This Hogwarts is not normal

This heavy topic did not last long.

People live to cherish the present.

In Vincent's view, Grindelwald is too obsessed with the future, while Dumbledore is actively trapping himself in the past.

The relationship between Grindelwald, who was born in the wrong era, and Dumbledore, who didn't know what mistakes he had made, must be more than a simple relationship of enemies.

After a fairly quiet lunch, Vincent found Nico.

"Teacher, can magic runes change from simple to complex?"

"That's right." Nico picked up the superpower that depicted a magic rune.

He switched back and forth between the blade and the submachine gun with ease, unlike the first time he used it.

"You want to put restrictions on it?"

Vincent nodded, "Yes, can there be some permission for temporary activation besides what I can use?"

"In principle, it works." Nico roughly explained the principle.

When a magic rune is touched, it cannot fire bullets and change form if it does not detect a specific amount of mana.

Even if someone else got super power, without Vincent's magic power, it would only be a sharp weapon.

Temporary activations can exist, but not for long.

Two hours passed, and a new magic rune appeared on the trigger.

It took a little bit of effort for Nico to be able to unlock this restriction.

Vincent was not disappointed.

If even he couldn't crack it, he wouldn't be a legendary alchemist.

"They shouldn't be able to solve it."

This "they", Vincent knew, refers to the group of people from the International Alchemy Association.

From the tone of this sentence, he heard that Nico didn't seem to like this association very much.

"A large part of the reason why I chose to fake my death is because they always wanted to get my manuscript so that they could make the real Philosopher's Stone."

Since the moment the Philosopher's Stone was born, it has become the pinnacle of alchemy.

Nico hesitated for a long time, but finally got up and went to the shelf.

He opened one of the largest compartments and took out the Jewish Book of Abraham.

Vincent looked at the book handed to him, and held it in his hand without the slightest hesitation.

He couldn't read the text, so he had to flip through the illustrations.

The seventh page shows a cane with two snakes wrapped around it, one of which is devouring the other.

Page No.14 is a cross with a snake nailed to it.

Page No.20 is a desert where many snakes emerge from several clear springs.

In addition to the large illustrations in units of seven pages, there are four small ones on the fourth and fifth pages.

The first picture on the fourth page shows two people.

A man with a hat held a staff of two snakes in his hand, facing an old man with long wings holding a sickle and an hourglass on his forehead.

The second one is in color.

On the top of a high mountain grew a beautiful flower with a blue stem, white and red petals, and golden leaves.

At the bottom is a griffin and a dragon building a lair on the hillside.

The first picture on page five is a garden.

In the center of the garden was an oak tree, and out of its hollow grew a tree full of roses.

Under the tree there was a fountain spouting white liquid, and in the distance towards it, a group of blind people squatted on the ground and groped around.

The second depicts a king who is raising a sword and ordering his soldiers to kill many babies.

The mothers of the babies knelt before them and begged, with buckets and cauldrons beside them.

These containers are filled with blood, and also reflect the sun and moon.

If these illustrations are all substituted into alchemy, Vincent finds that each of them symbolizes one of the seven stages.

The snake devouring the snake is the fusion of matter, that is, calcining.

The snake was nailed to the cross to die, referring to the corruption of matter, which means dissolution.

The reappearance of the snake group means separation.

A man meets an old man, suggesting a confluence of matter.

The flowers of different colors on the mountain represent the use of different substances, and the only golden leaf represents the final production of substances, which is equivalent to fermentation.

None of the blind men noticed the white liquid distilled from under the hollow oak tree, implying that the fake alchemists looking for materials ignored their side.

The last blood refers to a kind of nitric acid, the sun and the moon represent gold and silver respectively, and the condensation of the three will produce the Philosopher's Stone.

Vincent turned back suddenly.

The double snake wand in the man's hand was very similar to the rumored Slytherin wand.

"The wand inherited by the Gaunt family, could it be—"

Nicol nodded slightly, "Salazar Slytherin must have owned this book.

But he couldn't decipher all the content, so in the end he only made the staff of two snakes. "

Isolt Thayer stole the Staff of the Two Snakes from Gormley Gaunt, fled to America and founded the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

It is said that at the school gate, there is an extremely rare snakewood tree.

"Teacher, since the Double Snake Staff is an alchemy item, will it have some special functions?"

"Yes, and it's very special." Nico turned the book to the third page, pointing to the penultimate line.

"It says here that if the Double Snake Staff is not activated, it will remain in a dormant state forever."

"Activate—" Vincent picked up the super powerful power beside him, "Is it through magic runes?"

"No, it's not that simple." Nico closed the book.

"Salazar Slytherin in a more special way, one that only he and his descendants can activate."

"What is it?"

"Parseltongue."

Solved the case, but it didn't help.

The Gaunt family inherited the twin snake staff from Slytherin, and it has basically been confirmed that it has become a snakewood tree.

It is a pity that the talent of Parseltongue can only be inherited through blood.

What is even more regrettable is that the Gunter family has completely died out.

Although some distant relatives still exist, the probability of them inheriting Parseltongue is as pitiful as the descendants of Squibs reappearing wizards.

Perhaps it is because of the desire to increase the probability that the Gaunt family has been intermarrying.

"Teacher, didn't they have any Parseltongue before they died?"

Nico's eyes became extremely complicated.

He wanted to speak but stopped several times, "Yes, and it's a person you can't even imagine."

Vincent was aroused curiosity, "Who is it?"

"Ask Albus and he'll give you the answer."

Looking for Dumbledore?

Find a ghost!

Just by looking at Nico's expression just now, one can tell that this man has a lot of background.

If he knew, he would definitely be involved in something.

The Double Snake Staff needs to be activated with Parseltongue, and Vincent is not interested in such tricky things.

"give up?"

"correct."

A glimmer of approval flashed in Nico's eyes, "It's very difficult to recreate a double snake staff. Not only does it need extremely rare snake wood, but it also needs a basilisk horn that is even rarer than it."

It is related to snakes inside and out, no wonder Salazar Slytherin was able to study it out thousands of years ago.

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