Hogwarts Archmage

There were still nearly half of the beetles in the backpack, and Rose did not throw away her thoughts even when she was in such a hurry. She was afraid that if there was not enough fuel, she would go back and light a smaller fire ring, which would at least guarantee the safety of the two of them. Safety.

Her face hurt a little from the flames, but she felt that if nothing else happened, she might not be able to use the things in her bag.

The beetles soon filled the entire hall, rushing towards the fire ring from all directions. The flames rose higher and higher, but at the same time, the temperature was also getting higher and higher.

What she was more worried about now was whether the two people would be roasted alive and turned into dried meat.

Fortunately, this room seemed to have a mechanism. After the temperature rose to a certain level, drizzle began to fall. This rainwater could not extinguish the flames, but it could lower the temperature when it fell on them.

The hall was still very hot, like a sauna, but the soaring temperature had slowed down. At least the two of them felt that they would not be roasted to death but rather slowly steamed to death.

The two people drank the water in their respective cups, and then stood on the ground to catch the rainwater. The minute hand on the wall moved back to the "12" position and started a new round of timing.

There was fog all around, but because the rotunda was not big, they still saw the faint fluorescence suddenly emitted from the patterns on the wall.

A bird on the mural suddenly moved.

Then all the strange birds started to move.

They fluttered their wings and broke away from the mural, hovering around the fire ring.

A strange bird with colorful feathers on its head landed on the ground and pecked a beetle. Then all the strange birds landed on the ground and began to eat these guys.

And what emerged with them were the two people on the wall and their fire rings.

The beetles attacked the fire ring in two directions, while the strange birds feasted on the bugs on the ground like a group of chickens.

"too big!"

The people over there suddenly shouted in a strange tone: "Your fire ring is too big! There are not enough beetles to eat!"

This sentence was a bit meaningless, but both girls understood that they were reminding themselves that these beetles would soon be eaten up, but their own fire circle was too big to last long.

After Rose thanked her for the reminder, she thought for a while and smashed the beetle in her backpack again. She took out a small part and poured it on the ground to form a small circle, while the rest was poured into her coat and wrapped to prevent accidents. Touch to ignite.

Then he used Nancy's clothes to knock out a little bit of the outer ring of fire. He leaned out and quickly grabbed some more with his backpack while the birds weren't paying attention.

This was repeated three times. After the two people over there reminded her enough, she expressed her gratitude again, took another bag, and then sat back.

There are many beetles and it is very thick.

But after the strange bird swallowed some, it shook its butt and began to lay eggs one after another. These eggs would burst in less than a minute, and some small strange birds would emerge. They would try their best to Eat, and I grow rapidly.

The strange birds in the rotunda quickly became crowded, and the beetles on the ground became thinner and thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Finally, when the pointer pointed to "9", the already filthy ground was revealed, and the strange birds turned their heads towards the two people in the fire ring.

I have to say that these beetles are very resistant to burning, but no matter how resistant they are to burning, they can't withstand the strong fire. It only took less than 10 minutes. When the pointer pointed to "7", the flames became weaker, while the strange birds He began to tentatively stretch his neck.

Rose nodded toward Nancy, who set off the inner circle.

There was a drizzle in the sky, but these beetle carcasses were too flammable. If they were slightly blocked from the water, they would burn if a spark fell.

The two people started drinking water from the water glasses.

The strange birds stepped into the outer circle and began to wait outside the inner circle.

They seemed to be really hungry. After they ran out of beetles, they began to bite and devour some baby birds and smaller species.

It didn't take long for the number of strange birds in the hall to begin to decrease sharply, and in the end it was barely maintained at twice the number that appeared on the original mural.

"Are we just going to wait quietly like this?"

After Nancy grabbed a handful of insect corpses and spread them evenly over the fire ring, she asked casually.

Rose shook her head: "It can't be that simple...it's hard to say."

She looked at the pointer on the wall that had just reached "5" and suddenly asked: "I remember that the number originally pointed to in the mural was 1. Is there any problem?"

Nancy turned around and asked the two people over there directly, but received no response.

She took a sip of water: "Who knows... we'll talk about it then."

The two people waited quietly. The number of insect corpses was decreasing and the hands were moving back, but the strange birds had no intention of leaving.

When the pointer moved to 1, Rose noticed that the two people over there suddenly became rickets.

"Hey! What happened!!?"

They just pointed at their throats and shook their heads without saying anything. They didn't know whether they were speechless or something else.

Rose was a little confused and simply took a sip of water. It was too hot here...

and many more…

She looked at the empty hands of the two people over there, and suddenly realized something.

"They helped us, Nancy."

Nancy was a little confused: "What's wrong?"

Rose shook her head, looked at the half-full glass of water in her hand, and then at the drizzle above her head. She screwed the lid on the cup, shouted something, raised her hand and threw the cup away.

A bird flew over at a speed completely inconsistent with its size. Just when Rose was worried that it would snatch the cup, it twisted its head and used its beak to cut off a strip of flesh from her arm that was above the line of flames. Only the neighboring strange birds started snatching, and finally several birds got some.

Rose screamed in pain, blood pouring from her arms.

But the cup was successfully thrown over, and the two people over there drank some each, and placed the cup and lid on the ground to catch the rain like the two of them.

"Use beetles!"

they shouted.

Nancy was in a hurry. She was stunned when she heard this. She thought that a dead horse was treated as a live horse doctor. She grabbed a handful of beetles from the ground, kneaded them into pulp, and dripped the body fluids on the wound.

The wound healed quickly, leaving only a very light scar that looked like it would take some time to disappear.

The two of them were about to express their thanks when they saw the strange bird that had eaten Rose's flesh and blood chirped with satisfaction, hovered in the air, accelerated and crashed into the wall, and then turned into a relief.

"This is…"

They suddenly had a not-so-good premonition. Could it be that the condition for this thing to go back is...

The two looked at the two people in the circle over there. Just as they were about to open their mouths to ask, they saw them drinking from the cups that were filled with water again and throwing them back.

Then they stood up.