The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 283 Party
Dragon blood is indeed a good thing. After getting the dragon blood, Ryan took the time to go to the world with extraordinary powers that he controlled and exchanged the dragon blood for a lot of benefits.

For example, he got a lot of high-quality alchemical raw materials from Mr. Luo Zhen, several good magic tools from Uncle Jiu, and finally he got the destruction mushrooms and frozen mushrooms that he had just made from Dave. In short, this bottle of dragon blood gave him a lot of gains, and also provided a sufficient foundation for his next step of alchemical research.

Just as he was immersed in learning all kinds of new knowledge, the weekend reading club gathering began. Today's reading club had two new faces because of the previous recruitment: Ravenclaw freshmen Maine and Celia.

"Why do we have so few new people?" Ryan asked curiously to Hermione who was standing next to him.

"No way. We need people who love learning, knowledge, tolerance and collectivism. There are not many such people. After all, when we select members, we would rather not recruit people than just fill in the numbers. Otherwise, if we recruit people freely, your admirers will fill up this classroom this year."

"You're right. It's better to have nothing than to have something less than perfect." Ryan nodded in approval.

Soon everyone started the reading club's daily question-answering and problem-solving activities. As freshmen, Maine and Celia quickly adapted to the atmosphere here with everyone's help. Ryan found that their performance was no different from that of the old members.

It was just different from usual. A while ago, because Ryan was going to compete, everyone suppressed their curiosity and didn't ask Ryan too many questions during the free question time. Now the first game is over, and there are still two months before the second game. In this case, everyone started to ask Ryan some questions they had always wanted to ask.

In order to avoid the noise from everyone talking at once, Ryan asked everyone who wanted to ask questions to write down their most wanted questions on a piece of paper, and then he would answer them uniformly. Soon, a bunch of papers were handed to him. Ryan looked at them and walked to the podium in front of their activity room to answer them one by one.

"I see most people are asking me how I got through that age line and what I did to beat the dragon in the game. Actually I can answer both questions together, that is alchemy. I used alchemy to achieve these goals."

"But I've never seen alchemy in the Hogwarts curriculum." Justin asked loudly. "So what should we do if we want to learn it?"

"First, Hogwarts does have alchemy," Ryan explained, "but this course is only offered in the sixth grade, and requires students to apply to the school after getting Os in the four subjects of Ancient Magic Runes, Divination, Transfiguration, and Potions in the fifth grade OWLs exam. Only then will the school offer alchemy courses."

"Oh my god!" "How is this possible?" "I think only the boss and the big sister can do it here." There were scattered arguments from the audience, Ryan quickly put his hands down to signal everyone to be quiet, and then continued: "Second, I am willing to share the secrets of alchemy with everyone, but those who are interested in learning this subject must be recognized by me in the levels of four courses such as ancient magic runes."

"Why do that? Can't you just learn?" Fred asked.

"Unfortunately, no." Ryan said firmly, "Because if the foundation of alchemy is not solid, the harm it causes will be very serious and may threaten everyone's life. So, I will show you how to do it and you should know."

After that, Ryan took out two similar pieces of wood from a pile of shabby furniture in the corner of the classroom, then took out a bottle of pre-mixed magic potion from his arms and began to write and draw on it. Everyone in the classroom was also attracted by this.

Ten minutes later, both sticks were covered with runes. Ryan took out two identical crystal balls the size of ping-pong balls and inlaid them on the tops of the two sticks. Then he put the two sticks on the podium and said, "Now, come up and check the difference between the two sticks." The members of the reading club below began to come up to the stage one by one to check the two sticks, but they couldn't see anything. After checking, George said, "Don't tease us. I just saw that you made these two sticks in the same way. The materials are the same and the techniques are the same. I can even feel the magic emanating from them is similar when I hold them in my hands. So I think they should be the same."

"Really?" Ryan asked the audience, "Do you think so too?"

As a result, most people nodded. Ryan saw this scene and the corners of his mouth slightly raised. Then he said: "Then Neville, please come up and help me."

Neville came up shyly, and Ryan asked him to pick up the two sticks on the stage, and then said: "Throw these two sticks on the ground."

"Ah?" Neville opened his mouth in surprise. But he quickly followed his instructions. When the two sticks fell to the ground at the same time, one made a metallic collision sound and bounced twice. The other one fell to the ground like glass and broke into large and small pieces.

"What's going on?" Fred's shout expressed everyone's thoughts. After all, everyone could see that what Ryan did to the two sticks was exactly the same.

"This is what I mean by alchemy requires a sufficient foundation. The two sticks look similar, but they are actually different. And in the subsequent drawing process, many of the runes on the two sticks also have slight differences, but if you are not familiar with ancient runes and arithmetic divination, you can't see the difference at all."

After saying that, Ryan picked up the broken piece of the stick and compared it with the same place on the other intact stick while explaining, "You see, the angle of this rune is greater than the other one. Because the surrounding wood texture is different, the calculation factors of spell distribution are different. At the same time, Jabir Ibn Hayan's third formula for magic balance in The Book of Balance is applied-"

When it came to his strengths, Ryan began to talk incessantly on the stage, and he spoke for seven or eight minutes before concluding with a lingering feeling.

"——In this case, even if the feeling is not much different, it can still produce completely different effects. Well, my explanation ends here, do you understand?" At this time, Ryan glanced at the audience and found that the people below were either as confused as Hermione with their eyes wide open, or as drowsy as Neville and could not listen at all.

"Okay Ryan, we know the importance of the basics." Zhang Qiu stood up and said, "You are right. Alchemy is indeed not something we can learn at our current level. At this stage, in addition to the knowledge in the textbooks, we should understand the ancient magic words."

"Indeed." "Yeah." "Sure enough, we were a little arrogant because of what we learned before." Everyone's voices came from below.

From then on until the meeting was over, everyone was studying textbook knowledge or learning some new runes, and no one asked to learn alchemy anymore.

"It seems that this time everyone has understood that the beginning of learning knowledge is to have a humble heart in the face of knowledge. It seems that this gathering is still very meaningful." Ryan thought happily when he returned to the tower with the Gryffindor students after the party.

(End of this chapter)