Chapter 166: Time and Taboo
After Irina thanked Newt excitedly, Newt said, "According to the original agreement between Rubeus and me, you will stay here for two weeks. During these two weeks, I plan to teach you some knowledge related to magical creatures, especially how to care magical animals that are uncommon and ones that Hogwarts won't allow you to interact with."
As he said this, Newt blinked.
Clearly, in Newt's opinion, Irina, who had such a powerful affinity with magical creatures, would never be content with only three magical creatures: Envee, Cooper, and the little winged demon.
Upon hearing this, Irina nodded without hesitation. Though she didn't have as many magical creatures as Newt, she needed to take precautions to avoid situations like that afternoon, where she had found a lurking demon but had no idea how to care for it.
Thus, Irina and Hagrid settled in Newt's house. Over the two weeks, Irina's responsibilities were to wake up every morning to help Newt clean the magical creatures' house and provide services to feed them.
Additionally, Irina would spend every afternoon learning from Newt about the habits of various magical creatures in the suitcase and how to care for them. She even learned how to communicate with magical creatures, such as Newt jumping in front of the Venomous Hornet.
Though Irina could already communicate with magical creatures in a simple manner, it would be beneficial for her to learn more advanced knowledge.
As every night passed, Irina would enter the small world inside the suitcase Newt gave her, tending to where Envee, Cooper, and the little winged demon lived, and organizing the remaining nine-tenths of unexplored areas.
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While Irina was learning about magical creatures from Newt, Lynn also continued to ask Green for more alchemical knowledge.
During these study days, Lynn mastered the refining of alchemical formations that could affect a wizard's emotions, mind, and soul. He was able to refine simple illusion formations, which were similar in function to love potions.
After teaching Lynn alchemical knowledge related to the refinement of the soul, Green wasn't satisfied with just that. In fact, he started talking about alchemy related to time!
As mentioned earlier, taboos in magic involve the soul and time because the power of both the soul and time can cause a powerful wizard to reach a point of no return.
However, while these are taboos in magic, they are not in alchemy.
There are only two taboos in alchemy: one is never to cross the realm of gods, and the other is that alchemy on the human body is prohibited.
Alchemy sets that can affect the soul are not uncommon for first-level alchemists in the magical world. Almost every famous alchemist has no less than ten alchemical formations that can affect the alchemical circle.
However, alchemy related to time has become a taboo in the hearts of many alchemists.
This is not only due to the difficulty of time-related runes and alchemical circles, but also because it causes the alchemist to get lost in the long river of time and never return.
Lynn recalled the Time Hall in the Department of Mysteries at the British Ministry of Magic, where there was a bell-shaped glass dome that demonstrated the power of time.
This bell-shaped glass dome seemed to be filled with a bright, swirling air current, and within the dome, a small, glowing object resembling a gem would float up and down.
In reality, the object was a tiny hummingbird, but it wasn't always a bird—it was bound by the immense force of time, constantly looping from its birth to its death.
At the bottom of its circular trajectory, the bird carried its eggs. When it ascended in the glass dome, it opened, and a new hummingbird emerged, rising directly to the top of the dome, while the flow of air descended. The bird's feathers would become stained and wet until it landed back at the bottom of the glass dome and was locked in the egg again.
This process of time would repeat endlessly within the glass dome.
This bell-shaped glass dome in the Time Hall perfectly demonstrated the power and horror of time.
However, despite the daunting power of time, countless alchemists have dedicated their lives to the grandeur of time-based alchemy.
Through the research of these alchemists, an alchemical product containing the power of time was created—the Time Converter!
Much like Green's Anti-Magic Scepter, almost all powerful alchemical products are a combination of material-based alchemy and matrix alchemy, and the same is true for the Time-Turner!
The Time-Turner, in the form of an hourglass, is made of material-based alchemy, especially Time Sand, which contains infinite power of time within the hourglass. The power of the Time-Turner to alter time mainly comes from these elements, refined through material-based alchemy.
Whether it's a Time-Turner or an Anti-Magic Scepter, their most important characteristic is that the core of their power comes from material-based alchemy, while matrix alchemy only plays a role in enhancing and guiding them.
That's why Green always believes that formations are inseparable. If an alchemist is unwilling to share their alchemical results with others, the alchemist needs to practice both formations to complete the grand work of alchemy by themselves.
"Master, can you teach me some alchemical runes related to time?" Lynn asked.
The date of August 10th arrived, the day Green had mentioned he would visit Nico Flamel.
But during the days when Green began teaching alchemical knowledge related to time, all Green taught were theoretical concepts, and he didn't mention a word about alchemical runes and formations related to time.
This was different from Green's usual strategy when teaching Lynn alchemy. In the past, Green would always give him a large book of alchemical runes and circles to memorize, and then start teaching alchemy.
But this time, Green remained silent about these alchemical runes and circles, which confused and surprised Lynn.
In response to Lynn's question, Green said, "Although time is not a taboo in alchemy, its difficulties and dangers are obvious to everyone. As your master, I will only teach you about it and let you understand it. You need to have a deep understanding and methods of dealing with it. As for how to use it, you'll have to explore that yourself in the coming days."
Hearing this, Lynn had no choice but to give up with some regret.
As Green had said, even Lynn would be slightly frightened by the dangers of time. Although he couldn't learn how to refine the alchemical product that contained the power of time, it was an unexpected surprise for him to master the method of dealing with it.
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