Chapter 129: the death of magic
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.
Jack was able to do that because he learnt some basing processing methods from his teacher Nicolas Flamel. But still Jack can only make a plate out of the materials, blend them and inscribe the runes.
He could not create complicated structures or integrate them into weapons. All he can do is to make a card out of these materials in the preset composition that he and Nicolas Flamel researched before his death.
Well this is working now. Jack got the piece of Oricalcum after paying the price. But he still has to refine it slowly to extract the refined Oricalcum free of impurities. Well it is a long process but can be quickly completed with the help of Dumbledore.
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While they are thinking the next item was on the stage. It is actually a sword that looked rusted. This is also an item that Jack is looking forward for. The auctioneer started to speak about the sword.
"This is the sword made by the holy church after they lost the original holy sword Excalibur with the research data obtained from the Excalibur. This is an imitation sword of Excalibur with many strong materials infused in to the sword.
Over the years it killed some demons and it was cursed many times. Unfortunately over the years the sword started to show defects and became the current appearance. It is still a damage imitation holy sword with good amount of rare materials.
The starting big is 10 thousand gold galleons. Each increment is no less than a thousand gold galleons…."
Immediately bidding started but it was not as fast as it was done with Oricalcum or other items. The reason for this is that this sword is cursed and its materials are also cursed. For extraction and curse removal alone, it would cast over 10 thousand gold galleons.
Even then there is a chance that it might cause the rare materials to evaporate during the refining process or extraction process and directly lose them. So the enthusiasm among the people is very less.
As for Jack he did not bid yet and the materials he could extract from this sword are adamantine 3 grams, Oricalcum 2 grams and 5 grams of atlantium. The remaining materials would be lost in the process.
But that would be a good gain to get these materials. Jack did not have to make more magic cards instead he wanted to store these materials for future use. He has other thoughts. It is not like this is the only world he is staying.
He has thoughts of robbing this stupid holy church organization as they are wasting materials stupidly. But it is not time for that yet. He will see to that in the future. He can understand that there are not many protagonists in this world.
In a way the magic in this world is dying. When he infused with the druid heart he was able to perceive the nature around him. Naturally he can also perceive the magic around him much better than before.
He felt that the magic energy is slowly leaving this world like the world has chosen a different direction of advancement. In a few years or in 100 years the wizards might not be able to do magic even with a powerful wand.
Well even then there might be wizards but they will not doing anything big then. The reason for this is unknown to Jack. But based on his guess the reason should be the hiding of wizards from normal populace.
In the world the visible things or the strong thought or the strong beliefs are the sources of energies like magic, spirit…. But in this world the highest populace of humans did not know the existence of magic.
Because of the improvement of science many muggles even deny the existence of magic unlike in the old times. So the magic is slowly going and the will of the world leaned towards the science because of the beliefs of the people of the world.
Jack sighed when he thought about that. In the future, his next generation would be able to enjoy magic but after 2 generations or 3 generations there might not be any magic to use. The infinite thing that was squandered would no longer available for use.
It will not completely die out as there is no absolute in this world or in any world. It will become scarce and wait for the moment when it got the chance to raise again. When world started to believe it again.
Well he could not do anything about the public opinion but he can at least secure a good life for his descendents before leaving this world. As for Harry potter and Voldemort, Jack did not feel any threat from them.
Instead he feels like that are a bunch of lunatics playing the game of peek a booh with each other. Jack did not want to play with them. Technically Harry is a relative of Jack and Draco is also a relative of Jack like a cousin.
But they are only relatives but not his own. Jack is not a kind man and he hates that stupid kindness which is just hypocrisy from the good people that act kindly. Jack started to bid for the imitation holy sword.
With the help of Dumbledore he can easily remove the curse and dismantle the sword to extract the materials that he wanted. After thinking of the things Jack directly made a bid for the sword.
"18 thousand gold galleons"
"18 thousand gold galleons first time"
"19 thousand gold galleons"
Someone increased the price that did not speak till now.
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