Retirement from Hogwarts

On the evening of the third day of Christmas, after finishing all the chores, Jack and Hermione reluctantly brought Brünnhilde, who had discovered their secret adventure, to Darien's office.

"What a strange team combination you have? Are you sure you're not taking your children on a spring outing?" Dallion looked at Brünnhilde, who was holding one hand between Jack and Hermione, and couldn't help but tease him. .

"We hope this is a spring outing." Jack shrugged after hearing Dallion's question. "But I have a bad feeling about it, from the first time I went there."

"Your hunch this time was quite right." Dallion, who had always been at odds with Jack, rarely refuted what he said, but nodded in agreement. "That vault was chosen by Ravenclaw as her burial place when she was dying. Basically, she moved quite a lot of things in her laboratory into it with huge golems, and the move took just one day. Almost everyone in the school went to watch. And before she closed the vault, she also explained in public that as long as they found the treasure she left inside, they would be eligible to become one of her three inheritors. However, countless people went in to look for it and finally found it. Nothing was found, God knows what that crazy woman stuffed in there.”

"Nothing was found?" Hermione, a successor who had embarked on the path of Ravenclaw's trial, knew very well how many things were in her former laboratory, so she was a little upset when she heard Dallion say that those people had found nothing. Dare to believe your ears. "The place is so big, and there are so many things in the Ravenclaw laboratory, how could they find nothing?"

"Some people say that those things in Ravenclaw are actually parts of something. She has put them together and is waiting for someone to activate it; some people say that she also learned from Slytherin and Gryffindor. She also built her own secret room in Hogwarts. The so-called putting things into the treasure house was just a pretense. In fact, the real treasure had been hidden in her own secret room long ago; but since the inheritor of the secret room has appeared in my In the face of this, the latter one is obviously not true. As for what the truth is, I’m afraid no one can tell clearly." As Dallion spoke, he walked towards the Mirror of Erised in the corner, and then looked at the other three incredulously. With his eyes, he easily took off the huge magic mirror five to six meters high from the wall.

After the mirror left its pedestal, it began to shrink rapidly in Dallion's hands.When she turned around and handed it to Jack, it had become the size of a palm.

"Take it for self-defense." Dallion said as he handed him the mirror that had long belonged to Jack but was reluctant to give it to him.

"Aren't you coming with us?" Jack frowned when he saw Dallion's movements.

"I'm really sorry. There are some things that I can't push away at the moment." After hearing his question, Dallion clasped his hands and showed an apologetic smile to them.

"Okay, let's go first." Jack gave Darian a deep look, then turned around and opened the door to her office and walked out.

On the way to the vault, Hermione frowned and said to Jack, "Dallion is acting weird today."

"She should be hiding something from us." Jack said to Hermione dissatisfied.

"That sister is lying." Brynhild interrupted at this time.

"Lied?" Hermione asked her in disbelief after hearing what Brünnhilde said. Although she knew that Brünnhilde's telepathic ability would not go wrong, she still couldn't believe that the person who was often there Dallion would lie to himself by helping him with extra classes after class so that he could catch up with Jack's magic progress.

"She must have something to hide, such as being threatened or something." Jack comforted Hermione who was a little broken. "But obviously she is still on our side. Otherwise she wouldn't have given me the Mirror of Erised."

"Unspeakable secrets?" Hermione murmured and recalled after listening to Jack's words. She couldn't help but blame herself when she thought of Darien's hesitant expression when he was teaching her recently. "It's all my fault. If only I had noticed earlier that Dallion was threatened by someone."

"It's not your fault. Under normal circumstances, who would have thought that someone could catch the weakness of Darien, a legendary mage who is more powerful than Dumbledore?" After hearing what Hermione said, Jack shook his head slightly and whispered to her. comforted. "And I don't think she would simply let you, her apprentice, be slaughtered. There must be some back-up plan."

While they were talking, they had arrived at the vault located under the castle.Hermione couldn't help but gasp in surprise when Jack opened the door to the vault using the method taught by Ms. Grey.

"Jack, are you sure we didn't go wrong?" Hermione asked him in disbelief as she looked at the empty secret vault in front of her. "Where's the Ravenclaw statue and diadem?"

"That's probably why the letter brought us here." Jack felt the warning signs that had been flooding his mind since he opened the door and pulled out his wand.

"Should we go in? The smell inside is so strange." Hermione watched Jack's movements and pulled out her wand, then protected Brünnhilde behind her.She stared carefully at the dusty vault in front of her. The strange aura coming from inside that only she could feel made her instinctively feel a huge threat.Every nerve in her body strongly reminded her not to go in.

The smell inside is strange?Jack couldn't help but be startled after hearing Hermione's words. He probed his spiritual power in, but still found nothing.Feeling this strange situation, he fell into deep thought silently.

Finally, amidst the increasingly strong and strange atmosphere coming from the air, she spoke again: "Anyway, the letter just said to meet here, and didn't even leave a name, so why should we listen to him?" You might as well just leave."

"Leave?" Jack frowned slightly after hearing Hermione's words. "But I always feel..."

Before Jack could finish speaking, several tentacles wrapped in slippery slime suddenly appeared in the originally empty room, waiting for Jack to decide that Hermione would roll over towards the door.

"Shen Feng has no shadow."

"Splitting Ray"

"Blade of Secondary Space."

Jack's face couldn't help but change when he saw this, and several magics of different natures were thrown at the tentacles as if they were free.

Jack