"Now that the magic protection on the Codex has been consumed for a long time, the protection effect has been reduced to a minimum." Shoma Teramoto explained the situation directly.

Sherlock understood, it was clearly Ashiya Michiman's dying handwritten letter to his old rival, so how could he still leave the Codex in the future opening days, so on the letter inviting Sherlock to Japan, Shoma Teramoto lied to Sherlock.

"But whether it's a curse, a recorded black magic, or Ashiya Michiman's wealth! These things have weakened over time with the passage of time, and even if they are cursed by Ashiya Michiman or some other offensive and vicious spell, they should gradually lose their threatening effect. ”

"That's true, but it's not just that we're worried about it, it's the worst-case scenario." It seems that there is a layer of secrets that have not been told in detail to Sherlock.

"I'll leave it to me." Stormy Night explained to Sherlock.

"But before I elaborate, I ask Master Sherlock to come with me." Storm Demon Yaichi invited Sherlock to go with him to the deeper part of the Daidoin Shogunate's building, accompanied by Hoseiin, of course, but Ino Yuriko did not follow, and it was obvious that the three of them were going to a secret place that only the real high-level of the Daidoin Shogunate could know.

Or maybe only the shogun and the Hoseiin are equipped with secrets that they are qualified to know.

It was a dead well with a diameter of two meters, surrounded by arm-thick iron cables firmly tied to the four walls of the wellhead, and each lock ring of the iron cable was attached to an ancient yellowed talisman.

Sherlock reached out his finger to touch one, and the talisman it touched immediately turned to ashes.

"These should be special talismans that you cast a spell, but the power of magic has long since disappeared, so even the talisman itself can't resist the passage of time."

"Speaking of Japan's most influential onmyoji, the Kamo family, who studied the art of talismans in ancient China, so the talismans handed down in Japan now are still from China to a large extent, but they have been improved by Japanese sages like Master Abe Harumi."

Shoma Teramoto explained.

Sherlock nodded, if he could, he could ask Shoma Teramoto for some books on talismans, and he could also study it carefully, this technique of channeling magical power on paper and releasing it at any time at a critical time.

But in fact, this technique is similar to attaching magic to objects, such as Voldemort's Horcruxes, each of which casts powerful black magic and symbiosis with Horcruxes, and can also protect Horcruxes from outside harm at critical moments.

"This well is the entrance, but in fact, in Japanese history, wells, especially dead wells and dry wells, are often regarded as ominous places, so wells are also depicted as places where youkai, evil spirits, or demons are often depicted in Japanese mythology."

Shogun Kazemoichi went on to say, "In ancient times, sorcerers dealt with evil sorcerers by throwing them directly into wells, drowning, or starving to death. ”

"Ah...... Speaking of which, I've also watched your Japanese horror movies, where there are scenes of ghosts crawling out of a well, and one of the movies in Midnight Bell, where the heroine is locked up alive in a well, and it is said that she has been alive for decades before she dies. ”

Kazema-yaichi and Shoma Teramoto looked at each other, but they still climbed down from the well, and Sherlock was the last to go down.

This dry well was very deep, and the three of them had to go down at least fifty meters.

After falling to the ground, there was a long and wide tunnel ahead, Shoma Teramoto, Stormmagic Yaichi and Sherlock, each of whom took out his wand and glowed fluorescently.

Carmilla wrapped her arms around Sherlock's wrist and whispered, "The smell around here is so cold and damp that it looks like a place for snakes to like." ”

The tunnel gets wider and wider, and it goes higher and higher overhead.

When the three of them reached the very end, they could see a large iron gate thirty meters high, with countless iron cables wrapped around it, and countless copper locks hanging on the chains, and countless talismans sticking to the door.

I don't know how many years the iron gate has been standing underground, but I can only see that it is a reddish rust, like a gate that has been doused with blood.

If you listen carefully, it seems that there is the sound of iron lungs breathing inside the door, and behind the iron gate is the Yellow Spring Hirazaka, which leads to the hell of Japan, where the undead are located.

"This is the Demon Sealing Gate! And it's what worries us the most. Shoma Teramoto was a little worried, and even didn't hide it.

"The existence of the Demon Sealing Gate can be involved in the ancient Abe Harumaki archmage who sealed some evil and even unkillable demons behind this iron gate, and even the successive generations of the Shogunate of our Great Dao Academy, the Faqing Yuan and the shogunate all believe that with the protection of this iron gate, at least it has ensured the peace of the Japanese magic world for hundreds of years, and there are not only some evil wizards imprisoned, but also some very terrible magical creatures and even some evil magical powers."

"But hundreds of years later, you don't think what's behind the iron gate is still alive."

Sherlock felt that these Japanese people were a little fussed, even timid, and that they had been afraid of an ancient legend, or even an iron gate, for hundreds of years.

If this is in the United Kingdom, I am afraid that it will be opened up by the Ministry of Magic as an attraction to visit, and it will also increase an income.

"The Daoman Codex was written by Ashiya Michiman to Abe Harumi, and the Demon Sealing Gate is Abe Harumi's proud work of sealing the demons and monsters in Mount Fuji to suppress it, and our worst guess is that Ashiya Michiman is likely to write a method or magic to crack the Demon Gate in the Codex."

Sherlock asked curiously, "But now that the Codex is in your hands, even if you know how to open this thirty-meter high-speed door, as long as you don't use it, isn't it still safe?" ”

Wind Demon Yaichi and Shoma Teramoto sighed together, and said worriedly, "Master Sherlock, it's just that you don't know the current situation of the magic world in Japan, I want to ask, do you know the organization of Youkai Mountain?" ”

Sherlock was stunned, as if when he was on the Torikai Maru, the Chie Rii who was taken advantage of by Sherlock, was the top geisha of Mirakuya, and was also recognized by Yuriko Ino as one of the members of Yokai Mountain.

After all, Yuriko fell under the other party's Imperius curse.

Could it be that this so-called Monster Mountain organization is the same as the Death Eater force established by Voldemort, and it is also a terrorist organization that wants to subvert the power of the wizarding world.

At first, Sherlock thought that the other party was nothing more than a gangster in the wizarding world.