For the next three days, Chen Ang ordered Gru around like a tired dog. It had to beg Chen Ang to cast an illusion spell on it so that it could maintain Bojin's appearance and discuss business with the dark wizards it was familiar with. The gold coins in Bojin's vault flowed out like water in exchange for the bodies of precious magical animals or magic herbs.
The eight-eyed spider in the dense jungle of Kalimantan, the Chimera in the mountains of Greece, the black dragon flying in the sky above the Hehiti Islands, the fireball dragon living in the ancient land of China, the poisonous cyst leopard in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa … The cubs and eggs of these precious or dangerous magical animals were transported in batches to Chen Ang's laboratory.
Chen Ang cast a Traceless Stretch spell on a suitcase, expanding it to a huge space of about 500 acres so that Gru could place the magical animals. When it saw the huge space, Gru was deeply shocked. Pino, another house-elf who used to belong to Bojin, was now in charge of taking care of these magical animals.
Pino, who completely treated Chen Ang as his master, did not recognize Gru at all and even wanted to bully him. Only then did Gru realize that without the constraints of the magic contract, he could not control this house-elf at all. In fact, Pino was much better than him in the application of magic spells. Gru, who had already become a slave, was now fighting with his house-elf to please Chen Ang.
Chen Ang's recent experiments were trying to create a snake monster. Legend had it that the snake monster came from the magic egg laid by a seven-year-old rooster when it was in the sky above Sirius, and it was hatched by a toad. Chen Ang judged that it would undoubtedly require a high-level black magic to make a rooster lay an egg when it was in the sky above Sirius. He tried to transform the rooster into a hen and use the power of Sirius to curse the rooster, but he failed in the end. The eggs laid by the rooster had no life force or aura of soul at all.
The main reason was that Sirius was in the sky. Sirius usually appeared in winter or early spring, so it was easier to use its power using the Winter Triangle as a reference.
It was summer in the northern hemisphere. Although Chen Ang moved the experiment site to the southern hemisphere with magic, the experiment was still disrupted.
Chen Ang had read a lot of magic books about creating basilisks. He found that although this magical creature seemed easy to create, there had been no sightings of it for 400 years. Maybe it was because all the 'witnesses' had died.
But this at least showed how difficult it was.
In the end, Chen Ang discovered that it was still a curse problem. The essence of the Basilisk was a magical creature created by using the power of Sirius. The rooster and toad were just a kind of magic medium to create its body. In the Book of Isaiah, there was a record of the Basilisk: "They break the eggs of vipers and weave spider webs. The person who swallowed the egg would find a poisonous lizard inside after breaking the egg. "
The poisonous lizard here was a snake monster.
Since then, this magical creature often appeared in the Bible. The most detailed mention was in a book written by the famous wizard Alexander Naicam in the 1280s AD. However, it was not included in the "Poisonous Lizard" section. Instead, it was included in the "Rooster" section.
"Its egg must be laid in the days of Sirius and fertilized by a seven-year-old rooster. This kind of egg is easy to recognize: it is not an ordinary egg, but spherical, without a shell, covered with a thick layer of skin. And this egg must be incubated by a toad, so it will hatch into this extremely poisonous monster — a snake with the characteristics of a toad and a rooster. "
Chen Ang believed that he had found the origin of this monster. It was born in Israel, Greece, Abraxas or Abraxis, Abrasax, or Abraxas.
Abraxas was the supreme being in the cosmology system of the Gnostics, an important heretical sect of early Christianity. However, due to the defeat of the Gnostics in the battle against the orthodox Christianity, Abraxas was demoted to a fallen angel in the scriptures of the orthodox Christianity. He had the head of a rooster and the lower body of a snake, and his attainments in alchemy were extremely profound.
In the description of the Gnostics, Abraxas was actually a synonym for "the invisible supreme", the creator of spirituality, an existence higher than God.
Chen Ang believed that the snake monster's black magic ritual should have originated from this mysterious sect that combined Greek philosophy, Persian Zoroastrianism, Egyptian mystery religion, Babylonian astrology, and so on. It was the sect's attempt to trace back to an inferior version of the invisible supreme ritual. The snake monster's creator, the despicable Hylbo, had obtained a part of the Gnostics' magic ritual. In order to obtain the power of this sect, he used black magic to steal a trace of Abraxas' power.
The despicable Hylbo was a Greek black wizard who spoke in a snake language — Greece was the region where the Gnostics were active.
This clumsy imitation was the snake monster.
At this time, Chen Ang had completely understood how to create a snake monster. Stealing a trace of Abraxas' power was a piece of cake for him. He also discovered some secrets of the ancient wizards. Although the wizards claimed that there was no God in the world, the so-called Jesus was only a powerful wizard.
However, it was a self-evident fact that the ancient wizard civilization originated from the mystical knowledge passed down by the ancient sects.
The magic of the wizards was actually the knowledge passed down by the ancient sects that originated from the 'God'. The ancient gods, on the other hand, were an indescribable, abnormally chaotic, non-personality. This coincided with the magic that Chen Ang discovered in the blood of the modern wizards.
After knowing how to create the snake monster, Chen Ang lost interest in creating the snake monster. He felt that the technical content of such a magical creature like the snake monster was too low. If he wanted to create it, it would be better to create the predecessor of the snake monster, a non-inferior version of the Gnostic sect's' the invisible supreme being '— Abraxas.
Chen Ang planned to create such an existence in several stages. First, he would create a snake monster to practice his skills. Then, he would create the Jewish angel Obase with a cockscomb's head and a snake's body. Chen Ang speculated that this kind of angel should have the special power to kill upon sight. Its name, abracadabra, meant 'I bless the dead'.
And the ancient magic text, 'avadakedavra' in Aramaic, meant 'everything will be destroyed'.
This would be an angel of death. According to the description of its magic power in the magic text, everything the snake monster saw would be petrified, and everything Obase saw would be destroyed and die. Because this ancient magic ritual was too incomplete, Chen Ang tried his best to collect information and complete it. He then modified it according to what he had learned.
He used the arcane magic of Instant Death as the core and focused on Obase's divinity. The final creation should be a divine creature. Although Obase should be an angel based on his status, what Chen Ang created with magic was only a symbolic creature, after all, and could only touch the boundary of a divine creature.
In the end, Chen Ang wanted to create Abraxas, the "Invisible Supreme One," which was the creation of spirituality, an existence higher than God. The Basilisk was just a clumsy imitation of Him. Without even a billionth of His power, it would be too difficult to trace Him using the ritual of creating the Basilisk. Even the original Gnostic ritual would not be able to trace one-ten-thousandth of his existence.
"Originally, I just wanted to create a snake monster for fun, but I didn't expect it to become such a big project in the end. I can only say — fate makes fools of people!" Chen Ang sighed as he looked at the third version of the design that he had modified. This was indeed a big project. Chen Ang might not be able to complete it even if he had 50 years, but once it was created, it would be enough to be the carrier of Morgoth.
Gru looked at the design, which was full of complex magic symbols. Its face was full of shock and confusion. It could no longer understand what was contained in the design. Even if it was a ritual used to create a snake monster, after Chen Ang's improvement, the hatched snake monster would not be an ordinary one.
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