Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 805 [Magic Haze]

For the next hour or so, Anduin began a systematic study around the basilisk in front of him.

In addition to collecting basic data such as length, weight, body circumference, and mana reserves, he also collected materials such as the blood, body fluids, teeth, scales, and venom of the basilisk.

This basilisk is 28 meters long and weighs more than 17 tons. It is a well-deserved colossus, which is bigger and longer-lived than all basilisks in historical records.

The opponent's venom is unimaginably super corrosive, and the strength of the scales is also very high, and the components in the blood are also of great research value.

The deeper the understanding of the basilisk, the more Anduin was reluctant to kill it. Even from a biological point of view, this is an animal of great research value.

Not to mention that this is a rare species that has lived for more than a thousand years. Without it, Anduin may find it difficult to get another basilisk.

Moreover, the basilisk and the element of the secret room also gave him many wicked ideas.

After making up his mind, Anduin cast a spell to shrink the basilisk, and put it away carefully, in time to prepare to raise it in the future. He also had to get rid of the indiscriminate lethal gaze of the basilisk first.

After properly handling the basilisk, Anduin once again focused on the chamber of secrets in front of him. As a chamber of secrets carefully crafted by Salazar Slytherin, the secret in it should be more than just a basilisk.

However, after searching carefully, he found that there were no other organs or dark rooms in this stone room full of stone pillars.

In the end, Anduin focused his gaze on the stone statue's open mouth.

Anduin took out a magic lantern, then cast his magic power, controlled himself to float slowly, and then plunged into it without looking back.

Inside the cave is an extremely dark, deep, and silent passage. The whole climbs up for a while, and then it is a rapidly sinking slope, with long twists and turns along the way.

But because it was too quiet, even a little movement in the secret room could be heard clearly even after a long distance, so it was no wonder that the basilisk could find Anduin's whereabouts so quickly.

After walking along the ramp for hundreds of meters, I finally arrived at a larger space, which was filled with stench, as well as a lot of excrement, animal bones and shed snake skin.

And there are two passages in the space, and the sound of splashing water can be heard from one of them.

Anduin reckoned that this should be the passage leading to the Black Lake of Hogwarts. If a basilisk wants to survive for thousands of years, it must not be able to survive without food. It must have entered and exited the secret room for food through this passage.

However, after so many years, no one in the school found this basilisk. It seems that the exit of the passage should be located far away from the castle.

After a brief consideration, Anduin decided that it would be better to see where the other hole leads.

And followed the unknown passage for a certain distance before arriving at the end, where a stone wall carved with snake patterns appeared again.

Seeing this, Anduin naturally repeated the old trick and opened the door easily. He was a little speechless here. He only learned a sentence of snake language, and he was able to come and go freely in the secret room.

It can be seen that when Salazar Slytherin established the Chamber of Secrets, it was not simply to ensure the secrecy, but to ensure that it could only be opened by his descendants.

On the other side of the stone wall is a laboratory-like room, roughly the size of a classroom. Apart from two workbenches and a desk, there are rows of wooden bookshelves inside.

But or because of too long time, most of the objects are all decayed, and some bookshelves even fell apart due to damage, and the parchment and books on them have also been broken into pieces.

"It seems that this is Slytherin's former secret laboratory, and I don't know if I can gain something here."

Anduin muttered while clutching his nose, the environment here was extremely fragile, he didn't even dare to use magic to ventilate it, for fear that the things inside would be shattered by a little movement.

And even though Anduin was extremely careful when sorting out, he still couldn't salvage many useful materials from the desk and bookshelf.

Even if these books that lack maintenance are not completely broken and rotted, the ink stains on them will fade away with the passage of time, and the contents cannot be seen clearly at all.

This may be related to the underground location of the secret room. In a dark and humid environment, the rate of corruption of items is too fast.

In the end, Anduin spent nearly two hours clearing out a total of two corrupt and useless garbage, as well as three relatively well-preserved documents.

Among the three materials, there is a diary, a magic book and an enchanted parchment.

The diary is well preserved, and the material used is quite precious dragon belly skin, which is why it can withstand the test of time.

And the contents inside are all the experiences and thoughts recorded by Slytherin back then. Anduin turned over two pages and found that there was no academic content, so he put it aside for the time being.

As for the magic book, since it is enchanted with a spell that automatically absorbs magic power, it is also well preserved, but the content inside is not satisfactory.

The book records a large number of very rare and complicated black magic in those days, and even records the production method of the basilisk.

But from today's perspective, most of the magic in it is a bit outdated or outdated.

After all, the wizarding world has been developing continuously for thousands of years, even black magic.

This magic book may have been very precious back then, but now you can find any black magic theory book, and you can beat it by several blocks. Therefore, compared to the research value of the magic book, it may be more valuable for collection.

Putting away the magic book with some regret, Anduin picked up the last page of parchment. To be honest, he doesn't have much expectations now.

In other words, how could he think that the magic theory of 1000 years ago can surpass the current wizarding world?

But after gradually seeing the contents on the parchment, Anduin couldn't help but gasp.

The parchment in front of me is in the same style as the Slytherin manuscript that Anduin obtained from the Travers family's treasury, and what is recorded on it is a special magic called [Magic Haze].

The reason why it is said to be special is that [Magic Haze] is not a spell that can be used by chanting a spell, but a peculiar spell-casting method or theory of spells, and it forms a complete system. By slightly adjusting the structure of the runes when casting a spell, different effects can be produced.

To put it simply, [Magic Haze] is a magic similar to the [Misty Cloud and Mist] spell, which can release a large cloud of mist at will after casting the spell.

And by using the spell casting method recorded in the manuscript, the attributes and properties of this cloud and mist can be changed at will.

Turn it into a corrosive poisonous mist, a fire mist that can detonate with a little spark, an icy mist like Anduin learned from the silver spear, and so on.

At the same time, according to this system, by adding the effects of different spell runes to [Magic Haze], you can get mist with different effects. For example, you can get hypnotic mist by adding a hypnotic spell, adding a curse or a cursed one. clouds.

Therefore, the danger of [Magic Haze] fluctuates greatly. If it is just the simplest spell casting, it will be the same as the Misty Cloud Curse. disaster.

Of course, if the function of [Magic Haze] is only to cast [Misty Clouds and Mist] with different characteristics, it is not that special. After all, through the combination of runes, even if this method is not used, similar spells can be produced.

The most special thing about [Magic Haze] is that it has a very high conversion efficiency of magic power. For the several types of [Magic Haze] recorded in the manuscript, the conversion rate is at least 80%.

The specific effect is that when casting a spell, it only consumes a small amount of magic power to create a wide area of ​​clouds and fog, and it becomes very easy to control the concentration of the characteristics in it.

You must know that if ordinary spells achieve this efficiency, they can be called fourth-level spells.

It can be said that in the eyes of Anduin, the most precious thing about [Magic Haze] is not its own power and effect, but this set of efficient rune system.

If this system can be deconstructed, wouldn't it be as simple as drinking water to invent new spells in the future.

Of course, even the current [Magic Haze] has extremely high potential for development. Using it, Anduin can create a few or a dozen new types of cloud magic in just a few months.

"However, looking at the structure of the text in the manuscript, the basic theory of [Magic Haze] above looks very complete, and it looks like a mature magic system."

"However, the several rune formulas recorded below have obvious traces of derivation. It looks like applying the [Magic Haze] theory and trying to develop a new spell."

Anduin could clearly sense the sense of disobedience, and after a little thought, he thought of a possibility.

"Could it be that this [Magic Haze] was not a magic developed by Slytherin himself, but learned from elsewhere? Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain this kind of content, as if it was written by two different people."

After thinking about it, Anduin felt that this was the only possibility. Otherwise, a wizard who could develop [Magic Haze] would be so awkward when using it to develop new spells.

"But if [Magic Haze] wasn't a theory invented by Slytherin, then who could it be? This is obviously a fairly mature and superb set of magical theories, and it shouldn't be unknown in the wizarding world."

"The inventor must be a wizard with high magical attainments, could it be Ms. Ravenclaw?"

Anduin frowned inexplicably, "No, Ms. Ravenclaw is not a self-respecting person. Her works are collected in the library and the Ravenclaw Tower, and I have never heard that she would Strange cloud magic."

"Could it be?"

Anduin recalled the records in [Magic Haze], and suddenly raised his head, "Could it be... the despicable Hai Erbo?"

"There is nothing wrong!" Anduin once again confirmed his guess, "Injecting curses and viruses into [Magic Haze], turning it into a natural disaster that affects a wide range, is simply a tailor-made method for Haierbo's plague. .”

"Moreover, the logical structure of this kind of magic is not something that can be researched in tens or hundreds of years. I am afraid that only Haierbo will devote his energy to the development of [Magic Haze], a magic that focuses on diffusion and adaptability."

Anduin didn't expect to see something related to Hai Erbo here. He thought that it would take at least a few years to decades to hear about Hai Erbo.

But just getting a magic spell suspected to be developed by Haierbo didn't seem to be of much use, but he soon turned his attention to the diary.

Maybe... in Slytherin's diary, there will be clues related to Haibo?

Thinking of this, Anduin opened the diary again, but this time he did not flip through it hastily, but read it seriously.

This Slytherin's diary records the seventh year after he and the other three founders of Hogwarts built the school, and it is also after he secretly built the chamber of secrets and before leaving the school.

And a large part of the diary at the beginning was Salazar Slytherin's complaints about the Muggle students in the school, as well as his unpleasant complaints with the rest of the founders.

Even in the diary, Slytherin occasionally recalls the past and blames himself at the same time.

At the very beginning, Slytherin, like several founders, witnessed the church’s oppression and persecution of the wizarding world. In order to change this situation, these four like-minded wizards joined hands to create Hogwarts.

In the beginning, Slytherin didn't really exclude Muggles and Muggle students, after all, the purpose of their establishment of a magic school.

In essence, it is to allow more Muggles with wizarding talents to integrate into the wizarding world and become real wizards instead of idiots and fakes in the church, at least that's how Slytherin described them in his diary.

But soon, Slytherin felt the arduousness of this project. The Muggle children of that era, except for a few noble children, didn't even know how to read!

So at the beginning of the school's establishment, their biggest task was to scan. Hogwarts specially opened a literacy class for this purpose, first teaching Muggle students to learn the most basic reading and writing.

But those Muggle students belonged to the kind of extremely purely illiterate, let alone words, students who could write letters correctly and spell their own names after a class could be called geniuses.

And literacy for a student is not a small project, they may have to spend years of energy for it.

So in Hogwarts back then, you might be able to see a student who was already in the fourth or even fifth grade before he could barely cast a levitating spell.

Who would have imagined that the legendary wizard Salazar Slytherin was teaching ABC to a group of children every day at work.

It would be fine if this kind of work experience was only for a day or two, but after several years of hard work, Slytherin had a bit of a breakdown.

In his eyes, this is a waste of his precious time. Wouldn't it be nice if he had time to study a few more new spells?

So on every page of the diary, Slytherin could be seen complaining about the stupidity of those Muggle students. He really couldn't understand that a wizard would be complacent about being able to recite a short passage smoothly?
(End of this chapter)