"How does it feel to be about to officially take over the Big Three Warriors?"

"Needless to say! It's just amazing! ”

"Today's second advertising campaign has been launched, and tomorrow's third event of the Final Three will be a rehearsal...... If I don't get back in July, Professor Dumbledore will help you personally. ”

"Let the greatest white wizard of our time assist me...... Only you can do it......"

"Me? No, Dumbledore didn't do it because of me, you have to understand that - this performance was to make all ordinary wizards no longer feel terrified and upset about Voldemort's return. Dumbledore is for all the wizards of the British wizarding world, and you should behave well for that too......"

"Yes! I can understand that real popularity is built on people's trust......"

On June 23, while everyone was buzzing around the new full-page ad in the Daily Prophet, Marka and Lockhart were secretly talking in the basement of Hogwarts Castle and in Snape's office.

Tomorrow is the start of the third event of the top three, but Maca, as one of the protagonists, handed over the opportunity to Gilderoy Lockhart.

When Voldemort's forces focused on the Final Three and the big event in July, they didn't expect it to be just an eye-catching façade created by Maca.

"When the compound decoction is about to run out, remember to come here in advance to replenish it, so as not to go wrong."

With that, Maca stood up and left without hesitation.

He took such great pains to attract the attention of others precisely to create an opportunity to find a real solution to the burial place of the Monument of Bewitchment.

The methods in The Book of Guilt are too negative, and perhaps they are excusable for "that"; But for Maca now, it would be too insecure to let a thing that doesn't know when it will explode in someone else's hands.

After repeated analysis, Maca shelved "Rowena's Bronze Kitty" and "The Ghost Swamp of North America", the two most direct clues, but also the book's repeated reminders that "you can't touch", and instead chose to ......

Hogwarts Castle, second floor, girls' bathroom in disrepair.

"Oh-Mr. McLean, long time no see-"

As soon as Maca pushed open the door of the bathroom, he immediately saw the crying myrtle suddenly come to him, sobbing and saying hello to him.

"Hmm."

Maca nodded casually and walked straight to the sink that was the entrance to the Slytherin chamber.

Yes, the Book of Evil mentions that the Monument of Bewildery was sealed by Salazar Slytherin, and does not say that this clue is dangerous, apparently a relatively safe way to explore the Monument of Bewitchment.

And if there is anything to do with Salazar Slytherin, it is undoubtedly this secret room.

Although Maca had searched carefully last time, he didn't find much at the time, and he later collapsed the secret room.

I have to say that that behavior is really ironic for him now......

Maca drew her wand and pointed at the faucet.

Suddenly, the faucet seemed to come to life, and it suddenly stretched out automatically, turning into a silver snake and attacking Maca, as fast as any magic spell.

But Marka's hand holding the wand did not tremble in the slightest, and he stared at the oncoming silver snake, increasing the output of magic power.

This is a transfiguration duel that spans the ages, and if there are still others who can sense the magic power, then it will inevitably be found that the magic fluctuations here have exceeded the normal spell casting intensity.

Maca's expression was solemn—he could feel it, even after a thousand years, but Salazar Slytherin's power still terrified him.

The crying myrtle covered her mouth to the side, and she even forgot to sob.

Although she couldn't detect the real situation, even the sudden attack of the silver snake made her feel a little overwhelmed. After the last opening of the secret room and the counterattack of the silver snake this time, she may not dare to stay here and wander around again.

As time passed, the silver snake expanded under the suppression of Maca along with the sink below, and the secret room was finally forcibly opened by him.

"It seems that the magic is really not enough......"

He muttered quietly as he leaped into the revealing large pipe.

It's been a long time since the last time I came down here, but the terrain hasn't changed at all. It wasn't until he stood in the doorway of the real Slytherin chamber that he sighed slightly.

The stone door had closed the last time he left, and to open it, he had to rely on the Parseltongue.

Originally, Maca was going to blast it open directly, but judging from the situation of opening the entrance before, he had to admit that he might not be able to break this stone door with brute force.

"No, maybe you can try."

Maca stretched out her wand and pointed forward, her magic turning into a silk thread, and a regular rune quietly sketched out on the tip of her wand. For a moment, the surrounding area was filled with cold, and a layer of silver frost was immediately plated within dozens of feet around Maca's body.

The next moment, he waved his wand backhand, and the cooling power concentrated on the regular runes went straight towards the stone gate, which along with the surrounding stone walls, turned into a strange pure white in an instant.

"Click" "Click-"

As a series of subtle popping sounds came from the stone gate, the entire stone gate cracked into white shards of various sizes under the extremely low temperature.

Maca waved her hand to disperse the rule runes, and then took a deep breath, relieving the prostration caused by the rapid consumption of mana.

After a short break, he looked up, and the scene in the secret room was already what he had expected—it was a ruined ruin with a large pile of stones.

But the situation inside was not as serious as he had imagined.

Using the levitation charm to push away the rocks that stood in her way, Maca walked to the secret room and looked up, nodding to herself.

At first, he made some moves on the support pillars inside, and blew all the pillars that the basilisk didn't knock down, causing them to gradually lose their weight and collapse.

But apparently, the pillars were only used to support the stone ceiling above, and the structure of the chamber itself did not depend on the pillars for stability at all.

At the time, he had just taken off a shell from the inside of the chamber.

"So, the decision was right...... "Maca said, raising her wand and projecting a beam of light.

As the light lit up the chamber little by little, a dark hole in the distance, which was only two people high, quietly appeared.

Looking at the location, it should be behind the huge statue of Salazar Slytherin.

Whatever Slytherin's purpose was for leaving this hidden entrance in the first place, it was clearly not for violent saboteurs like Maca.

But nowadays, the correct way to enter is unknown.

With her wand in her hand, Maca stepped on a piece of gravel and flew straight over the ground.

But when he came to the entrance, he found that there was a strange magic around him, which seemed to flourish at any moment, as if it would trigger some residual mysterious magic.

Maca immediately stopped, suspended in midair.

"Soul magic?"

When he sensed the sudden burst of magic and converged in front of the entrance, a green humanoid phantom quietly appeared there.

Needless to say, just looking at the appearance of the sharp-beaked monkey's gills, Salazar Slytherin must have not run away!

"Sizzle, ha, hiss, ......"

Hearing the familiar "hiss" sound again, Maca couldn't help but pat her forehead.

"This secret room was designed for Voldemort!"

The parseltongue is not something that cannot be learned, and even because its syllable rules are closely related to some ancient spells, many wizards in ancient times knew this.

But now, if you want to learn, you have nowhere to learn?

Aside from the natural Parseltongue like Voldemort, or Harry, who took advantage of Voldemort, it wasn't easy to learn.

“…… Hiss...... Ha-ho-sizzle......"

Seeing that the phantom was "hissing" vigorously, Maca sighed speechlessly.

"Can you speak human language?" He shouted.

"Hiss ......"

"Speak human words!" Maca yelled as she pointed at the Slytherin Shadow.

"Hiss...... Ho ho ho hiss ......"

After several temptations, Maca finally determined that the phantom left by Salazar did not have an independent consciousness at all, and since it was impossible to communicate, it was ......

He was about to try it with a soul magic, but after the phantom "hissed" on its own, it suddenly dispersed!

Although I don't know if I missed any important information, after repeatedly confirming that there is no other magic left, Maca has no choice but to put aside her doubts and fall into the entrance passage.

As far as Maca was concerned, there was nothing unusual about this passage, it was like an ordinary stone tunnel, it kept going forward, and the further you went, the darker it became.

On the stone wall of the passage, there is no other trick except the gap between the stones.

In a trance, Maca felt as if she had arrived in a Muggle catacommodane. Aside from the remnants of magic that would have reminded him, any indication that it was almost indistinguishable from an ancient Muggle tomb.

After a long journey through the tunnels, Maca came to a small stone chamber.

There wasn't much furnishings, just two bookcases made of black wood and a plain black desk.

There was no magic to protect them from the ages, and the dampness of the ground had left them badly decaying, and the chairs in front of their desks had long since fallen apart.