Chapter 128: the cursed box from Egypt
"Hello everyone let us start with the world renowned magic auction. The most anticipated first item of the auction, 'The cursed box from Egypt'"
After he said that a box appeared on the display table. The box is made of sand stone but it looked solid. The surface is packed densely with hieroglyphs. Just looking at it makes people dizzy.
Also the strange energy emitting from the box is very strong almost creating a ripple around the box. Jack looked at it for a moment and felt nauseating. Even with his level in occlumency and legilimency, Jack is still not strong enough in mind.
Dumbledore helped stabilize Jack and said. "You need to practice the mind arts more in the future." As he said that the auctioneer started to speak.
"This is a cursed box from Egypt's wizarding society excavated from the ancient tomb of a Pharaoh that is also a wizard. It is said that the contents inside is a strange herb, the first one of its species.
No one knows what that herb is as a dimensional distortion appeared taking the entire location of the herb from southern African continent and took it into a different space. But this herb was collected and sealed over 3 thousand years ago.
It was originally presented to the pharaoh of Egypt in a plot to kill him. The herb is said to be extremely poisonous but also strangely possesses a very powerful vitality inside it that made it still stay intact till now.
For this reason the imperial magician of the pharaoh used the ancient runes of the Egyptian god Thoth to seal this herb as it is in this cursed box. This was buried with the Pharaoh of that time in his tomb.
It is said that some of the word of mouth information in old countries like the Elven lore in the parts of plant species and the word of mouth medicinal knowledge of Brahmamitra also mentions about this herb….
(I have to dig quite a lot to get the name Brahmamitra, this name only appeared in few ancient texts. Naturally you would not see his name in any texts refers to medicine even in Google.
It is said that he is the person that divided medicine into 8 parts which is far older than Ayurveda. It is said that he is the first person to use various kinds of plant needles to cure people.
The medicinal needles are dipped in medicine or other things. Well I don't know, I hope to find more information, unfortunately most of the information is gone. This information is an extra that did not count the 1000 words of the chapter)
Unfortunately many people failed to break the curse on this box and they could not get the contents inside. The starting bid for this cursed box is 100 thousand gold galleons. Every increment should add is no less than 5 thousand gold galleons. Now let's start the bidding…"
"110 thousand gold galleons"
"115 thousand gold galleons"
"120 thousand gold galleons"
...…
"220 thousand gold galleons"
"220 thousand gold galleons first time"
"220 thousand gold galleons second time"
"220 thousand gold galleons third time
Congratulations Mister Roger Antony for the successful bid."
Jack looked at Roger Antony. He is from Dutch country. Then the auction continued moving on. The second item is a jade bracelet with few runes on it. It would improve the health of the wearer.
Well Jack did feel a glimpse of life energy from the bracelet but nothing else. It went for around 30 thousand gold galleons. Then there is a bronze plate which is said to possess strong defensive runes from the Greek magician.
Dumbledore looked calm and explained to Jack that this bronze plate was damaged and it could not be used properly. Finally it went for only 7 thousand gold galleons. The next item is important for Jack and Dumbledore.
It was a piece of metal that is around 5 grams looked like a fingernail. Yes it is the Oricalcum that they came here to get. It is important to them and they are ready to battle with others in the auction. The host announced the item.
"This is Oricalcum metal that was obtained from the deep sea exploration from the muggle world in an old boat transporting goods from Atlantis to Greece. Unfortunately it sunk during the battle.
I presume everyone know the usage of Oricalcum metal is. But still let me give you a brief explanation. It is said that Oricalcum is the highest conductive material for magic in the world. The ancient god level artifacts of the old times used to use this metal.
Unfortunately the process of refining and making artifacts of that level is gone now. Hope that everyone would be enthusiastic about this metal and the starting bid is 20 thousand gold galleons. Every successive bid is no less than a thousand gold galleons…"
As soon as he finished the people started to bid quickly.
"21 thousand gold galleons"
"23 thousand gold galleons"
The price soon reached 38 thousand gold galleons.
Then Jack made the bid of 40 thousand gold galleons.
One should know that the entire wealth that Harry had at the start is only 50 thousand gold galleons. Just from the one could say how much 40 thousand gold galleons are worth to a wealthy family.
Well it is a big number for many people. But to Jack it is just a passing number because of all the shares of various businesses that are in his hands. Also he has too many inheritances from different people. So the money is not a problem.
The reason why the Oricalcum metal is not that prominent to take the first position or last position is because of the difficulty in refining it. In the current wizarding technology there is not a single artifact maker that can handle Oricalcum or adamantine.
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