Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

Should I study alchemy with Nicoléme?

Such a simple question that no one else would hesitate for even half a second was placed directly in front of Wright.

There is no doubt that almost no one in the wizarding world can refuse to study alchemy with Nicolas Flamel.

You know, no matter how you look at it, Nicoléme can be regarded as the most top-notch figure in the wizarding world. In particular, the main criterion for measuring the strength of a wizard is the accumulation of time and knowledge. Of course, the wizards like Karma Taj and Gandalf also test the physical fitness of wizards.

But no matter what, as an old monster who has lived for more than six hundred years and nearly seven hundred years, Nicoléme can really be regarded as a living fossil and encyclopedia in the entire wizarding world.

But Wright also knew one thing: learning alchemy with Nicolás Flamel and learning combat experience with Dumbledore were two completely different concepts.

As the principal of Hogwarts, Dumbledore has the obligation to teach students, although not everyone is as lucky as Wright to be directly taught by Dumbledore.

And based on Wright's impression of Dumbledore, he didn't have to worry about being tricked by Dumbledore. At most, he would just ask him to fight against Voldemort. Besides, there is a savior on my side, Harry Potter!

But studying alchemy with Nicoléme was completely different. Whether it is from the original work or from the information he recently learned, Wright has almost no detailed knowledge of Nicoléme, and he does not even know what kind of character he is.

At most, he only knew that Nicoléme had once refined the Philosopher's Stone. Even the Book of Abraham and angels were only known to Wright after Nicoléme revealed it today.

As a character whose impression can only be sketched out in a few strokes, it is difficult for Wright to completely trust Nicolas Flamel to learn alchemy. Besides, Wright was able to come here now entirely because of the relationship between Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel.

Less than an hour after their first meeting, Nicolas Flamel told Wright that he wanted him to be his alchemy apprentice, and he didn't mention any other requirements. Wright would believe this pie-in-the-sky idea. Something?

Just kidding, when did someone like me become such an irrational person?

"How is it? Have you decided?" Nicoléme asked Wright.

"Of course!" Wright stood up respectfully and saluted Nicoléme, "What an honor!"

"Very good," Nicoléme put the Philosopher's Stone and the Book of Abraham back into his pocket. He smiled and said, "Then let's learn alchemy now!"

"Okay teacher! No problem, teacher!" Wright nodded crazily.

"And the first thing is to read!" Nicoléme took out a box that looked dusty on the surface from his pocket.

…

From the end of July, when Wright followed Dumbledore to Nicolas Flamel's house in Devonshire, to now, time flies by. Before I knew it, it was late August.

This is already the third week that Wright has been in Devonshire. Ever since he accepted Nicolas Flamel's invitation to be his alchemy apprentice, Wright has been staying with Nicolas Flamel to learn about alchemy. Knowledge, but according to Nicoléme, you must first read all the books he has here.

Wright originally thought that what Nicoléme was talking about was reading in the study, or in some hidden secret room he built himself. But what Wright never expected was that Nicolas Flamel directly took out a time prop, the Time Corridor, and asked him to go in and read a book. Wright didn't have time to be surprised by such a magical prop before he was thrown directly into it by Nicoléme.

I don’t know if Nicoléme guessed Wright’s thoughts correctly. Anyway, when Wright entered the time corridor, it was already filled with endless alchemy books. Although Wright's brain has been transformed and strengthened by shadow energy, and his memory is almost photographic, he can't stand such a huge number of books.

Of course, although Wright has now walked out of the time corridor, the time it took to read those books was not three weeks.

To be precise, while only two weeks had passed outside the time corridor, Wright had already spent two full years inside the time corridor.

For two years, he had been accompanied by alchemy books. It was not until a week ago that Wright roughly browsed through all the books that Nicolas Flamel had placed in the corridor of time, so that he could get out of it.

After Wright finished reading the book, he roughly understood why Nicoléme had so many books hidden here. You must know that the number of books in the Time Corridor is comparable to the number of books in the Hogwarts school library, and they are all professional books.

This actually has a lot to do with the history of alchemy.

As we all know, alchemy originated in ancient Egypt and spread throughout the world over time.

As early as the Middle Ages, alchemy was very popular in Europe. At that time, the development of alchemy was extremely brilliant. Infinite theories and infinite refining methods were all proposed by countless alchemists at that time, and then they were quickly overthrown and reconstructed through mutual exchanges. . It is precisely for this reason that alchemy has left behind such a vast sea of ​​alchemical classics and information.

But in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the whole of Europe fell into a terrible witch hunt. The wizards suffered misfortunes, and most of these alchemy materials and alchemy classics were destroyed by fanatical ordinary people and even religious figures at that time, and there was no one left in a hundred or even one in a thousand.

The alchemy that is still circulating in the outside world, in the opinion of Nicoléme, an old alchemist, is not really alchemy at all. It is nothing more than an alchemical trick.

Of course, this is only for ordinary alchemy in the outside world.

Nicoléme, an alchemist born in 1330, had memorized countless alchemical classics during his long six hundred years of life. He reorganized and collected the alchemical materials and classics from the hundreds of years during the heyday of alchemy's development, and finally gathered them all into the books that Wright saw in the Corridor of Time.

However, what surprised Wright the most was not that alchemy left so many classic materials. Instead, most of the books used the same term for the witch-hunting movement at that time, and Wright also had a slight impression of that term.

Alchemical war.