The full moon has just passed, and the moon in the sky appears fuller than the standard waning gibbous moon.
Manus sat beside the bed, looking at the stone in his hand in the moonlight.
Tossing all the way from seven o'clock to nine o'clock, this is what will be formed after the final change is completely completed.
A stone that looks like a flat, straight octagonal pillar and feels a bit rough? It looks a bit like cement. The only feature is the different patterns on the two sides.
One side, which should be the front, is engraved with white lines on two back-to-back tigers with somewhat abstract lines and only the upper body. The two tigers are centrally symmetrical.
The other side was identified as the back by Manus. There were four characters engraved on it. After Manus interpreted it, it was Oracle Bone Script of Far East.
"Yin... hu... he (and)... an...?"
Manus blinked in confusion after recognizing the four characters.
Yin and Tiger... are relatively easy to interpret. Earth governs the zodiac, which makes Manus understand that the factor that causes this change is indeed time.
Although directly calculated, seven o'clock and nine o'clock are not directly related to Yin time, but if the time zone is converted to Far East, which is precisely the East Eighth District where Huaxia is located, then it is exactly Yin time.
When calculating the time, Manus also calculated the date and found that this was not only the Yin hour, but also the last Yin hour in the Chinese calendar, 1974, the Jiayin year.
This realization made Manus silent for a long time, and silently decided to add an extra item to the pocket watch next... Well, there seem to be too many things about time in China, and the pocket watch can't fit in it.
Then build a clock and place it specifically in Mental World as a reference.
After deciding on this plan, Manus looked at the remaining two confusing words.
The meanings of He and An in current Chinese characters are not difficult to understand. But the problem is that after studying the various knowledge attached to Qi Magic for a long time, Manus knows that in the era when a word existed as Oracle Bone Script, and in all subsequent eras, the meaning may be completely different from now.
Yuan, Heng, Li, and Zhen are interpreted in modern times as the length of good, the gathering of good things, the harmony of righteousness, and the stem of things. But in the period when Oracle Bone Script was used, their meanings were great, sacrifice, benefit, and divination.
It undoubtedly has an excellent meaning in modern times, but in the era when it was first engraved, it meant holding a big sacrifice, which, depending on the background of the times, usually required the slaughter of various sacrifices, including human animals.
So... these two words that appear on the magic items made by modern Condensation in the form of Oracle Bone Script, what era are they used for interpretation?
Try activating Righteous Qi and Black Qi directly?
Manus is not willing to try it at will. If there is only Righteous Qi in it, then there may not be too bad results if you try it, but the problem is that the Righteous Qi and Black Qi in this stone are equal.
This is in line with its balanced nature.
This shows that this magic item itself has no tendency to be good or evil, which is a good thing, but it also makes it difficult to determine whether the effect of this magic item is beneficial or harmful.
Even though the meanings of the words "harmony" and "an" are basically positive in all eras, and the balanced qualities they carry are not offensive, but who knows what the specific meaning of "harmony" and "an" will be?
Maybe it allows people to rest and balance life and death?
Especially when Righteous Qi and Black Qi have already lost control twice, although there have been no serious consequences so far, it makes Manus even more reluctant to try it easily.
"It's better to continue putting it back into the sealing room."
It was too late, Manus repaired and perfected the seals, and then put Tiger Talisman back to its original position, and applied several additional layers of seals, as well as a layer of triggering Alchemy Magic.
The next time this thing causes any trouble, it will still be the same as this time, just quietly changing in place. If it involves physical movement, then this magic will turn the stone Blackening into Dead Matter - with the entity, this balance characteristic will be better targeted.
Of course, this is mainly because Manus's own Alchemy level is not high enough. If he can achieve the concepts of Alchemy's seven achievements, then he can directly Blackening and refine even illusory traits.
There was nothing to say all night. Before going to class the next day, Manus was still thinking about the incident last night. Suddenly, he heard McGonagall shouting:
"Potter--"
"Yes, Professor McGonagall!"
Potter, who was called, stood up in a daze and looked at McGonagall, who had just walked into the classroom and was obviously not in a good mood:
"What happened?"
"'What happened?' Don't act stupid here. You were the one who was playing hide and seek with me on the third floor last night! I was in a hurry to go to the toilet and didn't bother to catch you. Come to my office after class--"
McGonagall said with a serious face to Potter who seemed to want to defend something:
"I know you most likely have accomplices, but I didn't see anyone else last night so I won't pursue them. Or do you want to go to Zone of Truth?"
Potter opened his mouth, and finally lowered his head dejectedly:
"I see, Professor..."
"Sit down, class starts now."
After sitting down, Potter couldn't help but glance in the direction of Manus, and met the eyes of Lily sitting in the middle.
Potter was stunned for a moment, subconsciously smiled, and then quickly withdrew his gaze.
After chasing for three years with no results, although he did not give up completely, he finally realized that he could not catch Lily like this, and finally stopped his actions - which made many people breathe a sigh of relief.
For a moment, it was hard to tell which of the three good friends Lily and Potter felt more relieved. In short, this was a good thing.
Lily withdrew her gaze and looked at Manus, who responded with an innocent wink. The realm of honesty is indeed a good thing for professors, and to some extent it almost destroys the space for students to quibble and lie.
However, the professors seem to know not to put too much pressure on the students, or they may not want to trouble Manus too much when they cannot learn Zone of Truth. In short, this magic has not actually been put into use for the second time.
All the horrors came from the rumors of the Slytherins who were in Hospital Wing that day.
It's just that there were too many people present, and both Slughorn and Flitwick confirmed the matter afterwards, so the credibility of this matter was high enough.
"By the way, Manus, Potter and the others want to join Wizard Sage Party... What do you think of this matter?"
The voice of Lily sounded in Communication Charm.