#189 - Ancient Thunder Rune
“Daydreaming! Do you think I would reveal my family's secrets so easily? And I warn you, if this book gets even a scratch, it will be considered damaged, and you will no longer be allowed to stay in the library,” Yulia warned.
“Heh, you certainly remember this agreement clearly. But don't worry, I'm a man of my word. Besides, who told you I was going to damage it?”
With that, Anduin slammed the Undamaging Hammer down, the hammer face bearing the 'Analysis' rune heavily striking the notebook's cover, producing a loud 'bang.'
Yulia, who was watching from the side, felt her heart leap into her throat. Just from the sound, she knew the force was considerable. Although she had great confidence in this family treasure, she was still very nervous.
Got it!
As expected, after the Undamaging Hammer struck the cover, magical fluctuations appeared!
However, no magical light or rune patterns were revealed. It seems to be hidden very deeply. Well then, let's see how many hammer blows you can withstand.
Immediately afterward, Anduin began hammering at the notebook like a blacksmith, a series of strikes echoing repeatedly in the room.
Yulia, watching from the side, was wide-eyed with fury, and she couldn't help but want to rush up and stop him. But she could also see that after being struck by that hammer, the notebook remained completely unscathed for some reason. book69.new
After Anduin's continuous hammering, the notebook finally revealed its true appearance.
The book's cover displayed a layer of dense magical纹理, crisscrossing and appearing very chaotic. Moreover, once the book revealed its magical纹理, it could no longer be opened, as if it required the correct password to be entered before it could be browsed.
Seeing this, Yulia gradually relaxed. It was good that the treasure wasn't damaged. Even if Anduin was extremely clever, he would definitely not be able to crack the protective password of this magic book. If he couldn't unlock the protection, then the secrets hidden inside would not be discovered. It had to be done with the Travers family's unique…
Then, she watched in shock as Anduin took out a bottle of blood from his pocket!
In fact, after seeing the magical纹理 appearing on the notebook, he recognized that this wasn't the bloodline rune on that password box?
Moreover, it was a more precise and enhanced version of the rune. Fortunately, he had stored a lot of Tokier's blood.
Then, under Yulia's stunned gaze, Anduin skillfully used the blood in the crystal bottle to open it.
After the bloodline protection was cracked, the entire magic book emitted a violent magical fluctuation. Magical lights of various colors flashed on the book's cover, as if some kind of seal had been lifted. It gradually calmed down after a few seconds. book69.new
This? How is this possible? How would he know the way to open the magic book?
Yulia was now so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth, while Anduin in front of her was happily flipping through it.
“So that’s it, the magic book Tokier mentioned is really just a 'magic book.' Rather than calling this a book, it's more like an alchemical tool in the form of a book. This is much more advanced than the magic book that Lily gave me to store runes,” Anduin realized after seeing the contents of the book. This was a tool used to store magic.
On the first page after opening the cover, the top of the page clearly displayed the name and incantation of a spell.
Fiendfyre!
Then, below the spell name, there were two boxes, one above the other. The upper box displayed the complete rune of the magic!
The lower box recorded various descriptions of the magic, such as precautions, counter-curses, notes left by generations of Travers ancestors, remarks, etc., and even records of using the magic book to cast this magic.
Moreover, this lower box was like a display screen that could be scrolled up and down. With a simple swipe, you could view all the records above.
“Good heavens, so each page is a spell or rune? The runes and records above can allow people to quickly learn this magic. Even if they can't learn it, they can use the magic book to cast spells directly.” Looking at such an ingenious design, even Anduin was amazed.
Then, Anduin turned the pages one by one and found that it mainly recorded dark magic and curses that were difficult to learn or had harsh conditions for use.
It included the three Unforgivable Curses, Legilimency, Occlumency, etc. He also found Slytherin's mental protection magic. The last record of its use was not long ago, which matched Tokier's situation.
When he turned to one of the pages without any name, he made another great discovery!
“This is?” Looking at this page where the spell column and record column were both empty, with only a special magic mark in the middle where silver and blue lines intertwined, Anduin couldn't help but widen his eyes.
This is an ancient primitive magic mark!
He had only heard of this kind of magic mark from Lily and Professor Bones. It was a special magic mark that only appeared on the bones of powerful magical creatures, ancient ruins, or natural magical creations. It was the most natural and primitive magic mark.
In fact, many of the magic marks used now were evolved from analyzing, optimizing, and splitting primitive magic marks. But this didn't mean that primitive magic marks were useless. Optimization and splitting were only to make this kind of magic mark more popular and easier to spread.
Because primitive magic marks themselves possessed powerful power and were very difficult to control. Wizards with average abilities had to analyze them before they could truly use them, and analyzing a primitive magic mark sometimes took years, decades, or even centuries.
Some powerful wizards could directly use ancient primitive magic marks.
“Could this be the magic mark that Lucius gave to Yulia?” At this time, Anduin suddenly remembered the scene he had seen in Sampel Travers' memory, where Lucius asked his sister to help him preserve a certain magic mark.
“This magic mark looks very similar to an elemental one. Could it be a lightning magic mark?” After careful identification, Anduin made a preliminary judgment.
He was no stranger to lightning magic marks. He had also come into contact with them when studying elemental runes. Moreover, he himself had a high affinity for lightning magic marks. Perhaps it was because of this that his Thunderbird feather wand core chose him.
But he had never specifically studied related topics, because he somewhat disliked the power of ordinary lightning runes. Like ordinary flames, the power and magic output were not proportional.
To put it in a more understandable way, after outputting a large amount of magic power, the voltage of the released lightning was not strong enough. If he wanted to increase the power, he had to either continuously practice to increase the intensity or increase the magic output. This was not realistic for him, who had just turned 14 and had a large backlog of research.
