Chapter 174: Testing the Magic Rune Circuit

The next day, Allen went to the library to find some books on alchemy and began studying the magic rune circuits.

Fortunately, he had a deep foundation in ancient runes, so his research quickly yielded certain results; the rest was simply to start crafting the magic rune circuits.

He sent an owl to Diagon Alley to buy a complete set of magic carving knives and related magical materials.

He was very interested in that magic rune circuit capable of suppressing powerful creatures; he wanted to research what function that magic rune circuit served. If this magic rune circuit could be used against the basilisk, his chances of victory would increase by another fraction.

After receiving the items he bought, he immediately threw himself into practice.

There are two methods for crafting magic rune circuits:

The first is to complete the writing of the ancient runes in one go, in a single continuous flow;

The second is to complete the writing of a single rune first, then draw lines from it, connecting them one by one to form a closed and stable circuit.

The first method is more difficult; it requires the writer to actively adjust the structure of the runes based on the shape of the magical materials, performing some slight deformations. This requires a very deep understanding of magic rune circuits and is simply beyond what he can do at present. The advantage of this method is that the success rate is much higher.

The second method involves carving individual ancient runes, which is relatively simple, but connecting them into a circuit requires considering the stability and balance of the runes as a whole, testing a person's patience and meticulousness very severely.

Allen naturally chose the second method; the one thing he lacked least was patience and meticulousness.

Allen chose the shell of a Color-Changing Giant Snail as the material for carving the magic rune circuit.

The Color-Changing Giant Snail is a giant snail whose body changes color every hour. Wherever it crawls, it leaves behind a trail of highly toxic filth; as a result, whenever it passes over some plants, those plants wither and burst into flames. The Color-Changing Giant Snail is a native animal of several African countries, though wizards in Europe, Asia, and America have already raised them very successfully. Those who like its body's kaleidoscopic color changes keep it as a pet. Its venom is one of the few known substances capable of killing a Horklump.

The reason for choosing the Color-Changing Giant Snail's shell is that it is relatively cheap, the area available for carving is relatively large, and it is an inert magical material; the magical power inherently contained within it is sufficient to activate the magic rune circuit.

This is the most suitable magical material for practice.

That complete set of magic carving knives was forged from magical metal. This set of magic carving knives was very expensive. The reason Allen could bring himself to buy them was that the liquidity of magic carving knives was still quite good; if he didn't use them anymore, he could sell them as second-hand goods.

The complete set of magic carving knives consists of seven knives, suitable for magical materials of various properties; carving magic rune circuits is only a small part of their uses.

After trying the seven knives on the Color-Changing Giant Snail's shell, he finally chose a silver-white knife. The silver-white blade of the knife was streamlined, with a distinct curve at the grip, very suitable for holding. It looked very heavy, but its weight was surprisingly light.

Then Allen began practicing carving magic rune circuits. Although the tools were very handy, the ancient runes he carved on the Color-Changing Giant Snail's shell were pitiful to behold, yet he was not discouraged at all and threw himself into practice even more crazily.

He practiced for a week before he could skillfully carve ancient runes with the correct character shapes on the Color-Changing Giant Snail's shell.

When he attempted to connect the individual ancient runes, he discovered that the ancient runes he carved varied in size and depth, and connecting them made it impossible for the magic rune circuit to function at all.

So he spent another half a month of practice solving this problem.

During this period, to save materials, he also smashed the failed Color-Changing Giant Snail shells and used the other side of the shell for practice.

Heaven rewards the diligent. After practicing for more than twenty days, he finally carved a qualified magic rune circuit. This magic rune circuit is called the "Warmth Rune"; carved onto magical materials, it can continuously emit heat.

Allen carefully activated this circuit with his wand,

and the Color-Changing Giant Snail shell inscribed with the "Warmth Rune" gradually became warm.

Although this thing had no commercial value, Allen still felt very excited.

After mastering the basics of carving magic rune circuits, he began to grapple again with that magic rune circuit he had seen in the ruins.

Finally, two days later, he obtained a Color-Changing Giant Snail shell inscribed with a magic rune circuit from the ruins, and he successfully activated this magic rune circuit.

He looked at this snail shell with full expectation, but nothing happened.

Then he thought of the fact that this magic rune circuit was used to imprison creatures. His first thought was to stuff Ron's pet rat, Scabbers, inside to test the effect. After all, that fat rat slept all day; he probably wouldn't even wake up if stuffed inside.

But seeing Scabbers' whitish fur, he hesitated again: Scabbers was a very old rat, and he was testing an unknown and powerful magic rune circuit. If something went wrong and Scabbers died, he would have no way to explain it to Ron!

So he abandoned this idea.

He then thought of Neville's toad, Trevor. Toad Trevor was in his prime, strong and healthy, full of vigor; using him for experiments would not be bad either.

But Toad Trevor was nowhere to be found at this moment; no matter how Allen searched, he couldn't find it. Moreover, the random ability he received today was not a pig's nose, so he couldn't find it by scent.

So he hurriedly ran to the edge of the Forbidden Forest and caught a rabbit. Summer rabbits were still quite fat. He barely managed to stuff the rabbit into the snail shell, with the rabbit's head sticking out, and then stared intently at the rabbit's reaction...

The result was that the rabbit struggled vigorously inside the snail shell, trying to escape, with absolutely no abnormality...

Allen felt a bit panicked in his heart. The magic rune circuit was clearly activated! Did he spend nearly a month and over a hundred Jin Jin Jialong just to produce this thing?

But then he thought of the incident that happened in the ruins that day, and his confidence was rekindled. He continued to observe the rabbit inside the snail shell. In the end, nothing happened again; he even started to feel sleepy watching it...

At this moment, Harry returned and called Allen to go eat dinner together. Allen then realized the sky was almost dark, his stomach was also very hungry, so he put down his current task and went to eat dinner.

After finishing dinner, he chatted with Hermione in the common room for a while. When he returned to the dormitory, that rabbit, as expected, had escaped prison and run away...

Allen searched the dormitory several times but couldn't find that rabbit...

Was the experiment stopped just like that? Allen felt somewhat unwilling, but catching another rabbit at this hour was unrealistic.

At this moment, Allen suddenly realized he was being foolish again. He knew magic, didn't he? He could just use a Transfiguration spell to transform a rabbit, couldn't he?

Although a rabbit transformed from an object is essentially an inanimate object, under the current circumstances, a dead rabbit would have to serve as a live one.

So he transformed the pen holder on his desk into a rabbit, then controlled the rabbit to enter the snail shell. When the rabbit entered the snail shell, he felt the connection between him and the rabbit become somewhat sluggish...

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