Chapter 222: Inheritance (2)
Back at Hogsmeade with the bizarre wood carvings, it was early in the morning. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info For the wizarding world, where there are no accurate electronic timekeeping tools, the rising of the sun often means the beginning of the day. Smoke rose from the chimneys of the stone houses on both sides of the street, and the early riser had already begun to make breakfast. Although just yesterday, Voldemort, who once gripped the entire wizarding Britain, was defeated again, compared to the Muggle radio and television stations, the wizarding village was a little behind in the news, and at this time it was not known that the whole of Wizarding Britain had quietly entered a new era.
The well-informed bar owners were always the first to get the news, and a few wizards who had escaped from the Quidditch World Cup recounted their almost bizarre experiences last night with a look of horror. Whether it was the great battle between the Death Eaters and the Aurors, the collective betrayal of werewolves, trolls and vampires, and the sudden appearance of the terrible Voldemort clone, the events of last night were as dreamy as incomprehensible.
After cleaning up the mess, the addition of several Aurors made things even more confusing.
"Did you hear that the monster that appeared on the Quidditch pitch last night was the Dark Lord's clone?"
"What kind of monster, I was attacked by a troll before I could see the situation clearly, what kind of monster are you talking about?" The two drinkers, who had not returned home all night, were talking excitedly while drinking beer. The barkeeper wiped his glass absentmindedly, he had already heard the bizarre stories told by other drinkers, and when he heard such a discussion again, he avoided frowning slightly.
"You didn't see that monster with a green glow? It's a pity, your position must be very bad, you didn't even see that terrible look, he was floating in the air. ”
"Don't say it, my position is on the lowest floors, I can only watch the game with my head up, who knows how long the game started, I heard a violent vibration, we all thought that something hit the court, but I didn't expect it to be a troll!"
"I heard that there were not only trolls, but also werewolves and vampires yesterday, how the hell did you get out?"
"It's very dangerous to say, werewolves and vampires didn't see it, in our private room, there happened to be a wizard who was very proficient in transfiguration, he carried a deformed ring with him, we attacked the troll, he took advantage of the troll's roar, and threw the ring into the troll's mouth, the ring was transformed with a huge stone, the wizard stopped the transfiguration, and the ring instantly returned to its original appearance, and the troll's head burst. ”
"Clever, after defeating the trolls, did you run away?"
"We were at the very bottom, not far from the exit, and when we ran to the exit, we saw that the Aurors and the Death Eaters were fighting for the exit, and the Death Eaters were at a disadvantage, and we helped the Aurors and quickly knocked out several of the Death Eaters. Rufus Scrimgeour tells us to get out of here. ”
"I see, Rufus Scrimgeour should be complicated, and the Ministry of Magic is really prepared. We're so much worse than you. I thought I had finally managed to get a good spot, but I didn't expect that the position in the middle of the course was the most unlucky. Our box was attacked by werewolves and vampires, and it took a lot of effort for us to kill those monsters. ”
"I've heard that there are still wizards who have been burned to death by the Black Devil flames, I wonder if it's true?"
"I don't know, we're still a little far from where the fire is. But I think that with such a terrible terrorist attack, maybe there will really be a wizard killed. At this, both wizards fell silent.
Shayne didn't know anything about it, and he didn't care about the current civil strife in the wizarding world. Count Lee is in charge of these things, and his most important thing is to solve little Barty's affairs and get the soul gem from Azkaban.
This operation was easier than expected, and the Dementors were not as fearless as they thought they were, and seemed to have basic intelligence. As long as there are intelligent creatures, then there must be weaknesses.
Through the threat of persecution, the two monsters finally reached a compromise with the two monsters of the Dementor King and the evil god Animagus and obtained the soul gem. The allies of the Ministry of Magic, wizards from abroad, did not discover the abnormality of the world's wound Azkaban, and easily let Xie An accomplish the impossible.
At this time, he returned to Queen Anne's residence with the heirloom of the Crouch family, and after passing through the African savannah, he stepped on the stairs that appeared out of thin air and returned to Queen Anne's living room again.
The Empress doesn't seem to need to sleep. Xie An didn't know if this was one of the demigod abilities. For Xie An himself, not resting for a long time will make his magic riot sharply. Of course, those hellish scenes will also continue to impact Xie An's consciousness. Under such circumstances, relying on the warrior who practiced every night and spent night after night in meditation, Xie An felt that after becoming a demigod, he might be able to completely control the destructive power in his body.
Queen Anne put down the book in her hand, and Xie An looked at it, it was a British history book. "The Crouch family is really the inheritance family of the Soul Sect, but Old Barty rejected the family inheritance, and he has no way to wake up Madame. Xie An explained simply. Barty Jr. was a little frustrated at this point.
Queen Anne was slightly disappointed, and Xie An took out the ordinary wizard wood carving from the Mok bag, "This treasure is said to have been left by his grandfather and passed down from generation to generation in the Crouch family, I looked at it, and I didn't see any strangeness. Xie An handed the wood carving to Queen Anne, who took the wood carving and looked at it with some confusion.
"The inheritance of the Soul Sect can only be opened by the wizards of the Soul Sect. Queen Anne's slender fingers rubbed over the wood carving, the wood carving still had no response, Queen Anne picked up a very thin wand of only more than ten centimeters from the round coffee table beside her, and gently pointed it on the wood carving, but the wood carving still had no response.
"There doesn't seem to be anything unusual about this wood carving, not even a trace of magic on it. Xie An also said suspiciously.
Without saying a word, Queen Anne put down her wand and used her magic to levitate the wooden carving in front of her eyes, and the whole room suddenly darkened, as if all the light was swallowed up by the invisible darkness. In the darkness, faint starlight erupted from Queen Anne's hand, and the slender stream-like galaxy magic, emitting a faint blue light, wrapped around the wood carving.
The magic quickly soaked into the interior of the wood carving, and after a few breaths, the wood carving suddenly shone brightly, like a supernova exploding, instantly illuminating the entire room.
"Very ingenious, very ingenious idea, genius idea! I see!" Queen Anne praised several words in succession, and Xie An and little Barty were slightly closed by the sudden burst of starlight.
"Mr. Crouch, your grandfather is a very talented wizard, really very talented, this is the first time I have seen such ingenious space magic! Fortunately, I am proficient in space magic, and I have reached an incredible level in this regard, otherwise this strange space magic, ordinary wizards, will not be able to see it at all! You two stand back now, I am going to transform this space magic!"
Hearing Queen Anne's words, Xie An and Little Barty hurriedly retreated, and then the two of them felt the space around them fluctuate, and a strange oval space passage suddenly appeared in front of them!
"This wizard wood carving is actually a switch, or anchor, that can only be opened through the correct magic sense, and the function of this spell is to open the passage to the secret space. But it looks like this passage is a one-off, and if you want to enter, you have to do it now!" Queen Anne's voice came from the back of the passage.
Xie An and Barty Jr. glanced at each other, and both took out their wands and entered the passage together.
After a moment of dizziness, the two went to a study. Books were lined with books on all four walls, and in the middle of the room was an old desk with a letter and a suitcase on it.
"This is my study!" said Barty Jr. suddenly.
"Well, could it be that the purpose of that spatial passage is to bring us back to your study, but what's the point?"
"No, no, no, it's just like my study, there's no windows, there's no us, and here, these books, I'm sure I've never seen them!" Barty Jr. looked at the books on the shelves, none of which he had ever seen.
"Perhaps it was during your absence, Old Barty changed the layout of the study. ”
"No, old Barty doesn't usually touch anything in the study, he doesn't like it, and almost never goes into it. Only when grandpa is alive will grandpa stay in the study. ”
"Well, there's a letter on the table, you can open it!" Xie An didn't mean to usurp the Crouch family's inheritance, he pointed to the letter on the table, on the suitcase, and said to Barty Jr.
Little Barty hurriedly picked up the letter, pulled out a piece of parchment from the envelope, and Xie An saw it from the back of Little Barty: "Descendants of the Crouch family, or other wizards, what you are seeing now is a message from the 954th generation of soul sacrifices. ”
"The soul sacrifice originated from the ancient witch god, and the soul magic we studied was directly inherited from the ancient witch god. This witchcraft is unlike any of the spells in the wizarding world today, they are older and more difficult for ordinary wizards to accept. ”
There is a long paragraph in the middle of the information about the origin of the soul sacrifice, and Barty Jr.'s grandfather is not sure if it is the descendants of the Crouch family who opened this passage, and he expresses a sad emotion in the letter: his son refuses to continue to study soul magic, and because the magic he studies is not understood by ordinary wizards, he can only live in seclusion for life, during which he goes out several times, relying on compound potions and transformation potions to prevent attacks from the ancient enemies of the soul sect.
This kind of penance, not only did not make any breakthroughs in soul witchcraft, but even those advanced soul witchcraft could not be understood, the greatest result of soul magic, is that after countless failures, finally made a half-finished soul gem....
The wizard who did not make the slightest progress in soul magic unexpectedly found that he was extremely talented in space magic, but the impulse and unwillingness of his youth had made the wizard fall into madness and desperate obsession.
After a series of failures and doubts, Grandpa Barty Jr. no longer insisted that his son must continue to study soul magic and become a descendant of the sect. It just so happened that his son, who was little Barty's father, had reached the age of going to school. In the midst of his hesitation, the only friend, Armando Duppert, a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, who was still the Deputy Headmaster at the time, persuaded the wizard to finally make up his mind to abandon the Soul Sect lineage and instead agree to allow his son to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to receive a public education.
After making such a fateful decision, the wizard let go of the burden of decades and became lighter. After his son left home to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, after giving up his unrealistic insistence, the wizard turned to study the space magic he was most interested in, I don't know if it was because of the talent in space magic, or because of the mentality, the wizard actually quickly developed a new kind of space guidance magic, which allows wizards to directly establish their own portable magic space through simple spells!
But after all, time will not turn back because of any mortal's regret, and the wizard who has consumed too much life in the madness and obsession of the first half of his life, his body is already extremely weak, and after giving up his obsession, his body has not improved, and finally died silently in his own home before little Barty was born.
Before he died, although he regretted his original choice, but still didn't want the inheritance of the Soul Sect to be severed, Little Barty's grandfather, relying on his last obsession, made this woodcarved wizard statue, and put all the knowledge about the wizard inheritance of the Soul Sect in the guidance space, so that in the future, there can be a wizard to get the inheritance and complete his original powerless obsession.
This kind of channeling space is different from any spatial magic, unwanted medium, and can be connected to a separate space with only magic and spells. It's like magic. The existing space increase and contraction spells are all based on the original foundation, the growth or contraction of the space established, and there has never been a spell that can be sat on and guided to an independent space out of thin air.
The only similar magic Xie An has ever seen is the time seal on the six pages of the book, but that one directly seals the time fault, and it also consumes extremely mana, this kind of space magic that can be achieved only by the magic of a wizard alone, can indeed be called unprecedented. "I didn't expect your grandfather to actually research such a powerful magic!" Xie An couldn't help but say after reading the letter.
"Grandpa also recorded the spell at the end of the letter!He wants us to continue to refine the spell until we can open the same space repeatedly!"
"The only downside to this spell is that it can't be turned on repeatedly. If you can, it's magic!"
"But it's powerful enough, isn't it? Even if you can't connect to one space repeatedly, what can you do, it's just to clear the contents of the space every time, and then cast a spell to open another space when needed!" little Barty hurriedly defended his grandfather's great achievement.
"You're right, as long as you can take things out together, it really doesn't have much impact, and this space seems to allow wizards to stay!" The two of them have been here for more than ten minutes, but they still don't feel any discomfort, this is not any real world, but an independent space, so it seems that this spell may allow life to exist!
"No, Andrew, it's not as simple as you think. You better come out quickly!" At this time, Queen Anne's voice suddenly sounded, urging the two to go out. Xie An and little Barty hurriedly put away all the books in their suitcases, and it took more than ten minutes. Seeing the empty space, with only four walls, Xie An couldn't help but think, what is behind the wall?
After the two men came out, the oval passage soon disappeared. The house lit up again, and the light of the morning sun filled the whole house like a river in an instant. Queen Anne was still sitting on the couch.
"This spell can't put life inside, when the passage is opened, it is by my magic that you can breathe smoothly in it, if the passage is closed, I am afraid you will die soon. ”