I earned 100 million Galleons at Hogwarts

Chapter 121 Do you still want to go up now?

Slow and light footsteps came from the house.

It was like the man had cotton wrapped around his feet.

If it's not quiet enough, you can't hear it at all.

John tilted his head slightly, so that his sight would not be blocked by Margery, and he looked at the door without hindrance.

An old centaur emerged from the darkness, his body like a withered tree, his skin wrinkled.

John suspects that if there is a gust of wind at this time, he can take the old man in front of him around the world.

Moreover, the old man's drooping eyelids completely covered his eyeballs, but it didn't affect his pace at all.

He walked out of the stone house step by step, and stopped precisely two steps in front of Margaret.

Margaret opened the lid of the box, held the wooden box in both hands and handed it to the centaur elder, and said respectfully: "Elder, please take a look."

The centaur elder raised his hand tremblingly, groped to find the box in the air, and slowly touched the longbow inside.

His hand stroked the longbow inch by inch, as gentle as touching his wife's skin.

Crystal clear teardrops oozed from under the droopy eyelids of the centaur elder as gravity rode a roller coaster on his face.

"Erene, you are finally back. I thought I would never be able to wait for you again in this life."

The elder's lips moved slightly, making a weak sound.

"Elder." Margaret said worriedly.

"I'm fine." The centaur elder reached out to wipe away the tears on his face, "Let's go, it's time to open the sacrificial place."

Margery nodded, closed the box, bowed his head and retreated respectfully to the centaur team.

The centaur elder turned around and just kicked his feet, but suddenly stopped and turned his head and said, "Is John Bullock there?"

"I'm here!" John said quickly.

"Follow me with Erene."

The centaur elder waved his hand in another direction where no one was there.

John didn't care to correct him, and said in surprise: "Me?"

It can be seen from the solemn movements of the horsemen all the way that this ceremony must be very important to them.

Now let an outsider come to get the most important things.
Is this appropriate?

The centaur elder replied: "Since you brought Erene back, you should send him home."

His tone was weaker, and it seemed that every word he said was burning his vitality.

"Hurry up and take it."

Margery glanced at the centaur elder with worried eyes, and hurriedly bent over and handed the wooden box to John.

John hesitated for a moment, reached out to take the box, and walked behind the elder centaur holding it flat.

The centaur elder nodded slightly, and stepped forward into the gray darkness of the stone house.

John followed the elder centaur cautiously, for fear of tripping over something.

Groping forward in the gray darkness for a while, the centaur elder stretched out his hand and pressed on a boulder, muttering something.

After a while there was a rumbling sound to their right.

The originally flat ground cracked, and a passage extending downward suddenly appeared.

In the stone house, John could still see something through the light coming in from the door.

But that channel is like a black hole, swallowing up all the light.

It's like blocking a dark mirror, it seems that there is no way to go.

A biting cold wind blew out.

John trembled all over, his Adam's apple slipped involuntarily, and he swallowed.

The scenes of various horror movies he had watched kept replaying in his mind.

I couldn't help feeling a little scared in my heart.

"Don't worry." The centaur elder said softly, "Erene will guide us."

The centaur elder walked into the passage first.

John bit the bullet and followed behind him.

Just as his footsteps stepped onto the sloping road, a sudden change occurred in the box in his hand.

There seemed to be a flame burning, and he could feel the temperature through the box.

"Open the box, Erene knows he has gone home." said the centaur elder.

John nodded and quickly lifted the lid off.

A gust of scorching air rushed towards him.

The lines on the longbow were all shining brilliantly.

In particular, the wand and arrow symbols in the middle of the bow are like two hot suns, and John feels his eyes hurt when he looks at them.

When the lines are all lit up, the top of the channel seems to be echoing, and bright stars appear one by one.

They cast a dim light, illuminating the road around John.

At this moment, he finally understood what Erene's guidance was all about.

The darkness in front of him disappeared, and the fear in John's heart slowly receded.

He followed the steps of the centaur elders and looked around cautiously.

They were descending along a winding road close to the cliff, and a meter away was a dark abyss.

Fortunately, as they moved forward, the stars on the top also lit up, providing light.

Otherwise, they may all start to free fall, only to realize that they have gone the wrong way.

After about an hour, the road ahead gradually leveled off.

They circled the cliff and came to the bottom of the circular cave.

The stars on the top of the arc have completely lit up, covering their heads like a real sky.

John looked up at the starry night, and suddenly found something interesting.

He connected the apparently brighter stars together in his mind, gradually forming a picture.

Appears to be a centaur and a wizard.

They lined up at both ends and stretched their hands forward together. Where the hands meet is a huge star.

The light it emits is enough to illuminate the entire cave.

"Let's go." Seeing that John didn't follow, the centaur elder stopped and turned around.

John quickly withdrew his gaze and followed the centaur elder.

In front of them, a tall stone platform rose from the flat ground in the center of the cave.

A long staircase leads to the top.

On both sides of the stone ladder are statues of horsemen of different sizes.

At the foot of the stone platform, the centaur elder stopped, and John hurriedly stood beside him.

"The day has finally come."

The centaur elder muttered to himself, raised his head to look at the top of the stone ladder, and wondered if he could see it.

When all the horsemen arrived, they lined up in a neat queue in front of the stone platform.

"Are you ready?" the centaur elder asked.

"Huh? Me?" John blinked.

"Ah."

"What am I going to do?" John asked.

"Take Erinie up the stone ladder, and accompany him on the last part of the journey," said the centaur elder.

"But I'm not a member of your tribe, is it appropriate for me to go up?"

Looking at the statues of the centaur at both ends of the stone ladder, John felt a little guilty.

He was afraid that as soon as he stepped on the stairs, those statues would draw their bows and shoot him an arrow.

"Because you are not a horseman, you can walk up the stone ladder, and none of us can go up."

The faint voice of the centaur elder reached John's ears.

John raised his eyebrows, a little puzzled.

Isn't this the place of sacrifice for the horsemen?
Why can't they set foot on this altar-like place?

How did they sacrifice before that?

Just worship below?
"Why?" John asked.

"Didn't the person who handed Erene to you tell you?" the centaur elder asked back.

John replied: "He said that the story was too long and he was going to tell me later."

"Oh?" The centaur elder said in surprise, "No wonder."

He murmured softly, and continued, "Although I don't know what he's thinking, there is one thing I must remind you."

"What?" John asked.

"If you step up the stone staircase and bring Eriné home, it's like opening a door."

"Behind the door lies treasure, but also hides beasts."

"If you don't pay attention, it will tear you apart."

"Do you still want to go up now?"

(End of this chapter)