Admiral of Hogwarts

After the owl that delivered the letter left, Hugo looked carefully at the small cloth bag in his hand. This palm-sized cloth bag looks very exquisite, but the mouth of the cloth bag is locked by some kind of special magic lock.

"Nick Flamel!" After discovering that there were no clues on the surface of the pocket, Hugo held the pocket in his hands and began to feel the magic on the pocket. Soon he discovered that the one who closed the pocket and applied magic to lock it was Nick Flamel.

Just like human fingerprints, the magical skills possessed by each wizard have slight differences. And because of his study during the previous summer vacation, Hugo was very aware of the characteristics of Nick Flamel's spellcasting in this area.

After simply drawing a few ancient runes on the bag with his fingers, a few faint rays of light flashed, and then the bag was opened.

"This is-" Hugo's eyes widened as soon as he saw what was in his pocket. Because there were two things in the pocket, one of which was a piece of parchment, and the other was a beautiful stone that looked like an opal.

"Secondary alchemy stone -" Hugo subconsciously thought after taking out the stone, because this thing looked too much like the failed alchemy stone shown to them in the last competition.

But he soon overturned his view after simply feeling the stone with rune magic. Hugo discovered that the power contained in this stone was much greater than that of the failed products.

"This is actually the prototype of an alchemy stone that has completed the albino stage!" After careful inspection, Hugo showed a shocked expression on his face.

The production process of alchemy stone needs to go through three stages of blackening, whitening and reddening. Unlike the natural situation of all things in the world from birth to death, the production of alchemy stone needs to go against this process. The first step is to start with death.

The so-called blackening is to completely decompose those raw materials and return the various raw materials used to make the alchemy stone to their original state of death. Albinism is the power of new life derived from the power of death.

As for the final reddening, it is the most important step in the whole process, which allows the alchemy stone to truly transform from an ordinary substance into a fifth element that is independent of all substances. Of course, compared to the first two steps, the last step is also the most difficult step.

But even so, the prototype of an alchemy stone that has completed the two steps of blackening and whitening is not very common. Even though they are not as powerful as the complete alchemy stone, they have huge effects in alchemy, pharmacy and even spellcasting.

Because of this kind of effect, even these semi-finished products are expensive. At least some small pure-blood families may not be able to afford a semi-finished alchemy stone that has been perfectly albino.

Of course, when Nicolémeil gave Hugo this stone, he did not simply give him money. On the parchment beside the stone, Hugo found the last words left for him by the alchemist master.

Yes, the master alchemist is now dead. This note was secretly prepared by him in a place and would be randomly sent out on a certain day one month after his death and delivered to Hugo's hands.

The content of this letter is also very simple, which is to tell Hugo that he has passed away now, but as his most recognized traveler before his death, he hopes to leave something for this little friend.

"Things are now hidden in the Alps. It's not easy to find them." After looking at the activity map behind the parchment, Hugo looked thoughtful.

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

Now, there is only 17km between the treasure location shown on this map and Hugo. Considering the local terrain, Hugo thinks that there is a high probability that the famous alchemist hid the treasure in the Alps.

"I knew you needed us now, Admiral." Just when Hugo began to think about how to hunt for treasure, a voice suddenly came from beside him.

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

"When did you come here?" Looking at the two little heads popping up behind Richelieu, Hugo had a look of surprise on his face. In addition to Richelieu, De Grasse, the two destroyer girls Utopia and Horrible, also came with them.

"We arrived here only a few hours later than you." Richelieu gracefully raised the wine glass in his hand and said. "After all, we can't trust you, Admiral, to travel here alone."

After having the ship girl, the next work will be much easier to handle. At least with enough manpower, Hugo will be able to complete this treasure hunting adventure without alerting anyone.

That night, Richelieu asked De Grasse, who had gone to the town to investigate, to drink polyjuice potion and pretend to be Hugo. And he and the two destroyer girls took Hugo and left the hotel.

Considering that there were personnel from the French Ministry of Magic nearby, Hugo turned into the young East Asian admiral through the avatar system when leaving the hotel, and then traveled more than 20 kilometers with Richelieu in the ordinary way. Another city outside.

When they left the town on the unique local 24-hour tour bus, they found that there were personnel from the French Ministry of Magic hiding near the road and at the commanding heights around the town. "

The other party is now protecting this town. "After briefly observing the location of the dozen wizards, Richelieu came up and whispered. "Fortunately, we did not go directly up the mountain from the town, otherwise there is a high probability that we will be discovered by them. "

"It seems that being cautious is not a bad thing." Hearing what Richelieu said, Hugo also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, no one wants to cause trouble. If there is any conflict with the staff of the French Ministry of Magic, it will be troublesome.

After Hugo and the four of them arrived at their destination, they quickly boarded Richelieu's carrier-based aircraft in a deserted area outside 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 covered with snow-capped mountains. At the bottom of the valley was a frozen river. Judging from the various strange ice patches on the river, this should be a very fast river in the summer. of rivers.

"It should be in the upper reaches of this river valley." Hugo stared at the map in his hand and transmitted the content to the ship girls through the Admiral's network in real time.

The reason why an extra procedure is needed is because there is special magic on this map. People except Hugo can only see an empty parchment.

"It still feels a bit cold." As the plane continued to go deeper into the mountainous area, the surrounding temperature became colder and colder. Just when Hugo was rubbing his hands because of the cold, he suddenly heard a loud noise.

"It's an avalanche." The sharp-eyed fantasy immediately looked towards the place where the sound came from, and found that on a mountain range not far ahead, a large group of snow collapsed directly, and then surged towards the valley below. come over.

In an instant, the entire hillside and river were shrouded in a cloud of snow and mist.