One morning, Professor Flitwick arrives to shatter the silence of the Burrow.

Scott never told anyone else about the prophecy, so he only said that he had something to do with Professor Flitwick.

Despite Fred and George's curiosity, Scott had no intention of telling them about the trouble.

He simply said goodbye to them and the others, thanked Mrs. Weasley for her care, and left with Professor Flitwick.

And, of course, Rimbaud.

After leaving the Burrow, Professor Flitwick apparitions lead Scott and Rimbaud to an uninhabited hill.

"So, do you know how to get to the druid's territory, Scott?" Professor Flitwick asked, "Or is someone going to show us the way?" ”

Scott pulls out the portkey that had taken him to the Sea of Oaks.

After a whirlwind, they appeared in the underground stone chamber where Scott had been.

Lighting the Charm of Light, Scott discovers that the stone walls he had destroyed had not been repaired.

Because of his previous experience, this time Scott did not wander around the passage connecting the stone chamber, but directly broke the roof of the passage with a spell, and went to the surface with Professor Flitwick.

"Is this the Sea of Oaks?"

Professor Flitwick looked around, marveling at the endless oak forest.

Scott instructed Rimbaud, "Go find Sawanna, Rimbaud, and tell her that the professor and I have arrived." ”

"No problem."

Rimbaud nodded, spreading his wings and soaring into the sky.

"We'll just wait here, Professor." Scott turned to Professor Flitwick and said, "It's so easy to get lost in this oak forest, and I had a hard time getting to the center last time." ”

Professor Flitwick nodded without objection.

"The druids are old-fashioned people, I know they exist, and I have wanted to contact them out of curiosity, but they are very xenophobic," he said with great interest. ”

"After all, druids are no different from wizards." Scott said, "We're all humans who manipulate magic, but in different directions." ”

Professor Flitwick nodded, "I've only seen a few words in books, but their magic is unique. ”

Scott smiled, "I'm interested in their transfiguration, unlike the wizard's Animagus who will take shape, and the druids can transform into different animals. ”

Professor Flitwick was also clearly interested, "Unfortunately, only they know how they did it." ”

The two stood in place, chatting and waiting, and half an hour later, Rimbaud flew back.

"I've seen Savanna, she's almost there." It landed on Scott's shoulder.

Scott unleashed his mana senses, quickly sensing two mana fluctuations rapidly approaching their location.

"Every time I feel their magic, I'm amazed." He couldn't help but say, "Pure magic is almost one with nature, and in such an environment, it is more difficult to perceive than the magic of wizards." ”

In the same way, he can't rely on his magical perception to identify a druid's personality by its magical nature.

Soon, footsteps rang out.

Scott looked up and saw two gray wolves, one large and one small, flying through the woods, like fleeting shadows.

Soon, two wolves came up to them.

The little wolf's body elongated and turned into Savanna, whom she hadn't seen in a long time.

"Long time no see, Scott! Professor Flitwick! ”

The girl is completely different from what she used to look like when she went to school at Hogwarts, and has already dressed in the traditional costume of the druids.

Those unrefined feathers or animal bone decorations make her look a little more wild.

Maybe it was because of the run just now, her face was as red as her hair color.

"Welcome to the Sea of Oaks."

At this moment, the gray-haired giant wolf turned into an old man with gray-haired hair.

He has eagle-like eyes, and his gaze is particularly sharp.

Above the eyes are two thick gray-white eyebrows, and the long beard on the chin is braided into several braids, which are also decorated with some colorful beads and strips of cloth.

"Hello, I'm Savanna's grandfather, Patrick? Doherty. ”

The old druid first looked at Scott deeply, and then greeted Professor Flitwick politely.

"Thank you for taking care of my granddaughter at Hogwarts, Professor."

"Oh, that's my profession, Mr. Doherty."

Professor Flitwick shook hands with some excitement.

"Sawanna is a good student, but unfortunately, she didn't graduate from Hogwarts."

"She has her own way to go." The old druid said in a somewhat stiff tone, "The magic of wizards, it is enough to have seen it. ”

"Of course, oh, I'm just a little sorry." Professor Flitwick smiled awkwardly.

Scott on the side was a little helpless.

He asked Professor Flitwick to accompany him in order to get him to support him, but Professor Flitwick was really not a strong man, and he was a little too upright, and he only spoke a few words before falling behind.

Fortunately, Sawanna's grandfather was not a cunning fellow, but he had a hard temper, and it didn't take long for the atmosphere of the conversation to gradually improve.

"I'm sorry, because of those things, my grandfather has been in a bad mood." Sawanna whispered to Scott.

"It's okay, it's us who bother." Scott smiled politely.

"You're still so polite." Savana seemed a little upset, "But you didn't do that to Luna. ”

"Maybe it's because I took the liberty of interrupting, so I'm a little embarrassed." Scott smiled awkwardly but politely.

"You ......"

Before Sawana could say something, the old druid's eagle-like sharp eyes immediately swept over.

"Savanna, you should keep in mind your duty." He said in a warning tone.

Sawanna's originally vivid expression immediately turned to frustration.

She bowed her head and replied, "I see, grandfather." ”

Scott felt the sharp eyes that fell on him move away, and quickly changed the subject.

"Your brother, how is Aaron doing now?"

"Oh, don't worry, he can't do anything now." "I was angry with him for his unauthorized actions, and after becoming a priest, I trapped him with the power of the sacred tree. He could only be trapped there until the spirit and consciousness returned to the body. ”

"Is that good?" Scott glanced at the old druid who was talking to Professor Flitwick.

"This is also the punishment that grandfather wants to give him." "We all want him to reflect on his mistakes......

"Come here, boy."

Just then, the old druid beckoned to Scott.

"Hello, Mr. Doherty."

Scott glanced at Professor Flitwick and walked over obediently.

The old druid didn't answer, just stared at him with those piercing eyes.

Scott felt some pressure, but didn't back down.

After a long time, the deep furrows on the old druid's face became a little more relaxed, and his eyes became a little calmer.

"I also have to apologize to you for the trouble Aaron kid has caused you."

Scott said politely: "That incident Sawanna has already been humbled in place of Aaron, and since Aaron has been punished, forget about that matter." ”

Anyway, now that he has a request for this group of druids, it is not easy to care about what Aaron once wanted to trap him.

"Your guess is right, we do have a way to open the passage, and that is a method other than using the power of the scabbard of the sword in the lake." He told Scott, "But opening the passage is a big deal and a difficult decision. We are still inconclusive about this. ”

"So, which view do you prefer?" Scott asked him.

The old man's eyes sharpened again, "Although the old man is old, he doesn't want to run away without a fight. ”

It seems that the priest of the previous generation was also inclined to take the initiative.

Scott was overjoyed.

"That ......"

The old man raised his hand to stop him from exiting, "I must tell you, boy, that opening the passage is not an easy task. Although we have the method, we still lack some conditions. ”

Scott hurriedly said, "Please tell me in detail." ”

The old druid frowned, and the furrow on his face was once again deeply visible.

"Maybe Sawanna told you before."

With that, he gave Sawana a stern look at Sawana, who was standing aside.

Sawana quickly lowered her head.

"Hmph."

The old druid snorted coldly.

"It takes the full power of the sacred tree to open the passage, but unfortunately, Slytherin once stripped the bark of the sacred tree to record the history of [clairvoyant eye] observations, which greatly damaged the sacred tree."

"But a thousand years have passed." Scott asked, puzzled, "After all this time, the sacred tree still hasn't recovered?" ”

The old druid's face was even more ugly.

He said angrily, "After our efforts for generations, the sacred tree is about to be restored, but because Aaron's boy is good at asserting it......"

He took a deep breath.

"In short, he destroyed the key step of the complete restoration of the sacred tree, because of the existence of that kid, the power of the sacred tree has never been able to reach completeness."

"This ......"

Scott was disappointed.

"Aaron once told me that he still needed three more years, oh, more than two years from now on to get back to his body. That is, even if you want to open the passage, you have to wait until more than two years later? ”

More than two years have passed, and he has also graduated, and I am afraid it will be too late by then.

Who knows when Medea will wake up?

Who knows when Slytherin will come back to life?

Time was pressing, and he couldn't seem to wait that long.

"No, you're wrong." Old Druid shook his head, "It's longer than that, and even if Aaron's kid successfully leaves the Holy Tree, it will still take a long time for us to restore the full power of the Holy Tree." ”

"How long?" Professor Flitwick, who had been listening, asked.

"Half a year." The old druid said, "Even if the power of plundering the other oaks in the sea of oaks feeds the sacred tree, it will take at least half a year." ”

Professor Flitwick shook his head, "But we can't wait that long, Miss Slytherin has fallen asleep due to the curse of the mysterious man, and the period before she breaks the curse and wakes up is the best time for us." ”

"We have a faster way, don't we, grandfather." Savana spoke suddenly.

The old druid glanced at her, then at Scott.

"Indeed, there is a faster way to restore the Sacred Tree to its full strength." "But the other method is full of unknowns and comes with deadly danger," he said in a warning tone. ”

"Please tell me." Scott said calmly.

Either way, he's going to have to listen to it.

"Find the Lost Heart of the Sacred Tree." The old druid replied.

"Heart of the Sacred Tree?"

Scott was dumbfounded.

The sacred tree has not only lost its bark, but also its heart?

Anyway, it's your druid's holy relic, don't you want to row up the sacred tree? Isn't it too much of a disaster?

It's not easy for the sacred tree to be alive.

It may be that his expression accidentally revealed his inner thoughts, and the old druid said with some annoyance: "The Heart of the Sacred Tree is the crystallization of the power of the Sacred Tree, although it grows slowly, it is a resource that can be regenerated. ”

If it's renewable, why don't you have it now?

Scott said this with the look in his eyes.

The old druid was even more annoyed, "Because the damned Slytherin has left the Sacred Tree badly wounded, and it hasn't fully recovered until now!" ”

Well, Scott got it.

He asked as calmly as he could, "So, where is the lost heart of the sacred tree?" ”

"I don't know if you've heard the legend of the Silent Lands, the Tower that stretches to the center of the earth." The old man said helplessly, "That's a legend that prevailed thousands of years ago......

Without waiting for him to elaborate more, Scott had already begun to memorize.

"A place of silence, a tower that stretches to the center of the earth. Seven people set out and one returned. One died in the fire, one in the deep water, one at the top of a tree, one at the bottom of a tower, one in a falling rock, and one in a subsidence. Six people died by a curse, and the one who escaped by luck could not escape the shadow of death for the rest of his life. ”

The old druid looked at him in amazement.

"I didn't expect that there are still wizards who remember such legends today."

"It's all a coincidence."

Scott was also surprised.

He hurriedly took out a wooden box from the skin pouch of the transformed lizard, and took out the animal skin that recorded the incident in ancient magic scripts.

"I just got this before."

He unfolded the hide in his hand, and the other three took a closer look.

In order to accommodate Professor Flitwick's height, Scott crouched down.

"Oh, thank you."

Professor Flitwick glanced at the hides, and quickly discerned the meaning of the ancient scripts.

"This ...... Is this true? Is it the Stennes Standing Stone on Merranne Island? ”

"Of course it's true." The old druid nodded affirmatively, "One of the Druids of House Doherty is one of the seven, he died in the activities of that ruins expedition, and the treasure he carried with him, the Heart of the Sacred Tree, was left there. ”

"This ......"

Professor Flitwick shook his head desperately.

"If that's true, it's obviously dangerous. Yes, it's too dangerous for my students to venture there! ”

"This is the only way to open the channel early." Said the old druid.

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