Lemay is very talkative, and he is a man of the present in the truest sense of the word. Chatting with him always reveals some very obscure alchemy knowledge, such as Davis, who made magic diapers with self-cleaning functions, and Huainanzi, the world's first Chinese alchemy book that combined alchemy and divination to form a new school of alchemy.

But even if the two are incompatible, what do ancient Chinese books have to do with themselves?

Brandi sipped a black tea with honey and drooped his ears to let Lemay show off his knowledge there.

Today must have been Lemay's happiest day in recent months, and after a childish dinner with Brandy, he became interested in a small bottle of fish-flavored green beer that he had never drunk before in dessert. You must know that according to his original explanation, this beer wine is as its name suggests, and in addition to hops, it is also mixed with a lot of chirac fish eggs.

It made Brandi sick, not only because of the fishy smell of the wine, but also because the big brown stuff seemed to be more sticky and sticky than normal fish eggs. And when he watched worriedly as Lemay drank the bottle with his mouth smashed and drunk, things fell into the troublesome situation they are now.

Old man Lemay...... You're down to business! You didn't want someone to drink and brag about to trick me here with Professor Dumbledore.

Feeling the hidden resentment, the old man who was telling him with great interest that he had been in Yarusalem to watch the Crusades left over from the time of the Crusades was immediately unhappy, and began to blow his beard and glare at Brandi with a red face. Obviously, the old man must not drink much on weekdays.

"Little ghost, you seem to despise alchemy?" He rubbed his nose in dissatisfaction and slammed the table with a loud bang. "Do you think that alchemy is the ability to turn stones into gold? Do you know how the last crusade failed? The soldiers and wizards who invaded Jerusalem were all turned into powder under the effect of the Homeland Refining Array! ”

He slammed his mouth, a look of yearning on his face. "It's a pity that I didn't get to see the intricate array with my own eyes...... After hundreds of years of wind and rain, we can only guess the original appearance and function from the ruins. It's sad—"

Brandi was stunned. "Didn't the alchemists who laid down this refining array leave anything to pass on to future generations?"

"Where else is there, little ghost...... It's all gone. Lemay sighed, "The wizards who set up the formation didn't leave at all - legend has it that some wizards searched the memories of Muggles around Jerusalem and found that a large group of wizards of unknown origin had entered Jerusalem two months ago and never came out - they must have died with that city." And probably during that period, a large number of ancient magic inheritances were also broken one after another for various unknown reasons. By the time I was born, no one knew what the broken lines on the floors and walls of Jerusalem were doing. ”

…… Glaring, Brandi's mouth widened, a little embarrassed by the legend that had been passed down from Lemay's medieval era. The wizards who successfully set up the land to form a formation don't know what kind of mentality they have to stay in the city and wait for death...... Obviously, they can leave in style and watch their opponents disappear, how to do it is the same as a funeral.

Or do they have a reason to die?

Brandi couldn't figure it out, and neither could the old man. But it doesn't matter, at least after following the old man to remember the ancients for a while, the old man seems to finally remember that he still has something to do.

"Speaking of which, Dumbledore wrote to me that the Guardian in your wand ate the Philosopher's Stone?" Lemay asked with interest. "May I take a look at your wand?"

Brandi nodded sheepishly, pulled his wand out of his pocket, and placed it on the round table. "I'm really sorry about this, Professor."

Lemay waved his hand, his eyes intently on his wand. "Can you call it out?"

"What?"

"I mean your guardian spirit." Curious, he reached out to pick up the wand, but the tip of his finger touched the wand and the wand reacted.

The blood-colored pattern suddenly appeared, emitting a faint red light, and Brandi was stunned by the vision - it was almost common sense that his wand could not be used by anyone but himself, and even Dumbledore did not want his wand to fart out.

But what's going on now?

The vision came and went as quickly as it came, and after a while, the red glow on the wand gradually faded and finally disappeared. Lemay played with the wand in her hand and recited a few small incantations, but nothing happened.

So he raised the corners of his mouth, and there was a relaxed look in his eyes.

"I see, the consciousness has completely merged into it, which is really good."

Brandi honestly didn't bother him, waiting for him to finally explain to himself what was going on.

"What a good wand, little ghost." Satisfied, he returned his wand to Brandi. "It seems that your guardian spirit's appetite is not small, it seems that it has only been more than half a year, and it is almost completely absorbed by the Philosopher's Stone."

“…… Professor? ”

Seeing that Brandi was still confused, Lemay explained: "The reason why your wand reacted just now is just the consciousness of the Philosopher's Stone. Rest assured, it's not the main body of your wand, as the maker of the Philosopher's Stone, and I have no way of getting your wand to approve of that. ”

"I was invited by Dumbledore this time for two main reasons, one of them is to observe if your wand has been corrupted by the will of the Philosopher's Stone - in fact, I have made a pact with Dumbledore that if I find something wrong with your wand, I will destroy it myself."

Brandi's heart tightened, and he quickly put his wand back in his trouser pocket and looked at Lemay vigilantly. Lemay, who was ready to flee at any moment, laughed out loud.

"But it looks pretty good now, it's perfectly integrated into the core of your wand. Strange to say, the Philosopher's Stone is a monster formed by the magic and obsession of tens of millions of dead people...... How could he be so silently eaten and wiped clean by a young guardian spirit? ”

Seeing that Lemay didn't seem to be about to hurt the killer, Brandi relaxed.

"I don't know about that, my wand has always been weird...... It once contained a badly injured adult unicorn, which had been cured by the time it came out...... Hey, too, it finds something with plenty of magic to eat, and after I was petrified by a basilisk in the secret room, it jumped out of its wand and bit me, and the petrification effect on me was gone......"

"And that kind of thing?" After listening to Brandi's narration, Lemay's face was filled with the eager light of a madman in his very familiar eyes. "What is your wand made of?"

"Olive wood, the core of the staff is chalcedony, Professor."

“…… Chalcedony? His brow furrowed, "In this case, it makes sense that the wand can fit into a living thing, as long as it is processed by rune alchemy to open up a small space." But what do you mean...... Can you call it out and take a look? ”

He had asked this before, and Brandi shook his head helplessly.

"No, Professor, it only seems to pop up when it comes up with it. No matter how much I put mana into my wand, I couldn't control it. ”

As a result, this answer made Lemay look particularly angry.

"Merlin, you are a tyrannical thing! Waste this wand for nothing, stinky boy! He said angrily, his chest rising and falling violently with excitement. Who told you that guardian spirits can only be summoned by magic! Do you understand the communication of ideas with your thoughts? It's good for you to have a good idea with your guardian spirit when you have nothing to do, and you need to know that having one more guardian spirit who can unlock negative magic in a duel is equivalent to an extra life! I didn't have a chance to see such an amazing little guy, I was really angry! ”

Brandi shrank his head and received two slappes from Lemay, feeling sad in his heart.

Lemay's meaning could not be more obvious, he was dying, and it was likely that it would be after this exchange.

"Okay, okay, don't be sad about my affairs." Seeing Brandi's sadness, Lemay said haha: "I have lived to be six hundred and sixty-six years old now, which is too long...... When all the dreams I have set for my life have become reality, this is what life is like for me. I'm sure Dumbledore told you that death is just a great adventure for people like us. Of course—"

He winked at Brandy, "If you're still guilty of my adventure, why don't you do something for me?" ”

"Me? What can I do for you? Professor. Brandi pointed to his nose with a look of incredulity as he could do for the greatest alchemist in history, a second-year wizard.

Lemay's face sank briskly, and he shuddered, pulling out a yellowed piece of paper from his bosom and handing it to Brandy. Brandi only glanced at it a few times and was shocked.

"Professor... You, where did you see this thing? ”

Lemay picked up the wine glass on the table and drank the wine that had been filled at some point. His voice did not hear any joy or sorrow, as if the identity of a bystander was narrating.

"Listen, what I'm going to say next is important."

"You know, I once had a daughter named Gloria." Lemay said expressionlessly. "Don't look at me in such astonishment, I only learned from my wife this morning—and after the clock tick, there won't be even that bit of information left—as I have tried so many times before. If it weren't for the fact that my wife had seen the letter between me and Dumbledore and that you were now pursuing it, she would never have told me anything about her daughter. Every time I revisit and tell it, it is a torture in my wife's heart. ”

He said this with a language that made no secret of his sadness and anger. Brandi knew that the feelings were not for his daughter, but for his wife, who was suffering from the loss of her daughter.

"I want you to do me something, Barton."

For the first time, he was officially called by his own name.

"This is the sin of my daughter, who inadvertently broke one of the eyes of the seal, and as a result, the exploration team died tragically, and she was cursed herself, and she didn't rely on anyone else. But I hope that the pain I have endured will not happen to anyone else—promise me that if the ruins do reappear, seal them back into the billowing sands of Bennas—that everything in this world is connected by cause and effect, and that since your wand has absorbed a tip of the seven-pointed star, you will be able to repair it again. ”