Chapter 10: A Castle Tour

In the darkness, Shevin woke up. It was still pitch black, except for the faint red glow of the long-extinguished charcoal fire in the fireplace. Looking up at the window above the black lake, there was a faint and inconspicuous ripple.

He had a slight sense of the current state of his body - the soul state of Xiwen was chatting with Helena as Strange, while the body was lying quietly on the bed thinking, divided but not struggling.

Just like Kama Taj Zeng, Xiwen's soul strength can support him to freely manipulate his body even when his soul is out of body, rather than just using the ancient way of resting his body and learning with his soul like other mages.

Not only that, but he could even feel a parapsy modeled after his current body slowly growing in his empty body.

Theoretically, each body should be born with a soul of its own. But somehow, the soul that was supposed to be born in Rozier's body did not appear at all, so that the empty body instinctively accepted the soul body of Xiwen wandering in the gap of the universe.

Now, after eleven years of recuperation by Xiwen's powerful soul body, this body has the conditions to give birth to a soul again. But at this time, the body has already been deeply branded by Xiwen, and the regenerated soul can only exist as its secondary soul......

Maybe one day I'll have a doppelganger! Xiwen thought with a little excitement.

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Not thinking about it so much, Xiwen decided to get up first.

Fumbling for his wand next to his pillow, he said in a soft voice, "Lumos." ”

The tip of the wand glowed faintly, illuminating only his own bed.

When I took out my pocket watch from under the pillow, I could see that the hour hand was pointing to the Roman numeral "VI. (VI)".

Homework in the lower grades of Hogwarts is actually very easy, and the first class does not start until 9 o'clock in the morning, so many young wizards have developed the habit of sleeping until dawn.

Shevan was forced to wake up at dawn for a long time after Kama Taj for morning exercises, and although he was slightly relaxed when he came to the new world, he still woke up naturally around 6 a.m.

After looking left and right to see that his roommates were still asleep, Xiwen changed his clothes alone and left the dormitory.

The common room was empty, but the fireplace had been lit with a warm green flame that dispelled the somewhat cold, damp air that was somewhat gloomy and damp due to its location at the bottom of the lake. There are also a few round-headed dolphins in the large fish tank, which shake a few times from time to time, creating a slightly turbid current, adding a bit of life to the quiet space.

After a little thought, Xiwen decided to head to the Black Lake for a routine morning exercise.

The spiral staircase leading to the ground was dark and long, and the experience was so bad that he couldn't help but start thinking about it.

'The Slytherin common room is probably the furthest from the ground, so why didn't I get a Ravenclaw?' I've heard that Ravenclaw's lounge is on a tower, the sun is good, and you have a view of the Black Lagoon in the distance......

Of course, if he had known that the Ravenclaw Tower was so tall that it was extremely inconvenient for students to go up and down every time, he might not have been so psychologically unbalanced.

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Finally, Siwen climbed the long staircase to the surface. In the distance, the sky was already white, faintly reflecting the appearance of the layers of clouds in the sky. The torches in the entrance courtyard were still lit brightly, and the stratus clouds were still a little faint in comparison.

Looking out of the courtyard window, you can see the long stone staircase you walked on last night. The sun had already set when the boat arrived, and it was dark, so it was hard to notice the surroundings.

Now that the sky is light, the window of the cloister looks down from the top to the southeast side of the castle, and the whole castle is perched on a cliff, and apart from the narrow area around the houseboat, it is difficult to see the flat shore to the southeast of the entrance courtyard.

"It seems that the plan for a morning exercise on the shore of the lake has been dashed." Shivin shrugged. "Maybe I should try my luck near the Quidditch pitch north of the castle."

It was still early, and Siwen was in no hurry, so he walked up the stairs outside the auditorium to the main tower, and then through a wide corridor to the corner tower on the east side of the castle, where a towering stone bridge crossed it from the astronomical tower in the teaching area.

The stone bridge was erected on a steep cliff, and as I walked on the bridge, the cool morning breeze blew in my face, blowing up Xiwen's wizard's robes.

Facing the wind, Xiwen unbuttoned his robe and threw it behind him, and the hem of his robe fluttered like a cloak in the wind. Then, he rested his elbows on the railing, squinted his wind-covered eyes, and looked down at the swaying pine trees on the edge of the cliff, still feeling unreal.

'I've been living in this world for more than a decade with a new identity, and I've come to a magic school? ’

You must know that the previous life has only experienced a little more than twenty years in total, and there is still a childhood period with no clear memory.

The clear eleven years of his life often baffled him, and he occasionally woke up in the middle of the night thinking that he was still on Kama Taj's bamboo mat; Sometimes I wonder if Kama Taj's experience is nothing more than a long dream, and that I should have belonged to this universe......

Xiwen fell into deep thought, unaware that he was still in the cold wind.

At this moment, a slender hand holding a thick magic book blocked his vision and the cool breeze on his face. The owner of that hand interrupted his thinking by patting him on the shoulder with his other hand.

"Do you want to catch a cold on the first day of school so you don't have to go to class?" A magnetic female voice asked.

Shivin looked up from his arm and saw a gray-haired, blue-eyed, black-rimmed witch looking at him in amazement.

"You're... Ravenclaw prefects? Xiwen vaguely remembered that he must have seen her on the train.

"Miranda Goshawk." She nodded blandly. "I'm glad you still remember me."

You don't look happy at all. Xiwen secretly slandered himself.

Today's Miranda has long gray hair and a loose light blue dress under her school uniform, but she is not as serious and rigid as on the train, but has a clean and innocent temperament under the breeze.

Xiwen couldn't help but say: "If you change your glasses, you must be an intellectual and beautiful witch." ”

Miranda raised an eyebrow and said, "Is that how Slytherin 'aristocrats' like you are?" On the first day of school, I dared to flirt with my senior sister. ”

Sven smiled awkwardly, "Ahem, you may have some misunderstandings about the 'nobility' of Slytherin......"

Miranda said: "I didn't misunderstand anything. After four years at Hogwarts, I already knew what Slytherin was like. ”

It seems that Slytherin's reputation is not very good...... Xiwen spread his hands helplessly.

"Speaking of which, you don't look much like a Slytherin." Miranda suddenly said seriously. "I've never seen anyone in Slytherin wake up so early."

"Really?" Xiwen asked with interest. "Do you think I'm a little like a Ravenclaw? The Sorting Hat struggled for a long time to sort me out of Slytherin or Ravenclaw. ”

Miranda didn't hold back after all, and the corners of her mouth twitched and said, "It's good that you didn't get Ravenclaw, otherwise you would definitely be taken to the ...... in the first grade."

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Xiwen quickly changed the subject, forcibly pulled Miranda, who was about to practice spells, and asked her to familiarize herself with the castle environment, and took the opportunity to ask where there was a suitable place for morning exercises.

In desperation, Miranda had no choice but to leave the stone bridge with Xiwen and come to the Astronomy Tower, which belongs to the complex of buildings in the teaching area, and a boxy circular corridor connects several tall towers.

In the middle of the promenade there is a large square covered with a layer of green lawn, and a fountain sits in the middle of the lawn.

"You can do your morning exercise here." Miranda pointed to the lawn downstairs with her chin.

Xiwen thought for a moment, and then darkened his face and expressed his unacceptability: "All the people who are going to class will pass by here, I don't think I'm thick enough to be seen as a monkey in front of the public......"

Miranda chuckled, "As long as you wake up early enough, there aren't many people here." ”

Xiwen looked at the students downstairs who were already scattered with books and waving their wands, and pulled up a few black lines on his face: "Those are the students of your academy." ”

He pointed to the west side of the castle and said, "Don't think I don't know, your Ravenclaw Tower is over there, and I can't get up early enough to rob those nerds in your house!" ”

This sentence seems to cover a bit too much.

"Be careful when you speak!" Miranda replied with a dark face, and then she seemed to realize something. "You seem to be familiar with the castle, are you really a freshman?"

Xiwen secretly said that it was not good. I pretended to be a ghost last night, and was taken on a tour by Nicholas and the Fat Friar for a long time. And the ghosts aren't limited by the terrain, so they have a general overview of almost the entire castle.

When he woke up today, Xiwen completely forgot about this stubble, and when he stayed with Miranda, he didn't show the strangeness of his first arrival, which caused suspicion.

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