章節 9: Wand, a dragon and enrichment plans.
POV MC
"Jade dragon blood. Check.
"300 grams of goblin silver. check
"Wooden heart of an ancient cherry tree. check
"Jade dragon heart string. Check.
"Blood of a wizard. Check.
All materials were ready and I felt effusively good. Yes, my wand would be the best wand ever.
There were some curious materials on my list but they were easily explained. The jade dragon was my familiar dragon that supposedly didn't exist until I created it. It wasn't a bad thing actually, but the name given was pretty uncreative. Of course jade dragon was the name I gave this specific dragon variant. Before the ritual my patron was an ordinary Welsh dragon (as common as a dragon can be, at least) and only after he had melted the flames did he change.
The shape remained however and its most visible change was the jade-white color that reminded me of a farming novel I read earlier. There was a jade dragon who was known as the incubus in the dragon world because of his allure and the sexual vigor he possessed. Of course, my dragon wasn't like that since it was a Western race and not the snake with paws that the Easterners called a dragon...but taking that slightly racist attack out of the equation, my dragon was way too top. He was big and magical. So much so that you could easily increase or decrease your size... Although the amount of food you consume doesn't decrease along with your size.
He could also go invisible and kept asking him to curl up around my neck. I couldn't refuse, after all he gave me a piece of his heart and a fair amount of blood.
Anyway, we should get started. I prepared properly for this and was using the Black family ritual room. A cauldron was already properly boiling Yulong's blood (yes, I gave my western dragon an oriental name, sue me) and Sakura's wood was bathing in it as it soaked up the blood.
The function of the liquid that was confused in the wood during the manufacturing process was to make the wood moldable enough to support the core and magic of the master maker. So what would happen if we could use another liquid? It was theoretically impossible. But I am a genius. Or rather, I'm not believing what wizards believe is impossible and so I went even deeper into my studies and realized that making wood malleable was possible if the wood and the intended liquid were treated with maker magic from the start.
The downside is that this would make the resulting wand completely loyal to the creator and could not be used by any other mage. As I didn't want to make wands for trade, this disadvantage was hardly disadvantageous for me. So I went ahead and instead of using the normally used liquid mix, I took Yulong's blood and made my best effort to make Sakura's wood absorb it.
And it worked perfectly.
Now came the hard part. Shape the wand while using the enchantment on the wand then add the core... just kidding.
After all I had silver goblin and Orichalcum to wear here. Why the hell would I forget this? Let's not be stupid after all. I spent a lot of gold to get these beauties.
Wandlore's tradition was known for not being able to use metals in its making. For some reason, specific metals like copper and tin had very good magical conduction... in simple words, if you put magic through copper it would run through the metal and flow out of it almost instantly. Some other metals were well known for preventing magic from passing through, such as lead. During witch hunts, inquisitors often used lead to trap wizards and witches before tying them up and burning them alive.
For this reason it was agreed that using metal in wands was impossible and any wand that appeared with metal would be frowned upon. Not that these wands were useful anyway, so nothing wrong with disdain.
Of course, Silver Goblin and Orichalcum were different metals. Like some woods, the magic given to metals resonated with the magician's magic before being channeled into, for example, spells and hexes. This means that it is possible to use such metals in wands...
But nobody knows how to work these metals other than Goblins and that's why nobody has ever tried.
Now why this history class? Simple, you know that rumor that Gringotts has dragons protecting some of the highest priority vaults? It's not a rumor. In the movie and book when Harry Potter and his fan club invade Gringotts they find the dragon and release it in the middle of the bench.
The Goblins are well-known blacksmiths and deal with flames daily. Why would they have a dragon if not to use the flames in their metalworking efforts? Following basic logic, molding and working such metals shouldn't be difficult if they are liquefied by flames too ferociously... It reminds me of Valyrian steel...
Now how could I use this to my advantage?
"Yulong, use the flames on these metals please." I asked my handsome familiar who is currently on my left shoulder as I levitated Sakura's wood and the two highly conductive metals.
As my dragon blew its turquoise flames and melted the metals I began to vibrate Sakura's wood before starting to fuse with the metals now into their liquid floating forms. She had Yulong blood and wouldn't be easily ignited by the flame so there was no problem.
Once the flames merged the two materials the result was as expected, magnificent. A medium-sized ball of silvery pink wood was floating as I gloated.
I got it.
Take that uneducated wand makers.
"Nice job, Yulong. You are a good boy as always." I smiled at my familiar before he rubbed his face against mine.
Spoiled boy!
"Well, now it's time to shape the wand and fuse the core."
And that's what happened without any surprise. Everything else was expected after all. I just needed to be careful with my wand-making additions, but once the <impossible> part was done, everything else followed fluidly.
"Now, lunchtime."
~ scene break ~
It's been two months since I arrived in England. Kreatcher had changed considerably since he started studying stewardship and started acting like a proper butler. I had instructed him to look for free elves for me, only 6 of them, as I didn't need much and he obeyed without question. If it had been before he would have cried and asked if I wanted to get rid of him, but now he was a proper gentleman.
It helped when I basically made him head elf of the Black mansion and my personal elf when I was gone. He was so happy that I thought he would explode. Only learning from books caused him to restrain himself.
I had also coached the girls. I made them exercise physically every day and learn noble etiquette extensively. His magical training was not neglected either. They would be my battle maids after all. Aarine and Karine also got very close to me during practice and almost always on breaks we had I would be laying on her soft thighs.
They still didn't have breasts so it was as good a substitute as any.
About me, I also haven't neglected my studies. In fact, I was about to do something outrageous again.
I've always wondered, and I believe everyone has at some point, why did wizards despise muggleborns but accept being served by elves? I mean, they are disgusting. Seriously, his looks, his mannerisms, his tone of voice… There weren't many redeeming qualities besides fierce loyalty. In that case, as a mage, why not change that?
I had studied golemmancy a lot in these two months and came to a terrifying conclusion. Golems are bastard versions of homunculi. Now why is this important? Why house elves are a homunculi race created by mages to be proper servants. According to wizarding tradition, many centuries ago, a particular wizard created the first living sentient homunculus. This homunculus was created using the clotted blood of ancient forest elves as a base and lived exactly 3 days before its body decomposed.
The magician in question replicated his work and in the period when the said being was alive forced him (he ordered him as a slave) to copulate with a newly captured Muggle woman. During the days the poor being lived, he lived very well (in my opinion) making children with the poor Muggle.
Of course, it took a few years for conception to be possible and many Muggle women underwent such treatment before the first house-elf was born.
Now why did I tell all this?
Why as a homunculi race shouldn't transfiguration be possible? Also, could I use transmutation instead of transfiguration? To make the change in appearance of these poor devils permanently more bearable?
Of course, it took days for my calculations to be done and redone before the theory became impeccable. I learned from my house elves about their physical bodies and their organs and tunes in quite easily.
And no, I didn't use experimentation here. Diagnostic spells only. Of course transmuting their bodies would be a mildly unpleasant experience after all. But I wouldn't back down on that.
So that's how I laid one of the new elves on the floor of the Black family ritual room and started the process. First, marrow. I basically sent pure magic to the elf's bone marrow and filled it all with my magic.
Then I started breaking their bones and skeletons into dust. They were properly in place despite everything. I used magic to not change the place where the bones were, at least untilI make the desired changes. And that's what I did. I started shaping the bones, increasing their size and using transmutation to turn my magic into minerals necessary for the skeleton's existence. So I altered the shape of the skull and strengthened all the bones there, just in case.
After that it was easy. I exchanged a small piece of the elf's bone marrow for a human's bone marrow, there would be no rejection after all, they were descended from humans after all. So I replaced the blood completely with human blood (same types) and started molding the little bastard's muscles, cartilage, and skin. Then I just added hair and I had an improved house elf specifically for the Black family.
The elf's appearance completely changed after my work and was still stabilizing. The magic I used in her marrow was now covering her body to consolidate the change and before long I had a 1.60 m tall fluffy elf with smooth fair skin (I hated these creature's wrinkles more than anything) and black hair common. He still had big eyes but they weren't scary anymore, his ears that once resembled bats were now more like Shera from Isekai Maou to shoukan Shoujo Dorei Majutstu.
Hmm...
I cast a diagnostic spell on the elf and he looked fine, only that his biological signature had changed. Looks like my theory was correct. The addition of bone marrow and human genetic material made the structure of this life form more stable. It didn't seem like there was much change as they would still depend on the manna of the mage they serve, but... Now their appearances have improved and their descendants will be able to inherit their traits.
That was good.
So let's go on and change all these little bastards into a little less ugly bastards.
I smiled at the thought of it. I was creating a new race here.
Now that I think about it, I should think of a suitable name for these new beings... They were still house elves after all, but calling them that... Um... They were part human too...
Well... thinking about it reminds me of a certain group of small creatures that didn't exist in the world in question... but their characteristics weren't all that similar...
I was in doubt between Hobbits and those creatures from the world of Planets. But maybe using that isn't the best option... Oh, how about Eldens.
The Eldens race. Sounds good. Better than house-elf for sure. Also, I kept the El de elf, it was a way of paying homage to the races that gave rise to my little experiment. Well I will go with that.
"Um...master Black...Are you finished?" the little bastard woke up still a little groggy. I had to give this elf some credit. He hasn't yelled once since we started. Um... maybe I should give it to him.
"Yes, we are. You are no longer a house elf, as of today you are an Elden, my faithful servant. Drop your old name and accept your new name too. Outline." I spoke with all the pomp that a boy with 2nd grade syndrome suffers. The creature then burst into tears of happiness and thanked him. I just stayed silent and waited for him to calm down.
"Don't act in that explosive way anymore from now on. Such strong emotions are only for your family and only in your home. As my servant you must have the minimum required composure. He understood?"
"Yes, Master Black. This servant has understood and will no longer shame the noble house he serves."
"Good. Now call your future brothers here. I must give you mates after all."
"As you order."
And he left to bring my future Eldens. The magical population in general will have ugly servants and I will have my cute little bastards tending to me. Now that was the sign of high status.
A few more months passed and my 7 Eldens were even scarier than the elves. They learned much faster and acted with more constancy than their stupid counterparts. The integrated human genes made their structure better every day and their elven appearances were more delineated. They were still small, but I'm afraid they were already taller than me.
Well, 7 years after all.
Anyway Kreatcher was given an Eldenian name and it was now Memphis, my personal elf. He looked better than his brothers thanks to my detailed care. His eyes were amber and his hair was brown and covered his entire skull evenly. He also adhered to the old-fashioned butler style and dressed like a Chibby version of Sebastian, even though he lacked the charm and sex appeal of a demonic character.
My studies advanced further and I was able to raise golems quite proficiently. There wasn't the obvious weakness of the inverted name on the forehead and they weren't exclusively made of clay. I used heavy metals for bones, whale oil for blood, and carbon fiber tow for muscle.
Of course, after doing all this I started thinking about ways to market to make money. I wassincerely thinking about creating some cute golems and putting them in balls similar to Pokemon's Pokeballs. But I would need wizards to have access to the anime or... the manga.
Maybe I could design the series and after it spread... This was a long-term project... but if I made it successful it was guaranteed. There were 3 things that wizard society in general was lacking. Common sense was the first thing, obviously, but it can be ignored as an essential and not a material need. How many material needs... The one that qualified first was entertainment. There was Quidditch, but the hearts were at intervals too long to be viral. Another thing wizards lacked was a modern fashion sense. In 1988 there wasn't much to the style of the wizarding world in general when it came to clothing. That kind of caused a big digression in my humble opinion in the muggle born minds.
Now, the thing most needed by wizards today would be various consumer goods. And that was closely linked to lack of entertainment. See, suppose I created a magical version of Pokémon here in the wizarding world (thank goodness there was none of my old world's otaku literature in this world for some reason. Some literary works from past centuries were also deficient compared to prime earth where I come from) I would be supplying or nurturing new forms of entertainment. The notion of comics was not a thing in the wizarding world for some idiotic reason. But changing the subject, creating the comic and then creating animated golems that mimic the Pokemons would guarantee me a pretty good income.
Of course, there is still a lot left in the current wizarding world that I could provide. Televisions for example. But... if I used Muggle technology I would be frowned upon by these blood purists... at least if I used Muggle technology at that time.
Hmm... food for thought...
Let's start with the jobs.
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