John has begun to doubt whether his action was correct - he just accidentally caught some slight doubts at the banquet table and sneaked out. Is this trip really worth it? It's not like he has never visited this location at the back of the first floor. What can he see here
Besides, even if there really is a secret here, how likely is it that it will actually happen to be useful to me? Judging from the situation in the past few days, the "Lord of the Living Corpses" had no defense against him from the beginning, right
"Maybe... it's just something that I simply don't want Weasley to find. As for whether I saw it or not, it doesn't matter?"
John thought to himself as he walked along the increasingly dark corridor.
However, now that he has come and taken the risks, he obviously has no reason to give up midway. The only thing to do now is to continue moving forward and use your eyes to confirm for yourself whether the doubts you have noticed before have a consistent answer.
Of course, if you can really see something "something you shouldn't see", that will probably be the biggest reward of this impulse!
"...No, nothing, everything...at least it's no different from what I saw when I wandered over last time."
John rubbed the handle of the wand in his pocket, his eyes roving back and forth in the darkness, taking in everything in the corridor. If he wasn't worried that casting a spell here would lead to exposure, he would actually have wanted to try throwing a few detection spells around.
Not long after, John finally reached the end of the corridor and stopped in front of a door.
According to the architectural structure of Buckingham Palace, this is right below the corner of the stairs where Ron's footprints were seen turning back. If there really is any secret, it seems... It's probably in the back garden outside this door. .
But what's out there? Except for a piece of grass that has long since died and dried up... or more accurately, mud, there are only the same bare groves and a small lake - similar to the atrium in the middle of the palace that has been transformed into a garden. For example, there is really nothing to see in the back garden now. He had taken a look out of the upstairs window two days ago.
With this thought in mind, John stretched out his hands to grab the doorknob, twisted it gently and carefully pushed it open. Then, he stretched his neck and looked out from the middle of the opened door...
Bai Ye did not put up a light source outside today. It was already very dark at this time, and the night outside seemed darker than in the corridor. He waited a few seconds for his eyes to adjust, and then his vision gradually widened.
"Um?"
Suddenly, John felt like he saw something... In the middle of what should have been a flat open space in front of the door, there was something shadowy and vague, seemingly standing upright
"Is that... a tombstone?"
There are sporadic mentions in the information collected by the Stewart family that Macca McLean seems to have a mysterious large black stone tablet in his hand, which contains the secrets of ancient magic. Of course John would also like to take a look if possible.
But the one erected outside is obviously not the stone tablet mentioned in the information.
Although you can't see it clearly here, you can tell just by looking at the outline that there is a neat row of stone monuments standing on the land. Judging from the size... in short, it looks like tombstones.
John looked over there and considered for a moment, and finally pushed the door that was only a little open a little further, then pursed his lips, spread his legs and walked out quietly. After turning around and closing the door again, he checked around and found that there was indeed no one else around. Then he walked step by step towards the row of stone tablets that looked extremely suspicious of tombstones.
"The smell of freshly turned soil... is it really a tomb? Who could be buried underneath?" He walked forward and soon saw that there seemed to be words engraved on the stele, so he simply bent down and approached one of the stone stele to take a closer look. Look.
"...Caroline...Stewart?"
There are not many words on the monument. Apart from a few numbers representing the year and date, there is only a name sitting alone in the middle. But this name is something he is very familiar with!
Caroline, although she is a little far apart in the family tree, can still be regarded as his cousin.
In the "workshop", unlike his cousin who was always careless, Caroline was very reliable in her work as a collector of wand core materials. Even he, an unreliable wand maker, often has to trouble the other party when completing the quota-assigned production tasks every month.
Because Caroline has a good level of dueling and actual combat, and she is very active, she also participated in this mission. So... In fact, if we want to talk about the fact that the other party is dead, he already knew it from the time he hid in the ruins and "trembled".
But…
"Why... are you here? What's going on with this tombstone?" At this time, John had forgotten to keep absolutely quiet, and subconsciously murmured to himself, "Wait! If that's the case, what about the other tombstones?" Could it be..."
Talking to himself like this, John hurriedly turned around and ran to the side, looking along the row of tombstones one by one.
"Ryan...Gabriel...Christopher...this is Mr. Jonkel!"
This entire row of tombstones seems to have not been finished. Except for a few in the middle, the tombstones on both sides only have dates but no names. Of course, this little thing is not important to John for the time being. What he wants to know most now is, why are these tombstones engraved with the names of teammates appearing here
Was it done by the Lord of Living Corpses
It must have been done by the Lord of Living Corpses!
But why would he do this
To be honest, although the death of his teammate was sad for John, it was not an unacceptable thing. Everyone stepped into this disaster area with the awareness of death this time. Even himself, if Bai Ye hadn't rescued him in time, he would have died there long ago.
However, since he, John Stewart, was fortunate enough to be alive, he should at least have the obligation to find out some things.
"Think of another way!" John, who had forced himself to calm down, thought as he looked at the tombstone in front of him.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
"you saw it?"
At that moment, all the muscles in John's body tensed up, and goosebumps appeared on his back.