Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 71 Coffee Companion
What is Alchemy?
William, who was Feng Rui in his previous life, thought that this was just a fantasy popular in the Middle Ages, a trick of smelting various metals into alloys to make them look like gold.

Not long ago, William believed that it was just a branch of magic. Enchanting, potions, and making props were all specific manifestations of alchemy.

After trying to interpret Nicole Flamel's manuscripts and coming into contact with wizards' alchemy theory, William discovered that alchemy is actually a complex and magnificent field.

Alchemy does not simply refer to the transformation of stones, metals and other things into gold, but a whole set of theories about material transformation and spiritual cultivation.

As in, as out.

As above, as below.

In the eyes of Nicole Flamel, the universe and human beings are actually one - nature, the world, magic, and the individual soul or heart are all connected in a unified and harmonious way - interpreted in William's more familiar words , it is "one is all, all is one".

In the original universe, there was only one and only one, and then there was a radiant soul - "Spirit of God" flowing out of his body, which constituted the universe, human beings and other things.

Therefore, everything in this world operates according to an incomparably magnificent rule, and alchemy is the alchemist's understanding and interpretation of this rule, and breaking it down and reconstructing it.

His manuscript "Book of Hieroglyphs" records Nicole Flamel's first encounter with the world of alchemy, and he got an old book called "The Book of Jewish Abraham":

"I have in my hand an ancient and bulky book that I bought for 2 florins. It is not made of paper or parchment like other books, but of fine and smooth bark of young trees.

The cover is tightly wrapped in brass, and it is full of words or strange symbols... It has 7 sets of 3 pages, including the front page, the seventh page of each set has no text, but the first page On the seventh page of one set, there is a drawing of a magic wand being swallowed by a giant snake. "

3 and 7.

They are both considered magic numbers.

William found that in Nico's manuscript, there were many deleted and corrected records, which showed his thinking over a long period of time.

"In order to achieve one change, the alchemist must focus on the properties of the four elements and combine the three 'elements' - sulfur, mercury, and the alchemical rules of salt. There are also three kingdoms, plants, animals, and minerals. See in For Merlin's sake."

William read from the translated manuscript.

There are so many uncommon words here that he had to correspond them one by one with the dictionary. The whole manuscript is full of symbols and words with mysterious meanings.

——For example, the sulfur in the three major elements actually refers to the so-called "soul" of things, which guides the volatilization rules of fire and air.

To be honest, if he didn't know that Nicole Flamel might be the most brilliant alchemist in the millennium, William would even be willing to do a set of high-level math papers instead of studying this crap.

This was much more difficult than Snape's Potions class.

In William's view, alchemy in the wizarding world is essentially a technology for developing new materials.

Alchemists separate, purify, purify, fuse and reorganize the elements in substances, and finally form a brand new substance.

In this art, the recipe is the most important secret.

William skipped a large section of text in the middle that he didn't understand, and turned the manuscript directly to the end.

Nico Flamel documented many of the recipes he tried there, and after earning a lot of galleons from "Nymph's Secret", William finally got a chance to practice some of the above recipes - the recipes It not only contains a large amount of precious metals and gemstones, but also materials from rare magical creatures and plants.

It's a pity that William can't get most of the ingredients in these recipes. Among the few that can get the ingredients, many of the processes are very dangerous, and it's not suitable for a novice like him to operate in Hogwarts or anywhere. And among those formulas that he could manipulate, there were many products that seemed tasteless and embarrassing.

However, William managed to find a few formulas. They didn't require rare raw materials, and they seemed relatively safe. The finished products could still be used by William.

During this time, he has made some preparations:
He bought freshly picked poisonous ginseng eggplant, put it in a transparent container, and added a small amount of alcohol as mucus.Then hot steam is used to enter the liquid, and the condenser is used to extract and capture these vapors.

On top of the water, a layer of oil gradually formed, which William collected and kept in a glass bottle, which would constitute the medium of the spiritual rule of "sulphur," one of the three alchemical elements.

William has placed the poisonous ginseng eggplant in the container for a long time, waiting for its final fermentation, just like in his previous life, he worked hard every day to save blue tickets.

And today finally came the most critical link.

The ginseng eggplant in the container has turned into a yellow-green watery paste. During the fermentation process, the plant has "dead" in the alchemical sense, its vitality enters the water medium, and William will start distilling them.

After the ninth distillation, he finally obtained a volatile, pungent liquid.

This will serve as the "mercury" for alchemy.

As for the remaining poisonous ginseng eggplants, he didn't throw them away either, but kept them for processing and used them as the last element of alchemy, "salt".

"Drying. No problem, then incineration, purifying it of accumulated impurities, and the structural components of the growing environment used to protect the plant.

Also dissolved in water, filtered, evaporated. "

After strictly following the steps left by Nico, William obtained the so-called "purified" white crystals.

"The next thing is to mix them."

William ground the white crystals into a fine powder and added them to the previously prepared "sulfur" and "mercury", and he got a strange mixture.

This is the prototype of alchemy medicine.

Although if strictly following the statement in the manuscript, William still needs to make it under the corresponding time and astrology, but even Nico himself is really a little confused about whether this will really have any obvious impact.

He began to heat the mixture containing the three major elements, took out his wand, and stirred them slowly like boiling potion.

"Three turns clockwise, six turns counterclockwise."

The originally very turbid yellow-green liquid began to change little by little under the influence of William.

It turned dark green at first, bubbling and bubbling, and looked a lot like the witch Helena Duncan's cauldron of potion, but when he switched directions and started stirring, a swirl began to appear in the middle of the container , it starts from the center and goes outward, slowly turning to light yellow.

Finally, when William stopped stirring and heating, the mixture had turned into a clear amber liquid with a faint fragrance.It looks almost exactly the same as the finished product recorded by Nicole Flamel in the manuscript, and it has a very significant refreshing effect.

"Adding a small amount of coffee to drink can ensure a clear day."

Nicole Flamel introduced it like this.

So William named it "Coffee Companion".

　Thanks to Unknown Z, one hundred methods of eggs, FGO has no five-star, Arcturus, ranking, Casani, Asprin, ArsGoetia's monthly pass.Thank you for the 3 role reward of 5000-methylindole, Wings Flying, Asprin's reward.

　　In addition, I would like to thank the author next door, Hilbert Anger, for the alchemy book, so that I can make this chapter more decent.

　　
　
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