Chapter 422 Heading to Athens

In fact, Fanlin didn't wait for long. He had been standing in the airport hall for less than a few minutes when the aviation broadcast urged him to board the plane.

After agreeing with his friends to meet again at the Quidditch World Cup, Fanlin boarded the plane with a small bag.

In fact, Fanlin brought a lot of things, such as some experimental equipment or magic books, but with the help of Nicolas Flamel, the space crystal perfectly solved this problem.

The staff turned into a necklace and wrapped around Fanlin's neck.

This looks really rich, a magic stone bracelet, a staff necklace.

If Fanlin fights against others, the equipment advantage will become particularly obvious.

A rich player with two pieces of magic equipment.

This sentence is not too much here, or Fanlin took out the Book of Abraham. There is no doubt that the magic on the Book of Abraham is ancient magic with amazing power, relying on and releasing the Book of Abraham...

This is indeed a bit too much.

Fan Lin couldn't help thinking that this was his first time flying a plane. Although he had experienced the feeling of flying, the height of a multinational plane was obviously not something that ordinary people could reach.

It was too cold up there. No wizard would be so weird as to ride a flying broom to hit a multinational plane.

Whether he could catch up was still a big question.

Fan Lin had nothing to do, so he couldn't help but start flipping through books about Athens. Before this, he had only seen Athens in pictures, but he had never been there.

After leaving the UK, he had only been to China and France. Fan Lin was still quite curious about Greek civilization, especially the Parthenon.

According to Nicolaël, the focus of his trip this time was probably the Parthenon.

Regarding the Parthenon, in the Muggle world, the Parthenon is an extremely valuable treasure.

The Parthenon is the main representative of architecture and sculpture in the heyday of Greece. It is known as the "Greek National Treasure" and is also a shining pearl in the treasure house of human art. In the middle of the 5th century, the temple was converted into a Christian church and the statue of Athena was removed. After the Turks occupied Athens in 1458, they converted the temple into a mosque. When the Venetians fought against the Turks in 1687, artillery fire hit a gunpowder magazine in the temple and blew up the middle of the temple. From 1801 to 180, the British nobleman Lord Elgin transported most of the remaining sculptures away, causing serious losses. Many antiquities that originally belonged to the temple are now scattered in the British Museum, the Louvre, Copenhagen and other places. In the second half of the 19th century, the temple was partially restored, but it could not be restored to its original appearance. Now only a shell with stone pillars remains.

The Parthenon was officially opened in 48 BC and dedicated to Athena during the grand Panathenaic Festival. The Panathenaic Festival is an important festival for the Athenians. During the festival, sports competitions, singing and dancing activities and parades through the city to the temple are often held. The most distinctive feature of the parade is that a woolen robe woven by a girl from Athens is hung on the main mast of a ship. The ship is lifted on a bullock cart and slowly moved to the temple. The woolen robe is finally dedicated to Athena. Then comes the sacrificial activity. The sacrifices offered to the goddess are cattle or sheep. The selection of livestock is extremely important. It must be strong and healthy, without wounds or defects. There are many scenes of sacrificing to gods on many unearthed pottery. The only strange thing is that the scene of slaughtering livestock is always omitted.

The bones and fat of the sacrifices are piled on the altar and burned. It is important that the smoke rising from here must rise above the statue of the god so that the god can fully enjoy the sacrifice. This way of offering sacrifices to the gods is obviously very special. According to legend, it was invented by Prometheus. After dividing the sacrifice, he induced Zeus to choose the bones and fat meat part and leave the lean meat to humans.

It must be said that the Greek gods are still very playful, and they have also handed down many myths.

It seems that the Parthenon has been fully developed, but the secrets hidden in the Parthenon are not limited to this.

The most famous building in the Acropolis of Athens is the Parthenon, which is a monument of ancient Greek architectural art and is known as the "temple in the temple". The temple stands at the highest point of the Acropolis and is named after the goddess Athena. In addition to the limestone foundation, wooden doors and ceilings, the rest of the temple is made entirely of marble from Mount Pantelico, including the roof. Pantelico marble is white and slightly rough compared to the high-quality marble on Paros Island, so the Paros marble here is only used for sculptures. Its smooth and flawless texture makes it particularly precious.

Fanlin has seen which whole pieces of marble are difficult for the ancient labor force to do.

There is no doubt that the driving force behind the construction of this temple is the wizard.

Greek wizards occupy a very important position in the magic world, most of whom are priests, which can be said to be similar to the Church.

The magic power of wizards comes from faith and piety to God.

A bunch of dead gods, since they are dead, what can they bless their people.

Maybe some people have found the remains of the gods, but there is no doubt that their power still comes from magic.

It has to be said that the Greek wizards are really persistent.

Compared to this, Fan Lin is more curious about what Dumbledore found in Athens, the remains of the gods?

There are thousands of them hidden in Athens, and they have never been discovered by anyone?

And the target was the Parthenon. Fan Lin did not think that the Parthenon had anything worth the attention of the magic world, otherwise, the Greek wizards would never let the Parthenon be managed by the Muggle world.

This also proved that the existence of the Parthenon was not of much value to wizards. Could it be that the Parthenon still had something hidden?

After all, the inscriptions in the Parthenon and the divine patterns on Fan Lin's Heavenly Lock were very similar, as if the Parthenon inscriptions were reborn from the divine patterns.

Fan Lin felt that his mind was a little confused.

He could not imagine what Dumbledore had found in Athens, the ruins of Olympus? The remains of the gods?

So many years had passed, and the wizards in Athens could not allow such things to hide under their feet.

The real temples of the gods had long been destroyed, and with the demise of the dark plane, the world began to merge.

This was clearly pointed out to him by Idun, so Fan Lin did not think that the Olympian gods could be spared. They could not hide at all. Without the dark plane, the rules of the world would not allow them to survive like this.

Then, what Dumbledore discovered was naturally not something simple. Fan Lin did not think that Dumbledore could be stronger than the Greek wizards of all generations.

All of this must be connected to the chain. What the divine pattern on it contains, is this a foreshadowing left by Idun?

Fan Lin turned his palm over, and the mark of a chain naturally appeared in his palm.

"What a beautiful mark." A female voice with innocence sounded from the side of Fan Lin.

Fan Lin looked up with a little confusion. Since he perfected the secret art of blood, the heterochromatic eyes that had followed Fan Lin for more than ten years have become the same as those of ordinary people.

The water blue eyes are particularly clear, like the purest mountain spring, and the water is naturally as moist as water.

What came into view was a little girl with black hair, as if she had gathered all the cuteness of oriental children, and her delicate face was particularly dazzling.

"Are you referring to this?" Fan Lin smiled, and he raised his hand and stretched it in front of the girl.

"Is this a birthmark? Or a tattoo?" The girl tilted her head and thought. She had just sat down. The active character of the child naturally wouldn't let the girl take him down obediently.

And Fanlin is such a person. He looks young and has a kind face. The girl's attention is naturally attracted by Fanlin.

"This is... a birthmark..." Fanlin's face was a little weird. Such a strange birthmark must have been tattooed in the mother's belly.

"Birthmark?" The girl obviously didn't believe it, but the tattoo was not suitable for Fanlin's face.

"You are alone, I didn't see your parents coming." The girl said.

"Yes, I am alone."

"Where are you going?" The girl asked, "You can go out by yourself. My mom never lets me go out too far by myself."

"That's because you are still young!" Fanlin said. He couldn't help but put his palm on the girl's head. The girl looked like a Chinese. She spoke English very fluently. At least there was no problem in communication.

"You don't look much older than me. I'm already six years old." The girl pouted. She was not very satisfied with what Fan Lin said.

"Katie, what are you doing?" A woman came over from one side of the plane. She was a graceful oriental woman. There was no doubt that this was the mother of the little girl.

"Mom." The girl called out, "The little brother next to me took the plane alone."

"Alone?" The woman seemed very surprised. She obviously noticed Fan Lin sitting next to her daughter. At first, she thought that the child's parents went to the bathroom. She never thought that Fan Lin was alone.

"Hello, Madam." Fan Lin said quickly.

"Hello. You can call me Li." The woman said, "Can I ask why you are alone?"

"It's just a plane ride. My father still has work. I don't want to trouble him. And I believe my relatives will pick me up at the airport in Athens. I just fly in the sky for a while, so I asked my father to send me to the airport and left."

"It seems that you are still an independent little guy." (To be continued)