Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

However, Aiwen seems to have no interest there, and Lavie is not sure whether Aiwen can crack the complex alchemy mechanism in the obelisk. The main purpose of her visit this time is God Horus.

After Aiwen asked her to help investigate the secret room where the time was chaotic, Lavier was pleasantly surprised to find that the statue of Horus might be in that secret room, and their destination was the same. Without the threat of chaos in the indoor time, she can go in and do the excavation.

Just finding this important god and his treasure is enough to prove her ability.

That's what Lavier planned, but Ivan's words reminded her...

If the god Horus is indeed in the Chamber of Secrets, it means that there are other dangers there besides the magical items causing time confusion.

To get the treasure related to this god, you need to break the curse of Horus.

In ancient Egypt, or to be more precise, in the ruins of ancient Egypt before the Roman dynasty, magic, curses and mechanisms have a very distinctive feature, that is, they are related to the gods enshrined.

Different gods are in charge of different domains, and the corresponding magic is also different.

For example, if the god of death Anubis is enshrined, then the curses that need to be faced are all black magic related to death, and the souls of living beings need to be donated.

Last year, Bill told Ivan that he had been excavating in a relic of an early dynasty. At that time, the patron saint of the pharaoh was Serket, and this deity was also known as the queen of scorpions. The magic and curse in that relic It has something to do with scorpions, and it takes a lot of blood to crack it.

This custom was evident in early and middle ancient Egypt, where magic was divided very finely.

Wizards and priests who believe in different gods use different magics. They can only learn and master magic spells related to the domains of the gods they believe in, and they are only allowed to use these magics.

It wasn't until the later period of the dynasty that due to the decline of national power and the invasion of Rome, the magic mastered by wizards became more diverse, and the classification of magic and curses left in ruins and tombs was no longer so detailed.

During the reign of Ramses II, it was the most prosperous period of ancient Egyptian civilization.

So, in the magical relics he left behind was this ancient tradition, and that was where the trouble was.

It's okay to meet other gods, but the magic related to the god Horus is very troublesome.

This deity is considered to be the patron saint of the pharaoh, symbolizing kingship, and his domain is order.

Therefore, the magic related to him must be related to "order".

According to the classification of ancient Egyptian magic, there are many types of order spells, including all time magic, control magic and some protection magic, prophecy magic and sacred magic that wizards can understand in a broad sense.

These spells do not involve black magic, but are no less dangerous than black magic or offensive magic.

Because of the unpopularity, it is quite difficult to crack.

The order spell with the most "God of Horus" characteristics appeared in the Temple of Edfu, which was a temple dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus, also known as the Temple of Horus.In the depths of the temple, there is a magic of order in the secret room used to store treasure.

About 60 years ago, wizards discovered this secret room and magic.

It was a huge stone door, and in front of the door stood four two-person-high pots, namely human head jars, baboon head jars, jackal head jars, and eagle head jars.

These four jars correspond to the four sons of Horus. Only by putting the correct items into the correct jars in order can the door be opened, and no mistakes can be made.

Human heads can be used for livers, baboon heads for lungs, jackal heads for stomachs, eagle heads for intestines.

Horus, the god who values ​​order above all else, accepts only human offal.

To break this magic, one needs to be proficient in prophecy spells and determine the order of putting in the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines.

Also, someone needs to contribute these internal organs...

It is estimated that voluntary sacrifice is unlikely. In other words, breaking this magic requires killing people!

The jars are huge and the internal organs are very small. If you want to fill four jars, you need to kill at least a thousand people!

After encountering this magic, the excavation work was temporarily suspended.No matter how much you desire the treasure inside, no matter what your true thoughts are in your heart, no one dares to say such insane words as killing 100 people to break this magic...

Excavations have stalled for more than 20 years, but rumors about the treasure of the god Horus are growing.

Finally, on a summer night 30 years ago, someone attacked the Temple of Horus.

The stone door was opened, and all the treasure inside disappeared, leaving only four jars full of human internal organs.

No one knows who did it, and no one knows what are the priceless treasures and their specific whereabouts. This is the most tragic and mysterious black magic incident in the Egyptian magic world in recent years.

The death of a large number of Muggles also led to tension in the entire Middle East, until war broke out...

Since then, the magic of order associated with the god Horus has become synonymous with trouble.

If the secret room is really where the god Horus is, then Ivan and the others need to face such terrible magic.

Judging from the current situation, there is basically no way to crack it, and it is impossible for them to kill people and sacrifice their internal organs.

If there is a similar magic, then they can only give up.

In any case, these are still speculations, and Ivan decided to take a look before making a decision.

Only after the International Alchemy Conference is over can foreign wizards like Ivan be allowed to enter the Sun Ruins. In the next few days, he asked Lavier to help him find a lot of books about the ancient Egyptian "order" magic. After learning about the situation, he also went to participate in the International Alchemy Conference.

In addition to the final selection and commendation, the main event of the International Alchemy Conference is communication.

There are two main ways of communication. One is that well-known wizards give speeches, introduce their latest research results and alchemy experience, and interact with the wizards in the audience. There are about ten speeches every day; the other is free Traditionally, the organizers of the conference provided a venue where alchemists and potion masters from all over the world could display their alchemy products by setting up street stalls.

If you see something you are interested in, you can spend money to buy it...

Chapter 1187 Alchemy Conference

Alchemy has a long history and is all-encompassing. It is currently the branch of magic with the largest coverage.

In a broad sense, alchemy includes the transformation of material composition, turning stones into gold; using different materials to make magic items and constructing spell runes; and processing herbs and other plants into potions, that is, potions, etc.

If you reach the level of Nicole Flamel, you can even perform alchemy on your body to obtain eternal life.

Because the coverage is too wide, many branches are independent one after another, and many branches are not suitable for the development of the times and are gradually eliminated. Therefore, when it comes to alchemy, it generally refers to the processing of different materials to make magic items and construct spell symbols. Text, using ancient runes to create new magic, that is, alchemy in a narrow sense.

But no matter in the broad or narrow sense, the biggest difference between alchemy and other magic has never changed.

As long as wizards who have a certain understanding of alchemy know that the core of alchemy lies in innovation!

Yes, this is an area of ​​magic where innovation is more important than conformity.

In the field of magic such as spells and transfiguration, a mature spell or magic may not change for centuries. The spell used by wizards today is almost exactly the same as that of wizards thousands of years ago.But alchemy is not like this, not to mention thousands of years, it is even difficult to see alchemy formulas from decades ago.

Alchemy is always advancing, it's like a Muggle science.

It can be said that the development of science has changed the Muggle world, and so has alchemy.Over the past few centuries, the development of alchemy has changed the wizarding world and the lives of wizards, and the speed of this change is getting faster and faster, and the status of alchemy is becoming more and more important.

In this case, communication and learning are the normal state of normal alchemists.

Although the current situation is tense, as the most important communication activity in the field of alchemy, and attracted by the relics of the sun, more than 1 wizards still come to Cairo from all over the world to participate in this international alchemy conference.

In the next half month, Aiwen saw thousands of alchemy products that he had never seen or even thought about at the International Alchemy Conference. While being dazzled, his eyes were wide open.

He never imagined that he would see so many alchemy products and many creative ideas that he had never heard of before.

Also, the speeches given by those alchemy masters also benefited Aiwen a lot and learned a lot.

Due to the fact that there were too many sessions, Aiwen chose to participate in the public speeches and demonstrations that he thought were more important or interesting.

For example, the combination of magic and technology, as well as the production of magic weapons.

These are all things that Aiwen is more interested in. Among them, the combination of magic and technology is a relatively new field. Although wizards have always been conservative in their attitude towards Muggles, thinking that they don't understand anything, but I have to admit that in the past hundred years Since then, the Muggle world has developed extremely rapidly, and technology has begun to affect the magic world invisibly.

Muggle-made items such as cars, motorcycles, radios, etc., have already entered wizarding families.

Although compared with magic, mechanical items have various shortcomings, but the convenience is undeniable.

In this context, the combination of magic and technology has become an emerging trend.

There are actually not a few wizards who collect Muggle things and modify cars like Mr. Weasley.

It's just that everyone did it secretly, and didn't say it publicly.

Many Muggle-born alchemists also began to conduct research to introduce more Muggle items into the wizarding world.

In the past year, the alchemy items made by Aiwen have always adhered to the idea of ​​combining magic and technology.

He's built quite a few gadgets and gained some experience starting with reinventing Fred and George's mischievous products.

But he didn't expect that wizards knew much more about Muggle technology than he expected.

Ivan participated in a speech by an alchemist from Japan. This guy actually got a doctorate in mechanical engineering from a Muggle university, and he was trying to use alchemy and magic to create complex industrial equipment...

If this kind of thing happened in the UK, I would never even dare to think about it.

If this wizard dared to do this and publicized it with great fanfare, then he must be the primary target of those pure-blood wizards, Voldemort, and Death Eaters. What awaits him is either death or life imprisonment in Azkaban.

The fusion of wizard magic and Muggle technology, the biggest opposition comes from those pure-blood wizards who think they are noble. Due to historical reasons, the number, number, scale, power, etc. of European pure-blood wizard families far exceed those in other regions of the world , especially in the United Kingdom, where the resistance is the greatest.

It can be said that the wizarding world throughout Europe tends to be conservative, and wizards do not like change.

Not to mention, it was the kind of change that merged with the Muggle world that made them feel even more uncomfortable!

Therefore, in the field of combining magic and technology, Europe is far behind other regions.

European alchemy tends to be more traditional, and the research directions and concepts of wizards are still stuck in the past.

Their highest goal is to hope that one day they can turn stones into gold and make elixirs like Nicole Flamel.

For example, the twelve uses of dragon blood are what they are researching.

By participating in the International Alchemy Conference and having academic discussions with wizards from other countries, Aiwen felt that the British magic world really needed to be reformed.

In addition, he sat in on several presentations on magical weapons.

The production of magical weapons has been a hot spot in alchemy in recent decades. In this regard, wizards from the United States are clearly ahead of other countries.

In the product display of a semi-official alchemy team employed by the Magic Congress of America, Ivan saw their newly developed magic items. The team had made breakthroughs in the transformation of magic weapons.These magical weapons are not magic wands, but transformations of cold weapons.

They put alchemical runes of spells, carvings and ancient runes on cold weapons such as swords, daggers, bows and arrows.

This is not a new idea, the combination of magic and weapons has been tried since the Middle Ages.

The original idea was to allow Muggles to use magic. Wizards use magic to give weapons effects such as ice and fire, or to make them sharper, but the effect is not very satisfactory. It is difficult for Muggles to master these powers. Powerful magic weapons are easy to cause accidental injury, how to make magic last longer is also a problem.

After the Wizarding Secrecy Act was enacted, such modifications became illegal.

Except for those dark wizards, no wizard would dare to do this...

The talk of magic weapons fell silent for a long time after such modifications were banned.

But this alchemy team from the United States uses a special method to transform weapons, which is not the way of thinking in the past. They make weapons that can assist wizards to use magic like magic wands. These magic weapons are not for Muggles, but for wizards. prepare.

While circumventing the secrecy law, let the wizard get rid of the wand and have a stronger attack power...

Chapter 1188 Research and Invitation

Although the current technology is immature and there are many problems waiting to be solved, it is conceivable that once these new magic weapons are put into use, they will fundamentally change the way wizards fight, which is of great significance.

The traditional way for wizards to fight is to wave their wands and use magic to attack each other.

Most wizards' duels or battles involve shooting spells at each other and dodging each other's spells.Wizards at the level of Dumbledore and Voldemort have more fighting methods and methods. The magic they use is more gorgeous, more diverse, and more powerful, but they are essentially the same.

The wizard's wand, aka the weapon itself does no damage.

Conversely, wands are a wizard's weakness.

Not only can the wand not be used directly for attacking, but it is also easily damaged and requires careful protection.

Use a broken wand to cast a spell, and don't say much about the results.

Gilderoy Lockhart's fate left a deep impression on Ivan. This unlucky guy used Ron's bad wand to cast the Oblivion Curse, and the spell hit himself. He is still receiving St. Mungo's Magic Injury Hospital treat.

Even if it is not so unlucky, the mutation of magic is no joke.

When wands become weapons such as knives, swords, daggers, bows and arrows, the situation will be completely changed.

These weapons do not need to be carefully protected, but can be used directly to attack.

The attack power is still very strong, and the physical damage and strike power are not weaker than most spells.

For example, take Sirius as an example. Everyone is very familiar with his combat style: while using magic normally, it is supplemented by close hand-to-hand combat.

Think of that picture if you replaced Sirius' wand with an epee.

The enemy just dodged the stun spell shot by Sirius, and saw him rushing towards him aggressively with a big sword...

What should we do at this time?Resistance or begging for mercy?

There is no time to use magic, and it is impossible to be the opponent of Sirius with the heavy sword.

With the combination of magic and swordsmanship, the combat effectiveness and damage of wizards like Sirius are at least doubled.

Although magical strength is fundamental, there are only a few wizards who are truly powerful and possess super powerful spells.Many powerful spells either require complex casting conditions, or the casting speed is too slow to be suitable for combat, or the difficulty is too high for ordinary wizards to master.

The reason why the Killing Curse perfected by Voldemort can become the Death Eater's trump card is because in a relatively single combat method, this spell is powerful enough to kill if hit, and it is easy to master. It only needs to be evil enough and have evil thoughts. Being able to control this spell is simply a standard for dark wizards.

But not every wizard is a Death Eater, they don't and don't bother to use the Killing Curse.