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Chapter 538: Powerful Magic
🕑 Added 2019-07-05 10:17:43 +0000 UTC
In the darkness, Evan continued down the tunnel behind the entrance.
Most of the ancient relics had been buried deep underground, and only the top part was exposed.
That used to be a ventilation passage in the ruins, and he didn’t know where it led. He also didn’t know when it had been transformed into a huge lair entrance and exit by the Manticore.
After entering, Evan and Buckbeak flew down what looked like a deep, dark well. They were surrounded by old mossy white boulders with no forks along the way.
This was certainly not the entrance that the Centaurs’ ancestor, Okegiga, had followed eight hundred years ago. The Centaurs could not fly like the Hippogriffs. However, judging from the size of the ruins, he should have entered them from other places.
Of course, it was also possible that the horrible evil god intentionally directed him to come here and find the statue.
Over the years, the magic left by ancient warlocks became weaker and weaker, and the evil spirit gradually broke away from the power of the seals put on it. It became able influence the creatures around through the statue and make them degenerate into its own servants.
Besides the wizards of Hogwarts, the most obvious nearby intelligent creatures belonged to the most populated and powerful Centaurs’ colony in the Forbidden Forest.
It was a matter of course that the evil god chose them as targets, to help it collect flesh and blood, and to complete its summoning magic.
Needless to say, the Philosopher’s Stone, which had been preserved in the Centaurs’ colony, was the source of power it needed to come to the world.
Associated with various legends of evil gods and ancient sorcerers, Evan did not dare to be careless and looked around carefully.
The end of his wand shone brightly, dispelling the darkness around him.
Buckbeak was falling fast, but they still flew down for five minutes before reaching the bottom.
That was a huge square room, not surprisingly, the lair of the Manticore. The floor of the room was buried by the bones of countless creatures, all of which were the prey of the Manticore. They were bones of all kinds of creatures, piled up like hills.
Fortunately, Evan did not see human bones among them, which indirectly proved that these ruins had not yet been discovered by the outside world.
Due to its proximity to Hogwarts, there were very few foreign wizards visiting this area.
This dangerous marsh in the depths of the Forbidden Forest was even more inaccessible, and it was not known how long no one had been there.
As for the only visitor, Hagrid, there were probably only magical creatures in his eyes, and he did not care about other things at all.
Evan let Buckbeak land on the pile of bones, and as he did, he heard sound of countless bones being crushed.
In fact, it was not good to look at the piles of bones under his feet and not know what kind of creatures they were.
It was a purgatory, and if any other young wizard had come here, he might have fainted long ago.
Buckbeak bowed his head and pecked hard at the skull left by an unknown creature, making a dull sound that reverberated in the room.
Forced to contain his discomfort, Evan climbed down from Buckbeak's back.
Now was not the time to sigh, he must hurry to complete the exploration and leave here within an hour.
It was no longer suitable to ride Buckbeak to keep going, but it was up to him to do it.
A door, half buried by countless bones was located in the right corner of the room.
The walk through the bones to that door was to be another unforgettable experience to Evan.
He had just taken two steps when he heard the click sound coming from below, as if something was going to come out.
Evan stopped abruptly and pointed his wand at the place.
Deep in the bones, a glow of red flashed, and the heat wave came out.
Evan took a half step back and saw several large tortoises with heavily jewelled shells with different colours, crawling out of the bones.
They were red as fire, waving a huge crab claw out of proportion to their bodies, and another one slightly smaller, but sharper.
They stared at Evan tightly, and the crab claws clattered threateningly, constantly shooting flames from their rear ends.
These things were Fire Crabs, with which the Manticore mated to give Blast-Ended-Skrewts.
From where the Fire Crabs came out, Evan saw a lot of Blast-Ended-Skrewts, which were densely parasitic in the middle of the bone mountain.
The Manticore seemed to have given them food and was raising his offspring.
Fortunately, these Blast-Ended-Skrewts did not grow much, and the character of the Fire Crabs was relatively mild.
As long as Evan did not provoke them, they would not take the initiative to attack.
Bypassing the Fire Crabs and Blast-Ended-Skrewts, Evan came to the buried door.
He gently waved his wand, and all the nearby bones flew into the air and landed elsewhere.
After simply clearing out a passage for himself to bend over, Evan went down the gentle slope made up of bones.
As soon as he went out, he felt a strong magic pressure coming from all directions. It was like the magic of the weird dome plants outside, but more intense and rich.
Evan’s magic was quickly suppressed and lost its effect.
The light at the end of his wand flickered and eventually disappeared.
In this area, all magic was not working. this is a magic free field!
Evan blinked and looked around in amazement.
After the light of his wand was extinguished, he thought that there would be darkness in front of him, but it was not. At this time, in front of him was an ancient huge cloister.
On the side close to the inside was a white marble wall and on the other side was a hollow garden. It was full of weird plants that Evan had never seen, and the ground was covered with mushrooms that glowed orange. The faint fluorescence converged on everything and illuminated everything here.
Even without the light of Evan’s wand, he could clearly see the surrounding scene.
Evan stood in place for a while, and did not enter it immediately.
His body was tight, his mind was highly focused, and he carefully observed the scene inside the ruins.
Not surprisingly, this should be the place where Okegiga had come that year.
Right in front, Evan’s vision was blocked by countless unknown plants in the central garden of the cloister, and he could not see the end.
The marble wall next to him was engraved with light blue magic symbols and ancient magic inscriptions.
A few minutes later, after repeatedly confirming that there was no danger, he began to think about walking in the corridor.
In this space filled with powerful, strange forces, magic had completely lost its function.
Evan couldn’t even feel the magic inside him. He was now like a Muggle.
No matter what happened, he had to find a way to solve it with his own hands and could not rely on magic for help.
Evan took a few steps forward and recognized it at a glance. The surrounding walls were all ancient magical texts like those that appeared in the second part of The Book of Abraham.
He hadn’t deciphered it yet. These mysterious ancient magic texts are more numerous and more complex than those on the book.
Evan carefully observed that countless ancient magical characters and surrounding magical symbols seemed to constitute a powerful spell.
Although he could not understand it, he could feel the powerful force contained in it, which was the source of the strange force that suppressed the magic in his body.
They were left by ancient warlocks throughout this huge building, forming a magic together with the entire relic.
Combined with the message, as well as its effect of suppressing magic, this should be a spell to seal evil gods.
That was shocking. Evan could not describe this feeling in words. He had never seen such a powerful magic.
