Chapter 477
Stone Necklace
Chapter 477 Stone Necklace
Infusing thoughts into puppets is not an easy magic to master, but Bode was once an outstanding graduate of Ravenclaw, and his NEWTs in several courses reached the "excellent" standard, so he finally completed it successfully.
The puppet slowly opened its eyes. At first it was expressionless, but then its expression gradually relaxed, even showing a bit of loneliness and melancholy. It looked a bit like Bode.
Bode waved his palm in front of him, then took it back as the puppet looked at him like a fool. He asked nervously, "Hello? Do you know who I am?"
"Master." The puppet said slowly.
"OK!" Bode asked again, "Explain the potential risks of irreversible deformation... Oh, and tell me about the seven elements of space magic and the calculation formula for constructing magic space."
Vader glanced at Bode and nodded secretly.
The first problem is the level of the NEWTs exam. The latter two are not accessible in school and may even be the research results of the Department of Mysteries that only a few people know about.
Bode used this method to verify how much knowledge the puppet inherited from him after being injected with thoughts.
After the puppet answered one by one, Bode almost jumped up with joy.
"Did you hear that, Vader? He knows it all! Even better and more organized than I thought! Merlin, this is the best puppet I can imagine!"
"As long as you're satisfied." Wade leaned against the wall with his arms folded and smiled, "Give him a name?"
Bode seemed to have thought it through long ago, and said without hesitation: "Caspian."
Vader said, "Caspian?"
"Yes, he is also the 'Guardian of the Gem'." Bode said expectantly, "He will provide great help to our research."
Wade motioned for Bode to step aside, and then whispered to him, "I want to remind you, Mr. Bode, that although Caspian was created to assist your research, you'd better not treat him harshly."
Bode nodded: "I understand. He is like your own child to you, right? Don't worry, I will take good care of him."
"That's not the only reason." Wade corrected, "The reason why we never sell this kind of customized large puppets is actually to avoid unfortunate incidents."
Bode: "...unfortunate incident?"
Vader looked at him and asked, "Mr. Bode, can you guarantee that your thoughts will not betray you at all?"
Bode wanted to say "no" decisively, but after hesitating for a while, he shook his head.
He had seen many bizarre phenomena in the Department of Mysteries, and had heard about the various strange incidents his colleagues at the Ministry of Magic had dealt with.
Bode knew very well that human thoughts were diverse. Even for the same person, his reason and desire, morality and emotion were often at odds with each other. Everyone might have many contradictions in their thoughts, and often deny and betray themselves.
“See, that’s the problem.”
Wade said, "We actually set a lot of restrictions on the goods sold in the magic workshop to ensure that the puppets will not harm or betray their masters. But the intelligence level you require is very high, so I have to reduce some restrictions, so he..."
"He might betray?" Bode asked grimly.
"No, it's not that easy. He's like a child who needs your hands to raise. How he grows up depends on how you treat him."
Wade said: "Most children will not betray their parents, but if you often abuse and hurt him, and give him negative feedback... I can only say that the loyalty of the puppet will not be higher than that of the house elf."
Bode was originally full of worries, but after listening to this, he relaxed a little: "I understand... Vader, even if you don't trust my character, you have to trust my wallet - I don't have a second batch of Galleons to buy a new puppet."
Bode made a joke and shrugged, "So... of course, I would never do him any harm."
"In fact, I've never punished even the house elves... I know some of my colleagues enjoy it, but I've never done that. I think it's cruel."
"Cruel?" Wade was stunned and asked, "What did they do?"
Bode shook his head and said, "Don't ask, you don't want to know... Anyway, thank you very much for your help in our magic research. This is the promised reward... and the necklace."
He placed a leather bag on the table, opened it, put his whole arm inside, fumbled around for a while, then took out a few heavy purses, placed them on the table, and then a wooden box that looked very old.
Wade opened the wooden box first. It was padded with black velvet. Compared with the soft luster, the stone necklace on it looked like it was casually put on by a naughty child.
He cast a few monitoring spells first to confirm that it was not a dangerous dark magic item before picking up the necklace for a closer look.
The flat stones were of different sizes and shapes, reminding Wade of Fiona's metal box that contained a collection of buttons.
There were ancient runes engraved on both sides of the stone. Vader couldn't understand them, so he asked directly, "Do you know what these runes mean?"
"My colleagues have deciphered it and think it may be an ancient spell, something like this—"
Bode held the necklace and whispered, "Omagen, Fata, Thea Morgan, Layuta, Newpslangayuta..."
He muttered something to himself, and the stone necklace emitted a faint light, then quickly dimmed as if it was out of power.
"Look, it's been so long, we can only do this much, and we haven't found a way to give it magic again."
Bode said helplessly, and then suddenly realized that this would make the necklace seem worthless, and quickly added: "But a long time ago, it should have been a magical item of protection or healing."
Vader took the necklace and looked down at it.
Bode rummaged through the bag again and took out a thin booklet: "This is our previous research notes. I'll give it to you as well. It should be of some help to you."
Wade said in surprise: "I remember that the research of the Department of Mysteries cannot be leaked?"
Although no one knows whether there has been any leak, there is indeed a rule. Not only can research materials not be leaked, but the silent people basically do not discuss their work with others.
Bode smiled and said, "This isn't the kind of thing that needs to be kept secret. After all, this necklace... that..."
"It's not that important." Wade finished the rest of the sentence for him.
Bode breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's right."
Wade flipped through his notes, picked out the part of the analysis notes written by the Silent Man that he could understand, and finally figured it out roughly.
After analyzing the meaning of the rune, the Unspoken believed that it was a necklace that healed spiritual damage or protected the spirit from external harm. Ancient people faced many dangerous and powerful dark magic creatures, some of which did not harm the body but would devour human souls. Wizards would also use various spells that were far more evil than the "Immortal Curse" to attack each other, so they needed to wear special items to protect themselves.
But as time went by, many magical creatures disappeared from the earth and became legends. After a long time, this necklace was also worn down into something like a small light bulb.
After reading it, Wade looked up and saw that Bode was staring at him with a hint of guilt. He smiled and said, "Then I'll keep this necklace. It just so happens that I've been studying some magic related to thought recently."
"That kind of magic is very dangerous." Bode couldn't help but warn: "Unless you get permission from Professor Dumbledore, you'd better not get involved easily."
"I know." Wade put away the Galleons and the necklace and said, "Happy transaction. I should go back to school."
He said goodbye to Bode, nodded to Caspian, and left the room.
The puppet Caspian sat silently in the chair, watching the two talking. It was not until Bode sent the young wizard away that he raised his eyes and looked intently at the person who created him.
"boom!"
After the wooden door closed and Bode turned around, Caspian returned to his calm self.
……
Vader spent the rest of the days studying the necklace.
After all, he had just been attacked not long ago, and his vigilance against mental attacks reached its peak at this moment.
Even though Dumbledore had helped him solve the problem this time, what if someone else used the Brainiac to issue invisible orders to the whole world in the future?
Well, even Voldemort probably wouldn't be able to do this. But if the magic in the Brain Hall only affects one or two people, it will definitely be more powerful and more difficult to prevent.
If he could restore the necklace, or learn the rune magic on it, perhaps he wouldn't have to be so passive.
The people in the Department of Mysteries seemed to think it was worthless, but Vader didn't think so. Because when he used his second vision to look at it, he found that the magic patterns around the necklace were still arranged almost perfectly, and the ancient runes were even more fascinating.
But it had exhausted its energy. The same rune arrangement and combination, carved on a stone of the same material, carved on a gemstone necklace or a metal necklace, had no effect. It was obvious that the spell had to be cast correctly in order to work.
Wade was able to restore all the spells that Bode had said. The necklace gave off light for two seconds out of respect, but it had no other effect.
Later, Vader discovered a problem - the rune spell engraved on it seemed to have a beginning and an end, but it was actually a loop rune. In other words, the beginning that Bode said was probably not its true beginning, and the starting point of the spell could be any position in this string of runes.
What's more, the necklace does not indicate how to break up the spell, which parts need to prolong the tone, and which parts need to be emphasized. These things, which have a significant impact on the effect of the magic, are not marked at all.
By exhaustive permutations and combinations, there may be hundreds of thousands of ways to recite this spell.
After studying the time-turner for a few days, Wade had to admit with frustration that it made sense for the Unspoken to think this thing was rubbish. Instead of studying how to "revive" it, he might as well try to invent a similar thing himself.
Vader casually put the stone necklace back on the storage shelf and left the closet space.
After a while, a furtive figure floated in.
The cloak picked up the necklace, pretended to have a head, put the necklace on his neckline, fixed it with his collar, and then floated out triumphantly.
The Rubik's Cube puppet who was in charge of the space transformation was working recently. He found that this guy floated back and forth in front of him three times. He said angrily: "Why are you making trouble here instead of cleaning up the library?"
"Look!" Cloak proudly showed off his new equipment and said, "I have a necklace too!"
"Put it back! Put it back quickly!" The broom patted the cloak twice and said, "This is something that the master has valued very much recently. What if it is damaged?"
"I'm just wearing it for a bit, it won't get damaged!" The cloak dodged the attack of the broom and said, "And I think the owner doesn't like it anymore, he didn't put it back in the box today."
The magic cube puppet shook his head and went to move bricks. However, the firebird Michal was attracted by their quarrel and flew over to watch curiously.
There was a scuffle between the cloak and the broom, and the necklace was not fastened properly, and fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Ouch!" cried the Cloak.
"I didn't break it!" The broom flew away immediately.
"It's not broken! It just fell to the ground."
Cloak used the hem of his hand to fiddle with the necklace, and found that it was still intact, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said.
Just as it was about to pick it up, the Firebird Michal suddenly lowered its head and pecked at it a few times.
The red light on the stone necklace flashed, and it looked as if it was about to be melted by Michal. The cloak didn't dare to play anymore, and quickly picked it up and put it back on the shelf.
"Crack!"
With a slight crisp sound, one end of the necklace shook and hit something below, which immediately broke.
The puppets looked at each other, and after a moment, they rushed out one after another, as if they were afraid of having to take responsibility if they stayed.
……
Wade walked around the castle and looked at his final grades. As expected, he got high scores in every course.
The exams for the fifth and seventh graders were over, and the students in the whole school were in a carefree and revelry state. The end-of-term dinner was still very sumptuous, fully satisfying everyone's appetite.
Of course, Wade had to return the Time Turner to Professor McGonagall temporarily. Sometimes he really hoped that Professor McGonagall had forgotten about it, but after asking, he found out that she didn't have the authority to keep it, and Professor McGonagall also needed to send the Time Turner to the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic during the holidays.
"It's just a learning aid. It's useful, but you can't become obsessed with it."
Percy educated him in the tone of a senior: "Ved, being able to take all the courses at the same time is enough to prove your excellence, but you must also be careful not to make mistakes in such details and do not try to exploit loopholes in the law."
Vader: “…”
When he returned to the dormitory smelling of food and entered the closet space, he saw several puppets standing in a row, waiting to be scolded.
(End of this chapter)