Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 66 Discovery Beyond Imagination

Walking into the secret room left by Slytherin again, Hardy observed it more carefully.

Looking up at the strange and distant ceiling, listening to the echo of footsteps in the huge space, Hardy couldn't help but frowned.

"Salazar Slytherin, what is your purpose for building this chamber of secrets..." Hardy murmured, "I don't believe it is as simple as raising basilisks here."

Walking on the stone bricks in front of the Slytherin statue, Hardy's eyes flickered, "What are you hiding?"

Looking up at the ugly monkey-like face in front of him, Hardy was full of thoughts for a moment.

For one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft, there have always been many legends in the British wizarding world.

Some people say that Slytherin is a standard dark wizard, because he does not shy away from the use of black magic, and even praised it in public more than once.

There are also records in magical books that Slytherin has been secretly studying the magical blood in order to pursue more powerful power.

He hopes to transplant some characteristics of magical creatures such as unicorns and thestrals into the body of wizards, thus creating the so-called "Wizard King".

The legends about the other party have always been complicated and difficult to distinguish between true and false.

But one thing is undeniable, that is, compared with the other three founders of Hogwarts, the world's evaluation of him is indeed mostly negative.

"Da da", "da da", "da da"...

In the empty secret room, the sound of Hardy's pacing constantly echoed.

He suspected that there was another secret room in the secret room before him, but he checked all the surrounding walls and found no secret door.

Hardy was a little reconciled.

He was certain in his heart that if he were Salazar Slytherin, he would have spent a lot of energy building such a huge chamber of secrets underground at Hogwarts, and it would definitely not be just to raise basilisks.

"What are you trying to hide—"

In the secret room, Hardy's eyes gradually became deep and insightful.

He pressed his hands against the wall of the secret room again, his slender, white fingers brushed against the cracks in the rocks, trying to find any clues.

However, after the second inspection, he still found nothing.

Behind the walls of the entire secret room are thick rock walls, and there is no other space.

"Luminescence!" Suddenly, Hardy raised his wand high.

A fluorescent pillar as thick as an arm spurted out from the tip of his staff immediately, dispelling the entire ceiling of the secret room.

After casting the Levitation Charm for himself, Hardy's body slowly rose into the air. He looked at the thing in front of him closely, with the tip of his nose only an inch away from the ceiling of the secret room.

This time, he finally made a new discovery.

On the originally eerie and gloomy ceiling, there are actually four huge relief sculptures, which record a past event that happened in the past.

On the first relief, a large group of armored soldiers are depicted. They burned a village and gathered in the open space in the center of the village, holding their spears high in both hands.

In front of them, countless pieces of dry firewood were piled up one after another, and a figure was firmly tied with a thick hemp rope to a thick tree stake.

The figure was wearing a wizard robe and a wizard hat similar to a sorting hat. He was looking at the soldiers in front of him begging for mercy.

On the second relief, a dense forest is depicted, a wizard kneeling, hands raised in prayer.

An ancient tree surrounded by three people twisted its roots and branches, struggling to break free from the soil, and easily overturned an army marching in the forest to the ground.

At the same time, another wizard lurked in the king's castle. He summoned a poisonous snake with his magic wand, and climbed onto the sleeping king's body in the dark.

Hardy moved his gaze to the third relief, and was soon stunned.

The third relief, whose area is equivalent to the sum of the first two reliefs, unexpectedly became fragmented and blurred for some unknown reason.

On it, there should be records of extremely important matters, both for Muggles and for wizards at that time.

Shaking his head in disappointment, Hardy didn't know the content of the third relief, so he could only look regretfully at the last relief.

On it, it happened to be recorded that four great wizards built a castle that belonged only to wizards outside a huge lake and an ancient forest.

Inferred from the above details, what is depicted on the fourth relief should be the situation at the beginning of the establishment of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"The first two reliefs both record the conflicts between Muggles and wizards in the Middle Ages who fought against each other."

Hardy's eyes flickered, "And after waiting for the last relief, they jumped directly to the establishment of Hogwarts."

The tip of the stick touched the third relief, and some broken bricks fell from the ceiling and shattered on the floor of the secret room. "What happened between the wizards and Muggles back then?"

Under the influence of the floating spell, Hardy slowly landed on the ground, "Could it be that what Slytherin needs to be guarded by the basilisk is these four reliefs on the ceiling?"

Looking up at the blurred shadows on the ceiling, Hardy suddenly thought of an important thing.

Dumbledore had mentioned before incidentally that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened by the last heir 50 years ago, and that the innocent Rubeus Hagrid was responsible for it.

In the entire Chamber of Secrets, except for Slytherin, only the previous heir has entered, so——

The third relief was deliberately destroyed, was it caused by the heir?
What is he trying to hide?
What exactly is depicted on the relief?
Regarding the previous heir to the Chamber of Secrets, Hardy believes that it is necessary for him to have a deeper understanding in the future.

Just as Hardy was about to leave the secret room, his inadvertent glance allowed him to see a crack in the floor tiles.

It was the trace left when Harry pierced the basilisk's tail with the sword of Gryffindor before, but at this moment it actually faintly revealed fluorescence.

Hardy's pupils shrank, he quickly walked to the gap in the ground, and waved his wand, "Wingardim Leviosa!"

Casting the floating spell hit the cracked floor tiles, and as the thick rectangular bricks slowly rose into the air, the tip of the iceberg of a certain object suddenly appeared in Hardy's eyes.

"Aha, look what I found? Who would have thought that there would be something hidden under the floor tiles in this secret room?"

Hardy's spirit immediately cheered up. At this moment, he even suspected that the four sets of reliefs left on the ceiling were also smoke bombs left by Slytherin.

The purpose is to perfectly cover up the objects under the nearly thousand floor tiles in front of him.

If you want to lift up the floor tiles of the entire secret room at once, with the magic power stored in Hardy's current crystal wand, it is not possible for the time being.

So he generously shared his discovery with Professor Snape, who was busy studying the basilisk venom.

"Professor Ollivander, are you sure?" Snape asked while standing quietly in the chamber with his wand in his hands.

Hardy's words really shocked him a lot, whether it was the four reliefs or the things hidden under their feet.

"If Professor Snape is willing to lend a helping hand, I believe we can figure everything out soon." Hardy said with a smile.

Snape's expression was serious, he raised his wand high, "Wingardim Leviosa!"

"Wingardim Leviosa!"

In the secret room, two large-scale floating spells spread rapidly, and soon covered nearly a thousand floor tiles under Hardy's two feet.

"Boom..."

In an instant, the ground shook and rumbled, and the thick bricks slowly rose, shaking off countless gravel and dust.

Slowly, as nearly a hundred floor tiles floated to a distance of ten feet above the ground, a huge monster immediately appeared in front of Hardy and Snape.

"Unbelievable." Snape tensed his face. "Professor Ollivander, I think it is necessary to inform Headmaster Dumbledore immediately!"

Hardy took a deep look at Snape, "I agree, Professor Snape, this item is far beyond our expectations."

At this moment, the huge object revealed under nearly a thousand thick bricks is——

Portkey beyond imagination!

(End of this chapter)