Chapitre 269: Old alchemist(2)
(Flamel POV)
The name of the sender was one I knew but wasn't personally acquainted with despite how amusing the owner of it seemed to be. Albus had of course told me of the student that was giving him the most stress since he popped up out of nowhere , Nicholas Ravenclaw. A monstrous genius in almost every regard that seemed to be involved in several important affairs both secretly or directly. I was quite interested in meeting this young man after hearing about his self created enchanting method and rapidly growing skill in crafting.-
Interestingly enough the young man seems to have chosen the hardest but most beneficial form of growth in that he did not choose to learn in a specialized manner but in every regard. Veritology , charms , metallurgy , enchanting and most recently even spent a few days learning from the merfolk in the black lake. From what Albus said in his letters the lad was insatiable in his pursuit of knowledge no matter how obscure. I couldn't help but feel a bit happy when Albus had told me of the lads great proclivity for illusion magics. It was an underutilized branch of the arcane and as such had been stagnant for quite some time.-
I had very little doubt that the young lad would eventually dip his toes into alchemy as well since he clearly had a talent for the stuff like most gifted in transfiguration. Opening the simple parchment letter with a smile I read the contents held within it. Once I was done I set the letter down and stroked my chin in thought over what it said. It seems this lad has seen through my little death act easily. Surprisingly the lad has even asked for my aid in favor of the school in his first letter.-
On one hand his request was indeed easy to accommodate for myself while on the other I know how loath Albus is to ask my aid in this matter. Perhaps it is for the best that I follow the lads idea and donate a small sum of wealth into the school via a proxy so that I still remain anonymous. I do wonder what sort of face Albus will make after getting this small fortune? Ah! Perhaps I should take a trip to the english isle to visit this young man myself?-
(POV end)
Obviously Nick had in fact written up a letter and had it sent to the grand alchemist by the only creature on the planet that could track him down. See the man was very clever and made it impossible to send him letters via owl as the birds instead went straight to a drop off location that he checked for mail regularly. He had stopped however in order to play the part of dead man semi-convincingly. This meant that one needed to either personally track the man down or get the services of Fawkes to get ahold of the alchemist in hiding.-
The first option was hopeless considering the man had over six hundred years of experience and power under his belt so trying to forcefully find him was a fools errand. For most people getting Fawkes's help delivering a letter was right on the same level of difficulty with how prideful he was. Nick however was a very different matter since he was the lord of all birds including phoenixes. All he needed to do was ask and Fawkes happily took the letter to the alchemist under Dumbledore's speechless gaze. Nick hadn't asked or anything to use the phoenix but walked into the office and handed over the letter nonchalantly.-
"I admit you have me rather envious of your gift with birds , did you know it took me no less than ten years to get him to agree to deliver letters for me?" the old man asked with a sigh. Nick shrugged "I didn't expect to get this wand either but since I did I see no reason why I shouldn't use the gifts it's given me." he said casually. "It is certainly a useful ability to have if nothing else. Lemon drop?" the headmaster offered.-
"Don't mind if I do." Nick said while grabbing one of the yellow candies from the bowl. Dumbledore chuckled "You may be surprised to learn that few actually accept that offer." he said with a small smile. "Understandable really but as a student I have guest right while here , you could not offer me poisoned food any more than you could attack me so I have nothing to fear." Nick said with a shrug. "So few even seem to understand that sadly , though I am curious how you are familiar with guest right?" the old man asked interested. Nick shrugged "Helena thought I should be familiar with magical etiquette" he said honestly.
Chapitre 270: Training
Nick left the headmaster shortly after that and spent the rest of the day slowly teaching his friends what he could. While most were slowly familiarizing themselves with crafting Harry and Luna were exposed to the terror that was Nick in duels. He might not agree with most of the man's ideas but the dueling club Lockhart would have eventually created was an excellent one. 'Since neither of them will learn a craft then I may as well train them up to fight." that was his thought on the matter. Neither of the two got any mercy from him either as he regularly destroyed them in the duels.-
They were fast learners however so they improved rapidly under the pressure he exerted on them. "EXPELIARMUS!" "STUPEFY!" Harry and Luna cast spells at the same time in the area Nick set aside in the workshop to hold these mock fights. Nick saw the two spells and casually flicked his wand "PROTEGO! FUMOS!" he spoke firmly and a thick circular barrier blocked the two spells before vanishing as a cloud of black smoke filled the area they were standing in. While their vision was obscured he moved quickly tapping his wand against the ground.-
The floor rose and fell like water "EEP!" Luna called out as she clearly fell over from the unbalanced moving floor. Nick locked unto her location based on that sound "INVORTO!" he said and the spell shot through the smoke and struck Luna as she was trying the get up. She stopped trying immediately as her perception of gravity was flipped and Harry sent a stunner at Nick through the smoke that Nick caught with his wand tip and returned at double the strength. "Match!" He called out and cleared away the smoke.-
Harry was knocked out on the floor and Luna was hugging the ground like she was afraid to fall to the ceiling. "FINITE! REENERVATE!" Nick said waking Harry up and returning Luna's perception to normal. "Bloody hell Nick do you always have to be so rough?" Harry complained and Luna nodded in agreement. "You'll thank me for it later." Nick said with a chuckle. "And what about the shield charm? Why haven't you taught us that yet?" Luna asked clearly upset at his showing said spell off. "Because you don't have enough magic to use it in a duel , even if you somehow pulled it off you would be drained afterwards." Nick said with a smile ruffling her hair since he knew she hated that.-
She hissed at him while swatting away his hand much like a cat would much to his amusement. "You can use it though" Harry pointed out with a small smile at Luna's antics. "I also have more magic than both of you combined so my point still stands." Nick said before going to check on Hermione and Daphne's progress with runes. "This is too long and this is too short and this is the letter A instead of E like it should be" he pointed out the flaws in Hermione's work before frowning at Daphne's.-
"What did I say about sentence chains? they are vertical instead of horizontal by flipping them you need to adjust the angles slightly. Also this , this , this and this are all wrong." he scolded and then proceeded to show her the correct way to write the same sentence. He moved on to Ron after that who was still stuck on identifying the magical from nonmagical varieties of wood. "Remember that magical woods tend to look more vibrant then nonmagical ones." he said helpfully.-
Tracy didn't have any issues at the moment so Nick didn't bother her as she worked to memorize the various metallurgic facts he had given her. There was no point in her touching a single tool if she couldn't tell the difference between a suage block and hardy tool. Conjuring up an chair Nick went back to carving daedric runes to continue to familiarize himself with them. He didn't run any magic through the runic chains in his trial objects until he was in the designated testing area after the whole blood fountain incident.-
He finally completed his attempt at creating a water conjuring ring after the eighth try since the previous seven tries didn't go so great. Still he got points from the system for them as well as when he traded them in for more points. None of them were higher than uncommon rank wise but points were points so he didn't complain. "What sort of runes are you even working on anyways since I have never seen anything like that before." Hermione asked curiously after catching a glimpse of the daedric runes. "Demonic runes is probably the closest answer I can give that you would understand." Nick said casually.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
200+ Classement
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12 Power
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