Chapter 141 Merlin's Secret Room (Updated)

"What!" Peeves was suddenly surprised, "You discovered Peeves' secret so quickly! It's not fun! How did you find out?"

Xie Lin smiled and said nothing.

He had no intention of betraying Aquila.

Peeves could only sigh and said: "Okay, I've done it all. I'm actually a magical creation created by old man Merlin, his crooked and bad old man, because he felt that the school in the era of the four founders was too serious. Dull, so create great Peeves to make this school laugh!"

Xie Lin chuckled secretly, I'm afraid you are the only one who is happy. The principals, professors and administrators of the past generations are probably mad at you.

Xie Lin just thought about these words in his heart and did not say them out loud.

Xie Lin said: "But, I always thought that you were a mischievous monster, an emotional aggregation of mischief and destructive desire, a being like a Boggart or a patron saint? Why did you suddenly become a magical creature again? "

"Hahaha," Peeves laughed, "Boggarts? Patronuses? Can they talk? Do they have thoughts? They-" Peeves rarely became serious for a moment, "Can they compete with the great Peeves?" Is it comparable to a skin ghost?"

"When I was born from chaos, I was really just an aggregation of emotions. I was ignorant. I didn't know where I came from or where I was going..." Peeves showed a look of recollection. , "Later, the old man appeared. He used some means to gather my sanity for me, and this created the smart, great, and humorous Peeves!"

Xie Lin suddenly thought of Dementors. As aggregation of desperate emotions, Dementors are also intelligent. Although they cannot speak, they can follow the instructions of the Ministry of Magic and Voldemort. Could it be that Dementors are actually some kind of Magical creation under magic?

If so, if I mastered this magic, wouldn't I be able to give wisdom to Boggarts, vampire bears, and even guardian spirits?

Well, it seems that this idea is worthy of being included in the scope of my own research.

Peeves continued: "After the old man left Hogwarts, he often came back as a student to visit Peeves and tell Peeves jokes..." It sighed, "Then, one day, When the old man came to see Peeves, his expression seemed to be very wrong... When he left, he said that he had a destined enemy that he had to face, and that he might never come back..."

This was the first time Sherrin saw a sad expression on Peeves, even though there was only a trace of sadness.

Peeves continued: "Let's get back to the topic! Before the old man left for the last time, he made Peeves a door key - as long as someone who meets certain conditions touches me, he can be teleported into his secret room. , which contains his inheritance - but, he has said - only troublemakers recognized by me can be qualified to inherit. In the past many years, there has been no character who can catch my eye, well, Gryffin Those twins are not bad, but you, you are not a troublemaker!"

Seeing the sudden dangerous look in Xie Lin's eyes, Peeves understood that he was in a man-made situation, and then said with a hypocritical smile on his face: "Of course, the great Mr. Malfoy, you have passed The old man's test, the person who was awarded his medal, you are naturally qualified to enter the secret room, come on! Touch me! As long as you touch me, I can activate the door key spell on you and send you to the secret room. "

Xie Lin sneered, "Do you know the consequences of lying to me?"

Before Peeves could answer, Schelling's wand shot a strange dark gray skull into the corner of the wall, making a terrifying whistling sound. Although this spell was not aimed at Peeves, Peeves' whole body was covered with blood. I still feel a strong sense of crisis, and I am sure that this spell contains soul magic that can cause harm to ghosts or monsters!

It swallowed its saliva. It had been running rampant in Hogwarts for many years, and it knew exactly who it could provoke and who it couldn't provoke - obviously Sherrin belonged to the latter.

Peeves showed a forced smile and said: "How is this possible? Peeves would never dare to deceive the great Lord Malfoy. Please give Merlin's medal now - not the one from the Ministry of Magic, but the one issued by Hogwarts." That special medal - wear it, it's the key to the correct entrance to the secret room! I'll definitely send you to the real secret room!"

If Xie Lin realized something, it seemed that when he went through Merlin's test, Merlin's memory once said that it was a trial. At that time, the contestants thought it was some kind of misunderstanding, because the school's statement clearly stated that it was just an intra-school competition.

Now he finally understood that Merlin's special medal actually had a special purpose - it was the key to Merlin's secret chamber.

As Schelling expected, Peeves has the ability to play tricks on the process - it can send people to a real secret room, or it can send people to a false secret room that may be dangerous.

Fortunately, Xie Lin had some tricks up his sleeve, otherwise he might have been tricked by Peeves.

Xie Lin put on the medal, touched Peeves, and with a "whoosh" sound, one person and one spirit monster were teleported into a secret room that he had never seen before.

The light in the secret room was dim, Xie Lin raised his wand and cast a "fluorescence flash", and at the same time opened the magic eye.

"Okay, my mission is accomplished!" Peeves happily danced an unknown dance and said somewhat maliciously: "Mr. Malfoy, I wish you good luck next time. I doubt you will." It takes a lot…”

After saying that, Peeves suddenly disappeared without a trace without waiting for Schelling to ask. It did not pass through the wall, but disappeared directly into the void, as if some force had reversed the portkey spell on it.

There was nothing to explore in the secret room, it was full of dust and insect corpses.

There was a crystal ball on the round platform in the center, which emitted obscure magical fluctuations, and four ancient runes were looming inside.

Schelling walked closer and observed carefully.

The four runes stood at the four corners, corresponding to each other.

In ancient magic literature, once more than one rune appeared, the interpretation of the rune would become much more complicated, because each rune usually represented more than one meaning, just like a polyphonic and polysemous word in modern language.

When two runes appeared at the same time, the decipher had to not only exclude other meanings in the rune, figure out the meanings of the two runes here, but also understand the meaning of the arrangement of the two runes.

Four runes, especially when arranged in four opposite corners, are undoubtedly the most difficult situation to interpret. There are too many possible combinations of interpretations here.

The first magic symbol is Hamr, which means "form".

The second magic symbol is Hugr, which means "thought".

The third magic symbol is Fylgia, which means "spirit".

The fourth magic symbol is Hamingja, which means "sex".

Schelling fell into deep thought.

Form refers to the body, appearance, and state; thought refers to thoughts, ideas, and inspiration; spirit here refers to the induction and spiritual perception in the dark, or it can be said to be destiny; sex has a wide range of meanings, referring to the broad personality traits, including wisdom, strength, experience, technology, blood, and even willpower, mental strength, endurance, luck, etc.

A light bulb flashed in Schelling's mind.

Could it be...

Could it be that it is talking about the "self"?

Schelling thought of the "three-in-one" theory. Isn't the essence of life the body, mind, and soul?

No matter how broad the meanings of these four magic symbols are, they cannot escape the scope of the essence of life.

Now that I understand this, what does it matter? What should I do next?

Xie Lin was at a loss again.

Could these four magic runes represent an ancient rune magic that needs to be cast to break this level?

If so, isn't this too difficult?

Xie Lin has only mastered the magic rune "Guardian" at present. As for the other "Fairy Holy Fire" and "Ice", he can only be considered to have a preliminary grasp of them at most.

Casting a spell with a single rune is already so difficult. It is absolutely impossible for him to skip several levels and cast a spell with four runes at once.

Xie Lin thought about it and could only think of the last trick.

He took out a bottle of golden liquid from his arms. Yes, he planned to drink a mouthful of the Blessing Spirit.

After drinking the Blessing Spirit, he found that his way of thinking just now was too narrow.

He emptied his mind and let his thoughts diverge. He collected all kinds of inspirations, no matter how ridiculous they sounded, without omission, and analyzed them one by one.

First of all, magic levels naturally require magic to crack, well, there is no doubt about that.

What is the purpose of Merlin's inheritance, and what kind of successor is he looking for? Well, this is very important.

The clues for Merlin to select successors emerged in his mind one by one.

First, you must win Merlin's test competition and get Merlin's special medal, which means that you must be an outstanding underage student with outstanding abilities in potions, transfiguration, and combat magic.

Second, you must be recognized by Peeves, or in other words, you must have considerable attainments in soul magic to capture Peeves.

Third, you must be able to understand ancient runes and be able to infer the meaning of the combination of ancient runes.

No, that's not right, the third point is not appropriate.

It should be said that interpreting ancient runes is not the biggest problem. As long as there is an ancient rune dictionary, many people can do it.

So the real difficulty lies in inferring the meaning behind the combination of ancient runes, which requires - understanding the essence of life!

Xie Lin smiled.

He activated the magic marks on his body, and lines and circles of curse marks appeared on his skin. He gently tapped Hamr with his magic wand, and the rune in the crystal ball suddenly lit up.

He activated the spiritual power in the spiritual world, and his eyes flashed with a compelling light like lightning. He gently tapped Hugr with his magic wand, and the rune lit up.

He used all his strength to activate soul magic, and a violent black shadow appeared faintly behind him. He gently tapped Fylgia with his magic wand, and the rune lit up.

He concentrated on recalling the scene of himself getting rid of the Imperius Curse, awakening himself deep in his personality, and remembered his own enlightenment. He then gently tapped Hamingja with his magic wand, and the rune also lit up.

At this point, all four ancient runes were lit up and activated.