Harry Potter: Charlie and the Candy Factory

Charlie raised the ruby-encrusted ring, slowly raised his hand, squinted his eyes under the light, and carefully looked at its details.

The round ruby ​​without any edges appears slightly deeper under the light.

His fingers played with the ring dexterously, and his fingertips slowly touched the inside of the brass ring body, and he could clearly feel the traces of seal engraving.

Densely packed spells and symbols that Charlie had never seen before were intertwined, and they were all condensed into a small ring with an extremely exaggerated craftsmanship.

Even though Charlie had just seen it and hadn't put it on his hand, he couldn't help but admire the exquisiteness of this ring.

However, compared to the exquisite and complex interior of his ring body, its exterior appears extremely simple, even close to shabby.

The simple and unpretentious brass has no decoration or lines at all, as if it was just a prototype, and then the ruby ​​was roughly stuffed in.

At first glance, it looks like a random piece of junk picked up from the hands of a witch who was knocked unconscious by poisonous smoke in Upside Down Alley.

However, this appearance did not hinder Charlie's liking for him at all.

As someone who always prefers practicality, he naturally prefers its function over its appearance.

Moreover, such an ordinary and unnoticeable prop may play a different role at some point.

"The person who made this ring must be a genius..."

Charlie took it back in front of his eyes, observing the alchemy technique like a work of art with some obsession, and then said to himself

“I really don’t know if Nicoléme, the legendary great alchemist in this world, can do this.”

After that, he put Vivien, who had finished eating and was resting on his arm motionless, on the table.

Seeing that she was let down, Vivien didn't make any fuss. Instead, she found a place leisurely and continued to peck her feathers.

Charlie shook off some residue on his hand, then spread his palm and put it directly on his index finger without hesitation.

Charlie noticed that the moment the ring was put on his hand, the shadow in the ruby ​​​​on the ring stirred and faintly lit up.

Then, before he could react, the originally plain brass seemed to be suddenly injected with some kind of life. The originally hard ring body suddenly became softer, and Charlie's index finger began to stretch around it.

A series of tiny tentacles emerged and then slowly submerged into the flesh.

Charlie's brows couldn't help but wrinkled, his mouth licked, looking at this horrifying scene, but he didn't immediately take it off.

After all, as a task reward given to him by the system, Charlie, who has had many cooperation experiences, still has reason to believe that the other party will not harm him.

And the reality was just as he expected, when the tentacles on the ring were all submerged into the flesh, a slight sting followed.

A touch of red flowed into the ruby ​​along the ring body, and the ring seemed to have completed the certification. It quickly retracted the spreading tentacles back to the ring body, becoming simple and unpretentious again.

"Blood oath?" Charlie's eyes became strange.

This ancient alchemy technique was used when Charlie was in school at Hogwarts. When he bravely broke into the forbidden book area, he accidentally found a sixteenth-century Alchemist's Skin Scroll.

At least that's what it said on it. As for whether it was human skin or not, the young and energetic Charlie didn't worry too much at the time.

In that book, there was a detailed record of an alchemy technique that was extremely popular at that time, which was [Blood Oath].

By grinding a human skull into powder and blending it into an alchemical item, and adding the corresponding magic spell, the alchemical item can be permanently linked to the owner it serves, and cannot be released until the death of the owner.

In that crazy era when wizards were not restricted by ethics, this technique was widely used all over Europe.

But with the changes of the times, alchemy technology has been upgraded and iterated in the hands of generations of wizards.

The way to establish connections with alchemical items is also more stable and secure.

The alchemy techniques of the Blood Oath were gradually forgotten, and finally tended to disappear.

As for the Alchemy Human Skin Scroll, it is probably the only book that still retains this technique.

Charlie did not expect that this kind of alchemy technique, which was already on the verge of extinction, could still be seen on this ring given by the system.

"Is it possible that you are from the sixteenth century?"

Charlie murmured to himself while trying to hold the palm with the ring on it.

There is no other feeling at all...

"Let me try..."

Charlie sat back on his seat, then closed his eyes and slowly rubbed the ruby ​​on the ring, trying to activate it.

The result was somewhat beyond his expectation. When he slowly inserted his magic power into the ring, there was no obstruction or awkwardness at all like when other alchemical items came into contact for the first time. Everything seemed to fall into place naturally.

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When Charlie opened his eyes again, his ringed hand already held the scroll recording magic and the new mission blueprint.

"Great." Charlie looked at the thing in his hand and nodded.

Although Charlie didn't know whether this space-type magic item ring came from the wizarding world in the sixteenth century, or was a product of another world.

However, at least Charlie can be sure...this thing is definitely a good thing, even better than the scroll recording A-level magic.

With this thing, it is not as simple as having an extra storage space for Charlie.

This characteristic of being able to be collected and released at will with one's own thoughts undoubtedly makes its value far beyond that of ordinary space-type alchemical items.

As long as Charlie can touch it, the moment he touches the object, he can directly pull it into the space of the ring... This alone can immediately give rise to countless wonderful ideas in his mind.

I believe that as long as he is given some time, if nothing happens, this ring will become his most powerful life-saving artifact.

Even more than the windbreaker that Charlie has been wearing, which the system rewards with the [Magic Resistance] feature.

After playing with the ring contentedly for a while, Charlie finally remembered the two other things besides it.

He turned his head, glanced at the magic scroll quietly placed on the table, and reached out to pick it up.

Anyway, with this low price, Charlie no longer looks forward to the so-called A-level magic scroll as much as he imagined, so...it doesn't matter.

While thinking this, Charlie slowly opened the scroll, revealing the first text.

“protego    diabolic”