The Admiral of Hogwarts

After the owl delivering the letter left, Hugo carefully examined the small cloth pouch in his hand. The pouch, only the size of his palm, looked very exquisite, but its opening was locked by some kind of special magical lock.

"Nicolas Flamel!" After finding no clues on the surface of the pouch, Hugo held it in his hand and began to sense the magic on it. He quickly discovered that it was Nicolas Flamel who had sealed the pouch and applied the magical lock.

Like human fingerprints, each wizard's magical skills have slight differences. And because of his studies during the summer vacation, Hugo clearly understood Nicolas Flamel's characteristics in this regard.

He simply drew a few ancient runic symbols on the pouch with his fingers, and after a few faint rays of light flashed, the pouch was opened.

"This is—" The moment he saw the contents of the pouch, Hugo's eyes widened. Because the pouch contained only two things: a piece of parchment and a stone that looked like a beautiful opal.

"Sub-grade Philosopher's Stone—" After taking out the stone, Hugo subconsciously thought, because this thing looked so much like the failed Philosopher's Stones they had been shown during the last competition.

But he quickly overturned his own point of view, after simply sensing the stone with rune magic. Hugo discovered that the power contained within this stone was far greater than those failed products.

"This is actually a Philosopher's Stone prototype that has completed the whitening stage!" After careful inspection, a shocked expression appeared on Hugo's face.

The production process of the Philosopher's Stone needs to go through three stages: blackening, whitening, and reddening. Unlike the natural situation of all things in the world from birth to death, the production of the Philosopher's Stone needs to violate this process, and the first step is to start from death.

The so-called blackening is to completely decompose the raw materials, so that the various raw materials for making the Philosopher's Stone return to the original state of death. Whitening is to obtain the power of new life from these forces of death.

As for the final reddening, it is the most important step in the entire process, which can truly transform the Philosopher's Stone from ordinary matter into the fifth element independent of all matter. Of course, compared to the first two steps, the last step is also the most difficult.

However, even so, the Philosopher's Stone prototype that has completed the blackening and whitening steps is not a common thing. Even if they are not as powerful as the complete Philosopher's Stone, they have great effects in alchemy, pharmaceutics, and even spellcasting.

Because of this kind of effect, even these semi-finished products are very expensive. At least some small pure-blood families may not be able to afford a perfectly whitened semi-finished Philosopher's Stone.

Of course, Nicolas Flamel sent Hugo this stone not simply to give him money. On the parchment next to the stone, Hugo found the last words left to him by the alchemy master.

That's right, the alchemy master had already passed away. And this note was secretly prepared by him in a certain place, and would be randomly sent out one month after his death and delivered to Hugo's hands.

The content of this letter was also very simple, just to tell Hugo that he had passed away, but as the most recognized colleague before his death, he hoped to leave something for this little friend.

"The thing is now hidden in the Alps. It won't be easy to find." Looking at the active map on the back of the parchment, Hugo showed a thoughtful expression.

As an alchemist, the parchment Nicolas Flamel gave to Hugo was actually a Marauder's Map, which marked the surrounding situation and the distance to the treasure location with Hugo's location as the center.

And now, the treasure location shown on this map is only a few kilometers away from Hugo. Considering the local terrain, Hugo felt that the famous alchemist most likely hid the treasure in the Alps.

"I knew that Admiral, you need us now." Just as Hugo began to ponder how he should go treasure hunting, a voice suddenly came from beside him.

Hugo turned his head, and was surprised to find Richelieu standing on the balcony next door, looking at him with a smile, gently shaking a glass of champagne in her hand.

"When did you guys come?" Looking at the two small heads that popped out behind Richelieu, Hugo's face showed a surprised expression. In addition to Richelieu, also came De Grasse, Le Fantasque and L'Audacieux, two destroyer ship girls.

"We arrived here only a few hours later than you." Richelieu raised the glass in her hand quite elegantly, and then said. "After all, everyone is worried about Admiral traveling here alone."

With the ship girls, the next work will be much easier to handle. At least with enough manpower, Hugo will be able to complete this treasure hunt adventure without alarming anyone.

That night, Richelieu had De Grasse, who had previously gone to the town to scout, drink Polyjuice Potion and impersonate Hugo. And she and the two destroyer ship girls took Hugo away from the hotel together.

Considering that there were personnel from the French Ministry of Magic active nearby, Hugo transformed into the young East Asian admiral through the avatar system when leaving the hotel, and then went to another city more than 20 kilometers away with Richelieu in the way of ordinary people.

When they were sitting on the local 24-hour travel bus leaving the town, they indeed found personnel from the French Ministry of Magic hidden near the road and on the high ground around the town. "

The other party is now protecting this town. " After simply observing the positions of the dozen or so wizards, Richelieu leaned over and whispered. "Fortunately, we didn't go directly up the mountain from the town, otherwise there is a high probability that we would be discovered by them."

"It seems that being cautious is not a bad thing." Hearing Richelieu say this, Hugo also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, no one wants to cause trouble. It would be troublesome if there were any conflicts with this group of staff from the French Ministry of Magic.

After the four of them arrived at their destination, they quickly boarded Richelieu's carrier-based aircraft in an uninhabited place on the outskirts of the town and flew towards the snow-capped mountains not far away.

The seaplane quickly passed through the valley. Both sides of the valley were snow-capped mountains, and the bottom of the valley was a frozen river. Judging from the various strange ice blocks on the river surface, this should be a very turbulent river in summer.

"It should be in the upstream area of this river valley." Hugo stared at the map in his hand and transmitted the contents above to the ship girls in real time through the admiral network.

The reason why an extra procedure is needed is because there is a special magic on this map. People other than Hugo can only see a blank piece of parchment.

"It still feels a bit cold." As the plane continued to penetrate into the mountains, the surrounding temperature became colder and colder. Just as Hugo was rubbing his hands non-stop from the cold, he suddenly heard a loud noise.

"It's an avalanche." The sharp-eyed Le Fantasque looked at the place where the sound came from for the first time, and found that on a mountain range not far ahead, a large mass of snow directly collapsed, and then rushed towards the valley below.