Chapter 533

What is most important to a wizard, and how can he ensure the continuity of the family, the accumulation of wealth, and the unwavering status?

It's power.

It's not the power that is derived from power, it's the pure, pure power that wizards are all about—magic and the talent for spellcasting.

For the average wizard, magic and so-called talent are just as good as they can get by. But for those wizarding families at the top, magic and talent are everything,

Powerful magic power and extraordinary talent for spell-casting can create powerful wizards, and only powerful wizards can ensure the status of the family, keep their wealth, and give birth to offspring far beyond ordinary people.

And the important factor that ensures that all this can be achieved is the bloodline of wizards.

After accumulating a lot of wealth and knowledge, the next goal of the powerful wizarding family is how to improve the talent and magic of the descendants, so that the descendants can stand on a higher starting point and give them a higher ceiling.

Marriage between pure-blood families is a very common way to keep the blood pure, but this method has a great drawback, that is, the birth rate of squibs and the incidence of blood diseases.

These two problems have always been a headache for pure-blood families, once the Squib appears, it means that there are no qualified offspring, and even if there is a qualified offspring, there is no guarantee that he will not have blood diseases in the future.

The so-called blood disease, in Solim's view, is a hereditary disease of consanguineous marriage, and generally speaking, wizards with blood diseases do not live to be thirty years old, and they die in pain. In Solim's impression, Daphne of the Greengrass family died of a blood disease, that is, Astoria's sister who played with Sylna.

Pure-blood wizards naturally wanted to solve these two problems that had been bothering them, and the Squib problem had not made much progress, and over time, no one was willing to spend time researching it, and it turned out to be a kick in the door, but Solim was cheaper. As for blood diseases, wizards hope to solve the hidden danger through magical transformation.

Wizards have a very low level of mana compared to other magical creatures, and they are not even as good as house-elves in terms of spell casting. Wizards owe much of their strength to their wands, which allow them to perform powerful killing magic that other magical creatures don't have. However, wizards' magic and spell-casting talents are still low, but clever wizards have come up with a good way to strengthen their magic cap and affinity for magic - and that is magic shapeshifting.

But they failed, or rather, too successfully.

The wizards created vampires through magical transformations, and they were freed from blood diseases, but at the cost of having to feed on blood, and through this price, vampires were able to gain powerful magic and a long life. Although everyone has the impression that vampires are afraid of sunlight, this perception is actually wrong, and vampires only hate sunlight, not fear it.

As a separate type of magic, magic transformation can be said to be the magic with the highest threshold, the most costly, and the most dangerous.

The selection of materials in the early stage is already a problem for most wizards, if you want to integrate into the bloodline of wizards, and still retain complete fertility afterwards, such materials are now difficult to find, and even if they are found, the cost is a huge burden for the average wizard family, and even if you get it, it is still a problem whether you can keep it. Murder is also common in the wizarding world.

This is only an initial investment, and then there are non-stop experiments and debugging, until it is completely in line with the physical state of the target wizard, the magic transformation can be officially carried out, and the cost during this period is even more bottomless, and the family is not well-off enough to afford it at all.

Even if all of the above problems are solved, there may still be problems when performing magic transformation in the end. Once something goes wrong, all the investment in the early stage will be wasted.

And how long does a successful magical transformation last? five to seven generations, depending on the material and the final effect, and even two generations if it is not good.

Magical rituals like this are expensive that only wizarding families at the apex can afford—like Selwyn.

"Magical transformation?" Solim looked at his grandfather in surprise.

Solim's knowledge of magic is of course aware of the transformation of magic, and although the rewards of success are high, the risks and hidden dangers involved are prohibitive.

"Only the first generation can be called 'Magic Transfiguration'. You should call it 'Blood Sublimation' this time. Elrond corrected, "Your magical talent and affinity for magic are the highest among your generation of little ones, and the success rate is naturally the highest. When you successfully complete the Bloodline Ascension Ritual, there will be a huge leap in all aspects of your abilities. "

"Is it just my brother?" asked Sylna.

"And your other two brothers. Elrond put his hand on top of Sylna's head, "and Keldor's three silly sons." "

Hearing that there were five other people, Gilves, who was on the side, pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice, "Hmph, it's just a waste." "

"You old thing, be jealous, don't waste anything!" Elrond had apparently heard the grumbling of his old friend.

Elrond turned around and said to Sylna in a serious tone: "You must know, Nana, you will one day bear the surname of your husband's family, and those old things in the family will not invest such a large resource in girls. "

Sylva will marry someday, and it is obviously unnecessary for the Selwyns to perform a bloodline sublimation ceremony for Selwyn, and her children are not surnamed Selwyn.

Sirna's two brothers are already engaged, and at this time, the bloodline sublimation ceremony will be held, and then their children will have a higher starting point, and the upper limit of talent and magic power will be stronger, as long as they live to adulthood, they will definitely be a powerful wizard. The same is true of Solim, who is due to get engaged in February, and the ceremony is apparently arranged by the old guys in the family.

The six marriageable males of the Selwyn family all held a bloodline sublimation ceremony, which shows the wealth and heritage of the Selwyn family.

"But...... And how can they guarantee that the next generation will be able to preserve their fertility?"

"As I said earlier, it's a 'bloodline sublimation ceremony', not a 'magic transformation'. Elrond gestured to Solim's head, "For a family like ours, the recipe has been explored and practiced for more than ten generations, and the success rate and safety are guaranteed. "

"Recipe?"

"Don't look at me, it's not something I can know about the foundation of this kind of family. Elrond spread his hands.