"How does it feel to be about to officially take over the Warriors in the Final Three?"
"Needless to say! It's simply awesome!"
"Today's second advertising campaign has been launched. You can treat the third event of tomorrow's Triwizard Tournament as a preview... If I can't come back in time in July, Professor Dumbledore will personally assist you."
"Ask the greatest white wizard of our time to assist me... Only you can do it..."
"Me? No, Dumbledore didn't do that because of me. You have to understand this - this performance is to stop all ordinary wizards from feeling fearful and uneasy about Voldemort's re-attack. Dumbledore Lido is for all wizards in the British wizarding community, and you should also perform well for this... "
"Yes! I can understand that true popularity is based on people's trust... "
On June 23, when everyone was discussing the new full-page advertisement in the Daily Prophet, Maka and Lockhart were in Snape's office in the basement of Hogwarts Castle. Conversation in secret.
Tomorrow is the day when the third event of the Triwizard Tournament begins, but as one of the protagonists, Maka has given this opportunity to participate in the competition to Gilderoy Lockhart.
When Voldemort's forces focused their attention on the Triwizard Tournament and the grand event in July, they never expected that it was just an eye-catching cover created by Maka.
"When the polyjuice potion is about to run out, remember to come here in advance to replenish it so that nothing goes wrong."
After saying that, Maka stood up and left without hesitation.
He went to such great lengths to attract others' attention just to create an opportunity to find the real solution in the burial place of the Bewildered Monument.
The method in "The Book of Sin" is too negative. Perhaps for "that" him, it is indeed excusable; but for Maka now, letting a thing that will explode who doesn't know when remains? In the hands of others, it would be too insecure.
After repeated analysis, Maka shelved "Rowner's Bronze Eagle" and "North America's Ghost Swamp", the two most direct clues that were repeatedly reminded "not to touch" in the book, and instead chose...
Hogwarts Castle, second floor, girls' bathroom in disrepair.
"Oh—Mr. MacLean, long time no see—"
As soon as Maka opened the bathroom door, he immediately saw Crying Myrtle suddenly running in front of him, sobbing and saying hello to him.
"Um."
Maka nodded casually and walked straight towards the sink that was the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.
Yes, the "Book of Sins" mentions the information that the Tablet of Bewitchment was sealed by Salazar Slytherin, and it does not say that there is any danger in this clue. Obviously it is a relatively safe path for exploring the Tablet of Bewitchment. way.
And if anything is related to Salazar Slytherin, it is undoubtedly this Chamber of Secrets.
Although Maka had searched carefully last time, he did not gain much at that time, and later he even collapsed the secret room.
I have to say, that behavior is really an irony for him now...
Maka pulled out her wand and pointed at the faucet.
Suddenly, the faucet seemed to be alive. It stretched automatically and turned into a silver snake to attack Maka. The speed was no less than the attack of any magic spell.
But Maka's hand holding the wand did not tremble at all. He stared closely at the oncoming silver snake and increased the output of magic power.
This is a transfiguration duel that spans the ages. If there are others who can sense magic, they will definitely find that the magic fluctuations here have exceeded the normal intensity of spell casting.
Maka's expression was solemn - he could feel that even after a thousand years, Salazar Slytherin's power still frightened him.
Moaning Myrtle covered her mouth and even forgot to sob.
Although she was unable to detect the real situation, even the Silver Snake's surprise attack made her feel a little overwhelmed. After experiencing the opening of the secret room last time and the Silver Snake's counterattack this time, she might not dare to stay here and wander around anymore.
As time passed, the silver snake expanded together with the sink below under Maka's suppression, and the secret room was finally forced open by him.
"It seems that the magic power is really not enough..."
While muttering quietly, he jumped into the huge pipe that was revealed.
It has been a long time since I last came here, but the topography here has not changed at all. It wasn't until he stood at the door of the real Slytherin Chamber that he sighed slightly.
The stone door had closed automatically when he left last time, and to open it, one had to rely on Parseltongue.
Originally, Maka planned to blast it open directly, but judging from the situation of opening the entrance before, he had to admit that he might not be able to crack the stone door with violence.
"No, maybe you can try."
Maka stretched out her wand and pointed forward, the magic power turned into threads, and a regular rune was quietly outlined on the tip of the wand. For a moment, the surrounding area was filled with cold air, and the area within dozens of feet around Maka was immediately coated with a layer of silver frost.
The next moment, he waved his wand backhand, and the cooling power concentrated on the regular runes went straight towards the stone door. The stone door, along with the surrounding stone walls, turned into a strange pure white in an instant.
"Crack" "Crack-"
As a series of tiny explosions came from the stone door, the entire stone door cracked into white fragments of different sizes under the extremely low temperature.
Maka waved her hand to disperse the rule runes, and then took a deep breath to relieve the feeling of exhaustion caused by the rapid consumption of magic power.
After taking a break, he looked up and saw that the scene in the secret room was what he had expected - it was a ruins piled with a large number of stones.
However, the situation inside was not as serious as he had imagined earlier.
Using the floating spell to move the rocks blocking the way, Maka walked into the secret room and looked up, nodding secretly.
At first, he moved some hands and feet on the support pillars inside, blowing up some of the pillars that the basilisk had not knocked down, causing them to gradually collapse under their own weight.
But obviously, those pillars were only used to support the stone ceiling above, and the structure of the secret room itself was not stabilized by pillars at all.
At that time, he only shed a layer of shell on the inside of this secret room.
"So, the decision made back then was absolutely right..." Maka said, raising her wand again and projecting a beam of light.
As the light illuminated the secret room little by little, a dark hole, no more than two people high, quietly appeared in the distance.
Judging from the location, it should be behind the huge statue of Salazar Slytherin.
No matter what the purpose of Slytherin's original hidden entrance was, it was obviously not set up for violent destroyers like Maka.
But nowadays, the correct way to enter is no longer known.
Maka held the wand, stepped on a piece of gravel and crossed the stones on the ground, flying directly towards that direction.
But when he came near the entrance, he found that there was a strange magic power around him, as if it would surge up at any time, activating some kind of residual mysterious magic.
Maka immediately stopped and was suspended in mid-air.
"Soul magic?"
When he sensed the sudden surge of magic power and gathered in front of the entrance, a green human-shaped shadow quietly emerged there.
Needless to say, just by looking at the sharp beak and monkey cheeks, Salazar Slytherin must have not escaped!
"Ssssssssssssssssssssssss..."
Hearing the familiar "hissing" sound again, Maka couldn't help but slap her forehead.
"This secret room was completely designed for Voldemort!"
Parseltongue is not something that cannot be learned. Even because its syllable patterns are closely related to some ancient magic spells, many wizards knew it in ancient times.
But now, there is nowhere to learn if you want to
Except for people like Voldemort who are born with Parseltongue, or Harry who takes advantage of Voldemort, it is not easy to learn it.
"... hiss... ha hiss, ho, hiss..."
Seeing the phantom "hissing", Maka sighed speechlessly.
"Can you speak human language?" he shouted.
"Hiss..."
"Speak humanly!" Maka shouted, pointing at Slytherin's shadow.
"Her hiss ... Herbena ..."
After several trials, Maka finally determined that the shadow left by Salazar had no independent consciousness at all. Since it was impossible to communicate, then...
He was about to try using soul magic, but unexpectedly, after the phantom "hissed" on its own, it suddenly disappeared!
Although she didn't know if she missed any important information, after repeatedly confirming that there was no other magic left, Maka had no choice but to put aside her doubts and fall into the entrance passage.
From Maka's point of view, there was nothing unusual about this passage. It was just like an ordinary stone tunnel. It kept extending forward, and the further inside it became, the darker it became.
On the stone walls of the passage, apart from the gaps between the stones, there are no other tricks.
In a daze, Maka seemed to have arrived in an underground tomb in the Muggle world. Apart from the remnants of magic that might have alerted him, any signs indicated that this place was almost indistinguishable from an ancient Muggle tomb.
After a long tunnel journey, Maka came to a small stone room.
There are not many furnishings here, just two bookcases made of black wood and an ordinary black desk.
There is no magic to protect them from being eroded by time. The moisture in the ground has caused them to become severely rotten. The chair in front of the desk has even fallen apart.