A tall obelisk, towering over the ground like the pointer of a sundial.

The entire building of the manor is centered on this stone monument and radiates in all directions.

On one side of the obelisk, there is a beautiful cube building, which is still lit up at night.

Chopin's nocturnes reverberate in the room, with a slow tempo and a melody that is melancholy.

Nicol wore a dragonskin apron and white gloves woven from the silk of the eight-eyed spider, hunched over, staring at the Ravenclaw crown floating on the test table.

William, who has been at the manor for a few days, is also dressed in a similar way.

He stood aside and took the place of the house-elf Herchuli, temporarily serving as Nicol's experimental assistant.

William didn't have much effect, so he handed over some strange tools from time to time:

Pliers, tweezers, test tubes, a golden compass, and even electric welding and laser pointers.

By the way, learn a little bit of real technology.

The study has been going on for a whole day.

Nicol's expression was sometimes excited, sometimes depressed, sometimes angry, sometimes desperate.

William was no stranger to that look, he had it in his previous life...... Well, when he was doing math papers!

If I have to describe it, it probably is: I can't do this question, it's too difficult!!

"This melody is not good, it is depressing to the extreme, and I want to kill myself when I hear it." Nicol didn't lift his head.

"William, have some upbeat music!"

William nodded and snapped his fingers.

Chopin, in the mirror frame, reluctantly left, replaced by the young Richard Clayderman.

Clayderman sat at a piano and played "Adelina by the Water's Edge."

"That's right." Nicol stretched.

He lowered his hands and suspended the crown in mid-air, spinning it slightly.

From William's angle, you can see the Ravenclaw quote on the crown:

Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind!

On the four walls of the room, surrounded by six portraits of Nicol, all of them are trying to peep with binoculars or monocles, regardless of the image.

As the night wore on, Nicol had finally completed all the checks.

"How?" William couldn't wait to ask, "Can the crown still be repaired?" ”

Ravenclaw's crown was rusty and worn on the head, nor did it have any ability to grow in wisdom.

It's not at all the same as the legend.

It seems to have been completely scrapped.

"With my current capabilities, it's hard to do it." Nicol shook his head ruefully.

He took off the black-rimmed glasses polished from the horns of the horned camel, and as soon as he put them down, the glasses flew towards the shelves.

William is a little difficult to accept, will the Deathly Hallows also be scrapped?

It's scientific, but it's not magical, right?

"Did Voldemort make it into a Horcrux?" William guessed.

It shouldn't be.

Even the diary is intact, and there is no reason why the crown would rust because of it.

"Voldemort's Horcruxes?" There was a scorn in Nicol's tone.

"William, it has nothing to do with that...... The crown bears traces of prehistoric mysteries. ”

"Prehistoric mysteries?" William said in surprise.

"That's right." Nicol sighed softly, "I've deconstructed the whole process of the destruction of the crown, you can take a look." ”

The old man hooked his hand, and a delicate silver instrument came out of the corner with four legs, like a crab.

Ni tapped the silver instrument with the tip of his wand.

The instrument was immediately up and running, making a rhythmic 'beep' sound.

From the small silver tube at the top, wisps of pale white smoke erupted, gathering in the air.

After a few seconds, a few wisps of light smoke turned into a steady puff of smoke, getting thicker and thicker, swirling in the air...... Turned into a Ravenclaw crown.

The crown is shiny, especially the row of fonts, which is even more sparkling.

"It's the crown under normal circumstances."

Nicol calmly raised his hand and brushed his sleeve, and the breeze whipped up the smoke. It then flows slowly, like a murmuring stream of water.

"Then it's the whole process of change."

William kept staring at it carefully, but thirty seconds later, the crown still hadn't changed in the slightest.

He thought it was a still picture, and was about to warn him when the dazzling luster of the crown suddenly dimmed.

It was as if someone had driven eight times as fast, and the crown was slowly dimming in a strange way.

In a slow process, there is a natural process of rusting.

The whole evolution lasted a minute.

In the end, it was exactly the same as the crown on the stage.

"What's going on?" William was taken aback.

"The power of time."

Nicol raised his withered arm and said in a calm tone, "Time can destroy everything. You see my hands, they are as old as the bark of a tree.

William, I lived for more than six hundred years, and my body aged for six hundred years. ”

"I said, flesh and blood...... The mortal body does not last forever.

With my current condition, even if I refine a few more magic stones, I will only live to be a thousand years old at most. ”

Nicol chuckled softly, "This body can't support me to see more scenery, and my final ending ...... It may be that the only way to return to the arms of death is to return to death. ”

Nicol's tone was relaxed, and he didn't have much chagrin.

William also knew for a long time that the Philosopher's Stone could not live forever.

The Philosopher's Stone can only prolong life, but the body is constantly aging.

It's an irreversible process!

Nicol searched for the other two Deathly Hallows in order to completely unravel the book of alchemy.

In the next two volumes, there may be a way for him to continue his life.

"Time can destroy me, it can destroy anything, including the Ravenclaw crown, of course." Nicol continued.

William pondered for a moment and wondered, "But after Ravenclaw lost his crown, it was only a thousand years since now.

Can't the crown rust so quickly, right? ”

The Ravenclaw ring, which is still intact. Niko's alchemy book also shows no signs of damage.

Nicol laughed. "Who told you it's a thousand years?"

William's brow furrowed, staring at the crown.

"This crown has been weathered for at least tens of thousands of years."

Circling the test bench, Nicol paced, "Ravenclaw, one of the Big Four, is well versed in the prehistoric mysteries of time.

She casts her powerful time magic on her crown. Let it go through the baptism of 10,000 years in a thousand years before it can become what it is now. ”

"So......" he paused, turning coldly to William, "by the time Voldemort found the Ravenclaw crown, it must have been useless."

He probably found that, unlike the legend, the crown could not increase intelligence, so he made it into a Horcrux. ”

"Ravenclaw...... Why would she do such a thing? William was puzzled. Why destroy a Deathly Hallows in this way? ”

This is completely counterintuitive!

"That's just Ravenclaw himself." Nicol shook his head, also seemingly puzzled.

"Ravenclaw may have discovered something, but we don't know."

"Is there no possibility of fixing?" William did not give up.

"Of course!" Nicol's wand waved, and the Book of Abraham appeared in William's hand.

William gently opened the alchemy book, which was divided into three groups.

"When I discovered the book of alchemy, the original owner, Abraham, left behind a parchment scroll." Nicol said.

"The first set of content contains all the alchemical items that have appeared in the wizarding world.

The second set of content has the method of making a Deathly Hallows.

In the third group, there will be alchemy items that have not appeared in the wizarding world. ”

"As long as you unlock the second set of content, you'll probably be able to repair the Ravenclaw Tiara."

"So...... Still get a Slytherin wand. William muttered to himself.

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