“…… Only...... That's it? ”

In Maca's mind, "alchemy" should be very "mysterious".

Before this game, he had read a lot of materials for this purpose, and he was deeply aware of the complexity and ingenuity of this knowledge. Theoretically speaking, as long as you have enough information and a sufficiently accurate theory, then anything can be obtained through the transformation of the refining array.

Coupled with the "little game" left by Nicol Lemay and Sarah's spiritual refining, he was quite impressed, which made him look forward to this event with a large number of alchemists.

However, when the judges announced the titles of the first batch of competitions, and the contestants began to calculate on the manuscript paper, Maca was stunned.

And above the judges' bench at this moment, a huge curtain swaying in the wind is spreading out of thin air under the effect of the spell, and the words on it can be clearly seen even from hundreds of meters away-

"Converting galena raw ore into copper spoons."

Looking at the bending over calculations of the players in the field, Maca was completely stunned.

"The ......," he asked, turning his head to Professor McGonagall beside him, "Professor, isn't this a sixth-year alchemy subject at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States?" ”

Yes, while there is no alchemy elective at Hogwarts, it may not be the case at other schools. As Illvermorny mentioned by Maca, they have the content to teach students in this subject.

"yes, what's wrong?" Professor McGonagall nodded, "The difficulty of this problem is to construct the shape of a spoon with a refining array, I think...... The more detailed the judges, the higher the score will be ......"

"No, no, I didn't mean that......" Maka wondered, "although I may not have much knowledge of alchemy, but ...... Isn't it a bit too childish to put such a fixed topic as 'lead-copper conversion' in such a competition? ”

"Ah, well......" Professor McGonagall nodded slightly, "I know what you're trying to say, it's just ......"

"It's just that this is the level of the vast majority of alchemists in the world at the moment—"

Noah, the fat man who was sitting in the seat diagonally behind Maca, suddenly bent down and came up.

"The old man of our family said that there are too few alchemists in the modern wizarding world, and at least half of them are potions masters." He said, "Alchemy is this thing...... Now there is not even a complete list of alchemy symbols, but there are still a lot of amazing looking alchemy formulas and alchemy array drawings that have been left, and many of them can be seen but not used! ”

After the fat man's complaints, Maca understood a lot. Come to think of it, if he were asked to make a rune array with an incomplete list of Phoenician scripts, although it could be replaced by other combinations of spells, the difficulty of building it would undoubtedly be much higher than the original map.

"So......" he said thoughtfully, "is being able to flexibly use the surviving alchemy symbols to draw more elaborate and effective alchemy arrays, is it a reflection of the disparity in the abilities of modern alchemists?" ”

Just as Maca suddenly pondered the polarization of the strength of modern alchemists, Sarah's voice rang out coldly.

"The selection of the topic of the jury is very reasonable." "The essence of alchemy is the process of transforming something into something valuable to others through the 'understanding', 'decomposition' and 'reconstruction' of matter or spirit...... Fundamentally, 'give a sip of water to a man who is dying of thirst' means the same thing as 'give a gold coin to the poor'. ”

Sarah's words are actually very clear, what she means is that even if the process and result of the transformation are inconspicuous, as long as someone needs it, it is valuable.

However, despite knowing these things, Maca still lost a lot of interest in the game in front of her. After all, he didn't plan to study alchemy in depth, and the thought of having to watch the judges evaluate the copper spoons for a while made him feel a sense of sleepiness in his heart.

"Forget it, after all, this is only the first round of screening," he said secretly, "At least I've seen a few wizards who seem to be quite powerful before, and I guess the more exciting it will be in the future......

Among today's alchemists, the top ones are a lot higher than the average. Even if Nicol Lemay, who is considered to be the world's top alchemist, has passed away, at least there are some other geniuses, so this tournament is still worth looking forward to.

……

In the Slytherin chamber, the unconscious Ens finally sat up on the cold ground in a daze after a long period of coma.

After he looked left and right, the deep darkness around him quickly brought him back to his senses.

With a snap of soos in the pitch black, Ens felt for the wand he had dropped on the ground. When a phrase "fluorescent flicker" resounded throughout the empty secret room space, a soft light spread out quickly, sweeping away the darkness around him.

“…… How long have I been fainting? ”

He frowned and tried to remember, but he couldn't figure out a specific time.

"By the way, did that Slytherin shadow say anything before that?" Ens shook his head and pondered, "Hmm...... Don't get lost in power? No, there should be other ...... ahead"

At that time, in order to move his "heavy" body to the green shadow, he spent a lot of energy, and in the end, he even lost consciousness. But only the last sentence left by Slytherin, he remembered it very clearly.

After a long while, Ens, who was sitting on the ground, nodded abruptly.

"He said, 'Go into the secret room behind me...... And then...... What else is there in Rowena...... Oh, it's supposed to be the Ravenclaw Tower on the west side, right? ”

Thinking of this, Ens couldn't help but get up from the ground, and despite the traces of mud and dust that had already covered his body, he quickly returned to the deepest wall of the secret room.

"The secret room behind you?" He reached out and knocked on the wall, and the thick texture fed back to his hand, and the bones that hit the stone wall felt a faint pain, "Isn't this the secret room...... Could it be that there is more to come? ”

After a slight pause, he took a few steps back before waving his wand at the wall.

"Alajo Cave Open."

The lockpicking spell wasn't used against the wall, and not to mention whether there was a problem with the stone wall itself, at least it was a matter of course that his spell didn't work.

Lighting up the extinguished light again, Ens held his wand and carefully inspected the wall a few more times. But no matter how you look at it, it's an extremely thick brick wall, no different from the walls of other places.

"Hmm......" He couldn't help but feel a little depressed about this, "The cutting spell can chop rocks, but cutting hard objects is something that you only learn in the fifth grade...... No, maybe there will be some mechanism to open the secret door? ”

Thinking of his previous encounters in the Hufflepuff Vault, Ens naturally had such a guess. It's a pity, how can there be a truth in this world that everything works? The so-called "secret door" he was looking for naturally did not exist.

After groping back and forth between the walls and corners for a long time, Ens finally reluctantly chose to give up temporarily.

"Slytherin's words must be correct, then......" he thought to himself, "yes, the more untouched this wall is, the more likely it is that there is something left in it......"

Thinking about it this way, although the self-soothing element in it is quite strong, it still makes him regain a little patience. But what to do next?

I have experienced such things in this secret room, and I have suffered a lot, if he is allowed to go back like this, it will be extremely unwilling.

Ens touched his trouser pocket, still hesitating.

There are not many lucky chocolates left, and in the case of not being able to get the magic elixir for replenishment, it is natural to eat one less than one. Besides, there is a double limit on the dose and time of taking the elixir, and even if there are more potions, he will not joke with his body when he knows that there are proven side effects.

After seeing the ruined Slytherin Vault, it became a real problem whether or not to use the precious Lucky Chocolate here.

If you enter the "secret room within a secret room" on the other side of the wall, only to find that someone has already made the first move, it will be too late to regret it.

In fact, although Ens is shrewd enough, he still has too little time to contact the wizarding world. If another wizard faced this problem, then what was there to hesitate about?

It was the secret room left by Salazar Slytherin, and there were so many people in the world who couldn't even look at it!

Fortunately, after thinking about it for a while, Ens decided to take a gamble. He vaguely remembered that Slytherin seemed to have mentioned something like "gifts", didn't he?

I saw him shake his left hand, take a deep breath, and then take out a piece of chocolate from his pocket. The light from the tip of the right cane fell on the tin foil wrapped in chocolate, reflecting a hazy golden halo.

It's as if something good can happen just by looking at that halo - that's the power of the elixir.

Peeling back the golden foil, Ens shoved the chocolate into his mouth and chewed it vigorously. And the next second, when the first wisp of sweet chocolate syrup mixed with saliva slid into his throat, the wonderful feeling of taking the elixir invaded his whole body again.

"Oh, sure enough, what's ...... behind"

He was about to stretch out his wand and try to do something when a strange sensation immediately froze his arm.

"How...... Well? Who? ”

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