The moment Susan opened her eyes, she seemed to be transformed into an ancient giant as high as a hill. An invisible force spread out around her. The air seemed to suddenly stagnate, and an ancient and heavy force enveloped her like a hill. Holding her.
Xie Lin frowned, feeling extremely uncomfortable in his heart.
Although this feeling was not obvious, with his keen perception, he could clearly feel an ancient and magnificent force pressing towards him. This power made him feel threatened, and...disgusted.
This is a very mysterious feeling, which comes suddenly and inexplicably, as if it comes from an ancient grudge dispute. The power displayed by Susan is unusually repulsive to Schelling. It can even be said that she is full of hostility towards Schelling. It is as if the two are born in hostile camps. Once they meet each other, they will spontaneously attack each other and create oppression.
Schelling initially thought this was a conflict between white magic and black magic. The blood power of the Bones family was obviously some kind of ancient white magic inheritance, and he could be said to have practiced a lot over the years. Black magic, the body is contaminated with the aura of black magic, so it has a mutually exclusive effect with the aura Susan is showing at this moment.
But when I think about it carefully, I feel something is wrong.
Snape's proficiency in black magic was definitely much greater than his own. Considering that he was able to help Dumbledore suppress the power of the curse planted by the master of curses, Lord Voldemort, in the original book, I'm afraid that his black magic skills were no better than his own. , but it’s not necessarily the case that there was such a repulsion between him and Dumbledore.
What's more, the magic that Schelling is best at is not black magic. What he is best at is... well, it seems that there is no magic that he is not good at——
He was originally best at the field of mental and soul magic, and then changed it to the field of transformation magic after practicing the Kagome Magus. Then he practiced elemental magic and successfully made the elements show their most original forms. The true state, and then the awakening of snake eyes and snake language magic. Any one of these magical fields, as long as you spend time and effort to practice it to its peak, you will be enough to become a legendary wizard on the level of Dumbledore and Grindelwald——
But Schelling advanced in parallel in almost every field mentioned above.
He has not even given up the study and practice of space magic and Guruni spellcasting.
That's not all. The time he met "Destiny" in the mysterious space, "Destiny" seemed to have given him a strange power, allowing him to advance to a higher level in the field of "curses" without any effort. If magic is divided into eight fields according to the volumes of "Abatail", then Schelling has made achievements in the magic, transfiguration, spiritual, soul, and curse departments.
Although he is not good at the remaining magic science, curse seal science and enchantment science, he is not completely ignorant. At least he can study the "Sleeping Dragon Seal" curse seal on his own.
Summarizing the above two reasons, Schelling believes that this is unlikely to be a problem between black magic and white magic.
At this time, the mark on the back of his neck heated up, and the shadow of Aquila, who had not appeared for a long time, appeared on the upper left side of Schelling. It circled gracefully and landed on Schelling's left shoulder.
"Tsk, tsk," Aquila commented solemnly: "What did you do again? Why is there such a big fight?"
"Aquila," Xie Lin did not respond to Aquila's inquiry, but directly raised the question in his heart, "Do you know what happened to Susan? What is the origin of this power?"
Aquila looked at Xie Lin with a scrutinizing look, and then said slowly: "What a fate!"
"I don't know exactly what happened to this girl, but I guess she awakened the talent in her bloodline, and it's a very ancient kind. It's understandable that you don't know. After all, as far as I know, , there is no record of this bloodline talent in today’s literature... The name of this talent is——"
"The Bones of the Holy Spirit," Aquila withdrew her gaze from Schelling, looked back at Susan, and said with some meaning: "The inheritance of the Bones of the Holy Spirit is older than the founding of Hogwarts. Finally. A person who has shown this talent is Andros, one of the four strongest men in the late ancient Greece. This name should be familiar to you, right?"
"Well, I know him," Schelling responded. "His nickname is 'The Invincible Andros.' It is said that he is the first wizard to master the Patronus Charm without a wand, and his Patronus is said to be the same as The size of a pure-blood giant is the same. Although the size of the patron saint does not affect its power, a patron saint like him is a unique existence in history. It is obviously a powerful and advanced patron saint that has evolved."
"What you are talking about is a record in the history books. Everyone knows it," Aquila chuckled and said, "Then do you know Andros's most famous battle?"
"Uh... is it the famous Battle of Thermopylae in history? Andros versus the great black wizard Jafar Yahya of ancient Persia?"
"This duel can only be considered a duel. Few people know that Andros had already suffered a lot of hidden injuries at that time, and the remaining strength was less than 50%..."
"What!" Xie Lin said in surprise, "With less than 50% strength, he can actually injure both Jafar?"
Schelling was indeed very surprised. He was an adventurer and archaeologist in his previous life, and he had a deep understanding of this famous battle in Persia, which was of great historical and military significance.
The Battle of Thermopylae, also known as the Battle of the Three Hundred Warriors, originated in 480 BC when the Persian Empire prepared a large army to conquer ancient Greece in order to avenge the Battle of Marathon. Faced with this threat, Greece's two major city-states, Athens and Sparta, united against Persia regardless of their past grudges, forming a coalition led by Sparta.
At the beginning, the Persian army was unstoppable and advanced all the way until King Leonidas I of Sparta led 298 elite Spartan warriors and 700 Thespians as the main force (of course there were also some engineers and auxiliaries. This is not an archeology , let’s not mention it for now), chose to establish their defensive stronghold at Thermopylae. Hot Spring Pass is a narrow passage that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, with the sea on one side and a steep mountain wall on the other.
In the end, the Greek coalition successfully used the terrain advantage to hold off the Persian army, which far outnumbered them, at Thermopylae for three days. Later, a Greek farmer named Ephialtes secretly reported a trail near Thermopylae to Persia for a reward, allowing the Persian army to follow the trail in the mountains to the rear of the Greek coalition, causing the Greek coalition to be detoured. surrounded and eventually annihilated.
Schelling did not underestimate the bravery of the ancient Greek warriors, but with such a huge gap in numbers, it is indeed surprising that the war could be fought to this extent during the cold weapon period. Not to mention, during that period, the Persian royal family hired many famous dark wizards as royal advisors, which were similar to national advisors, and Jafar was one of the best. Any terrain advantage does not exist in the face of magic.
If Andros hadn't taken action in the end and both Jafar and Jafar were injured in the duel, the 300 Spartan warriors would have been able to complete the feat of defending the territory for three days without the intervention of magic.
You know, Jafar is no ordinary wizard. He is a famous snake whisperer. He claims to be the mortal incarnation of the cobra god and has countless believers in the Persian Empire at that time. His reputation is terrifying enough to make children stop crying when they hear his name. Even today, his name can still be seen in fairy tales and video games in the Muggle world, and he always appears as a super powerful villain. .
Such a person actually fought with Andros, who was less than 50% powerful, and both sides suffered losses? So Schelling simply can't imagine how powerful Andros was in his heyday?
Aquila was very satisfied with the surprised expression on Schelling's face. It continued: "Andros has the reputation of being invincible. He has obviously defeated countless opponents in duels. Among the opponents he has fought in his life, Jafar It can only be considered above average, not even in the top five..."
"What I want to talk about is his decisive battle with another famous wizard at the end of ancient Greece..."
"Ah!" Xie Lin said: "You are not talking about the despicable Haierbo, are you?"
"Yes, that's him." Aquila said: "In order to pursue immortality, Haierbo actually dared to violate the taboo and study the magic that seals part of the soul in a container, which is also called a Horcrux in later generations. It was not like now , the magic of the Horcrux was described in only a few words. In order to study this magic, he frantically murdered many Muggles and wizards..."
"In the end, Andros and Herbo met for a decisive battle on the Acropolis. This battle lasted for seven days and seven nights, destroying the Acropolis to what it is today. The magic power attached to it reached two levels. Today, more than a thousand years later, Muggles who boast of technological advancement are still unable to repair it despite trying various methods..."
"The battle ended with Herbo being seriously injured and defeated. But Andros, who won, also paid a heavy price. Lord Ravenclaw once took me to the dilapidated Acropolis of Athens to trace and research The situation at that time, according to her inference, was that Andros was entangled with at least ten powerful curses, enough to reduce his strength by at least half. Can you imagine how tragic this battle was?"
Xie Lin nodded first, then suddenly shook his head. He already had a vague idea in his mind, but he still needed to confirm it.
"Aquila, was Andros' death caused by old problems and heartache caused by the decisive battle with Jafar, and he died of serious injuries after fighting Jafar back?"
"Yes, why do you ask that?" Aquila was a little confused. Shelin's expression was familiar to her. It seemed that this terrifyingly clever boy had figured out something else.
"There is one thing that seems too coincidental to me. One of Jafar and Herbo is in Persia and the other is in Greece. However, both of them have inherited the inheritance of snake whisperers, and they both fought a battle with Andros. …”
"You mean..." Aquila seemed to have some realization.
"Helbo made the Horcrux, and he should be immortal, so no matter how badly he was beaten by Andros, he would never die." Schelling said firmly: "And the other side of the Horcrux is One function is that the remnant soul inside can be attached to other magical creatures, even other wizards, and be resurrected briefly with the help of these bodies. Such possession can also allow the container to obtain the innate abilities of the remnant soul, such as snake language... …”
"I suspect that Jafar himself is a Horcrux possessed by the remnant soul of Haierbo. It is impossible for a dark wizard to refuse the temptation of powerful power and immortality. It is perfectly normal for a dark wizard to be bewitched by a Horcrux."
"What a great inference," Aquila admired, and then asked: "So? What does it have to do with what we are talking about now?"
"Don't you understand yet?" Xie Lin showed a confident smile and said lightly: "Susan's power is repelling me, which means that this power originated from Andros has a high probability of meeting an old enemy, and you I have been sleeping for too long. You don’t know that I have awakened the snake whisperer and the inheritance of snake whispering magic from Slytherin’s secret room——”
"The current phenomenon is actually the grudge between the Holy Spirit Skeleton and the Snake Whisperer!"
"What the heck!" Aquila lost her voice with a look of shock on her face: "You even inherited Slytherin's snake language? Are you trying to complete the feat of gathering the inheritance of the four founders?"
Xie Lin smiled faintly and made no comment.
