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Unlike the suitcase that was only used to house magical animals, Harry's magic lockbox that had never been taken out was definitely a bloody and ugly place.
There have been many sensational incidents such as torture, dismemberment, and human drug research... There is no doubt that if what happened here is made public, a large number of moralists will jump out and yell at Harry for being a heartless person. Vicious guy, more evil than dark wizard and so on and so on.
But from the very beginning, Harry had never cared about that.
Today's magic lockbox is much more deserted than before, and there is almost no smell of blood, and there is only one captive left... and he is a brain-damaged guy who can no longer speak at all.
August Rookwood, this guy was the prisoner Harry robbed from Azkaban. Although he was not the highest-level Death Eater, he was definitely a core member.
Here I want to talk about reversing old scores... So why was Harry annoyed at the old Deng's behavior of allowing Moody to be arrested without doing anything?
Because he himself controls a long-term prisoner, using himself as an analogy, how can Barty Crouch Jr. treat Moody with delicious food and drink?
To this day, all the guys kidnapped by Harry's same group are dead, only Rookwood is left, but because of long-term repeated searches and memory modification, he eventually became a complete idiot.
And now, his life is coming to an end...
Harry was going to use him as a guinea pig to test a... drug, let's say, but a living 'drug' against his master Voldemort.
Arriving in front of the dissecting table where Rookwood was lying, Harry did not intend to use the knife to take away any parts of the opponent's body this time. He just hung the snake blood bag he brought on the high shelf, and then connected it. The blood transfusion set stuck the needle into Luke Wood's blood vessel.
It stands to reason that if the snake blood is to be effective, it should be drunk raw. Directly injecting it can easily cause a series of abnormal reactions in the human body.
But considering that this is a good thing for Voldemort's resurrection, Harry finally decided to experiment with blood transfusion. For this reason, he even patiently carried out countless training and alchemy, and finally Nagini's blood It has been refined to a state that satisfies him.
"Observe it for a month first." Looking at the gradually deflated blood bag, Harry couldn't help but whispered in his heart...
"Voldemort, why do you say you are against a medical student~"
Snapped!
"Huh?" Just as Harry was paying attention to Rookwood's blood transfusion, he suddenly felt a wave of magic coming from the alchemy laboratory, followed by a slight crisp sound.
Leaving the magic lockbox to find out, Harry saw a slender house-elf.
"Eliezer, why are you here?"
"Excuse me, little master, the master wants to see you."
The house-elf respectfully expressed his intention to come, but Harry couldn't help but sigh.
It seems that the teacher doesn't want to procrastinate any longer.
"Then let's go... After I came back, I haven't visited the teacher yet."
Turning around and locking the magic lockbox, Harry was led by Eliezer to the room where the LeMays lived in the nursing home.
"Doctor, you are finally here, hurry up and sit down."
When Harry arrived, he found that the Flamels were waiting for him sitting on the sofa in the living room, and there was already hot black tea on the coffee table.
"Teacher, teacher's wife." Harry bowed respectfully, and then sat down dignifiedly.
"I'm so sorry, doctor, we know you must be busy, but Niko misses you so much~" Perenal used magic power to bring a cup of tea to Harry, while explaining with a kind smile.
"Where... It's all my own delay!" Harry hurriedly apologized, "It was my fault before, and I didn't come to visit the teacher and teacher's wife in time."
"It's okay, we have nothing to do anyway, you can come anytime." Nicole Flamel smiled indifferently, but there was a clear questioning in his eyes, "Doctor, where are you going this time?" Armenia, have you found anything interesting?"
"This... well, I have indeed figured out the energy composition of the Philosopher's Stone..."
Seeing his teacher's expression, Harry already knew that he couldn't hide it no matter what.
"That's right... I knew that you've been reluctant to come here after you came back, you probably learned something." Nicole Flamel sighed softly when he saw this, "Unexpectedly, in that country, there are still some kind of Power... But that's fine, what you see with your own eyes is always more real than what I described."
Harry nodded slightly, but said nothing.
It is indeed quite real, and it can even be said to be shocking.
"Doctor, do you know how my Philosopher's Stone was made?" Nicole Flamel asked softly, his tone seemed to be full of memories and emotions about the past.
"It is said that it was guided by a "Book of Abraham"..." Harry didn't know much about this period of history, and Nico Flamel never let him read that book.
"Its real full name is "The Book of Abraham the Jew", and it was that book that completely changed my destiny. If it weren't for it, Perenal and I would probably just be an ordinary wizard couple."
Chapter 720 Nicole Flamel and the Sorcerer's Stone
In August 1348, Nicole Flamel, who had just graduated from Beauxbatons, was just an ordinary wizard at that time. He left the Pyrenees where he stayed for several years while studying, and returned to his hometown of Paris.
However, Paris at that time had already fallen due to the ravages of the Black Death. Corpses were strewn all over the city and devastated. Even pedestrians who were walking on the street one second would die of sudden illness the next second.
In the extremely depressed and dilapidated neighborhoods, the letters 'P' can be seen graffitied on the walls almost everywhere, which is a symbol of the epidemic of the great plague. Just looking at it will make people hide their faces and run away.
It was in such dark times that Nicole Flamel carefully concealed his identity as a wizard, found a job as a scribe, and barely made a living in Paris.
He witnessed the plague and everything that happened after that...More than half of the population of Paris was killed by the disease, famine was everywhere, thieves were everywhere, the turbulent situation caused the citizens to revolt, and outside, the Hundred Years War continued in full swing .
Even though Nicole Flamel was a wizard, his life was difficult.
This continued until 1357, after which everything changed.
Like a divine revelation, Nicole Flamel saw a golden angel in his dream, who gave him a divine book and told him that the knowledge of God was recorded in this book.
Coincidentally, a few days later, Nicole Flamel's copy shop welcomed a customer with sly eyebrows and mischievous eyes. The customer seemed to be a thief who stole an ancient book from nowhere. Only then did I find Nico, a seemingly honest scribe.
The moment he saw the book, Nico bought it with two French Galleons without hesitation.
His intuition told him that it was the divine book given to him by the angel in his dream!
This book is different from all the books that Nicole has copied before. Its cover is not made of paper or leather, but tightly wrapped by brass, and it is depicted with very delicate patterns and borders.
Its pages are also very distinctive, as if they were made of delicate and smooth bark—Of course Nicol knew later that it was papyrus invented by the ancient Egyptians, and it was gradually introduced to Europe, probably in the 12th century was no longer used.
The contents of the book are very strange, all the pages are divided into three groups of seven pages, and the seventh page of each group is also blank, but on the seventh page of the first group, there is a painting A wand devoured by a giant snake.
In addition, on the other pages of this book, there are also various patterns related to ouroboros, crosses, angels, etc., as well as many words and symbols with unknown meanings... What's more amazing is that they are not Instead of writing on it, it was branded with metal and painted different colors in the depressions.
Nicole knew nothing about the characters and symbols in the whole book at that time, and the only thing he knew were the two lines on the title page.
'Abraham the Jew, prince, priest, master astrologer, wise saint, dedicated to his fellow Jews in exile in Gaul. '
'Cursed is anyone who reads the contents of this book, save the priests and the scribes responsible for transcribing records! '
As a wizard, Nicole, of course, could not be some kind of priest, but he happened to be working as a scribe, which just happened to be a document for transcribing records!
Therefore, Nico was completely sure that this was the divine book given to him by the angel, and according to the hint on the title page, he named it "The Book of Abraham the Jew." "
In order to be able to understand the secrets of this book, Nicole and his wife Perenal consulted countless materials, and even visited every inch of France, hoping to understand the meaning of those words and symbols... But in the following 21 years, They never got anything.
"Thinking about it now, I was really timid at that time, and I never thought of asking for help." When introducing his past to Harry, Nico laughed at himself, "But at that time , there are basically no Jews in France.”
Harry didn't know much about European history. He only knew that in the 14th century, Europe's attitude towards Jews was very bad, almost to the point where everyone shouted and beat them.
So it would obviously be quite difficult for Nico to thoroughly study a work that is suspected to be written in Hebrew in France.
Fortunately, Nico was very lucky. He met a Hebrew scholar, and with the help of him, he gradually unlocked the secrets of those words and symbols.
"After that, I followed the steps recorded in the book, spent countless energy collecting various materials, and followed the guidance in the dark, and outlined a refining formation that can aggregate the Sorcerer's Stone." Nico said here After a pause, he looked at Harry, "Doctor, you should have seen a similar formation in Armenia."
"Hmm..." Harry nodded silently, that array really wasn't a good memory.
"You're scared, right? It's normal, because I was also taken aback." Nicholas sighed softly, "However, the joy of successfully making the Philosopher's Stone quickly occupied my mind. Especially after I first completed the mercury-to-gold conversion, my first thought was... I'm going to get rich!"
"It turned out to be true later. I got amazing wealth by relying on the Philosopher's Stone. At the same time, it also gave me the alchemy ability that almost made my wishes come true. I even made the elixir of life. These gains made me a Legend, even after I retired with Perenal, countless people have been trying to dig out my legend."
Well, Harry was quite sure of this, his teacher was definitely not in Versailles.
It is reported that Nicole LeMay donated 87 hospitals, a large number of blind homes, churches, cemeteries, etc., in his later years in the eyes of others—that is, before his "death" at the age of [-], and he was still in Paris. A morgue full of frescoes was donated in the Cemetery of the Holy Child.
And after he "died" in 1417, not only the graveyard of him and his wife was dug up, but even the walls of his old house were removed...
This was all done by those alchemists who came here for the fame. In order to find the Philosopher's Stone, they almost dug three feet into the ground, but in the end they found nothing...
Because Nicole Flamel didn't die at all, but with his wife, he embarked on a journey of immortality with the Philosopher's Stone.
"When Perenal and I drank the elixir, we were excited, thinking that we could finally have a long life... but after a long time, we gradually felt empty. Endless wealth and eternity When we really got them, we found that they were actually the most cumbersome things. At the same time, as I continued to use the Philosopher's Stone, I finally discovered that the source of the Philosopher's Stone's energy is actually..."
Nicole Flamel couldn't go on talking at this point, but Harry knew what he wanted to say.
What the Philosopher's Stone consumes is human souls...even life!
Chapter 720 The Disqualified Person and the Erased Secret
"Doctor... Logically speaking, I should also pass on the "Book of Abraham the Jew" to you, but I have been hesitating."
After being silent for a while, Nico continued softly: "I can no longer decipher that book, and even the words and symbols on the pages have disappeared... And to be honest, even if you ask me now, what is the meaning of the Philosopher's Stone?" How it was made, I can’t answer at all. Except for the raw materials used to make the Philosopher’s Stone, I have forgotten everything about it, even the refining formation.”
"Why is this happening... Wait, I can't even remember?!" Harry, who was wondering, finally felt something was wrong, and he didn't seem to remember the outline method of forming a formation!
He could only remember now that it was a blood-red circular formation, and there was an eye in the middle of the formation.
Apart from the other details, he actually forgot everything in such a short period of time!
"This is some kind of special magical influence, no matter how good your memory is, you will still forget it." Nico explained with a sigh, "Didn't it say on the title page of that book that only priests and scribes In order to read it without being cursed, it is necessary to have such an identity to remember and be able to use the Liancheng Formation. And I have voluntarily given up that identity, maybe it is for this reason that I cannot pass it on. The secret of the Philosopher's Stone."
Harry also knew this part of the legend. It was said that Nico had left secrets about the making of the Sorcerer's Stone in many places, but those traces disappeared mysteriously in the end.
So Nicole’s behaviors of donating churches and cemeteries are actually adapting to his own identity, or acting as a priest in the capacity of a 'scribe'.
For a while, Nico could even be smug about it.
He is as rich as an enemy, surpassing life and death, so he is really like an envoy of God, witnessing everything in this world with a condescending attitude.
He even took the house-elf's name as Eliezer, which came from Abraham, and considered himself a great pioneer among mankind.
But later, Nicole found out that he was wrong.
A scribe is a scribe, never a true priesthood.
And as a wizard, he shouldn't have anything to do with the so-called 'God'.
What is really important is alchemy, not the Philosopher's Stone. The latter can be a treasure in ancient alchemy, but it should not be a symbol to subtly promote theocracy.
So, when he stopped looking for those ancient monasteries or churches, and stopped filling the Philosopher's Stone with energy, someone—maybe it was the angel he had dreamed about, maybe it was decided that he was deviating from the priesthood. responsibility.
Immediately afterwards, a specific magic came into effect, erasing all the secrets about the production and birth of the Philosopher's Stone, and he was absolutely not allowed to leak it out!
"The only thing I remember now is that...the Sorcerer's Stone is a substance composed of four uniform properties and three uniform forces. It is extremely noble, it cannot be dissolved, it will not be burned, and it can be refined into any substance in the world. .”
"And the four uniform properties are actually the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind; the so-called three uniform forces refer to the theory of the three elements of matter, that is, sulfur, mercury, and salt... this part of the theory, Palasai Ersus also summed it up later, you should remember it all, right?"
"Hmm." Hearing the teacher's question, Harry nodded seriously.
Von Hohenheim Paracelsus was also a very famous alchemist in the Middle Ages. When Nico first taught Harry the enlightenment class of ancient alchemy, Harry memorized various materials about this man.
Of course, if you really don’t like the history of alchemy in the Middle Ages, you can also use the image and setting of a certain series to replace it a little... at least it will look more handsome.
In short, on the basis of the four elements, this person summed up the three basic elements of matter, namely sulfur, mercury and salt.
These three purest substances can respectively represent the soul, spirit and body of matter...
Taken together, they actually refer to humans.
Coincidentally, Paracelsus is also the only alchemist in historical records who created a perfect life-the artificial human Hemon Cruz.
If it is difficult to understand what Hemeng Luz is, then change another series and replace it again... the villain in the flask in a certain masterpiece~
So from this point of view, the composition principle of the Philosopher's Stone is actually not complicated. It is actually the four elements plus the necessary... human pillar.
Well, Harry now knows why the formation is red.
With the power of forming an array, the human pillar is decomposed into absolutely pure sulfur, mercury and salt, and then combined with the four elements to form a magic stone...
This may be the reason why I felt guilty when I used the Philosopher's Stone, because some 'people' did disappear completely.
It's just... On the other hand, wouldn't that be a relief?
The question came back to himself, anyway, Harry absolutely did not believe that his teacher was really a master, because Nico once said...he was just following the guidelines in that book and collecting 'materials'.
The most important thing is those who have cultivated in advance and can provide him with 'materials'.
Of course, Harry was simply analyzing the origin and representative significance of the Sorcerer's Stone, and he didn't want to use the past history to distinguish right from wrong.
The human pillars used as materials, their origins cannot be verified, and it is difficult to say whether they are completely innocent; and some priests say that "God loves the world", but in fact they only love those who believe in them wholeheartedly, which is not a problem in itself .
"Anyway, this is the story of me and the Sorcerer's Stone... After I got it, it took me a long time to realize that my pursuit turned out to run counter to this thing..." Nico sighed softly, his cloudy eyes were full of embarrassment, "I I once used the Philosopher's Stone to pursue wealth and eternal life, but in the end I found that it was nothing but worthless things; that book once led me into the door of ancient alchemy. The things I have mastered are passed on, but I find that... the existence of the Philosopher's Stone will only make the ancient alchemy die more and more."
"So... I finally started to think that maybe I should destroy this thing. But I couldn't do it. Perenal and I seemed to be bound. We couldn't directly destroy the Philosopher's Stone, we could only ask Others help..."
"Mr. Headmaster..." Harry said softly.