great-warnovel Chapter 243 The Arrival of the Dragon Heart
Chapter 243 The Arrival of the Dragon Heart
Chapter 243 The Arrival of the Dragon Heart
Hermione didn't attend Barty's first Defense Strategy class. Partly because she was exempt, and more importantly, the rock dragon heart that Charlie had flown in from Vesuvius had finally arrived.
The male wizard who came to deliver the goods looked very intimidating; he had lost half of his chin and nose, and his face was covered with burn marks.
He insisted on immediate payment and refused to accept installments or credit, otherwise he would leave with Longxin immediately, as if he was determined to hoard the rare commodity.
After paying a hefty sum of 200 Galleons, Hermione finally succeeded in obtaining the dragon heart.
It was bigger than she had imagined, and Hermione used a levitation charm to levitate it, making it almost half the size of her.
"It's so big, Draco probably can't finish it in one meal, right?"
Hermione took the dragon heart back to the Room of Requirement and examined it closely.
"These tendons are quite tough and coexist well with the rock without interfering with each other."
Even if Draco had her appetite and teeth, he probably wouldn't be able to bite this thing.
She recalled the memories the Faded Ones had sent her: those enormous dragons, whose hearts, once extracted after being killed, were not large, small enough to be held in one hand, perhaps due to the strange rules of the border region.
"Or is it because those dragons can transform into human form?" she wondered, while thinking of a solution.
I had previously considered soaking the Dragon Heart in Animagus's transformation potion, but judging by its size, I'd probably have to buy a huge iron pot from the Far East to stew it.
"What if we just extract dragon blood from the dragon's heart and inject it into a transformation potion?"
The rock dragon heart constantly radiated heat, and through its slightly glowing tendons, one could see the dragon blood sealed inside. The wizards at the dragon farm were very professional; they preserved the dragon heart very well when they extracted it, sealing all the blood vessels tightly.
"The essence of Dragon Feast is to seize the power of the dragon. Whether it is the dragon's heart or the blood of the dragon's heart, there is not much difference in the symbolic meaning of the mysticism." However, just to be on the safe side, she still asked the score to pass a message to Lily and Professor McGonagall, asking them to come and discuss it together after class.
After all, this concerned whether Draco would turn into a giant earth dragon, and out of a sense of responsibility, she felt she had to be cautious.
As the school bell rang, Harry's group of four were the first to return, hurriedly packing their dinner from the Great Hall.
So I ran up to the eighth floor.
"We brought you some mushroom and grilled meat skewers."
As soon as the four boys entered, they swarmed around him. Draco, holding a skewer of meat in one hand, leaned close to Dragon Heart, practically pressing his eyes against it.
"With this, I can transform into a dragon?!"
Hermione shook her head: "We still need to design a ritual, after all, I don't think you can handle this thing."
"And also, regarding your faith, are you firm enough?"
When asked this question, her expression turned very serious.
Draco has been exchanging ideas with Maria recently, but the safety standards for Dragon's Feast are too vague. She herself doesn't know what level of faith is needed to avoid having her mind crushed.
She cannot use the standards of the Faded Ones to judge others. To become a king who creates an era, the Faded Ones have an extremely firm will. Even the heart of the Mad Dragon Baylor can be devoured without breaking a sweat. Whether it is the death breath of the Dragon King Platonssanks or Baylor's flame lightning, they can easily seize it and turn it into their own.
As for Draco, he had been pampered since childhood. In his first year, he was almost killed by a single Radiant Stone Shard. Although he had undergone a lot of training in the past two years and even learned Occlumency, no one in this world had ever held a Dragon Feast, so there was no experience to refer to.
"It's impossible for someone who isn't good at Transfiguration to bypass the limitations of talent and directly transform into a human. Of course, it won't be a smooth process." Harry had been holding the leaf in his mouth for almost half a month and had suffered a lot recently. If Draco could really take a big leap and complete the animal form, or even a powerful dragon form, as his long-time rival, he couldn't help but feel a little envious.
Draco nodded firmly. He took out the holy mark he had carved, focused his mind slightly, and made the mark radiate bright moonlight. He seemed much more skilled than before. If he weren't preparing to take the Dragon's Blessing route, he might have been able to borrow magic directly from Hermione.
The door to the Room of Requirement opened again, and Lily and Professor McGonagall entered together. The Potions Master was carrying a potion chest, clearly preparing to conduct an experiment on the spot.
"To be honest, I still think it's a bit risky, even if it's a possibility you saw with your third eye." Professor McGonagall frowned. She was always overly cautious, so when she learned that Draco wanted to try a very daring dragon transformation ritual, her first reaction was to refuse.
"The Animagus has a lot of room for improvement, as James and the others have already demonstrated," Lily reassured her.
"Besides, Hermione isn't some clueless child anymore; she's independently completed her own shapeshifting."
He has also achieved considerable skill in the field of transfiguration.
What they didn't know was that in the Fairy Realm, Hermione had grasped a deeper level of the mysteries of transformation from the Book of Legnark, and her actual level was even higher than McGonagall had imagined.
Hermione pushed open a door in the room, a room she had specially added for the Animagus, and took out a small vial of crystal potion.
"This was prepared for Harry, and I've been exposing it to moonlight for several days. But for now, it can be used for Draco's experiments."
Lily took the potion and began to carefully analyze the changes in its ingredients. Hermione's moonlight had a very magical effect, which she and Professor Sprout had both verified.
Mag, meanwhile, carefully dispelled the preservation spell cast by the dragon breeding ground around the dragon's heart, extracting a small amount of dragon blood from the heart to study it from the perspective of transfiguration.
"It is indeed a very wondrous dragon species. In the past literature on transmutation, medieval wizards studied the possibility of transforming into dragons, but even with ordinary magical creatures, we have a hard time succeeding, let alone this almost most powerful magical creature."
The two professors worked together to put the dragon's blood into the crystal bottle. The color of the potion changed instantly, but at least it didn't explode or evaporate. Instead, it slowly bubbled and turned into a flowing purplish-red color.
Hermione didn't participate in their discussion for the time being. Instead, she controlled the Room of Requirement, changing the interior furnishings of the Transformer. She needed to build an altar.
The Dragon Offering Ritual is not simply magic; it requires the participation of faith. Therefore, the altar's design has many necessary elements. Fortunately, the faith itself is her own, so even if it's not entirely rigorous, it doesn't matter.
The altar is composed of a cluster of crystals that grow from the magic of the brilliance stone, with the left side higher than the right, roughly forming the image of a coiled dragon. In the very center of the altar is a small semicircle.
Normally, this should be a place to display the totem of the faith's main deity, but Hermione is preparing to transform herself into the moon and land here.
It is probably more effective than totems.