Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 90 The Alchemy Book of Alchemy

"Ha! Squid King, right?"

After listening to the "Fantasy Gandalf Version of One Piece Story", the little wizards dispersed back to their dormitories in twos and threes.

The Gryffindor common room was left with the Ironhead Trio, the Hogwarts Intelligence Triumvirate, and the MacGuffin.

McGuffin sneered, looking at the melons who took their own stories as news and sold them for money.

With a smug smile on his face, Ron felt a little embarrassed touching his red hair.

It was he who told George and Fred their story.

"Don't be so stingy, McGuffin! Just think of it as a little help to our cause..." George was clearing a large pile of copper nuts on the table, while Fred and Lee Jordan on the side were also constantly counting the number of coins for Huala. (It seems that the 'Big Three' of the Hogwarts intelligence community have made money again by selling or telling stories that happened today)
The three of them counted the coins back and forth, making the clear sound of coins colliding in the silent lounge.

In the end, Hermione couldn't bear to read it any longer. She put down the 'big tome' heavily, came to them, and took out a Gold Galleon and a Silver Sickle from her pockets.

Put it in the pile of coins, and tap the gold coin with the wand.

I saw these gold, silver and copper coins rolling and jumping to form piles of triangular pyramid shapes.

——In this way, you can easily know how much money you have.

"Ah! Hermione, you're taking away the fun of counting our money!" the twin brothers complained.

They both knew it too—the goblins cast their goblin magic on all the gold Galleons and silver Sickles.

——If any wizard wants to know how much money he has in front of him, as long as he puts together three types of coins and the number exceeds one hundred, he can use his wand to show such an effect to liquidate how many coins there are.

Or if you want more than one hundred Galleons piled up together, you can even let the money speak-Gold Galleons open their mouths and automatically report how much they have.

It's easy - even a young wizard who just got a wand can do it, just hold the wand and tap some coins.

Hermione gave them a blank look, put away her gold coins and silver Sickles, walked over to the book she was holding with both hands, and prepared to leave here.

"This is?" Ron discovered the book in horror.

"What, it's just for fun..." said Hermione.

"Pastime?..." Ron looked terrified, and the look on his face was indescribable.

Alienation in disgust, disgust in fear.

"What's that expression on your face?" Hermione saw the expression on Ron's face with the glow of the fire.

I can't come anywhere when I'm angry.

"Let me tell you, I'm not making up a story like you. This book tells me in detail the cause, process, and result of what happened today..." Hermione raised her head, proudly wanting to pick up the book for others to read, but it was too heavy to carry.

In the end, Ron and McGuffin each held both sides of the book cover and opened it in mid-air.

This book seems to have only a few pages, and it can only be opened slowly from the middle part, and both sides are tightly connected to the cover. 【Appendix [-]】

The book cover is an unknown black leather, tightly wrapped by a mottled bronze frame, and even has a golden spider-like lock.

Open the book, the pages have the pattern of leaves, it seems that some kind of leaves grow like this, and then they are directly cut out to make this tree book.

The fonts and illustrations on it are very gorgeous, shining like jewels.It's like all kinds of gemstones are ground into powder and then imprinted on them by magic.

Red sapphires, emeralds, diamonds,...all the expensive gemstones in human history can be seen from them.

The swaying fire dazzled the brilliance reflected in the dimness.

"This is... my... my baby..."

Ron's eyes were about to turn into Galleons, shining with golden light. 【Appendix [-]】

He slowly stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the embossed gem fonts and pictures on the page, wanting to see if it was real.

The twin brothers and Lee Jordan were also fascinated by the brilliance. They hunched their bodies and stretched their necks blankly, like a giraffe trying to pull their heads straight past Hermione Ron, and finally buried them in this book.

"Wake up!" Hermione yelled directly in the ears of several people, and she even ran to Ron's side and patted his body hard.

The voice was sharp and piercing, and they just woke up.

"What exactly is going on?"

George was the first to wake up. He took a few steps back and bumped into Lee Jordan, who was motionless behind him and bent over and stretched his neck. Finally, the three of them rolled into a ball.

Wait until the three stand up and wake up.

Seeing Ron's stupefied stupid look, George came to him with a funny expression on his face, took out a small crystal medicine bottle the size of a finger from his pocket, unplugged it, put it in front of Ron's nose for him to smell it, and quickly put it back.

Ron immediately pinched his nose and covered his mouth, and leaned back abruptly to leave the spot.

"What is this! This smell..." He yelled and looked at several people in horror.

He appeared to be fully awake.

--what.

When McGuffin was curious, he saw George quietly step back a few steps without losing his expression.

Then he smelled a smell.

——Extremely familiar and more intense, as if someone was bombarding his olfactory nerves and brain with a sledgehammer.

This Nima is purely challenging the limits of human endurance.

Harry on the side also smelled it, and the two almost threw away the big book in their hands and ran away by themselves.

"Well, we're going to launch a new product...Ron, what do you think?!" George approached Ron excitedly, asking how he felt.

"This is... a big dung!" Hermione pinched her nose and realized it.

"That's right! New species, this is powerful enough!" Fred pretended to explain to everyone, and came to McGuffin to take a closer look at the gem book that looked very valuable.

"Don't move!" Hermione stretched out her hand to block the approach of several people. "There is magic on this book. If I close it, it will be difficult for me to open it again. I must return it to Professor McGonagall!" [Appendix [-]]

At this time, Lee Jordan seemed to finally recall what kind of book it was.

"I know what book this is!"

He patted his face hard, thinking he was dreaming, and then said.

"This is [The Alchemy Book of Alchemy]. There is only such a book in the world. It is said that it records the method of making the Philosopher's Stone..."

"So it must be worth a lot..." Ron stared at the book with wide eyes.

"It's worth it..." Lee Jordan walked over with trembling hands, looking at him with a hard face, "...it's worth it? Ha! Let's put it this way! Just such a book can buy half of Hogwarts..."

Everyone gasped when they heard it.

Jordan then said: "But according to rumors, it was collected by Nick Flamel. How could it be at Hogwarts? Where did you borrow it from the school library, Hermione? Is it the restricted area?"

"...Nick Flamel!"

It was only at this moment that Harry reacted and let out a cry of surprise, then George and the others looked at him with strange eyes, and quickly recognized, "I remember that he seems to be Dumbledore's old friend,..."

Ron and Hermione also came to their senses, and they gave each other a wink.

"Oh! That's right, maybe Nick Flamel lent this book to Dumbledore. Is that why you came to Hogwarts? Let me tell you..." Lee Jordan confirmed Harry's statement, "It is said that they are old friends."

McGuffin looked back at the book he was holding. He didn't care about the story of Nick Flamel and his Philosopher's Stone, which he already knew.

But this book...

"Jordan, did you just say that this book records the method of making the Philosopher's Stone? Could it be that the book records all the alchemy in the legends?" McGuffin asked.

He still remembers the worst task on his system - the best flying broomstick task. First of all, it seems that he needs to have superb alchemy as a 'precondition' to complete this task.

"That's right, although the book itself is priceless, the incredible alchemy recorded in the book is the most precious... That's the Philosopher's Stone!... The Philosopher's Stone that can turn stones into gold and refine the elixir of life! If I can make one..."

Lee Jordan was caught in a daydream.

McGuffin secretly complained - you think too much, if the Philosopher's Stone was so easy to make, Nick Flamel would not be the only owner of the Philosopher's Stone in modern times.

Voldemort wouldn't have gone to Hogwarts to look for the Sorcerer's Stone—in the end, he gave Harry a hand to upgrade his hand with "the courtesy is light and the affection is heavy, and the head is a thousand miles away".

Regardless of its production method, it is also known that the refining of legendary equipment such as the Sorcerer's Stone must require a variety of rare materials, even extinct materials, and it needs to be as high as Nick Flamel's superb alchemy level to make it successfully.

Jordan came closer and wanted to take a closer look at what was written in this legendary book?
Several people then looked at it together and flipped through the book.

"That's not true!" After reading it briefly, Lee Jordan couldn't believe that the legendary book only had these contents. "This is fake!"

"Don't read it! I told you this book is just telling us what happened today!"

Hermione went on to explain, she asked Professor McGonagall what happened at noon today, that squid... what the hell is going on?

Professor McGonagall handed her this book, telling her that there were many mistakes in the knowledge above, and she had to read it with a skeptical spirit.

"Didn't the above tell us? What happened at noon today, the deep sea ink... is what made the squid in the black lake of our school go crazy!"

——Deep sea ink? !

Hearing Hermione's description, Harry turned the book to the page where he saw the word before, and read it carefully with everyone.

……

——There are many frightening beasts and monsters living in this world, basilisks, harpies, and various dragons... They are either crazy creations from ancient wizards, or their existence in this world is older than our wizards.

Among them, the oldest, most bizarre, and most terrifying is the deep-sea squid group.

They are also known by Muggle sailor crew, as fear of the deep, or as extreme cold.

The size of these monsters can become very large with age, and we usually don't know how many years they can live. ——From the largest deep-sea squid that has been hunted (the size of a small mountain), it can be judged that this guy has lived for hundreds of years.

We don't know much about this kind of monster... how they reproduce, what they prey on, even we wizards can't go to the depths of the sea to explore [-] meters, it's too dangerous, no fool would do that.

——Even if the famous alchemy material of deep sea ink is extracted from them.

Ever since we wizards discovered the amazing effect of deep sea ink on alchemy... 【Appendix [-]】

(A large section in the middle was erased by a black banner in the shape of a black gemstone. I couldn’t see what was written. Several people guessed from the context that it was probably some introduction to the effect of deep sea ink.)
In our day and age, it is rare to see groups of deep-sea squid.

The attack method of the deep-sea squid is terrifying just because of its huge body.

Not to mention that its magical defense, which is almost comparable to that of a giant dragon, makes it even more powerful than most wizards.

But keep in mind that they are rarely found alone, often in small groups of three to five, which is why we call them schools of deep sea squid.

Keep in mind that deep sea squid are highly intelligent, or rather more adept at trickery than wizards.

...one theory even goes so far as to claim that they possess the ability to perform magic.

According to the descriptions of Muggle sailors and wizards of the deep-sea hunting group who have encountered groups of deep-sea squid, whenever they encounter this group of frightening monsters, they can hear the sound of waves, the call of the deep sea, and the continuous fog surrounding the hull in their dreams for days and nights.

A final orgy of tentacles, the wreck of the ship declared the monsters' victory.

According to the investigation, the only weakness of these monsters is probably only - the deep sea ink extract can make the rage lose its mind...

(In the middle is another large piece of text erased by the spokes of the black gemstone)

Please remember, after the shocking and tragic battle of the wizard hunting party with the deep sea squid 100 years ago, we in the wizarding world are now not allowed to attack and kill this kind of creature, or monster. (Although it is difficult to find traces of this magical animal on the surface of the ocean) [Appendix VI]

The alchemical material of deep sea ink has also been banned by almost all ministries of magic around the world.

Now... [Appendix [-]]

Suddenly, George and Fred became very agitated, and they pulled Lee Jordan and talked.

"Li, do you still remember what the big squid did after we were rescued by the squid when we explored the Black Lake last semester?"

"What...?" Jordan woke up startled, he was extremely disappointed by the flashiness of the book, "What did you see..."

The two looked around the Gryffindor lounge furtively (although there was no one there), and then pulled a few people together.

George said in a low voice, "We saw the squid spitting ink into the lake. Although the black water soon disappeared in the lake, we clearly saw it...you saw it too, right? Think about Jordan..."

"You said that if this 'deep sea ink' is really so rare now, then it must be worth a lot of money... We can steal some someday while this big monster is not paying attention... At that time, half of the lake will be blackened... It will definitely not find it..." Fred couldn't hide his joy in his voice.

"What the hell are you looking at!" Hermione pointed out to the two of them the last paragraph of the book, "Isn't it written that the sale of deep sea ink has been completely banned in the world?!"

"Ah!?..." Fred, George held his head and let out a scream of disillusioned dreams after seeing it.

　The blackout is coming, it's a little late!

　　The appendix is ​​in the public chapter, you can read it or not, it is just a supplement, after all, it is a bit too bloated

　　
　
(End of this chapter)