Ghostly Magical Artifact

"Can I learn magic from your world too?" Helena asked, her eyes wide with curiosity.

Xiwen, sensing the abundant magical energy emanating from Ravenclaw's Diadem, smiled and nodded, saying, "You can try controlling the magic within the Diadem first. Once you can use it flexibly, you can learn spells!"

"Use it flexibly, right? Is that what you mean?" Helena smiled playfully and reached out to the bookshelf next to her.

"Wingardium Leviosa."

She recited it in a pleasant voice.

Then, a thick leather book floated over with a rather light touch, swirling around Helena. Its pages fluttered like an enlarged butterfly.

"Well, it seems I underestimated you..." Xiwen chuckled helplessly, rubbing his forehead. "Sure enough, once you have magic, you've turned back into that Ravenclaw House genius witch."

"Of course, not to mention I now wear Mother's Diadem." Helena proudly raised her head. However, when she mentioned the Diadem, her mood inevitably became somber again.

Xiwen quickly changed the subject, saying, "Speaking of which, could you call that Wandless Magic?"

"Hmph, what else?" Helena pouted, huffing. "In my current form, I'd better be able to pick up a wand first..."

"Since Ravenclaw's Diadem can take on an ethereal form, perhaps a wand can too," Xiwen chuckled. "I'll research alchemy in this area sometime and make you a ghost wand myself!"

"Then I'll be waiting for that day!" Helena laughed, her eyes curving into crescents.

Diadem Ravenclaw left for Helena was an extremely unique alchemical product. Xiwen had never seen anything like it that directly altered the properties of an item and could even be used by ghosts.

No, speaking of items that ghosts can use, Xiwen's mind suddenly turned to a knife he had once taken from the Bloody Baron.

That knife was clearly a special alchemical artifact, even usable by Baron in his ghost form, and its function was to harm the soul.

In that confrontation with Baron, Xiwen misjudged the situation because he was not fully familiar with the characteristics of the ghost, and was almost injured by Baron's knife. He finally escaped danger by using the Form of Ikonn.

It can be said that Baron's knife was also a weapon of exceptional power.

Driven by curiosity, Xiwen casually drew a circle on his hand, which opened up a golden halo.

This Dimensional Gate leads to a room in the dungeon, where in a corner lies a scimitar bound layer upon layer with a golden Magic Whip.

Xiwen picked up the knife and took it into the Room of Requirement.

"Speaking of which, this knife should also be a kind of magical artifact used by ghosts, right?" Xiwen looked at the Baron's Scimitar was examining and asked softly.

"This is... Baron's precious scimitar?" Helena leaned closer, frowning upon seeing the blade, her expression seemingly one of disgust.

"Why do you still need to tie it up?" she asked casually.

Xiwen explained to Helena, "This knife's ability to wound the soul is actually quite useful, but it's unruly and even tried to slip out of my grasp. So I bound it."

"Could a knife really come to life?" Helena asked incredulously upon hearing Xiwen's words.

"I don't know either," Xiwen said, shaking his head. "But if it was also inscribed with many Runes before transforming into an illusory form, then it's normal for it to have some magical aspects, right?"

"No, it shouldn't be a change of form through inscribed runes." Helena shook her head and said to Xiwen. "I can still clearly remember that this is the knife Baron used when he was alive, and it's also the knife he used to stab me."

Xiwen's expression immediately darkened, and he frowned as he asked Helena, "Should we just destroy it?"

"No need yet, we can destroy it after we've finished researching it." Helena stopped Xiwen's itching hand and said, "Speaking of which, I just remembered, Baron was Salazar Slytherin's prized student, so this knife was very likely made for him by Slytherin."

"Is it really that important?" Xiwen glanced at the unremarkable scimitar again and asked with some disbelief.

"That's right, they have a very powerful background," Helena nodded. "Back then, Slytherin was researching a lot of forbidden things behind the backs of the other three Founders, but actually, my mother, the other two were all aware of what he was doing, but they didn't want to hurt their friendship, so they didn't stop him."

"Back then, he conducted many experiments transforming living animals into objects," Helena explained. "So rather than saying this knife came to life, it's more accurate to say it was originally an animal that became a ghost along with Baron."

"Like the ghost horses that the Headless Hunt ride..." Xiwen mused, then spoke.

"Very likely." Helena nodded slightly, then explained to Xiwen.

"Ordinary animals, lacking sufficient intelligence, cannot possess the obsession to support them becoming ghosts. However, animals with deep affection for wizards may transform into ghosts along with their wizards, in a form that is essentially an appendage of the wizard."

After hearing Helena's explanation, Xiwen finally understood the principle behind Baron's Scimitar.

He picked up the curved sword that was wrapped in layers of Magic Whip and examined the patterns on the blade closely. If you looked closely, you could see that its blade was not made of metal, but rather looked like it was covered with a layer of scales.

Xiwen, who possessed a winged snake as his Animagus form, was very familiar with these scales; they were snake scales.

He then looked at the hilt of the scimitar and noticed that it was coiled in a spiral shape, like the tail of a snake, with two seemingly black eyes at the end of the hilt...

Xiwen shuddered and couldn't help but say, "Did Slytherin forge a knife from a live snake? That looks kind of scary..."

"I remember you're Slytherin, the Founders of your house, and you're talking about him like that?" Helena raised an eyebrow and looked at Xiwen.

"Well, now that you mention it, it's true..." Xiwen chuckled dryly, silently changing the subject. "Never mind, I have no intention of turning a living animal into an object, so this knife is useless to our research on the illusory nature of objects."

"Why don't we start learning the magic of Kamar-Taj?"