This Hogwarts isn't normal.

This heavy topic did not last long.

People should cherish the present moment.

In Vincent's opinion, Grindelwald was too obsessed with the future, while Dumbledore took the initiative to trap himself in the past.

Grindelwald, who was born in the wrong era, and Dumbledore, who did not know what mistakes he had made, must have more than just a simple relationship of enemies.

After a very quiet lunch, Vincent found Nico.

"Teacher, can magic runes be changed from simple to complex?"

"Yes." Nico picked up the super powerful one engraved with a magic rune.

He easily switched back and forth between the gun blade and the submachine gun, which did not seem like the first time to use it.

"You want to add restrictions to it?"

Vincent nodded, "Yes, in addition to my ability to use it, can there be some permissions for temporary activation?"

"In principle, it works." Nico roughly explained the principle.

When touching the magic rune, if it does not detect a specific mana, it cannot fire bullets or change its form.

Even if others get super power, without Vincent's magic power, it will only be a sharp weapon.

Temporary activation can exist, but it will not last too long.

Two hours later, a new magic rune appeared on the trigger.

Nico took a little effort to unlock this restriction.

Vincent was not disappointed.

If even he couldn't crack it, he wouldn't be a legendary alchemist.

"They shouldn't be able to crack it."

Vincent knew that this "they" referred to the people of the International Alchemy Association.

From the tone of this sentence, he heard that Nico didn't seem to like this association very much.

"The reason why I chose to fake my death is largely because they have always wanted to obtain my manuscripts to make a real Philosopher's Stone."

Since the moment the Philosopher's Stone was born, it has become the pinnacle of alchemy.

Nico hesitated for a long time, and finally got up and came to the shelf.

He opened one of the largest grids and took out the "Jewish Book of Abraham".

Vincent looked at the book handed to him and took it without hesitation.

He couldn't understand the text, so he just flipped through the illustrations.

Page 7 showed a cane with two snakes wrapped around it, one of which was devouring the other.

Page 14 showed a cross with a snake nailed to it.

Page 21 showed a desert with many snakes coming out of several clear springs.

In addition to the large illustrations on seven pages, there were four small ones on pages 4 and 5.

The first picture on page 4 showed two people.

A man with a hat holding a double snake staff was fighting an old man with wings and a sickle in the air, with an hourglass on his forehead.

The second picture was in color.

On the top of a high mountain grew a beautiful flower with a blue stem, white and red petals, and golden leaves.

At the bottom was a griffin, which was building a nest on the hillside with a dragon.

The first picture on page 5 was a garden.

There is an oak tree in the center of the garden, and a tree full of roses grows out of its hollow part.

There is a fountain under the tree that gushes white liquid, and in the distance a group of blind people squat on the ground and grope around.

The second painting shows a king, who is holding up a big knife and ordering his soldiers to kill many babies.

The mothers of the babies are kneeling in front of them and begging, and there are some buckets and crucibles next to them.

These containers are filled with blood, and they also reflect the sun and the moon.

If all these illustrations are substituted into alchemy, Vincent finds that they each symbolize one of the seven stages.

The snake swallows the snake, which is the fusion of matter, that is, calcination.

The snake is nailed to the cross and dies, which refers to the corruption of matter, which means dissolution.

The reappearance of the snake group means separation.

The man fights the old man, suggesting the convergence of matter.

The flowers of different colors on the mountain represent the use of different substances, and the only golden leaf represents the final generation of matter, which is equivalent to fermentation.

The blind men did not notice the white liquid distilled from the bottom of the hollow oak tree, implying that the fake alchemists who were looking for materials ignored their surroundings.

The last blood refers to a kind of nitric acid, the sun and the moon represent gold and silver respectively, and the three will produce the Philosopher's Stone when they are condensed.

Vincent suddenly turned back.

The double snake staff in the man's hand is very similar to the Slytherin wand in the rumor.

"The wand inherited by the Gaunt family, could it be--"

Nico nodded gently, "Salazar Slytherin must have owned this book.

But he failed to decipher all the contents, so he only made the double snake staff in the end."

Yinsot Sayer stole the double snake staff from Gormlaith Gaunt, fled to America and founded the Yinlvermorny School of Magic.

It is said that there is an extremely rare snakewood tree at the entrance of the school.

"Teacher, since the double snake staff is an alchemical item, will it have some special functions?"

"Yes, and it's very special." Nico turned the book to the third page and pointed to the second to last line.

"It says here that if the Caduceus is not activated, it will remain dormant."

"Activate--" Vincent picked up the super powerful weapon beside him, "Is it through magic runes?"

"No, it's not that simple." Nico closed the book.

"Salazar Slytherin used a more special method, a method that can only be activated by him and his descendants."

"What is it?"

"Snake Old Tongue."

The case was solved, but it was useless.

This double snake staff inherited from Slytherin by the Gaunt family has basically been confirmed to have turned into a snakewood tree.

It is regrettable that the talent of Snake Old Tongue can only be inherited through blood.

Even more regrettable is that the Gaunt family has completely disappeared.

Although there are still some distant relatives, the probability of them inheriting Snake Old Tongue is as low as the descendants of the Squibs reappearing as wizards.

Perhaps it is precisely because they want to increase the probability that the Gaunt family has been intermarrying with their relatives.

"Teacher, didn't they have Snake Old Tongue again before they disappeared?"

Nico's eyes became extremely complicated.

He hesitated several times, "Yes, and it was someone you can't even imagine."

Vincent was curious, "Who is it?"

"Find Albus, he will give you the answer."

Find Dumbledore?

Find a ghost!

Just looking at Nico's expression just now, you can tell that this person has a great background.

If you know, you will definitely be involved in something.

The double snake staff needs the snake's voice to activate, and Vincent is not interested in such a tricky thing.

"Give up?"

"Yes."

Nico's eyes flashed with a trace of praise, "It is very difficult to create a double snake staff again. Not only does it require extremely rare snake wood, but it also requires a basilisk horn that is even rarer than it."

Everything is related to snakes, no wonder Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago was able to figure it out.

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