boom!
The wooden door closed behind them, and the four of them stood at the entrance of a long and narrow passage, surrounded by gray stone walls. In the dimness, the torches on the stone walls crackled with sparks, making the passage gloomy.
The passage was very quiet, but filled with a strange atmosphere.
Daphne was the boldest and walked in front; Meredith followed closely behind, while Astoria fell behind the two. Xie Lin is the strongest. He walks at the end. In addition to being responsible for the rear, he can also take care of everyone.
As we walked, we could feel the air becoming more and more humid, and then a hazy fog appeared in our sight.
Daphne whispered: "Fluorescence!" The end of the wand released a milky white halo. The brightness of the fluorescence was as bright as moonlight without being dazzling. It was much brighter than ordinary fluorescent spells. Even so, the visibility could not break through to three feet away. .
When Meredith was about to cast the fire spell, she was stopped by Sherlin, "May, it is very unwise to cast flames rashly when facing an unknown situation. Think about it, what if there is a pile of gunpowder in front of you?" What? Then it won’t blow us all up?”
Daphne had a flash of inspiration and exclaimed: "Use the wind! The wind can dispel the heavy fog!" Then she showed a distressed expression, "But I haven't learned the Whirlwind Curse yet... and I want to control the entire fog. If the fog dissipates, I guess my magic power won’t be enough…”
Xie Lin shook his head, "I know the Whirlwind Curse, but there is actually an easier way to deal with this situation - a flock of birds!" There was a soft sound at the end of Xie Lin's wand, and a small sparrow appeared. , chirping, flapping its wings happily.
"Get bigger quickly!" The little sparrow suddenly became bigger than the golden eagle, with its wings spread out to 10 feet. It flew into the fog, and its flapping wings stirred up a stream of air, although it only dispersed it in a small area. of fog, but also revealed the road ahead.
The three girls were so shocked that they couldn't speak. How could the Bird Transformation Spell be used like this?
Daphne was about to step forward, but was held back by Xie Lin, "Don't worry, the fog has cleared, but how do you know there is nothing else in the fog?"
This time, the three girls showed confused expressions. What did Xie Lin mean by this? The road ahead is revealed, but there's nothing in sight?
Meredith was the quickest to react. She pointed her wand forward and read loudly: "Revelio!"
Then Astoria exclaimed, "What is this?"
Standing in front of them was a very tall animal with silver-white hair, resembling a thin bear. It stood on two legs and stretched out its abnormally long arms toward them.
Meredith said in an uncertain tone: "Is this a hidebehind?"
Xie Lin nodded, "Yes, the invisible monster is the product of a cross between a demiguise and a ghoul. Not only can it be as invisible as a demiguise, but it can also distort its body shape and is very good at hiding and sneak attacks." . This guy likes to hunt humanoid creatures, including us wizards. Everyone should be careful when dealing with him."
(Note: The Invisible Monster is one of the six animals added in the 2017 version of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". The other five are the bird-shaped man-eater, the cat-leopard, the horned beast, the long-horned water snake, and the thunderbird)
Xie Lin was a little surprised. This was only a medium difficulty level. A four-star hidden monster actually appeared, and a fog was created for it to hide its figure. If he hadn't followed up, something might have happened just now. All I can say is, is it really worthy of being a silver spear?
The Invisible Monster is very flexible. It has been able to dodge the spells cast by Daphne and Meredith. When it really can't avoid it, it can also twist its body, similar to the bone-shrinking yoga common among Indian Muggles. , deftly avoiding the attack.
Daphne cast a sticky spell, covering the terrain around the invisible monster with a layer of sticky paste. The Invisible Monster accidentally stepped on the paste and was stunned. Meredith seized the opportunity and cast a transformation spell on the paste that stuck to it. Four arms suddenly stretched out from the paste and grabbed the limbs of the Invisible Monster tightly. .
"Now!" Meredith and Daphne shouted in unison.
Astoria raised the wand in her hand and shouted loudly: "Collapse!" The wand shot out a beam of light, accurately hitting the head of the hidden monster, knocking it out.
"Well done!" Xie Lin praised sincerely. The two girls cooperated tacitly, creating a perfect attack opportunity for Astoria, and Astoria's spell casting technique, both in terms of accuracy and speed, above, all excellent.
Continuing to walk forward, they came to a circular room with two exits in front, and a statue of a dragon in the center of the room.
In the wizarding world, dragon is just a general term. Under this general term, there are actually various branches of sub-dragons. In his previous life, Schelling knew two types - the ones killed by the madman Knight Cadogan of Gryffindor. Wyvern, and the firedrake that appears in the Fantastic Beasts movies.
What appears in this room is the subdragon creature that Xie Lin in this life learned from ancient books - the feathered serpent (amphiptere).
The feathered serpent looks very similar to an occamy, and is one of the most beautiful creatures in the magical world: it has a blue snake-like body and a pair of rainbow-colored wings.
The body of this feathered serpent statue is visually estimated to be almost 15 feet long. Its eyes were inlaid with two bright red rubies, and they seemed to be shining brightly at the moment.
"What now?" Daphne frowned, "Are we going to pass it? Will it come back to life?"
"Probably not," Schelling wasn't too sure. To be honest, if he had to pass a feathered serpent on medium difficulty, then he couldn't imagine a hell level difficulty level at all. "I think it's probably because we need to find the feathered serpent statue. Only by keeping the secrets in your body can you move forward, otherwise you will be attacked by it."
"That makes sense. It's just a moderately difficult test. There's no reason to be so difficult. Let me try it-" Meredith raised her wand, "Aparecium!"
"Emergency manifestation" and "original appearance immediately" are not the same spell. True Appearance is used to find invisible or deformed objects, while Rapid Appearance is used to reveal hidden writings. Other similar spells include "Human Appearance" to find invisible people and "Trace Appearance" to find traces of magic that have just disappeared.
Sure enough, an orange halo emanated from the feathered serpent statue, and an ancient rune slowly appeared on its wings - Xie Lin recognized it as eihwaz, which means yew tree, and in the wizarding world represents " It means "defense" and "protection". In the legend of the wizarding world, the feathered serpent corresponds to the three-headed dog, guarding the gates of heaven and hell respectively. Of course, there are no heaven and hell in this magical world, so heaven and hell generally represent two meanings: luck and disaster.
After Schelling explained the meaning of eihwaz, Astoria tilted her head and said, "Could it be that we need to use the guidance of this ancient magic talisman to find the correct exit? One of these two exits will have Danger, and the other is safe passage to the next level?”
Can you use the Guruni Talisman to cast spells?
Schelling had also studied how to use ancient runes to cast spells - he had many ideas in his mind after seeing it with his own eyes at the secret passage on the fifth floor of Hogwarts. There are also some records about this in the Ravenclaw heritage.
However, the ancient runic writings are extensive and profound. In the Muggle world alone, there are Germanic, Nordic, Celtic and other systems. In the wizarding world, as far as Schelling knows, there are at least twenty different systems, and the error correction between each system is complicated. Therefore, so far, his research on using ancient runic characters to cast spells has not made much progress.
Xie Lin didn't want to give up this test. When things came to a close, he had no choice but to give it a try.
He took out the Crown of Wisdom from his arms and put it on, activating his magic eyes with all his strength. For a moment, both the Crown of Wisdom and the Supreme Wizard's robe glowed with vaguely colorful light.
Xie Lin used his wand to draw the complete eihwaz talisman stroke by stroke in mid-air. Suddenly, there was a warmth in the hand of the Thestral Wand. At this moment, the wand vibrated on its own as if it had life. Xie Lin Lin's pupils suddenly became like a pool of blue water with waves floating on it.
The feathered serpent statue seemed to come alive, twisting its body stiffly and emitting a long chirping sound, resembling both a phoenix and a sea snake.
The Guruni magic talisman emerging from its body suddenly turned into a ray of fire and shot into the left one of the two exits.
"Let's go!" Before Xie Lin could say anything else, the group of people rushed to the exit on the left as fast as possible!
Daphne entered first, then Meredith, then Astoria, and finally Shailene's turn. Just when Xie Lin stepped into the exit, the feathered serpent statue was fully resurrected. It pecked at Xie Lin fiercely, but hit a transparent barrier at the junction of the exit. Under the impact, the barrier bloomed with dazzling light. The blue light emits circles of aperture ripples centered on the impact point.
After knowing that the feathered serpent statue could not enter the exit, several people started to take a breath in fear.
"Xie Lin, did you successfully cast a spell with the ancient runes just now?" Meredith couldn't help but ask. The ancient rune magic has been lost for centuries. If it really reappears in Xie Lin, , what this means, everyone present is very clear.
Xie Lin shrugged and said unequivocally: "Probably! But at most it is just a prototype of a spell-casting method, and it needs more improvement..."
"It's amazing!" Daphne exclaimed, "Even so, it is a terrible achievement. It is said that ancient warlocks can use ancient runes to cast spells, ancient Egyptian warlocks can separate the Red Sea, and ancient Babylonian warlocks built a floating The city in the sky..."
Xie Lin shook his head, "To be honest, today, there may not be many people who understand the ancient rune writing, but there are definitely not few. But why is the ancient rune magic still lost?"
Meredith said hesitantly: "Could it be that certain conditions need to be met first..." She thought of the cross-dressing that Xie Lin's pupils showed earlier, "For example, to activate the special abilities hidden in the blood, like snakes Like the Whisperer, the Seer, Metamorphmagus..."
"Yes," Schelling said seriously, "Although I'm not sure, I think so too."
Several people fell into silence, each with different thoughts and thinking about various possibilities.
They lost interest in conversation and continued to move forward quietly. This time they encountered a huge number of ghouls, at least thirty of them at first glance.
Newt Scamander's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is just an enlightenment textbook suitable for third-grade wizards. The content in it is still at the level of enlightenment, and many unpopular and uncommon creatures are not included in it. The creatures included in it only have records of common examples, and do not cover all types of the species. For example, although sea snakes are recorded in the book, Selma, a different species of sea snakes, is not recorded.
(Note: Selma comes from the Daily Prophet. She is the mascot of the Norwegian team. She is a very ferocious sea snake variant that likes to eat human flesh.)
Although this book has records about ghouls and lists them as two-star dangerous animals, this does not mean that you can take it lightly when you see a ghoul. In "Walking with Ghouls" written by Lockhart, there is a record of an extremely dangerous and highly aggressive ghoul variant - the chameleonghoul.
Unlike the gradually degenerating ghouls, the color-changing ghouls have recovered the nature of their ancestors, the cannibals (e), and have a desire for the flesh of living humans. They have also recovered the cunning nature of the cannibals, and they can transform into disguises. Look like daily necessities to avoid being discovered. Then they launch a sudden attack when someone approaches.
Although there were a huge number of color-changing ghouls in front of him, their true identities were revealed at this moment, so Xie Lin had nothing to worry about and let the three girls deal with them.
"Fire is blazing!" After three semesters of hard practice, Daphne's magic power and spell-casting skills are better than those of her classmates. She released a large area of orange-red flames, like a wall of fire standing in front of them, radiating Astonishingly hot.
Meredith cast her transformation spell, and more than thirty flame arms stretched out from the middle of the wall of fire, rushing towards the ghouls and grabbing them.
Astoria took out several bottles of blue flame potion and threw them one by one into the blind spots and holes where the flames had not reached, leaving the ghouls with no way to escape. If any ghoul intends to forcefully rush through the flames, Astoria will use a barrier spell to slow down their movement. As long as it can be delayed for a while, the ghoul will be swallowed up by the flames until nothing is left.
In just a short time, more than thirty color-changing ghouls were wiped out.
This time, Xie Lin was very satisfied with their performance. The three of them did not fight independently and blindly cast spells on the enemy. Instead, they worked together to compress the opponent's movement space with flames. Then one person was responsible for precise attacks, and the other was responsible for precise attacks. Responsible for making up for dead ends and mistakes. The intelligence of the color-changing ghouls is not low, but even with their adaptability and speed, they cannot break through such a tactical attack.
Although it was so easy for them to eliminate the ghouls, it was because the tactics were well planned and there were no mistakes in execution. It would not be fun if you were approached by a ghoul. The teeth, nails, and blood of ghouls are highly toxic, and it would be very difficult to treat them once they are contaminated. There is an example of extracting chronic venom from the bodies of ghouls in "Walking with Ghouls" written by Lockhart.
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