This is a dark corridor, and except for a few torches fixed on the wall that are still flickering with flames, there is nothing else that can provide illumination.
At a glance, it's almost impossible to see the road ahead.
At this moment, Maka is walking in this corridor step by step...
The sound of footsteps echoed hollowly.
He clutched the wand in his hand - yes, he rarely used the modern short wand anymore. But he had to use this today, because for some reason, he couldn't exert his due strength.
To be more precise, in fact, he is just an ordinary Hogwarts student at the moment.
Suddenly, he shook his wand slightly.
"Fluorescence."
A ball of light lit up from the tip of the staff, emitting a soft light. But not long after, the light seemed to be absorbed by the surrounding environment, quickly gradually dimmed, and finally went out completely.
Seeing this, Maka remained silent and continued to pace forward.
"Ta...ta...ta..."
Maka's expression was very serious. He ignored the sound of the soles of his shoes rubbing against the ground, and always looked at the places he could see, both in front of and behind him.
And suddenly, his progress stopped because he heard a slight "click" sound.
It was only a small sound at first, but in the extremely quiet corridor, it was suddenly amplified a lot. If you can't hear this, you must be deaf.
Maka didn't speak, he just raised the arm holding the wand and pointed in the direction of the sound. But the other party seemed to know that he had discovered it. After he stopped, the voice stopped appearing again.
With poor visibility, waiting is undoubtedly difficult. About five or six seconds passed before Maka heard the second similar sound.
"Click."
It sounded like a hard object hitting the ground, but when you couldn't see the actual situation, it felt more like another kind of footsteps different from your own.
If those were the soles of someone's shoes, then those shoes must be hard, right
The guy hiding in the darkness did not continue to delay time. At the next moment, the third "click" sound was accompanied by a tall figure walking out of the shadows behind the torch.
At the same time, you can see that the other party also stretched out a wand, pointing accurately at Maka.
"Except - your - weapon!"
It was a voice that sounded a little awkward, as if the speaker had a bad cold. It was not only muffled, but also a little rough.
But no matter what the opponent's voice was, a disarming spell had already been completed - red light quickly struck Maka from the tip of the opponent's wand.
"Armor protection."
Maka turned the wand in her hand with a calm expression, and the red light of the disarming spell was flicked aside.
"Detention immediately!" "Everyone—"
After resisting the disarming spell, he immediately cast the second spell. The magic rope conjured by the confinement spell suddenly rolled towards the opponent, interrupting the whole body binding spell the opponent was preparing, and tied him up firmly.
Obviously, Maka won an absolute victory in this one-on-one ambush battle.
However, after it was over, he did not step forward to check, but stood there and thought silently. After a while, he stepped forward, but when he walked to the tied figure, he didn't even look at it again.
"Ta...ta...ta..."
In the corridor that became quiet again, Maka's footsteps continued to echo. They overlapped and intertwined again and again, lingering in Maka's ears.
Not long after, as he walked in the darkness for a few more minutes, a wall suddenly blocked his way.
It can be seen that there is only an ordinary wooden door on that wall - this is clearly telling visitors that it is the only way through here.
Maka first reached out and pushed, but the door leaf didn't move at all; he grabbed the rusty door handle and twisted it twice, but the door still showed no intention of being opened.
"The Alajo hole opens."
This is an ordinary lock-opening spell. As far as ordinary door locks are concerned, even if the keyhole is completely blocked and the lock tongue is firmly welded, it can still be opened again.
Of course, if the door that cannot be opened is related to magic, it will be difficult for the universal unlocking spell to be effective.
It can be seen that this is a place that requires a lot of thinking to pass. But Maka didn't think much, he just glanced at the doorknob and waved his wand again.
"The true form is revealed."
As the spell was recited clearly, the rusty door handle suddenly twisted, and then turned into a latch with an iron lock!
"The Alajo hole opens."
This second unlocking spell finally produced its intended effect. With a soft "click" sound, the lock automatically popped open.
After successfully breaking through this obstacle, Maka nodded to herself, then pulled out the latch and pushed the door open.
But at the moment when the door was opened, a large group of small black things actually appeared behind it, flapping their wings and rushing towards them.
Because they appeared very suddenly and at no slow speed, it was not easy to see clearly what they were.
"There are many obstacles."
In this case, Obstacle Spell is a very good choice. Whether it is a single entity or a group, it can provide short-term control, allowing you to take some time to judge the response.
At this time, you can intuitively use your eyes to figure out what those things are.
It turned out that it was just a large group of ordinary bats.
It can be seen that the bats blocked by the obstacle curse are all moving in slow motion. Although there are more bats coming towards the door, almost all of them have crashed into the effective range of the curse.
Since they are a group of basically harmless little bats, there is no need to do anything unnecessary.
After Maka revoked the barrier spell, he let the noisy little guys huff and puff past him and disappeared into the darkness behind him.
With nothing else to hinder him, he passed through the blocking wall through the doorway and continued to move forward.
Even after leaving the previous corridor, the road after that did not change much - the light was still seriously insufficient, and there were even more sections with no lighting at all than before.
However, those who can reach this point will probably not choose to stop or turn back just because the road is a little dark. As for Maka, of course it is even more impossible to give up.
He was still moving forward, but more seriously than before.
After that, about ten minutes passed, and after Maka had solved a few minor troubles, another wall stood in front of him.
The difference with the wall just now is that this wall is "invisible".
I believe that if someone walks here, they will probably bump into it and add a harmless bump to their forehead.
But Maka didn't - he had stopped before he hit the invisible wall.
Gently brushing against the wall, although you can't see it, the touch on your hands is the same as an ordinary wall. He groped around and confirmed that this was indeed a wall, and it didn't even have a door.
"The true form is revealed."
This spell, which had played a huge role when passing through the first wall, had no effect at all this time. It can be seen that the invisibility effect on this wall cannot be removed by the object revealing spell.
"Urgent appearance."
What followed was another magic spell that revealed reality.
In fact, this magic spell is not as effective as the previous one when it comes to solving invisible magic, but it has a unique effect that that magic spell does not have.
As expected, the wall was still invisible, but a line of crooked text suddenly appeared in front of the seemingly empty space:
"What you see may not be true, because the truth is often hidden behind the visible."
When Maka saw this line of writing, she couldn't help but smile, and then suddenly turned around and walked towards the wall of the corridor next to her. In the blink of an eye, he was like a disembodied ghost, passing through easily.
And after that, there was another dark corridor, which looked full of drowsiness at first glance.
From the looks of it, it might have been just a designed and arranged corner of the corridor.
Maka put away the smile on her face, calmed down again and moved forward. It was obviously darker here than before. After walking twenty or thirty steps, there was an almost extinguished torch, providing the visitor with the meager light.
This time, Maka walked for a long time, maybe twenty minutes in total. Of course, this also had something to do with the fact that he didn't leave very quickly.
In these twenty minutes, he encountered nothing and nothing happened. The only thing that has changed is probably the gradually lowering ambient temperature around him.
Yes, the air slowly became colder, and by the end it felt like winter all of a sudden.
"call-"
When passing by a certain torch, Maka exhaled through the light and saw a cloud of white mist steaming up, which showed how low the temperature in the corridor was.
"Well, luckily it happens to be winter. If I had worn thinner clothes, I might have frozen here."
Maka secretly complained, followed the quickening pace, and stopped caring about anything else. Because he knew that if he walked a short distance, his little "journey" would come to an end.
And about ten seconds later, a black shadow suddenly appeared from behind another torch in front. The moment she came under the bright light, Maka pursed her lips and suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
"Forget it, there's no need to experience it anymore—"
While he was speaking, the black shadow floated over. Its body was hanging in the air, and it was covered with a shabby black hooded cloak. A pair of skinny hands were mostly protruding from the sleeves.
This is obviously a dementor.
But what’s different from ordinary Dementors is that this guy also wears a Christmas hat with a fluffy ball on his head!
"Sarah, come out!"