I, Hogwarts Second Week

After Owen easily solved the curse of [Bad Omen] on the goblin France. The attitude of the goblins towards him changed drastically.

The transformation from arrogance to flattery was almost completed in an instant.

They also agreed to all the requests made by Owen afterwards.

Except for begging him to treat the king, no other requests were made.

But Owen did not agree to this request.

Healing other goblins is fine, but not the king.

This intelligent life - when it is sick and painful, the only simple idea in its mind is to get rid of the pain and endure the pain, but once it recovers, the idea will immediately become complicated.

Although Owen does not care about the goblins' little thoughts, it is annoying that flies do not suck blood. And the goblin king will not die for a while. The [Bad Omen] infected by the goblins this time is very different from the [Bad Omen] of the Outer Gods. It will not be transformed into the [Son of Bad Omen], and will only be weak and die in the end. I think the technology of [Bad Omen] should have existed earlier than the Outer Gods, and the Outer Gods just improved this technology.

If it won't turn into the [Son of Evil Omen], then Owen won't have to worry about it.

These days, he and Hermione have been concentrating on studying the obelisk.

And the stone slabs in the main hall.

There are some results, at least he finally figured out what this thing is used for.

In short, the obelisk is not the "operating panel" that Owen had guessed before.

Later, he realized that it was not uncommon for wizards in ancient times to control ancient magic, and things like "operating panels" were a bit useless to them.

In fact, this thing is an automatic encoder or something like that.

First of all, this ancient ruins is indeed a factory used by ancient wizards to produce [Hundred Phases].

In order to make the manufactured organic creatures [Hundred Phases] completely obey the wizard's orders, it is necessary to edit their souls, or plant a mental stamp, and use them again so that they cannot betray the wizard.

After all, although [Hundred Phases] looks weird, it is actually a kind of intelligent life. And it also has the means to cast spells. And all intelligent creatures will never tolerate being born as slaves and not resist. In order to avoid the obelisk invented by the rebellious wizard in the future.

Why did the [Hundred Phases] made by the goblins now become metal slugs? In addition to the different materials used and the inadequate imitation of technology, another reason is that they operated the obelisk recklessly, causing errors.

This time, the goblins were collectively infected with [Bad Omens] because the errors accumulated to a certain extent and triggered the ancient magic riot.

In general, the goblins made trouble for themselves and dug a hole for themselves.

After learning this truth, Owen was a little disappointed.

First of all, the obelisk's own "program" has been changed beyond recognition by the goblins. Maybe there is still a possibility of repair, but he can't do it in just a few days.

Secondly, the errors of the obelisk have not disappeared but are still accumulating. It itself contains a lot of ancient magic and is also the energy source of this ancient factory. Perhaps it will trigger another magic riot in a short time.

Finally - because the difficulty of studying the obelisk was far beyond Owen's imagination, his original plan to modify it with one click and instantly rewrite all the goblin curses now seemed impossible.

"It's really troublesome."

"What's wrong?" In the main hall, only Hermione stayed with him.

Koyatel and Sirius went to the goblins to ask for information about the Goblin Brotherhood.

Now is a good opportunity. The kingdom is in decline, and the goblins dare not refuse what they ask for.

"Is there no way to solve the secret of the obelisk in a short time?" Hermione asked with concern under her dark circles.

Sitting on the chair next to the obelisk, Owen put down the parchment in his hand.

"We don't have time."

"It will take at least a few years to figure it out."

"Indeed." Hermione also put down the parchment in her hand. These days, she and Owen have shared research, and she knows everything Owen knows.

A few years, in fact, this is already fast.

The goblins have spent thousands of years to achieve today's results.

If Owen was not the true heir, with many broken memories of ancient gods from the God-granting Tower, even if they were given a few hundred years, they might just be on par with the goblins.

"Let's not think about how to quickly solve the goblin curse now." Hermione retreated, "The errors in the obelisk are still accumulating, and they will definitely explode in the future."

"This is simple." Owen suddenly stood up and said, "Although I can't solve the 'program error' of the obelisk, it is still very simple to cut off the power."

"Power off?" Hermione looked at him blankly.

"To make an analogy." Owen said, "The energy of the obelisk uses ancient magic, I can take it out."

"What are you waiting for?" Hermione said anxiously.

"Okay." Owen sighed softly. Once the energy is taken out, it means that he has completely given up on quickly solving the goblin curse.

He came to the obelisk and drew out his wand.

Gently waving, with his movements, one after another ancient runes appeared from nothing, from simple to complex...

These magic patterns were like water poured into the desert, quickly seeping into the obelisk.

Soon, the obelisk responded.

The stones that made it up slowly moved and then split to the sides.

It was like a treasure box.

In the treasure box, a teardrop-shaped object flashed.

The whole body is round and exudes a silver-gray color. It is filled with rich ancient magic. Obviously, this is the source of everything.

Owen reached out and took out the teardrop-shaped ancient magic polymer.

Then, a "click" sounded.

The stones that made up the obelisk suddenly stopped rising and falling.

The entire ancient ruins where they were also lost power, and sharp sounds were heard everywhere, as if the gears were stuck. It lasted for several minutes.

During this process, Owen picked up the teardrop in his hand and looked at it carefully.

This is a very beautiful man-made creation. If you look closely, you will find that it seems to be inlaid with a star, with various stars and dots, which is quite beautiful.

But if you don't look carefully, this teardrop will retract the stars inside and only show the roundness like jade.

Just holding it, Owen can feel the ancient magic entering his body.

"Give it to you." He handed the teardrop to Hermione.

"What?" Hermione subconsciously reached out to take it.

"It's useless to me." Owen explained, "It's just a polymer of ancient magic. It can only be used as energy, and has no other functions. Of course, I can extract its magic for my own use, but the efficiency is too low. I estimate that it will take at least a few hundred years to extract all the ancient magic in this small teardrop."

"So it's better to give it to you as a decoration."

"Decoration?" Hermione rolled her eyes at Owen and looked at the teardrop in her hand. After a while, she said. "It's really beautiful"

There's no way, she can't feel the existence of ancient magic.

The teardrop is just a beautiful gem in her hand.

"You can try to study this artificial creation. Maybe you can produce this kind of "energy" on a large scale in the future." Owen provided Hermione with a research direction.

"Yes. This is a perfect energy source. And such a small piece can sustain the energy needs of the ruins for tens of thousands of years. Although the ruins are dormant as a whole most of the time. But its energy storage technology is indeed ahead of us for countless years."

"Star Tears." Hermione suddenly said: "I call it Star Tears. Maybe it will play an infinite role in the future, just like the steam engine replaces manpower and electricity replaces steam."

"Maybe." Owen nodded.

At this moment, a violent noise came from the entrance of the main hall of the ruins.

It was like someone was fighting.

When Owen and Hermione began their research, they drove out all the goblins in the main hall.

After all, they didn't trust the goblins yet, and research required concentration. If there were goblins around, it would be troublesome to suddenly launch a sneak attack.

And if the goblins were driven out of the main hall, even if they wanted to launch a sneak attack, they would have to pass through the main hall first, which would increase their reaction time.

"Hmm? The goblins can't help but attack us?"

"I don't think so!" Hermione put the Star Tears into the pocket on her waist, then waved her wand to pack up all the research materials and stone slabs around her, without leaving any for the goblins.

If it weren't for the fact that the obelisk was connected to the entire ruins, she would probably have taken the obelisk out and taken it away.

"Attack us at this time, don't the goblins want to get rid of the curse?"

Hermione said as she packed her things.

"Who knows what they are thinking." Owen held the wand and walked towards the entrance of the main hall step by step.

Suddenly-a piece of rubble flew out from the entrance, as well as a lot of sharp building debris.

Owen waved his wand and easily used Transfiguration to turn it into dust.

"What a primitive means of attack" he complained. Owen stared at the entrance.

The scum who attacked him revealed his true form.

It was indeed a goblin.

However, the goblin was a little strange. His expression was very stiff, and his limbs were a little uncoordinated.

The moment he saw him, he rushed over with his hands and feet.

"Crazy?" Owen was a little puzzled as to why the goblin dared to go forward and die, but he was still very kind to help him fulfill his wish and casually threw out a blasting spell.

The red spell hit the goblin squarely, and then the explosion that Owen expected did not happen.

The spell was like a stone thrown into the lake, causing waves of ripples on the lake surface.

The surface around the goblin was the same.

Then its spell was offset.

"Interesting!" Owen waved his staff again, still blasting spells. But this time he injected more ancient magic power, increasing the power of this spell several times.

Similarly, the spell hit the goblin squarely, and it seemed that it didn't know how to dodge at all.

This time, the ripples on his body were more frequent, faster and faster, until it reached a certain limit, and suddenly the whole body collapsed automatically. The red spell swallowed the fragments in time, causing an explosion.

"Boom--"

The air wave of the explosion blew Owen's hair on his forehead violently.

Hermione couldn't help but put her hand out to block it, to prevent dust from blowing into her eyes.

"What is this?"

"I don't know, but it's not a goblin."

"Could it be--" Hermione finally put most of the valuable slates into her waist bag. "Like in those novels, there are some protective mechanisms in the ancient ruins? Because you took away the energy of the obelisk, so the mechanism was triggered?"

"Really?" Owen didn't quite agree with this guess. The mechanism also needs energy to drive. He had unplugged the power supply, so even if there was any mechanism, it should have failed.

At this point, several fairies rushed in from the entrance again.

This time, Owen did not choose to kill all of them, but left one.

He planned to cast the Legilimency spell to see what happened.

Then he got a grayish-white light, and there was the noise of TV snow in the light.

"What the hell?"

"Does the other party have no soul?"

Owen showed a trace of shock.

Unless the other party is a puppet.

Just as Owen was thinking, an acquaintance came out of the entrance.

"What happened?"

The person who came was Koyatel.

Her face was pale and her eyes were dull.

In addition, her body was a little uncoordinated-it was as if she was controlling this body for the first time and needed practice.

"The fairies rioted." Koyatel said coldly.

Then she strode towards Owen.

"Fairies? Riot? How dare they?" Hermione couldn't believe it. She looked past Koyalt and saw several fairies chasing her.

Immediately, she drew out her wand and waved it quickly for a few seconds to cast seven or eight spells.

Those spells were so powerful that the fairies were blown to pieces without causing any ripples.

"Are you so angry?" Owen glanced at Hermione. Does this girl hate fairies so much now?

"But--" As he said that, he waved the wand in his hand quickly, and the God's Edge Shadowless Spell came out. "You forgot there was another one."

Koyalt, who was running towards him, fell to the ground.

There was an exaggerated wound on his chest.

"Owen?" Hermione was startled.

"Don't worry. Look at her wound." Owen said.

After getting the hint, Hermione looked over and immediately found something strange, because although Koyalt had a wound on his chest, no blood flowed out.

What was even more strange was that a silver substance was gushing out of her wound, and it was repairing her wound quickly.

"Isn't this physical cutting magic very effective?" Owen said in a deep voice.

"What monster?" Hermione cast a barrier spell, and the spell hit the monster that was lying on the ground, and the moving body stopped.

"I have a guess, but I'm not sure." Owen pulled Hermione's arm, ignored the monster that was still on the ground, and walked quickly towards the entrance.

Outside the main hall was a long tunnel.

There was still some distance to the elevator.

The road was densely packed with all kinds of "fairies".

Owen didn't hesitate at all. He waved his wand directly - under the soul torrent, a large number of "fairies" were instantly wiped out.