Chapter 221

A month later

Domeric sat in his underground library and worked on the Ice Crystal.

In the end, he succeeded in removing the essence left by the White Walker from the Ice Crystal.

It left the crystal weak and brittle not to mention it lost a good deal of it's magical properties as well but in the end, it was still a step or two above the average magical wardstones he found in Valyria. And he had thousands of similar Ice Crystals so that was something.

He was now wondering if he could use the Ice Crystals to take in the Ice energy forming in the Land Beyond the Wall and create a magical shield around the Wall with it.

Defeating the White Walkers with their own power and all that since it was clear that his own magical powers were far inferior to their own.

He was not sure if such a thing would even work so some experiments were required.

Which was how he came to his present situation with a fine dust placed inside a glass bowl.

It appears that once the Ice Crystal becomes brittle, he could break it down in small fine particles which can then be use as a ingredient for his magical potions. Or magical ink.

He took out all the ingredients he had kept with himself till this point and realized that none of them even came close to magical potency when compared to the Ice Crystal dust. Even the Blood of the Children of the forest (freely given) and the Sap from the Heart tree fell short in comparison.

It made him wonder.

If he took the Dead Dragon eggs and grind them down into fine dust, then would they be just as magically potent as they were when they were whole. Because some things (like the Philosopher Stone) lose all their powers when broken.

But if it worked…

He had hundreds of dead dragon eggs. Not to mention that there were thousands more that he were still buried in their Vaults in Valyria.

If it worked and he was able to create a magical ink with it then magical runes made from it would be so powerful that the magical armors made from that would even be able hold against the Ice Swords of the White Walkers.

And if it worked then he might even be able to create a magical armor for himself that would allow him to use his magic freely even in a snow storm created by the White Walkers.

Of course, there were a lot of 'if's' in this half baked plan of his. He didn't even know if he could break a Dragon Egg (he had never tried).

But the possibilities…

He had not felt this excited in a long long time.

He quickly took the Ice Crystal dust as well as all the other ingredients and took them to yet another room where he would be able to experiment to his heart's content without the fear of blowing himself up.

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A week later

Domeric came out of the research room with a white-silver color liquid inside a vial and smiled.

He had finally done it.

He has finally created a magic ink so potent that it would work even in the hands of a muggle. Mostly because the magical potency of the ink made it so that the wizard/witch didn't need to channel his own magic to create runes with it.

This changed things.

For one, he would not need to create all the magical armors on his own.

For two, he would not need to carve the runes required for planting the Weirwood trees either.

This would save him a tremendous amount of time in the future.

Of course he would still need to plant the Weirwood trees on his own and cast the necessary spells but once he taught how to draw the ritual circles to a few select youngsters, his workload would go down drastically.

He wondered why he never thought about crafting such a powerful ink before.

Oh… he didn't have any magical Ice crystals before.

He had still not destroyed any dragon egg. He had a feeling that creating a magical ink from that (if it was even possible) would take 10 times as long as it took for him to make this one.

That could wait.

For now, he would was satisfied with his newest creation.

It had given him a lot of free time that he could use to learn and research the different kinds of magic in this world.