The Choice Between Wisdom and Family

[Good point!]

The bronze eagle suddenly spoke, its gentle voice echoing in the enclosed space, and then the heavy bronze door slowly opened.

Yvonne was stunned by the sight of the front door, which was wide open.

He had spent over a week searching the Restricted Section for an answer to a question, and Luna had solved it so easily?

'And the answer is so… simple?'

Luna seemed to sense Ivan's confusion and quickly explained, "The Bronze Eagle's questions usually have no fixed answer … it will open the door for you if it thinks you have a point …"

Ivan didn't know whether to laugh or cry at Luna's words. He knew he had been wrong from the start. The bronze eagle wasn't out to get him.

However, he was prejudiced, frightened by the difficulty of the question, and confident that he had the ability to explore the nature of magic, so he took it as Ravenclaw's test for him.

However, it turned out that he was just fighting air…

The other party probably set up this question in the hope that the students would give all kinds of interesting answers?

Perhaps even Ravenclaw himself had not been able to discern the nature of magic, or else the Restricted Section would have recorded it.

"Helena was right," Ivan said. "I'm not cut out for Ravenclaw House…"

After this "trial", Yvonne came to understand one of her flaws, which was her lack of magical thinking, which was completely at odds with the Lady Ravenclaw of over a thousand years ago.

For example, the bronze eagle asked: What is the nature of water?

He certainly answered scientifically: Water is an inorganic substance composed of hydrogen and oxygen!

But the actual reference answer — water is the source of life!

Ivan had only one thing to say in response: MMP!

"Are we going in, Ivan?" Luna asked, looking at the open bronze doors with a curious gaze.

"Okay, let's go in together!" Ivan collected his thoughts and pushed them to the back of his mind.

Behind the bronze door was a very large research room. After a thousand years, it was surprisingly well-preserved, except for a thick layer of dust.

The old mahogany table in the middle of the room was covered with research manuscripts and magical materials, and the walls were covered with books on magic.

In addition, Ivan also noticed that the magical power in this research room was abnormally active. With a thought, a ball of fire appeared on his palm.

Although he had mastered the art of casting spells without a staff, he had never been able to cast a spell as smoothly as he did tonight.

"A man's greatest treasure is his extraordinary intellect…"

Ivan's thoughts were interrupted by a low, dream-like cry, and he turned to see Luna.

At this moment, the little witch was standing in front of a greenish-white stone tablet, staring at the words on it.

It was only after Ivan had taken a few steps that he realised that the text was written in Ancient Runes, and that the text was too incomplete for him to fully understand.

However, when combined with Luna's words, it was not hard to confirm that Ravenclaw's quote was engraved on it — that wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind!

However, to Ivan's surprise, there was a deep crack on the surface of the tablet, almost splitting it in half.

Ivan was pretty sure this was not the result of natural weathering, but a sign of a magical attack.

This was intriguing, as Ravenclaw himself would have been responsible for the monument's destruction if no one else had been responsible for it.

"Perhaps in her later years, Madam Ravenclaw didn't agree with that saying…" Luna said softly, reaching out to touch the cracks on the tablet.

"Why do you say that?" Yvonne asked, looking at Luna with interest.

"No reason why, I think that's it…" Luna said, shaking her head. "Otherwise, I can't think of a reason why Madam Ravenclaw would destroy the tablet…"

Yvonne was speechless.

Intuition, I thought. That's it…

If anyone else had said that, Ivan would have thought they were talking nonsense, except for Luna, whose intuition was almost a gift!

Yvonne, who had already had her suspicions, nodded in agreement. "Perhaps you're right, Luna. I'm afraid Helena is the reason…"

"You mean something to do with Madam Gray?" Luna asked curiously.

Yvonne had no intention of hiding the truth from him. She told him about Ravenclaw's daughter Helena, who had stolen the diadem in an attempt to become smarter and more famous than her mother.

It is rumoured that after her lost daughter, Rowena Ravenclaw devoted all her attention to the study of magic.

Yvonne suspected that Rowena Ravenclaw looked at the stone tablet every day as she went in and out of the research lab, and then, remembering that she had betrayed her daughter in order to gain human intelligence, she angrily cast a curse on it.

"It seems Lady Ravenclaw has found something more important than wisdom…" Luna muttered to herself, looking at the damaged tablet. "Kinship!"

At this, Luna's spirits fell.

Ivan realised that the little witch must have thought of his mother, who had died in a magical experiment, so he quickly changed the subject and asked Luna to join him in his research.

Due to the passage of a thousand years, many of the alchemy manuscripts in the research lab had been blurred and illegible, making their search much more difficult.

Fortunately, some of the most crucial research manuscripts were kept in a jade case by Ravenclaw, who had previously studied both Ancient English and Ancient Runes.

"This is it!" Ivan followed the description on the manuscript and found a large open space at the back of the research lab. He crouched down and tried to infuse some of his magic.

Ahead, the green-and-white tiles of the floor suddenly lit up, gradually forming a complex and exquisite Alchemy Array.

Ivan's knowledge of alchemy was such that he could see that the purpose of the formation was to gather the magic of the castle, presumably for Ravenclaw's high-intensity experiments.

However, this saved him a lot of early work. As long as he spent some time modifying and matching the ingredients for the Philosopher's Stone, he would be able to get his own Philosopher's Stone!