Chapter 404: Elemental salt experiments.

Chapter 404: Elemental salt experiments.

'If I can get ahold of a French alchemist I could get this settled easily enough but I lack any real contacts over there.' Nick thought with a sigh before heading up to the newly refurbished study to draft a letter to Madam Maxime to inquire about a trustworthy alchemist. He had thought of seeing if Flammel would help him with it but chose to discard that idea since the only method to contact the man he had at the moment was through Fawkes. Nick doubted Dumbledore would be amused if he just suddenly walked into his office to offload a letter on his familiar when Nick wasn't even supposed to be at Hogwarts right now.-

Sneaking onto the campus to use the workshop a few times was tolerable for the old goat as he had plausible deniability since he never personally saw Nick there. The same could not be said if Nick just waltzed into his office to have Fawkes deliver a letter. With that understanding Nick chose the second best option of having the owl service in Diagon alley deliver the letter to Madame Maxime. The return letter will be a bit tricky since he himself was outside the owls tracking abilities but could be solved easily by having the owl service set up a postage box for him.-

For example he wanted to know if the salts could be used as the core of a wand and if so whether or not they were a good one. Depending on the answer he received he may have found a way to drastically improve his power. His wand even now was only mythical grade and he wanted to push it a step further to legendary. He hadn't experimented with his wand until now as it was a unique existence that he simply couldn't replicate should he damage it. Even now he hadn't figured out what the wood used in it's construction was other than what the system told him which was sadly limited.-

Still now that he had spare elemental salt he could conduct a few experiments with it. He set the new atronach on patrol with the others in his growing army before taking the salt into the nearby enchanting room. Rowena Ravenclaw had truly done a good job in setting up this room to the point Nick only had to make a few small updates to some things in order to render it perfect for any sort of enchanting research he may do.-

The room had a veritology bench set up against the back wall with plenty of high quality tools to use. The first part of the experiment was testing the compatibility of the salts with each kind of wood he had available. He found that the frost salts agreed more with pine and ash woods than any of the the others so he moved onto the next step , core transference. After writing the runes on the inside of the wands he carved up Nick carefully poured in a solid line of frost salts before sealing the wand shut.N0v3lRealm was the platform where this chapter was initially revealed on N0v3l.B1n.