Chapter 50: The Price of a Wand
Luckily, it was just a few empty glass bottles, and Hope used a repair charm to restore them.
Back in place, Hope took out a brush and a vial of blood from the box, which was ink made with dragon's blood, and then Hope dipped the brush in a little special ink to draw two alchemical circles on the table, and then placed the ends of the metal wand into the two alchemy circles.
This is an ancient way of alchemy, where the main body of the alchemy is placed in the center of the alchemy array, other materials are placed around it, and finally they are combined by the alchemy array. If you succeed, you'll get a complete alchemy item, and if you fail, the material will turn into a pile of useless garbage, the kind that can't be reused, so basically no one uses it this way anymore.
After doing this, Hope took out a small furnace from the box, put the metal block into the furnace, and then used the fire charm to heat the furnace, the flame of the fire charm can be controlled by the output of mana, generally its temperature is fixed, you increase the output of mana will only increase the range of the flame, but you control the fire within a certain range and increase the output of mana will increase the temperature.
However, this is more dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will become an explosive ghost. However, it is safer to do so than the Fire Charm, which is so dangerous that it will kill the Lord.
As the temperature continued to rise, the metal block turned into liquid, and seeing that it was almost over, Hope took two plates and put them next to the two alchemy arrays, and then immediately poured the metal liquid into the two plates.
Taking advantage of the fact that the liquid metal had not solidified, Hope held a pistol wand in his right hand and chanted, "Magic out!" Then he aimed at the alchemy array with the head of the metal wand, and then pointed his original wand with his left hand at the alchemy array with the tail of the metal wand, waved the wand and chanted: "Magic power import!" "At the same time, he pulled the pistol wand.
Suddenly, a flame rose, and when the flames disappeared, the alchemy array and the metal liquid all disappeared, leaving only the metal wand there.
Looking at the metal wand that was intact and had not turned into scrap metal, Hope breathed a sigh of relief, which showed that alchemy had not failed.
Before, he had been thinking about the use of the pistol wand for delaying casting, but now that he used it, he could cast two different spells at the same time for the alchemy ritual.
Hope took a set of dragonskin gloves and put them on his hand, then picked up the metal wand, as for why he wore dragonskin gloves, it was because the wand was a little hot from the flames just now.
Picking up the metal wand, Hope immediately felt different, the weight changed, that is because the previous metal liquid was integrated into the wand head and wand tail respectively, if you cut the wand, you will find that the cross-section of the metal has a clear thin line, that is, the magic formula drawn by the alchemy symbol, has been integrated into the metal wand.
Looking at the metal wand, there were no leaks, and the walnut wand that was wrapped inside was intact and not burned.
When the metal wand was almost cool, Hope handed it to Caleb: "Alright, try to use it." ”
Caleb got it and immediately went to the training area to test, Matteo's side was almost finished, Matteo had already sealed the inlay with resin, in order not to affect the ruby glow, Matteo only applied resin to the edges, and now dried it with an alcohol lamp.
After Hope told him that Caleb's metal wand was ready, Matteo threw the job to Hope, and he went with his notebook to record the data.
It didn't take long for Yulin's star wand to be healed, but Yulin was very disgusted, and the resin-coated places looked like bags hanging there, and she felt ugly, and it was better under Hope's polishing.
After testing, the deficiencies of the metal wand and the star wand have been well improved, and it seems that their previous guesses are correct.
This time, the customization of the wand went very smoothly, and Hope excitedly pulled Matteo's arm and said, "Can we recommend making custom wands to other students?" You're just around the corner from the Legendary Staff Master. ”
Matteo sneered, and instead of answering, he asked rhetorically, "What do you think is the value of the materials we used to make the wand this time?" ”
Hope was stunned for a moment, and began to calculate, the walnut wood guarded by the tree guard, the cow hair of the rare magical animal Ruiam Cow, and Mattio's auxiliary potion of unknown value, plus the manual fee, a wand would cost seventy or eighty Galleons at least.
Looking at Hope's stunned expression, Matteo was very satisfied: "Calculate it, how many of our classmates think they can come up with so much money to make a wand?" ”
"Then why did I pay seven gold Galleons to buy my wand in the first place?" Hope asked, confused.
"My grandfather has a list of the new students who come to buy wands, and Hogwarts will subsidize each new one." Matteo replied.
In this way, the fledgling Matteo's wand basically can't be sold, the wand is basically a hand, and this thing is quite durable, the next generation doesn't want to buy it directly with the grandparents, it can be said that the wand is eternal, a forever, even if someone has a wand broken, it is also a wand master.
Thinking about it this way, is it because of the cooperation with Hogwarts that Ollivanders can continue to this day?
Whether he can quickly become a wand master, Matteo is not worried, after all, the surname Ollivander is the best golden signboard, and the name in the European continent is well-known, and when he inherits his grandfather's wand shop in the future, he will throw the wand made by his grandfather into the warehouse and replace it with the wand he made, and it will not be long before others will call him a wand master.
However, before that, he had to learn alchemy more from Hope, and wand making was also a type of alchemy, so Mattio learned it quickly.
Time passed little by little, and the progress of Matteo, Yulene, and Caleb's Patronus Charm was a little unsatisfactory, and the angry Hope was itching, and the spell was so simple, why couldn't it be learned for so long.
Each time Hope yelled angrily, "You guys are the worst class I've ever taught." ”
Matteo, Yulin, and Caleb looked at each other with these words, could it be that Hope had taught others?
It wasn't until Halloween approached that the three of them were able to achieve the stage of releasing the white mist, and they were still a little short of taking shape, during which Hope thought of a lot of methods, and even configured a batch of euphoria potions.
However, this external force has no effect, and the remaining elusive potion can only be thrown into the secret base to eat ashes, although this high-grade potion is very valuable, but the unfortunate thing is that the elixir is one of the banned drugs listed by the Ministry of Magic, and they have no channel to sell it.