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Chapter 236 Making the Magic Stone

Besides the dragons, the dragon farm also houses a large herd of cattle, sheep, and horses, as well as a dozen or so war wolves and orcs that unfortunately fell into Dui's hands.

Cattle, sheep, and horses served as food for the dragons.

The dire wolves and orcs were controlled by Dui using the Imperius Curse and were put in charge of raising cattle, sheep, and horses, as well as taking care of the wyverns.

As for the fact that sometimes they inevitably end up being eaten by the dragons, the capitalist Dui doesn't mind. Anyway, there are plenty of dire wolves and orcs in the Misty Mountains. If they're not enough, he can just capture another batch.

When Dui arrived at the dragon farm, he first found the first spawned sub-dragon.

This dragon was created by crossing Smaug's blood with a giant lizard. It has black scales, yellow eyes, bronze horns, and a tail covered in spikes, making it look like a winged giant lizard.

The growth rate of the dragon is extremely fast. Within a week of birth, it can grow to more than three times its original size. In a month, it can be the size of a small house. By the time it is one year old, it can fly and its body is more than ten meters long.

At that moment, the dragon, which Dui named "Number One," was hunting a bison. Its sharp teeth bit into the bison's neck, killing it instantly.

The other cattle were so frightened that they scattered and fled.

When the number one dragon caught its prey, it didn't eat it right away. Instead, it breathed a burst of dragonfire at the bison carcass and only began to feast when the aroma of the meat filled the air.

Dui looked at the dragon with great interest and walked over to it.

Yalong was eating when he saw someone approaching, and immediately let out a protective roar.

Dui didn't care; he didn't use magical contracts to bind these wyverns, but instead handed them all over to Smaug to suppress.

His reason for raising these dragons was to use their materials to create various magical items. For example, dragon livers could be used to make high-level potions, dragon scales could be used to make defensive magical items, dragon blood had many uses, and dragon skin could be used to make protective clothing, and so on.

He was afraid that if he spent too much time with them, he would develop feelings for them and be reluctant to take action, so he did not form a magical contract with them like he did with the three-headed wolf and the griffin.

Seeing that Dui ignored the warning and continued to approach, the number one dragon immediately took it as a provocation and opened its mouth to breathe fire at Dui.

"Soul leaving the body!" Dui didn't hold back and immediately used a soul-stealing spell.

These dragons have strong magic resistance, and because they inherited some of the genes of the dragon Smaug, they are even stronger than the fire dragons in the magical world.

In the magical world, it takes more than a dozen adult wizards to cast spells together to defeat a single fire dragon.

Once here, common spells such as the Stunning Spell and the Petrifying Spell no longer have much effect on the dragon.

The only weakness of these dragons is their low resistance to mental magic, which is why the Soul Reaper spell is most effective against them.

Struck by the Soul-Stealing Curse, the number one dragon stopped attacking and stood quietly in place.

Dui immediately went to the first dragon, took out a sharp needle and a huge syringe made of mithril, and then plunged it into the flesh through the gaps in the scales to start drawing blood.

After drawing about a bucket of dragon blood, Dui let the dragon go and turned his attention to the other dragons.

Next, one after another, the dragons fell victim to Dui's cruelty, having their dragon blood extracted like it was free.

Finally, Dui, seeing the somewhat anemic dragons, had a change of heart and asked the orcs to send them more cattle and sheep to help them recover their blood.

Having collected all the dragon blood, Dui left the dragon breeding farm and returned to Fengyun Peak.

Inside the Alchemy Room at Hogwarts Castle.

Before Dui lay the three primordial substances: mercury of spirit, sulfur of soul, and salt of flesh, along with the dragon blood he had just collected.

These items are all necessary materials for crafting the Philosopher's Stone, also known as the Magic Stone.

There was also a mithril furnace that had been prepared beforehand.

And a double-necked, sealed glass flask engraved with runes to prevent energy leakage.

In addition to the three primary substances, the creation of the Philosopher's Stone also requires four elements: earth, wind, water, and fire.

For the three elements of wind, fire, and water, Dui can ask Elrond, Galadriel, and Gandalf, the three owners of the Elven Rings, for help.

For the earth element, Dui pulled out a box, which, when opened, revealed the dazzling Arkenbroker diamond.

Arkenstone, also known as the Heart of the Mountain, is the essence born from the earth, containing the element of earth, thus bringing together all four elements.

After preparing these things, Dui took out a scroll of astronomical phenomena.

This is a scroll that Dui found after inheriting Saruman's library. It records the astronomical phenomena of Middle-earth. Based on the astronomical content on the scroll, he can calculate the various celestial phenomena in the coming days to facilitate the creation of the Philosopher's Stone.

The creation of the Philosopher's Stone is extremely complex, requiring not only basic materials but also the application of astrological principles, special incantations, and magic circles, making it a lengthy process. Nicolas Flamel himself spent a full 21 years creating his own Philosopher's Stone.

Of course, these 21 years included the time Nicolas Flamel spent collecting information and interpreting the Book of Abraham, as well as gathering various materials for his work.

The Book of Abraham that Dui obtained already contained Nicolas Flamel's interpretation of the book's contents, so Dui did not need to collect materials or decipher the meaning of the symbols in the book, thus saving most of his time.

At the same time, he was fortunate to have the help of the wise man Elrond, who directly pointed out the destination of the mercury of the spirit, the sulfur of the soul, and the salt of the body, and also had the Three Rings of the Elven to directly gather the elements.

It does not require the arduous task of collecting the three primary substances and four elements as Nicolas Flamel did.

After all, when Nicolas Flamel collected the three elements, there were no magical places like Lune Bay, the Path of the Dead, or Hildorion in the Grey Harbor where one could directly collect spiritual mercury, soul sulfur, and flesh salt.

Dui saw in the Book of Abraham the method of collection recorded by Nicolas Flamel:

Nicolas Flamel lived during the Black Death, a time of devastation in Europe where almost every house was empty. He spent seven years traveling among Muggles, collecting the spiritual energy, soul power, and life force of hundreds of thousands of people who had died from the plague using special methods. He then extracted spiritual mercury, soul sulfur, and physical salt. The repetitiveness and time-consuming nature of this work astonished even Dui.

Therefore, Nicolas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone was created during the special period of the Black Death and is not reproducible.

Therefore, throughout the centuries in the magical world, only Nicolas Flamel has successfully created a Philosopher's Stone, and it is even unrealistic for him to create another Philosopher's Stone.

After all, the conditions were too harsh.

And it's impossible to wait for another Black Death to appear.

Dui was fortunate to save most of the time before making the Philosopher's Stone, but the process of making the Philosopher's Stone was also a long and complicated one, and a slight mistake along the way could lead to failure.

At that time, all the spiritual mercury, soul sulfur, and body salt that you have painstakingly collected will be wasted, and all your previous hard work will be in vain.

Therefore, Dui carefully calculated the celestial phenomena for the coming year, as well as weather factors, and took them all into consideration.

Otherwise, if he encountered cloudy, rainy, or foggy weather and couldn't see the stars when he needed to draw upon the power of the stars to create a magic stone, he would be devastated.

To ensure he was not mistaken, Duy even went to the Valley of the Dead and Lorien, using the wisdom and knowledge of Elrond to confirm that his calculated astrological timings were accurate, and also used Galadriel's water mirror to predict future weather.

After making ample preparations, Dui officially began the production of the Philosopher's Stone.

He sealed the mercury of the spirit, the sulfur of the soul, and the salt of the body in a 1:1:1 ratio in a flask and placed it in a mithril furnace.

Silver spiritual mercury, yellow soul sulfur, and white flesh salt are mixed in a double-necked flask, forming a "trinity" that shimmers with tricolored light within the flask and produces mysterious reactions with each other.

Dui used dragon blood as fuel, turning it into a blood-red raging flame that burned the three primary substances inside the flask, accelerating their reaction.

Dragon blood fuel needs to burn continuously for a full forty-nine days without any interruption.

It was fortunate that Dui had prepared more than a dozen buckets of dragon blood in advance, otherwise there wouldn't have been enough to burn.

According to Nicolas Flamelius's notes in the Book of Abraham, Flamelius personally went to Romania to hunt down an adult fire dragon and collected enough of its blood to fuel the initial combustion reaction of the Philosopher's Stone.

As time went by, Dui stayed by the furnace, replenishing the dragon blood fuel regularly and ensuring that the fire was neither too big nor too small.

When hungry, they would eat the fruit picked from the Valley of Hildorion and drink the water from the golden cup when thirsty.

At the same time, he also had to meditate, using his mental power to constantly perceive the changes in the substances inside the flask in the furnace. As the substances inside the flask reacted day by day, Dui's mind also gradually changed.

In Dui's spiritual perception, it was as if a miniature cosmic evolution was taking place inside the flask, where the mercury of the spirit, the sulfur of the soul, and the salt of the body mingled and gradually merged into one, forming a complete triangular cycle that included spirit, soul, and matter.

Throughout this process, Dui seemed to be observing the changes calmly from a God's-eye view.

Dui's mental strength was growing at a rapid pace without him even realizing it.

The mental castle he was building in his mind was growing larger and stronger, evolving into a complete Hogwarts castle.

Finally, the twenty-first day passed.

The three substances in the flask completely merged into a black, viscous substance. The flask emitted a putrid odor, and the substance was completely carbonized and emitted black smoke, making it look like a failure.

But Dui did not panic. He recorded this phenomenon in the Book of Abraham, calling it the "crow's head" stage, also known as the darkening stage.

The fact that the substance inside the flask has reached this state means that Dui has successfully completed the first step in making the Philosopher's Stone.

The next stage is the "white rose" stage, also known as the albino stage.

The substance in the flask needs to be purified and sublimated to obtain "primary white stone".

(End of this chapter)