Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 159 Old Slughorn’s “Treasure”

"One-third of the entire ship's keel, the seventh deck from the starboard. Yes, that's right here."

The hand made of knotted ropes rubbed on the deck for a moment, and finally found the wooden board that it wanted to touch.

It knocked lightly on the wooden board, twice lightly and once hard, and then the long wooden board became warped.

He reached in with his palm, just like someone taking something out of a pocket, and after groping for a while, he took out a conch shell as big as a human brain from under the deck.

"Dang-dang-dang!"

As if to show off, the hand made of knotted hands held the shell and tossed it several times.

“Who doesn’t want a magical conch?”

Its voice is full of bad taste.

However, this time, Bourne finally knew where the voice of this guy who called himself "Hydra" came from.

That shell was not a conch, but a enchanted, color-changing giant shell.

The color-changing giant snail is a giant snail that changes color every hour.

Wherever it crawls, it always leaves a highly toxic stain behind it. As a result, as long as it passes over some plants, these plants will wither and burn. The slime of the color-changing giant snail is also one of the few substances that can deal with "pests" like Hopraxin.

Of course, only living color-changing giant snails can secrete venom. The orange snail shell held in the hand of the rope does not have this function.

"Take it." The Hydra asked the Rope Hand to hand the shell to Bourne, "Let's go have some fun..."

According to the Hydra, this shell is equivalent to a pass. With it, you can open the hidden cabin on the Hydra.

"You don't think that the stingy and shrewd old Slughorn built a magic boat just to add a yacht to his family, do you?

No way?
No way? "

"But Grandpa Horace said you are just a yacht." Bourne said, "He is the current head of Slughorn."

"Little wizard, be careful I will sue you for slander!" An exaggerated noise came from the shell of the giant snail that changed color. Strangely, the sound seemed to be heard only by Bourne who was holding it. Mo was preparing dinner in the cabin. Mo was not at all disturbed by it.

"That kid Horace is just a slacker!"

Regardless of Bourne's expression, the Hydra continued to complain: "After inheriting such a unique magical ship, he didn't even know what abilities I had! Later, he even sunk me under the water for decades.

That lazy boy has never climbed up the mast, untied the cables, never acted as the lookout and pilot of the Hydra, and has never even touched the deck once.

I rely on my autopilot every time I cruise!

Naturally, he had no chance to trigger the magic in me and communicate with a great magic ship on an equal footing.

Boy, you are lucky, cherish it! "

Byrne, who knows how to really piss off such pretensions, simply deadpans, "Oh."

"What do you mean by 'oh'?"

"Oh, that's right, a modal particle. No way, has the great magic ship never even heard of a 'modal particle'? No way, really not?"

Hydra: "..."

"Adults don't have the same understanding as children."

Guided by the color-changing giant snail, Bourne walked into the cabin below the deck.

He felt that he had walked along the stairs that emerged from the deck for a long time, and the distance he walked definitely exceeded the height of the Hydra's hull.

When he stopped, what came into view was a huge dark cabin. It was not the kind of watertight cabin divided into areas, but more like a huge warehouse that could not exist in the hull of the ship.

"This is a magic that old Slughorn stole from Hogwarts Castle. It's very wonderful.

The castle built by the Four Giants cannot exist on any form of map. It cannot be marked, found, or infiltrated.

However, many people know that Hogwarts Castle is close to Hogsmeade, and even young wizards who are still studying at Hogwarts can sneak to Hogsmeade along certain secret passages to play.

However, if anyone attempted to enter Hogwarts from Hogsmeade through the dense Forbidden Forest, they would find that no matter how hard they searched, they would be unable to find the castle.

Unless they know a secret passage that connects Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, because the secret passage in Hogwarts itself is part of Hogwarts, so after entering, you can follow the secret passage to Hogwarts. castle.

This hidden cabin was made by old Slughorn after he studied the 'secret passage' magic.

He cast this secret passage magic on his magical ship - between the walls, below the decks, inside the hull - and then brought it together to form this secret room.

Usually, the application of space magic by wizards can only stay at the 'Invisible Stretch Spell'.

But on this magic ship, there is a 'secret magic' as great as the Hogwarts Castle left by the Big Four. Therefore, I am the only Hydra! "

The Hydra explained to Bourne the principle of the existence of this bottom cabin in a proud tone.

After saying that, the guy pondered for a moment and put on a look like "Don't rush to praise me, just let me put my hands on my hips for a while."

But what this arrogant magic ship didn't expect was that when it revealed the effect of this secret passage, Bourne not only did not express admiration, but instead turned around and climbed up the stairs.

joke? Can a magical ship rival Hogwarts Castle?
Hogwarts Castle has been able to operate normally for nearly a thousand years because it has absorbed the magic energy lost by generations of young wizards when they used magic (Bourne saw it in "Hogwarts: A School History"). Long.

To put it bluntly, the "Hydra" is just a large toy made by old Slughorn alone, and it is by no means a castle shelter carefully built by the four giants. It was sunk under the water and hidden by Horace for several decades. During this period, there was no dissipated magic power for it to absorb.

Therefore, Bourne has every reason to suspect that this "secret cabin" is a "dangerous house" that may collapse at any time.

Without enough benefits, only fools would choose to stay here.

Looking back at the Hydra - after so long preparations, the answer to the mystery is about to be revealed, and the achievement that shocked the guessers for a whole year is about to be achieved...

But this kid actually turned around and left without giving it a chance to continue showing off. This made the Hydra feel worse than eating booger-flavored Pibi multi-flavored beans.

"Stop! I'll count to three, three, two, two point five... Stop, stop, stop, stop!"

The color-changing giant conch shell held by Bourne kept uttering threatening words. However, Bourne was not moved at all. He took three steps and two steps at a time, climbing the stairs faster than going down the stairs.

"Don't you want to know what's hidden there?"

"not at all."

"That's old Slughorn's collection!"

"It has nothing to do with me."

"He was the best Potions Master of the 19th century!"

"I don't like taking medicine."

"There are enough munitions there to support a war!"

In order to make Bourne change his mind, he had no choice but to give up being the Riddler and revealed the answer to the mystery he had prepared for nearly a hundred years.

"Those are state-of-the-art Muggle weapons. Old Slughorn keeps them on the lower deck. They haven't been used even once!"

The voice coming from the color-changing giant snail was full of helplessness, but also a trace of expectation.

Bourne stopped.

Although he now has a chainsword, fire dragon armor and a wand that can be transformed into a psychic staff, which Astartes will refuse the artillery support of the Imperial Navy?

"Emperor's blessing!" He prayed devoutly in his heart, and then followed his instinct and walked down the stairs again.

"This is ridiculous! Little wizard, next is the moment to witness the miracle——"

As if to heighten the atmosphere, as Hydera spoke as if announcing the curtain, two rows of lights suddenly lit up on both sides of the magic ship's bottom deck.

This is a whale oil candle that burns smokeless and odorless. Both Muggles and wizards used them as high-end candles in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The candle, which is made from a mixture of whale blubber and spermaceti oil, is very flame-resistant and emits a bright light blue flame when burning. It illuminates every corner of the lower deck through the glass lampshade covering the outside of the candle.

“Twelve Caronade short-heavy guns;
two bow mortars;

four officers' flintlock muskets bearing the Slughorn family plate;
three hundred Congreve rockets;
Fifty advanced Martini lever rifles, ten thousand times better than those muzzleloading brown bass rifles;
The most interesting weapon is the Kirandoni air rifle. Old Slughorn once brewed a potion for a Muggle noble named "Ha". This gun was a gift from the noble. It also comes with a pump for him, haha!

In addition, there are 70 hundredweights of gunpowder here, as well as various bullets..."

Just like announcing the name of a dish, the Hydra introduced it to Bourne, who was walking among the cannons covered with gun jackets and crates. He was trying his best to show off the treasures in his belly.

Its energy is constantly coming from the shell. Although it has no eyes, this guy can accurately "see" everything on the bottom deck.

However, after browsing the lower deck of the Hydra, which was boasted as "Slughorn's Treasure", Bourne showed no expression of surprise at all.

"These are the 'most advanced' weapons and equipment?"

Hydra replied proudly: "Of course, these treasures were obtained by old Slughorn from the strongest regular army on the Muggle side at a huge price and using a confusion spell."

Byrne admitted that these weapons and equipment may be "the first", but Hydra may be at least "a hundred or two hundred years ago".

Admittedly, due to the memories of the Astartes, Bourne has no prejudice against antique weapons.

But the "Slughorn's Treasures" that the Hydra showed him were more meaningful than being used in battles, rather being sold to antique collectors or simply donated to museums.

In the end, Bourne just took the Kiranduni air rifle nicknamed the "Wind Gun" that was blown into the sky by Hydera, and then left this "treasure mountain". He was ready to tear it down.

Because the butt of this gun - which is a gas tank bottle that is somewhat similar to an eggplant - was cast by old Slughorn. Not only is the bottle unscientifically strong (but magical), it can also be used continuously. Use the effect of the "repair as new" spell to achieve automatic inflation.

Bourne was going to study this magic bottle. He was a little interested in the "restoration as before" magic and thought it could be used on the alchemy bolt gun that had not yet been fully produced. After firing the bullet, it would automatically repair to the original state. After rounding, it would be A weapon equivalent to unlimited bullets.

Returning to the cabin where the Seamless Stretching Spell had been cast, Bourne walked into his room and began to disassemble and study the wind gun on the spot. There were ready-made tools in the suitcase he brought.

"Little wizard, let me tell you..."

Hydera gave full play to her gift of chattering and never stopped talking.

Just when Bourne's irritability level was gradually rising, he had opened the window and was about to throw the shell into the sea, when he suddenly saw a scene.

A figure with iron chains on his legs fell suddenly from the top of the cliff on the shore. The man kept shouting while falling freely.

(End of this chapter)