Chapter 131: Arorium, the sand of time
With the research information they can do anything. It can be both good and bad or to create something similar to this again in a simple way. Since they are selling it now means that there are two possibilities.
First is that they have cracked its mysteries and have a way to make another one for their own use.
Second is that they are broke or had some serious problem that needs the money to solve right now.
If it was the first case then the person that buys this dagger was really an idiot as it did not worth that price. If it is the second case then it means that cracking this thing is extremely hard and they would not be able to afford this.
If it is the second option then it is a little better but there is still a loss. The research data on the dagger is still in the hand of the previous owner of the dagger. That research data itself would cost few thousand gold galleons and lots of time completing the research.
So this means that the person that buys the dagger would receive a second bargain to get the research data. It is like the modern day marketing where they would sell you a product where only they can repair that product for the extraordinary pricing.
Jack only smiled at the naivety of the wizards that are buying this thing. But he cannot say anything about this matter. After all, no one wants to die and they want to extend their lives. With extra 20 year they can do many things.
"Oh, I forgot, wizards have problems with logical thinking."
Jack thought for a moment and smiled at the struggling old wizards. The price slowly reached 230 thousand gold galleons. It was really a big number for any normal family or organization of a country.
The people that are currently fighting are actually someone from American wizarding world circle and the Russian wizarding world circle, interjected by Chinese wizarding circle, each with their own way of doing things.
The reason why they are competing is because they have recognized the sand of time as a known wizarding material. That is right the sand of time is called the Arorium. It was a material that forms in minute traces when the aurora lights happen at the poles of the earth.
The total amount that can be produced for an entire year is around half an ounce which should be around 14 grams on an average. The biggest problem is actually this 14 grams scattering throughout the icy planes.
Collecting them needs a special process and the process is costly. Collecting 1 gram of Arorium would cost more than 20 thousand gold galleons. But because of the rareness and other thing the cost can go up all the way to 50 thousand gold galleons.
At the same time 1 gram of Arorium that was used with the dagger of sand of time can give 1 year of life span. This means to increase the life span of a person by a year, they have to spend around 50 thousand gold galleons.
The main requirement is that they should have this dagger to use the sand of time. The runes on the dagger are a special alchemical formula and the materials of the dagger are very strange.
These things let the dagger use the essence energy of Arorium to give the life span to the user of the sword. Even though Jack became interested about this, he quickly lost the interest. Not many people know about Arorium.
To the people that know about Arorium, they think that it was highly unstable and volatile. But reality is that there is a way to stabilize this material by storing it in a container made of the dragon core with special process.
Even Jack got to know about this material because of the knowledge he got from the inheritance of Gellert Grindelwald and the materials from Nicolas Flamel. When Dumbledore asked Jack if he recognized the materials, Jack quickly explained what he knows.
As for why those powerful wizards and dark wizards don't get this kind of thing is because they are individually powerful but they are not an organization. Once an organization or a country takes action they are insignificant.
Even there is a powerful organization they would not fight for this thing unless there is a special situation. Most of the time those powerful wizards don't really care about this matter Nicolas the one that made the sorcerer's stone became famous and rich because of this point.
He can sell the thing that the Arorium does with some defects of not preserving youth at a lower price. Naturally he became rich. But he knows very well that dwelling into the flow of time is not a good thing.
So he decided to end his life and destroy the sorcerer's stone as well. He got enough wealth and power that he wanted. If it is excessive then something dangerous would happen to him. So he made the decision.
Dumbledore that listened to the explanation of Jack nodded his head and asked.
"Jack, do you want that dagger."
Jack looked at the dagger for a moment and did not have any greed towards it. Currently it is useless to him. But he is interested in researching the dagger for other purposes. So he looked back at Dumbledore and said.
"I want to research it and understand its mysteries of age reversal. Unfortunately it is out of my league right now, Anyway I can get that when the time is right. Also the concept of time and age are very strange and dangerous."
Dumbledore nodded his head and sighed. He thought that Jack would want this dagger to use in the future to live forever or to resurrect some dead people stupidly like one of the 3 brothers in the story of deathly hallows. Well Jack is not stupid.
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