I, Hogwarts Week Two

"Really? That's really strange."

Koyatel responded.

She didn't know much about [Son of Evil Omen], and most of what she knew was from reading in the newspaper.

The only exception is to listen to Ron's story.

So she couldn't tell the difference Hermione was talking about.

On the other side, like evil spirits in the dark night, many small creatures slowly walked out from the darkness of the hall, where the crystal chandeliers could not reach.

They all wore long robes to hide their bodies.

But if you look closely, you will find that there are many branch-like things under the robes they are wearing, just like cloth covering dead branches.

"Does it look like they're on the verge of extinction?" Owen took a quick look.

I didn't see many with intact bodies.

Fairies are a huge race, and they can be found all over the world.

Gringotts has branches everywhere.

In addition, there are taverns, shops, magic material stores, etc. opened by goblins from all over the world - it is impossible that all goblins in the world are infected with the disease. At least the two who brought them here and the goblins in Gringotts are normal.

But for a race, if 70% to 80% of the population dies from disease at one time, it is no different from genocide.

Without the Goblin Kingdom coordinating behind the scenes, goblins around the world would immediately fall apart. It would be impossible to maintain the current close yet distant relationship with the wizarding world.

It is certainly impossible to become a house-elf, but it is very possible to become a centaur, siren, or merman and be completely isolated from wizards.

"Rosier——"

On the throne, the Goblin King, who had been silent for two minutes, finally spoke.

He stared at Owen with his only remaining cloudy eye.

The bulging eyeballs looked exactly like that of the young wizard.

To be honest, he liked Irving before he saw him.

The history of goblins is much more complete than that of wizards.

They are also very clear about the heirs of ancient magic.

As a race that has clashed with the heirs several times and even killed one of them, the fairies know better than anyone the power that the heirs possess.

But in his opinion, Irving is still too young.

Even if he possessed ancient magic power, he could only use it in a crude way, just like a primitive man holding a steel knife. Indeed, the attack power became stronger, but for a primitive man to make a steel knife himself, the difficulty would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

This does not mean that primitive people will never learn how to make steel knives, but it means that it takes time. It takes time to learn, time to study, and more time to accumulate.

The young man in front of him was only sixteen or seventeen years old. No matter how outstanding he was, it was impossible for him to truly understand and master ancient magic.

"If you can save my people."

"Then I can tell you all the secrets of the goblins."

The weak voice of the Elf King Ragnak XVII reached the ears of the four people.

That was all he could say.

Because Irving is their last hope, even if this hope seems very slim now, they have no other choice.

"Silver Reinak, you will be responsible for receiving our distinguished guests."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

A goblin walked out from the shadows and knelt on the ground.

The king snorted, then stopped talking and sat quietly on his throne as if he were dead.

The goblin named Silver Reinak stood up and walked in front of the crowd. "Please follow me," he said.

Then he led everyone out of the hall through the side door of the royal court.

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The goblin city is magnificent.

Decorations made of gold can be seen everywhere.

Along the way, the figures of goblins became more and more numerous.

All of them were wrapped in robes and not a single one was in good health.

The Gonuk who had led them here had long since disappeared.

Owen speculated that he should leave the city. If the goblin king had any sense, he would know not to let his people mix with those healthy ones.

At least this way it won't be completely destroyed.

Except for the gradually increasing number of goblins.

There was another creature that caught the four people's attention.

"This is--" Hermione frowned, staring at the creatures that existed on the walls, roads, and palace domes.

These creatures gave her a strong sense of déjà vu, as if she had seen them somewhere.

But Hermione was sure that she had never seen it anywhere in reality.

It is a dark blue or even black, slug-like creature.

It has metallic skin and moves forward by crawling.

After observation, she found that these creatures seemed to be working. She saw a dilapidated road, which must have been broken by some heavy object.

These slug creatures crawled to the gap, and then human-like hands stretched out from their active bodies, cleaning the hole bit by bit, constantly taking out various repair materials from their bodies. The hole was filled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, its body suddenly sank, as if it was squeezed, forming a plane that just covered the top of the pit. The slug creature squirmed again, as if taking something out of the water, and spit out a complete piece of marble. As a floor tile, it just filled the pit.

Then it suddenly expanded again like a balloon, twisting its body to swallow up the damaged construction waste on the ground bit by bit, merging it into its body and leaving the place.

"What-what kind of creature is this?"

Hermione looked shocked.

"This is incredible, Owen, Koyate, look at this!"

"I see." Owen frowned, "I feel like I've seen it somewhere before."

"Hmm?" Hermione turned to look at him, "Do you feel the same way? I feel like I've seen it somewhere."

As she spoke, she carefully approached the slug creatures that were still working hard, trying to observe them more carefully without disturbing them. These creatures seemed to be unconcerned about Hermione's presence, and were still focused on their repair work, as if this was their innate mission.

"Their movements are so coordinated and efficient, and... their bodies seem to be able to transform at will, and even produce and manipulate matter..." Hermione muttered to herself, and various possible explanations and speculations flashed through her mind. But there is nothing similar in the technology possessed by wizards. At present, the most famous wizards in cutting-edge alchemy are Victor, Nicolas Flamel and others.

Nicolas Flamel had not continued to delve into alchemy for many years.

He was old and would not live long after destroying the Philosopher's Stone.

Originally, his life would have come to an end in these few years.

However, thanks to the glimmer potion invented by Victor, his health has improved a little, but it can't extend his life for long. Nick himself said that it would be difficult for him to survive until the arrival of the new century.

As for Victor, his main focus in alchemy was on human alchemy, and some magical inventions were just incidental products.

If we were to say who really took the path of inventing magic alchemy, it would be Fred and George.

"Wait a minute." Just as Hermione was brainstorming and wondering whether past alchemy masters had created similar things, an idea suddenly struck her. She remembered that she had recently seen some information that mentioned similar magical creations.

"They are [Hundred Aspects]."

"Owen! [Hundred Faces]!" Hermione said happily.

"【Hundred Aspects】?" With Hermione's reminder, Owen suddenly remembered the description of 【Hundred Aspects】he saw on the bas-relief of the Divine Tower in Canada.

Legend has it that wizards used ancient magic to create a multicellular protoplasmic biological colony known as the "Furnace of Life".

The creations in the furnace can transform body tissues into a variety of temporary organs, or merge with other organisms, thereby transforming into ideal slaves to perform heavy and repetitive physical labor.

These invertebrate aggregates that ooze mucus were originally named "Hundred Aspects", but later wizards preferred to call them "Evil Omens".

"Indeed - these creatures are exactly as described by Bai Xiang."

Owen looked at the goblin named Silver Reinak.

"You goblins still retain this kind of technology?"

Silver Reinak, just hearing the name tells you his status among the goblins, he is a noble of the kingdom.

Owen thought he must know the inside story.

"Mr. Rochelle, the goblins do retain relevant ancient technologies." The goblin named Silver Reinak said in a sharp and short voice: "The history of goblins is more complete than that of humans. Our civilization is long and has never been interrupted."

"Haha..." Hearing the smug tone in the fairy's mouth, Owen sneered. "I just don't know where you got the ancient magic power from. Maybe you stole it from someone else." The hatred between the heirs and the fairies has lasted for hundreds of years. One of them even died. If the fairies stole the ancient magic power from the previous heirs, Owen would never doubt it.

"No - Mr. Rosier." Reinak said quickly: "That was done by that group of traitors - the Fairy Brotherhood. The ancient magic in the kingdom was not stolen from anyone. It was found by the fairies over thousands of years."

"Searching? You dug up the divine tower?"

"No—it's not the Tower of Divine Grant."

"Where else does ancient magic exist?"

"Of course there is," said Reinark, "you will know."

Having said that, he stopped talking and led the way silently.

Soon, the four followed him to a very majestic building.

It was a huge Gothic cathedral.

There is a huge spiral staircase inside, like the branches of a tree, with sockets on all sides leading to other floors.

There are even more goblins and slugs here. They are everywhere, just like a science academy, everyone is doing their own work.

The stairs lead not only to the upper floors, but also to the lower floors.

Standing on a platform and looking down, the huge building complex that is bottomless and looks like an abyss is shocking.

Owen once again overturned his guess about the population of the Fairy Kingdom.

When he first got started, he only estimated the area of ​​the flat building complex, but forgot that goblins are a group that are good at digging holes and like three-dimensional buildings. Now it seems that a population of millions is possible.

"Ok?"

Owen only focused on the building and forgot about the more important thing - magic. When he came out of his trance, he immediately discovered that under the abyss, there was a surge of ancient magic.

The magic power is like colorful wind, surging upwards wave after wave.

How can this be?

Owen's eyes froze and he looked deeply into the ground.

The ancient magic here is as dense as any divine tower.

This is definitely not something that can be accumulated by taking away the magic power of the heir.

You know, after Merlin, there are only four heirs besides him.

Even if you squeeze these four heirs dry, you still can't get so much ancient magic power.

Unless - this is an ancient relic, which originally contains an astonishing amount of ancient magic power.

"What's wrong, Owen?" Hermione saw him standing there in a daze, and pulled his sleeve with concern.

"Nothing..." Owen patted her hands and looked at the goblin named Reinak. "Now I finally understand why the goblins would build their kingdom here - underground."

"Humph!"

This city was probably built for the purpose of mining and studying the ancient ruins below.

Even the tradition of goblins liking to dig holes may have come from this.

"What?" Hermione looked confused.

"Let's go down and talk about it."

This time, Owen knew where to go without Renak leading the way.

There is also a magic helicopter floating in the air next to the huge spiral staircase.

With these take-offs and landings, they can reach the ground faster.

Reinak did not obstruct them and even helped them start the lift, which was goblin magic and wizards obviously could not trigger.

The helicopter flew rapidly downward.

Then a huge and magnificent ancient relic showed its true face to everyone.

The ruins, stacked up in layers, look like a beehive.

Owen stood on the edge of the landing craft, staring intently at the ancient ruins approaching below.

He saw many of the same scenes that appeared in the bas-reliefs on Canada's Divine Providence Tower.

These thoughts soon brought him to the truth.

"This ancient relic is an alchemy factory used by ancient wizards to create the Hundred Aspects." Hermione came to the conclusion faster than him.

"That's why there are huge reserves of ancient magic power." Owen said in a deep voice.

"Have you been working on this?" he said to the goblin.

"Yes, Mr. Rosier." Reinak said in a short voice, "The goblins began to study how to create this kind of creature a long time ago. Now-"

"No - that's not right." Owen interrupted him, "How can it be so simple? Your goal is definitely not to simply learn how to create [Hundred Phases]!"

"The goblins don't need servants just to repair their palaces and roads. It's not worth it."

Owen began to recall carefully the records on the bas-relief.

【Life Crucible】

Multicellular protoplasmic organisms.

Life fusion.

Invertebrate polymers.

All the words that were born out of the forbidden life engineering began to emerge in his mind.

Gradually, an idea suddenly popped up.

"You want to create an heir to the goblins?" Owen said quickly.

"You want to create Outer Gods?" Hermione exclaimed.