Chapter 210 The Development of Magic Relies on Archeology

The Sorting Hat that was originally on the top of the bookshelf flew into Dumbledore's hands. Without hesitation, he put his hand into the hat and pulled out a folding hand crossbow that shone with cold light and was inlaid with magic gems. If Li read it correctly, this thing should be able to fire continuously. There is a crossbow box above the crossbow body, which is filled with seven crystal-transparent crossbow arrows.

"Gryffindor's crossbow." Harry touched his chin and sighed, "It makes sense."

After seeing all kinds of messy stuff, Harry was not surprised at all that the Sword of Gryffindor turned into the Crossbow of Gryffindor. To be honest, ancient wizards used bows, so having a crossbow was not a big deal. It's not surprising. He has never seen a wizard wielding a big sword and engaging in close combat since he came to this world.

"You know?" Dumbledore glanced at Harry with some surprise, "Gryffindor's heritage crossbow is almost not exposed. Even the past principals, not many people know about its existence. Only the real Gryffindor It takes a lot of people to take it out of the Sorting Hat, and the crossbow box is filled with seven crossbow arrows with different powers. Even an adult fire dragon will be penetrated by this crossbow arrow."

"Historically, Gryffindor's heritage hand crossbow has been used four times, and each time it defeated a dangerous enemy. Today, there are only three crossbow arrows that can still be used. I have been studying it for a long time, but I’ve never been able to find a way to recharge.”

Dumbledore pressed a switch on the hand crossbow, and the folded crossbow arm unfolded with a mechanical sound of "click". The strange thing is that the hand crossbow has no bowstring, only a crystal arrow filled with magic. On the grooved slide rail, densely packed strange magic words appeared on the crossbow arrows.

"ven-gaar-nos."

"What?" Dumbledore looked at Harry curiously. As a person who was proficient in hundreds of different languages, Dumbledore actually couldn't understand what Harry meant.

"The magic text on the crossbow arrow probably means storm strike. I don't know the specific effect. It may shoot out a violent tornado."

"This is a magic text passed down by the bloodline of awakened people. The senior Hufflepuff awakened person a hundred years ago traveled around the world after graduating, collecting different magic texts left by different awakened people."

"The three here belong to Godric Gryffindor."

Harry's eyes fell on the other crossbow arrows. If each crossbow arrow has a different combination of magic words, then there are twenty-one different words recorded here. This harvest alone is worth That's the sum total of the runes Harry got from Sett.

"May I see it?"

"certainly."

Dumbledore let the crossbow arrow return to the crossbow box, and handed the hand crossbow to Harry's hand after returning to its folded state.

Three crossbow arrows shined with red magic light, while the magic power of the other four had been exhausted, but the simple words carved on them could still be seen clearly.

Without exception, each crossbow arrow has three spell sequences composed of different magic words. When the awakened person uses the power of magic words, it seems that he rarely uses two words or more than three words to form a spell, or else he uses it alone. Harry, who uses them, or in groups of three, and has not fully mastered and used the Awakener's runes normally, doesn't know much about this. He lacks the knowledge inherited by blood than a normal Awakener.

"Storm, fire, thunder, frost. Are the magic texts inherited by Gryffindor all of the elemental type? Or is it because at that time, there was communication and exchange between the awakened wizards? If the four of them are all awakened, the communication Knowledge is indeed a normal thing.”

"It was a glorious era thousands of years ago." Harry sighed with emotion. There were definitely many more awakened wizards at that time than now. It's a pity that now, thousands of years later, Harry has not been able to see the second living awakened wizard. , maybe Seti is still alive, and a hundred years old is not considered a particularly old age among wizards. Dumbledore and Grindelwald are both over a hundred years old, but their mental and physical conditions have not declined much compared to their prime. , as long as such a powerful wizard works hard, it is not a problem to live to be two hundred years old.

Harry didn't think that a powerful awakener wizard like Sett would be buried in the earth at the age of 100. He might be squatting in some ruins now, digging in the dirt.

"Sorry, I can't charge the crossbow either. Gryffindor's magic is different from mine. The biggest difference between the awakened and the awakened is the different nature of the magic. Our magic contains something far beyond ordinary wizards. I belong to chaos, and Gryffindor belongs to order."

"If you force input, it might explode."

"Pity."

Dumbledore said with some regret, "I also thought that if I could crack the construction technology, maybe I could solve some problems."

"But there is always something to gain. At least I have learned more than twenty Awakening Runes that I have never seen before. Senior Seth has been exploring for seventeen years, and he has not found so many together."

"But, Professor, what kind of problem have you encountered? Why do you rely on archeology to improve your magic?"

"Have you ever heard that magic and technology are incompatible?"

Dumbledore waved his hand, got a few cups, and poured a cup of hot black tea for everyone. There was also a plate full of sugar cubes in the middle. Dumbledore put seven or eight of them into his cup in one go. The tea is almost overflowing.

"I heard Fred and George mention it."

"That's good." Dumbledore took a sip of the explosively sweet black tea and nodded slightly, "The magic magnetic field will interfere with reality. It directly affects the physical rules of the real world, turning order into disorder. What technological products must rely on is an orderly world with rules to follow."

"In the world of magic, flames can freeze lakes and ice can reach temperatures of hundreds of degrees. All physical rules are not theorem definitions in the face of magic. What affects all of this is the will of the wizard and the thoughts of the person who uses magic. If the world was in order, then magic that subverts the order would not exist. The environment most suitable for magic must be a world without disorder that cannot break the constant order. This is the fundamental reason why magic magnetic fields affect technological products."

"But it's just a hand crossbow?" Harry asked with some confusion. "The mechanical structure is not affected by the magic magnetic field. Including the mechanical transmission, this hand crossbow is not as good as Weiss in terms of structure. The cars that Mr. Lay modified were complex.”

"But if I told you that this hand crossbow does not actually rely on mechanical force to shoot the crossbow arrows, but uses electromagnetic acceleration to fire the crossbow arrows at fifteen times the speed of sound, would you believe it?"

"You said this thing is actually a portable electromagnetic hand crossbow?"

Harry's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at the crossbow in disbelief. He had an Aka 47 individual electromagnetic rifle made of contemporary technology at home. Then you tell me, more than a thousand years ago, , Godric Gryffindor has already built himself an electromagnetic crossbow?

"Replacement guaranteed."