Chapter Seventy-Nine: Slytherin's Wand (Thanks to the Protector "Snz" for the tip!) )
According to Nicolame, the first half of his life was uneventful, even a bit boring and boring.
One night, lightning and thunder, heavy rain, the sky and the earth were dark, there was a black dragon in the west, and the phoenix fell into a dream...... Well, none of these visions have anything to do with Nicol.
He was just in a daze and had a dream:
A wizard with a hood came to his dream and told him that in a cave on the northwest shore of the Araba Sea, there was a legendary magic book.
All he had to do was take the magic book, study it diligently, and understand it thoroughly, and he would gain extraordinary knowledge, marry pure wealth, and go to the pinnacle of his life.
"When I woke up the next day, I started thinking about the dream."
Nicol's tone was cheerful, as if he was recalling the scene of that day.
"At that time, before I finished breakfast, I decided to sell all my belongings and set out at noon to find the book, and the whole thought process did not take more than five minutes."
William was speechless for a moment, who hasn't dreamed of strange things in their dreams?
Most people wake up, at most, they just reminisce, and few people take their dreams seriously, right?
If he had really carried out what he had dreamed of, William would have been imprisoned in Azkaban for life.
Looking at William's expression, Nicol laughed and said, "yes, it's ridiculous, isn't it?" If it were me now, I wouldn't believe in this kind of dream, or I would hesitate, and I wouldn't be able to abandon everything desperately and follow the guidance of the dream to pursue it.
But at that time, I was still very young, very impulsive, and did not think about the consequences of everything.
The most important thing is that I don't have much talent for magic myself, but one of my ancestors was a soothsayer, and I inherited this talent and can make short predictions about the future.
I thought at the time...... This is my ancestor who is dreaming of me. ”
Nicol paced around the chair, a smile appeared on his face, and said slowly, "I sold the bookstore, borrowed a large sum of money, bought a batch of supplies and maps, and set off on my own for the Arabad Sea. ”
"The Arabad Sea?" William wondered.
"We called it the Arabad Sea, which is now the Dead Sea." Nicol pondered for a moment and said, "I searched the northwest shore of the Dead Sea for a whole year, according to the memory in my dream.
Finally I found the ruins in a cave where a large number of manuscripts were hidden, and I found the alchemy book in a pile of parchment scrolls. ”
William's eyes widened in disbelief, "You can't be talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, right?" ”
Half a century ago, shepherds discovered a large number of scrolls in caves near the ancient settlement of Kumran.
Archaeologists and treasure hunters have landed in the valley of Mulan, and found about 40 more caves in the Kumran Valley, 11 of which have scriptures, and a total of more than 600 ancient scriptures have been found, dozens of which are relatively complete, and tens of thousands of fragments.
These scrolls were discovered in the Dead Sea, so they are collectively known as the "Dead Sea Scrolls" by the academic community, and are a group of artifacts of inestimable value.
"That's right," Nicol nodded, "I noticed that Muggles called those parchment scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls.
But I prefer to call it the Book of Abraham. ”
"Why didn't you take everything with you?" William asked.
"As I said, I'm a big believer in that kind of mystery.
The man only asked me to take the magic book with me in my dream, so I thought everything else was a test, so without the slightest greed, I left the rest of the items behind.
Of course, those parchment scrolls were Muggle stories, and they were of no use to me. ”
William bowed slightly, this was true.
The wizards of the wizarding world were not religious, and the manuscript Bible was no different from a blank sheet of paper to Nicol.
"After leaving the Dead Sea, I returned to Paris and began to study the Book of Abraham.
It was a large ancient book, not made of paper or sheepskin, like the others, but of delicate and smooth bark. ”
"Elderberry bark?"
"That's right, exactly like in the Grim Reaper story!"
Lemay looked at William, who was holding his breath and listening carefully, and said softly, "The text in the book is not English, Latin, French, or any other script that Muggles recognize, but is written in ancient magical script.
It took me another twenty-one years to learn the ancient scriptures. ”
"The magic book was thick, it was divided into three groups of seven pages.
Contains the first page, and the seventh page of each group has no text.
And on the seventh page of the first group, a magic wand devoured by a python is drawn, and on the seventh page of the second group, a goblet is drawn. ”
"Monty Python's devouring wand, goblet......" William raised his eyebrows, "isn't this a gift from the second and third?" ”
"Yes." Nicol listened to the music in his ears, and after a moment a sneer appeared on his face.
"So the boss was still tricked by death.
He wanted an alchemy book that contained everything, but without that wand and goblet, he couldn't see the contents of the second and third groups. ”
"Did you find those two things?"
Nicol showed a regretful expression, "No, I have been searching for six hundred years and have found nothing, but there are some clues. ”
Nicol snapped his fingers, and a thick golden book floated from the huge shelf.
The book read: "Secrets of a Pure-Blood Family".
The book flipped quickly, and soon turned to the position where the search letter was S, and the first page was Salazar Slytherin.
According to the book, Salazar Slytherin's wand was a snake wood wand with a basilisk horn at the core, the same as the second wand in the story.
And he's a parseltongue himself. ”
"But there is no python devouring it." William said, looking at the book.
"Not really, but on Slytherin's wand, there's a python outlined.
Dumbledore also helped me get confirmation from the headmaster's portraits. Nicol explained.
"But the Slytherin emblem is also a snake, maybe it's a coincidence."
"That's right, kid." Nicol said seriously, "But you have to remember that none of the Deathly Hallows have left a clear record in history.
We can only guess, looking for clues in the vast river of history. ”
William bowed his head and said, "What about the Slytherin wand?" I remember in the school history that he left the school. ”
"Yes, Slytherin did leave Hogwarts.
But before that, he passed the wand to his children. By the beginning of the 17th century, it had become an heirloom of the Gaunt family. ”
After Nicol finished speaking, the book flipped through quickly, and soon reached the Gaunt family.
"Unfortunately, Aesop Sayre stole the wand from her aunt Gormlaith Gaunt and traveled to the New World aboard the Mayflower."
"Aesop Thor?" William pondered, "This name sounds familiar. ”
"Aesop and her husband co-founded the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the best school of witchcraft and wizardry in the United States.
But after her death, the clue was completely broken, and the wand disappeared into history. ”
Nicol sighed.
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(Thanks to the Dharma Protector "SNZ" for the 10,000 yuan reward, I owe a change.)
PS Let's explain.,The recent plot.,Deviate from the main line.。
But I had to write, after all, it belongs to the part of the outline that expands the worldview, and then with the Grim Reaper as the core, it is revealed.
The nine Deathly Hallows that have appeared so far, except for the protagonist's bronze ring and Nicol's magic book, are all magical items that appear in the original book or have indirect descriptions.
So all of them will appear one after another.
This plot will end soon, back to the main line again, thanks.
Less than 200 words, no charge. )