Chapter 1008 Only What You Understand Is Yours

Chapter 1008 Only what you understand is yours

Going around the wall where the portrait is, and walking inward along the passage, a spacious and brightly lit large square appears in front of you.

Similar to the headquarters building of the Ministry of Magic, it gives the illusion that it is underground but may rise above the ground to the sky, and the sun and clouds are very close.

Contrary to what Anton had guessed, no magical animals or dark magic creatures were used here, but a method between potion science and alchemy was used.

The ingredients are stirred into a brown liquid, left to dry in the sun, condensed into a silvery but crisp stone, and finally ground into a powder.

"The most complicated thing here is the configuration of hundreds of materials and the degree of drying, which is not as simple as the outside world imagines."

Witch Hester took off a red helmet from the wall and put it on, explaining to Anton.

"Many materials are quite expensive, but when it comes to the cost of a spoonful of floo powder, it becomes a bit insignificant. It is less than 13 copper nats, half a silver Sickle. The price is 2 silver Sickles for a spoonful , deducting the deductible contributions from all parties, we may finally get 20 copper nats for a spoonful of silver.”

(1 Galleon = 17 Sickles, 1 Sickle = 39 Knuts)

"However, the accumulation of a little makes a lot, the profit is very considerable, and skilled employees are particularly easy to make. A factory can produce enough for half a year to supply the entire country for a whole year, and it can easily fill the entire warehouse. This is the one that has never cut off the supply in the market. reason."

Anton raised his eyebrows noncommittally, squinted his eyes and looked at the workers wearing red helmets and the giants working with red chains in the distance, thoughtfully, "Why are you wearing this kind of helmet?"

Witch Hearst sighed helplessly, took off the helmet and handed it to Anton, "The Ministry of Magic has obviously set very strict restrictions on this aspect, this helmet will store our memory of preparing Floo powder inside. "

She pointed to the workers in the distance, "As long as they take off their helmets and leave work, any memory about the preparation will remain in the helmets, and they can only be recalled when they wear this helmet after work."

"Moreover, this helmet seems to be integrated with this place, and it cannot be taken out at all. If it is taken out by force, it will cause a terrible explosion."

Anton looked at the helmet in his hand for a while, then nodded knowingly, "The technique of the Pensieve is really exquisite."

Witch Hester saw that Anton was looking at it curiously, and didn't intend to take it back to herself, so she took a helmet from the wall and put it on again, "Dark wizards often use the fang powder of the rune snake instead of floo powder. to avoid scrutiny of the Floo network by the Transport Division of the Ministry of Magic, of course, some because of poverty."

"Yes." Anton couldn't help but think of what happened when he just crossed over, and he chuckled, "The fang powder of the rune snake is the most common way to spread in the fringe areas, but many people are eventually blown away, and then they can't do it." Not to be sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries." (mentioned in the original book)

"Those therapists just complain about dark wizards being stingy and spending more on healing, but they don't know that people are mainly trying to avoid censorship."

Witch Hearst also smiled, showing kindness as if we were all dark wizards from our own family, "They are always full of arrogance."

The hall of the Floo powder factory seems to have a clear view, but to really get up close and watch the workers prepare, you need to cross a decorative strip of colored bricks on the ground.

This is obviously not an ordinary trim strip, which can only be passed with a helmet on, otherwise you will only encounter a wall of air.

"The main material is indeed the fang powder of the rune snake. It is floo powder, a silver powder that turns into a green flame after burning, so it is easy to be recognized by everyone." Witch Hester continued to narrate, "It's just that I don't understand why it exploded."

"Because it's extremely unstable." Anton explained casually, looking down at a stone water tank almost as big as a pool, and watching the workers carefully stirring in it with long poles, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

If he was not mistaken, the long rod used the skill of a magic wand, and it was more than four meters long. It is estimated that many people would not realize it.

The wand material is birch wood. Birch has a unique meaning in the European magical world. It is considered to be the oldest tree in the forest, with clean and sacred properties.

Professor Lockhart once told Anton that wizards and folks like to use birch leaves with twigs to perform rituals to expel evil spirits. At the same time, because it is extremely suitable for some magic related to the moon, many primitive wizard tribes will pick some notes from these "divine trees" they believe in and give them to newborns as their future magic wands.

Also, the core of this long wand should be the mane of a horse-shaped water monster, a material that is rarely used, because it will slow down spellcasting, and it is mainly used by some potionists and alchemists to cast some needed Magic for more stability requirements.

There is also this huge stone water tank, which is made of the Stone of Erised, an excellent material for alchemy that Dumbledore told Anton about. There is a Mirror of Erised made of this stone in the school.

"The crucible made of Erised Stone..." Anton muttered, looking down at the changes in the potion ingredients added by the workers in the pool, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

The inventor of Floo powder is obviously a wizard who is good at using tools. The manufacturing of this Floo powder she developed is more of a way of using tools to affect the characteristics of magic materials mixed with each other.

To put it simply, if you don't know these tools that most of them will ignore, you really got the formula of Floo powder, and the 'Floo powder' you make may be similar to using 'Rune snake fang powder' directly.

The effect of this tool is like some potions must be prepared under the moonlight, which looks very mysterious.

Anton spent almost the next few days in this Floo powder factory, observing this magical operation bit by bit.

The first thing he figured out was the preparation steps of the formula, which basically didn't deviate from the contents taught in the Potions class.

Obviously every brilliant wizard in the history of magic has their own unique skills and fields.

This witch seems to be more inclined towards the interesting angle of 'the influence of the environment on the preparation of potions'.

It is also a mixture of two potions, Anton almost knows what will happen to the workers pouring the potion ingredients into the pool, but with the length of time they stir, and the process of standing to dry afterwards, these Potion changes have changed again.

Many potion masters knew about this change. Professor Snape had told Anton about this change, but he preferred to use this to estimate the shelf life of potion decoctions.

And the inventor of this floo powder is much more interesting. Through the mixing and blending of hundreds of potions and each other, through all the environmental influences of sunlight, wind, modulation techniques, modulation tools, etc., each magic potion Both drugs and their relationships have changed.

The final effect is - the overall medicinal properties have changed.

And it's not just potions, it has a part in alchemy as well.

Witch Hester squatted beside Anton curiously, glanced at the messy potions in the pool, and then at Anton who was muttering. She couldn't understand why Anton still put his energy here.

At first, she thought that Anton could break the restrictions set by the Ministry of Magic, but Anton clearly denied her idea.

No wizard is omnipotent. Just like Dumbledore had to drink the terrible potion according to Tom's rules to get the Horcrux, Anton did not have any in-depth research on the contract magic of the Ministry of Magic.

It is impossible for him to bypass this kind of magic restriction. The Ministry of Magic does not know how many top wizards and top think tanks cooperated in this area, and stood on the basis of the contract magic framework created by the research of the predecessors, unless Anton is specialized in this area. , otherwise it is difficult to be opportunistic.

The only thing he can do is to thoroughly understand Floo powder's research ideas, extract its most precious magic principles, and integrate them into his own magic theory.

In this way, with the help of the 'A Ray of Sunshine Curse' to protect his mind, he can carry some knowledge in his mind and take it out.

"It turns out that the influence of the environment on everything in the world is not limited to the breeding of black magic creatures in the mind, nor is it limited to the collective consciousness..."

Witch Hester could only helplessly listen to Anton lowering his head and muttering things that he didn't understand.

In this way, until one night, when all the workers got off work, Anton was still watching around.

He suddenly raised his head to look at the bright moon shining in the sky, and giggled.

"Hurst, hurry up, help me prepare all the materials for Floo powder, and I'll prepare a copy."

Anton rubbed his hands excitedly, "I seem to have researched something!"

"???!!!"