Chapter Seventy-Eight: Millennial Artifact
The river reflects the blue sky and white clouds, the oily lawns grow, and the shepherds are busy driving the lambs to the water's edge.
Upstream of the river, in a nondescript shack, the fireplace burns vigorously during the day.
Around the table sat a circle of people in wizards' robes, their expressions solemn, as if discussing some national matter.
"Dumbledore, what are you trying to do with us this time? Wouldn't you still be peddling your outdated theories? β
An old witch, in a hoarse voice, unceremoniously aimed at Dumbledore.
Her cane slammed against the floor with a screeching sound.
"Jeterina, don't say that, Dumbledore must have his own ideas, listen to it first."
The other elderly wizard nodded at Dumbledore.
The old witch snorted and stopped.
Dumbledore didn't seem to be affected, perhaps by the fact that he was accustomed to the style of his old friends.
No matter how bad it sounds, but after all, I still believe in him, otherwise how would I come to this pimple place.
"Ladies and gentlemen, over the past few decades, we have witnessed the decline of wizards and the rise of magicians."
"In all areas, wizards are inferior to magicians. No matter how stubborn a person is, he has to admit this. β
Several people nodded.
If it weren't for that, they wouldn't be in such a hurry.
"The number of our wizards has grown far less than that of magicians, who have obtained the means of acquired magical power from the clock tower, and have a well-established inheritance system, which has surpassed the total number of wizards in the past half century."
"That's right, there were more magicians in Europe than wizards ten years ago."
The old witch interjected.
"At the bottom of that, I think we need to find this way, a way for Muggles to have magical powers, and since the clock tower can do it, so can we."
"Secondly, it is the integrity of the inheritance."
"As we all know, in the last thousand years, the progress of wizards has been very slow, because everything we have done has been explored little by little from the ignorance of our predecessors, and modern wizards are far more powerful than wizards of thousands of years ago, and this is proof. However, a mere millennium, combined with the number of wizards, was not enough for this path to take to the next stage. β
"Grindelwald and I have traveled all over the world, looking for all kinds of ancient magic relics, and found that 50,000 or even 300,000 years ago, there were several magical civilizations that had developed to a high level, that is, users of the so-called magic words in the mythological age."
"They undoubtedly have a more advanced magical civilization than wizards today, and a system that is different from the current one, and to my surprise, some of the murals have patterns similar to clock towers."
"Perhaps, the answer we need, is here."
"Do you think that the creator of the clock tower has advanced magic technology by restoring the inheritance of some ancient magical civilizations?"
The patriarch of the Peverell family, who had been pretending to sleep, opened his eyes at this time and spoke slowly.
"Yes, that makes sense."
"Wizards are born with magic, but in fact they don't really become two completely different species from Muggles, otherwise it can't explain that Muggle wizards are born every year."
"This has long hinted to us that the talent for learning magic does not all come from the so-called noble bloodline."
"We've also done some experiments over the years, transplanting the magical bloodlines of some low-level magical creatures, trying to contaminate the blood of Muggles or Squibs so that they have magical powers...... However, it didn't turn out well, and few people survived, and in many cases, only a few survived for a short time and used magic. β
"I don't think the same way you do, I use magical materials for them, and I plant them in Muggles' bodies and make them grow together with Muggle bodies...... Failed, they turned into monsters, there were no success stories. β
"We, the Peverell family, have developed more advanced wands, and by the way, they can't be called wands."
The patriarch of the Peverell family took a small gold pocket watch from his bosom, untied it from his neck, and held it up to them.
"We tried to find inspiration in alchemy and developed magic wand-like magic items. They are less indestructible, and can naturally attach several powerful protective spells, making them more expensive than wands but useful, especially in combat. β
Then, several people stopped speaking and fell silent.
Everyone has their own ideas.
"Ahemβ"
Dumbledore coughed.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is difficult to progress on the path of a wizard without years of study. However, we are faced with a situation that does not allow us to slow down any longer. β
"According to my calculations, in less than ten years, the number of magicians will be more than ten times that of wizards, and at that time, wizards will be completely reduced to vassals, or even disappear at all."
The other three did not speak.
It doesn't matter if a wizard becomes a vassal, anyway, the clock tower won't turn away students just because their parents are wizards.
No one can risk their lives for the future of wizards.
When it really came time for them to shed their blood on the wizard's future, the wizard would have disappeared.
The blood in the rivers and lakes has always been cold, and all the people here are hundred-year-old people, and the foxes among the foxes have long lost this kind of blood.
"I found an early magical document, the original Book of Dragon Slayers, written by Wilson, which recorded more than 20,000 spells in detail, and was the first magical document of the fifth century AD. This code is a systematic summary of the magic of the time, expounding some of the principles of magic, and summarizing many basic principles, some of which we still use today, such as the law of transfiguration, which cannot be created out of nothing, and there must be a pie to conjure more pies. β
Dumbledore dropped such a bomb.
The three of them were only slightly moved, but it was not enough to impress them.
Sighing to himself, Dumbledore continued.
"Other than that, I found the manor in Hastings......"
"The Six Magic Palaces?!"
"You've found the essence of the Magical Writing Movement? The Thirty Volumes of the Lost Hastings Magic? β
From 749 to 754 AD, influenced by the magical writing movement of the time, Hastings invited to provide a luxurious estate free of charge, and invited wizards, magicians, bards, and even some scholars of the time to compile a magical classic.
At its peak, more than 2,000 mages lived in his six estates, recording the spells, items, recipes, and spell-casting processes they mastered, spending a great deal of wealth and manpower on them.
At one time, the six estates of Hastings were known as the "Six Palaces of Magic", and the contents of each manor were compiled into five volumes, eventually becoming the thirty volumes of the Hastings Wizardry.
Hastings' efforts were not exhaustive, with more than 50,000 entries in thirty volumes, but there were a lot of repetitions, contradictions, and even false fabrications.
After proofreading in the later stage, there are only more than 17,000 pieces left, and this document is very complicated due to the large number of people who handle it, and the format and expression of the text are also very complicated, which causes great trouble to the reader.
What's more, there is not even an outline, and there is no table of contents, so you need to look through pages to look through it.
In the Middle Ages, an archaeologist lamented: "Hastings has left us a classic that can never be finished." β
Later, in the midst of the war, this magical classic disappeared completely.
Several of the devastating magics "Final Judgment", "Holocaust Reborn", "Cloud of Destruction", "Doomsday Storm", and "Thunder Blast" are missing.
In this classic, there is a very powerful magic, containing a considerable part of the lost essence of the ancient magical civilization, to say that there is a solution to the current embarrassing situation, they believe it.
"I'm sorry, several, but I haven't been able to get my tome yet."
"It was hidden in a pyramid and was well preserved, so it escaped the devastation of the war of the Eight Nations and successfully survived to the present day."
Dumbledore showed a pair of parchment with an elaborate map drawn on it.
"This is the structure of the pyramid, which belonged to the resting place of an unknown pharaoh at that time. As far as I know, this scripture is carved on a stone tablet and has been guarded by priests of the same lineage as the mausoleum keepers for generations. β
"Egypt? Nameless Pharaoh? Do you still want to talk about the seven thousand-year-old artifacts and the three-pillar god? This set of deceptive tricks can't be hidden from my wife. β
"I know this is the content of a comic, and plagiarism also takes some effort, I don't want to continue to talk with you."
The old witch seemed uninterested, got up and prepared to leave.
"What if I say that the content of that comic is true?"
She jerked her head back, staring at Dumbledore.
Dumbledore, as usual, sat calmly.
"That comic was published by a small publishing house under my name, and the author was a Muggle boy I had implanted in my memory."
"I found the inheritance of ancient demonic spells there."
"Through various bloody gladiatorial rituals, they make criminals and efforts fight each other, amplify their emotions, extract their souls at their peak, manifest those extreme emotions, transform and distort them, and seal them into all kinds of monsters with extraordinary powers, and seal them into processed stone tablets."
Among them, these monsters are divided into various categories according to the way of birth of attributes and the difference in ability, roughly ordinary monsters, elves, demons, humans, humanoids, powerful monsters can even approach the power of illusion created by faith. Ah, by the way, the three guardian spirits born in the Egyptian faith are called the Three Illusion Gods. β
This amazing news immediately shocked them!