Chapter 339: Love debt is hard to erase

Chapter 339: Love debt is hard to erase

As for Eleanor…

Xie Lin had a headache just thinking about it.

The reason why Eleanor is so anxious to find her is simply that she wants to see her again before the semester ends and she needs to leave Hogwarts. She may even take the opportunity to invite her to Hohenheim Manor in Germany as a guest during the summer vacation.

Although he had saved Eleanor's life once, the two were still only allies. What's more, Eleanor had given him an extremely precious copy of "The Fifth Element", which to some extent had given away the life-saving power. Favor.

Speaking of which, the two have not been in alliance for a long time.

However, Schelling already owed a lot of favors to the Hohenheim family.

The first is the defensive bracelet provided by Hohenheim to the Sleeping Dragon Society, specifically used to resist the Imperius Curse. As mentioned earlier, almost every major cadre of Sleeping Dragon has one, including the leaders of each group and the shadow group. The leader, deputy leader, senior Slytherin prefects, as well as Rita, Night Owl, and Hawkeye who were collecting intelligence for Schelling.

Xie Lin knew very well that each defensive bracelet was specially made by an alchemist master. The cost of craftsmanship alone was already valuable, not to mention that almost all of the materials used in it were the best materials in the wizarding world, and Mian The Dragon Club took at least 20 of them.

Then, the current head of the Hohenheim family, Eleanor's father, Cordes von Hohenheim, even personally led the team, working tirelessly and all the way from Germany to the Hebridean Islands for the mission of the Sleeping Dragon Society. Set up dragon seals around the island where the McFasty Clan Castle is located to increase bargaining chips for Old Barty's negotiations.

To be fair, from the current point of view, compared with the contributions of the two allies, Schelling has undoubtedly taken advantage.

Of course, if Schelling shares the first half of the Book of Truth with the Hohenheim family after it is cracked, this will indeed be enough to offset the favor Schelling owes.

However, before Schelling rushed to the Death Eater meeting alone, Eleanor approached Schelling privately, and without any explanation, she gave Schelling the alchemy puppet that she had kept in the box to save her life, half as a loan and half as a gift——

This is a human puppet made using the forbidden alchemy of the human body. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the top secret secret of the Hohenheim family.

Schelling once heard Eleanor mention that the production of human puppets involves extremely complex alchemy in human body refining. It is very time-consuming to make, and the probability of failure is also high. In addition, the raw materials required More than half of them are strictly controlled items, which are very difficult to collect. Therefore, they have only made a hundred human puppets with the efforts of the entire family over the years.

Eleanor came to Hogwarts this time with a mission given by Walpurgis. It was precisely because she knew the seriousness of this mission that the family had to bear the pain for Eleanor, the first heir to the family. Only after paying the capital, she was allowed to bring all the puppets in the family inventory.

The value of these human puppets has long exceeded the limit that can be measured by any money or knowledge. In the history that Schelling knows, no wizard has ever handed over the core inheritance of his family to an outsider, no matter how important that person is. allies.

As a result, all one hundred alchemy puppets were damaged by Schelling, and the damage was almost irreparable.

This time, Xie Lin could never repay the favor he owed.

Sighing, a headache is a headache. You always have to face what you have to face. Avoiding problems is not Schelling's style.

Eleanor must meet her, and then she must explain to her everything that happened in Little Hangleton, and then confess the fact that she destroyed the human puppet.

No matter what, you must make compensation to the other party.

No matter how rare and precious the materials for human puppets are, they are still something that exists in this world. With Xie Lin's current net worth and connections, there is always a way to get them no matter how difficult it is. It is nothing more than the price and price that needs to be paid behind it. It’s just time.

"Daphne, please help me answer them, and I will go to see them tonight, um -" Schelling thought for a while and said, "I will make an appointment with Karkaroff first, and then Eleanor - the location is set at Slytherin Chamber of Secrets!"

There was still some time left in the evening, so Xie Lin took the opportunity to chat with Mo Rui, Zhang Qiu, and Luna, mainly to learn about the situation of Long Yi and Dragon Soul.

The main task of Dragon Wing at this stage is to cultivate magical animals and plants that can be used in battle. Xie Lin also specially divided an area in the suitcase space for them to use as a breeding farm.

Although there are many kinds of magical animals and they are powerful, they have a very high threshold if they are to be used as combat tools - except for little wizards like Scamander and Luna who have awakened the "Children of Nature", most wizards want to command Before magical animals can act according to their own wishes, they need to spend a long time communicating with magical animals and cultivating feelings. It can be said that this is a combat style with powerful effects but very high initial investment costs.

Therefore, most of the training of young wizards focuses on the skills and knowledge of using magical plants to fight.

The coverage of magical plants in the original world is far less than the vast space of magical animals. But that doesn't mean magical plants are weak.

Don’t forget that in 1912, Venucia Quickley, the Minister of Magic who once served as an Auror, died in a gardening accident related to mandrake.

In 1985, Professor McGonagall's husband, Elphinstone Urquhart, the then Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement, was accidentally bitten by a poisonous tentacle and died.

In the seventh book of the original work, Professor Sprout led a group of young wizards to throw mandrakes, poisonous tentacles, devil's nets, and pods of knotty vines from the heights of the castle, which were repeatedly used in the defense of Hogwarts. Achieve extraordinary achievements and buy Harry a lot of time to find the Horcrux.

The biggest advantage of choosing to use magical plants to fight is that magical plants are not like animals. Most of them do not have complete characters and thoughts, nor complex and rich emotions. They all act based on biological instincts - as long as you master their behavioral rules, you can Make full use of their properties to achieve your own purposes.

Although Luna studied at Ravenclaw Academy, which is notoriously not good at herbal medicine, she was influenced by her father since she was a child and has a strong interest in strange animals and plants. She has her own way of dealing with these dangerous magical plants.

Xie Lin once learned from Professor Sprout that Luna's talent in herbalism was no worse than Neville Longbottom, who was one grade above her.

Therefore, Xie Lin is very relieved here at Longyi Group.

Zhang Qiu and Mo Rui are in charge of the Dragon Soul Group. This group has no specific members, but recruits elites from other groups to help research new spells and new potions.

Since the founding of this group, Schelling has provided them with many research directions.

These include growth-promoting magic that can accelerate plant growth during battle, or growth-promoting potions that can achieve the same effect when poured on them.

Think about it, although magical plants are powerful, they are not easy to store and carry in actual combat. The Battle of Hogwarts took place in Hogwarts Castle. The duty of the team led by Professor Sprout was simply to use magical plants for defense, and the herbs were stored in the greenhouse in the castle.

If a birth-promoting magic or potion could be invented, wouldn't it overcome the above shortcomings?
Little wizards only need to bring the required seeds when they go out on weekdays. After throwing the seeds out and using growth-promoting magic or potions, the magical plants can grow to a complete state.

Only in this way can the value of Luna's Dragon Wings team be truly reflected in actual combat.

As for why not let little wizards carry space expansion boxes like "Scamander's Suitcase"?

First of all, the suitcase itself that has been casted by the Invisible Stretching Spell is expensive. Of course, money is not a big issue in front of the wealthy Xie Lin. The real problem is that magical plants, like magical animals, require a specific growth environment.

An ordinary space expansion box cannot meet the growth environment needs of all kinds of strange and magical plants - only Scamander spent countless time and effort to create a complete box with various geographical magic and celestial magic. A simulated ecological environment is enough.

This not only requires magical strength - you must have an in-depth understanding of the habits of various magical plants, and the time and energy spent behind it is immeasurable.

Mo Rui and Zhang Qiu have never neglected the tasks assigned by Xie Lin - there is no need to mention the relationship between Mo Rui and Xie Lin. Zhang Qiu is also one of the female classmates who admires Xie Lin very much. Since joining the Mianlong Society, she has always had a strong desire to prove herself to Xie Lin.

Of course, magic research cannot be done with intention. Xie Lin also understands that sometimes haste makes waste.

Therefore, even though they were all composed of members with the best academic performance, Xie Lin did not expect too much from this group of young wizards who were still underage, so as not to cause unnecessary pressure on them.

As expected by Xie Lin, Murray frankly stated their current research progress - although they already have a clue, it will still take a long time to realize this research goal in reality.