156:Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets (Part II)
The basilisk emerged from behind Bernie, and Lockhart conjured a strip of black cloth to cover his eyes, not daring to make eye contact with the basilisk, but in this way, his combat ability was greatly reduced.
"Kill him." Bernie Selwyn's chubby face showed a hint of murderous intent, ordering the basilisk with a parseltongue.
Lockhart heard the sound of breaking the air in front of him, and his heart was miserable.
He knew Bernie Selwyn could speak the Parseltongue, but he didn't expect him to be able to harness the basilisk and make the behemoth that had been sleeping underground for hundreds of years his thug.
This is definitely not good news, it is not much of a problem to deal with the basilisk at the level of Lockhart, but it is a bit of a problem to add a Bernie Selwyn, if he is an ordinary student, but he will be affected by the diary from time to time, and the spells cast are strange and powerful.
The situation was urgent, and Stonewall, hearing Harry's Parseltongue, parted to the sides, revealing a dark, boundless tunnel ahead.
"Professor Lockhart, keep up with us!" Harry didn't dare look back, for fear the basilisk's eyes would be on him.
"You go first!" Lockhart hurriedly dodged the stout snaketail, "I'll be right next then!" ”
"Still want to go?" Bernie's tone was arrogant, and he waved his fat hand, "All of you will stay in the Chamber of Secrets forever today!" ”
"Professor McGonagall!" Harry looked past the stone door to see Professors McGonagall and Flitwick heading this way, led the way by Joel's Patronus Raven.
"Potter!" Professor McGonagall shouted.
Bernie snorted coldly, and the two small snakes on the stone wall heard Bernie's order, and immediately moved closer to the middle, so fast that everyone couldn't react at all.
In full view of everyone, the stone wall closed again, leaving not even a single gap.
"Open!" Harry was in a hurry, and hurriedly gave orders in a parseltongue, but this time the two little snakes remained motionless and did not seem to hear him.
"Hahahaha," Bernie laughed, "they won't listen to you, Potter!" I'm the heir of Slytherin! ”
"Damn it......" Lockhart saw this scene and knew that something was going to happen, he twisted his waist and lifted most of the magic power in his body, "Thunderbolt explosion!" ”
The purple light nearly blinded everyone, and the spell slammed into the basilisk's thick body, cutting through its thick scale armor and leaving a blur of flesh and blood on its body.
The basilisk hissed wildly in pain, writhing the snake in a furious way, and the snake's tail swept through the stone pillars in the secret room, knocking down a cloud of dust and rubble.
Bernie continued to sizzle and ordered the basilisk to continue attacking without stopping.
"What now?" Harry could feel the slight tremor of the stone wall with his back against him, and Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick tried their best to break in outside the wall, but unfortunately Slytherin had prepared everything when he built this secret room, and the spell he had laid was so powerful that Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were not enough to see in front of Slytherin, one of the four founders.
Joel gently lowered Helis down.
"Help me keep an eye on her." He said to Ron and Harry, pulling the black cloth off his forehead, turning and pulling out his wand and charging towards the basilisk, he and Lockhart were the only ones in this secret room who had the strength to fight, and the two had to join forces.
"Armor protection!" Joel saw that the basilisk's huge body was about to sweep away the unsuspecting Lockhart, and hurriedly shouted a spell.
The transparent barrier lies between a man and a snake, the basilisk is infinitely powerful, and the iron armor spell can't stop this momentum, and the basilisk attack is shattered into slag after a slight delay, and Lockhart seizes the opportunity to dodge the attack with a low body.
The two of them scattered to the left and right, and the spell struck the basilisk like a storm.
The basilisk had some magic immunity, but it still couldn't stop such a dense spell, and the scale armor was pierced by the spell layer by layer, hitting its thick flesh.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
The basilisk writhed more and more impatiently, and had not experienced such pain in thousands of years since it hatched from a male egg (yes, a male egg, an egg-laying rooster, a battle chicken among roosters).
It panicked, but it was still careful to keep an eye on Bernie Selwyn at its side, the old man it had known 50 years ago, and even though he had changed his skin now, it still remembered him, except for Salazar, the only human it had interacted with.
"Use your fangs!" Bernie snapped, Riddle Diary had already taken control of Bernie's body at this time, and the Parseltongue came out of his mouth without any obstacles.
The basilisk was always obedient to his orders, and aimed at Joel with its huge head held high, and in his opinion, the young human was easier to deal with.
"A flock of birds!" Joel looked at the rapidly enlarged fangs in his sight, and did not save his strength, and used his most proud transformation charm, and the rubble flying in the air turned into ravens.
Joel then takes the form of Animagus and blends into a flock of ravens, which are scattered around the secret room, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.
"Is this a human transfiguration?" Harry and Ron could see the battlefield out of their eyes, and the basilisk didn't pay attention to them at all.
"It's Animagus," Helis clutched her belly, leaning against the stone wall, with a slight smile on her lips, "he's better than I thought." ”
The snake's head slammed into the ground and fell into the air, and the enraged basilisk turned to attack Lockhart under Bernie's command.
A raven stopped at the edge of the pillar and turned back into a human form, it was Joel, his wand casting a spell all the time, and the colorful spells hit the basilisk's scales.
The basilisk was in pain, and Lockhart blocked the attack with the Iron Armor Charm, and retreated to safety with the remaining force of the shockwave.
The basilisk attacked Joel on the pillar again, and he once again transformed into a raven, blending with the other Transfiguration ravens hovering in the air, and when he dispersed again, it was difficult to find him.
"Bastard!" Bernie was furious, he didn't expect this boy who was as handsome as his soul to be slippery like a loach, and the basilisk couldn't hit his body.
I didn't expect to have to go out myself.
Bernie, or rather Tom Riddle, who controlled Bernie's body, pulled out his wand with the only remaining arm.
"Drill the heart and cut the bones!" The tip of his staff was aimed at Lockhart.
His memory was only 16 years old, but by this time he had mastered hundreds of dark magic spells, each of which was terrifying and ferocious.
The basilisk's sheer size left Lockhart with no room to dodge the spell, and it was still considered Hogwarts, and the anti-illusion shift ban shrouded the Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart couldn't avoid it, he dodged the basilisk's fangs, and was hit by Bernie's Drilling Spell.
He was pushed against the wall with a tremendous force, and then the pain swept through his body, breaking his bones one by one, he twisted his body and rolled on the ground, his hands tearing at his lilac-colored robe, but to no avail, he collapsed to the ground and died, his chest heaving violently.
Bernie laughed arrogantly, Lockhart had lost his combat ability as the only adult wizard in the chamber, and now he was facing only four and a half children who were not too big to fear.
"Professor Lockhart!" Harry and Ron screamed, Professor Lockhart had offered to give them a chance to escape, and they were now feeling guilty about what they had thought.
Helis clenched her wand in her hand, Professor Lockhart fell, could it be Joel next?
She took two deep breaths and crawled to her feet.
"Selwyn......" Ron stepped forward to help, but was waved and refused by Hayris.
"You two face the stone wall and continue to order the stone wall to open in a parseltongue," Haylis said in a non-obstinatory tone, "Don't focus on the frontal battlefield. ”
"You ......"
Before Harry could finish speaking, Haylis had already pulled down the black strip of cloth and rushed forward with her wand.
Joel's Animagus form meant he was suitable for detour and harassment, Lockhart had to be on top of him when he fell, and Haylis didn't think Ron was stronger than him - and Harry had to step forward and take on the burden if he tried to open the stone wall with a parseltongue.
Joel re-incarnated in mid-air on the side of the basilisk, and threw out two spells with his wand, one of which hit the basilisk's eye socket with incredible precision, and with a terrible howl, the basilisk went berserk, shaking its head, and the left eye socket was already covered in blood.
The spell flung Joel's body down under gravity, and he used what little magic he had left in his body to transform into a raven again, flapping his wings and soaring upwards, disappearing from the basilisk and Bernie's vision once more.
"What about Potter?" Bernie laughed uncontrollably as he saw Helis hobbling with her wounds covered, her voice was sharp and piercing, Haylis had never heard such a weird laugh from her brother's mouth, "Are Gryffindors all such cowards, actually sending a weak wounded man to fight against the basilisk!" ”
But he didn't stop the spell in his hand, and a slashing spell slashed at Helis from a tricky angle, and the basilisk was now losing his mind in pain, and hunted the ravens in the air with his head held high, intending to kill the buzzing fly.
Hearing the sound of breaking the air in front of her, Helis cast an iron armor spell with her right wand, and quietly spread her magic power into the stone slab with her left hand, laying plant traps.
The Blade Slash Spell slashed through the Iron Armor Barrier, shattering it no doubt, but that was about it.
Bernie, who was manipulated by Riddle, was secretly annoyed, this body was not only bloated and incapacitated, but even the magic power was extremely poor, but if the magic power qualification was a little higher, this knife spell could slash Haylis.
Joel transformed in the air again, and two more spells hit the basilisk, its body was too large to look like a target in the air, but the basilisk screamed in pain, but its skin was thick and thick, and these spells could not deal a devastating blow to it.
He turned back into a raven again, and when he saw Helis staggering on the stone slab, she couldn't see her surroundings clearly after being blindfolded, and she moved cautiously, almost tripping over the stones scattered on the ground, Joel couldn't help but feel anxious, and he was worried about Helis's safety.
He must get rid of the basilisk as soon as possible.
Joel spread his wings and slanted downwards towards the basilisk's head.
The basilisk turned its head and wanted to stare at Joel with its remaining eyeball, but it was too agile after turning into a raven, and half a year of flying skills had not been practiced in vain, and if he was prepared, the basilisk's glare did not pose much threat to him.
The basilisk held its head high and wanted to swallow Joel in one gulp, but Joel was already prepared, and directly turned into a human in mid-flight, and the whole person hit the head of the basilisk with the momentum of the flight, and the wand in his right hand slashed at the basilisk's only remaining eye.
It let out a wail, black blood spurted to the ground, and it lost all vision and shook its body violently, and Joel was now out of strength, and he saw that he was about to be thrown by the huge body of the basilisk.
"Armor protection!" It was Ron, who had a wand in his hand.
Thanks to Lockhart's proposed dueling club, Ron was able to learn a lot of new spells in the monthly event, which was much more powerful than the little spells they had been fighting with Malfoy before, and he couldn't contain the emotions that were surging in his heart when he heard Bernie say that "Gryffindors are cowards".
Naturally, they Gryffindors did not have the habit of hiding behind and watching the battle, let alone putting a wounded man who was only a year older than themselves in front.
The Iron Armor Charm was not very powerful, but it also managed to neutralize most of the power of the basilisk's shaking body, sending Joel flying out and falling onto the stone pillar, his back just against the large snake carved on the stone pillar, and a burning pain spread up his spine.
But fortunately, the spine was not broken, Joel clutched his back and fell to the ground, the basilisk's most powerful weapon has been removed, and the remaining fangs and huge body are not difficult to deal with.
Just then, Bernie struck Hellis' defenses with a Mind Curse that struck her body.
She fell to the ground, feeling as if her internal organs had been cut open with a knife, and then she was slashed in it, and the wound in her abdomen became more and more painful, and the monstrous pain swept up, and Helis's eyes were blackened, and the faint smell of blood came from her mouth.
But she bit her lip tightly and didn't say a word, she didn't even let out a scream, her slender fingers pressed against the gap in the slate, and her ten fingernails broke because she used too much force, and a little bit of red stained on the slate.
"Brother......" Helis let go of the teeth that were biting her lower lip, and her white teeth were also stained with a little red, "Why are you, why did you become like this?" ”
Bernie was laughing arrogantly, and his expression was in a trance for a moment when he heard Helis's words.
He covered his head hard, and the little fat man finally couldn't help but want to jump out and fight with him for control of his body, and at this moment there were two souls in his body entangled with each other,
"Damn, shit!" He hammered his head hard, if this body could completely obey his drive, how could it not even be able to solve these children?
The basilisk also struggled to roll its body on the side, venting its anger and turning the secret room upside down.
"Kill you, kill you," Riddle, trying to regain control of his body, took a few steps forward, swooped down and grabbed Helis's throat with one hand, clenching his wand with the other, "Avada ......"