Chapter 424 Abandoning Conventions

Schelling had already given up on finding Nalida Fokanova's secret room. After all, he was not familiar with Demstrong's place, and a few days of exploration could not allow him to fully understand the secrets of the castle. July is about to end, and he has no more time to waste here.

Who knew that on the evening of July 31, he had just enjoyed dinner. On his way back to his dormitory, he met a ghost wearing black armor.

The ghost's whole body is covered by armor from head to toe, so Shelin cannot know the appearance, identity, and gender of the ghost. She only knows that he calls himself the "Black Knight" in ancient English, and his low and hoarse voice makes Shelin also There is no way to distinguish between men and women.

This is also the first time Schelling has dealt with ghosts since he came to Demstrong. After all, Demstrong's ghosts all look particularly gloomy and weird, and not so friendly.

Give an example, every time we eat, there is an obese ghost named Edmund Grubb who tries his best to stop the little wizards from coming in for a meal. It is said that he accidentally ate toxic berries on the dining table. And the dead, the one who is most unwilling to live enjoy the delicious food in front of him.

The Black Knight stretched out his hand and stopped Xie Lin. Facing Xie Lin's questions, he had no explanation, but just mechanically repeated the motions to Xie Lin to follow him.

Shelin knows how to deal with ghosts. In Hogwarts, even Pipi ghosts dare not mess with him, so he is not afraid of this as a trap, so he follows the Black Knight to bypass a long unmanned corridor. , came to a long abandoned classroom.

When I pushed the door open, the old wooden door made a sharp creak, and the room was filled with dust and air conditioning. The shabby desks and chairs were piled aside, and there were broken textbooks on the podium, which could vaguely identify the annotations about the taboo mantra.

Schelling didn't care about this, and his eyes were attracted by an ancient statue in the corner of the classroom.

It was a statue of a wizard wearing a complex robe, holding a scepter, with cold and sharp eyes. Strangely, the base of the statue did not fit completely with the ground, as if it had been moved slightly. Schelling tapped the statue with his wand and found a string of ancient Runes engraved on it. After identification, he recognized these runes to form a warning: "The road to wisdom must be abandoned and the rules are taken."

A very interesting sentence.

The general idea is that only by giving up following ordinary habits can you find new discoveries.

So what is there in this castle that wizards have been used to using the same way for thousands of years without changing it.

First of all, classrooms and auditoriums can be ruled out. The location and layout of classrooms have never been changed over the past thousand years. The same is true for the auditorium. For example, the ranking of the combat power list is not something that existed since the beginning of the school. After all, the first-generation principal was not famous for his enthusiasm for duels, so it was probably only available after the second-generation principal.

The bathroom was also impossible. In the 17th century, because Muggles invented the water pipe system, like Hogwarts, in order to introduce the water pipe system, so that the wizards who live here can enjoy the pleasure of bathing comfortably, they once used to castle. All bathrooms have been renovated.

Xie Lin thought hard for a while and suddenly realized that there was a place he had never been involved in for this period of time.

hall.

Because Schelling has always used lifting pumice stones specially used by the specialist, he has never needed to climb the rotating stairs in the foyer!

When Schelling turned around and was about to leave the classroom, he realized that the Black Knight had disappeared at some point.

Dinner time just ended, and now the hall is probably full of little wizards, so Shelin could only suppress his restlessness and wait for midnight to come.

So he asked a dwarf in the auditorium to send a cup of fragrant coffee to his dormitory, and then returned to the dormitory to continue studying his black magic book.

...

The night at Demstrong Castle was shrouded in a deep silence, with only the occasional passing dwarf night watchman making a low curse.

Shelin came to the unmanned foyer.

"Show up in a hurry!" Xie Lin waved his wand heroically and swept the magic across the entire stone steps, even the handrails on both sides were not missing.

He activated the plug-in of the Magic Eye, which can observe the magic power attached to all objects. Although everything in Demstrong Castle has more or less magic power, if you have a hidden space, the intensity and fluctuations of magic will definitely be different.

Sure enough, on the seventh stone steps starting from below, Xie Lin vaguely discovered something strange.

Xie Lin tried to tap each part of the stone steps with his magic wand. As he tried many times, it took more than an hour to finally make a row of small characters written in the ancient Rooney text appear on the stone steps- "The disappearing ladder".

Combined with the "need to abandon routines" I just discovered in an abandoned classroom, then...

The foyer is the bottom floor, and the conventional way of using the stairs is naturally to climb upwards, and walking in reverse means... climbing down the stairs!

Thinking of this, Xie Lin abandoned all distracting thoughts and focused his energy, imagined that this was a downward rotation ladder, and stepped on the stone steps with his feet raised.

The surrounding scenes suddenly change.

The corners of Shelin's mouth rose slightly, and he knew he had guessed it right.

What appeared in front of Xie Lin was a stone steps extending downward, which was pitch black and deep.

Shelin summoned five light balls and immediately illuminated the three feet around him. His magic eye was automatically opened, and the magic fluctuations in the space were captured by his pupils one by one. There was no need to worry about any traps in the passage. .

As Schelling walked for about 15 minutes, the passage began to become winding, the air became cold and thin, and sparse Runes and complex reliefs appeared on the walls.

These reliefs seem to record the life of Narita Fkanova, the founder of Demstrong: she conquered extreme cold, controlled taboo magic, defeated the enemy, and finally created the story of Demstrong - which is enough to prove , this is the secret room of Focanova that Schelling had been thinking about day and night, and the words on the wall even pointed out that her secret was hidden at the end of this passage.

Schelling finally arrived at an arch inlaid with emeralds, with the Latin inscription engraved on the top of the arch with the Latin inscription "Knowledge is my sword, trial is my shield." The emerald released a faint light, and as Xie Lin approached, the door opened silently, revealing a solemn and solemn secret room.

There seemed to be a film invisible to the naked eye at the door of the secret room, but Xie Lin's magical eye could see a faint silver-white mist circling around the door. Xie Lin reached out and gently touched the film on the door, and faintly encountered a wave of resistance that was extremely repulsive to himself.

Shelin, who has already done his homework and read Nalida's biography, knows that Nalida is a great white wizard and does not like black magic in his life. His secret room must be to prevent his inheritance from falling into the hands of the black wizard. I have been studying black magic hard these days, and I must have been stained with a lot of evil aura of black magic.

Understanding this point, Schelling no longer hesitated and immediately used the "Margo Margus" to dissipate the black magic aura in his body, and simulated the sacred magic aura of Dumbledore's majestic light.

Sure enough, this time he walked in without any resistance and entered the secret room.

The secret room is deep and dark, with only magic crystals emitting soft green light embedded around the walls, reflecting the space like a dream. A huge, quaint mirror is embedded on the wall in the center, and complex runes and symbols are carved on the frame.

An extremely depressing mysterious power permeates the secret room. Even with Xie Lin's magical cultivation today, he still feels like his own magic power is suppressed.

Shell slowly approached, staring at the mirror.

The mirror did not reflect his figure, but was shrouded in a slightly waving mist, as if locked by some powerful magic. In the depths of the fog, a woman gradually appeared - a beautiful woman wearing a classical robe from the medieval period, with a translucent figure with a little pale face next to the entrance door. The statue is similar in eight or ninety percent.

"Nalida Fkanova?" Shelin spoke softly, emitting his question, but his tone was more certain.

"Welcome, outside visitors." Nalida's faint voice echoed in the secret room. Her eyes were scrutinized and a hint of expectation, "It seems you are not a student of Demstrong - I recognize the clan emblem on your robe. Are you from Great Britain?"

The woman's voice in the mirror sounded very weak, as if it came from a very distant space and time, and the phantom in the mirror flickered from time to time. Obviously, no matter what happened to her, she might not be optimistic.

Even so, her solemn expression could still show her majesty and demeanor back then. Shelin did not dare to neglect and immediately responded: "I come from the Malfoy family in Great Britain and have met the principal."

"Well," Nalida sighed softly, "Although you are not a student of Temstrong, you can find this to prove that you are smart and brave enough. And I finally have something to talk to. Chance."

Xie Lin frowned and looked at the mirror, feeling a strange aura penetrated from the mirror. He spoke slowly, "Are you Ms. Vcanova herself? What happened to you?"

"I'm dead," Nalida said lightly, "but an evil black wizard arrested my soul with soul magic and imprisoned me in this cursed mirror, preventing me from going to the world of the dead."

She smiled bitterly, "In this mirror, I am suffering from a terrible curse every day and night. My soul has long been ruined. What I am talking to you here is just the only remaining soul I have left. Forget it."

Xie Lin frowned slightly. Although Xie Lin was not a good person, torturing the soul of a dead person for nearly a thousand years was beyond Xie Lin's imagination.

By the way, after subduing the Death Eaters, Schelling had already asked Avery, who possessed the shit-eating pig, to take poison and die in painless and peaceful conditions.

In fact, it was just a means of Sherling's bluff and terrorizing the Death Eaters. Even if the plan to conquer the Death Eaters failed, Sherling never really planned to make Avery unable to reborn forever. That was too cruel. Too inhumane.

He couldn't help but wonder what kind of hatred it was that it would require the soul of a wizard to be cruel to this point and imprisoned for nearly a thousand years.

He asked in a deep voice: "What exactly is it that makes you, the founder of Demstrong, end up like this?"

Nalida lowered her eyes, her tone filled with hidden sadness: "It was Harfang Monte, my successor and the second headmaster of Durmstrang. He pretended to be a loyal colleague, but coveted my wisdom and heritage. He secretly implanted a strange curse into my soul, and when I realized it, it was too late... My body quickly failed, and my soul was imprisoned in this castle, and I could never be freed." (End of this chapter)