The man behind Hogwarts

Since meeting William in the office two days ago, Crohn has not seen him in the past two days, and he did not even come to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the second grade.

Crohn's heart was a little confused after being treated like this.

He thought that William was busy preparing to refine enchanted equipment and had no time to attend classes, so he felt a little relieved; but the delay in receiving his notification made him worried.

After another class, before he could walk out the door, Cedric called him.

"Professor, William asked me to bring you a message. He asked you to meet in the woods behind the hospital."

Hearing this, a hint of joy appeared on Crohn's lips, "Okay, I understand."

"Is it finally going to start?"

Suppressing his excitement, he quickly rushed to the woods and went straight into the depths of the woods like last time.

"William?"

In the forest, William has cleared an open area of ​​land, and there are still some debris on the ground, such as crucibles, carving knives, and some forging facilities.

"Professor, you are here. Come and do me a favor. Help me melt the bronze in the crucible into liquid."

William pointed to a crucible placed on a tripod. The small crucible contained an irregular piece of bronze.

"Isn't this my seal? Why only use such a small piece?"

"Actually, it doesn't take much. I only cut off a little bit and will give the rest to you later. After all, this thing has a profound meaning to you."

Let Crohn melt the bronze,

William was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a piece of wood in his hand.

The wood is gray-white overall, but there are irregular red filaments growing inside the wood, like blood vessels.

"Is this the mulberry tree?" Crohn asked casually, "By the way, I still don't know what the equipment you are going to refine looks like?"

"Yes, it is the mulberry tree. I only cut off the branches, which is more than enough to make equipment."

William spoke without stopping, "Do you like wearing rings?"

ring?

Crohn looked at his hands, and all ten fingers were empty, "I don't know, I haven't worn them before."

"Then you have a chance to try it." William smiled and said: "This equipment looks roughly like this: the mulberry tree is used as the main body of the ring, and the molten bronze is wrapped twice around it. As for the unicorn tail hair, this thing It will be added to the bronze solution.”

"Use wood as the main body of the ring?"

Crohn was a little puzzled: "Would it be easy to break if the ring is made of wood? Why not use bronze?"

"Don't worry, when I use enchantment, the wood will be stronger than steel; and, what I use is professional enchantment. Of course, it has unique requirements. You can't do it just how you want."

call,

Blow it out with all your strength, and a wooden ring is carved.

The main shape of the wooden ring is a ring with wide arms. The arms are 4 mm wide without any embellishments. Only a few runes are outlined on the arms.

"Has the bronze melted?"

"Right now, I'll increase the firepower." Crohn immediately increased the magic output.

"Okay, okay, it's completely melted, what do you do next?"

William glanced at the bronze liquid in the crucible and nodded with satisfaction; then he took out the last material from his pocket - unicorn tail hair.

He picked out three of the whitest and smoothest tail hairs and gently placed them into the crucible.

嗤，

Under the scorching heat of the bronze solution, the unicorn tail hair disappeared in the blink of an eye. Strangely, there was no trace of ash remaining after burning.

"It was burned down. Can it still be used?" Crohn asked.

"It's best to burn it all, so that the sacred aura of the unicorn can be completely integrated into the solution."

From this point, we can see the special feature of enchantment, which is very different from traditional forging.

Just like the unicorn tail hair, what William needs is not really the chemical reaction between the tail hair and the bronze solution, or what kind of mixed metal is produced;

His purpose was to borrow the symbolism of the unicorn: divine purity.

Similarly, the role of bronze is nothing else, and the purpose is only to extract its symbolic meaning: solidity and solemnity.

Seeing that the time is ripe,

William picked up a steel needle and dipped it in the bronze solution.

This steel needle is a tool he made using the deformation technique. The tip of the steel needle is not a smooth cone, but is covered with spiral patterns; so when it is immersed in the solution, the spiral patterns are like a reservoir, stained with a lot of bronze solution .

If it weren't for the difficulty of transforming into a steel brush, he would have wanted to transform into a brush directly.

Lifting the steel needle, the bronze solution spiraled down along the lines, and finally flowed down through the needle tip. The flow rate was neither fast nor slow, and the solution was even and smooth.

"Yes, although there is no brush to use, it is enough."

He held the wooden ring in his left hand, and lifted the steel needle in his right hand, as if tracing a picture, and drew the tip of the needle twice around the ring arm;

The two circles of bronze solution are like ink, with scorching heat. The ink makes a "chichi" sound on the wooden ring, and a faint white smoke rises.

Two ink circles fall on both sides of the ring arm, each 1 mm from the edge of the ring arm.

When the last lap came together, William knew that the most critical moment had come.

"Next is the five-pointed seal."

Open your right hand, and the five-ray seal of 'Bright Soul' appears in your palm;

Crohn saw this scene, his eyes suddenly opened slightly, staring at the mark in his hand, "What is this? Another thing I have never seen before..."

But what he didn't know was that this was the magic spell in William's mouth - the radiant soul.

He held his breath and his eyes followed William's hand.

The five-pointed mark on William's palm traveled along his index finger, and finally ran through the index finger to the wooden ring, and then ran around the ring arm; wherever the five-pointed mark passed, the bronze solution immediately turned solid.

After ten seconds,

The five-pointed seal completed a complete circle and turned into a silver pattern that remained motionless on the ring arm.

"Okay, everything goes well, this is considered to be refined." William took a long breath, looked at the ring in his hand and nodded repeatedly.

He casually put the ring on his ring finger.

"Well...it's warm...as if the sun is shining on me all the time, and any fatigue I had just now disappears..."

"The most important thing is that I feel like my soul is wearing a piece of armor, and I unconsciously feel a strong sense of security!!"

Bright, warm, solemn and eternal!

A small ring made William feel safer than ever before.

It's like finding a stove in the snow in winter. There is a shotgun next to the stove, and there is a whole box of bullets next to the shotgun...

Safety! So safe!

"It feels so good, I'm even a little reluctant to give it to Crohn."

After feeling it quietly for a while, William shook his teeth and decisively took off the ring.

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