A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 311 The Return
Felix saw a hazy green light. He squinted his eyes. The green light came from a stone basin similar to a Pensieve, with a base attached to it.

Under the feet are clusters of crystal-like stones, messily inserted upside down on the ground, reflecting a faint light.Felix glanced around, and the surrounding area was so thick that it couldn't be melted away, it was lifeless.

Sirius helped Kreacher up and raised his wand high. The light from the tip of his wand could only illuminate a very small area, and even half of his face was hidden in the darkness, making it difficult to see clearly.

"We're deep into Voldemort's heart." Sirius said quickly, with a little excitement and revenge in his tone: "But the influence here is greater, and magic doesn't work very well."

"It's some magic that doesn't work," Felix tilted his head, motioning him to look at Kreacher next to him, the house elf's fingertips lit up brighter, "This also gave me some inspiration..."

Felix extinguished the light of his wand and melted into darkness.They were only a few feet apart, but Sirius couldn't see his silhouette at all. The surrounding was so quiet that it made people feel creepy, and the feeling of danger was constantly approaching.

He heard Felix making strange sounds, like some kind of language, with strange rhymes and rhythms, and then he saw light.A large amount of soft milky white light bloomed in front of his eyes, leaving an insignificant spot in his eyes, but in an instant, the light poured down, covering the ground, the air, and filling every inch of space within the line of sight.

The light was not dazzling. Sirius could even pass over Felix, and when he saw the scene behind him, he couldn't help opening his mouth—it was an endless, smooth mirror-like lake, which he had subconsciously ignored before. Hidden in the darkness, it was calm and waveless, without a single ripple or sound, just like a flat open space.

But the most surprising thing is the thing in the lake, the corpse!One corpse after another was floating under the surface of the mirror-like lake. He looked around, and the nearest corpse was only three or four feet away from him, as if he could touch his feet if he stretched out his hand.

Sirius could even see the corpse's pale face, like marble, wearing a brown jacket, blue or black trousers... Sirius' heart became cold, and Regulus might have been dragged into it like this. in the water...

"Crash!"

The pitch-black lake stirred up waves, and a hand stuck out, "Be careful! This is not a corpse, but an army of infernal corpses created by Voldemort!" Sirius stepped back and reminded loudly: "Besides, many of them are Muggles... Damn it, it was that village! He destroyed a village in order to obtain a source of soldiers!"

Before Sirius could curse, he raised his wand, ready to strike back.While he was restricted, he had to be careful not to accidentally injure Regulus' body, this was not an easy task.

But Felix said calmly: "It seems that they don't plan to attack us." Sure enough, these ghosts did not climb up the small island in the middle of the lake, but kept away from them, to be precise, away from Felix light source in hand.

"Fear of light and fire, these are the characteristics of Infernal corpses, and Voldemort will definitely restrict these two types of magic, coupled with the inability to Apparate, it is really a wonderful move..."

Felix said: "But just as he didn't think about house-elf magic, Voldemort didn't think about ancient magic that relied on runes, of course—maybe he thought about it but couldn't limit it."

Felix held up his hands, and let a round white light ball rise slowly. The cave they were in was so high that they couldn't see the top of the cave when they looked up, so the white light ball simply rose to the highest point, like the sun. , sprinkled with warm light.

The dark trap designed by Voldemort has failed.Light and darkness entangled together, and finally expelled the darkness, and the whole cave was as bright as day.

At this moment, they could see everything around them clearly—they were standing on a small island in the center of the lake, and the island was surrounded by a large black lake, but the black lake had been illuminated transparently and shiny.

Hundreds of Yin corpses are hiding at the bottom of the lake, but they cannot escape, they just rely on instinct to hide themselves.

Felix said to Sirius and Kreacher, "Now you can find someone, I want to study this stone platform." After a few seconds, he looked at one person and one elf, and asked in surprise: "Do I need to give You put on a bubble head spell?"

The bubble head spell can create a bubble in the shape of an inverted fish tank on the head of the caster, allowing wizards to explore underwater or avoid bad smells. It is not a very popular magic.As far as Felix knew, the Weasley twins were quite skilled at this magic.

"Don't let me look for it together, I don't know Regulus..."

Sirius waved his hand, he spent a lot of effort to cast the head-bubble curse on himself and Kreacher, and said in a dull voice, "Are you sure these infernal corpses won't attack suddenly?"

"As long as they are still corpses." Felix scanned the whole area with a black and white perspective, "I don't see any hidden magic, don't worry."

Kreacher immediately jumped into the lake, swimming nimbly on all fours, Sirius muttered something, and jumped in too.

Sirius endured the bitingly cold lake water, his vision was not affected in any way, he first found a ghost hiding behind the reef, broke off the ghost's hand covering his face, and tried to see his appearance clearly - all the way to Sirius Started to look for the next target, and was not attacked.

"Perverted magic." Sirius said in the lake, the corpse is afraid of light, but ordinary bright light does not have this effect.

The next thing became boring - Sirius stayed in the black lake for 10 minutes, feeling himself stiff, his clothes soaked in water, dragging him down, Kreacher was no better than him Even worse, he had to drag Kreacher up with him to recover his strength.

The icy lake water rushed down Sirius' robes, and he walked up the steps step by step, trembling all over.

Kreacher's teeth were chattering from the cold, and he couldn't speak clearly, but he still wanted to insist: "Kreacher has seen 47, no, 48..."

Sirius said with a dark face: "You want me to take care of you when you are sick? Come over to eat something, and he even built a fire, it's just, it's just..."

Sirius felt that it was a bit outrageous. Around the fire, there were all kinds of food scattered around. He also saw two bottles of butter beer. This is not camping!He didn't know how he ate it, but he managed to gain some energy.

"You can use a warming spell, it will make your life easier." Felix suggested without looking up.

……

One hundred, two hundred, Sirius saw the faces of one after another, and two hours passed.

But the area of ​​the Black Lake is too large, and because of Felix's magic, all the corpses instinctively search for dark corners, and spread out, making the search even more difficult.All in vain though--the bottom of the lake is no darker than the surface.

During this period, Felix has been observing the stone basin and the green potion in the stone basin.

For Voldemort, the Horcrux should be his most important thing, and the protection measures surrounding the Horcrux should also be the strongest magic he can think of and master.

Felix could use this to get a glimpse of Voldemort's strength.

From a black-and-white perspective, circles of magical ripples continued to spread around him. Felix scanned the place, imprinting everything around him firmly in his memory, and then he finally moved, his hand reaching into the stone basin , when it was an inch or two away from the potion, it was no longer possible to dive.

Felix tried different methods, but none of them worked.

"Unless you brute force it... But that's not an accurate measure of Voldemort's power, and he must have thought about it..."

Felix stopped Kreacher who came up for the third time, "Do me a favor, bring the ring I left outside, if it's too much effort, forget it."

"Yes, Mr. Hype."

Kreacher's figure disappeared, and after a few seconds, he reappeared, holding a ring in his hand.

"Is this ring a burden to you?" Felix asked curiously. He was worried that Kreacher would not be able to move with him, Sirius, and a dozen dementors, but maybe this was the wrong idea. .

"It's a bit laborious...but it's not as good as you, Mr. Haip. You are really a powerful wizard, stronger than anyone Kreacher has ever seen."

"Uh, well, thank you, Kreacher."

Felix scratched his head. So, Sirius was so tired before, and the problem was with himself?However, Sirius traveled a long distance, while Kreacher simply played back and forth, so there is no comparison between the two.

Kreacher bowed deeply, put his nose on the ground, and walked away backwards.

Felix took a cup from the ring and threw it into the stone basin.This time, there was no magic barrier, and the cup sank into the liquid. Felix reached out to fish out the cup, observed it for a long time, and then poured the cup out.

The emerald green potion flowed from the mouth of the cup, forming a curved stream, but then it disappeared abruptly in mid-air, and Felix emptied the cup, leaving no liquid on the ground.He turned his head, and the height of the liquid in the stone basin recovered unconsciously.

"Interesting...does it have to be drunk?"

Felix fished out a cup of potion again, and tried to analyze the ingredients of the potion with the Scarpin Appearance Charm, but blurry images appeared above the potion, which could not be seen clearly at all, so Felix had to search his memory to find out-of-the-way magic , some of which he didn't even use once, just sorted them out and kept them in memory.

Fortunately, he is a quick learner.With the help of the thinking cabin and his understanding of magic at the moment, most of the magic can be quickly learned.

"Mixed snake venom... unknown biological venom... Flobber caterpillar mucus... the liquid in the horn of the poisonous horn... and scurvy, which can make people impatient and reckless, and has a confusing effect... Smell the magic grass, rare usage……"

Felix raised his head and whispered to himself: "The effect of the potion does not seem to cause death, but to increase pain and powerful hallucinations? This is exactly what happened to Kreacher, no, there is also the magic of chaos It makes it difficult for people to use magic... so that even powerful wizards will be dragged to the bottom of the lake in despair."

Another half an hour later, when Sirius came up, he saw Felix was choking a dementor by the neck and feeding it potions. Sirius' eyes almost popped out. Where did this thing come from? ?
Before he could ask, he heard Kreacher's crying voice: "Found it—Master Regulus—" the house-elf's voice echoed in the cave, over and over again.

Sirius turned over and jumped into the water, following the sound, he suddenly realized that he hadn't put on the head-bubble spell, but before he had time to think about it, he took a breath and quickly swam to Kreacher's side.

He saw a familiar person, not much different from his memory, but his face was a little paler, and his black curly hair was floating in the water.

Sirius murmured, the pungent salty smell mixed with the rotting lake water made him tremble and cough violently.

He swam back to the shore with Regulus' body, gasping for breath and making a "ho ho" sound, but he was completely soaked, and the lake water flowed down his hair and eye sockets, and no one would care Does he shed tears.

When he calmed down, Sirius picked up Regulus and walked to Felix. The dementor had disappeared. He took a look, and there was only a shallow layer of potion left in the stone basin, which could be seen faintly. Go to a locket and place it on the bottom of the stone basin.

But he knew it was fake, and he had no interest at all. He just wanted to take Regulus back and place him properly, preferably with a funeral.

"Sirius, Kreacher, you wait for me outside first, I need to do one more thing." Felix said.

"what are you going to do?"

"To put it bluntly, I want to do some sabotage..."

So Kreacher appeared outside the rock wall with the remains of Sirius and Regulus. After a while, the rock wall in front of them began to peel off and become sandy. They took a few steps back and watched the rock wall bloom. Layers of light, then quickly dimmed and decayed, and the solid rock turned into fine powder and fell down, finally forming an open hole.

Felix came out, and Sirius glanced at the light behind him. The island in the middle of the lake had disappeared, and a small boat swayed against the lake.

"Let's go," said Felix quietly.

"You ruined this place?"

"It's not good to let the next person who comes in do useless work."

"Then your glowing magic, that big ball of light..."

"Don't worry about it, it'll be gone in a week or two at most."

Felix pulled Sirius and Kreacher, together with Regulus' body, and disappeared into the cave in an instant.

"Boom!"

Large chunks of stone fell down, completely burying everything inside.

(End of this chapter)