At least on this planet, eating is a fundamental problem that every species needs to solve.
Erwin walked nearly fifteen kilometers with his suitcase before arriving at the village closest to Nico Flamel's retreat. He walked into the first convenience store he encountered and bought a lot of
The total weight of packaged food with a shelf life of more than half a year is just enough for a child of his age to handle. Find a place where no one is around and pack the food into the suitcase.
He then visited several other convenience stores and supermarkets in the town, repeating the same operation until his suitcase was full.
The reason for going to such trouble is obviously to avoid attracting the attention of ordinary people as much as possible.
After all, the Wizarding Statute of Secrecy is an important law clearly stated by the Ministry of Magic.
According to the description in the History of Magic textbook, the fundamental purpose of this law is to protect wizards from being persecuted by Muggles. Erwin can understand the reason after thinking about it for a moment.
Even before entering Hogwarts, he believed that wizards and ordinary people were different classes with obvious distinctions between high and low, and the magical talent that determined the class was completely determined by blood, which meant that there was actually no difference between the two classes.
Ascending channel.
Such a class structure is very unstable, meaning that there is only an antagonistic relationship between the upper and lower classes. Human history has proven that such a social structure will inevitably collapse completely in a short period of time. Ordinary people have every reason not to regard wizards as the same race, and to hate and hate wizards.
Hatred breeds easily.
It is true that wizards have the absolute ability to suppress ordinary people, but they are elite wizards who know how to use magic spells to counteract hot and cold weapons, can skillfully use apparation, and master the Oblivion Curse or even the Soul-Tampering Curse. In theory, such a wizard can be single-player
You can easily disrupt a country.
The number of such wizards is less than one percent of the entire wizard population. The vast majority of wizards are just civilians, ordinary people with insufficient talent because their intelligence and bloodline concentration are not outstanding.
A typical example is Mrs. Hooch, who teaches flying lessons to first-year students at Hogwarts. Her total magical strength may only be to the extent that she knows a few common spells in daily life. Her only combat-oriented skills may be those taught by second-year students at Hogwarts.
disarming spell, and people like her are all over the wizarding society. In a sense, they are no different from ordinary Muggles. They have an ordinary job and live an ordinary life.
In other words, the combat effectiveness of most wizards may not be as good as that of a cowherd boy who was quick to draw a gun in the American West a hundred years ago.
Like the Cowboys, wizards are heavily dependent on weapons. The wand allows the most ordinary wizards to have good spellcasting abilities. This is a great advantage compared to other magical races, but the corresponding shortcomings are also quite fatal.
, once the wand is destroyed and taken away, the human wizard will lose most or even all of his spellcasting abilities.
Sir Nicholas, the ghost of Gryffindor, accidentally offended a noble lady in the fifteenth century, and was immediately stripped of his wand and then executed by a Muggle executioner the next day. This shows that ordinary people at that time were
Already know how to deal with wizards effectively.
Not everyone has the level of strength of a Hogwarts professor. Compared with ordinary people who are tens of thousands times more powerful, the wizarding community is actually in a disadvantaged position. The Ministry of Magic, a government jointly elected by ordinary wizards, naturally has to give priority to
To ensure the safety of ordinary people and their children, the International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act was created.
Today, not exposing magic in front of Muggles has become a basic morality in wizarding society, and most people will consciously abide by it.
This is what Erwin learned after entering Hogwarts.
Having said that, since Jesus Christ was actually the original witch, the large-scale witch hunts in the Middle Ages may not be as simple as they appear...
While paying, Erwin thought absentmindedly.
The suitcase is full, so much food should last for a month or two.
Magic cannot get rid of the need for food. It is not feasible to use transfiguration to turn other things into food, because food digestion is a very complicated process, and transfiguration may fail at any time during this process. However, the meal-making method seems to be
Is it feasible? Simply imitate photosynthesis and use air components to directly synthesize organic matter such as starch. This should be possible without a very advanced magic spell.
However, Erwin has not found any information about meal-making spells in any book. There are many spells and potions that promote the growth of non-magical plants, but it makes a corn seed grow quickly and germinate to produce mature corn seeds.
Corn, in essence, is not much different from the food-making technique, both of which produce energy out of thin air.
Perhaps this is an example of the level of cognition limiting the development of magic. If you don't know the mechanism of plant growth, you naturally can't think of simulating photosynthesis.
After enjoying a pretty good steak in a restaurant in the town, Erwin returned to the cabin leisurely.
"Where have you been?" As soon as he entered the door, he saw the old man in the wheelchair.
Before Erwin could say anything, seven or eight test tubes flew towards him, filled with liquids of various colors.
The kinetic energy was given and activated subconsciously, and these test tubes stopped steadily in front of Erwin, floating in the air.
There was a trace of surprise in Flamel's eyes, just a trace.
"Drink all this."
Is this the magic potion you need to drink before blood grafting? There are so many, and Erwin looked at them one by one, and he didn't recognize any of them. "Master Flamel, what are the effects of these..."
However, Master Flamel had already turned his wheelchair and walked away.
Erwin wasn't angry either, after all, the old man must have been waiting for him for a long time.
There were Roman numerals on the stopper of the test tube, which should indicate the order of drinking. Erwin drank them all without any doubt.
The feeling of drinking each potion was completely different, but fortunately, he could endure it. In the end, what he felt was a very deep sleepiness.
He went to his new bedroom and fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, Erwin was awakened by Esmeralda, and then called over by Flamel. The old man asked him to turn into a proto-dragon and undergo some tests, and then drew some blood.
It was like this for four days in a row. Erwin was asked to drink a set of potions in the evening, and then took a test in the morning. Flamel didn't say a word, and Erwin was very honest and didn't ask too many questions.
Flamel spent most of the day in the alchemy room. Although he was curious about what the master alchemist was doing, Erwin kept his warning in mind and neither asked more questions nor dared to pry without permission.
On the fifth day, Flamel stopped testing him and did not require him to provide the blood of the primitive dragon. It seemed that the master had obtained the data he wanted.
Erwin felt the changes in his body. All aspects of his body, including strength, endurance, nerve response speed, and acuity of the five senses, had significantly improved. He even felt that he had grown taller.
This should be the effect of the potion that Flamel asked him to drink. It was much more effective than the expensive physical enhancement package provided by the Diagon Alley drugstore.
Erwin has not been idle these days. In this Flamel's cabin, what he is most interested in besides Esmeralda are the tools with the ability to act autonomously.
Flamel probably thought that each of them had written a magic text code that worked automatically. Erwin asked Esmeralda and learned that the corresponding technology was recorded in a certain book in Master Flamel's collection.
This is great. Master Flamel promised Erwin that he could borrow books and read them at will.
Esmeralda quickly found him the corresponding book, which fully demonstrated the superior functionality of a smart butler. “Put the tip of your wand against the cover, and then you can switch to the language you want.
"She reminded me very thoughtfully.
The book was originally in French, but Erwin successfully switched it to English according to Esmeralda's instructions.
Very good, this is what an advanced magic book should look like.
Many of the banned books in Hogwarts have weird spells attached to them, but there are none in this book. After all, it is a private collection, and there is no need to retain any defense mechanisms.
Erwin read for three days and didn't even finish a quarter of the book. He realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of the magic text. The inscription stick he had made before could have a constant phantom effect.
What I got is actually the most basic and basic magic text code.
He now feels a little like reading a book from heaven.
However, according to a specific way of thinking, you can still learn from the diagrams and create a magic text driven version of the sweeping robot. Erwin’s plan is to slightly improve his suitcase and add an automatic follower to it.
Function.
In the past, he had to either pull the suitcase by hand or push it with kinetic energy, which was a bit troublesome. It would be much more convenient if it had a self-following function.
It is very reasonable to make technological improvements in order to save a little effort. This kind of internal drive is very reasonable.
Of course, Erwin would not directly carve new glyphs on the suitcase. That would be too stupid. Firstly, it might conflict with the seamless stretching glyphs of the suitcase itself. Secondly, if it fails, it will cost more than two hundred dollars.
Long's suitcase may be scrapped directly.
He plans to add a metal plate to the bottom and engrave new magic words on that metal plate.
Thanks again to Esmeralda, who provided the alloy plates that Erwin needed. There is naturally a workshop in the master alchemist's residence, which can directly meet general material needs.
If only a single function is required, the difficulty will naturally be greatly reduced. After many failures, making six samples and many experiments, Erwin can finally declare success.
Looking at the suitcase equipped with automatic tracking, Erwin nodded with satisfaction.
More improvements can be made to it in the future, such as automatic opening and automatic retrieval of certain items stored in it according to commands. This requires more advanced magic text knowledge, but Erwin thinks it can be looked forward to.
Just when the boy was obsessed with tinkering with inventions, he didn't know that Esmeralda would completely report his day's actions to Nico Flamel every day. It was not that the alchemist didn't pay attention to him, on the contrary, he knew his status well.
A month passed in the blink of an eye, and Erwin's height had grown to 1.75 meters. He felt that he was almost like the description in the Diagon Alley drugstore advertisement, "having the physical fitness of a centaur."
This means that the formal blood grafting is about to begin.