Chapter 99 Silver Spear Test

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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. Besides 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 fluorescence 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 fire rashly when facing an unknown situation. Think about it, what if there is a pile of gunpowder in front of you?" What? Why don’t you 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 spell... 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 looked confused. What did Xie Lin mean? The road ahead is revealed, but there's nothing in sight?

Meredith was the quickest to react. She pointed forward with her wand 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 Demiguise is the product of a cross between Demiguise and Ghoul. Not only can it be as invisible as 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."

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 cannot 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 the bird snake (Occamy). It is one of the most beautiful creatures in this 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?"

"It shouldn't be," Sherin was not sure. To be honest, if he had to pass a feathered serpent at a medium difficulty level, he couldn't imagine a hell-level level at all. "I think it is very likely that we need to discover the secret of the feathered serpent statue before we can move forward, otherwise it will attack us."

"That makes sense. It's just a medium difficulty test. There is no reason to be so difficult. Let me try--" Meredith raised her wand, "Aparecium!"

"Aparecium" and "Aparecium" are not the same spell. Aparecium is used to find invisible or deformed objects, while Aparecium is used to reveal hidden handwriting. Other similar spells include "Aparecium" to find invisible people and "Aparecium" to find traces of magic that have just disappeared.

Sure enough, the feathered serpent statue emitted an orange-yellow halo, and an ancient rune symbol slowly emerged on its wings. Sherin recognized it as Eihwaz, which means yew tree. In the wizarding world, it means "defense" and "protection". In the wizarding world, the feathered serpent corresponds to the three-headed dog, guarding the gates of heaven and hell respectively. Of course, there is no heaven and hell in this magical world, so heaven and hell generally represent the two meanings of luck and disaster.

After Sherin 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 symbol to find the correct exit? One of the two exits will be dangerous, and the other will lead to the next level safely?"

Borrowing the ancient rune symbol to cast a spell?

Sherin also studied how to use the ancient runes to cast a spell. After he saw it with his own eyes in the secret passage on the fifth floor of Hogwarts, he had a lot of ideas in his mind. There are also some records about this in the heritage of Ravenclaw.

However, the ancient runic script is extensive and profound. In the Muggle world alone, there are Germanic, Nordic, Celtic and other systems. In the wizard world, as far as Schelling knows, there are at least twenty different systems, and the error correction between each system is complicated. So far, his research on using the ancient runic script to cast spells has not made much progress.

Schelling did not want to give up this test. When the time came, he had no choice but to try.

He took out the Crown of Wisdom from his arms and put it on, and fully stimulated the Magic Eye. For a moment, the Crown of Wisdom and the Supreme Wizard Robe were both glowing with faint colorful light.

Schelling used his magic wand to draw a complete Eihwaz magic symbol in the air. Suddenly, a warmth came from the grip of the Night Thestral magic wand. At this moment, the magic wand seemed to have life and vibrated autonomously. Schelling's pupils suddenly became like a pool of blue water, with waves on it.

The feathered serpent statue seemed to come alive, twisting its body stiffly and making a long cry, like a phoenix and a sea snake.

The ancient rune that appeared on it suddenly turned into a flame and shot into the left exit of the two exits.

"Go!" Without waiting for Xie Ling to say anything, several people rushed to the left exit at the fastest speed!

Daphne entered first, then Meredith, then Astoria, and finally Xie Ling's turn. Just when Xie Ling just stepped into the exit, the feathered serpent statue had completely resurrected. It pecked at Xie Ling fiercely, but hit a transparent barrier at the junction of the exit. Under the collision, the barrier burst into a dazzling blue light, and a circle of light ripples were emitted with the collision point as the center.

After knowing that the feathered serpent statue could not enter the exit, several people began to breathe in fear.

"Sherin, did you just successfully cast a spell with the ancient runes?" Meredith couldn't help but ask. The ancient rune magic had been lost for centuries. If it really reappeared on Sherin, what would it mean? Everyone present knew very well.

Xie Lin shrugged and said, "Probably! But it's just a prototype of a spellcasting method at most, and it needs more improvement..."

"It's amazing!" Daphne exclaimed, "Even so, it's a terrible achievement. It is said that ancient sorcerers can use ancient runes to cast spells. Ancient Egyptian sorcerers can split the Red Sea, and ancient Babylonian sorcerers built a floating sky city in the air..."

Xie Lin shook his head, "To be honest, there may not be many people who know ancient runes today, but there are definitely many. But why is ancient rune magic still lost?"

Meredith said hesitantly, "Maybe it needs to meet certain conditions first..." She thought of the cross-dressing that Xie Lin's pupils showed before, "For example, it stimulates the special abilities hidden in the blood, like the snake speaker, prophet, and disguise Magus..."

"Yes," Xie Lin said seriously, "Although I can't be sure, I think so too."

The few people fell into silence, each with different thoughts, thinking about various possibilities.

Without the interest in talking, the few people continued to move forward quietly. This time they encountered a large number of ghouls, at least thirty at a 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 enlightenment level, and many unpopular creatures are not included. And the creatures included in it only record common examples, and cannot cover all types of the species. For example, although the book records sea snakes, it does not record Selma, a variant of sea snakes.

Although this book records ghouls and lists them as two-star dangerous animals, it does not mean that you can be careless when you see ghouls. In Lockhart's "Traveling with Ghouls", there is a record of an extremely dangerous and highly aggressive ghoul variant - the Chameleon Ghoul.

Unlike the gradually degenerated ghouls, the Chameleon Ghouls have restored the nature of their ancestors, the Orge, and have a desire for the flesh of living people. At the same time, they have also restored the cunning nature of the Orge. They will transform and disguise themselves as daily necessities to avoid being discovered. Then they suddenly attack when someone approaches.

Although the number of Chameleon Ghouls in front of him is huge, they have revealed their true colors at this moment, so Sherin has nothing to worry about, so he lets the three girls deal with it.

"Flames!" After three semesters of hard practice, Daphne's magic power and spellcasting skills are better than those of her classmates. She released a large orange-red flame, like a wall of fire standing in front of them, emitting amazing heat.

Meredith performed Transfiguration, and more than 30 flaming 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 dead corners and loopholes that the flames had not burned, leaving the ghouls with no way to escape. If a ghoul intended to forcefully rush through the flames, Astoria would use the barrier spell to delay their actions. As long as it could be delayed for a while, the ghouls would be devoured by the flames without leaving any residue.

In just a short while, more than 30 color-changing ghouls were wiped out.

This time, Sherin was very satisfied with their performance. The three of them did not fight alone and cast spells at the enemy blindly. Instead, they cooperated seamlessly to compress the opponent's moving space with fire, and then one person was responsible for precise attack, and the other was responsible for filling in blind spots and loopholes. The intelligence of the color-changing ghouls is not low, but even with their adaptability and speed, they cannot break through such tactical attacks.

Don't think it's so easy for them to eliminate the ghouls, that's because the tactics are well arranged and there are no mistakes in execution. If you are close to the ghouls, it's not fun. The teeth, nails, and blood of the ghouls are all highly toxic. Once you are stained, it is very difficult to treat. There is an example of extracting chronic venom from the body of the ghoul in "Traveling with Ghouls" written by Lockhart.

1) The color-changing ghoul comes from the second part of the original book. Hermione has read about the color-changing ghoul in the book, so she thought of this creature when she and Harry and Ron discussed why the creatures in the chamber of secrets were not discovered for a long time. Lockhart's series of books are all adventures against some dangerous creatures. The ghoul in "Running with the Ghouls" is obviously not the same kind of harmless, insect-eating ghoul in the Weasleys' attic, otherwise how can he be so powerful. In this book, the monster in Lockhart's book is set as a color-changing ghoul.

2) The Hideaway is one of the six animals added to the 2017 version of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". The other five are the bird-shaped man-eating monster, the cat-leopard, the divine horned beast, the long-horned water snake, and the thunderbird.

3) Selma comes from the Daily Prophet and is the mascot of the Norwegian team. It is a very ferocious sea snake species that likes to eat human flesh.