days at Hogwarts

Chapter 220 Revealing the Origin of the Basilisk
"... Dumbledore seems to have some relationship with the Magic Congress of America, and he easily obtained a business license..."

After Snape finished talking about the recent discussions of the professors, all the scales from the basilisk's body were taken off, and they were put into the suitcase prepared in advance.

After the scales were removed from the corpse of the basilisk, the rough gravel-like epidermis was exposed, and the thick horniness and remaining broken scales looked even more similar to rocks.

He didn't feel it when he was processing the scales. After finishing the work, he stood a little further away. Loren looked at the whole body of the basilisk. Seeing the tens of feet of giant being "skinned", he felt a sense of urgency. Extraordinary sense of accomplishment.

"What to do with the remaining flesh, viscera, and bones?" Loren had an excited expression on his face. He couldn't wait to dissect the basilisk.

Snape was walking among the suitcases, counting the number of scales, without raising his head: "I can finish the rest by myself without your assistance."

Originally, Loren was called to assist just to test his Divine Edge Shadowless Curse. If he was really in a hurry, he could have enlisted the help of several other professors, which would have been faster.

Loren was a little downcast, and responded sullenly: "Oh."

I thought that disposing of the flesh and blood of the basilisk corpse would be a big project, and I would be busy until Christmas, but now that I suddenly found out that he would not be needed, Loren was a little disappointed.

This is the first time he has dealt with such a unique raw material. Compared with such trivial matters as extracting venom from poisonous snakes, picking flower pistils, etc., dealing with a basilisk corpse that is dozens of feet away brings a completely different sense of accomplishment.

By analogy, it may be that although I don't like studying, it is quite pleasing to solve the finale.

Now I have listed the equations according to the question setting, and after the most difficult journey, I was about to solve the result, and when I got the answer, the invigilator suddenly said, "It's ok, I just know you can do it."

I don't know how to describe it, but Loren felt a little bored.

Snape still didn't look up and continued: "I will pay you after the body disposal work is completed."

This was discussed from the beginning, and Loren could choose some materials from the basilisk corpse as "remuneration."

"Oh." Loren looked sadly, turned around and walked towards the exit of the secret room, ready to leave.

"Who said you can go?" Snape's cold voice sounded, without any ups and downs in his tone, without any emotion, as if he was asking what the weather is like today.

"Anything else, Professor?" Loren asked.

"laugh!"

Snape's tone became emotional, and it was sarcasm, "If I were you, and encountered a rare large magical animal corpse, I would watch how my potions professor would handle it. Instead of rushing to dinner, idiot!"

Loren didn't say a word, and stood obediently by the side, ready to observe Snape's handling.

Taking advantage of Snape's turning around and walking towards the basilisk, Loren curled his lips and muttered in a low voice, "I'm so angry, I always speak with stings, I'm afraid I ate a whole Hungarian Horntail for lunch..."

I don't know what happened to Snape, he was fine when he was dealing with the scales in the morning, but after lunch, he started to feel strange.

Snape came to the basilisk, stretched out his wand to the seam of one side of the basilisk's mouth, and a bright white light, like the edge of a sword, flashed from the tip of the wand.

Holding the wand casually, Snape quickly walked around the basilisk's torso, the wand never leaving the basilisk during the whole process.Snape's movements were not slow, but the basilisk's body was huge, it still took some time to complete this process.

After a while, the tip of the stick moved from one side of the basilisk's mouth to the other.Snape's movements froze for a moment, then he stopped and turned to look at Loren, asking calmly, "Do you understand?"

The crystal blue light in Loren's eyes gradually faded. He recalled the scene he had just seen and disassembled the magic spell used in it. He answered uncertainly: "It seems to be a splitting spell, a separation spell, a crushing spell." A combination of the curse and the Shadowless Curse?"

I knew he had talent...

In the dark secret room, Snape's eyes softened a little, and his tone became much calmer: "The Shadowless Curse of the Divine Edge is the foundation, and the other spells are to control the trajectory of the cutting. The most important thing is that there must be a clear mind. route."

Loren was stunned.

This is the accumulation of Snape's long career. Only by repeating the basic work countless times can he creatively knead the spells he has mastered and make them achieve the desired effect in his heart.

This is something he can't do yet, but he can learn from this comprehensive way of using magic spells.

The spell coordination that Loren has come into contact with before, each spell is isolated.Just like Hermione used the Levitation Curse combined with the Fire Curse to drive back the giant monsters in the first grade. Although there is coordination and linkage between the Levitation Curse and the Fire Curse, the two are released separately and have no direct connection.

And when Snape dealt with the basilisk just now, the linkage between the spell and the spell was integrated.

"In the process of processing the scales, I figured out the structure of the basilisk corpse and worked out the details of the dissection."

As Snape said, he raised his wand and tapped lightly on the corpse of the basilisk, the tens of feet long monster disintegrated instantly, the flesh and blood on the surface were separated from the bones in pieces, and black sticky blood plasma spilled all over the place. land.The large organs remained intact, lying quietly in the middle of the skeleton.

Amazed colors flashed in Loren's eyes, and he had to admit that although this kind of magic was difficult to use against the enemy, the disintegration process of the basilisk corpse was like an art.

The rest of the work is very simple. Use the floating spell to put the basilisk muscles broken down into pieces into the suitcase. Disassemble the skeleton into the same bones and put them into the suitcase.

The venom glands and fangs are kept separate and closely guarded.

Even the black plasma spilled on the ground was not spared, Snape packed several boxes and sealed it up.

Loren got his wish and got two shriveled and damaged eyes of the basilisk.

Snape made the decision, and the flawed scales that Loren produced in the early stage of work, and several boxes full of them, were all given to him.

Loren didn't dislike it either, and went back to the dormitory to bring his own space suitcase and put everything in it.

……

At night, the alchemy laboratory of the fantasy book.

The red brick walls form a hemispherical space. In the middle of the space, a black boiler shines with red light.The virtual light and shadow of the two eyes were projected in the air, yellow, crystal clear and full, and the terrifying vertical pupils continued to expand and adjust according to Loren's thoughts.

Loren photographed one of the eyeballs in front of him, constantly zooming in and out of the image, and analyzing the generation and flow of magic power from the lines on the cornea, the shape of the lens, and the flow state of aqueous humor and glass fluid.

When there is strong light, the pupils of snake eyes shrink, limiting the amount of light entering the eye to prevent the retina from being overly stimulated by light.In low light, the pupil dilates to increase the amount of light entering the eye, allowing the retina to receive sufficient light stimulation to produce clear vision.

He tried to find out the generation mode of the strange magic power of the basilisk from these physiological structures and dynamic changes, and tried to use the alchemy circle and the runes to construct the same system to artificially produce two kinds of magic power.

While observing the pupil reaction of the snake eye, he recorded the flow of magic power in the process.After more than half an hour, Loren still couldn't get a clue. He did observe that the magic power of the three colors did appear from scratch, but this process did not conform to any theory of magic power he knew.

Loren had no choice but to look at the virtual figure floating up and down on the boiler: "Flamel, can't you help me?"

"I worked so hard to restore the basilisk's eyeballs to their original appearance, how can you say I didn't help you?" Flamel said leisurely, he didn't seem to care much about the magic power of the basilisk.

"But after you regained your eyeballs, you've been lying there—"

Loren's eyes rolled, and he vaguely remembered that Flamel's attitude was a little weird.

He threw away the eyes of the basilisk in front of him, came to Flamel, and asked, "From the very beginning, you thought that the magic power of the basilisk could not be reproduced through alchemy, right?"

Flamel stood up slowly, floated in front of Loren, waved to capture a basilisk's eye, magnified the light and shadow, and displayed it in front of him: "Loren, you will see many magical animals in the future, naturally invisible. Invisible beasts, sometimes big and sometimes small, birds and snakes with space magic, thunderbirds that control thunder and lightning...their magic is not only generated from within, but also the transformation of natural energy. Thunderbirds can draw power from dark clouds, invisible beasts in the moonlight It's more lively..."

"Different from their innate talents, wizards' magic works in the form of magic, and we are fundamentally different from them. Before wizards touch the essence of magic, alchemy cannot be created out of nothing."

In the slightly transparent eyeballs of the basilisk, crystal liquid swayed and flowed, and the magical power of the basilisk was marked out, growing from scratch.

Loren was a little frustrated, but he still didn't give up. He gritted his teeth and retorted: "I still want to try! The basilisk is not a magical animal that exists in nature, it is bred by humans. Haierbo can breed it from scratch. Basilisk, why can’t alchemy work?”

Young man, it's not a bad thing to try a lot... Flamel smiled lightly, and instead of hitting him, he talked about some information related to the basilisk.

He floated into the air, concretizing the image of a basilisk, but the size is not so exaggerated.

"Loren, have you ever thought about a question? If the sight of a basilisk kills you, then who first spread the information about the basilisk, and how did he learn about the role of the basilisk?"

The virtual basilisk's pupils emitted a yellow light that shone on the simulated portrait. The portrait froze instantly, lost all signs of life, and dissipated into specks of light and shadow.

"Maybe the process of the basilisk's attack was observed?" Loren speculated.

Flamel did not judge whether this view was right or wrong, and asked another question: "Do you think the despicable Herbo cultivated the basilisk in a planned way, or did he hatch such a monster by coincidence?"

Plan...coincidence...Loren hesitated.

Reminiscent of what Snape said not long ago, choose the right astrology, choose a special breed of rooster and toad, feed two kinds of animal potions, induce the rooster to lay eggs, and induce the toad to hatch...

If such a complicated process is a coincidence, then these conditions are too harsh.

If it was planned in advance, it seems unlikely.After all, designing creatures according to one's own ideas is the authority of the creator. If the black wizard Hai Erbo had such ability, he would have ruled the world long ago.

Seeing Loren lost in thought, Flamel paused for a moment and continued to guide his thoughts: "I wonder if you have noticed that in Muggle myths and legends, there is a character named Medusa, who is related to snakes and petrification. related……"

Muggle myths and legends... Loren remembered the topic of the Immortals that he had talked with Flamel a long time ago: "This could also be the message left by the Immortals when they traveled?"

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows?" said Flamel mysteriously,

"Although it is recorded in the history books that the person who first cultivated the basilisk was the evil black wizard, the despicable Haierbo. But in the orthodox magic books, the concept of the basilisk was first proposed in the book "Natural History", by a Roman wizard Pliny the Elder wrote it in AD 77."

"Volume 8 of "Natural History", Chapter 33, mentions that there is a snake in the province of Cyrene that is no longer than 12 fingers wide (about 20 centimeters). It has white spots on its head and can destroy shrubs with its breath. Scorch the grass, smash the rocks. And its gaze is deadly too..."

The length is no more than 12 fingers wide, which is much smaller than the basilisk that can easily reach dozens of feet.

Destroying shrubs and scorching the grass may be the effect of the basilisk's venom, but destroying rocks... Loren recalled several encounters with the basilisk and was convinced that the basilisk's breath was not so powerful.

Putting all the information together, Loren speculated in an uncertain tone: "There once existed a small basilisk. It was an original magical animal in nature? Is it the prototype of the basilisk cultivated by Haierbo?"

Flamel nodded: "Although I don't know the specific breeding method of basilisks, my conclusion is that Haierbo designed a set of rituals for artificial breeding of basilisks based on the breeding methods of natural basilisks. In this process In the middle, he made some trade-offs on the abilities of the original basilisk, strengthened the magic power of the eyes, increased the size of the basilisk, but removed the power of the breath."

After a pause, he added: "Maybe it's a mutation!"

"What about the small basilisk, why did the small basilisk disappear?" Loren asked.

"The extinction of magical animals is not uncommon. In fact, before Newt Scamander promoted the "Fantastic Beasts Protection Act", magical animals would become extinct every year. Since the 14th century, Nicole has I have personally witnessed the extinction of several magical animals." Flammel wobbled back to the boiler.

The plan to mass-produce the magic power of the basilisk has failed, which also means that Loren's first alchemy invention plan has failed.

Before quitting the book of fantasy, Loren remembered what happened to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries.Loren asked Flamel for his opinion about using the Bloody Mary mirror to treat the Longbottoms.

Flamel said: "I do not recommend that you enter the deep consciousness of a confused patient. No one knows what it is like. If the owner of the consciousness is hostile to you, it may cause harm to you."

"What if the relatives of the patient are allowed to enter the consciousness space? The patient is definitely not hostile to his relatives."

　There really is a book called Natural History, and it was indeed written in AD 77.

　　Coincidentally, the description of the basilisk above has some similarities with the content in "Snake Catcher's Story": There is a strange snake in the wild of Yongzhou, with black substance and white markings. It will die if it touches the grass and trees.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)