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At dinner, an unidentified meat soup appeared on the young wizards' table.

A bowl of meat soup dispelled the chill from the young wizards and also relieved much of their worries.

Ron was currently apologizing to Harry in a very difficult situation.

“I’m sorry, Harry. I didn’t mean to leak the information.”

Thanks to Ron's big mouth, Harry has almost completely taken the blame for being the heir to Slytherin.

Harry knew Ron hadn't meant it, and he sighed, saying, "Oh well, it's alright. At least everyone knows about the Basilisk, so we can be on guard in the future."

Harry silently vowed to himself that he must learn the "Tongue-Sealing" spell when he had the chance, so that he could prevent Ron from talking about it everywhere.

At that moment, the twins Weasley moved closer to Zicomo.

"Hey boss! This is the profit for this period of time."

"Due to the popularity of the screaming chicken."

"Our income has increased significantly."

The two brothers, speaking in unison, revealed the purpose of their trip.

Zicomo took the money bag and casually put it away.

Seeing how happy the two of them were, he suddenly had an idea.

Zicomo asked, "Do you want to make another fortune?"

Upon hearing this, the twins' eyes lit up, and they asked, "Does the boss have some new products again?"

They knew that anything produced by Zicomo was guaranteed to be of high quality.

Zicomo shook his head and said, "It's not a new product, just an idea."

"We're all ears!" the twins said in unison.

"Think about it, looking directly at the basilisk will kill you, while looking at it indirectly will turn you to stone, right? So, could we make a batch of glasses with lenses and sell them?"

That way, even if someone accidentally sees the basilisk's eyes, they'll just be petrified and can wait for someone else to rescue them.

After all, nobody knows if we'll have time to pull out our screaming chicken when we encounter the basilisk.

Zicomo didn't try to hide his voice, so all the young wizards around him heard what he said.

They surrounded the twin brothers, urging the Weasley brothers to hurry up and get the goods.

Some have even already taken out their money and started paying deposits.

Seeing this, Zicomo quickly told his friends to leave, otherwise they would be surrounded by a crowd.

Back in the lounge, Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew, they're really crazy."

“At least they’ve stopped talking about you being the Slytherin heir for now,” Zicomo comforted her.

“There’s more good news: Malfoy chose to stay at the school for Christmas,” Hermione continued.

Ron, always outspoken, asked, "What does this have to do with us?"

Harry nodded as well, wondering why Hermione had suddenly brought this up.

“I think Hermione means that her Polyjuice Potion is almost finished, just in time for Christmas. You two brilliant minds, you haven’t forgotten your own plans, have you?”

Zicomo gave the two of them a disdainful look.

Hermione nodded in agreement, indicating that her cousin was right and that was exactly what she meant.

"Oh, right, cousin, we also need to write to my parents to tell them that we're not going back for Christmas this year."

Hermione suddenly remembered that she hadn't told her parents about this yet, so she turned to Zicomo and spoke to him.

"I regret to inform you that even if you wanted to go back, you couldn't. This model couple wrote to tell me that they went on a Christmas trip abroad."

Zicomo shrugged and delivered the news.

Hermione looked surprised: "Why didn't they tell me?"

"Perhaps it's because they feel that a daughter who can't even write a letter home every week is better off without?" Zicomo joked.

Zicomo's words were Mrs. Granger's own words; she had complained about this to Zicomo in a letter.

He hadn't expected that even in second grade, Hermione would still forget to write home.

Hermione's expression quickly changed from being somewhat angry to feeling guilty.

She was so focused on her studies that she forgot about it.

…………

After returning to their room, Zicomo called to Lani and led her into the border area.

He recently took the petite Lani on an exploration of the volcano while completing various requests given to him by Tanis.

Through this period of exploration, the two also learned some details about the fragment war.

Interestingly, both of them only had a superficial understanding of the Broken War.

Zicomo was unfamiliar with the game because in his previous life, the game "Old Man's Ring" used a fragmented narrative, with most information hidden in the descriptions of various items.

Lani, on the other hand, went into hiding because she defied Twofinger's will, then killed her own body. She only knew the general outline of what happened after the night of the conspiracy.

During their exploration of the volcano, the two learned that during the Broken Wars, the kings' forces had fought two wars with the royal city of Rodel.

In both wars, the fragmented kings were unable to breach the capital.

The reasons will not be discussed for now, as Zikomo has not yet figured them out.

He and Lani had only explored the Gemir volcano area, while the royal city of Rodel and the others had not yet explored it, so they could not get the correct answer.

However, the two had already figured out the information about Lakad.

Before the War of Shattering, Laqad was granted the title of Radagan, where he was quite diligent in his position as magistrate.

He helped the royal city punish those heretical believers, those who did not follow the Golden Law.

However, as Marika shattered the Elden Ring and the War of the Shattered broke out, Lakad's dissatisfaction with the Golden Tree also erupted.

So he united the various fragment monarchs and launched an attack on the royal city of Rodel, intending to desecrate the Golden Tree.

However, the demigods had different thoughts and were unwilling to use their full strength.

Ultimately, it ended in failure, which was one of the reasons the fragmented kings were defeated, as both of them already knew.

Through their investigation, the two learned that the volcano of Gmir was the site of the most devastating fighting in the entire Broken War.

On the road between the volcano mansion and the royal city of Rodel, known as the 'Road of Transferring Sinners,' corpses are everywhere.

Some of the corpses were even hung up to intimidate the enemy.

The fact that there were no signs of breaching the entrance to the Volcano Mansion indicates that the corpses were not hung there by the Royal City of Rodel, but by the Volcano Mansion itself.

Given Laqad's sadistic and torturous nature, Zicomo suspected that this was a tradition that existed before the war.

Zicomo and Lani concluded that there were no real winners in the war between the Volcano Official Residence 590 and the Royal City.

Because some soldiers from both sides remained on the battlefield, facing off, it was clear that they had been abandoned by their respective lords.

In simpler terms, the judge, Laqad, was dissatisfied with his superior and led his men in a rebellion.

He couldn't defeat the royalists, so he abandoned his men and went to play with snakes.

Zicomo and Lani stood on a steep cliff. Lani looked down at the 'Path of Transferring Sinners' and sighed.

"Sigh, that's why I just can't bring myself to like this older brother."

"At least his initial intention was good; he wanted to overthrow the Golden Tree."

“But he shouldn’t have used a blasphemous method. I’ve seen so much history in the world, and no one has ever succeeded in doing it this way.”

Zicomo nodded in deep agreement; historically, which victor didn't portray themselves as righteous?

Laqad, on the other hand, openly declared to others: I will desecrate the Golden Tree!

He exudes the aura of a villain; isn't that just asking for trouble?

“My king, let’s go. Let’s send my brother off on his final journey, and let him sink into utter depravity with his blasphemous fantasies.”

Although Lani said she hated it, she still cared about her adopted brother to some extent.

Or perhaps, she was concerned about the reputation of the Kalia royal family.

Lakad's despicable act of becoming a slave to greed at this time undoubtedly brings shame to the Kalia royal family.

Therefore, Lani hopes that Zicomo will get rid of Lakad as soon as possible, so as to wash away the stain on the royal family.

Zicomo thought to himself, "I never expected my Moon Princess to be so hypocritical."

Lani couldn't even bring herself to kill the deranged Ratahn, and instead hoped that Zicomo would kill him to help Ratahn find relief.

As for Lakad, who had fallen into greed, she wanted to kill him together with Zikomo, letting him die in depravity.

"Are you sure you don't want to save him? Judging from the paintings on the walls of the Volcano Mansion, Lakad and General Rataen seem to have a pretty good relationship," Zicomo asked.

He was referring to the portrait of General Rataen hanging in the Volcano official's residence.