Chapter 44: Breaking through

After hearing Harry's words, the others also looked up at the birds on the roof. Upon closer inspection, they realized that the shiny things flying around above were not birds at all, but some winged keys.

Suddenly Harry exclaimed, "Yes, look! Broomsticks! We must go up and get the key to that door!"

Looking at the broomsticks and the keyholes on the wooden doors that had been set aside, they immediately knew what the trick was to getting through this level.

Ryan handed a vial of acid secreted by tombstone moss to the stones next to the doorframe as Harry searched for the broomstick, and the stones remained untouched.

Sure enough, this level is not that simple, and it takes great magic and a lot of knowledge to break through the magic on the doors and walls. Otherwise, you'll have to ride a broom to chase those keys.

I don't think Voldemort would ride a broomstick as the person who arranged the level thought. Because according to his suspicious mentality, he will never do what the enemy gives him, and he will worry about whether this is the enemy's trap.

According to Voldemort's history, he had the habit of mastering everything by himself, so he should use magic to catch the key. It also consumed Voldemort's current little mana.

This is the same as the door to the cave where Voldemort placed his Horcrux and required people to bleed, both of which were to consume the enemy's strength as much as possible before they approached the target. It's just that Dumbledore's method is more upright than Voldemort's.

Harry and Ron were already riding broomsticks by this time, while Ryan and Hermione, two people who were not good at flying, did not go up to make trouble. They stood back to back in the middle of the hall, looking for the keys they needed in the heavenly crowd.

"We were aiming for a big, antique key—probably silver, shaped like a doorknob," Ron shouted before takeoff, "and it should be close to the color of the lock." ”

Ryan watched the two of them rush into the dense array of keys. They tried to catch and fish, but the enchanted keys dodged too quickly to be caught.

Just as everyone was getting more and more anxious, Ryan felt like he had found his goal. He shouted at Harry, "I've found the key, in front of yours to the right. The key was silver, with sky-blue wings, and its feathers were all upside down as if they had ever been caught. ”

Ron apparently saw the key before Harry, and he rushed towards it, only to make a sharp turn and he didn't brake, almost hitting the ceiling.

"Let's get the keys down, Ryan, you are ready. With that, Harry and Ron outflanked the key and drove it down.

The key quickly flew down in an attempt to evade their pursuit, but did not notice that it had flown too low and was out of the group.

Eventually, the key was pushed very close to the ground, and Ryan jumped up and grabbed it. (Ryan: "Thanks to the recent mechanical and medical knowledge, the stability and precision of the hand have been greatly improved.") Otherwise, you will definitely lose face today. ”)

Ryan gripped the key tightly as it struggled like a living thing. When Harry and Ron landed, they walked to the door together, and Ryan put the key in the keyhole and clicked the door open, indicating that they had chosen the right key.

After letting go of the key and watching it fly away, Ryan unscrewed the doorknob. Four mermaids rush into the next level.

When I entered, the room was pitch black. Ryan was also worried about what he would stumble and fall. But the moment everyone stepped into the house, the whole house immediately became brightly lit. The door behind it also clicked shut.

This reminds Ryan of the soap opera in which the heroine celebrates her birthday, but the male protagonist ignores it, and the heroine feels a little sad. In the end, after the heroine arrived home tired after a day of work, she just walked into the house and closed the door, and the light was turned on. The male protagonist and her friends prepared a whole full birthday party to surprise the female protagonist.

Unfortunately, it wasn't the cake at the surprise party that greeted Ryan, but Professor McGonagall's giant chessboard.

Ryan thinks that if Professor McGonagall were replaced by a Celestial Empire, he might be able to conjure up a giant mahjong or something. Seriously, though, he felt that the levels were purely meant to mock Voldemort, who had now gotten mixed up on a par with a first-year student.

After all, there are only a few ways of entertainment in the wizarding world, and wizarding chess should be the most popular except for Quidditch, and the people who can do it should account for at least half of them. And Professor McGonagall's style is probably very similar to Hermione when she was younger. Then the level of wizard chess is estimated to be average, even if the stone chess pieces are powerful, but the level of the chess player is the biggest flaw in this level.

The pieces on the board are about the size of a real person, and they are made of black and white stones. You don't have to try it to know that this thing must also have a high magic resistance, and it can't be done by magic like a smashing charm.

What's more, these flags have no facial features on them, and with the brightly lit chessboard and the rest of the dark room, a thick horror movie feeling is about to emerge.

Ryan couldn't help but think of the monsters who had no mouths and no faces in the horror movies of his previous life, and felt a little cold on his body. But when he turned his head, he saw that Harry was both shaking, visibly more frightened.

A door on the opposite side of the board indicates that the game can only be passed if the game is won. What's worse is that everyone has to play a pawn, and the more people there are, the more you lose.

In the end, Ryan and Ron play the knights, Hermione plays the queen, and Harry plays the castle. This chess match was played by Ron, who had the highest level of wizarding chess.

After the chess game began, Ryan found that although these pieces looked fierce when they captured other pieces, they were mainly stunned, and did not use the weapons in their hands to kill them.

It seems that Professor McGonagall is only trying to delay time and avoid accidentally injuring Harry, who came to break through. And if Voldemort used magic to force his way through, then these chess pieces would not feel as peaceful as they are now, and for Voldemort, who is now possessed by Quirrell, if these levels are forced one by one, there is not much magic left in his body.

Since there would be no danger to his life, Ryan put down his heart and began to have the leisure to watch Ron's level of chess.

Ron's level seems to be good, but he can't use it because of the need to take care of Ryan. Sometimes you have to pay more.

Seeing this, Ryan shouted to Ron, "I learned an Iron Armor Charm, and it should be fine when it hits me, so you don't have to worry about me." ”

"Really?" said Ron, and after repeated confirmation from Ryan, he said to Ryan, "You go diagonally to the right and eat their most threatening queen." After that, you will be eaten by the opposing knight. So that the next move will be easy,"

It seemed that the more people there were, the more constrained Ron became, and Ryan thought that if he could make a sacrifice, things would be much better.