Chapter 768 Stolen? (seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

Chapter 768 Stolen? (seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

Chapter 768 Stolen? (seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)
When the word "Black Death" came out of Anduin's mouth, Nick raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then showed a clear expression.

"Why?" Nick continued to ask after a moment of silence, "Why do you think the Philosopher's Stone is related to the Black Death?"

"Because the Philosopher's Stone is powerful enough! It is a power beyond ordinary people's cognition!"

Anduin had been staring at Nick intently, as if he wanted to see something in the other's eyes. Of course, he did not use Legilimency to kill himself. Using spiritual magic on a wizard who has lived for hundreds of years is simply self-inflicted. its shame.

"At the same time, due to a certain coincidence, I happened to learn some knowledge about [Life Formation], and from the Philosopher's Stone, I can clearly recognize that trace."

"And to make a treasure like the Sorcerer's Stone, the life required must be an astronomical figure!"

"Your wisdom is eye-opening, Anduin." Nick nodded in admiration, and then straightened his face immediately, "Yes, I can tell you clearly that the Philosopher's Stone is indeed related to the formation of life."

"So you are admitting that the Philosopher's Stone is the chief culprit of the Black Death epidemic?"

Anduin said this with a serious face, and at the same time, he could see that Nick was not lying to him, or did not intend to lie to him.

"If... I mean if." Nick did not answer Anduin directly, "If the answer is as you think, what are you going to do? You must know that hundreds of years have passed since the 15th century, isn't it? Are you going to avenge the people at that time?"

"I do not know."

Anduin said frankly, and at the same time, a dangerous light gradually emerged in his eyes, "But this at least proves that the person who caused such a tragedy is not trustworthy, and even letting him exist is a huge threat in itself."

"The lessons in history tell me that it is difficult for a person's evil to dissipate with the passage of time, especially for a person who has no bottom line to slaughter millions of people for his own self-interest."

"So, just for the sake of your own safety, sometimes you have to use some extreme measures to eliminate the danger hidden in the dark."

Nick listened to Anduin's faintly threatening words with indifference, then raised his hand and pointed upwards, and looked at him with a teasing face.

"Do you mean the ship hidden in the sky by your so-called extreme means? Or do you mean yourself? With all due respect, the means you have shown so far do not make me feel threatened."

Anduin sneered when he heard the words, he was not surprised that Nico could find Leona lurking in the sky, but if the other party thinks that what he perceives is all, then he is underestimating him.

One must know that Anduin devoted 80% of his alchemy talent to combat. Even if the opponent is a legendary wizard, he is confident that he is not incapable of fighting. Even if he cannot fight, at least he can retreat completely.

"Whether my means can threaten you or not, you can only know if you try it yourself. Why? Do you have such an idea?"

After Anduin uttered these gunpowder-flavored words, he stared at Nick Flamel coldly, and at the same time, the other party also looked at him without squinting.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the living room dropped to freezing point, and the surrounding air was almost frozen. Both of them were tense, as if they would suddenly explode in the next moment.

"Hehehe!!"

Just when Anduin thought that today could not be good, Nicole on the opposite side suddenly relaxed, and he didn't look as tense as before.

"It seems that what Albus said is right. You are indeed a young man with a sense of justice, and you are not afraid of power. You even dare to confront an old monster like me. It's really amazing."

After finishing speaking, Nick waved his hand at Anduin, "Don't be so nervous, Anduin, I'm not your enemy, and the matter with the Philosopher's Stone is not what you imagined."

Seeing Nick's sudden change of attitude, Anduin couldn't help being a little surprised, he thought Nick was going to fight to the death on the spot just now.

As for the other party's words, Anduin naturally wouldn't believe them all, maybe it was just Nick's plan to delay the attack, or he wanted to deceive him.

But in the previous confrontation, Anduin could feel that Nick was not lying to him, and judging from the previous contact and the state of getting along with Dumbledore, he didn't want that kind of demon who regards life as nothing. .

Is there something else tricky about the Sorcerer's Stone?It actually has nothing to do with the Black Death?Or is there something hidden in it?
With such doubts, Anduin, who still did not let go of his guard, asked, "Oh? You mean...the appearance of the Philosopher's Stone has nothing to do with the Black Death?"

"No!" Nick shook his head lightly, "Your sense of smell is very keen. The Sorcerer's Stone was indeed formed during the plague that year."

"Then what do you say, things are different from what I imagined? Could it be that you didn't create the Philosopher's Stone?" Anduin guessed.

"Yes, and no." Nick sighed, "Although this matter is a bit difficult to tell, I don't want to deceive you because the Philosopher's Stone is not actually my work."

"what?"

Nick's answer was indeed far beyond Anduin's expectations.

You must know that in all the documents and materials that can be queried, it is clearly indicated that the Philosopher's Stone came from Nick, and no one has ever jumped out to refute it in history.

"It's a long story, Anduin, you must think that the Philosopher's Stone is in my hands, so it must be my work. In fact, it's the opposite. I actually snatched the Philosopher's Stone." Nick thought for a while. Only then said frankly.

"Stolen?" Anduin looked at the other party in astonishment, "How is it possible, who else in this world can make such a treasure besides you?"

"Hahaha, don't be result-oriented, Anduin." Nick laughed out loud at himself, "You really think highly of me and the Sorcerer's Stone too much."

"Don't even think about it. When the Black Death broke out in Europe more than 500 years ago, I was only over 100 years old. At that time, could I have researched the method of making the Philosopher's Stone from scratch?"

"Or let's put it this way, if you don't understand the technology of life refining, you can complete the research and development and successfully make the Philosopher's Stone within 100 years?"

"This..." Anduin shook his head in surprise, he had to admit that he really couldn't do this, even after he understood the life refining technique, he might not be able to do it.

Wanting to make a treasure like the Sorcerer's Stone is not as simple as imagined. You must know that this is the first of its kind, and there is no predecessor that can be imitated or simulated.

If he were to do the work, it would take a lot of effort to create the blueprints for the Sorcerer's Stone, at least to accumulate a huge amount of knowledge about blood magic and spells.

Immediately afterwards, the idea was put forward, and then a large number of experiments and tests were carried out until it was confirmed that the idea of ​​making the Philosopher's Stone was feasible and the final draft was obtained.

For this link alone, if you are unlucky, it may take dozens or even hundreds of years.

Because the purpose of making the Philosopher's Stone is to live forever, and to test this result, it takes sufficient time to test the result from the test body.

Thinking of this, Anduin immediately recalled that the snake slough potion formula he got from the Silver Spear Club, to be honest, it was very similar to the early works produced during the development of the Philosopher's Stone.

Maybe the snake slough potion can be spread out, just for experimentation.

And even if you get the final blueprint for making the Sorcerer's Stone, it doesn't mean the work is done, because life refining requires the sacrifice of a lot of life.

And killing people, especially harvesting human lives on a large scale is actually not as simple as imagined.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a virus that is highly contagious and has a high lethality rate. In order to achieve this goal, the amount of work required may take ten years as a unit.

According to this, the preparatory work for making the Sorcerer's Stone would take one or two hundred years. At Nick Flamel's age at the time, even if he put all his energy into it, he would have to wait two hundred years or even more. This achievement was achieved after the age of three hundred.

But Nick Flamel was a well-known alchemist in his early years, and he had a formal job. How could he have so much time to study life formation and viruses?

In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of the time, the appearance of the Sorcerer's Stone was actually quite abrupt, like a chicken laying an egg. Suddenly one day Nick claimed that he had made the Sorcerer's Stone.

It wasn't until this moment that Anduin realized that he had actually fallen into a misunderstanding.

He preconceived that Nick, who is more than 600 years old, as a legendary alchemist, must be the maker of the Sorcerer's Stone.

But after understanding the essence of the Sorcerer's Stone, and thinking about it from another angle, how could Nick Flamel, who was only a hundred years old, make such an amazing treasure like the Sorcerer's Stone.

It's as if Dumbledore told him one day that he made a Sorcerer's Stone, he would definitely not believe it, and he would even think that the other party stole it from somewhere.

"I see." Anduin nodded affirmatively after thinking for a while, "The Sorcerer's Stone is indeed not a treasure that can be obtained in a short while."

"Yes, back then I didn't have the talent you have, and alchemy at that time was not as ubiquitous as it is now. Although I didn't want to admit it, I didn't even understand the fur of the Philosopher's Stone. , I haven't fully understood the mysteries of the Sorcerer's Stone." Nick smiled wryly.

"Then who is the person who made the Philosopher's Stone? Why do you say that you snatched it?" Even though he cleared up the misunderstanding, Anduin was still full of doubts.

Hearing this, Nick said solemnly, "You must have heard of that person's name, but you must not have imagined it. He is the despicable Haierbo!"

"Helbo? Is this guy from 2000 years ago? He hasn't died after so long?" Anduin's eyes widened in surprise. The answer was indeed somewhat unexpected.

The dastardly Helbo is the ultimate antiquity that existed before 100 AD, and he became history's first dark witch for his many heinous acts.

He was also the first wizard to successfully create a Horcrux, and possibly the first to invent how to make it.

In addition, the opponent also invented a lot of black magic, and was the first to hatch a high-risk magical creature like the 'basilisk'.

After Anduin recovered from the shock, Nick continued, "Since you know how to make life, you should also know about Horcruxes."

"But Horcruxes don't seem to be able to truly achieve immortality, right? Even Horcruxes will go extinct after a thousand years." Anduin is no stranger to Horcruxes, and he even has one on him right now.

"Yes, Haierbo also discovered the disadvantages of the Horcrux back then. He regretted it after splitting his soul for the first time, so he finally chose to reunite the soul."

"Ah? Is it possible to do this kind of thing? This is too unbelievable? And how did he live so long with his soul united?" Anduin's expression was disbelief, which was beyond his comprehension.

God knows how difficult it is to reintegrate split souls. Not to mention no one has done it in history, not even a few wizards have tried it.

Anduin himself knows that there is only one magic that can unite souls, and that is the Three Cleansing Curse.

But that magic is not actually splitting the soul completely, it should be described as differentiation, which is more reasonable, and the process of reintegration can also be seen as the return of the divided soul.

But to make a Horcrux, the soul is really divided into two. In reality, it is even more difficult to recover the divided stone, let alone the soul.

"Oh, to be honest, I didn't believe it before I met him. As long as a normal person does this, it must be a dead end, but Hai Erbo seems to have found a way."

Nick chuckled, he was also shocked when he learned that Hai Erbo was still alive.

"As for how he managed to live forever, I didn't know at the time. Later, I had a guess that Haierbo probably made a horcrux by splitting his soul, and then when the state of the horcrux declined, he chose to use the soul. Unite, and split the soul again to make a new Horcrux, so as to achieve the effect of life extension."

"Are you sure that if he does this, there will be no mental problems?"

To be honest, Anduin is a little skeptical about this statement. The unity of souls is outrageous enough, and they are separated. If they are separated, do you consider it a marriage?

Reminiscing about the past, Nick shook his head and smiled, "Don't tell me, Haierbo at that time seemed to be mentally abnormal. I think the other party decided to make the Sorcerer's Stone because of the unbearable torture."

"Of course, thanks to Hai Erbo's insanity, I found a chance to snatch the Philosopher's Stone."

"So the Black Death plague that prevailed in Europe was also caused by Hai Erbo?"

Although everything Nick said sounded unbelievable, it finally connected the clues that Anduin had obtained before, and then he seemed to suddenly realize something, and couldn't help exclaiming, "You don't mean to say, Is that Hai Erbo guy still alive?"

(End of this chapter)