Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Demand determines supply.

More than nine hundred years ago, the Normans built many castles on the hills near Palermo in order to intimidate local villages.

Now, most of these castles have been reduced to ruins, crawling with lizards that are indifferent to the world, and occasionally there are a few stray goats hiding.

There was such a Norman fortress built on the hill where Don Malo and his friends met August Rookwood.

It was built on a steep hillside and the main body collapsed to the point of collapse.

There are some carefully carved narrow terraces at the foot of the mountain, but the terrain dictates that they cannot be connected together and can only be used as small vegetable patches.

There are countless white boulders on the hill, most of which are covered with moss. Under the moonlight, they look like a large barren tomb from a distance.

This is not a place for Tibetans.

As the Shadow Minister of Magic who monopolizes almost all the "lost" Portkeys in this land, Don Marlowe only knows that this ruin is actually a node of Portkeys, which is not surprising.

However, he didn't know much about history.

Historically, this ancient Norman fortress was once resold, and the surname of the person who bought it was "Rookwood".

Its ground-level buildings really cannot hide people.

However, there is actually a secret dungeon hidden under the ruins. Not to mention hiding a bunch of people, even hiding a few Horntail Dragons wouldn't be a problem.

"This is...'Hall of the Horntails'?"

Nick Flamel woke up, opened his eyes and looked at the surrounding situation, and finally his eyes fell on a bronze brazier placed on the ground.

This brazier contained some whale blubber-like substance, with a layer of slightly bluish flame floating on it, providing some light to the surroundings.

Although there is a thick layer of putty on the brazier, if you look carefully, you can still see decorative patterns engraved on it——

The head of a fire dragon trapped in chains.

"... Wasn't this place already destroyed in the middle of the 19th century? At that time, newspapers from all over the world published headlines..."

"Mr. Flamel, are you okay?" Bourne's voice interrupted Flamel's thinking. At the same time, it also made him realize what was more important.

He quickly asked: "Bourne, are you injured? How do you feel?"

At this time, both he and Bourne were tied up with a metal chain shining with dim silver light. The chain is connected to a stone pillar inserted into the ground. There is an iron ring made of cast iron above the stone pillar. One end of the metal chain is passed through it, and the other end hangs down to tie Bourne and Flamel together.

An old man and a young man were tied to the same stone pillar back to back.

"I'm fine," Bourne replied. He wasn't trying to be brave, he really had nothing wrong with him. Bourne was more worried about Nick Flamel than himself.

That "iron ribs"-like alchemy dummy is actually a trap. When the two touched its body, they instantly activated a door key hidden in its body.

Moreover, there is something wrong with this door key.

In other words, its designer definitely did it on purpose, just to trick someone when the teleportation was initiated.

Generally speaking, the travel experience of wizards using portkeys is actually much better than using Apparition themselves.

However, when the door key was activated, Bourne even had the illusion that he was riding a "Storm Claw".

One can imagine what would happen to a normal person who does not wear a pressure-resistant suit and experiences this kind of teleportation.

Even though Nick Flamel is a wizard, he is still an old man over 600 years old. So at the beginning of this violent transmission, the great alchemist fainted.

The only thing worth celebrating is that that "overload feeling" is just a physiological experience caused by magic, not overload in the physical sense.

Otherwise, Nick Flamel's old arms and legs would have been broken after such a hard time.

Originally, when the transmission ended, Bourne wanted to give that "iron chops" a bit of an Astartes shock.

But what he didn't expect was that there was another design hidden on the door key: the alchemy dummy did not appear in the same place as them.

As soon as the transmission ended, he and Nick Flamel appeared in this place that looked like a dungeon, and the chain instantly tied the two of them tightly to the stone pillar.

If Byrne was the only one being tied up, he would have tried to transform into a Primaris Astartes to break the seemingly ordinary chain, and then go and chat with the "Iron Spare Rib" in person.

However, Nick Flamel was tied to him. By forcefully breaking the chains, Bourne would definitely be fine, but conservatively it would be estimated that ten or eight of the bones in the great alchemist's body would be broken.

Therefore, Byrne could only attempt partial "Primaris Astartesization", hoping to use the corrosive venom secreted by Bechers' glands to escape.

Unfortunately, after trying it, Byrne discovered that this iron chain, which looked like it had been plated with silver and didn't look very strong, was actually very corrosion-resistant!

Only then did he understand: why the wand was still in his hand, and why the deformed lizard wallet containing many things was still hanging on his belt instead of being taken away - presumably the same was the case with Nick Flamel - The guy who kidnapped them was obviously very confident in his restraint methods.

"Mr. Flamel, since you are also awake, I would like to use a wandless method to unlock this chain. Do you think it is possible?"

Unlike some followers of Slaanesh, Byrne doesn't like being tied up at all.

"Um, can you cast spells without a wand? Does Hogwarts still teach students this kind of metamagic skill? I have to talk to Madame Maxime later. The courses offered at Hogwarts are not available at Beauxbatons. It’s fallen…”

Nick Flamel said in surprise.

However, he immediately realized that now was not a good time to criticize the teaching quality of his alma mater.

Moreover, he immediately rejected the method proposed by Bourne.

"...I'm afraid this won't work." Nick Flamel said: "This chain is a 'dragon lock'.

Did you hear what I said just now?

I think this is most likely the 'Hornbee Hall' that has been banned for more than a hundred years. It was once an illegal place used to hold dragon fighting competitions.

The Dragon Binding Lock, as the name suggests, is a chain used to bind the fire dragon.

Those evil wizards who fight dragons will use dragon locks to tie fire dragons to such stone pillars, and then use magic spells to force different fire dragons to fight to the death on the ground.

Although most fire dragons are very ferocious, they are generally unwilling to kill their own kind at will, let alone die tragically in a fight.

So, naturally, those fire dragons would want to break free from their chains while fighting.

But it is said that they never succeeded. "

Bourne felt a little incredible, so he asked: "Can you control a crazy fire dragon with just such a thin chain?"

"The key is not the chain, but the material of the chain. Do you see the silvery light on its surface?