Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine held up their wands and walked along the dark and narrow secret passage. .
Soon, the surroundings gradually became brighter.
Without the light of a wand, the darkness is dispelled by the light from the walls, floor and ceiling.
This is a kind of bright bright red. The rock wall is like the special bright red emitted by the red-hot pig iron or the lighted filament. It is the brightness emitted by the rock after being roasted at high temperature. Everything was glowing red, even the air was starting to turn bright red.
Accompanied by the color change, is the rapidly rising temperature, scorching everything with high temperature.
Aiwen estimated that the four of them are now completely immersed in the depths of the magma.
Even with the protection of magic, it cannot prevent the rock from being ignited by the high temperature.
Similarly, even with the protection of magic, it was impossible for Aiwen and the four of them to isolate the astonishing temperature from the rock wall.
"It's so hot!" Elaine wiped her sweat.
Because of the high temperature, her perennially pale face also showed a rare blush.
"This will make you feel better!" Ivan waved his wand at Elaine, and cast another constant temperature spell on her.
"It's not much cooler. Vampires hate high temperatures." Elaine continued, sticking out her tongue, while opening her neckline.
"If this Chamber of Secrets is the real vault in Slytherin, what's in there?" Harry asked expectantly, his curiosity aroused. "Would it be a legendary magic item? Like a staff of two snakes or a hanging Like a locket?"
"It is possible that Slytherin has many precious collections, and legendary magic items are only part of them." Ivan replied in a relaxed tone, "If I were to say it, I would prefer clues related to evil gods or secret treasure keys. "
Of course, if it is a powerful legendary magic item, Ivan will not dislike it.
"But it won't be that simple," he continued, "Don't forget, Slytherin will only leave his treasures to pure blood, the kind of real pure blood wizards, I don't think he will just talk, If it's the real vault down there, he probably won't leave us with anything."
The scene just now reminded Ivan and made him think of this matter.
Strictly speaking, none of the four of them are purebloods that meet the requirements of Slytherin.
Ivan and Hermione needless to say, Harry is also a mixed blood, he just inherited part of Voldemort's blood talent in soul. As for Elaine, she is the successor of Slytherin in name, but her blood is actually more chaotic, a mixed blood of evil gods, vampires and wizards.
If Salazar Slytherin made up his mind to use the purity of bloodlines to choose his successor, then he would definitely leave behind magic or institutions to verify bloodlines.
In this way, Ivan, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine did not meet the requirements.
"Huh, it's pure blood again. It's hard to believe that the founder of Hogwarts would have this kind of discrimination. Seriously, no matter what Slytherin left down here, I hate this place." Hermione wrinkled her nose and said , looked around anxiously, "Now is not the time for treasure hunting, we'd better get out of here quickly, the goblins above must have found us, the track was destroyed by the dragon, they can't get down, but they will definitely guard the fortress above road"
"Don't worry about this, Hermione, it doesn't matter how many goblins and Death Eaters are guarding it, we don't need to go out along the track. I have studied the underground structure of Gringotts before. This cave leads directly to Diagon Alley above. We will rush up on the giant dragon in a while, and no one can stop us." Ai Wen stopped talking, the four of them had come to the end, and in front of them was the exit of the secret road, "Since we are here, we should Take a closer look. Besides, we seem to have reached the end, look, that is the end of the secret passage, come on, let's see what's inside"
Aiwen came to the end of the secret road, and a crimson world appeared in front of them, a world composed of flames.
What appeared in front of him seemed to be a road of flames. The four of them stared dumbfounded at the scene in front of them, as if they had merged into this red world where they could not tell the difference between up, down, left, and right. They stared blankly at the picture for a long time before Aiwen returned Come to think of it, in front of them is a confined space.
There is no way to move forward, and the road of flames that Ivan thought was simply rolling magma.
The top of the secret room and the walls on all sides were also occupied by flowing magma, and everything merged together to form this world made of flames.
The heat was raging, and the flames seemed to consume everything.
In this space completely made of flames, the four of them looked so small, so isolated and helpless.
Ivan stood at the end of the secret passage and looked inside, Harry, Hermione, and Elaine stood behind him.
On the wall facing them is a relief, also covered in lava, that is a statue of Salazar Slytherin.
I can't see the exact appearance, but the line of text on the relief is very obvious.
Not Parseltongue, but plain English.
The text composed of protruding stones conveys such a message: the falling blood will verify the truth, and those with pure blood will get the treasure.
"The falling blood will verify the truth, and those with pure blood will get the treasure!" Ivan repeated in a low voice.
"What does it mean?"
"Probably as we guessed, Salazar Slytherin intends to use some method to verify the bloodlines of the people who drove here, and then decide whether to hand over the treasure to them." Ivan said, carefully observing the surroundings , "Well, if I'm not mistaken, he seems to want us to drip blood into the lava below?"
"Looks like it!" echoed Hermione, who was also examining the line.
"What are you talking about?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Just a guess, Harry, but it should be about the same. Stand back and let me try."
As Ivan said, he stretched out his left hand forward, and took the wand in his right hand and gently swipe over the index finger of his left hand.
A slender wound appeared on his finger, and a few drops of blood were exposed, falling into the endless lava below.
Soon, the blood melted into a deeper crimson, as if it had been evaporated.
For a moment, nothing happened, but soon a pillar of fire rose into the sky where Aiwen's blood fell.
With the shouts of Harry and Hermione and the huge roar, the pillar of fire struck Ivan with an astonishing momentum.
Aiwen hurriedly raised his wand, and a protective cover came out of thin air to stop the pillar of fire attacking him.
Fire and magic collide until they are exhausted.
"Aiwen, what happened just now?" Hermione asked with wide-eyed eyes, pulling Aiwen back, "That pillar of fire"
"It verified our guess, but my blood didn't meet Slytherin's requirements, so he wouldn't give me anything, and attacked me with magic." Ivan said, squinting his eyes and moving forward again, looking Looking at the relief on the opposite wall, "If I had known this, I would have prepared some blood from those pure-blood wizards!"