Chapter 35: The Bronze Abyss

Time flies very quickly, and Vio rests at home for a day or two, and then follows the Santrill couple to visit Malfoy Manor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

She finally got her wish and saw the Mirror of Eris, which the Malfoys kept in their custody.

Draco was not interested in leading her around the massive Malfoy Manor, and Vio needed that attitude.

She was relieved to be alone in front of the Mirror of Eris and talked a lot to her twenty-first-century parents.

Although it was all VIO talking, VIO felt that it was difficult to express his joy to see them again.

Before leaving there, Vio once again assured in her heart that she had found her way to go, and she would definitely persevere until the end and return to her real parents as quickly as possible.

She didn't know if her parents in the mirror had heard her, but they smiled at her with a loving and reluctant gaze.

Vio tries to behave as usual when she returns to Santril Manor, lest Sigoness feel that the innocent mirror is affecting her.

In fact, the longing for her real parents has now been quietly buried in her heart and has become a habit.

But there was still a faint shadow over this matter - when Vio looked back at the mirror for the last time, she seemed to feel a black-robed figure flash behind her loved one in the mirror.

But when I went back to the mirror to look closely, the picture in the mirror was still the same, and there was nothing abnormal.

VIO had no choice but to see this matter as simply his own dazzle.

After a few more days, it was finally time to leave for school.

Vio got up early in the morning and packed up, in fact, she had packed most of the things she needed for the start of school last night. Now she struggled with the three things in front of her.

The first was the dragon-shaped key she had gotten from the dragon sculpture on the ceiling at the beginning of her summer vacation;

the second, the diary of the young Voldemort Tom Riddle;

The third is some forbidden names written by herself in small seals.

As long as she could get any of the teachers' signatures, she could borrow the forbidden books from the Hogwarts library.

The dragon key is small, and if she loses it at school, she may not be able to know the secret behind it in her life.

The diary belonged to a Horcrux that she couldn't destroy at the moment, and she knew how to destroy it, but the tools were too hard to find.

And if the Horcrux is with her, it is very likely that the memory inside will come out from time to time to tempt her.

Should we wait until after Christmas last semester to bring them to school?

There is also Xiao Seal, which was originally foolproof in doing so, but now the school has a native Chinese Xiao Luo, who is different from the British-born Cho Zhang [now in the third grade of Ravenclaw, one level higher than the protagonist] in the original book.

He probably doesn't know much less about Chinese culture than VIO, and he may not be able to write or use small seals, but he may be able to see that it is an ancient Chinese script, and it will be too troublesome to explain when the time comes.

Vio stared at the three things in front of him for a long time.

Eventually, she decided to take all three with her.

It's impossible not to bring a diary, and almost all of the original plots in the second grade revolve around this guy, and if you don't take it with you, the plot will collapse too much and her innate advantages will be gone.

As for the seal characters, let's take it one step at a time, and there is a good chance that Xiao Luo will be divided into Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff or something. There's not necessarily a chance to discover this.

Well, there is only the dragon key left.

Vio found a plain silver chain in his jewelry box, and then tied the two stout-looking horns on the dragon-shaped key's dragon head to the silver chain.

When she first got the key, she thought over and over what kind of door it was used to open.

Because it was found in her bedroom, she tended to think that the door that the key could open was in her own home.

But she searched almost every part of the Santril estate during her summer vacation, and none of them matched.

Vio solemnly hung the silver chain of the dragon's head pendant around his neck and put it in his clothes.

After cleaning it up, it was still early, and Mickey hadn't come upstairs to call her for breakfast.

Vio thought for a moment, and walked to the third floor, the place where she had been abused a thousand times.

The entire third floor was silent. The faint glow of the morning light filtered through the rose window and dimmed into the room.

The huge study hall suddenly became more mysterious than before, and it seemed that there was a force that was attracting VIO to enter.

She slowly walked up the last flight of steps and into the library area.

The bookshelves seemed to know that no one would touch them anytime soon after Vio was gone, and they all pulled the organ curtains outside their shelves tightly.

Vio didn't pick any of them, she just walked towards the depths of the bookshelves in the hall with a kind of dark guidance.

As he went deeper and deeper, VIO realized that these bookshelves were not simply densely packed with stitches, but had been arranged into a certain path - a labyrinth.

At this time, it was too late for Vio to quit, and she couldn't control herself from moving forward. The dragon-shaped key hanging from her chest kept churning in her clothes, as if excited.

Finally reaching the center of all the bookshelves, Vio felt like he had been walking for a long time.

How could a third-floor hall make her feel like she had walked for miles - the only explanation was that this place must have been magically cast by her ancestors, and the actual space capacity and real area could not be seen from the outside.

Vio saw a huge round abyss ahead.

She was standing in front of the stairs that encircled the crater, each ten feet wide and a foot high.

They were strangely cast in bronze, and their intricate patterns snaked across the staircase and into the depths of the bottomless abyss.

If you look closely, the patterns resemble the intertwined branches and veins of the branches and leaves of a giant tree.

When I looked up again, the entire ceiling was gone, replaced by a sky dome with no boundary in sight.

Countless stars shine above VIO's head, and swarms of meteors streak across them, and the density of numbers makes it feel like flowing sand dunes in a vast desert.

Vio stumbled and struggled to stand on the steps, unable to feel her presence in the grandeur of what was in front of her.

Behind him, those forest-like bookshelves, as if they were retreating, were already very far away from vio in the blink of an eye.

Reluctantly, she chased after the bookshelves......

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't catch up with the bookshelves, and in the end she could only watch them leave her, disappear at a very fast speed, blur, and finally disappear.

Vio finally had no choice but to stop, exhausted, no longer having the heart or strength to feel her fear.

The dragon-shaped key throbbed violently, ripped out of her chest, and floated in the air, glowing with a golden light.

The light continued to emanate from the key's body, shooting into the vast expanse of space, until the light disappeared at the end, and Vio did not see the boundaries of this space.

The dragon key slowly led her back down the stairs - she thought she had run far after the bookshelf, but in fact almost as soon as she turned, she was back on the edge of the bronze steps she had stood on.

She walked down the giant staircase along the radial alcove centered on the crater.

On the last step near the abyss, the dragon key stopped, and so did her.

An invisible coercion brought her to her knees at the edge of the abyss.

Vio shivered and glanced at the abyss・・・・・・ which was cylindrical in shape, about thousands of feet in diameter, and was truly presented in front of people's eyes like an ocean.

The upper part of the pit wall is clearly visible in the light of the dragon-shaped key, and it is clearly made of bronze, and the pattern extends like a vein of plants.

However, the bronze was no longer as pure as it had been on the steps, and it began to mix with some Mithril, and the further down it even appeared, a clear yellow quality of pure gold and several large opal stones that naturally cracked, and the center of the cracked rough stone radiated a strange brilliant light, as well as an ice-like chill.

Wanting to see better, Vio slowly poked her head out of the edge of the abyss and looked down - "Roar!"

Out of the dark abyss, a golden dragon roared and rushed towards her.

The dragon was getting closer and closer to her, and she could already see its golden scales and its massive head, as well as its starry eyes......

Just one glance made her feel the real vertical and horizontal, invincible momentum.

At this moment, a dark shadow descended from the sky - the moment the dragon approached Vio, he rotated his hands with a short scimitar and stabbed Vio in the heart with various tricks・・・・・・

Behind the ghostly figure, the figures of her twentieth-century parents slowly flashed. Vio could even hear the howls of their heartbreaks・・・・・・ vio's eyes widened as he watched the cutlass grow clearer and bigger, closer and closer to himself・・・・・・

A hand rests on Vio's right shoulder.

"Why are you standing here in a daze, my dear, it's time to go - or you'll not catch the Hogwarts train. ”

When Vio opened his eyes, he found himself standing at the innermost point of the library, and the shelves around him still reached the ceiling, not disappearing.

Sigoness was looking at her with concern, and it was nice to feel the warmth of life as her aunt put her hand on her forehead.

"Why are you in a cold sweat, are you uncomfortable? No wonder I, your parents, and Mickey and I didn't find you anywhere. I didn't expect you to be so serious and come to review before leaving?

"Don't be so anxious, I promise you will have a chance every summer vacation, after you leave, the third floor will automatically close, and all the books you have read on the shelves will remain the same. ”

Sigoness gently took out a handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

Vio let her lead her down the stairs, never daring to look back.