Chapter 176 Human Body Refining

Although Daphne was still behind the group of "mermaids" and was still in an irresistible lethargy, Sherrin was not worried about her at all.

Dumbledore must have thought about the safety of these hostages. After all, mermaids are not loyal comrades of wizards, and it is difficult to guarantee whether there are some undiscovered lurking creatures at the bottom of this vast black lake. Therefore, Schelling was certain that Dumbledore must have personally used protective measures on these hostages to prevent them from being harmed while they were sleeping.

In addition, don't forget the five protective bracelets Daphne wears. These are all the masterpieces of Schelling's painstaking efforts. All of them can be activated independently when the wearer is in crisis. Take "Guardian of the Gods" as an example. Well—unless an elite Auror uses powerful magic similar to the Death Curse, it is possible to penetrate it in one go.

With Dumbledore's protective magic and the back-up skills Schelling left for her, it was enough to ensure her safety.

Therefore, the only thing Schelling needs to worry about is himself.

But is he worried?

The seven mermaids instantly swung their long silver tails and surrounded Xie Lin on the left and right. The expression on the mermaid leader's face gradually turned ferocious.

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you, Mr. Malfoy." The face of the mermaid leader gradually faded, and slowly transformed into Katalin's appearance, but except for the face, whether it was the mermaid's green hair or the fish The shape of the lower body has not changed. Katalin showed a sweet smile like a girl, "You knew it was a trap but you still broke in. I really have to admire your courage..."

Xie Lin looked at her with interest. This was not an effect that could be achieved by body transformation or polyjuice potion. Among the known magics, magic that allows wizards to transform into magical creatures are taboo areas. For example, if an Animagus turns into a magical creature, it will pay the price of having its soul cursed; another example is the beast in Curse of Blood. If you use the Transfiguration spell, you will one day lose the ability to return to human form; with one exception——

Schelling's original "Zangsha Magus"!

However, the practice of Kanka Magus has a very high threshold, and before Schelling, there was no record of anyone using this magic for more than a thousand years. Xie Lin himself would not spread this original magic.

So, this is definitely not a transformation technique!

As for magic such as illusion, it is even more impossible, because illusion cannot deceive Xie Lin's magic eyes. The mermaid aura exuding from these people is genuine. Xie Lin has a feeling that in this state, they are in the water. His combat power is likely to increase several times or more, which is not much different from his own "amphibious transformation" transformation secret.

In just a short moment, Xie Lin's mind had already considered and eliminated countless possibilities.

Xie Lin thought about it and could only think of one possibility——

He turned his attention to the other mermaids behind Katalin.

At this time, the other seven mermaids also changed their faces one by one, revealing faces familiar to Schelling - Eleanor von Hohenheim, Hector Foley, and seventh-grade Slytherin. Prefect Lucida Slughorn, Irina Selwyn, Miles Blige, the long-lost Gallup Lestrange... and the last person——

Draco Malfoy.

Well, almost all of them match the list in Xie Lin's mind.

Even Draco's sudden appearance could not cause even the slightest ripple in Xie Lin's calm heart.

He didn't look at Draco, instead focusing on Eleanor.

This is not transfiguration or illusion, but - alchemy!

Made from the human body!

What a generous act! The eight of them must all be wearing some kind of legendary magic artifact refined with advanced alchemy. Xie Lin can even speculate that this magic artifact is specially used to refine alien human bodies, and it is most likely not the right way. . Judging from Schelling's understanding of the Hohenheim family, it is more likely that this alchemy involves dark sacrificial magic.

That's why those mermaids showed such fearful expressions when they saw the wizard just now.

Schelling concluded that this magical artifact that can transform into a mermaid most likely requires the sacrifice of the mermaid's flesh and soul!

It is not difficult to imagine the whole incident.

Just last night, six young wizards used unknown means to escape the surveillance of the Triwizard Tournament staff and hid at the bottom of the lake. Since Slytherin's dormitories are all single rooms, and there are no classes at Hogwarts today, it is almost difficult to detect.

The six little wizards spent the whole night using a spell similar to the Imperius Curse to control all the underwater creatures they could find, ordering them to specifically search for Schelling to attack. Then, as soon as the other two female warriors entered the bottom of the lake this morning, they immediately joined them and caused a massacre to the mermaids. They sacrificed their flesh and blood souls, activated the transformation artifact, and then turned into mermaids here. Sit back and wait.

Xie Lin was very confident that his guess was close to the truth.

Xie Lin's eyes were piercing, and only those who knew him well, such as Draco, could clearly see the cold fire flashing in his eyes, which was the will to fight.

It had been too long since he had experienced this feeling - the magic suddenly seemed to come alive, running happily in his body, and he could even hear the joy hidden in the fluctuations of the magic. At this moment, his spirit reached a strange balance. The eager and vigorous fighting spirit and the clean ice-like calm coexisted in his body, making his whole body feel comfortable as never before.

These changes are actually faintly reflected in his outward temperament.

The wizards opposite were all mediocre people. They all noticed Xie Lin's change almost instantly - one second he was still a gentle and gentle prince of the sea, and the next second he suddenly turned into a murderous one. The overlord of the sea who is decisive, indifferent to life, and taking life and death, no matter who he is at this moment, cannot help but cast a shadow in his heart.

Gallup, who had suffered a great loss from Schelling, originally planned to exact revenge on Schelling, but for some reason he had given up that idea at this moment, and at the same time, an extremely ridiculous idea appeared in his mind. , there are clearly eight of them, and they are powerful in numbers, but why do they feel as if they are surrounded by one person from the other side?

"It seems -" Xie Lin showed a harmless smile and said: "You and Eleanor came to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, not to win the championship at all. Your goal from the beginning was me, right?"

Seeing that the other party had no intention of answering, Xie Lin had no choice but to ask and answer himself: "Then I'm curious. I'm just a fourth-grade wizard, and I'm only a little famous at best. What do you want to get from me?"

"When I was in second grade, I did have a small conflict with -" Xie Lin glanced at Irina, Miles, and Gallup one by one, "some of the pure-blood family disciples between you... But I don’t think this kind of petty brawl at the kid’s level will lead to your Ghost Club taking action, right?” At this time, he cast a meaningful look at Hector Foley.

"Hmph!" Hector snorted coldly, "Don't think that we don't know that the traitor Gemma is going to deal with you on the surface, but in fact he is merciful, and even ignores our intention to control you. Reveal it - you already know the existence and purpose of our Ghost Club, right? Do you still need to pretend here? "

"Listen to your tone..." Xie Lin's voice suddenly turned cold, as if he was suppressing his anger, and the cold fire in his eyes became more intense, "Did Gemma meet with misfortune?"

"Betraying the organizer will result in death!" The corners of Hector's mouth raised, and a hint of perverted madness appeared in his pupils, "Hahaha, she deserves it!"

"Very good, I will settle this debt with you later..." Xie Lin said calmly, as if Gemma's life and death had nothing to do with him anymore and had no impact on his state of mind at all, "Let's talk about what we just said. The topic, let’s just say that the Ghost Society wants to control me to achieve the purpose of actually controlling Slytherin House for the sake of the inheritance of the organization, then——”

"What does this have to do with you?" This time, he turned his attention to Katalin and Eleanor, "The first family in France, the first alchemy family in Europe..."

"What on earth did I do to attract you two big families..." He paused and showed a sarcastic smile, "And where is the Walpurgis behind you?"

There was a subtle change in Katalin's face. Although it was not obvious, Xie Lin still noticed it. She still maintained a sweet smile and said: "I can only say... you are indeed Mr. Malfoy! You know so much... at least you know more than I expected..."

"Although I don't know how you learned about Walpurgis..." She smiled, "But none of this is important anymore..." A cold and stern light flashed across her eyes, "Everything , will all end today..."

"Are you going to take action now?" Xie Lin smiled faintly, his face still so calm and unhurried, but a cold light was already looming in those shining eyes.

"It's so boring! He has an angelic face..." Xie Lin said, "but he doesn't even have the heart to let me know..." The raised corners of his mouth suddenly smoothed down, and he said coldly: "This It’s not a secret—”

"Walpurgis came to me because of the incident in Black Crime Square, right?"

Ever since Schelling learned from Dumbledore that Walpurgis was participating in this Triwizard Tournament, he had thought a lot about the reason why Walpurgis came to him, and how much hatred he had to have to be a Powerful organizations accustomed to hiding behind the scenes took the risk of being exposed to find trouble with him.

The reason lies in that interesting list he received from Alvin Carlo. That is actually the list of Walpurgis members in Great Britain!

If this list fell into the hands of ordinary people, at first glance, they would only think it was a list of heads of powerful pure-blood families, or even a list of Death Eaters. However, after Xie Lin carefully compared it, it turned out that it was a list of family heads. It is not difficult to find that there are many family heads who contributed money but did not personally participate in the First Wizarding War, such as Alvin Carlo, Leobald Slahorn and so on.

What’s interesting is that these family heads all have an unexplained relationship with the Black Crime Square. Evidence collected from a large number of Auror searches shows that if you want to participate in the Black Crime Square auction, you must have a pure-blood family on the list. The Lord’s recommendation!

The two lists with completely overlapping names were enough for Schelling to deduce the whole thing.

Katalin was stunned for a moment, but she recovered in just a moment, her face turned cold, "I didn't expect you to even know this, so I can't tolerate you anymore...do it!"