Hogwarts Card System Chapter 233

Chapter 232: Creating Life!

Ted could be considered to have done a good deed and accumulated some good karma.

Although the final reward card was a bit ironic.

But at least his envisioned divination ability was effective.

He himself had Level 1 Divination, the crystal ball added + 1 Level Divination, and the Eastern Daoist divination technique added + 1 Level Divination. With Level 3 Divination, divining a relatively unimportant Muggle woman was a piece of cake.

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In the following days, Ted handed over the Salty Fish Net to Sirius and the others to manage, and he himself rarely showed up.

It was better to keep a low profile now. Every day, a group of people would greet him, making him feel like a celebrity.

Wizards still had to rely on magic to speak; they shouldn’t live like Lockhart!

You could say that these professors truly taught by example~

Ted began to reside permanently in the basement of the Leaky Cauldron, and even privately expanded the space.

He was researching alchemy there.

It was somewhat lucky. He originally intended to collect dragon egg incubation materials through the Salty Fish Net.

However, before he could gather enough dragon egg materials, he unexpectedly acquired an alchemy magic book—The Emerald Tablet: Annotated by Isaac Newton!

Sir Isaac Newton, though a Muggle scientist, was obsessed with alchemy and spent much of his later years studying it.

This book was an alchemical treatise he had inadvertently obtained and studied for nearly twenty years, adding many of his insights to it.

The appearance of alchemy can be traced back to the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt in the third century BC. It is said that Hermes, the source of wisdom, taught the main principles of alchemy, which were inscribed on an emerald tablet called The Emerald Tablet.

The Emerald Tablet was one of the earliest alchemical texts to enter Europe, and many versions exist.

The Emerald Tablet is not a book that specifically teaches how to perform alchemy, but like Sun Tzu’s Art of War, it is a high-level exposition of a philosophical idea in a related field.

Besides the literal meaning of “alchemy,” alchemists throughout history have pursued three other major goals: immortality, the panacea, and the homunculus.

Gold is so precious. After a long time, people had a dream: Since they are all metals, why can’t I transform base metals like silver, copper, and iron into gold? Thus, alchemy appeared!

As for immortality, there’s no need to mention how many emperors in China took elixirs hoping for it.

Nicolas Flamel had achieved half of it—the Elixir of Life made from the Philosopher’s Stone could grant immortality, but it could only delay aging.

Ted heard wizards on the Salty Fish Net discussing that Nicolas Flamel intended to destroy the Philosopher’s Stone and embrace the death that was five or six hundred years overdue.

There was no other way; he was too old, so old that living had become a torment.

And the panacea was the alchemists’ dream of a universal catalyst!

The Philosopher’s Stone also achieved part of this effect, which is why it could be used to create the Elixir of Life.

As for homunculi, humans attempting to create life and dabble in the realm of the creator is also an ancestral skill. It’s all about rebellion!

Ted now wanted to do exactly that!

As for general material alteration, purification, aggregation, catalysis, and manufacturing magical items, Ted was somewhat tired of these methods.

On the bookshelf beside him were the books he had collected, such as:

Ancient Alchemy Explorations, four hundred and sixty-two recipes for the panacea… I wonder if any are correct?

Secrets in the Flame, the smelting and taboos of magical metals, directly hitting the goblins’ weak spot.

It is said to be the work of a rebellious goblin, completely banned by the goblins.

This book was obtained through Sirius’s connections, from a pure-blood family.

Alchemy Rectified, Perfected, and Augmented, a 17th-century work, the prototype of modern alchemy—do you know there are seven ways to make a scrying mirror?

The creation of Remembralls and forgetting magic!

Modern wand improvement history…

And the alchemy magazine Equivalent Exchange, a professional magazine that wasn’t cheap.

No wonder everyone chose tabloid magazines and newspapers; conditions simply didn’t allow for it!

It could be said that these books covered every aspect of alchemy.

At the same time, Ted had also achieved his own results.

For example, he repaired a dilapidated Vanishing Cabinet—a device similar to a portal.

Entering this cabinet would lead to exiting another cabinet.

He also repaired a broken Pensieve.

This item had been taken around Diagon Alley, but because it was too severely damaged, no one could repair it.

Mainly, there were fewer and fewer wizards proficient in alchemy now.

Such magical creations from the last century were becoming increasingly rare. If one broke, there would be one less.

Magical society was always in a state of taking three steps forward and two steps back, sometimes even two steps forward and three steps back!

Many things were not eliminated but lost.

Current alchemy was focusing on minor details; to put it nicely, it was pragmatism, but to put it bluntly, alchemy had gone in the wrong direction and had lost its value.

Muggle physics and chemistry abandoned magic and used Muggle methods and perspectives to understand and utilize the rules of this world.

Modern physicists have found ways to perform alchemy through science.

Mercury (Hg) is element number 80 in the chemical periodic table, and gold (Au) is element number 79. Mercury can lose a neutron through gamma rays and decay into gold.

It can also be bombarded with a particle accelerator to lose neutrons, thereby decaying into gold.

All it takes is a particle accelerator and the electricity from a few hydropower stations~

As early as 1941, scientists successfully created gold by bombarding mercury with neutrons.

By 1980, the Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States used a heavy ion accelerator to bombard a bismuth target and obtained gold.

The cost of this experiment was approximately $ 10, 000, converting one billionth of the bismuth element in the bismuth target into gold worth $ 0.01 in total.

Well, a loss of a million times, even the underwear was gone!

But Muggles actually did it!

Yet wizards now couldn’t even turn lead into gold.

Ted possessed a wealth of alchemical knowledge, and even cheats like the Transmutation Circle from the Fullmetal Alchemist world. He was just short of opening the Gate of Truth!

In just over a week, he created a new magical item—the communication book.

A magical parchment where if you wrote on it here, the other party or other members could see it!

It was probably a magical version of a simple QQ!

Now the other terminals were in the hands of his companions, and they no longer needed to bother owls or Ansu for communication.

It was now instant messaging!

Ted even planned to develop voice and video versions in the future.

However, he was currently attempting to create new life—don’t get the wrong idea, it was slime.

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Paracelsus von Hohenheim was the most mysterious grand alchemist in the history of alchemy.

Legend has it that he successfully created a “homunculus” and extracted the “Philosopher’s Stone.” The Magician card in Tarot is based on him.

In the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, this Hohenheim is also the Homunculus in the Flask. Is this an alternate world counterpart?

And the rumors about homunculi in the magical world are rather absurd.

They involve using human essence~ keeping it warm with hot horse manure or stuffing the beaker containing the essence into a horse’s belly to maintain a suitable temperature…

In short, it doesn’t sound like alchemy at all, but rather some evil ritual for cultivating demons!

If one were to follow the rumors, they would probably end up creating a Cthulhu spawn!

The life Ted wanted to create was slime.

Slime is simple. Super simple, practically a super-sized single-celled organism. Or a fungal colony.

Ted obtained every detailed piece of information about slime from the otherworldly knowledge [Otherworldly Reincarnation Slime (Green)].

To put it this way, Ted understood slime better than slime itself.

He also had the recipe.

Gelatin: 30 grams, a fat-free, high-protein substance.

Water: 10 milliliters.

Oxygen: one standard atmosphere.

Ammonia: 6 grams.

Lime: 5 grams.

Phosphorus: 2 grams.

Salt: 1 gram.

Niter: 1 gram.

Zinc: 0.8 grams.

Fluorine: 0.4 grams.

Iron: 0.05 grams.

Silicon: 0.03 grams.

300 experience points, 1 life particle, 100 units of magic power!

When he sorted out the recipe, Ted was a bit confused: with these ingredients, just throw some gelatin and silicon steel sheets from a transformer into a dry toilet and you’d get it done—but that would probably make “shit-slime”!

Ted had been eagerly conducting his fifth round of experiments without leaving his room.

Although the previous attempts had failed, each one showed progress, making him incredibly enthusiastic and fanatical.

Ted: Question Quirrell, learn from Quirrell, become Quirrell, surpass Quirrell!

(End of Chapter)