Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 136 Going all the way

Bourne took out his wand and cast "Petrify All" on the "little birds" with flapping wings.

These "flying birds" were all conjured by Professor Flitwick's magic spells - of course, among the few people present, except for Burn, who had some associations, the Weasley twins knew nothing about it.

Their essence is actually some magic spells, so spells such as "turn all to stone" should not be effective on them.

After all, a powerful wizard may be able to break a spell with "Stop Curse", but it is difficult to modify an already established spell.

What's more, there are countless bright "little birds" in this room, and there are at least hundreds of them in a huge flock.

However, Bourne's "petrification of everything" is not an ordinary "petrification of everything". A surging plasma shot out from the tip of his wand.

It directly hit a "little bird", causing the "little bird" transformed by the curse to explode into raw magical energy.

Almost at the same time, the "all petrified" (psionic lightning) that had not dissipated wrapped up this part of the energy and jumped to the body of another "little bird".

This "little bird" repeated the fate of the previous "little bird", bursting again, and shooting out an arc of electricity... just like this, one after another, over and over again.

It is worth mentioning that although this chain reaction is very complicated, the speed of lightning is there.

Therefore, in human eyes, it only takes an instant for all those hovering "birds" to be cleared.

Seeing this, the Weasley twins shrugged in sync. "I see. No wonder Bourne said that."

At this time, Bourne walked over and picked up a key that had just fallen from the ground. It had just been mixed in with those "little birds". It also had a pair of wings and was circling and flying with the flock of birds. After being baptized by lightning, this key still has some residual warmth.

Its shape is very simple, the key handle is just a simple ring, but the key teeth are quite complexly carved, and there are even floating-point micro-carvings hidden between several teeth - if you copy it, I didn't notice at the time that the copied key still couldn't be used to open the lock.

"This should be the work of goblins. The keys to some shallow vaults in Gringotts look like this.

And this place should be the level that Professor Flitwick arranged for the Philosopher's Stone. Among the teachers and students at Hogwarts, he is the only one who has this ability. "

Thinking of this, Bourne looked at the wooden door across the room again.

He noticed that the thick teak door had many, many, very new varnish peeling marks on it, dot by dot, as if someone had poked it continuously with the tip of a knife.

Someone has been here.

And just now.

Byrne immediately thought of some plot points from the original work. And the reason why this room does not have the broomstick that can be used to break the situation (riding it to chase the key) may be because Harry Potter has already ridden it into the door in front of him.

"I don't think it's going to be 'returning to the Gryffindor common room any time soon' as Headmaster Dumbledore said."

He opened the teak door with the key, and after walking a few steps, George couldn't help but complain.

"We must have never been here before," Fred also expressed his opinion: "This is another secret passage that is not marked by the Marauder's Map. Maybe we should do something about it after we go back. Improve."

"I agree……"

As the two brothers walked, they discussed boredly how to improve the map. The conversation got so exciting that they even took out the map they always carried with them and started pointing on it.

Bourne did not join the conversation between the two, he just observed the secret passage carefully.

This place is deep underground, and the dust covering the walls no longer seems to be affected by the fresh air inside Hogwarts Magic Castle. This seems to be a forgotten underground road, a secret place unknown to anyone. Even though there were some lit candles around, it still looked very dim.

After walking through a long and winding journey, they finally entered a particularly bright and spacious room.

The floor was covered with black and white mosaic tiles, forming a huge chessboard, and there were also a large number of wizard chess pieces enlarged to life-size.

The air is filled with magical essence, and the entire room is illuminated by magic crystal lamps hanging from the ceiling. The air here seems particularly thick and full of strong magical energy.

"How could this happen?" Bourne was a little confused, because this place gave him a strange feeling.

Those wizard chess pieces should have been conjured by Professor McGonagall using the transfiguration technique. He was very sure of this.

After he joined the Transfiguration Club, Professor McGonagall spent several Saturday activities explaining the differences between Transfiguration and Alchemy to the club members in simple terms.

She also conjured up similar life-size wizard chess pieces and used them as an example to demonstrate to club members.

If alchemy is used to make alchemy wizard chess products, then the alchemist first creates the virtual soul of each chess piece, and then these virtual souls control the activities of those chess pieces.

They will regard themselves as real chess pieces and regard winning the chess game as the entire meaning of their existence.

The confrontation between the two chess pieces will turn into a hard-fought game in most cases until the end.

If the alchemist who created them is not capable of strong restraint on those virtual souls, then as time goes by, the chess pieces will slowly "forget" to abide by the rules of action on the chessboard, and are likely to use more intense methods to control the chess pieces. method to destroy the other side's chess pieces in the game.

On the other hand, if the chess pieces are created using transformation techniques, then they will not have the ability to think of ways to break the game on their own.

Even when sometimes playing wizard chess, the chess pieces on the chessboard will give the players advice, but that is actually an illusion created by the use of transformation and other magic spells.

In layman's terms, "Transfiguration-Wizard's Chess" can speak words, but they are actually all programmed in advance by the producer.

However, this chess piece also has many advantages:
As long as the wizard who uses the transformation spell has enough imagination and powerful magic, then he or she can make the wizard chess look as beautiful as possible;
Similarly, the movements of this kind of wizard chess piece can also be very flexible and no longer need to be limited by materials and structures;

They can obey the command of the chess player, that is, the wizard's will, and will not make reckless moves such as "everyone stands shoulder to shoulder";

The last and most important thing is that the price of this "Transformation-Wizard's Chess" is much better than that of "Alchemy-Wizard's Chess" - the several alchemical materials needed to enlighten the virtual soul have never been cheap. Pass.

Therefore, in addition to some antique wizard chess handed down from ancient times, the wizard chess that can be purchased with galleons today are also made using the transformation technique.

The reason why Bourne felt a little confused at this time was because the giant wizard's chess set that appeared in front of them seemed to be neither "Transformation-Wizard's Chess" nor "Alchemy-Wizard's Chess".

They are a combination of two technologies.

The rich magical energy that Bourne felt seemed to be radiating from them. He had only felt this kind of radiant energy once, a few months ago at Christmas.

Moreover, it is not like those alchemy puppets seen in Nick Flamel's house - they all use special materials to lock the magic energy inside, so the sense of radiation from the magic energy spilling out is not that obvious.

This feeling was rather like the monster he saw in the "Horn of the Horntail" later, which almost caused him to suffer from Necron Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Bourne looked at the motionless chess pieces on the ground, and then at the large magic crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling.

This time he discovered that in the middle of the crystal clear crystal chandelier, its main suspension shaft was inlaid with some sparkling rubies.

The main shaft material is also a bit weird: although it looks like metal, compared to the size of the chandelier, it seems to be too slender.

Not to mention whether it can withstand the weight of the chandelier, this somewhat "petty" look does not seem to match the grand appearance of the entire chandelier, as if it was specially designed to save materials.

"What material is so valuable?"

Bourne suddenly thought of something, and he carefully looked at the spindle metal, looking at the gloss, thickness, and overall workmanship.

"Fairy Silver!"

Now he understood everything: the chessboard and chess pieces in the wizard's chess room were indeed made by Professor McGonagall using the transfiguration technique, but the chandelier above his head was actually a large alchemy prop!
Its function should be to provide energy for this set of super-large wizard chess and to influence the chess game.

The alchemist who has the ability to make such high-level alchemical props with such a single use is probably the owner of the magic stone and the old French man Nico Flamel who claims to be a fishing expert!

Because only he has such technology, and more importantly, only he has so much spare money to make such a strange alchemical invention that doesn't seem to be of much use.

"Well, it doesn't seem right to think so."

Bourne suddenly realized that his understanding seemed to be a little biased. This kind of alchemy tool did not seem to be unable to be used for other purposes - the key was to see who would use it and how to use it.

He had a brilliant idea.

"You just stand here and don't move."

Bourne said to George and Fred who were traveling with him.

George: "That seems a little weird."

Fred: "That's right. But I can't tell what's a little weird about it. It's really weird."

While the Weasley twins were talking, Bourne took out the "Spirit Summoning Potion" that he had used several times before from the Transformed Lizard Wallet - perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call it a "treasure bag" in the future. .

He used his wand to control the bottle containing the potion, causing it to float near the chandelier on the ceiling, and sprinkled the potion inside onto the chandelier.

"Answer me, those responsible for guarding the chess game, answer my call!" Bourne muttered to the chandelier.

Although it is a bit strange to talk to the lamp, this is indeed a necessary step for using the "Evocation Potion". And under his call, the potion actually had an effect - which showed that his previous judgment was correct, and the chandelier was indeed an alchemical prop with a virtual soul.

The light from the chandelier began to flicker, like a ball of light in a disco, and the light spread across the room's floor, illuminating the chessboard with colorful lights.

Bourne discovered very early on that the virtual soul hidden in alchemy tools was actually very similar to the machine soul. He even suspected that the two might be the same thing.

And how to appease the machine spirits (especially those with weapons) is actually a compulsory course for Astartes no matter which battle group they are in.

Using the technique of soothing machine spirits, even without lighting incense or reciting binary prayers, Bourne quickly gained the recognition of the awakened virtual soul of this chandelier.

"Let's go from here..."

He used his will to appeal to the virtual soul of the lamp.

In response, under the command of the "keeper of the chess game", the chess pieces on the chess board in the room made a series of shifts to the side and automatically divided into two teams against the wall, leaving a spacious passage for Bourne and the others.

"This is so cool, bro!"

"how did you do it?"

"What is that potion?"

"What would have happened if we had just stepped onto the chessboard? Would we have been surrounded by those chess pieces?"

"..."

The Weasley twins were so surprised that they asked a series of questions. Before Bourne could answer them one by one, they came to another door on the opposite side of the room.

"Come in?" Bourne asked.

"Let's go together." The Weasley twins answered in unison.

Bourne pushed the door open.

The door was not locked at all.

A musty smell immediately penetrated their nostrils, causing them to cover their noses quickly. It wasn't until their eyes were almost filled with tears that they saw clearly that on the floor in front of them lay a mountain giant monster that was much larger than those they had ever caught. But this one had a bloody lump protruding from its head and lay motionless.

"I'm glad it got attacked and we didn't have to fight it," Fred said softly as they carefully stepped over its huge legs. "Hurry up, I don't dare and I can't breathe!"

Although the mountain trolls all have severe body odor, they are not so stinky.

It was probably because it had been kept here for a long time, eating, drinking, and urinating in a small room, so it produced such a smell.

When the three little wizards walked past the knocked-out troll and opened another door, the twins thought they would see some strange sight in front of them. But unexpectedly, there was nothing scary in the next one, just seven bottles of wine of different shapes neatly arranged on a table.

(End of this chapter)