another bigger thing, that giant that was once able to fight the entire Western world alone, was also about to fall.

The giant once stood at one pole of the world, but when He left the table, only a few voices mourned for Him, and the rest was just noise everywhere. Vultures pecked at the flesh and blood of the giant, eating until they were full.

Reborn, to be able to witness such history, Murphy felt a bit emotional for a while.

However, emotion is emotion, but he didn't mind getting involved.

He was still powerless to turn the wheels of history, but rather than letting the legacy of the Bolsheviks be ruined by His enemies, it would be better to let it benefit himself. At least red blood also flowed in his body.

But now was not the time. That country was still closed, foreign capital was difficult to enter, and the powerful state machine was exhausted but still unstoppable. It was difficult to even dig people out of it. This matter still needed to be planned slowly.

In December, Murphy lifted the "Thorn Oath" for all Magic Research Institute staff one by one, and replaced it with the Thought Steel Brand of "abiding by the confidentiality agreement."

This caused his magic power level to recover a large chunk all at once.

He really wanted to know his current magic power level, so he found Haldane.

The small magic power detector was successfully developed more than three months ago, and Murphy had installed several in each of his potion shops and security shops, and invited customers to test with some preferential conditions.

So far, they had obtained a lot of sample data.

"We have now tested a total of 789 samples." Haldane of the Spellcasting Path Research Group said.

"The age group of the samples is mostly between 18 and 60 years old. There are fewer samples under 18 and over 60, about sixty or so. The samples around 30 years old are the most, which is also in line with our expectations."

"After statistical analysis, we found that the magic power levels of wizards, as well as data in various dimensions, roughly present a negatively skewed distribution curve, indicating that the level of the samples we tested might be higher than the true level of society."

As he spoke, Haldane handed a set of data to Murphy. It was a skewed distribution curve with the peak tilted to the right, but the overall trend still appeared relatively flat.

"In general, there is a large gap in the magic power levels of wizards," Haldane said. "After analyzing the data, we summarized several laws."

"First, magic power generally increases with age." Haldane said. "In childhood, after magic power awakens, because the base value of the magic power level is relatively small, the growth is very rapid. After entering school, with the arrival of puberty and the practice of magic power, the magic power level will also have a significant leap, but the growth rate decreases year by year. Around 16 years old, it begins to slow down, but magic power will continue to grow."

"Around 25 years old, the magic power growth level enters a plateau period, and the growth rate continues to decline year by year until around 34 years old, when it enters a stable period. The annual growth level of magic power will be maintained at about 0.2%, and after that, there will basically be no major changes."

"Second, we also noticed that the magic power level has a relatively obvious correlation with the level of education and the occupation engaged in. Generally speaking, jobs that require higher spell skills, such as Aurors, Curse-Breakers at Gringotts, etc., usually have higher magic power levels, while the unemployed usually have lower magic power levels. Of course, this might be because these occupations have higher recruitment requirements."

"Third, the independence of the six dimensions of magic power is very high, confirming the dimension hypothesis. Almost no two people have exactly the same six-dimensional magic power values, and research has also found that there are mutual generation and mutual restraint effects among the six dimensions, for which we have produced a hexagonal dimension chart."

A hexagon was drawn on the printout, with each corner representing a dimension. Starting from the vertex, clockwise they were Cognition, Control, Energy Shaping, Creation, Protection, and Transformation.

"Each adjacent dimension has a certain mutual generation, but the opposite dimensions seem to have some mutual restraint," Haldane said. "For example, wizards with higher Cognition dimensions usually don't have low Transformation dimensions, but relatively speaking, the Creation dimension will be lower."

"Perhaps because of this reason, most wizards are very severely biased in their subjects."

"Of course, this law is not absolute. We have seen many wizards whose magic power dimensions are very balanced."

"Finally, we set the mean value of the six-dimensional magic power of adults aged 18 to 50 as the baseline value of 10, and found that the distribution of magic power values of wizards is very uniform, and the distribution curve is very flat, which means that the differences between each other are very large. Some wizards' certain magic power values are even less than 3, while some can be as high as more than 20."

"This makes the magic preferences of wizards also very obvious. Based on this point, we have reason to suspect that the adaptability of wands to wizards has a high probability of depending on the differences in magic power dimensions."

"Let's test it first." Murphy said.

The new magic power detector didn't need wizards to hold the gemstone handle anymore. Haldane took several things similar to electrodes and stuck them on both sides of Murphy's head, his arms, his chest, and other positions. After a while, he took a printout. "This is your magic power value. We adjusted the testing method, and now it is more accurate than the original one."

"Murphy: Cognition 15.19, Control 16.56, Energy Shaping 13.8, Creation 15.37, Protection 17.48, Transformation 13.33. Mean 15.29"

Murphy also glanced at the values of Alex and Selica as a comparison.

"Alex: Cognition 3.1, Control 7.2, Energy Shaping 12.42, Creation 5.3, Protection 8.74, Transformation 4.3. Mean 6.84."

Sure enough, he's a loser.

"Selica: Cognition 8.68, Control 12.96, Energy Shaping 4.6, Creation 18.02, Protection 3.8, Transformation 10.75. Mean 9.8."

Stronger than her younger brother, but still average.

Subsequently, Murphy looked at the relative values of various occupations.

The magic power values of Aurors were the highest, generally around 13 to 15. Some Aurors' single-item values could reach above 20. Protection, Control, and Transformation were their more prominent magic power dimensions.

Curse-Breakers were second, their Protection values were even higher than Aurors, but Curse-Breakers at Gringotts were rare, and they only tested two samples.

From these data, Murphy's current level was only equivalent to an ordinary Auror.

He was indeed not a genius.

But he had also reached the top level of wizards.

And there was also a "comprehensive highest value individual" in the comparison data.

Murphy looked at his data: "Cognition 23.65, Control 37.42, Energy Shaping 22.86, Creation 19.27, Protection 18.91, Transformation 23.34. Mean 24.24."

The mean was above 24, much stronger than himself.

"Who is this person?" Murphy was very curious.

"I'll check..." Haldane operated on the computer for a while and took another printout.

On it was something like a survey form, including occupation, age, and other items.

"Quirinus Quirrell. Seems to be a professor at Hogwarts."

Thanks to "What am I not" for the 500 starting point coin tip, thanks for the support.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 118 =====