Ian was happy too.
Everyone won, and Ian still won twice.
After the promotion, Ian received quite a few orders from his fellow students, ranging from all grade levels, including a pair of twin brothers from Gryffindor who wanted him to make a high-difficulty prank toy.
Ian welcomed everyone without reservation.
He wasn't afraid of the twin brothers learning his techniques from him either.
The only ones who didn't place many orders were Slytherin College, partly due to some "misunderstandings" with Ian, but of course, they wouldn't dare report Ian's "illegal activities" to the professors.
Seeing other students with new and novel inventions for entertainment from time to time, Slytherin students couldn't sit still and also sought out Hogwarts' true merchant.
Aurora also took the opportunity to sell many high-priced, low-quality "founder relics." And those Slytherin students who obtained new items might have never imagined in their dreams that their ideas and concepts also went through Aurora's hands, becoming a new source of nourishment for Ian's [Alchemy] study and improvement.
Indeed.
That's why Aurora is the real merchant, her speed in learning the art of deception is quite astonishing, transforming from a naive girl into a genuine second-hand dealer.
In this, Ian certainly deserves some credit, after all, Ian encouraged her to take orders from Slytherin College and even entrusted Miss Daphne Greengrass, the leader of the [Prince Resistance Alliance], to orchestrate a cooperation for it. For a few Golden Galleons, which she wouldn't even look at before, Miss Daphne Greengrass truly spared no effort.
Ian could feel it.
Miss Daphne Greengrass wasn't just "respecting" his authority; she was genuinely miserable and poor. During Christmas holidays, she even resold pastries from the Little Elf kitchen with her girlfriends.
The eldest daughter of a Pure-blood Clan, reduced to such embarrassment, even Ian couldn't bear to watch, so he successfully turned the leader of the [Prince Resistance Alliance] with the price of just 2 Golden Galleons.
A carefree life made Ian quite pleased, and this joyful existence continued until another mysterious day, when Ian went to consult Nicolas Flamel about some alchemy-related questions after class.
Apart from absorbing the ingenious ideas of Little Wizards, Ian also learned the alchemy experience from the old professor, so his skill level in [Ancient Alchemy] increased rapidly.
Nicolas Flamel's research speed on High Tower Magic Rune also exceeded Ian's expectations; in just a few days, Nicolas Flamel could already use the High Tower Magic Rune system to construct some small works.
"Compared to Rune Language, this type of Magic Rune requires less magic power, but the learning threshold is much higher. I think that's one of the reasons it was phased out in history,"
Nicolas Flamel even made an assessment of the High Tower Magic Rune.
"Like the modern alchemy system replaced the Ancient Alchemy system led by Rune Language?" Ian felt that such historical issues probably didn't happen only once in history.
"Exactly, and just like modern alchemy compared to the limitations of Ancient Alchemy, this Magic Rune can achieve effects in certain areas that Rune Language could hardly reach," Nicolas Flamel didn't demonstrate anything; he continued his alchemy work while conversing with Ian.
Transforming Ian's Black Sand into Hourglass Sand.
The Alchemy Master was always serious and focused during any alchemy operation, dressed in a robe inscribed with enigmatic symbols, holding a silver scepter carved with time-flow totems, surrounded by various mysterious documents and ancient texts, clearly indicating it was either the first time or quite a while since he performed similar alchemy operations.
"In which aspect does it have an effect? In time manipulation?" Ian looked at the Black Sand placed in a container, where some solution was continuously bubbling and refining it.
"That's one aspect, time, space, using this Ancient Magic Rune you discovered allows better manipulation, and its real place to exert more significant effects is in its ability to bear Divine Grace," Nicolas Flamel blended pure water and moon essence to create a rare solvent.
Its color was as dazzling as the Milky Way.
He poured it slowly into a container carved from deep yellow crystal. Just like a chemistry experiment, the solution in the deep yellow crystal container instantly underwent intense changes.
"Divine Grace?"
Ian curiously blinked. He certainly knew there were gods in this world he lived in, but he wasn't very familiar with those civilizations frequently in contact with gods.
Not only him.
In fact, most modern wizards know very little about that era as well, with wizards' historical records tracing back mostly to King Arthur and Merlin's time at most.
And before the era of King Arthur and Merlin, most of it consisted of some scattered ancient texts, their difficulty to verify comparable to the ancient Eastern Xia Dynasty, which was even older than the Shang Dynasty.
"Although we know little about the Divine Spirit, and it's already a period of divine inactivity, the existence of Divine Spirit in this world is not fake."
"From the God of Death known to most nowadays, to the Sun God Apollo whom our Divination professor's ancestors served, and Odin and the Nordic Gods in Nordic Mythology."