Hagrid looked at the small bottle in Aine’s hand with some suspicion, but still said, “We don’t have any cow’s milk, but I do have goat’s milk.
Do you need that?”
“That’s fine.
As long as it’s a liquid!”
Aine then followed Hagrid into the hunting hut, where Hagrid handed him a large barrel of freshly boiled goat’s milk.
He then sat down to see what kind of experiment Aine was planning to conduct.
Aine pointed his wand at the lid of the small bottle, which had a glass-like appearance, and tapped it once.
The lid began to flicker, and Aine then placed it into the barrel of goat’s milk.
Hagrid and Aine witnessed a miraculous scene.
The small bottle sitting on the table began continuously drawing goat’s milk from the barrel, yet an entire barrel of milk only filled one-fifth of the small bottle.
After all the goat’s milk in the barrel had disappeared, Hagrid saw the lid of the small bottle vanish as well.
When he looked back at the table, the missing lid had returned to the bottle.
Seeing this, Aine nodded.
Hagrid was also curious about what would happen once the bottle was full, so he brought out another large barrel of goat’s milk.
Aine once again activated the bottle’s lid with his wand and threw it into the large barrel.
The small bottle quickly became full, and then its lid reappeared.
Aine was extremely satisfied!
The small bottle had perfectly achieved its intended function.
Aine named this small bottle the Liquid Space Bottle.
The body of the bottle had been imbued with the Undetectable Extension Charm, the Levitation Charm, and the Acceptance Charm, while the lid had been imbued with the Transfer Charm, Targeting Charm, and Return Charm.
Of course, these were only the general categories of the spells involved.
Through Alchemy, Aine had modified the settings of the magical runes and changed the functions of these spells.
This also allowed him to understand the difference between spells and magical runes.
Whether spells or magical runes, both were realized through Ancient Runes.
In essence, spells and magical runes were the same thing, merely different manifestations of Ancient Runes.
In the Alchemy classroom, Aine had discovered through repeatedly casting spells that the activation trajectories of Ancient Runes were remarkably similar to those of magical runes.
Thus, Aine confirmed the importance and fundamental nature of Ancient Runes in magic.
Aine also reached a conclusion based on his own experience: Ancient Runes were the runes that represented the concrete manifestations of how the world operated.
Ancient Runes were runes.
Spells were the pronunciations of Rune Words, magical runes were the specific written forms of runes, and runes were the combination of spells and magical runes.
Through this experiment with the small bottle, Aine confirmed his theory that Ancient Runes were the same as runes.
He then entered the summarization stage, which involved determining the number of runes, their categories, and their attributes.
Aine left the small bottle with Hagrid.
After all, Hagrid had given Aine a great deal of help.
Hagrid had planted many spice plants for Aine in the “Little Vegetable Garden.” The bottle only needed to be activated with magic power and did not require a wand.
After teaching Hagrid how to use it, Aine also took nineteen Space Bottles out of a special bag.
These small bottles included liquid and powdered storage functions.
In addition to allowing Hagrid to experience the Liquid Space Bottle, Aine also had experiments planned for the Powder Space Bottles, and he explained all of this to Hagrid.
Aine returned to the Alchemy classroom excitedly and began analyzing Ancient Runes.
After analyzing them, Aine began referring to Ancient Runes as “Runes,” while also starting to summarize their pronunciations, which were the spells.
And just like that, a day of rest passed.
The days that followed became Aine’s process of earning House Points.
During that week, Aine earned a total of fifty-one points for Hufflepuff.
Even Professor Snape gave Aine one point.
Early one morning, Aine arrived at Hagrid’s hunting hut.
Besides asking Hagrid about his experience using the Space Bottle, he also asked about the Forbidden Forest.
However, he didn’t get much useful information from Hagrid.
Hagrid only knew about the outer areas of the Forbidden Forest.
This information revealed that the Forbidden Forest was far from ordinary.
Hogwarts had been established around 990 AD, meaning more than a thousand years had passed.
Yet the situation inside the Forbidden Forest had still not been thoroughly investigated.
That was clearly unreasonable.
After all, during the early years of Hogwarts, many magical creatures now rated at the XXXXX level had fled into the Forbidden Forest.
Those creatures had surely developed into established populations by now.
Combined with the magical creatures that had originally lived there, the Forbidden Forest was certainly not a simple place.
Hagrid might not know its secrets, but the situation had aroused Aine’s interest.
Once the first stage of his current research was complete, he would explore the Forbidden Forest himself.
After saying goodbye to Hagrid, Aine went to the “Little Vegetable Garden” Hagrid had mentioned.
He picked some spices and used the Preservation Charm to turn them into dried ingredients, then sorted and stored them in Space Bottles.
After shaking them, the dried ingredients became powder.
He used magic to label the names on the bottles before returning to the castle.
Carrying his questions with him, Aine went to the library.
He searched through the school’s history while also looking for books about different types of spells, staying in the library until lunchtime.
After lunch, Aine continued studying the Alchemy Table in the Alchemy classroom.
The Alchemy Table in this world was different from the Alchemy Tables of his previous world.
It was a type of Alchemy Table based on magical arrays.
From two concentric circles with only a single function to twelve-pointed stars surrounded by two more concentric circles, these represented the Alchemy level and difficulty of an alchemical item.
The difficulty increased from low to high as follows: circle, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagram, heptagram,…, dodecagram.
The circle represented the two states of Alchemy: decomposition and fusion.
The Alchemy procedure itself was the runes.
Only after the runes were inscribed would the Alchemy array fully activate.
Therefore, runes were the foundation of Alchemy, while materials were merely its external component.
Today, Aine was going to conduct his first Triangle-level Alchemy and create a genuine alchemical item.
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