Chapter 337 Traps
"It should be a long time since any creature has opened the door of the showroom." Allen looked at the showroom and came to a conclusion.
Inches of dust in the room and the smell of decay in the air showed this.
The eyes of the three focused on the only crystal ball emitting blue light.
The shadows of those mysterious runes are unpredictable, strongly attracting their attention.
Allen didn't rush in, he probed cautiously at the door.
"This room is actually the same as Hogwarts, with a setting that prohibits apparition barriers." Allen couldn't help being surprised.
After confirming again and again that there were no traps on the ground, he just stepped in.
"You guys wait outside the door first, I'll explore the way first." Hermione and Luna wanted to follow behind him, but Alan stopped them.
However, when he was about five feet away from the glowing crystal ball, the crystal ball suddenly made a loud noise.
The ancient and heavy sound vibrated, filling the entire room in an instant, driving the air around him, and the colorless tide rolled violently, as if devouring the mortal world recklessly.
However, after taking the attribute potion, Alan's spirit has been significantly improved. After a will confrontation with this kind of magic, he was exempted from this kind of magic trap that can affect the spirit and thinking. affected by the sound.
However, the sound spread outside the door, affecting Hermione and Luna. They hadn't taken the potion for a short time, so they were in a trance, and turned around and ran involuntarily.
Allen hurriedly followed behind them, but it was of no use whether he spelled stop or closed his ears.
During their running, no matter if they encountered stone pillars, large wooden barrels, or other decorations, they would destroy everything that blocked their progress without hesitation.
It wasn't until they ran to the vestibule that they covered their ears in a daze.
Allen concluded that the sanity of the two people was no longer affected, so he sent the two of them into the tower to avoid and rest, so as to avoid accidents when he was acting.
Then, immediately turned into a phoenix, Apparated, and entered the showroom.
Although he could feel the vibration of the airflow, Alan, who was not affected at all, went straight to the crystal ball and put it in the storage grid.
After a few echoes, the sound stopped abruptly.
Allen Apparated again and returned to Hermione and Luna.
"What's the use of this crystal ball? After leaving the showroom, it doesn't make any sound anymore. How strange!"
Hermione was extremely curious, and since she saw Professor Traorini's prophecy in the divination class last time—especially since Professor Traorini admitted that she also has an aura, she has become interested in this aspect.
"Perhaps, as we get more information, we will figure it out." Allen felt that he should continue to explore, get more information, and then judge.
The three continued to move forward, and a passage about twenty feet long appeared in front of them.
The passage is filled with the smell of corruption, and there is another stone door at the end of the passage.
The three walked over cautiously, and came directly to the stone gate. Alan listened to the movement behind the gate again, and then pushed the stone gate open.
A dusty room appeared before them, and the dust covered the whole room like snow.
On the north wall, white marble with reddish veins is carved into a five-headed dragon, about ten feet high, looking at Alan and the others quietly.
"Shocking!" Hermione exclaimed.
"All colors return to the sky..." Luna's ethereal voice came.
"Hello, please answer the question: No need to summon, no need to drive away. We appear at night and disappear during the day."
A majestic voice suddenly exploded in the secret room.
"It talks!" cried Hermione.
"Magic Mouth!" Allen said.
"This makes it look like it can really talk." After being surprised, Hermione also remembered the information about the spell.
"Stars." Luna said.
"What?" Allen and Hermione looked at Luna,
But Luna looked to the right side of the dragon, and a stone door suddenly appeared in front of them.
Only then did Allen and Hermione realize that what Luna said was the answer to the dragon's riddle.
After listening to the sound behind the door again, Allen pushed the door open. This process has almost become his instinct.
The room, about twenty feet wide, was also covered with dust.
There are three walls on the south and north sides that are recessed inward, five of which have white marble statues with reddish streaks, and there is nothing in the depression on the southwest side.
The statue looked like a tall warrior in steel armor.
Through the arches on the west wall of the hall, a wider hall can be seen, and the emerald green firelight flickers in the hall.
On the ground not far from the west arch, a deep pit was found that spanned the entire room, blocking their progress.
"Huh? Look," Hermione suddenly pointed to a dusty ground, "here are paw prints."
This paw print was left many years ago, and the mark is very deep. Even if it is covered with dust again, the previous traces can still be seen.
"The creatures that left these marks should have bare feet, the shape of the soles of their feet is similar to that of humans, and the toes have sharp claws." Hermione touched her chin, guessing based on the marks on the ground.
These traces start in hollows in the walls and eventually disappear into deep pits.
The pit that stood before them was about ten feet high, with spikes at the bottom. The pit walls are rough.
But there is a narrow bridge over the deep pit, just wide enough to accommodate one person.
Allen took the lead on the small bridge. Luna and Hermione followed closely behind.
Just when Allen reached the middle of the small bridge, he was pushed off the bridge by a pair of sharp claws that suddenly appeared.
Immediately, Allen heard a burst of nervous laughter from the bridge, as well as the flapping of membrane wings.
"Quassemot." Luna immediately recognized the culprit who pushed him off the bridge, and Hermione immediately thought of the information she read in the book.
The appearance of the quasaimo looks like a shrunken human, but with small horns on the forehead and bat-like wings trailing behind; the skin is green and uneven.
Kwasaimo's hands and feet were slender, with sharp claws on the tips of his fingers. It was these sharp claws that pushed Allen under the bridge.
Not only that, but it also activated the panic spell, which made Hermione, who was about to cast a spell, palpitate, and cringed under the effect of the spell. Waves of panic arose in her heart, like waves beating against rocks.
Hermione's face was pale, and she looked at the monster that suddenly appeared, motionless, but soon, she woke up from the panic, her Occlumency was activated, and she successfully resisted the panic.
She was probably learning Occlumency faster than Luna, because Luna seemed to shake off the panic attack after a while.
Without hesitation, Miss Know-it-all hit Quasai with a petrification spell, but Quassai was small and extremely agile, successfully dodging Hermione's attack.
Hermione seized the opportunity and asked loudly, "Alan, are you okay?"