Chapter 114 Incomplete Soul

It is indeed a very troublesome thing to go through the discharge procedures all of a sudden. Maca waited at the door of the 'Snow Witch' for a long time before finally waiting for Celine.

When Maca saw Celine, her mother was floating beside her, showing no signs of waking up.

"Please come in..." Celine said, and opened the door with a key.

The layout of the 'Snow Witch' has not changed in any way, but a thin layer of dust has accumulated on the tables and chairs inside. Once a house is unoccupied, it quickly becomes like this.

Combined with the current situation of the owner of this private restaurant, it is easy to give people the illusion that "the house and people are decadent together".

Follow Celine to the second floor, which is a curved corridor extending along the wall. On one side is the door, and on the other is a carved wooden handrail that looks into the hall below.

The first thing that catches the eye is a variety of souvenirs in the corridor. They are produced all over the world, and all the way through the promenade, the souvenirs are displayed in front of Maca one by one from new to old.

Every souvenir seems to be telling the beautiful life of Celine's mother.

At the end of the corridor, a portrait is hanging. When Maca walked in front of it, the woman inside smiled peacefully at him.

"That's a self-portrait of my mother when she was young..." Celine said, "This way please."

She said, and opened the wooden door of the last room. It seemed that this was her mother's bedroom.

When Maca took a first look inside this bedroom, he wasn't too surprised.

There is nothing else here, except for a simple single bed and a dresser, and all kinds of places where things can be put are skillfully arranged with all kinds of wonderful souvenirs.

Probably, this is the only hobby of Celine's mother in her life.

Maca helped Celine lift the quilt, and then Celine carefully placed her mother on the bed. At this time, Maca took out a bottle of tonic potion and poured it down for Celine's mother.

"This will allow her to maintain her strength so that she can be checked more safely later..." Maca explained, "Well, she can also swallow on her own."

Afterwards, he continued: "Let your mother rest for a while, let the medicine play its due role, let's go out first..."

"Sorry, I think I'd better use as little spells as possible outside the school—you can move the tables and chairs first, we need a large enough space." Maca pointed to the middle of the hall and said.

When Celine heard it, she immediately waved her wand and used the levitation spell to pile up the tables and chairs against the wall.

"Is this enough? If not, I can remove the bar—"

"No, that's enough." Maca said as he walked to the edge of the hall and began to take things out.

Includes a thick notebook, rolls of blank parchment, quills and inkwells, his homemade fountain pen, and several potion bottles of various sizes.

Apparently he was going to start drawing the rune pattern that he figured out himself again, which looked like a Muggle circuit diagram.

"You can sit for a while, or go to your mother's place to watch - I know you should be very worried," Maca said, "I will call you when I am better."

Celine hesitated for a moment, then nodded silently.

Maca didn't care about her anymore, but directly bent down on the floor, opened the notes and began to think carefully.

The steps to be done this time are actually not much different from what he did to himself last time. It's just that it's been a while since the first attempt, and during this period, Maca has checked his soul several times.

At this moment, when it comes to the structure of the array and the collocation of runes, there have been many improvements.

What he has to do now is to fine-tune the data according to Celine's mother's condition.

soon,

On the blank parchment, he drew a rune pattern that met Celine's mother's needs. In terms of its accuracy, compared to the first time, it has obviously improved a lot.

After many calculations, Maca poured a whole bottle of mercury-like liquid with a bright metallic color in the center of the hall. Afterwards, the liquid spread rapidly, and soon flowed throughout the entire hall.

Immediately, the floor of the hall was completely covered by this liquid, as if the entire ground had become a huge mirror.

Maca, who had finished pouring the liquid, immediately ran to the wall—he had to run away before the liquid solidified, so as not to leave footprints and affect the drawing of the formation for a while.

Afterwards, he began to mix the ink needed to draw the pattern.

Time is passing bit by bit...

Maca, who had entered the state, was highly concentrated, habitually ignoring the passage of time completely. It wasn't until he prepared the ink and finished drawing the entire pattern that he discovered that there were several plates of cold food on the steps of the stairs.

Maca subconsciously looked up at the corridor on the second floor, only to see Celine lying on the carved wooden handrail, quietly looking at the mirror-like floor of the hall in a trance.

And on the floor, a purple-black rune pattern that seemed to have no rules at all, was showing mysterious blue fluorescence from time to time.

"Bring your mother down, it's ready here," Maca called to her.

Celine came back to her senses, agreed, and then turned around and walked quickly into the bedroom.

Ten minutes later...

"No matter what happens, don't be too nervous, I know what's going on. If something happens, I'm always ready to stop the inspection..."

Maca carefully instructed Celine to ensure that she would not suddenly rush up after the formation map opened for a while.

At this time, Celine's mother was lying flat on a certain node on the array, and on the mirror around her, complex purple-black lines and various strange symbols were connected to each other, which seemed to be held A cryptic magical ritual in general.

"...Okay, just stand behind and watch, I'm going to start."

After all, Maca took a step forward, stepping on the only break in the entire array with his left and right feet—he still hadn't solved the problem of the source of magic power in the array, and as a last resort, the character who supplied the magic power could only He took it upon himself.

The moment Maca stepped on the other foot, those symbols and lines seemed to come alive, twisting, trembling and floating, bursting out with mysterious blue light, illuminating the entire hall. brightly lit.

Especially under the effect of the mirror floor, the light is extraordinarily bright, and the runes and magic power lines are floating up and down, which looks wonderful.

But at the next moment, in the mirror under Celine's mother, a black mist was slowly forming...

Because the current array has been improved many times by Maca, the input of magic power is not as fast and large as the first time, so that the formation of the skull has become much slower.

After all, Celine's mother is old, and her soul is very likely to be damaged, and the impact of the meeting will directly cause the soul to completely rush out of the body.

At that time, it will be difficult to plug it back in again.

After a while, a skull composed of black mist finally formed in the mirror. It slowly opened its jaw and let out a weak roar.

Celine clenched her fists tightly behind her, staring at this mysterious and frightening scene without blinking, trying not to make a sound.

The skull was formed just below her mother, the hollow mouth facing her mother as if to devour her.

Celine will probably never forget this scene in her entire life.

In the silent cry of the skull, a phantom figure floated up from Celine's mother's body.

No, to be precise, it was a "half" human figure.

"...It's already incomplete." Maca frowned, staring at the phantom.

But after careful observation, he immediately found something was wrong—that phantom was incomplete, but at some fractures, he could faintly see strands of black smoke entangled, those things seemed to be...

"Devouring souls?" Maca said to himself, "...what is that?"

Those black smokes that can adhere to the soul are obviously not ordinary things. After thinking for a while, he took a step back for the time being and canceled the operation of the array.

Immediately, the light gradually dimmed, the skull disappeared without a trace, and the crippled soul of Celine's mother returned to her body.

"Celine," Maca said, "tell me about your experience with your mother in the United States, the more detailed the better! Especially some special places or some weird objects."

Celine hadn't recovered from the shock at the moment, and she didn't have time to react when she heard Maca speak at this moment.

"Celine?"

"Oh, I'm sorry—" She was shocked, and turned her head to look at Maca blankly, "What did you say?"

...

On the other side, Hogwarts Castle, in the Gryffindor common room.

"Ron, don't worry, Banban must have gone there suddenly to play, and will show up by himself soon..."

Harry was comforting his friend, while Hermione was not here for the time being.

"It's been sleepy all day, where can it go!" Ron didn't believe it at all. He was always worried that Crookshanks was chasing Scabbers again - and even ate him!

"It's okay, at least Hermione has been holding Crookshanks these few days, and he has no chance to come out to find Scabbers." The comfort just now was not unsuccessful, but Harry was not discouraged, this time he chose to settle for the next best thing .

"Maybe there are other cats?" Ron couldn't help but said, "Like...just like...just like Mrs. Norris!"

"Filch's cat doesn't like to catch mice." Harry said immediately, "It just likes to look around for students who violate discipline, and then report to its master!"

"But...but..." Ron fidgeted.

"Come on!" Harry advised. "Or, let's go look around again! The hallway, the other dormitories, or something else, shall we?"

"You're right, we should look again..." Ron stood up abruptly, running for the stairs as he spoke, "Oh—poor Scabbers!"

Looking at Ron's back, Harry shrugged helplessly, "He looks exactly like Hagrid now!"