Admiral of Hogwarts

"What is this?" Inside the golden egg was a sealed glass bottle that was only slightly larger than the capsule. At first, Hugo thought the glass bottle was empty.

But when he put his eyes on the glass bottle, he found a white stone that looked smaller than a sesame seed at the bottom of the completely sealed glass bottle.

It looks somewhat transparent and at the same time emits a rainbow-like light, like a tiny opal, showing a very beautiful color.

"This is a secondary alchemy stone." Through the admiral's network, Bu Niu used Hugo as a medium to quickly perceive and come to a conclusion. "This should be the Alchemy Stone, or some failed form of the Philosopher's Stone."

"Then what is the use of this thing?"

"This kind of thing is an expensive consumable that can convert lead into silver. For example, the alchemy stone in your hand that is about the same size as sand can convert a full five pounds of lead into silver."

"Five pounds!" Hugo couldn't help but exclaimed after taking the glass bottle in front of him and looking at it carefully. "No wonder alchemists make so much money-"

"This is just a failed product. No one will specifically make this kind of thing to convert silver." Budu shook his head and said, "Because the cost of making this thing is much higher than the silver they can convert."

"But this is not the case with a successful alchemy stone. It can not only convert a certain amount of gold every day without any cost, but can also be used to make a large number of alchemy potions." At this point, his tone gradually became unyielding. Got excited.

"To take the simplest example, in addition to being used to make elixirs of life, this top-level product of alchemy can greatly shorten the production cycle of most potions."

"For example, for the elixir of blessing, the alchemy stone can shorten the brewing process of the elixir from half a year to just seven days. At the same time, the production difficulty and side effects are reduced to about 1/10 of the original."

"It sounds absolutely amazing." At this point, Hugo suddenly thought of a conjecture he had seen in a fan in his previous life. "By the way, do you think the alchemy stone has the effect of improving combat effectiveness or casting spells?"

"Why do you think so?" Bu Tiao felt a little strange when he heard Hugo say this. "The alchemy stone is indeed one of the highest products of alchemy, but this does not mean that it is suitable for use in combat or casting spells."

"Just like we all know that photolithography machines play a huge role in many places, but even the best photolithography machines are not more lethal than a pistol on the battlefield."

"Then why did the two generations of Dark Lords not try to steal Nico Flamel's Philosopher's Stone when they rose? And I remember that when Grindelwald tried to attack Paris with fire, Nico Flamel stopped him."

"This is easy to explain." After hearing what Hugo said, Bu Niang finally understood why the admiral thought so, but the actual situation was different from what he said.

"As for the first question, although the alchemy stone cannot improve the spellcasting ability, it can improve the alchemist's alchemy ability."

"In this case, as long as Nick Flamel uses alchemy to hide his hiding place where others can't find it, he can naturally avoid harassment by those people."

"More importantly, on the road to conquering death, Grindelwald chose the Three Hallows of Death, while Voldemort chose the Horcruxes. Therefore, there was no focus on Nick Flamel at all."

"This is why Nick Flamel chose to leave his hometown of Paris and go to Surrey to live in seclusion after Voldemort's first defeat."

"Because he knew from Dumbledore that Voldemort would return like lightning one day. And Voldemort, who wanted to be resurrected at that time, would naturally target him."

"Therefore, knowing that he could not face the Dark Lord head-on, Nico Flamel left his native France and came to England in order to use Dumbledore's reputation to protect himself and his wife."

"As for the attack in Paris, it's very simple. Nick Flamel did play an irreplaceable role in that disaster. But that role was not in his powerful spellcasting ability, but in using his powerful ability to An alchemy, combining the powers of different people present into one, prevented the catastrophe from happening."

"In other words, unlike what most people speculated, the most important role he played back then was not to contribute magic power, but to coordinate the power of so many people present."

"So that's it!" After figuring out the problem that had troubled him before, Hugo felt that he was in a much happier mood, and then he raised the golden egg in his hand and inspected it.

This was originally just a routine inspection, but Hugo soon discovered something surprising about the golden egg.

"I feel like there's something wrong with this thing." Hugo muttered while looking at a base at the lower part of the golden egg. This base looked like a stamen and was used to fix the glass bottle just now.

But when Hugo inspected this place, he unexpectedly found that the magic he used for detection could not penetrate this structure that was slightly smaller than a ping pong ball.

Obviously, this thing is also likely to be a container. After recalling the rules announced before the previous game, Hugo also discovered that the other party was talking about taking out the contents of the golden egg, but he never said that there was only one thing in the golden egg.

"It seems that the second game is not as simple as imagined." Hugo nodded subconsciously. “In addition to testing the contestants’ alchemical abilities, it will also test a series of qualities of the contestants.”

For example, breaking the magic on the eggshell at the beginning is a test of patience and basic operation level.

Because it is not difficult to remove the runes on the eggshell, but the huge number and the connection between different runes require that the person who removes these runes must be skilled enough in practical operations and have a solid foundation.

Now this hidden container is a test of the contestants' carefulness. If anyone carelessly takes out the glass bottle and feels that he has completed the competition, he will probably be eliminated directly.

"Let me see how to open this thing." After sighing for a moment about the topic designed by the event organizer, Hugo began to study the metal container.

It's just different from just now, after placing the whole thing on the alchemy table. No runes appeared on the surface of this object, but a line of Latin text: "Opening me requires the most powerful power."

"Fortunately, I know him." After recognizing this line of words, Hugo breathed out softly. Although there are Latin dictionaries among the books available for exchange, knowing him like this can obviously save a lot of time.

But Hugo soon fell into deep thought, because this reminder was so vague that there was no difference between saying it and not saying it.

"Fierce fire? Life-killing curse? Time?" Hugo fell into deep thought at this line of text. If powerful power can still give people an idea, this one is the most powerful and can even give people no clue. No.

Because the question of what is the most powerful force is not a new one. This question has been circulating in the magical world since at least 1000 years ago.

But the problem is that until today, there has not been a generally accepted answer to this question.