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I still remember the first time Zicomo met her. She was sitting on the broken wall of the church in Arele, a full two heads taller than Zicomo, which made Zicomo look up at Lani.

Later, when they met again at Lani's magician's tower, she placed four or five books under her chair to show off her superior status.

So it's clear that Lani values ​​height quite a bit.

After discovering that Hermione was taller than her, she hid in the Zen Garden and had Zicomo help her speed up the flow of time to accelerate the growth of her superhuman body.

In fact, Zicomo was somewhat worried that Lani might grow too tall. Looking at the gods, demigods, and even deities of the borderlands, none of them were short.

(Michaela: Are you being polite?)

Even when kneeling, Marika in the game is a head taller than the Faded One. Her half-body Radagan is naturally the same height.

Queen Renara of the Full Moon is about the same height as Radagan.

Lani, born from the union of these two, would naturally not be short.

Zicomo had visually estimated Lani's original height in the Tower of Lienia, and it was at least two meters tall.

Just as Zicomo was pondering Lani's height, Hermione, who was outside the room, opened the door and cautiously peeked inside.

“Cousin, may I come in?” Hermione asked.

Zicomo snapped out of his daze and said, "Come in, it's over."

Hermione approached Zicomo, carefully examined him, and breathed a sigh of relief upon finding him unharmed.

Then she said coquettishly, "Since you were already finished, why didn't you let me in sooner?"

Zicomo patted Hermione's head and reassured her, "There's still some finishing work to do, but since you're already here, let's do it together."

He originally intended to test his newly acquired power of time before letting Hermione in.

Hermione nodded, transformed back into an Animagus, and jumped into Zicomo's arms.

Zicomo held Hermione in one arm and reached out with the other, pointing at the pile of time-turners he had smashed on the ground.

A green light appeared in his hand, covering the damaged time converter on the ground.

The next moment, the time converter on the ground began to revert to its original state. However, the Sands of Time within the time converter were no longer there.

Containers capable of storing time are naturally not simple things, so Zicomo plans to repair them and take them back to study them carefully.

"Cousin, this shouldn't be a healing spell, right?" Hermione asked curiously.

“Of course not. Have you forgotten what I was supposed to do? That’s the power of time,” Zicomo replied.

Hermione was surprised that Zicomo actually possessed the power of time, and while she was astonished, she was also proud of her cousin's strength.

"Then why did you put away these time-twisters that had already lost their effectiveness?" Hermione continued to ask.

“Although they have lost their effectiveness, as containers capable of holding the power of time, they are extremely special in themselves. They have certain collection and research value,” Zicomo explained.

Upon hearing the word "research," the little witch's eyes lit up. "Can I do research?"

She was worried about having nothing to do during the summer vacation.

Zicomo thought for a moment. The Time-Turner was now just an empty shell, and it wouldn't be dangerous without the power of time. It wouldn't hurt for Hermione to study it, so he nodded in agreement.

After putting away the empty shell of the time converter, Zicomo went to the bell-shaped glass dome that was as tall as a person.

Although the glass dome before them wasn't a time converter, it still contained a significant amount of temporal power. While its purpose was unclear, its collectible value alone meant that Zicomo wouldn't leave it here.

After removing the bell-shaped glass dome, Zicomo was surprised to find another door behind it.

He led Hermione through the door, which led to a dimly lit room. There were many tall shelves filled with countless glass marbles. Due to a lack of cleaning over a long period, the marbles were covered in a layer of dust.

Some of the glass spheres emitted a mysterious, flowing light, while others were rather blurry and dim.

The two sets of shelves near the door were labeled row 53 and row 54, respectively, with dim candlelight hanging at the ends of each row.

These candlelights weren't even as bright as the glowing glass spheres; Zicomo, standing at one end of the shelf, couldn't even see the candlelight at the other end.

"Where is this place?" Hermione asked curiously.

“In the Hall of Prophecy, each glass ball represents a prophecy. However, only those with the relevant knowledge can see the content of the prophecy on the glass ball,” Zicomo replied.

Zicomo hadn't expected that the Hall of Prophecy would be located behind the Hall of Time.

If the Time Hall holds the power of time, then the Prophecy Hall may represent destiny.

This is a force more enigmatic than time itself. Although it is quite unique, Zicomo is not interested in it.

In his view, fate may indeed exist, but it is not immutable. Each person has their own unique destiny, which is constantly changing based on the decisions they make.

Just like those true masters of prophecy, they do not blindly believe in prophecies, nor are they controlled by them.

The last person who relied too much on prophecy was Voldemort. Not only did his grand ambitions crumble, but he also killed his own body, leaving only his soul on the run.

Hermione was still astonished by the sheer number of these prophetic glass beads.

If each glass ball represents a true and valid prophecy, wouldn't there be too many so-called prophecies?

She suddenly felt that prophecy seemed so cheap.

Hermione told Zicomo about her idea, and Zicomo laughed and said, "Silly girl, prophecy isn't anything special."

“In the past, there were many truly capable prophetic masters, and making simple prophecies was a very easy thing for them.”

"Some prophetic masters can even make several prophecies in a single day. It's not surprising that so many glass beads have been accumulated over hundreds of years."

Even now, many fortune tellers can make simple predictions using glass beads as a medium.

The glowing glass orbs in the Hall of Prophecy represent people who are still alive and related to the prophecy; there are quite a few of these glass orbs on the shelves.

The Bureau of Mysteries collects these glass spheres containing prophecies in order to study the trace of destiny within them.

When a diviner or prophet makes a valid prophecy, fate preserves the relevant prophecy on the medium used in the prophecy, thus imbuing the medium with a trace of fate's power.

This is yet another unsolved problem for the mutable people, or perhaps a problem that has been shelved.

Judging from the dust on the glass ball, no one has been here for a long time.

...... ........ ...

After listening to Zicomo's words, Hermione nodded thoughtfully.

Therefore, prophecy is indeed not a high-level thing. After all, for a true master of prophecy, predicting what someone will eat the next morning is a piece of cake.

In contrast, Trelawney, aside from occasionally making significant prophecies thanks to her prophetic lineage, truly possessed no real abilities whatsoever.

Hermione had been in school for three years, but she had never heard of Trelawney having any new prophetic glass ball that had been taken away by the Ministry of Magic.

However, she was curious about where the glass ball that had predicted Harry would be the savior was.

Thinking of this, she looked at Zicomo and asked, "Cousin, do you know where that glass ball that predicted Harry would be the savior is?"

Zicomo shook his head; how could he possibly remember that?

He only vaguely remembered that it should be on the 97th shelf, but each shelf had at least a hundred glass balls, which were not something that people associated with the prophecy could see, and he didn't know which one it was.

Seeing that Zicomo didn't know either, Hermione said disappointedly, "Let's go to the next room."

Zicomo nodded, then turned and left.

Neither of them was particularly interested in the glass spheres; the faint power of fate emanating from them offered no benefit to Zicomo.

He didn't even know how to retrieve it. If he forcibly broke it, the power of destiny might dissipate before Zikomo could absorb it.

And despite the large number of glass spheres here, most of them are already malfunctioning and dimmed. The combined power of destiny within those still lit spheres is not even enough for Zicomo to completely master the power of destiny.

The two emerged from the Time Hall and arrived at the last door that remained unopened.

Zicomo pushed open the door, revealing another dimly lit room.

The room is rectangular, with a huge stone pit in the center, about six meters deep.

Stone steps encircle the entire room, each step steep. The descending steps resemble a lecture hall, with each step acting as a bench.

Chapter 169 The Altar of Death, the So-Called Resurrection Stone

In the center of the stone pit, instead of a teacher's podium like in a lecture hall, there is a raised stone platform.

An archway stands on the stone platform, exuding an ancient and rustic atmosphere.

One corner of the top of the archway is damaged, and there is no support around it, but even so, it still stands there steadily.

A semi-transparent, gray-black curtain or drape hangs on the archway, moving automatically even without wind.

“Where is this place? It looks so eerie,” Hermione asked Zicomo.

She knew that if there was anything she didn't understand, she could just ask her all-knowing cousin.

“The altar of death, behind that veil must be the path to the world of death,” Zicomo replied.

He used the word "should" because he didn't have concrete evidence that what followed was a world of death; he was just speculating based on the information he had.

In the original book, Harry, Neville, and Luna all visited this place.

These three people all have one thing in common: they have all witnessed the death of their loved ones.

When they entered the room, they all heard the voices of their deceased relatives coming from behind the curtains, luring them and trying to lead them to the unknown space behind the curtains.

A similar effect is achieved with the Resurrection Stone, one of the legendary Deathly Hallows obtained by the three brothers from the Grim Reaper.

The Resurrection Stone cannot truly resurrect people; it can only bring the souls of the dead back to the present world. However, those souls do not belong to the human realm, so they become sad, indifferent, and tormented.