Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 825 The House of Requirement

After dealing with Voldemort's affairs and the study of the Deathly Hallows came to an end, Anduin was finally able to spare time to deal with some trivial matters.

Of course, it is trivial, but it is actually related to Voldemort and Haierbo.

First of all, when dealing with Hai Erbo, Anduin judged from the known clues that the other party's possible location should be a small island in northern Russia, close to or already deep in the Arctic Circle.

For this reason, Anduin hired a group of bounty hunters in Europe, and asked them to carry fear sensors and go to the corresponding area for investigation.

After all, there were too many islands in that area, and Anduin searched Lockhart's mind for his memory with the witch.

But from that memory, Anduin failed to gain much useful information, and could only determine a rough range.

But it was too difficult for Anduin to search that area himself, so he chose to hire after weighing it.

For this reason, putting those bounty hunters in danger was a little unkind, but Anduin also specifically declared the danger before releasing the mission, and at the same time deliberately increased the reward.

Judging from the employment results, there are still quite a few outlaws in Europe. Within a few days after Anduin's mission was released, more than ten wizards accepted the appointment.

For this reason, Anduin could only silently wish them all the best.

Besides following Haierbo's clues, Anduin's most important thing during this time was to find the few remaining Horcruxes.

The first thing he set his sights on was the [Rowena Ravenclaw's Crown] kept in Hogwarts.

According to the message in Voldemort's memory, Anduin came to the Tapestry of Barnabas on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle.

There was only a bare stone wall on the opposite side of the tapestry. Anduin specially activated his magic sense, but he still didn't notice anything strange, as if it was an ordinary wall.

"Interesting, if I hadn't read it from Voldemort's memory, I'm afraid there is a room hidden here. How many secrets are hidden in Hogwarts?"

After feeling a lot of emotion, Anduin focused his attention on silently saying "I want a room for storing sundries" in his heart, and walked through that section of the wall three times.

Just when he passed by the wall for the third time, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.

"It's quite useful. Can it help people realize any kind of room they want? In contrast, the research value of this room may be higher than that of Horcruxes."

Anduin observed it with great interest, and then Shi Shiran pushed the door open and entered.

The space in the room is unusually large, and there are objects piled up like countless hills, most of which are old furniture and sundries, which are dazzling to see.

At the same time, there are broken wands everywhere, as well as contraband and illegal products made by little wizards. If you want to find an unknown item in such a place, it is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

"Ravenclaw's crown is flying!" Anduin mobilized his magic power and used a flying spell, trying to call the crown.

But I don't know if it was because of the special nature of the crown itself, or because it was a Horcrux, it didn't respond to the Flying Curse.

"It really didn't work?" Anduin was not surprised. "In Voldemort's memory, he seemed to put a crown on the head of an ugly old wizard bust."

When there are clues, it is much more efficient than blindly searching.

It didn't take long for Anduin to come to the bust in his memory. The other person's head was covered with an old gray wig and a rusty crown.

"Has it been specially treated for old age? It is really cautious enough."

Anduin snickered, although he took off the crown straight away, while picking it up, he mobilized his magic power to gently sweep over the crown's body.

Immediately, the dark rust on the crown was removed by sweeping, revealing the sparkling crown inlaid with gemstones below.

"It is said that wearing the crown of Ravenclaw can increase the wisdom of the wearer. I don't know if it is true."

Anduin stared intently at the crown in his hand, and then couldn't help but frowned, "Do you still want to interfere with my thoughts at this time? I really don't change my mind."

Just now there was an urge to put the crown on in his mind. It was obviously that the Horcrux wanted to interfere with his spirit. Otherwise, with his prudence, how could he have such an idea.

After discovering that the previous sneak attack hadn't worked, Voldemort's soul in the crown immediately launched a frontal attack, constantly emitting filthy spiritual energy, trying to infuse Anduin's thoughts.

Seeing this, Anduin sneered, "As expected of a post-production Horcrux, its strength is obviously one level higher than other Horcruxes, but it's still useless to me."

He mobilized his Occlumency Technique to protect his thoughts tightly, and soon those whispers full of temptation disappeared from his ears.

"However, this fragment of Voldemort's soul has reminded me. After all, this crown is a legendary relic of Ravenclaw. Maybe it shouldn't be destroyed like this."

"But it's not easy to destroy the souls in the Horcrux without destroying it, and I don't know if it will work."

"Try it, it doesn't matter if you don't succeed anyway, if I'm not mistaken, the entire body of this crown is made of 'refined mithril', even if it is accidentally broken at that time, at least a wave of high-grade materials can be harvested .”

Thinking secretly in his heart, Anduin made up his mind heartlessly. Although he was curious about the so-called 'wisdom' in the legend, he was not as eager as he imagined.

In his opinion, the so-called 'increasing the wearer's wisdom' is most likely related to wizard qualities such as magic sensitivity or magic perception.

Maybe this is an alchemy equipment that can improve the ability to cast spells.

After complaining secretly, Anduin put the crown away again, but he didn't leave the Room of Requirement in a hurry, but continued to wander in this room.

It took him more than ten minutes to turn the whole room around, and Anduin found that the area here was bigger than he imagined, almost as big as Newt's magical animal warehouse.

To be able to expand such a large space, the magic power and magic materials required are exaggerated just thinking about it.

And the Room of Requirement is more than just this one room.

Thinking of this, Anduin exited the room, and tried to pass by the opposite of the tapestry where the troll hit Barnabas with a stick, thinking about various needs in his heart.

'A luxurious bedroom. '

'A laboratory capable of making potions. '

'A potions laboratory with luxurious bedrooms. '

'Luxurious bathroom with hot water. '

'The ceiling is covered with dragon sculptures, with a bedroom, a luxurious bathroom with a potions laboratory. '

At the beginning, after Anduin silently recited the room he wanted in his heart, the Room of Requirement could fulfill his needs satisfactorily.

After that, he gradually increased his needs, and even put forward some strange requirements, such as the specific decoration in the room, or the integration of several room functions.

It's amazing that the Room of Requirement can actually be realized, and of course the way it is implemented is also very rigid, such as the one he requested at the end 'ceiling with dragon sculptures, luxury bathroom with bedroom, potions laboratory . '

The Room of Requirement just put three rooms together abruptly, without even a gap between each area, and all the decorations he requested were available in the room.

This kind of discovery made Anduin more interested in the Room of Requirement. Where did the utensils in this room come from?Is it really omnipotent in terms of area and function?

Thinking of this, Anduin began the limit test.

'A full size indoor Quidditch pitch! '

'A luxurious cinema! '

' Equipped with a full set of Glock series firearms range! '

'A garage with a Tiger tank! '

'A huge restaurant with [-] bottles of butterbeer! '

After another round of testing, Anduin discovered the limitations of the Room of Requirement.

Obviously, when his requests were outrageous, the Room of Requirement wasn't going to fulfill them, at least not fully.

For example, he wanted a full-scale indoor Quidditch pitch, and the Room of Requirement did fulfill his need. The area did meet the standard, but the height was a bit shorter than the real pitch.

Obviously, the Room of Requirement has a certain limit in terms of space.

In addition, when he puts forward some needs that the Room of Requirement cannot understand, the things manifested in the room will also be deviated.

For example, he asked for a movie theater, but the Room of Requirement gave him a theater. Obviously, the Room of Requirement couldn't understand what it was like in a 'movie theater'.

Even, there are some things that are too beyond the understanding of the wizarding world, and the Room of Requirement will not even be able to materialize.

Like the shooting range with guns and the garage with tanks he wanted, the Room of Requirement didn't even respond, and directly gave him a wall.

And when he asked for a restaurant with a lot of drinks, Room of Requirement did give him a decent size restaurant, but the drinks didn't show up.

Later, when Anduin tried to ask for animals or other food in the room, the Room of Requirement also failed to satisfy his wishes.

Obviously, although the Room of Requirement is angry, it still abides by Gobalot's first law and cannot conjure food or animals out of thin air.

"It's not completely beyond my cognition, but the current performance is already very exaggerated. What is the principle of the Room of Requirement? Is it some kind of transfiguration? Or is there really magic that can make wishes come true?"

Anduin stood outside the door of the Room of Requirement, rubbing his chin and thinking silently. He always felt that there must be other secrets hidden in the Room of Requirement.

"It doesn't matter, no matter what kind of magical creation, it must be composed of runes and spells."

After thinking about it, Anduin walked into the Room of Requirement again, he had to study this room thoroughly.

After re-entering the room, he ignored the various furniture and decorations around him, but skillfully took out a small silver hammer.

In the field of exploring unknown magical creations, his innocuous hammer has made great contributions. Now this small hammer has been upgraded more than a dozen times. There is no magic item that does not display runes after being hammered by it a few times.

So after taking out the innocuous hammer, Anduin smashed it on the floor without thinking, and the sound of tinkling and bang bang reverberated in the house immediately.

But to Anduin's surprise, the Room of Requirement didn't reveal the spell that built it after the slam, as he had imagined.

Anyway, after smashing for a full 5 minutes, the whole house was still as stable as before, and there was not even a single phenomenon.

"Is the structure so stable?"

Anduin would not think that the Room of Requirement is not made of spells because of this result, on the contrary, it only proves that the Room of Requirement is more stable than imagined.

"If before, I really had nothing to do with you except for violently destroying part of the room structure, but now..."

Anduin smiled, and then exited the room.

After leaving the Room of Requirement, Anduin went straight back to the office, and when he returned again, he had already put on the ethereal armor.

"Let me see your true face!"

Anduin, who entered the Room of Requirement again, had a serious look on his face, and then brazenly activated the ethereal form, and at the same time pressed his palms to the ground.

As Anduin entered the ethereal form, the ethereal energy slowly spread along the palm of his hand to the floor of the Room of Requirement.

However, the structure of the Room of Requirement is much more stable than Anduin imagined. Although he has used all his strength, the output of magic power has been pushed to the peak, and the area transformed by the ethereal remains only a few square meters, just like this house. Also resisting his behavior in general.

But even if only a few square meters of space were converted into ethereal form, it would be enough for Anduin to peek into the secrets of the Room of Requirement.

Under the translucent floor, spells are indeed drawn, and they are still complicated and precise spells, which are dazzling to the naked eye.

The dense rune nodes and countless magic wires, if a person suffering from trysophobia came to take a look, he would probably faint on the spot.

"Fuck..."

After peeping for a few minutes, Anduin, who broke away from the ethereal form, couldn't help but swear.

"Do you want to make it so complicated? This ghost place is definitely not as simple as a simple room of responsiveness!"

Although it only took a few minutes of spying, Anduin could still see a lot of clues. The spell hidden behind the Room of Requirement was much more complicated than expected, and its functions were even more varied.

At least after careful identification based on experience, Anduin discovered a large number of spell types with energy storage, magic absorption, protection, anti-apparition, etc., which have nothing to do with the Room of Requirement.

This is obviously not the same as what he imagined.

"Could it be? This is actually the magic center of Hogwarts? That is, the alchemy room belonging to the school?"

Taking stock of what he saw, all kinds of familiar, complicated and layered rune structures, Anduin quickly thought of this.

(End of this chapter)