This is a secret room where you can't see your fingers.

"Fluorescent flicker—"

Ning An moved his fingers, and a ball of light that emitted a strong light rose into the air, illuminating the entire secret room like a small sun.

The stone wall sealed the place, and looking back at the way they had come, long gone, and there was no big iron gate at all, Pani turned around and walked two steps to the edge of the wall, reaching out and lightly touching the damp wall.

The hand was on the wall, and it didn't penetrate the past, and when they came in, it was as simple as passing through the station of nine and three-quarters, but now they couldn't get out.

"There's no road here—"

Pani shook his head and looked at Ning An with a serious expression, he suspected that they had probably fallen into some magic trap or something and were trapped here.

Ning An nodded, his expression relaxed, but he didn't look too nervous.

The chamber was about the size of a regular Hogwarts classroom, with seven sarcophagi in the center, in the order of two in each row, and perhaps because it was still raining on the ground, the sarcophagi were damp and had many small droplets of water condensed.

From time to time, it slid to the ground with a slight "pop" sound.

"Nick? Is Lemay buried here? ”

Parney walked over, touched the sarcophagus in the center, and said half-jokingly.

"Nick? Lemay isn't dead — you know, Pani. ”

Ning An ignored Pani's joke to liven up the atmosphere, and he went to the edge of the innermost stone wall, where he didn't know who had drawn a large and strange symbol on the wall with black lines.

It was a circle of concentric circles, Ning An counted them carefully, there were nine of them, and these nine concentric circles formed the shape of a funnel, as if distorting the space of this wall, which looked very strange.

"Well, good maze magic."

Ning An watched for a while, and suddenly broke the silence of the secret room, Parney walked over quietly, stood beside him and listened carefully to him, Starr understood that this boy who was younger than himself was far more accomplished in magic than himself, so at this moment his expression was as pious as a student listening to a teacher's lecture.

"Have you heard of Dante?"

Ning An didn't say it directly, but asked questions.

"Are you talking about the Italian wizard?"

Pani? Starr thought for a moment, remembering that in the History of Magic class at Hogwarts, Professor Binns the Ghost had told a story about Dante's past.

"That's right."

Ning An stretched out his hand and measured and stroked the nine concentric circles back and forth, as if he was feeling something.

"It looks like our Nick? Monsieur Lemay, heavily influenced by Dante—"

"You're saying this magic has something to do with Dante?"

"That's right, if you know him—" Ning An withdrew his hand, stood still, and said quietly:

"This labyrinth magic mirrors Dante's Nine Rings of Hell, and we can't turn back now, because we are already on the edge of the first ring, either stay here forever or move on."

Pani swallowed and muttered, "No wonder I can't find my way back, but where will I go if I keep going?" ”

"I don't know"

Ning An shook his head, raised the corners of his mouth and smiled lightly: "Probably Nick?" Where Lemay wanted us to go. ”

"Okay, so how do we get through this magic? Wouldn't it be hard? "It's a bad feeling to be trapped in a secret room, especially a dim, enclosed, sarcophagus-filled room, and it's not surprising that Pani wants to get out of here.

"It wouldn't be hard if you knew anything about the Divine Comedy, but in fact, no wizard would want to study a book that was classified as a Muggle—"

Ning An grabbed his hair and said in admiration: "Nick? Lemay was very clever, and this magic did dispel many wizards from exploring in the first place, because they couldn't find a clue. ”

In the empty chamber, the echo of the two people talking echoed around the wall, the more it echoed, the more empty the chamber became, the atmosphere was gloomy, as if a corpse would crawl out of the coffin at any moment, and by the light of the fluorescent spell overhead, Parney also caught a glimpse of a few pieces of white bones piled up in the corner of the chamber.

"Okay, let me think—" Ning An raised his wand to himself, he thought for a moment and said slowly; "The second layer of hell should be lust."

As he spoke, he touched his wand on the second circle of the nine-layered ring, and the air seemed to ripple and tremble, and after a while, the whole chamber began to shake violently, as if there had been an earthquake on the upper floor.

Pani clenched the wand in his hand and didn't say much, he believed in Ning An, believed that he was cracking the spell, so he was not afraid at all.

The shaking continued for a few minutes before stopping, and the wall carved into concentric circles in front of the two men was gone, replaced by a deep tunnel leading underground.

Pani touched his arm, the two of them were already underground at this time, and this bottomless tunnel was still leading to the bottom, did they really want to go to hell?

Following Ning An, Pani held the wand in his right hand and the bag in his left hand, and walked into the deep and dark tunnel.

Below was a small staircase, narrow enough to accommodate only one foot on it, as if it had just been soaked in water.

There was darkness all around, and Pani didn't want to reach out to touch it, and he didn't know what was on either side of the staircase, and only the footsteps of him and Ning An could be heard in the deep passage.

After walking down for a while, Parney saw an iron door that was the same as when they first entered the secret room, Ning An chuckled, and walked through the iron door with his feet raised.

Pani followed suit, slamming head-on into the iron gate and unsurprisingly passing through.

Behind the door was exactly the same scene as before, pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

He turned his head and reached out to touch it, and the iron gate behind him once again turned into a closed stone wall, and Pani tried to find Ning An's trace, but saw nothing in the darkness.

He raised his wand and shouted, "Fluorescent flicker—"

A little white light shone brightly, illuminating this secret room, and sure enough, it was the same as the previous room, the damp walls, the seven sarcophagi neatly arranged, if anything, it was on the sarcophagus.

A naked, hot beauty, wrapped in a hazy scarf, lying or lying, showing her proud posture on the sarcophagus in a charming posture.

After the fluorescence illuminates the whole room, they seem to have found the lover they have been interested in for a long time, and they all come down from the sarcophagus, either amorous or affectionate, and even lick their tongues and eyebrows, staring at Pani with seduction and teasing, eager to eat him.

The women pressed on at once, caressed Pani's chest with their delicate little hands, and the fragrance they spat out hit Pani's nostrils and penetrated into it, making his heart sink.

"So this is what the master said about the second floor of hell—" Parney thought, not restless in his heart, he was very conscious, he was in the labyrinth of magic, all of which was just a magical effect to trap him.

So when he thought this, the beautiful women around him pulled away from him, and his incomprehensible face instantly became hideous and terrifying, and he opened his big mouth and bit at Pani.

"There are many obstacles!"

Parney stretched out his wand and slammed the horrible women who lunged at him against an invisible invisible wall, which he had seen disappear into a path down the same path as before.

Trotting two steps, Parney stretched out his legs and stepped into the dark corridor before the obstacle spell disappeared, where a figure was already waiting for him.

It's Ning'an.

"The next level is gluttonous hell."

Ning An said lightly, after passing through one more layer, Pani also somewhat understood what this labyrinth magic was all about, it seemed that each layer corresponded to a theme, if you didn't understand it in advance and didn't take precautions, it was likely that you would fall into a trap, follow your desires, and end up trapped in that secret room.

But obviously with Ning An's understanding of the Nine Rings of Hell, the next test will not be difficult, after knowing the meaning of each room, even if he is tempted for a short time, Pani can wake up at the last moment.

In this way, the two of them went through the six rooms of gluttony, greed, anger, alienity, cruelty, and fraud, counting the previous lust and the first border prison, the two have already walked through the eight layers of the nine rings of hell.

Parney kept going down, he hoped it was just the effect of magic, otherwise he would have been at least a few hundred miles underground, closing his mind and not thinking about it, and although he had withstood the temptation, he still felt extremely tired along the way.

The iron door appeared in front of him again, and that was the end, Pani muttered, slamming in.

The secret room has been lit up by a huge white ball of light, unlike only himself in front, this time he and Ning An appeared in the same secret room, it seems that Ning An arrived here earlier than him, and is sitting on a sarcophagus, quietly waiting for himself.

Pani looked around, and there was nothing strange here, whether it was a seductive ** or a brutal giant, a dead ghost, nothing, as if it was an empty room like the original secret room.

Seven sarcophagi slept there in solitude.

"The last one, what's the test here?"

Pani frowned, Ning An didn't tell him the subject of this last room just now, which made him a little puzzled.

"Or are you just a false illusion?"

Even now, Parney doesn't believe anything easily, he knows it's not unusual to see anything here, and he even saw his long-dead grandmother in that deceitful secret room.

"No, Pani—I'm real."

Ning An jumped down from the sarcophagus, looked at him with a slightly complicated expression, and said calmly: "The name of this last room, I think it should be called-betrayal. ”

"Betrayal ——!?"

Pani's face turned pale, and he lost his blood for a moment, how could he not understand the meaning of the word betrayal, if this was really the meaning of the ninth layer of hell, then it would be easy to explain that only he and Ning An appeared here.

"You mean...... I...... Will I betray you? After a quarter of an hour of silence, Parney whispered word by word.

"Betrayal is mutual, Pani, anyone can betray the other, who knows I won't do it for Nick? What Lemay left behind and killed you? ”

Ning An stood there motionless, the silver rings on his earlobes swaying back and forth, and he recounted lightly, as if he was talking about what he was going to eat at noon today.

Parney clenched his wand, his teeth clenched, even if it wasn't long ago that he killed Alan? Kruger had never been so nervous.

Betrayal of Ning'an? Even when his escape career was at its most difficult, he didn't think about it, but now when he is in the last layer of the labyrinth magic of this nine-ring hell, Pani? Starr's heart was truly hesitant.

There seemed to be some kind of atmosphere in the room, and every speck of dust seemed to say to them:

"You two, only one can go out."

It's really a torture.

Parney smiled, shaking his head, his right hand swaying, his wand slipping from his hand.

"I'm no match for you."

He muttered, "A year ago, there may have been a slight chance of victory, but from this time I saw you again, I felt it almost immediately—the power in you, you don't know how violently the black snake mark on my arm burned when I got closer." ”

Panisthal seemed to be relieved the more he spoke, and subconsciously pushed the long-absent glasses frame on the bridge of his nose with his right hand, and said calmly:

"You know what, Ning'an? I have never seen a wizard like you, gifted and purposeful, and it is because of my worship of you that I joined the Serpent Letter, who can believe that I am madly worshipping a wizard younger than me in my heart. ”

Although the tone was self-deprecating, Pani said it extremely seriously, and there was a light called pride in his eyes, looking directly at Ning An, his voice became a little fanatical:

"Kill me, Ning An - your growth rate is amazing, you can definitely become the most powerful wizard ever, kill me, to accomplish your purpose, my soul will also become a part of you, we will merge together, let me also participate in your great cause!"

Ning An raised his arm and waved his hand

"I'm not going to kill you, Pani."

Step by step, slowly walking towards the wizard, Ning An reached out and pressed Pani's shoulder, forcibly made him squat down, at the same height as himself, looked at his eyes, and said slowly:

"Even if I'm an evil bastard, I wouldn't hurt my own companions, so how could I kill my friends for a little magic trick of Nicolame?"

"Pick up your wand, let's crack this damn magic together-" As he spoke, Ning An picked up the gray and white ** staff on the ground and stuffed it directly into Pani's hand.

Then get up.

And at this moment, the secret room once again emitted a strong vibration, like an earthquake, which lasted for about five minutes, and when the shaking stopped, a door that emitted a dazzling golden light appeared in front of the two people.

"Looks like we've passed the ninth floor, huh?" Ning An smiled and turned to look at Pani.

Pani's body was shocked, and he suddenly felt that his heart was mixed, he never thought that his real status in Ning An's heart was actually a friend.

What he said just now, even Pani himself didn't know if it was true, he just knew that he had no chance of winning in the face of Ning An, and he said those words with a trace of unconscious obedience.

But at this moment, he really removed a layer of disguise covering his heart, although at Hogwarts, he also pretended to be friends with others, but his heart never admitted it.

But now, it seems that he is really going to have a new experience that he has never had before—the feeling of having a real friend.