Harry Potter: Charlie's Candy Factory

Chapter 11 Blood Oath

Charlie held up the ruby-studded ring, slowly raised his hand, squinted his eyes under the light, and carefully looked at its details.

The round ruby ​​without the slightest edge appears slightly deep under the light.

He played with the ring deftly with his fingers, and his fingertips slowly stroked the inside of the brass ring body, and he could clearly feel the traces of seal carving.

Various spells and symbols that Charlie has never seen before complement each other, and they are all condensed on a small ring with an extremely exaggerated craftsmanship.

Even if Charlie only saw it and didn't put it on his hand, he couldn't help admiring the exquisiteness of this ring.

However, compared to the exquisite and complex interior of his ring, its exterior is extremely simple, even close to shabby.

The simple and unpretentious brass has no decoration or lines at all, as if it was just a prototype, and then the ruby ​​was brutally stuffed on it.

At first glance, it looks like a piece of junk that was randomly scavenged from a witch in Upside Down Alley who was stunned by poisonous smoke.

However, this appearance did not prevent Charlie from liking him in the slightest.

He, who was originally biased towards practicality, naturally preferred his function more than his appearance.

Moreover, such an ordinary and unobtrusive small prop may play a different role at a certain moment.

"Whoever made this ring must be a genius..."

Charlie brought it back in front of his eyes, obsessively observing the alchemy technique like a work of art, and then said to himself

"I really don't know if Nicolas Flamel, the most legendary alchemist in the world, can do this."

After finishing speaking, he put Vivien, who had finished eating and was still leaning on his arm, on the table.

Seeing that she was put down, Vivien didn't make a fuss, instead she found a place leisurely and continued to peck her feathers.

Charlie shook off a little residue on his hand, then spread out his palm, and without hesitation, put it directly on his index finger.

Charlie noticed that the moment the ring was put on his hand, the shadow in the ruby ​​on the ring stirred and faintly lit up.

Immediately afterwards, before he could react, the originally unpretentious brass suddenly seemed to be infused with some kind of life. On one side, the originally hard ring suddenly became soft, and the index finger surrounding Charlie began to stretch out. Strips of tiny tentacles emerged, and then slowly sank into the flesh and blood.

Charlie couldn't help furrowing his brows, his mouth pursed, watching this horrifying scene, but he didn't take it off immediately.

After all, as a task reward given to him by the system, Charlie, who has had many cooperation experiences, still has reason to believe that the other party will not harm him.

And the fact was just as he expected, when the tentacles on the ring were all submerged in flesh and blood, there was a slight tingling immediately after.

A touch of red flowed into the ruby ​​along the body of the ring, and the ring seemed to have completed the authentication, and quickly retracted the spreading tentacles back into the body of the ring, becoming plain and unadorned again.

"Blood oath?" Charlie's eyes became strange.

This ancient alchemy technique was still when Charlie was studying at Hogwarts, and he accidentally found a [-]th-century alchemist's skin scroll when he bravely ventured into the forbidden book area.

At least that's what it said. As for whether it was human skin or not, the young and energetic Charlie didn't worry too much at the time.

In that book, there was a detailed record of an alchemy technique that was very prosperous at the beginning, which was [Blood Oath].

Grinding human skulls into powder and blending them into alchemy items, and adding corresponding spells, can make the alchemy item and its owner forever linked together, and it can't be released until the owner dies.

This technique was widely used throughout Europe in the crazy era when wizards were not subject to ethical constraints and constraints.

However, with the changes of the later times, there are still upgrades and iterations of alchemy technology in the hands of generations of wizards.

The way to establish contact with alchemy items is also more stable and secure.

The alchemy technique of the blood oath was also gradually forgotten, and finally tended to disappear.

As for the Alchemist's Skin Scroll, it is probably the only book that still retains this technique.

Charlie didn't expect that this kind of alchemy technique, which was already on the verge of extinction, could still be seen on the ring given by the system.

"Could it be that you are from the sixteenth century?"

Charlie muttered to himself as he tried to squeeze the palm of the hand with the ring on it.

I don't feel anything else...

"let me try……"

Charlie sat back in his seat, then closed his eyes, and slowly stroked the ruby ​​on the ring, trying to activate it.

The result was somewhat beyond his expectation. When he slowly penetrated his magic power into the ring, there was no hindrance and jerky like when other alchemy items were in contact for the first time, everything seemed to be a matter of course .

When Charlie opened his eyes again, his ring-wearing hand already held the scroll recording magic and the new mission blueprint.

"Great." Charlie looked at the things in his hands and nodded.

Although Charlie didn't know whether the ring of this space-type magic item came from the wizarding world in the sixteenth century, or whether it was a product of another world.

However, at least Charlie can be sure... This thing is definitely a good thing, even better than the scroll that records A-level magic.

With this thing, it is not as simple as having an extra storage space for Charlie.

The characteristic of collecting and releasing at will along with one's own thoughts undoubtedly makes its value far exceed that of general space-type alchemy items.

As long as Charlie can touch it, he can directly pull it into the space of the ring the moment he touches the object... This alone can immediately generate countless wonderful ideas in his mind.

I believe that as long as he is given some time, this ring will become his strongest life-saving artifact without any accidents.

It even surpassed the windbreaker that Charlie has been wearing with the system reward with the [Magic Resistance] feature.

After playing with the ring contentedly for a while, Charlie finally remembered the two remaining things besides it.

He turned his head, glanced at the magic scroll quietly placed on the table, and reached out to pick it up.

Anyway, with this one already in place, Charlie no longer has as much expectation for the so-called A-level magic scroll as he imagined, so...it doesn't matter what it is.

While thinking this way, Charlie slowly opened the scroll, revealing the first words.

"Protego Diabolic"

(End of this chapter)