Chapter 201 Four Ancient Magics

Tang Sen originally thought that these records written in ancient magic script could be passed down to this day, and even the books collected by Hogwarts contained various powerful spells or complex magic rituals. However, after reading some books, He found himself naive.

Most of them are research materials or travel notes of ancient wizards.

These are all original single copies. No one would collect the magic spells in them and integrate them into a book like "The Encyclopedia of Spells". It is even more impossible now because no one can understand these words. .

Most of the experiences and locations recorded in those travel notes have lost their timeliness. If Tang Sen is willing to be an ancient scholar and follow the locations in the travel notes to explore, he may still be able to find some ruins, but this is of little significance.

Those research materials were different from Tang Sen's imagination. Most ancient wizards would have spent half a lifetime studying just one way of using magic power, and even endured many life-threatening risks caused by magic power.

And often when Tang Sen reaches the end, he does not find the final results of these studies, but ends abruptly after a certain article.

Tang Sen can completely imagine that those ancient wizards died while doing magic research.

"Ancient magic may indeed be powerful and magical, but on the contrary, it is extremely dangerous and uncontrollable."

Tang Sen deeply realized this. The reason why the modern spell system is so popular is that it is safe and controllable. At least young wizards will not lose their lives if they learn spells.

Tang Sen did not want to rush into studying these research materials and follow in the footsteps of those ancient wizards. Fortunately, the Hogwarts library had a large collection of books, and Tang Sen had enough patience to find knowledge that suited him.

"Well, it's a completely different kind of writing again."

Tang Sen pulled out a very thick and heavy book. The cover was made of metal and had very gorgeous and fine lines on it. After confirming the safety through divination, Tang Sen turned through a few pages at will.

Surprisingly, this book was not written by a wizard.

But the elves.

Of course, they are not the tall and handsome elves in Middle-earth that Tang Sen has been to, but house elves. No, when this book was written, they did not have the prefix of domestic.

Tang Sen roughly knew some history. In ancient times, there was a war between wizards and elves. In the end, the wizards won. The elves were stamped with thinking steel through magic. From then on, they became slaves of the wizards for generations. Until Now, even the elves have forgotten their own history.

This book is both a genealogy and a history book.

"Many years ago, this book must have been a treasure treasured by the elven royal family." Tang Sen closed the metal pages. "Unfortunately, it has become worthless now."

These elven texts have long since become dead texts, and I am afraid that no wizards can read them anymore, let alone those house elves that have been completely domesticated.

In the following time, Tang Sen was completely immersed in the ocean of ancient books and the various whimsical ideas of ancient wizards exploring the power of magic.

Most of the wonderful ideas did not record the results in the end, but Tang Sen still found several complete magic spells.

No, ancient magic cannot actually be summarized as simple magic spells. It is essentially different from modern magic spells. In the modern magic spell system, wizards rely on their own magic power and will to pass specific and fixed spells. Ways to leverage the laws of magic.

Ancient wizards often studied a certain kind of magical phenomenon, whether it was a magical phenomenon they did unconsciously, or the magical power possessed by magical animals and plants, or even the power of nature. They eagerly wanted to use their own He realized these magics with his magic power and will, so he began to study, analyze, experiment, and then master them from their essence.

During this process, especially during experiments, wizards inevitably needed to use themselves as the carrier of the experiment, so most of the ancient wizards were poisoned by magic and died.

For those who succeeded in the end, the knowledge left behind cannot be called a curse, but the most essential, from shallow to deep, magic core.

The first ancient magic was the magic to control the weather. Judging from the details mentioned by the wizard in the research materials, the other party's era should be around the time when Hogwarts was established. The wizard observed natural phenomena , trying to communicate with the surrounding environment with its own magic power, and change the surrounding environment with its own will.

This was a very complicated thing, but he succeeded. According to the information, he could control the sky as he pleased, making the weather rain, thunder or shine according to his magic power.

Then he wanted to further borrow the power of celestial phenomena and control thunderstorms in detail. Then the information came to an abrupt end.

Obviously the other party's results are not good, but this does not prevent the previous research from being used.

The second ancient magic is flying. Tang Sen has seen this magic in many ancient documents, but most of them failed. This one is the only successful one that Tang Sen discovered.

This wizard is obviously much older, how much earlier. Townsend did not find the word "wand" in his documents, and in recorded history, at least Ollivander's Wand Shop claims , they began making wands in 382 BC. It is conceivable that this wizard existed earlier.

At that time, humans in England were still wearing animal skins when hunting.

Therefore, from the information, Tang Sen can clearly see that the wizard's methods were more primitive and bloody, including many sacrificial rituals and even some knowledge about the soul. In the end, the wizard gave up his body, Transformed into a being similar to Obscurus or Soul Eater, and gained the ability to fly.

Tang Sen felt that he could not use this method. Instead of giving up his body, Tang Sen would rather use other simpler methods.

For example, Townsend remembered that Mr. Tom, who had no nose, also had a magic ability to fly.

The third ancient magic is transfiguration.

In fact, the transformation technique in the modern spell system has been very perfect. Whether it is turning a dead thing into a living thing, turning a living thing into a dead thing, or even turning a living thing into another kind of living thing, modern wizards They can do it all, and the best among them are Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall.

But this piece of research goes deeper and crazier.

The wizard's whimsical attempt to transform ordinary creatures into magical animals in order to harness greater power.

He did succeed. Through step-by-step research, he mastered the power to transform a living creature into another living creature. This is extremely difficult even in the modern magic world where transfiguration has a stable inheritance.

He tried turning an ordinary horse into a unicorn, but he soon discovered that the other party did not possess the magical power of a unicorn, but was just an illusion. He also tried turning a Bowtruckle into a human, but the other party Apparently without human intelligence, he couldn't even stand and walk.

He realized that this was a problem with the unique magical blood of magical animals, so he made a crazy decision.

He tried to obtain the dragon's magical bloodline, transformed himself into a dragon, and then his research on the data came to an abrupt end.

I don’t know if he died in the step of obtaining the dragon’s bloodline or in the step of transforming. Anyway, based on Tang Sen’s understanding of the original work, at least within the length of the original work, no one can transform into a magical being. Animals, even the Animagus, which is the most dangerous and most difficult to succeed in the transformation technique, can only turn the wizard into an ordinary animal.

"Transformation Technique The faceless man's ability that I acquired in the last world is essentially a kind of transformation technique. I do have a certain learning foundation in this aspect."

Although the power of the magic potion that drives one's own transformation is completely different from the magic power of this world, they are essentially the same law of physical transformation.

The final ancient magic is a defensive spell.

This piece of information is obviously very recent, because the other party clearly mentioned Hogwarts in the article, and also used the most common ancient runes.

The wizard believes that strong emotions and emotions can enhance the power of magic, even bursting out with incredible power.

So he came up with the idea of ​​a magic spell, using pure love as a channel for magic to protect the ones he loves from harm.

This reminded Townsend of the reason why Harry Potter did not die when he was facing the Death Curse in the original book. Maybe his mother had read this research material and researched the imagined ancient magic based on this idea. .

Of course, Tang Sen can't use this magic. The main reason is that he doesn't feel like a pure person, let alone pure love.

Tap tap tap.

The sound of footsteps was heard in the distance. Tang Sen raised his head from the books and was suddenly awakened.

Only then did he realize that the surrounding light had already dimmed. There was no longer sunlight in the windows, only the magical light shining above the library.

"Have we reached this point?" Tang Sen stood up, stretched, and wandered in the ocean of knowledge about ancient magic. The day suddenly passed by.

He put the books in his hands back on the bookshelf, followed the footsteps, walked around several bookshelves, and unexpectedly saw the librarian Mrs. Pince.

"Oh, Professor Tang." She held a lantern, "I was still thinking that you must have left when I wasn't paying attention."

"Sorry, I forgot the time." Tang Sen said apologetically.

"It doesn't matter, this kind of thing happens all the time." Mrs. Pince said with a smile: "This is why I have to patrol every night. Moreover, there are always some naughty students who like to hide in the restricted book area and enjoy violating school rules. My mission is Find them out."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mrs. Pingsi." Tang Sen nodded and walked towards the outside of the library.

"Don't you have any books that you need to borrow?" Mrs. Pince asked, "I mean, although it's very late, I'm willing to work overtime for you."

"The library doesn't have long legs, does it?" Tang Sen joked, waved his hand, and walked through the dense bookshelves back to the library lobby.

He didn't want to take those ancient books out of the library, especially those written in ancient magic script other than ancient runes. This was too eye-catching.

Anyway, he can review all the books he has seen in the library through dream divination at any time.

In fact, Tang Sen did the same thing. In the following days, he planned to read all the valuable books in the library as much as possible and store the entire Hogwarts magical knowledge in his mind...or divination. In the art.

"The value of this knowledge is no less than the world's rewards. The most important thing is that they are free."

Tang Sen raised the corner of his mouth slightly and walked towards his office along the corridor that was no longer full of students.

"Of course, it's a long project."

"I need to prepare for my first Divination lesson tomorrow, and our little adventure with our Potions Master."