"I'll go out and come back soon."
Ollivand took the old wand and walked towards the fireplace in the corner of the workroom with a firm look. It was an old fireplace, which had been blackened by fireworks in previous years, and there was no initial color. The fireplace had been cleared, with only a little dust on the ground without carbon ash. Ollivand bent down, squeezed into the low fireplace, grabbed a handful of glittering green powder from the small bag hanging on the wall, and threw it under his feet.
"Friends of Merlin!"
A green flame suddenly rose and swallowed Ollivander, and then they disappeared together. "It turns out that this is the fireplace teleportation mentioned by the house elves. Yes, it is Floor powder!" Feiqi came to the fireplace and squatted down, stretched out his palm to feel the magic in front of him.
The fireplace gradually brightened up, and bright white lines appeared on the thick smoky black surface. These lines continued to extend forward, turn, and connect in series, and finally presented to Feiqi a complex magic array, with dense patterns filled with runes that Feiqi didn't recognize.
He took out a pinch of Flyro powder from his small pocket hanging by the fireplace, and looked at it while twisting it, sniffing it, and even tasted it slightly. Shani worriedly dissuaded: "Don't eat randomly, aren't you afraid of poisoning?"
"It's obvious that this thing is for daily household use, so I'll just grab it with my hands naked and sprinkle it out. If it's poisonous, the wizard should be dead - but its taste is really bad." Feiqi spitted out, and then threw the remaining Floor powder from his fingertips into the fireplace. The magic circle flashed for a moment, and the energy fluctuation to be opened to open the space transmission was generated, but it did not hear the user shouting the destination name, so it stopped running itself, and the light of the magic circle disappeared and completely hidden.
"The main function of Floor powder is to pay to activate this magic circle. It was made into a consumable. I tasted the powder with elemental gems inside. This should be the main component, but the quantity is very small. The rest are some mixed powders, which are very sensitive to the energy fluctuations generated by space transmission. Just one thing, to ensure that the Floor powder you throw down will be burned out every time."
Feiqi took a little Flue powder and tasted it, and then cast a simple teleportation spell by himself. The Flue powder really started to burn again. However, this time, after the green flames, some dust that was even finer than sand remained on Feiqi's fingers.
"Look, Elemental Gem Powder. The teleportation technique just now was provided with mana by myself, and I did not use the magic array of the wizard teleportation network, so there is still a little left in these elemental Gem Powder powder. Obviously, the wizards themselves have the spells to transmit. This Floor powder transmission network is simple and ordinary transmission system, and it relies on selling Floor powder to make profits to maintain operation." Feiqi also has a self-operated teleportation array platform, so he understood it as soon as he thought about it. "Floor powder is a good way to make money."
"It seems you have thought of it too!" Shani said: "There are less Floor powder used, and the teleportation cannot be carried out, but there is no balance to give the exact quantity. Therefore, in order to ensure the successful teleportation, people will choose to throw more, so they must buy more."
"It seems a bit shameless to make a profit by wasting! I don't know who is operating the Floom Fan Network. Be careful of its greed when dealing with it." Feiqi left in front of the fireplace and sat on Ollivand's work chair. "Shani, what kind of person do you think this old man is?"
"I feel like he is a pure craftsman, with a heartfelt kindness and enthusiasm for people. The only problem is that he is a little too focused on the wand." Shani said: "Feich, is he going to return the old wand?"
"Maybe it. Friends of Merlin is the name of the cemetery where the wand was once the owner, so he is going to return it in almost every ten. I also hope he can get rid of the old wand because the wand in his hand has become stronger and very dangerous."
"Will he be in danger?"
"It's not yet. The old wand was made, first of all the wands, and then the contract. The contract was designed very cunningly and would not immediately affect all the wizards around them - otherwise it would not be called the old wand, but the ignorant stick." Feiqi smiled and said, "He will have a subtle influence on the people around the wand holders, tempting them to study and arouse their greed, but this requires a lot of time to accumulate. Olivand sent him back with the wand. In this short period of time, the wand could not affect him."
Even though he said that, no one could be completely sure of this as long as Ollivand didn't come back. Shani stared at the fireplace, waiting for the green flame to appear again, and then an old man fell out of it. Feich turned to concentrate on studying Ollivand's tool table, especially those semi-finished wands.
Judging from the eyes of a magic item maker, many secrets of the wand can naturally be discovered. There are more than a dozen semi-finished products in front of Feich, from a branch to a quasi-finished product that can show the power of the wand, but there are all available without paint and decoration. If the wand is a system, then its manufacturing process has been completely unfolded and presented to Feich, which makes his cracking work very simple.
He stretched out his hand, his palm facing down, and passed over and over again, repeatedly repetitively, constantly exploring the secret of the wand with detection spells. He gradually gained experience, at least he was very clear about the working principle of the wand: the wand is a bridge connecting the soul and the real world, and it constructed a speedy channel for mana and spells. At the same time, the processed wand has stronger focus performance in the direction pointed at the tip, which improves the success rate of the spell, and all this requires the maker to constantly use his own mana to sharpen the wand.
This is very similar to the process of constantly scraping and brushing the nails in one direction with magnets, and finally getting the nails magnetic. Feiqi has basically understood this part, but he did not understand the other end of the function of the wand: why the wand can adapt to the soul and why it has the ability to choose the owner.
Fortunately, Olivand finally came back, and he could answer this question. Judging from the old man's relaxed expression, he should have returned the old wand and completely got rid of this potential threat. However, Fitch could see that Olivand had a new idea in his heart, that is, to make a wand that is stronger than the old wand, and safer and kind. This idea arose when he heard that the old wand was also from the hand of a wizard.
"The owner of the wand is chosen because the tree used in the wand is of quality and its shape is in line with the character of a wizard." Ollivand said: "For example, black walnut, like owners with insight and keen intuition; for example, hawthorn, it has contradictory characteristics, suitable for which active, unpredictable, and even somewhat extreme personality."
"What about elderberry?"
"Are you talking about the old wand?" Olivande frowned: "The old wand is a bit special, and I can't speak nonsense. Due to the legend of the old wand, many wizards have ordered elder wands, and my family also have some records. Elderwood is always related to death, and evil witchcraft related to death and soul will be used. A magic wand made of elderwood will definitely amplify this characteristic, which ordinary wizards can't bear at all."
"In addition, there is also a problem with its core." Ollivand said: "Yeqi is a creature between life and death. Only wizards who have seen death with their own eyes and are shocked by death can see Yeqi with their naked eyes. There is a saying that Yeqi is the mount of the soul. After a person dies, Yeqi will send him to heaven or hell."
Feiqi thought about it and had never seen or heard of the creatures like Night Rider. The souls and prayers appeared randomly like teleportation without warning, and then walked in Hell with both legs. However, the place where Night Rider sent the soul to may be the underworld, which is the transit station for the souls of the dead to the outer plane. The devil cannot go to that place, so it is normal that he has not seen it before.
"Yeqi's tail hair and mane are extremely difficult to stabilize when making a wand, just as life and death cannot exist at the same time. I have made a wand with elderberry and made a wand with Yeqi, but I cannot combine them. Elderberry is close to death, and Yeqi is the mount of the soul of the dead. Logically speaking, the old wand should directly kill its master and let the magic disappear. But it can strengthen magic and make his master invincible."
"There is no invincible battle, it is the illusion created by the contract inside. The old wand can only ensure that when a battle occurs between the wizards, his master will win, not be invincible in the world." Feich's wand has no contract, and is closer to the essence, so he knows this very well. "Ollivand, my question is, how do the qualities that trees have come into being?"
"Uh... they already exist!"
Feiqi shook his head, he did not agree with the result, and Ollivand began to think. He moved out the record of his wand and took basic works on wands from the bookcase in a corner of the workplace. In the wizarding world, there is a "wire science" that specializes in studying knowledge about wands.
The two of them studied and discussed, and soon forgot the time, and did not notice that Shani was asleep in her clothes. In the process of inspiring each other, they discovered an interesting phenomenon: at different times, the qualities represented by the wand materials will be nuanced; in different regions, there will even be completely opposite results.
Take elderberry as an example. Its flowers can be made into drinks and are also added to beer. They are believed to clean impurities in the body and improve physical fitness. Therefore, in other wizard culture circles, elderberry is often made into a talisman to prevent evil and hang on the door to keep evil creatures away.
"The characteristics of these trees are related to their uses, and the other is given by people. Some characteristics are derived by observing the appearance of plants, and some sources are just a story and a legend." Feiqi said to Olivande: "It's just that these characteristics have been recognized by people and formed a cultural atmosphere. The human souls incorporated into this atmosphere, and gradually they have really affected these plants."
"Then, I strengthened this atmosphere in the process of making the wand..." Ollivand wiped the sweat from his head and said a little unconfidently: "Actually, the characteristics of the wand are given by humans?"
"It's not all. These plants themselves are indeed different. We cannot ignore this difference and enter the category of comprehensive idealism." Feiqi said: "Your power alone cannot be compared with the cultural atmosphere. You are just creating a magic wand and polishing the wand with magic power. The more you understand the wand, the richer the characteristics of the wand will be, and the stronger the effect will be. But you can't deny the function of the wand user! The wand will always be more mature and mature the more you use it. This is not your credit, right?"
"It's not." Olivander looked at Feich's new wand and said, "I began to understand, and this time I understood it thoroughly: I could not combine elderberry and night-riding hair into a wand because I thought they were too dangerous and uncontrollable. And Antioch Peverier could accomplish it, and it is very likely that in his time, the meaning of these two things did not necessarily mean the same as they are now."
"If I were the devil who made a contract, after discovering that this combination could greatly increase the power of magic..." Feiqi said: "In order to ensure the advantages of the old wand, I might spread new stories, cover up until the old impression is eliminated, and slowly reverse the wizards' views on elderberry and night riding. In this way, future wand makers will not be able to exert the power of these two substances."
Olivand nodded and sighed, "It is true that this can be done, but how can we reverse the current situation?"
"Is it necessary to reverse?" Feiqi asked back: "The most important thing is to cultivate new wand makers to carry forward the craft and avoid slowly losing it. As long as there are enough manufacturers, the tradition can be preserved and no longer loses the characteristics of a certain material."
"But now the wand cannot be sold at all, so there is so much backlog."
"That's because the population of wizards is too small, and the population of wizards is too small, which is very related to the ignorant theory of blood concentration." Feiqi said: "Witches do not have to worry about food and clothing. There is a great world outside, but they are gradually becoming conservative and closed. What else can I say?"
"Yes, you're right. Wizards should be more open and tolerant. Wizards are culture, not bloodlines - at least not mainly bloodlines." Ollivand thought for a while and said, "I am a magic wand, and I shouldn't be concerned about this matter, but for the sake of the wand and for the wizard, I can't stand by! I should oppose the wizards leaving the earth, which can only form a closed secret room, and ultimately eliminate wizards and magic!"
"It's not that exaggerated..." Feiqi continued to guide Ollivand consciously: "The separation is not to destroy the wizards. He always listens to their opinions and see if there is a way to compromise. They may also have important reasons to have dialogue rather than opposition, right?"
"What you said makes sense and has a high perspective. You deserve to be the Emperor of the Magic Empire." Ollivand slapped his thigh and indeed said to Feiqi: "I have a good idea! Why don't you go and talk to the Departure Sect with me and give me a pertinent opinion?"
"How can this work? I'm not from the wizarding world." Feiqi pretended to shirk.
Chapter completed!