allendalepharm Chapter 177 The Secret Chamber
Chapter 177 The Secret Chamber
Chapter 177 The Secret Chamber
"Is this all you need?"
Watching the girl gently pick up her wand and draw a circle on the stone, Lupin couldn't help but ask.
"It should be... it should be fine now..." Loila nodded gently and then gripped her wand tightly.
She had rewritten the magic lock in front of her; now the password to open it was just an ordinary circle.
As the tip of her staff came to a stop, the magic circle in front of her emitted a dazzling blue light.
"Miss Hamilton?!" Lupin sensed something was wrong and raised his wand to shield Loyla.
But Loila quickly waved her hand and said, "No—it's alright!"
"This is a success—it's a success!"
As she finished speaking, the light of the magic array in front of her slowly disappeared, followed by a loud "boom".
With the sound, the ground beneath their feet began to tremble, and as they took a few steps back, a downward staircase slowly appeared.
This is a staircase where you can't see the direction. Even though the sun is still shining in the sky, you still can't see what's inside.
Loila gripped her wand and flicked it, tossing a point of light into the staircase. What she saw made her pause in surprise.
"This—this is—" The stairs did not end. At the end of the stairs was a closed metal door. To her surprise, the metal door looked quite modern—or rather, it was almost no different from the style of fifty years ago.
Shouldn't it be an ancient stone door, or some underground labyrinth filled with skeletons?
Why does it look so... so tasteless?
I'd believe you if you told me this was Dumbledore's secret laboratory.
Not only Roy looked confused, but Lupin did too—he subconsciously felt that he might have come to the wrong place—could this be some secret base of the Balkan Ministry of Magic?
Great, the two of them are quite in agreement at this moment.
"Perhaps—perhaps someone has already been here?" Luo Yili thought for a moment and offered this explanation; perhaps someone had already been here.
The thought of this possibility made her subconsciously a little happy—after all, the person who could unlock that lock must be a genius in magic arrays!
If he left something here—Loila's ears twitched with excitement, and she quickly walked down the stairs before Lupin could say anything.
The steps were quite steep, and Loila jumped down one by one, but because of her excitement, she didn't slow down at all.
"Miss Hamilton?!" Lupin exclaimed as he followed.
However, as he approached, he noticed that Loila was looking at the metal door with a puzzled expression.
She gently bit the tip of her wand, twirling a strand of her hair with one finger.
"What's wrong?"
"Hmm!" Lupin's sudden outburst startled Loila, seemingly because she was deep in thought.
"Ah—Mr. Lupin—"
Please don't look at me like I'm asking "Why am I here?"
Lupin raised an eyebrow at the surprise in Loila's eyes: "So this door also has a secret lock?"
"No—no." Loila shook her head and said, somewhat puzzled, "This is—it's just a door."
"?" Lupin didn't quite understand her meaning: "Isn't this a good thing?"
"Couldn't we just use a unlocking charm?"
"No—no, no, no." Loila pursed her lips and said, "That magic lock array was extremely complex—in—in such a difficult-to-enter ruin—"
"The main gate is just an ordinary gate—it seems—it seems a bit unreasonable."
"Did you find any trace of the magic circle?"
"No—no—"
Lupin raised an eyebrow at Loila's serious reply: "Perhaps—the owner here just finds two consecutive locks a bit troublesome?"
"Ah—Mr. Lupin, you are truly—truly a genius!"
Becoming a genius is too easy, isn't it?
After receiving a slight reminder from Lupin, Loila raised her wand and flicked it lightly, silently chanting "Open the Alohomora."
Nothing happened—it seems there was a counter-curse? Since the unlocking spell didn't work, let's try the method taught by Muller—
Loila nodded knowingly and then aimed the tip of her cane at the metal door.
"Bang!"
A loud bang rang out, and to Lupin's astonishment, Loira used a spell to blast the door open. "It should be... it should be okay now."
Hearing the girl's voice in his ear, Lupin shook his head helplessly.
She wasn't worried about causing a collapse or—well, even if a collapse did occur, she should be able to stop it, right?
Lupin shook his head and followed Loila into the room.
The room wasn't very big, and as Loila waved her wand, the dim, yellowish light slowly illuminated it.
This isn't some kind of ruin—it's a laboratory—at least that's how it seems right now—Loila pursed her lips, looked at the neatly arranged tables and chairs, and the bottles and jars in front of her, and took a deep breath.
"This is—this is a magic circle—" She immediately noticed the parchment placed on the table.
Without any hesitation, she rushed over and grabbed the magic array.
"This is—an energy storage magic array!" It's a magic array I already knew about, so why am I so happy?!
Loila didn't know the reason either; perhaps it was simply because she had seen the magic circle? She carefully examined the magic circle before her, feeling a genuine joy welling up inside her.
This is a new magic array scholar, besides myself and my father! How will he study magic arrays? What will his style be? Will he create any new magic arrays? Is he still alive?
Loila put down the magic circle in front of her and picked up the other parchments on the table.
These parchments are covered with all sorts of notes written in English, all of them analyses of the energy storage magic array.
"The energy storage magic array uses ancient magic runes as its core, continuously absorbing magic power from the air to power its components—according to testing, Veela blood might be a good material—fire dragon blood is not stable enough—"
Looking at the notes in front of her, Loila pursed her lips excitedly. His notes were very detailed, and his way of thinking was surprisingly similar to her own.
Even the analysis of the energy storage magic circle was the same as what he had learned—it was as if Hagrid had met Newt, or Dumbledore had met Voldemort.
Loila felt like she had met her soulmate!
Loila held the parchments in front of her, scanning them one by one without blinking.
These are detailed analyses of energy storage magic arrays. His analysis not only aligns with Loila's thinking but is also more detailed. Compared to Loila's notes, which only she could understand, the notes in front of him are much easier to understand!
"Miss Hamilton!" Suddenly, Mr. Lupin's voice came, holding a small, somewhat worn notebook in his hand.
Look at this!