Chapter 406: A Scepter and Two Giant Snakes

"Over 600 years ago, I returned from Egypt to Beauxbatons with this book and put it here!" Flamel explained, "The seeds of this tree were also brought at that time. I didn't realize that I was actually trapped in the pages of the book. By the time I discovered it, it had already begun to germinate and grow. With a few hundred years of alchemy experiments, it absorbed the powerful magic oozing from the Philosopher's Stone and slowly grew, gradually becoming what it is today."

Ivan looked up at the huge old crystal tree.

Then, his gaze quickly turned to "The Book of Abraham" in the center of the tree!

As Flamel said earlier, this was a very large and thick magical book.

It looked very old, and its pages were made of delicate, smooth bark, which exhibited a strange lilac color under the fluorescence. The edges of the pages had begun to crystallize.

Yes, they were made of glass!

Like this huge old tree in front of him, they seemed to be made of the same material.

Ivan had the feeling that the pages of the "Book of Abraham" were made of this strange old crystal tree in front of his eyes, and that they were all one.

He took a step forward so that he could see more clearly.

A single heavy breath came to him, though he did not touch, let alone turn the pages, Ivan could clearly feel the traces of time spent in the book.

It remained quietly in place as if it had never moved.

Thousands of years had passed quickly. It was conceivable that, in history, countless talented and powerful wizards had possessed this magical book.

Each of them was a powerful magician who could leave a trace in the history of magic.

Around the ownership of such a magic book, there must have been countless fights and conspiracies.

From the actual results, no matter how many people obtained the "Book of Abraham", none of them knew its true secrets.

Flamel should be the closest to the truth. He had gained endless life and unthinkable wealth.

But he said that his starting point itself was wrong.

Ivan took a deep breath and wondered if he could penetrate the mystery of the book, or like the previous owners, finally die with great regret.

He shook his head and quickly concentrated.

In front of Ivan, the cover of "The Book of Abraham" was tightly wrapped in a large brass construction.

It was covered with small, intricate lines, and occasionally glittered with dark gold.

There were no names written on the cover, nor were there any gruesome designs as in other books of ancient magic, as a warning to later generations.

On the contrary, it was densely covered with strange words.

Looking at these ancient words, Ivan felt that he was vaguely familiar with them, and seemed to have read them somewhere.

Then he realized that these were all ancient magic words.

Not long ago, he had seen something similar in Hermione's textbook.

Every Thursday night, Hermione would spend more than five hours practicing the ancient magic words she had learned on parchment or looking up information to learn new magic words.

Because he watched her too much, Ivan also learned a lot.

But in front of him, these magic words were older and more complex than all the ancient magic words he knew. The strange patterns were twisted, and they all looked like hieroglyphics.

Even if Ivan wracked his brain, he could not understand the meaning of these words.

"This book is yours now. Sooner or later you will know the meaning of these words. As I said, it is a powerful spell." Flamel said, "It needs no magic, it can be successfully put into practice only by the power of language. I sincerely hope that you will not have to use them someday."

The power of this spell would have to be beyond imagination for Flamel to repeat his advice.

Looking at the old words, there was much speculation in Ivan's mind, but in the end they were all refuted one by one.

It was true that Abraham's power as God's spokesman in the world was not to be understood by ordinary people at all.

Ivan could not imagine what kind of spell it would be.

At Flamel's suggestion, he stepped forward and gently opened the pages.

The pages were heavy and very rough.

Ivan flipped through the book and noticed that it was divided into three parts, each with seven pages.

On the first page of the first part, there was no text, but a stone.

Ivan only looked at it once and recognized it as a Philosopher's Stone.

The next seven pages were all ancient magical texts like the title page. They recorded the knowledge related to alchemy, from which Flamel developed the method of making the Philosopher's Stones.

On the first page of the second part, there was no text, but a pattern.

It was a huge scepter with its head and tail swallowed by two giant snakes. To Ivan's surprise, they were the ones he had seen before.

His subway experience in Aragog's Lair was still vivid in his mind.

In the stone chamber where the hideous eyeball monster was located, Ivan saw four magical objects left by Salazar Slytherin in the last mural.

They were the locket, the ring, the wand, and a scepter that was surrounded by two green snakes from bottom to top; it was the scepter drawn in the book.

No mistake, Ivan could be sure.

Apart from the fact that the scepter was surrounded by two snakes from bottom to top, and that the scepter above the drawing was being swallowed by two snakes, the details were still exactly the same.

There was no difference in the lines of the body.

Ivan was short of breath. He did not believe that his premonition would come true. "The Book of Abraham" was related to Slytherin himself.

Salazar could have gone a step further than Flamel, who only had the Philosopher's Stone at his disposal. Flamel only studied and understood the first part of the book.

But Salazar Slytherin got the Scepter of the Serpent, and possibly had understood the second part.

Because he had so little information, Ivan could not be sure if Salazar had acquired the book. If he owned the book, why did it not remain at Hogwarts, but was lost in ancient Egypt to be eventually found by Flamel?

If Salazar had not read "The Book of Abraham," where did he get the serpent scepter?

He did not know what it meant. It was all a mystery.

Ivan tried to calm himself, not to think about such things, and kept walking around.

Behind the scepter swallowed by the giant snakes, there were six pages of ancient magical inscriptions.

These magical words were more esoteric and incomprehensible than the previous ones. Ivan felt they were a child's graffiti, purely meaningless patterns.

He looked at it for a while, without the slightest clue.

No wonder Flamel had studied for hundreds of years and found nothing.

It seemed that the only way to understand the meaning of the above words was to find the snake scepter left by Salazar Slytherin.

Thinking about this, Ivan couldn't help but sigh.

There seemed to be only a myriad of problems associated with Slytherin.

In addition to the evil god created by Herpo the Mad, there were his vampire descendants facing great difficulties.