Chapter 84 Magical Material.
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27 Nov
"Ok…let's go down the list." Harry muttered to himself as he prepared to take his Alchemy just a bit further. "Silver, check. Powdered Dragon Bone, check. Iron, check. Cobalt, check. Powdered Quartz, check. That's everything I need."
It was time to try and transmute Sylvuan. This Alchemic Metal was a step up from Oulm and a bit harder to make. Not to mention the cost of using Silver as a base material. But Sirius was all for supporting Harry's Enchanting and so a small fraction of the Black Family Fortune was set aside for Harry by his Godfather. Harry vowed he'd make Sirius' 'investment' worth the man's while someday.
"Okay, second Transmutation Circle plate, set up. Now measure out the materials, I need five hundred grams of each metal and three hundred seventy five grams each of both powdered dragon bone and powdered quartz crystal. Harry was going to attempt multiple transmutations today in hopes of getting more samples of viable Sylvuan to try and forge with. After measuring out his ingredients Harry placed the first set onto the Transmutation Circle plate and poured his mana into the Alchemic Array. The Transmutation Circle began to glow a bright blue as Harry's mana filled it. After a few seconds the materials all began to glow and slowly merge together. Small sparks of magical discharge came from the materials as they were transmuted into a new combined state and when the process finished Harry pulled his hands away from the plate. The newly transmuted metal was giving off small bits of light that floated about like dust particles. All in all the process seemed to be the same as it was for Oulm, just with more material, and a good amount more mana from Harry's end. At least three times more mana went into transmuting Sylvuan than Oulm.
After the glowing of the metal stopped Harry removed the silvery-blue metal and looked it over. It had the color the book mentioned so that was already a good sign. The true test would be its reaction to mana. Harry poured a bit of his mana into the ingot of 'hopefully' Sylvuan and kept it up for several seconds. The moment the metal glowed, making the blueish silver metal shine even more, Harry beamed at the success of his transmutation.
"Yeah!" Harry cheered as he held up the ingot of Sylvuan. "I did it!" After he calmed down a minute later he was very glad no one had been in the workshop with him to see that. It would've somehow found its way back to Tonks and he'd be teased about it for who knows how long. Having had one success the young Artificer prepared to transmute the rest of his materials. After that he would test out two different ideas with his next prototypes.
It had become clear to Harry that Circuit Base wasn't going to cut it for the Runic Array he wanted his Artifact Sword to hold. So now he had two different paths to consider. One involved moving up the Circuit formula and creating something both more 'powerful' and much more expensive. Vitris Auri was a much better Runic Circuit material than Circuit Base. The only problem was making it and the cost of materials. Vitris Auri just so happened to have Gold as its base material. So the cost was going to be high for a potential failure. His other idea was to use Oulm as the Circuit Material and use the Magical Metal's transference properties while leaving the actual 'handling' of the Runic Array to the much stronger Sylvuan. Both had their own merits and 'theoretically' both had a chance at success.
"Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained." Harry mused as he set about transmuting more Sylvuan ingots. He only had a few days left before he went back to Wood End Cottage for Yule Break. He wanted to have the prototypes at least made, even if not tested, before then. Seven more transmutations left Harry with eight viable ingots of Sylvuan. He was happy that he hadn't messed any of them up since you couldn't get the Silver back from Sylvuan without a very specific form of Alchemy that dealt with the 'Breakdown and Separation' of Magical Compounds. Harry didn't have access to such specific, and complex, Alchemy so the simple fact he hadn't screwed up was a relief.
"Now to the forge." Harry thought aloud as he gathered up the ingots and moved into the smithy. Getting the fire going Harry waited until the heat was at the right temperature and placed the first ingot within the forge. Once the metal was a yellowish-red he used metal tongs to pull it out and take it over to his anvil. Harry poured his mana into the hammer with every swing. The ping of metal striking metal became the only sound in the hidden workshop for the next several hours. Harry would later be reprimanded for missing lunch and almost being late for dinner by Penny; after said Prefect almost beat down the door to the workshop to get Harry's attention.
-The Next Day-
"I'm just making sure you don't stay in here all day and miss meals." Penny informed Harry as she sat down at the 'Study Area' of the hidden workshop.
"I said it was an accident." Harry huffed as he pulled out his Alchemy supplies. The eight ingots of Sylvuan had all been forged into knives, or the shape of knives at least since none of them had an edge yet, and were waiting to be etched with Runic Arrays and Circuit Lines. Etching only took about an hour thanks to the Alchemic Rune Kit Tonks had gifted to him last Christmas. The etching tool was actually made of Adamantite! There was no Magical Metal stronger in the entire world, so it easily etched other metals including Magical ones. Pulling his Alchemy Book closer Harry went over the steps of making Vitris Auri again and set about attempting to make the Magical Material.
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