Chapter 339: The Debt of Love Is Hard to Clear
As for Eleanor…
Xie Lin had a headache just thinking about it.
The reason why Eleanor is so anxious to find her is simply that she wants to see her again before the semester ends and she needs to leave Hogwarts. She may even take the opportunity to invite her to Hohenheim Manor in Germany as a guest during the summer vacation.
Although he had saved Eleanor's life once, the two were still only allies. What's more, Eleanor had given him an extremely precious copy of "The Fifth Element", which to some extent had given away the life-saving power. Favor.
Speaking of which, the two have not been in alliance for a long time.
However, Schelling already owed a lot of favors to the Hohenheim family.
The first is the defensive bracelet provided by Hohenheim to the Sleeping Dragon Club, specifically used to resist the Imperius Curse. As mentioned earlier, almost every major cadre of Sleeping Dragon has one, including the leaders of each group and the shadow group. The leader, deputy leader, senior Slytherin prefects, as well as Rita, Night Owl, and Hawkeye who were collecting intelligence for Schelling.
Xie Lin knew very well that each defensive bracelet was specially made by an alchemist master. The cost of craftsmanship alone was already valuable, not to mention that almost all of the materials used in it were the highest quality materials in the wizarding world, and Mian The Dragon Club took at least 20 of them.
Then, the current head of the Hohenheim family, Eleanor's father, Cordes von Hohenheim, even personally led the team, working tirelessly and all the way from Germany to the Hebridean Islands for the mission of the Sleeping Dragon Society. Set up dragon seals around the island where the McFasty Clan Castle is located to increase bargaining chips for Old Barty's negotiations.
To be fair, judging from the current situation, compared with the contributions of the two allies, Schelling has undoubtedly taken advantage.
Of course, if Schelling shares the first half of the Book of Truth with the Hohenheim family after it is cracked, this will indeed be enough to offset the favor Schelling owes.
However, before Schelling rushed to the Death Eater meeting alone, Eleanor approached Schelling privately, and without any explanation, forced her to give Schelling the alchemy puppet she had kept in the box to save her life - half as a gift and half as a loan -
This is a human puppet made using the forbidden alchemy of the human body. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the top secret secret of the Hohenheim family.
Schelling once heard Eleanor mention that the production of human puppets involves extremely complex alchemy in human body refining. It is very time-consuming to make, and the probability of failure is also high. In addition, the raw materials required More than half of them are strictly controlled items, which are very difficult to collect. Therefore, they have only made a hundred human puppets with the efforts of the entire family over the years.
Eleanor came to Hogwarts this time with a mission given by Walpurgis. It was precisely because she knew the seriousness of this mission that the family had to bear the pain for Eleanor, the first heir to the family. Only after paying the capital, she was allowed to bring all the puppets in the family inventory.
The value of these human puppets has long exceeded the limit that can be measured by any money or knowledge. In the history that Schelling knows, no wizard has ever handed over the core inheritance of his family to an outsider, no matter how important that person is. allies.
As a result, one hundred alchemy puppets were all damaged by Xie Lin, and the damage was almost irreparable.
This time, Xie Lin could never repay the favor he owed.
Sighing, a headache is a headache. You always have to face what you have to face. Avoiding problems is not Schelling's style.
Eleanor must meet her, and then she must explain everything that happened in Little Hangleton, and then confess the fact that she broke the human puppet.
No matter what, you must make compensation to the other party.
No matter how rare and precious the materials for human puppets are, they are still something that exists in this world. With Xie Lin's current net worth and connections, there is always a way to get them no matter how difficult it is. It is nothing more than the price and price that needs to be paid behind it. It’s just time.
"Daphne, please help me answer them, and I will go to see them tonight, um -" Schelling thought for a while and said, "I will make an appointment with Karkaroff first, and then Eleanor - the location is set at Slytherin Chamber of Secrets!"
There was still some time left in the evening, so Xie Lin took the opportunity to chat with Mo Rui, Zhang Qiu, and Luna, mainly to learn about the situation of Long Yi and Dragon Soul.
The main task of Dragon Wing at this stage is to cultivate magical animals and plants that can be used in battle. Xie Lin also specially divided an area in the suitcase space for them to use as a breeding farm.
Although there are many kinds of magical animals and they are powerful, they have a very high threshold if they are to be used as combat tools - except for little wizards like Scamander and Luna who have awakened the "Children of Nature", most wizards want to command Before magical animals can act according to their own wishes, they need to spend a long time communicating with magical animals and cultivating feelings.
It can be said that this is a combat style with powerful effects but very high initial investment cost.
Therefore, most of the training of young wizards focuses on the skills and knowledge of using magical plants to fight.
The coverage of magical plants in the original world is far less than the vast space of magical animals. But that doesn't mean magical plants are weak.
Don’t forget, in 1912, Venucia Quickley, the Minister of Magic who once served as an Auror, died in a gardening accident related to mandrake.
In 1985, Professor McGonagall's husband, Elphinstone Urquhart, the then Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement, was accidentally bitten by a poisonous tentacle and died.
In the seventh book of the original novel, Professor Sprout led a group of young wizards to throw mandrakes, poisonous tentacles, devil's snares, and pods of knotweed from the height of the castle, which had repeatedly made great achievements in the defense of Hogwarts and bought a lot of time for Harry to find the Horcrux.
The biggest advantage of choosing to use magical plants to fight is that magical plants are not like animals. Most of them do not have complete personalities and thoughts, nor do they have complex and rich emotions. They act entirely on biological instincts. As long as you master their behavioral laws, you can make full use of their characteristics to achieve your goals.
Although Luna studied at Ravenclaw College, which is not known for its poor herbology, she has been influenced by her father since she was a child and has a strong interest in strange animals and plants. She has her own way to deal with these dangerous magical plants.
Sherin once learned from Professor Sprout that Luna's talent in herbology is no worse than Neville Longbottom, who is one grade higher than her.
Therefore, Sherin is very relieved about the Dragon Wing Team.
Zhang Qiu and Mo Rui are in charge of the Dragon Soul Team. This team has no specific members, but draws elites from other teams to help research new spells and new potions.
Since the establishment of this team, Xie Lin has provided them with many research directions.
These include growth-promoting magic that can accelerate plant growth in battle, or growth-promoting potions that can achieve the same effect by pouring them on.
Think about it, although magical plants are powerful, they are not easy to store and carry in actual combat. The Battle of Hogwarts took place in Hogwarts Castle. The responsibility of the team led by Professor Sprout was simply to use magical plants for defense, and the herbs were stored in the greenhouse in the castle.
If growth-promoting magic or potions can be invented, wouldn’t it overcome the above shortcomings?
When the little wizards go out on weekdays, they only need to bring all the seeds they need, throw the seeds out, and use growth-promoting magic or potions to make the magical plants grow to a complete state.
Only in this way can the value of Luna’s Dragon Wing Team in actual combat be truly reflected.
As for why young wizards are not allowed to carry space expansion boxes like "Scamander's suitcase"?
First of all, the suitcase with the traceless extension spell is expensive in itself. Of course, money is not a big problem in front of the rich man Xie Lin. The real problem is that magical plants, like magical animals, need a specific growth environment.
An ordinary space expansion box cannot meet the needs of various kinds of strange magical plants for the growth environment - only Scamander's complete pseudo-ecological environment created by various geographical magic and astronomical magic with countless time and effort can do it.
This is not only a requirement for magical strength - you must have a deep understanding of the habits of various kinds of magical plants, and the time and energy spent behind it is inestimable.
Murray and Zhang Qiu have never neglected the tasks given by Xie Lin - there is no need to say the relationship between Murray and Xie Lin. Zhang Qiu is also one of Xie Lin's female classmates who admires Xie Lin very much. Since joining the Sleeping Dragon Society, she has always had a strong desire to prove herself to Xie Lin.
Of course, magic research is not something that can be done with a will. Sometimes, Schelling also understands that haste makes waste.
Therefore, even though they are composed of the best academic members, Schelling has never expected too much from this group of underage wizards, so as not to cause unnecessary pressure on them.
As Schelling expected, Murray frankly told them about their current research progress - although they have some clues, it will still take a long time to realize this research goal in reality.