Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

The ball of light kept falling downwards, and it took a long time to stop. It was about 50 feet deep below...

What is this place for, Ivan is hesitating whether to go down.

This rope is obviously not a product that the castle should have originally, but was tied up recently, and it won't be too long...

Judging from the nearby traces, it seems that something went down through this rope not long ago!

When Ivan was about to call Sirius and Elena over, he looked up and saw something appearing beside him.

It was a tiny owl ghost with a translucent light blue body, only the size of a palm, looking at him.

After seeing Ivan notice it, the owl spread its wings and flew to his shoulder.

Then, it flew down again and landed in Ivan's outstretched palm.

"Do you have something to tell me?" Ai Wen asked, this guy's behavior is really strange!

The little owl nodded and answered Ivan's question.

It didn't lose its mind, there was no hatred in its eyes, and it wasn't affected by demons.

"Wait a while, I'll draw that magic rune to help you restore your original form!" Ivan said happily.

He raised his wand, feeling that he would know something crucial from the other party.

But the owl didn't wait for him, but spread its wings and flew into the distance, and kept turning its head to signal Ivan to follow.

It flew to the chamber on the left, burrowed into an inwardly recessed compartment on one wall, and disappeared.

"Is there anything in here?" Ivan bent down and looked inside...

In the next second, he saw a mummy staring at him with big empty eyes, opening its mouth wide, with a ferocious and terrifying expression on its face.

Ai Wen took a step back, only to see the little light blue owl sticking its head out from under the skirt of the corpse, looking at him anxiously, as if urging Ai Wen to move faster. A slowly extending passage.

Aiwen hesitated for a moment before crawling forward, passing through the corpse and entering a small secret room.

In the center of the room, he saw an altar at a glance, the altar that summoned the devil, the root of all evil in the castle...

Chapter 747 Forces of Nature

This altar is very simple, the central position is a wooden pillar erected, narrow at the top and thick at the bottom, with a simple portrait of an owl carved on it with a knife or other things, the style of painting is abstract, it looks more like some kind of scary monster.

Its body is visibly elongated, its eyes are disproportionately large, and its feathers dance like flames.

A thick rope was tied to the post in a knot, and from the knot hung a turquoise owl pendant.

Continuing down, on the ground is a complex magic rune that Ivan has never seen before.

Natural patterns and hexagonal patterns are intertwined, and the finishing touch is the profound ancient runes in the center of the pattern.

The rune was shining brightly, with light blue light flickering in it.

Aiwen could feel a very strange magical power, very peaceful, with a slight sense of healing...

"Is this the devil's altar?" He stared blankly at the wooden pillar, "Just drop blood on it to break the curse."

But he always felt that something was wrong, which was not the same as the demon altar he had seen in the depths of Hogwarts underground.

In front of Ai Wen, the little owl flew towards the altar. As soon as it entered the range of the rune, its body changed rapidly.

Soon, it changed into the appearance of a girl, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a fair face, and looked very comfortable.

Her eyes are as calm as the sea, with a small bridge of nose and thin lips, the corners of her mouth are slightly curved upwards, with a hint of a sad smile.

The girl is wearing a very classic long dress, a turban, and a simple wooden ring on her forehead.

"Hello, strange visitor!"

"Who are you?" Ivan paused and continued to ask, "Why did you lead me to this place?"

"As you can see, I am a dead soul." The girl said slowly, with a trace of calm in her voice, "As for my name in life, you can call me Shuklia. I saw you use magic To restore that soul to its true colors, and to hear what you said to it, I think you can help me escape this curse, so I brought you here."

"Curse?!" Ivan gasped, clenched the wand in his hand, "I am indeed here to help you, but the premise is that I must know what happened in this castle? First of all, the wand next to you What is the pillar? I can feel a powerful magical force on it, which is a very strange force to me."

"This is a totem I made with my own hands. It is because of its power that all the souls wandering in this castle have turned into owls." Shuklia said, looking at the pillars beside him, "I put the holy spirit of our tribe into owls." It is a powerful force of nature that can communicate with an owl spirit..."

"It was you who turned all the souls here into owls, this is the curse..."

"No, this is not a curse, but a kind of protection!" Shuklia said calmly, correcting Ivan's mistake.

Aiwen frowned, looking at the girl in front of her and the wooden pillar with blue light shining beside her, and the exaggerated owl on it.

As the woman Aryanna he saw in the mirror said, it was this magical power that turned the souls of all the people in the castle into owls, but this thing really didn't seem to be a demon altar.

Ivan can feel that this power is not so evil, but rather decent.

In fact, the totem mentioned by Shuklia reminded Ivan of another special kind of magic, the power of a shaman who uses the power of nature.

Unlike the magic of wizards, shamans use the power of natural elements. They are very ancient and mysterious spellcasters. In those primitive tribes, they are also responsible for communicating with the spirits of ancestors and treating patients. task.

In the past, shamanism was once very popular, but since time entered modern times, shamanism has gradually become a historical term.

Because the method of inheritance is very backward and quite complicated, the requirements for the caster themselves are relatively high, and the process of casting the spell is also very cumbersome, and it is necessary to communicate with the dead and the power of the elements at all times. All kinds of restrictions have greatly reduced the number of shamans.

Ivan has seen the introduction of shamans in books about accepting magical powers from all over the world, but he doesn't know much about them.

The totem that the other party just mentioned reminded him of this ancient profession. After all, this is not a very common spell-casting tool.

"The totem you made, is it the power of a shaman?" Ivan asked.

"In our tribe, it is called witchcraft, and people who use this power are called witch doctors, who are the spiritual leaders of the clan and tribe." Shuklia said, the light blue magic light in her hands Flowing slowly, "We are responsible for communicating with the spirits of our ancestors and the gods of the natural world, guiding our people through various difficulties, and maintaining the order of nature from being destroyed. Of course, in your country, this power is also called As a shaman's power, it's just called differently!"

"A witch doctor from Africa, then you should be the witch it said!" Ivan thought for a while and continued to ask, "In this case, what is the protection you just said? Take all the souls Turning into an owl so that they can never rest in peace is also a form of protection?"

"It's a kind of protection!" Shuklia said slowly, "There is a very powerful evil force in this castle. If I don't provide shelter for these souls, they will be mercilessly devoured by that demon."

"What's going on? What I learned doesn't seem to be the case."

"I will tell you the truth of everything, strange visitor, it is up to you to judge." Shuklia said, watching Aiwen calmly, "A long time ago, I left my tribe for a Traveling alone, this is a trial, every witch doctor in the clan will go through this process, the elders hope that I can cleanse my soul during the trip, better communicate with the elements, and return to the tribe Become the new great witch doctor. But during that long journey, I gradually lost my original intention. I met a wizard, and I met and fell in love with him. He wanted to take me back to his family and was going to marry me ..."

"We crossed the Mediterranean Sea and were going to Paris, the seat of his family. We came to this place at the end of the journey. The hostess of this castle was his classmate. They used to study together in a magic school called Beauxbatons. In her The two of us stayed and planned to stay for a few days before we set off again."

Chapter 748 Another Version of the Story

"The hostess of the castle you are talking about is Ariana, right?" Ivan blinked.

"It is she, she is a witch who gave her soul to the devil, and she is also the source of this unfortunate curse." Shuklia said calmly, "It seems that you have met her, and she wants you to come here What are you doing?"

"I'll talk about this later, you tell your own story first!" Ivan shook the wand in his hand.

He believed neither the woman in the mirror nor the sudden appearance of the soul.

The evil witch who dedicated her soul to the devil and the shaman from Africa who can use strange powers are not easy to mess with. The ghost knows what happened back then.

Also, where is the hero who appears in both stories, the wizard from Paris? !

To be honest, this matter is much more troublesome than Ai Wen originally imagined.

If it doesn't work out, these two evil witches fought against each other more than 500 years ago, making the innocent people in the whole castle become funeral objects.Now, they have become undead, but the power between each other is still at work, and they all hope that Aiwen can help them solve each other.

"After we stayed, she treated us warmly, but as time went by, I found that my lover gradually changed, and gradually became indifferent to me..." Shuklia hesitated, and continued, "He doesn't seem to be Love me again!"

"Love potion?!" Ivan looked at her.

"Yes, this kind of potion is called love potion in our place." Shuklia said, with a flash of pain in his eyes, "If I didn't continue to insist on it, but returned to the tribe to become a great witch doctor, what happened later? It might not have happened. After I found out that my lover had changed, I didn't know whether he was drugged or something else, but the root of everything was obviously the woman. He came to the castle. It just changed, and I decided to find out the truth. After some investigation, I found that the hostess of the castle, Ariana, my lover's former classmate in the magic school, was very suspicious. The magic I left It shows that she sneaks out of her bedroom every night, sometimes to have fun with my lover in a remote room of the castle, sometimes with other men, but more shockingly..."

"What is it?" Ivan looked at her. The more shocking thing was that he was dating many men at the same time.

"Shockingly, she would go deep underground in the castle almost every night after dating. There, I found a secret room protected by magic. I cracked the magic she left and broke in. I saw There are piles of bones inside, and they are piled high on the floor." Shuklia said shocking words in a calm tone, "Those wizards who are smiling and approachable during the day are all incarnations at night. They are killing ordinary Muggle civilians and dissecting their corpses. In addition to the pile of bones, I also saw iron chains crisscrossing the room above, and human corpses were hung on the chains. These human corpses They all appeared to be ordinary people or Muggle farmers, perhaps local residents. Some were hung from head to foot, others from feet to head, their knees were badly frayed and blood flowed from knee to foot Come on. Some people are still not completely dead, and they keep wailing..."

If what Shuklia said is true, then Ariana's secret is indeed terrible.

Aiwen didn't believe that she simply abused those farmers and mutilated their corpses. This is a very evil black magic. Only painful torture can distort a person's heart and soul. That kind of power is exactly what black magic needs .

"After investigation, I found that she was using the flesh and soul of these people to worship demons!" Shuklia said, gradually raising his voice, "This is a castle full of evil, and the wizards here are all demons. Afterwards, I put this I told my lover this fact, but he didn't want to believe me. He thought I was lying and framing his classmate. He said a lot of exaggerated words and let me leave alone. I can feel that he has completely changed. Bewitched by that woman with her demonic power, she no longer loves me, but I can't leave him alone, so..."

"So what?" Ivan said, frowning at her.

"So, I used a love potion on him, put it in his cup, and made him fall in love with me again!" Shuklia said, seemingly unhappy, "I'm very good at making potions, this is the duty of a witch doctor One. I originally thought that I could be with him in this way, and after leaving this castle, he would slowly change his mind, but this was just the beginning of my depravity..."

Aiwen looked at the ghost in front of him, the former witch doctor shaman, the spiritual leader of a tribe.

What Ariana said corresponds to another item. She didn't lie, but she didn't explain all the facts clearly. If the previous ones corresponded, then in the end Shuklia poisoned everyone in the castle... …

"We escaped, but we were caught back soon. I was imprisoned in a dungeon, tortured crazily by them, and suffered all kinds of humiliation." Shuklia said, with a trace of hatred in his voice, "I originally I thought my lover would come to save me, but it didn't. I didn't know until then that he had a marriage contract with that demon. After a few months, the news of their upcoming marriage came, and I was completely hopeless Now, I compromise with the dark gods. I swear, I will stop this, I will completely cleanse this evil fortress. I use my own blood as a medium, use ancient shamanic powers, and pray for the help of the gods of nature, Let owls, mice, and other creatures get me the ingredients for the potion, and I make the poison, and put it in the water of the castle, and I will make all these demons die."

"You poisoned them all like this?" Ivan looked at Shuklia, who had become a little scary.

As she avenged those demons, she became a demon herself.

All the things that Ariana said corresponded. Shuklia is really a terrible witch.

But if what she said is also true, then Ariana can be evil, and it's hard to say who is more terrifying.

"I thought this would complete the purification, but I was wrong again!" Shuklia said, staring at Ivan, "The poison I made was very powerful, and many people in the castle died, but it was that woman She had long ago given up her body and dedicated her soul to the devil. After figuring out what happened, she killed the rest without hesitation, including her parents and relatives. She was ready to Using the souls of all people as sacrifices, summoning demons to come to the world..."

Chapter 749 Rejection

For evil dark wizards, parents, relatives, and friends are never the things they need to cherish.

It is just a prop for them to complete more evil magic, one of the important magic materials, very effective and cruel.

Just think about it, what material could be more evil than using the blood, bones and soul of one's own parents and brothers? !

For example, Voldemort's father, Tom Riddle Sr., Voldemort only needed him when he was resurrected, and needed his bones.

As a servant of the devil, Arianna regards the lives and souls of others as the sacrifices needed for the devil to descend. She even dedicated her own soul to the soul, and she has completely lost her mind. To be more precise, it should be Lost humanity.

She is no longer a person, but a devil from hell.

Ivan sighed, how terrifying is the unlimited powerful magic power.

This incident is just a microcosm of Europe in the dark magic age hundreds of years ago. In that era, blood and crime happened all the time...

The truth of the facts is far more shocking than what you see or hear in books.

"I know I can't escape, and she won't let me go. I'm cursed by that demon!" Shuklia continued, with a faint voice that can arouse the fear deep in a person's heart, "But I can't let her After completing that ceremony, I have to stop her, otherwise after I die, even my soul will not be able to find peace. So, before she came to kill me, I took my own life as the price, turning all the souls in the castle into Became an owl."

If she's not lying, that's how Owl Fortress was born.

But Ai Wen didn't believe that what she said was all, maybe it was only part of the truth!

Like Ariana, Shuklia glorified her sin with noble reasons.

"Is that what the curse is all about?"

"This is not a curse, but a kind of protection. I have protected these souls from being devoured by demons." Shuklia said excitedly, and then calmed down instantly, "Of course, I don't deny that this is important to me. I am also a kind of protection, I hide in these souls, so that the devil can not find me."

"How did you do it?" Aiwen asked, looking at Shuklia who was floating in mid-air like smoke, "Those souls were members of this castle before they were alive, and they should obey Ariana's orders." order?"

No wonder I saw that ghost before saying that it can't violate the oath it once made, and can't reveal everything about that person. It should refer to their oath of allegiance to Ariana. They are still functioning hundreds of years after their death.

After all, ghosts like it are the real poor ones.

They were innocently involved in this conspiracy and could not rest in peace. Until now, they thought that the mistress killed them, but they had to obey her orders.

"After turning into owls, they have lost their intelligence, so naturally they can't hear the demon's orders to them, and she can't find out which one is me among thousands of owl ghosts." Shukelia said, " But as soon as human form is restored, the old magic will work, and she will re-order them, just like you just saw..."

"Well, how did she order them, I didn't see her there!"

"Except for this place, the entire fortress is under her supervision. Hundreds of years of fighting have allowed us to understand each other, even better than ourselves. I know that she got a mirror from the devil, and now It has become her body, and can show all the scenes inside and around the castle." Shuklia said.

"You mean, she can see us?!" Ai Wen was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought, "Then I came here, did she also know, and know the location of this totem?"

"Yes, but it's not important!" Shuklia said, "She already knew about this place, but she just couldn't get in, but it was a matter of time. My strength began to decline a long time ago, and almost Over the past hundred years, those stupid adventurers who have been breaking in have destroyed the magic I left in the castle. I can no longer suppress her. She is becoming stronger and stronger. She can even leave the mirror, and her descendants or Other greedy wizards get in touch and lure them into their fall."

Mentioning this, Ivan thought of the owl man, that terrifying humanoid monster.

"She taught those greedy wizards the forbidden demonic power, making them believe that they would become stronger. But that's only part of it. They all ended up as a mixture of lowly demons and humans, just like the owl people you said " Shuklia looked at Ivan and hesitated for a moment, "I don't want to lie to you, I hope to get your help, I can feel that although you are young, you are very smart, and you are very smart like those wizards. Not the same. I can tell you that when she seduced the wizards who entered the castle to fall, I also spoke to them through the power of nature, hinted at them, told them the wrong magic, and made them lose their magic after turning into demons. Lost reason, unable to serve her, become a pure monster, or die directly..."

It's really insidious, these adventurers who think they have got everything and become stronger are just playthings in the hands of the two women.But to be honest, Ivan no longer feels surprised. From what she did in Shuklia's previous story, it can be seen that it would be a strange thing if she didn't do this.

No wonder, Ariana would seek help from herself, and Aiwen was probably her new prey.

If Aiwen didn't do anything, he would sprinkle the blood and the contents of the bottle on the totem as the other party said. Now the horror is already dead and can't die anymore. Shuklia will not let him go .

"Well, now that you've told me everything, what do you want me to do?" Alvin said.

"Save me from this nightmare, stop that demon, destroy that mirror, or wait until she regains her strength and successfully summons the real demon, everyone will die, no one can escape, that is beyond imagination Power," Shuklia said.

"But it doesn't make any sense to me, we're just outsiders, we'll leave Dijon tomorrow, even if she turns into a real demon, that's something the French Ministry of Magic and the Aurors need to worry about, I already have a bunch of them The trouble is not resolved, and I don’t want to cause new trouble!” Ai Wen said, after thinking about it for a moment, he shook his head, “To be honest, after listening to you tell this story, I’m already tired of this matter. It's more complicated than I thought at first, I'm not quite..."