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Chapter 228: Bloodline Mystery and Fusion Limits!
Chapter 228: Bloodline Mystery and Fusion Limits!
If it weren't for this, Ivan found it hard to imagine how Tom discovered the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.
After all, the Chamber Entrance was built inside the Girls' Bathroom, which was in use until Moaning Myrtle's death.
Without a specific guide, there was no reason for Tom Riddle to sneak into the Girls' Bathroom and find the snake engraving on the Brass Faucet.
Unless he had a penchant for peeping into the Girls' Bathroom.
[Ding, Bloodline Mystery Task Progress Updated]
The sudden system notification interrupted Ivan's thoughts.
Ivan opened his Quest Log and found that the progress of the Bloodline Mystery task was already close to eighty percent.
It seemed that what he was looking for was in this room.
Ivan put down the fragment in his hand and walked to a table in front of him. The table was cluttered with many items, mostly parchment scrolls.
The nearest parchment had some faded writing, and Ivan carefully read it.
The title read: Twelfth Fusion Plan Failed!
Around the title, a circle marked the reason for the failure: Black Stone Powder and Moon White Stone were in conflict and should not be combined with Mandrake.
Additionally, Ivan found a small note at the bottom: The higher the compatibility between the chosen Magical Creatures and oneself, the higher the success rate of Bloodline Fusion, and vice versa.
"Is that so?" Ivan muttered to himself, feeling a wave of relief.
When he fused Unicorn Blood, he didn't know about this theory, so he blindly performed his first Bloodline Fusion without confirming the compatibility.
The fact that it succeeded made Ivan marvel at his good luck; the Unicorn he chose must have had a high compatibility with him.
After reading the parchment, Ivan's curiosity grew. He pulled out a dusty chair, cleaned it casually, and sat down to examine the remaining parchments.
He wasn't sure if these had been enchanted, but they had managed to retain their content after a thousand years.
Most of them recorded the process of developing Bloodline Fusion Potions, with dozens of plans listed on the table.
Each plan used special potion ingredients as the core for experimentation.
Although the summaries of the failures were brief, Ivan could imagine the immense effort and dedication Salazar Slytherin must have put into gaining these insights.
Among the dozens of plans, five were confirmed by Slytherin as viable.
Most were specific to a single creature, but the last one, which used Hemolysis Grass as the core, could be compatible with all Magical Creatures.
"Phew", Ivan exhaled, muttering to himself, "So this is what it means to be a Founder."
Ivan now understood why Salazar Slytherin called himself a great Founder.
Slytherin might not have been the first wizard to study Bloodline Fusion, but he was likely the most in-depth researcher at the time, truly a pioneer and Founder in the field of Bloodline Fusion.
Most importantly, Slytherin's ambition didn't stop there. After developing a potion that could fuse all bloodlines, the remaining parchments focused on another topic—methods for fusing multiple bloodlines.
He had even improved the potion, but he could never perfectly resolve the conflicts that arose when fusing multiple bloodlines.
So, while providing the method, Salazar Slytherin also warned his heir on the parchment not to attempt it lightly until a way to resolve the conflict was found.
Based on previous fusion experiments, Slytherin made a bold conjecture.
Even if a wizard could fuse multiple bloodlines, there would inevitably be a limit.
And this maximum limit was likely to be seven!
Ivan spent several hours reading through all the materials.
He couldn’t help but marvel that although Salazar Slytherin was somewhat narcissistic, often adding the word "great" to the opening commands,
this single research achievement alone was enough to justify his usual self-praise.
Ivan put down the last parchment, and two system prompts sounded in his mind one after another.
[Ding, after some time of study, your Potion Mastery proficiency has significantly increased, currently at level 4 (1512/1600)]
Ding, Bloodline Mystery Task, Progress Updated
Task Objective: Find a method to fuse multiple bloodlines
Current Task Progress: 100%
Task Reward: Legendary Points * 1 (awarded)
]
Seeing the system’s prompt, Ivan was not surprised.
After reading the text on the parchment and reviewing Slytherin’s potion experiments, Ivan felt he had learned a lot, and the increase in his Potion Mastery proficiency was reasonable.
Completing the Bloodline Mystery task was even more expected, as this was the very purpose of his visit.
Seeing his Legendary Points reach four, Ivan was very pleased. He just needed one more Legendary Points to brew the Fusion Potion and attempt to fuse a second bloodline.
This would mean a significant boost in his strength.
As for the Magical Creatures for this Bloodline Fusion, Ivan had already decided on the Basilisk outside the door!
Since Salazar Slytherin speculated that a wizard could only fuse a limited number of bloodlines, Ivan naturally wanted to fuse with the top-tier Magical Creatures!
The Basilisk was undoubtedly one of them, and its Killing Gaze from its snake eyes was something that Ivan found incredibly enticing. If he could inherit this ability, wouldn’t he be able to kill anyone he glared at?
Thinking about this, Ivan suddenly felt that the Basilisk outside the door wasn’t as terrifying as he thought, and he even felt a strange sense of familiarity.
Slytherin was truly incomparably kind to his heir, not only providing the fusion method but also keeping the top-tier Magical Creatures, the Basilisk, here.
After all, anyone who could open the door would be a Parselmouth, and their bloodline compatibility with the Basilisk would not be low.
Of course, he, who learned Parseltongue through a trial, was an exception, but with the system’s protection mode, he didn’t need to worry too much about compatibility.
Ivan organized the materials, categorized them, and then walked straight out of Slytherin’s laboratory. The two guards at the door automatically closed it, crossing their swords to return to their original positions.
“Hiss (Acromantula Eats)” The Basilisk slithered up, its large body circling around Ivan, flicking its tongue.
Ivan had already learned about the Basilisk’s origins and duties from the parchment, knowing that it couldn’t harm anyone without an order, so he wasn’t afraid. He directly commanded in Parseltongue.
“Hiss (Now, Take Me Out)”
(End of Chapter)
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