It was a hassle to be discharged from the hospital all of a sudden, and Maca waited for a while at the door of the Snow Witch before finally getting Selene here.

When Maca met Selene, her mother was floating beside her, showing no signs of waking up.

"Please come in......," Selene said, opening the door with the key.

The setting of 'The Snow Witch' has not changed, but the tables and chairs inside have accumulated a thin layer of dust. Once a house is unoccupied, it will soon become like this.

Combined with the current situation of the owner of this private restaurant, it is easy to give the illusion that "the house and the people are declining together".

Follow Selene to the second floor, a curved corridor that extends against the wall. On one side is the door, while on the other side is a carved wooden handrail that can be seen into the hall below.

The first thing that catches your eye is a variety of souvenirs in the corridor. They are made all over the world, all the way through the corridor, and the souvenirs are also displayed in front of the eyes of Maca from new to old.

Each souvenir seems to tell the colorful life of Selene's mother.

At the end of the hallway, a portrait is hanging. When Maca walked up to it, the woman inside smiled peacefully at him.

"That's a self-portrait of my mother when she was younger...... "This way, please." ”

As she spoke, she opened the wooden door to the last room. It seems that this is her mother's bedroom.

When Maca first glance inside the bedroom, he wasn't surprised.

There is nothing else here, except for a modest single bed and a dressing table, and all kinds of other places where you can put things are cleverly arranged with all kinds of wonderful souvenirs.

Probably, this is the only hobby of Selene's mother in this life.

Maca helped Seline lift the quilt, and Selene carefully placed her mother on the bed. At this time, Maca took out a bottle of tonic potion and poured it into Selene's mother.

"It keeps her up so she can do it safer for a while......," Maca explains, "well, she can swallow on her own." ”

After that, he continued: "Let your mother rest and let the potion work as it should, let's go out first......"

"I'm sorry, I think I'd better use the spell as little as possible outside of school - you move all the desks and chairs first, we need a big enough open space." Maca pointed to the middle of the hall and spoke.

When Selene heard this, she immediately waved her wand and stacked the tables and chairs on the side of the wall with a levitation charm.

"Is that enough? If that's not enough, I can get rid of the bar—"

"No, that's enough." As she spoke, Maca walked to the edge of the hall and began to pick things up.

Included was a thick notebook, several rolls of blank parchment, quills and inkwells, his homemade pens, and several potions of various models.

He was obviously about to start drawing the kind of rune array he had figured out again, which looked like Muggle circuit diagrams.

"You can sit for a while, or go to your mother's place to keep watch—I know you're going to be upset," said Maca, "and I'll come and call you when I'm all right." ”

Selene hesitated, then nodded silently.

Maca didn't care about her anymore, but leaned over directly on the floor, opened her notebook and pondered it carefully.

The steps to be taken this time are actually not much different from what he did to himself last time. It's only been a while since the first attempt, and in the meantime, Maca has examined her soul several times.

At this moment, to say that the structure of the array and the collocation of runes have been improved a lot.

All he had to do now was fine-tune the data for Selene's mother's condition.

It wasn't long before he drew a runic array on the blank parchment that matched Selene's mother's needs. In terms of accuracy, it is clear that it has come a long way compared to the first time.

After much calculation, Maca poured a whole bottle of liquid with a bright metallic sheen like mercury into the center of the hall. Then, the liquid spread rapidly, and soon flowed throughout the hall.

Suddenly, the floor of the hall was completely covered with this liquid, as if the entire floor had been transformed into a giant mirror.

After pouring the liquid, Maca immediately ran to the wall - he had to run away while the liquid had not yet solidified, so as not to leave footprints that would affect the drawing of the formation for a while.

After that, he began to mix the ink needed to draw the array.

Time is passing little by little......

Maka, who has entered the state, is highly concentrated, and habitually ignores the passage of time completely. It wasn't until he had finished the ink and drawn the entire array that he noticed a few plates of cold food on the steps of the stairs.

Maca subconsciously glanced up at the corridor on the second floor, but saw Selene lying on the carved wooden handrail, quietly looking at the mirror-like floor of the hall.

And on that floor, a purple-black rune array that didn't seem to have any rules to speak of, was faintly faintly blue fluorescent from time to time.

"Bring your mother down, it's ready." Maca shouted at her.

Selene came to her senses, said yes, and walked back to the bedroom.

Ten minutes later......

"Whatever happens, don't get too nervous, I know what to expect. If something happens, I'm always ready to stop checking ......"

Maca carefully instructed Selene to make sure she wouldn't rush up after the formation was turned on for a while.

At this moment, Selene's mother was lying flat at a certain point on the formation diagram, and on the mirror around her, complex purple-black lines and various strange symbols were connected to each other, looking like she was performing a mysterious magic ritual.

“…… Okay, just stand behind and watch, I'm going to start. ”

With that, Maca took a step forward, and stepped on the only gap in the entire array with his left and right feet - he still hadn't solved the problem of the source of magic in the array, and as a last resort, he had to take on the role of supplying magic power himself.

The moment Maca's other foot stepped down, the symbols and lines seemed to come alive, twisting, vibrating, and floating, bursting with a mysterious blue glow that illuminated the entire hall.

Especially under the effect of the mirrored floor, the light is extraordinarily bright, and the runes and magic lines float up and down, which looks wonderful.

But in the next moment, in the mirror beneath Selene's mother, a black mist was slowly forming......

Because the current formation has been improved by Maca many times, the input of mana is not as fast and large as the first time, so that the formation of skulls has become much slower.

After all, Selene's mother is old, and her soul is very likely to be damaged, and the impact will directly cause the soul to completely rush out of the body.

When the time comes, it will be difficult to re-stuff it back.

After a long while, the skull of black mist finally formed in the mirror, and it slowly opened its jaws and let out a faint roar.

Selene clenched her fists tightly in the back, her eyes unblinking at the mysterious and terrifying sight, holding back her strength to keep herself from making a sound.

The skull was formed just below her mother, its hollow mouth pointed straight at her mother, as if it were going to devour her.

This scene will probably be unforgettable for the rest of her life.

In the midst of the skull's silent cry, a humanoid figure floated from Selene's mother's body.

No, to be exact, "half" humanoid phantom.

“…… It's already mutilated. Maca frowned, staring at the phantom.

But upon closer inspection, he immediately noticed that something was wrong—the phantom was mutilated, yes, but at some of the fractures, wisps of black smoke could be faintly seen, and those things seemed to be ......

"Soul devourer?" Maca muttered to herself, "...... What's that? ”

Those black smoke can attach to the soul, obviously not an ordinary thing, after thinking about it, he took a step back for the time being, and lifted the operation of the formation.

Immediately, the light dimmed, the skull vanished, and Selene's mother's mutilated soul returned to her body.

"Selene," said Maca, "tell me all about your experience with your mother in the United States at that time, and the more detailed the better!" Especially some special places or some kind of weird objects. ”

Selene hadn't recovered from the shock at this moment, and when she heard Maca speak, she didn't have time to react for a while.

"Céline?"

"Oh, I'm sorry—" She shuddered and turned her head to look blankly at Maca, "What did you say?" ”

……

On the other side, Hogwarts Castle, in the Gryffindor common room.

"Ron, don't worry, Spotted must have run there out of nowhere and will appear on his own soon......"

Harry was comforting his friend, and Hermione wasn't here for a while.

"It's sleepy all day, where can it go!" Ron didn't believe it at all, he had been worrying if Crookshank Hill was chasing Spotted again - he had even eaten Spotted Spotted!

"It's okay, at least Hermione has been holding Crook Hill these days, and it hasn't had a chance to run out to find Spotted." The comfort had been successful, but Harry was not discouraged, and this time he chose to settle for the next best thing.

"But maybe there are other cats?" Ron couldn't help but say, "It's like...... It's like...... Just like Lady Loris! ”

"Filch's cat doesn't like to catch mice." Harry immediately said, "It just likes to look around for students who have violated discipline and report it to its master!" ”

"But...... But......," Ron said restlessly.

"Don't be!" Harry advised, "Or, let's go find it again!" Corridors, other dorms, or whatever, okay? ”

"You're right, we should look for ...... again" Ron slammed to his feet and ran down the stairs as he spoke, "Oh—poor Spotted! ”

Harry looked at Ron's back and shrugged helplessly, "He looks just like Hagrid now!" ”