As a Parselmouth, it was difficult for John to evaluate this guy who didn't know whether he was one or three.
"Um... can you tell me where the place where it's impossible to survive is?"
The heads on the left and center were banging against each other like crazy on the right, and John had no choice but to interrupt the 'I hit myself' drama.
He found that the teeth of the rune snake had been pulled out, so it was no wonder that the snake could grow to this size.
With the bad mouth on the right side of the head, this isn't the first time he's been beaten.
"Oh my God, if you hold it back, he can understand what we are talking about."
The head on the right screamed repeatedly, and the head in the middle stopped attacking after hearing it and said: "I am a lazy snake."
The head on the left slides down from the tree and approaches John.
"Hiss, can you understand what we are talking about?"
Apparently the left snake dominates the body.
John nodded.
Three snake heads surround John.
Zuo Snake: "You are the first one in so many years who understands what we say."
Middle Snake: "I'm a deadbeat snake."
Right snake: "This is really rare. My neck is scratched. Please help me scratch it."
The three heads seemed to be very interested in John. After circling around John, Zuo Snake spoke: "You want to know that place? I can tell you, but you have to do something for me."
"What's the matter?" John was curious, if there was anything the Rune Snake needed help with.
The left snake bumped into the right snake who was yelling for John to help scratch its neck.
"I'm hungry. If you bring me enough food, I'll tell you."
John looked strange and said, "Is this the case?"
"That's it." Zuo Snake said as he wrapped himself around the old tree. "An old wizard trapped us here and couldn't leave. He pulled out our teeth so that we couldn't kill each other."
Middle Snake: "I'm a deadbeat snake."
The right snake shouted: "If it weren't for that old guy, I would have spread the ashes of the left one."
As expected, the right snake was beaten again.
When John saw this, he couldn't help but admire the old wizard's approach. He pulled out the teeth of the three snakes so that they could not hurt anyone.
The request was simple, and John agreed.
Food can be obtained from the big river where he came from, and there are many fish to catch in the river.
He turned towards the river.
Using his wand to control the vines, John weaves a huge fishing net, which John sinks into the river.
After waiting for a while, the fishing net was filled with trapped fish.
Use a levitation spell with a wave of your wand to make the net follow you.
Arriving under the old tree, John put down the fishing net.
The fishy smell filled the old tree, and the runes no longer quarreled.
They surrounded us and feasted on the fishing net.
Trapped here for hundreds of years, the runesake had no food source and was able to survive by eating leaves and fruit.
As each fish was eaten, snake teeth began to grow in the rune snake's mouth.
When all the fish in a fishing net are eaten, the three snakes grow their fangs again.
The rune snake came down from the old tree. Zuo Snake lowered his head and said, "Thank you, generous wizard."
Its teeth glowed with cold light like scimitars. The left snake raised its head and bit the right snake before it could react.
The snake also joined the biting team.
The two snake heads continued to attack to the right. The right snake screamed and was bitten alive.
The bloody scene gave people chills.
After the right snake was bitten to death, its head fell off.
The rune snake with a severed head was bleeding continuously. John's heart sank. What did this mean?
"I've tolerated it for a long time," Zuo Snake said. "In return, I can tell you how to enter."
Zuo Snake moved away from the old tree and said, "This is the entrance, but you need a snake's eyes to see it."
Snake eyes?
With a sudden thought, John took out the snake-eye gem from the temporary bag.
Zuo Snake was a little surprised and said: "It seems you are lucky. If you put this snake eye in your eye, you can find it."
As he spoke, the Rune Snake gradually lowered its body and its voice became smaller and smaller.
Zuo Snake said: "Remember, don't try to touch those treasures, it will make you cursed."
The middle snake said, "I am a lazy snake."
The rune snake lost too much blood and lost its vitality.
John said: "Cannibalism, or relief?"
Three people who don't get along have lived together for hundreds of years, and no one of them can kill the other. They have tortured each other for many years without a trace of affection.
John opened the middle snake head, and several pebble-sized snake eggs fell out of his mouth.
Unlike other animals, the rune snake lays its eggs in its mouth.
The malnourished rune snake cannot grow teeth and eats enough food to lay eggs in the last part of its life.
John counted six in total.
Rune snake eggs can be used to make potions that stimulate brain reactions. The price of these six eggs is very valuable on the black market.
Putting the snake eggs into a makeshift bag, John went to pull out the fangs of the right snake.
Of the three heads of the rune snake, only the teeth of the right snake are highly venomous and are also a precious material.
After everything was done, John put the snake-eye gem in his eyes according to Zuo Snake's instructions.
The old tree that was originally covered with vines changed in the gem, and a hole that was not there before appeared in the trunk.
John came closer and put down the gem, reaching out to touch the old tree, where there was only bark.
Picking up the gem, he passed his hand through the tree trunk and stepped inside.
When John disappeared under the old tree, the rune snake's body turned into white bones.
They have long since died, and because of some kind of magic, they continue to stay here.
...
Behind the tree hole was a desert. John put down the snake-eye gem, and the copper snake on his wrist rang again.
This time it didn't stay on my wrist, but dived into the sand.
The copper snake moved quickly, and John followed it.
There is no end in sight to this place, and the bronze snake keeps moving forward.
I don’t know how long it took, but the copper snake stopped.
John looked up and saw endless desert everywhere, without any pyramids in sight.
"Are you here?" He picked up the snake-eye gem. Through the snake-eye gem, he saw a black pyramid standing in the desert. Of course, that was what John saw.
The outside of that pyramid is not a sphinx, but a basilisk with a human face.
John frowned, put down the soul lamp, and took out his wand.
"Specialis Revelio"
The wand pointed at the pyramid, and the basilisk at the door began to move, and its body began to twist into an '8' figure.
At the same time, at the base of the black pyramid, a portal appeared.
The only difference is that there is an intangible door at the entrance.
John walked over and touched, running his finger through the door.
He cast the Appearance Charm again, but this time nothing happened.
"Need props."
John immediately figured out why.
The bronze snake is responsible for searching, and the snake-eye gem is responsible for watching.
Then the last thing is responsible for entering.
John took out the empty hourglass from his small bag.
If this thing is damaged, it may have been damaged by poachers.
Now when I get to the door, I can't get in.
John was also speechless.
"Thankfully I'm an alchemist."
John got enough materials from the darkroom. He sat down cross-legged and took out the materials one by one.
The material was melted and changed by the golden flame in his hands. The body of the hourglass was made of underground crystal.
John does not have an underground crystal, but he can synthesize a carrier that carries the power of time through other materials.
John took a soul out of the soul lamp and poured it into the hourglass.
The soul was crushed and turned into silver sand, flowing in the hourglass.
John held the wand in his left hand and drew a Möbius strip engraved on the hourglass.
The power of time is continuously amplified through the soul.
With a clap of his hands, John completed the last step of repairing the hourglass.
Growing a tail to hook the soul lamp, John held the snake-eye gem in his right hand and flipped the hourglass in his left hand.
I saw that illusory door gradually changing as the sand in the hourglass fell.
"Using time as a condition for opening, this is a wizard who is proficient in forbidden magic."
It was an eye-opener for John. If it had been anyone else, he would have been trapped in the broken hourglass and could not pass it. Only someone who was also proficient in forbidden magic could be qualified to enter.
"Time, alchemy, I am increasingly looking forward to what I can encounter in it."
There was excitement hidden in John's eyes. As a wizard, he not only had the power of Slytherin, but also had an adventurous spirit that was not inferior to that of Gryffindor.
Things that could be solved easily were not adventures for him.
Only this kind of thing, which requires him to concentrate on it wholeheartedly, can excite him.
As the sand in the hourglass gradually runs out, the illusory door gradually solidifies.
The eyes of the statue with a human face and a snake body standing outside moved, as if spying on the visitor.
John felt eyes falling on him. He looked back and his eyes turned back as if nothing happened.
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