Chapter 42 Rowena's Remnant (Revised, Typos Have Been Corrected)

"I choose to move on." Alan didn't hesitate at all. Wealth can be obtained through hard work and various means, but he has reached this point, and there is no reason not to continue to complete the challenge. He wants to know what Ravenclaw left behind What is the real reward.

"The game is over." The ethereal voice sounded again.

In an instant, Allen felt that his stomach was caught by a hook. In a blink of an eye, he arrived at a place that looked like an office—the reason why it looked like an office was that the interior decoration was extremely luxurious. The four walls of the bookcases are filled with books and scrolls of all kinds, and various spells are written in different languages ​​​​on their thick leather backs. Various grotesque bottles and jars of different textures were placed on the tables around the room, and the white contents in some transparent tubes that penetrated part of the wall seemed to be alive, wriggling and boiling inside. There was a faint musty smell floating in the space, under the spice smell of potion medicinal materials and the weird smell of corruption, this room smelled like Snape's potions classroom and library mixed together .

"Hello, Alan Harris." An extremely majestic and cold voice sounded not far from Alan.

Allen immediately turned around following the sound, his eyes full of surprise.

Behind the huge surrounding stone desk inlaid with sapphires and carved from surprisingly large obsidian, a very graceful figure is sitting on the chair. This slightly transparent woman is extremely beautiful, so beautiful that people look up and dare not have the slightest hint of it. The heart of blasphemy is even a little daunting. Compared with the current Ellen, she looks too tall, and there is no trace of age on her face, the only clue is in her eyes; although a pair of eyes are half-closed and not fully opened, they look down slightly His sight reveals that it is as sharp and gleaming as the tip of a gun in a moonlit night, but it also contains deep memories.

Allen recognized Rowena Ravenclaw at a glance, because she was very similar to the statue in the Ravenclaw common room, but she was more majestic and agile than the statue.

"You Ravenclaw is indeed greedy enough." Rowena Ravenclaw spoke again, this time because she read a slightly longer sentence, which made her voice ethereal and melodious like poetry, she waved her hand A chair was brought to the stone table by her. Ellen, who sat down obediently, understood what she meant. Ravenclaw literally means "raven's claw" or "crow's claw", and the implicit meaning of the name is "greedy predator".

"Ravenclaw's selection criteria, you should know best, don't you, respected lady? Intellect must be superior to others, preferably wise, fair, shrewd, knowledgeable, intelligent, far-sighted, very curious, and like to delve into things student." Allen bowed deeply to Rowena Ravenclaw.

Whether it is the founder of the academy or as a strong person, Rowena is worthy of Alan's respect, not to mention that just like facing her statue before, Alan found himself feeling inexplicably close to her.

"As a challenger who has come this far, I think you are qualified to call me Rowena or—the Dean." Rowena Ravenclaw didn't continue the topic, but corrected what he said to himself title.

"Yes, Dean." In Alan's heart, although Rowena Ravenclaw is the founder, Professor Flitwick is the dean of Ravenclaw. However, it was too frivolous to call a lady who was much older than himself when he first met, so Allen took the next best thing and could only call her the dean.

"Since you've made it here, as long as you complete the last test, you can get my treasure." Rowena looked at Alan seriously, staring at Alan's face motionlessly

"May I ask what is the final test?" Allen was confident in himself.

Ravenclaw sat on a chair and looked directly into Aaron's eyes, "The last test is to make the magic stone that can turn stones into gold and live forever.

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"The Sorcerer's Stone? Please forgive me, why do you still want to be the Sorcerer's Stone in this form?" Allen was really curious. The Ravenclaw in front of him was no longer a living person, not even a ghost, just a little Being imprisoned here is a bit like the kind of soul fragments that need to be separated from the Horcrux.

"You mean that I am clearly a ray of remnants, but I still want the Philosopher's Stone of Immortality?" Rowena Ravenclaw's voice was as ethereal and indifferent as ever.

"When my daughter Helena stole my crown, I sent Barrow to find her, and then Barrow had a dispute with her and killed her. Although I know that a ritual has a resurrection effect, I lack the key materials. There is no way to use it to revive my daughter. After that, I originally wanted to find the resurrection stone, but after in-depth research on the soul, I found that the resurrection stone cannot resurrect the dead, but just invites a kind of death from the underworld. A substance that is more real than the soul and more illusory than the entity. But the resurrection stone has no meaning to Helena who has become a ghost and stays in the mortal world. This child turned into a ghost because of guilt towards me. And she never dared to come to see me after that." Rowena didn't mind telling Alan the whole story, she said it in one breath, maybe during the long waiting years, she was already ready to answer this question s answer.

"But, you don't seem to need the Philosopher's Stone now..." Allen was still very puzzled.

"That's right. Originally, I wanted to find a longer way to accompany my daughter, but I didn't want to lose all future possibilities by becoming a ghost. Therefore, I thought of the Philosopher's Stone. Unfortunately, after I finished refining the temperature Before the confirmed test, I..." Rowena generously told Allen these somewhat private secrets: "So I split this strand of remnants with fragments of my soul, and designed this magic statue."

It seems that Rowena Ravenclaw's attainments in soul magic are not inferior to her achievements in alchemy.

Allen remembers that Voldemort's remnant soul also has the ability to think for itself and communicate with others, and the soul fragments left by Rowena Ravenclaw have maintained the same effect for nearly a thousand years, and it seems Her sanity was completely unaffected by the split soul.

"So, Alan, are you willing to accept the challenge? If you can complete the final steps according to my notes, you can take all my wealth. If not, I will erase your memory and let you go." Rowena widened her protruding eyes, which were half-closed, and Alan felt that the Occlumency technique he had unfolded in front of her didn't work, and felt that he was naked under these eyes.

Noticing that the founder of Ravenclaw College called him by the name of Ravenclaw directly, feeling that the other party seemed not as "extremely strict" as described in the history of magic, Allen spread his hands and tentatively expressed his inner concerns Come out: "I can accept the challenge, but I don't have the materials."

Rowena did not answer, but spun a magic ball on the table counterclockwise three times, the wall on the right disappeared, and a huge alchemy room appeared in front of Allen. She handed Alan a roll of thick parchment and disappeared without a trace.

Allen quickly flipped through this precious manuscript. The handwriting on it was quite different from the other party's external impression, not to mention crooked, and sometimes it was estimated that it was written backwards without straightening it for convenience. Many drawings drawn by the other party.

Alan, the most important material needed for the Sorcerer's Stone, found that it was already in the alchemy furnace next to it according to the manuscript, but the production method related to it seemed to have been deliberately torn off by Ravenclaw and not given to him. As auxiliary materials, "Alex, Kamoto, mercury, sulfur, yellow blood salt, uncursed unicorn blood." and other materials have also been prepared, and the alchemy technique is also marked on the parchment .

After reading it once, Allen took out a Jeber manual from the space, and he remembered that the production of one of the alchemy products "Sage's Stone" was very similar to the Philosopher's Stone studied by Rowena Ravenclaw, except for some The names are different, but it can be concluded that the effect of the Philosopher's Stone is almost the same as that of the Philosopher's Stone.

Compared with the two, the most different point of the refining method is the furnace fire. The temperature of the furnace fire recorded in the Jeber Handbook is much higher than the temperature recorded by Rowena, but the refining method of the Philosopher’s Stone in the Jeber Handbook The method of making is incomplete. Like Ravenclaw's manuscript, the method of making important rough stones does not mention the method of making at all.

No matter how much hesitation was useless, Allen decided to take a gamble and set the temperature according to the instructions of Jaber's experience.