Chapter 309

The first day of school.

After a night of thinking, John also accepted the status quo.

Starting a new year of school life.

The first class today was our Professor Snape's Black Magic Defense Class.

There was a benefit to Professor Snape transferring to Black Magic Defense.

That was not having to go to his dark basement for Magic Potion Class anymore.

Professor Slughorn's classroom wasn't set in the basement either.

Instead, it was another classroom on the first floor, with better lighting and ventilation.

But there was also a downside, which was that this damn Black Magic Defense classroom had been decorated by Snape to look like a haunted house.

The walls were hung with all sorts of bloody and terrifying paintings, the windows were sealed, and the entire lighting was very dim.

Only some ghostly firelight flickered and danced on the walls.

Soon, class time arrived.

Professor Snape appeared at the classroom door on time.

His ink-black eyes slowly swept across the class and he came to the podium.

"Open your textbooks to page five."

Professor Snape said coldly.

The students were also used to Professor Snape's style of getting straight to the point, and they all opened their books.

"Who can tell me what a Universal Counter-Spell is."

As Professor Snape's voice fell, Rui'an raised his hand.

"Mr. Grey."

Hearing his name called, Rui'an immediately spoke up: "The Universal Counter-Spell, the incantation is 'Finite Incantatem', it is a type of counter-spell that can stop the effects brought about by most magic spells."

Professor Snape did not give a right or wrong answer, just listened quietly, and then spoke slowly again.

"What do you mean by most magic spells."

"Uh...... this..."

The second question was beyond Rui'an's scope of knowledge.

"It has a particularly obvious counter-effect on magic spells that impose control effects, such as the Dancing Feet Spell or Binding Spell, but it has limited effect against attack or defense magic spells..."

John immediately whispered the answer to Rui'an from behind.

Hearing this, Rui'an immediately perked up and spoke clearly: "It refers to magic spells that impose control state effects, such as the Dancing Feet Spell or Binding Spell!"

"Ravenclaw, 10 points deducted, blindly trusting others, having no independent consciousness."

Who knew that as soon as he spoke, Professor Snape coldly passed down a punishment.

Question marks appeared on both of their faces at the same time.

"Why! I clearly answered correctly!"

John opened his mouth and shouted directly.

"Ravenclaw, another 10 points deducted, shouting in class, provoking a professor."

However, facing John's protest, Professor Snape just said coldly again.

"I..."

"Forget it, forget it, John."

Titus, who was on the side, seeing John still wanting to argue with Professor Snape, hurriedly raised his hand to cover his mouth and pressed him back into his seat.

"Hufflepuff, 10 points deducted, not following discipline in class, using hands and feet."

As soon as these words came out, Titus was also stunned, and then...

"I..."

"Forget it, forget it, Titus."

This time it was John's turn to cover Titus's mouth, pressing the words he hadn't cursed back into his mouth.

"Defending against Black Magic is not something that can be solved just by memorizing incantations; you must also learn to adapt to circumstances and apply every means you can apply."

Professor Snape, however, was too lazy to waste any more time with them and spoke slowly.

"Black Magic is a varied, ever-changing, and endless monster; if you only know how to apply the contents of the book, you will sooner or later be choked to death by your own dogmas."

"Defending against Black Magic must also be flexible and varied, as elusive as Black Magic itself."

Speaking of this, Professor Snape cast his gaze on John, as if responding to the answer he had just revealed to Rui'an, and as if reminding him of something.

"The reason the Universal Counter-Spell is universal is because you can derive countless variants from it."

"The most common one is the 'Cloud Spell Withdrawal', a counter-spell for the Weather Spell; this spell was specifically improved and developed from the Universal Counter-Spell to target the Weather Spell."

"Unlike the direct blocking of the Iron Armor Spell, the principle of the Universal Counter-Spell is to destroy the magical structure of the magic spell, thereby causing the magic spell to fail."

"The reason it has a relatively significant effect on control-type magic spells is just because the magical structure of control-type magic spells is relatively stable and has a long duration of effect."

"Just like a calm pool of water, if you stir it a little, you can break the balance."

"And attack-type magic spells are like turbulent whirlpools; there is simply no time for you to stir them slowly."

"But as long as you master the core elements of destroying the magical structure and can accurately find the weakest node in the magical structure of the magic spell, you can also crack the attack magic spell through precise spellcasting."

"When you cannot overcome strength with skill, technique is your only way to survive."

This long-winded speech was no different from listening to a heavenly book for the other students present.

Because let alone accurately finding the weakest point in the magical structure, just the knowledge point of magical structure left them confused.

But John could understand this guidance from Professor Snape.

He was teaching him a more refined means of confrontation.

Instead of relying on brute force or flashy large-scale magic to build up his combat power.

Perhaps John's hard power was already completely capable of relying on brute force to defeat Professor Snape.

But in terms of understanding and applying magic spells, Professor Snape was still performing a dimensionality reduction strike on John.

If he couldn't transform his brute force into precise magical output, he would have no power to fight back when facing an opponent who surpassed him.

Just like when John briefly faced Voldemort, and when he sparred with Dumbledore, he could only rely on brute force to resist, but he could never truly reach the realm where the other party was.

"Mr. Merick, come up and demonstrate with me."

At this moment, Professor Snape suddenly said coldly.

John had no choice but to get up, come to the podium, and stand opposite Professor Snape.

"Try to attack me with a magic spell."

John silently pulled out his wand and then spoke: "Stupefy."

A red light shot straight at Professor Snape's face.

However, Professor Snape just raised his hand lightly, holding his wand horizontally in front of him; when the red light touched his wand, it sizzled and dissipated, as if it had been disintegrated out of thin air.

Then, with a casual flick, he flicked away the residual magic power of the magic spell, and he himself was completely unaffected, as if that red light was just a breeze brushing past a cliff.

The students below the stage let out an irrepressible gasp.

This was completely an operation outside the textbook.

They thought it was just an ordinary basic counter-spell, but it could actually be played with such flair.

John also looked at Professor Snape with slight surprise.

Although he could also do it, he couldn't do it as easily and freely as Professor Snape.

When he flicked away a magic spell, he usually relied directly on magical guidance to change the direction of the magic spell.

Not like this, directly disintegrating the magic spell.

Of course, the most important thing was the value of this technique, which could help him further improve his actual combat ability.

And even improve some of his current magical output habits.

"See clearly?"

Professor Snape's voice sounded coldly, and John then came back to his senses and nodded at Professor Snape.

"Good, then it's your turn now."

"Ah? What's my turn?"

Who knew that the next sentence would leave John stunned.

"Next, except for Finite Incantatem, you are not allowed to use any other magic spells, and you are even less allowed to dodge."

As he spoke, Professor Snape directly raised his wand and aimed it at John.

John then realized that this old bat wanted to use the excuse of teaching to beat him up again!

"Wait, I..."

"Stupefy!"

With a bang.

John flew backward directly, crashed through the closed window, and performed a piece of performance art called free fall from the fifth floor.