Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures-Chapter 1187: Research and Invitation

Although the current technology was still immature and many problems awaited resolution, it was conceivable that once these new magic weapons were put into use, they would fundamentally change the way wizards fought, with significant implications.

The traditional way wizards fought was to wave their wands and use magic to attack the opponent.

Most wizard duels or battles involved shooting spells at each other and dodging each other’s spells. Wizards of Dumbledore’s and Voldemort’s level had more ways and means to fight. The magic they used was more ornate, more diverse, and more powerful, but it was essentially the same.

The wizard’s wand, which was the weapon itself, was harmless.

Conversely, the wand was the wizard’s weakness.

Not only could the wand not be used directly for attacking, it was also easily damaged and needed to be carefully protected.

Using a broken wand to cast spells—no need to elaborate on the consequences.

Evan was deeply impressed by the fate of Gilderoy Lockhart. The unfortunate guy had used Ron’s broken wand to cast a Memory Charm, which backfired, and he was still receiving treatment at St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

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Even without such bad luck, magical mutations were no trivial matter.

When wands turned into knives, swords, daggers, bows and arrows and other weapons, the situation would change completely.

These weapons did not need to be carefully protected, but could be used directly for attacks.

Their attack power was still very strong, and the physical damage and strike power were not weaker than most spells.

For example, consider Sirius Black, whose combat style was well known: using magic normally while also engaging in close combat.

Imagine Sirius Black’s wand being replaced with a heavy sword.

The enemy barely dodged the Stunning Spell shot by Sirius, only to see him charging forward with a large sword…

What to do then? Resist or beg for mercy?

There was no extra time to use magic, and there was no way he could be a match for Sirius with his heavy sword.

The combination of magic and swordsmanship would at least double the combat and damage capabilities of a wizard like Sirius.

Although magic power was fundamental, there were only a few wizards who were truly powerful and mastered super-powerful spells. Many powerful spells either required complex casting conditions, or were too slow to be suitable for combat, or were too difficult for ordinary wizards to master.

The reason why the Killing Curse, perfected by Voldemort, had become the Death Eaters’ trump card was that in a relatively single fighting method, the power of this spell was strong enough to guarantee a fatal hit and was easy to master—one only needed to be evil enough and have malicious intent to wield it. It was practically the standard for dark wizards.

But not every wizard was a Death Eater; they neither could nor would stoop to using the Killing Curse.

In such cases, the weapon in hand became particularly important.

Therefore, Evan agreed with what the alchemy team said when introducing their research results: ‘the birth of such magic weapons will bring about earth-shaking changes in wizards’ battles and will have epoch-making significance.’

Of course, this was still just the conceptual stage.

There were still many difficulties to overcome in order to enable wizards to use Muggle weapons to cast magic.

The current idea of ​​this alchemy team from the United States was to make weapons in the same way as magic wands. These weapons were actually wands with a different appearance. In order to solve issues such as magic power conduction, they not only used super-strong magic cores, but also engraved many spell runes on the weapons, inlay gems that gathered magic power, and so on.

This made the production cost very high. Just displaying the dagger cost over three thousand Galleons, and while the usage effect was good, if the dagger were replaced with larger weapons like swords, the cost would increase further, far beyond several thousand Galleons—at least tens of thousands. The spellcasting effect was also not as good as that of a wand.

With such high manufacturing costs and unsatisfactory performance, anyone would hesitate.

After listening to them, many wizards felt that it was not worth spending more than three thousand Galleons to make such an item.

The so-called magic weapons were nothing but a joke, and even within the Magical Congress of the United States of America there were many people who opposed it.

This was also the main reason why this alchemy team came to Cairo to present their research results.

Logically speaking, Alchemy research on such highly sensitive magic weapons should be kept strictly confidential, but their position was very awkward, and they urgently needed this opportunity to prove the value of their research. Moreover, their research had reached a bottleneck and it was difficult to make further progress, so they hoped to get help from other wizards…

Evan thought their ideas were great, important enough, and had a great chance of being realized.

He had an in-depth conversation with this team, and they told him that they believed that in order to make magic weapons cast magic like a wand; they needed a material that could transmit magic power like a wand and maintain the power of the weapon. Existing metals were impossible to use, so they had to use Alchemy to create new metals…

This was also why other wizards thought they were joking. It was not easy to create a new magic metal. If it could be done, this research result itself could become an alchemical achievement sensational in the wizarding world, just like when Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel jointly released the Twelve Uses of Dragon’s Blood.

Although it was difficult, these Americans had no intention of giving up.

They planned to recruit several Alchemists skilled in transmutation to join the team. This field of Alchemy was the strong point of the European Wizarding community.

Evan had no idea about how to transform matter and create new magic metals.

There were many records on this aspect in the research notes given to him by Nicolas Flamel, but Evan did not have time to study them.

In the past two years, he had mainly been studying spell runes and ancient magic scripts.

These were the foundations of Alchemy, the basis for constructing everything.

At the same time, it was also the key to using the “Silent” magic he found in the Lost Ruins.

This magic was the only one Evan knew that could harm the evil god, so he could not afford to ignore it.

After mastering the contents about spell runes and ancient magic scripts in Nicolas Flamel’s research notes, Evan already had knowledge reserves beyond that of ordinary wizards in this regard. Not to mention, he had also cracked the mystery of The Emerald Tablet last year, making him one of the world’s leading experts in ancient magic scripts and spell runes.

So, although it was impossible to convert new magic metals, Evan did give a lot of modification suggestions regarding the spell runes engraved on the magic weapons.

According to his design, the effectiveness of this magic dagger used for display could be improved by at least thirty percent.

If he were to conduct further research, Evan was confident he could design a more suitable arrangement of runes.

His expertise greatly impressed the American wizards. After interacting with Evan for several days, their initial disdain due to his young age disappeared. In fact, they were so impressed that they considered recruiting him. As the conference was about to end, they extended an invitation for Evan to come to America…

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