In the evening, Noah planned to go to the Room of Requirement to spend half the night. But today I met someone surprising.
Noah stood at the corner of the stairs, looking up at the foursome - Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville - who were carefully coming down the stairs.
Among the four, Harry and Ron walked in front, especially Ron, who looked obviously impatient. Hermione fell behind the two of them and kept saying something in a low voice. Neville followed behind the three of them, not participating in the entanglement of the three friends in front of him at all. He just kept looking around, like a frightened bird. Like a little mouse that is afraid of being caught by a cat.
Noah's current location is the stairs leading from the fourth floor to the fifth floor. He didn't expect to meet the protagonist group who happened to be out at night.
Although he didn't know why they came here, Noah didn't plan to have any contact with them. It's better to avoid each other when traveling at night.
but……
Noah watched several people go down the stairs to the fourth floor, and couldn't help but tilted his head, as if... Filch was going to the fourth floor soon?
Thinking of this, Noah immediately quietly went up the stairs and walked quickly towards the Room of Requirement to avoid being affected.
As expected, when he arrived on the sixth floor, Noah vaguely heard movement from the fourth floor. First of all, it was the voice of Administrator Filch. It seemed that there was also the voice of Peeves?
Noah put all the noise behind him and entered the Room of Requirement with ease.
This time the Room of Requirement was empty, save for the light of the torches on the wall.
Noah walked to the center of the room, and Keya poked his head out from under his sleeves. When he found that there was nothing here, he shrank back in disappointment, and then quickly poked his head out again the next second.
After Noah stood still, a complicated magic array spread out at his feet. Pure magic power spread from his body to the magic array, activating the magic array and making it rotate slowly.
After injecting enough magic power, Noah took out a small hourglass.
This was one of the things he had in the Auror Vault. The other scarab amber had been confirmed to be a cursed item, but the curse sealed on it was not a very powerful curse and was ruthlessly classified by Noah. In the category of "useless ornaments", this hourglass is somewhat interesting.
Noah saw this hourglass by accident. He just subconsciously thought of "time" when he saw the hourglass. In addition, he had no intention of finding a powerful magic item in the treasure house, so he picked this one casually and it had no special magic power. The small fluctuating hourglass. After all, powerful magic items always attract attention. It would be dangerous if their identities were traced, so the two items he picked were not too eye-catching.
So when I was trying to practice time magic, I accidentally discovered that there were time fluctuations on this small hourglass. It was a surprise.
Let’s talk about the progress of Noah’s magic training. It has to be said that it’s no wonder that the time system has been divided into extra divisions. The difficulty of getting started is indeed a bit ridiculous. Even though Noah has glimpsed a little bit of the power of time from Shahos’s legacy, it still doesn’t matter. It was not enough for him to really start practicing time magic.
He always feels that he is still missing some key, and this missing part is the most difficult. He needs to explore and find it by himself, and he cannot find the answer from any book.
But what I have to say is that this is the first time that Noah has been frustrated in learning magic. He has been learning very quickly since he started learning magic. Although there are also reasons for learning basic magic, this does prove that time The difficulty of magic.
And tonight is an attempt. If he fails to master time magic again, Noah will have to temporarily postpone the research on this magic.
Mastering a lot of magic knowledge, Noah knows one thing. It is extremely irrational to stick to a magic that cannot be learned. He has a lot of knowledge to learn, and more magic to choose from. Specializing in a magic seems to be It is possible to achieve mastery, but to a certain extent it is also a waste of other magical knowledge.
As the golden hourglass was placed in the center of the magic array by Noah, silver-white pure magic power immediately poured into the hourglass. The sand in the golden hourglass began to pour downward, and each grain was filled with full magic power. Golden, as the sand in the hourglass dripped, the magic array became dimmed, and its rotation speed became slower and slower.
And when the magic circle stopped rotating, the last grain of sand fell into the sand pile below.
Noah sat down in front of the hourglass, and Keya poked his head out of his collar, spitting out a snake letter and staring at Noah.
"Good night," Noah pressed Keya's head and said hello before lying down on his side in the magic circle. He half-bent his body to half-encircle the small hourglass, and slowly closed his eyes. "Sweet dreams."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hourglass in the magic array automatically turned upside down, and the golden sand began to flow again. At the same time, the magic array under Noah also began to rotate again, but the direction of rotation became reversed.
Keya lingered on Noah's shoulder, watching this scene, and quietly waiting for Noah to wake up from his sleep.
…
The so-called dream is the time when people's brains are most full of imagination.
[Dream] is also extremely special in magic. The more powerful the spellcaster, the more obvious it is in this regard.
Noah has seldom dreamed since he started learning magic. This is because he keeps studying in his mind every night, which leads to a loss of mental power, so he doesn't dream much. And the few dreams he has are also quite strange dreams. .
Just like this moment.
Noah stood on the dark water and looked up to see the endless starry sky. It was extremely bright and brilliant, and it was a scene completely different from the starry sky outside. The starry sky here is not chaotic. They are arranged according to a certain pattern. It looks pleasing to the eye and is also extremely attractive to explore the mysteries that may be hidden in it.
Noah lowered his head and looked at his feet. The starry sky reflected in the water was a little different from the one above. The reflected starlight was slightly dim, with only a few scattered ones shining as brightly as they should.
And most importantly, there was no figure of Noah in the reflection on the water.
Noah took a few tentative steps, and ripples spread out in circles wherever his steps touched. It seemed that he could hear the faint sound of these ripples.
"Shasha~"
There was a sound of something falling.
Noah looked for the sound and found that a huge golden hourglass had appeared behind him at some point. The sound of rustling came from the hourglass.
This hourglass was so huge that Noah was only a quarter of its height when he stood in front of it, and the sand poured into it was also quite large, each one the size of a glass marble.
Noah subconsciously raised his hand towards the hourglass. The moment his palm touched the glass container, golden ripples rippled in the water at his feet. At the same time, the sand in the hourglass became blurry in Noah's sight.
