Hogwarts: Nagini captured at the start

Chapter 285 The Grand Finale

There was a black dot in the distance, growing larger as it approached, reminding him of when Trelawney warned him during his first divination class last year that if he encountered a black dot, he should run away immediately.

Luo Bin quickly turned around and ran in the opposite direction of the black dot. He tried to summon his invisible wings, but his shoulder blades showed no pain or itch whatsoever.

He tried to unleash a few bursts of flame behind him, his veins bulging, but his palms remained empty.

He tried to activate the Feathered Spirit Insect's "Indestructible" skill, but there was still no reaction from him.

Oh no, I can't use the Rubik's Cube skill in this unknown space.

The black dots invaded very quickly, and soon they enveloped Luo Bin, plunging him into endless darkness.

Loneliness, confusion, anxiety, tension, and panic weighed on his heart like several mountains, making it hard for him to breathe and causing him to collapse to the ground, his heart pounding.

Thump thump~

His chest throbbed as if a gong or drum had been installed inside.

No, we've already obtained the treasure, how can we collapse here?

Luo Bin took several deep breaths to allow his heart to slowly return to its normal beating rate. Suddenly, he heard a faint clanging sound in the darkness in the distance. When he strained his ears to listen carefully, he could not hear anything.

Is it a hallucination, or something else?

He quickly rejected the hallucination option because he heard the clanging sound again, accompanied by a tapping sound, like something hard was hitting the floor.

Hard, thumping on the floor... wait, it's the sound of horses' hooves!

Robin recalled seeing a gray horse running inside a crystal ball when he was taking the divination exam. The clanging sound was most likely made by the gray horse's owner shaking his armor.

At that moment, an image slowly emerged in his mind: a chubby middle-aged man holding a long sword, wearing armor.

"Cadogan, is that you?"

In the darkness, no one responded, and the clanging and clattering sounds were gradually fading away.

"Sir Cadogan, I would like to ask you for a favor."

The clanging and clattering sounds ceased, and the gray horse's owner seemed to hesitate.

"Brave, righteous, and kind Sir Cadogan, a cavalryman urgently needs your help."

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In the darkness in the distance, a glimmer of light appeared, and it was moving steadily toward Robin.

A short while later, Cadogan, with a long sword at his waist, rode his little gray horse to Robin's side.

He held the reins in his left hand and a crystal glass in his right, inside which was a burning candle.

"Lost cavalryman, you're dead?" Cadogan exclaimed in shock.

Luo Bin: (￢д￢。), cursing someone to die the moment you meet them, that's something else!

"He's not dead, he's perfectly fine!"

"You're not dead. Then how did you get into the painting?"

Cadogan gave him a strange look that said, "I know you're lying."

Luo Bin recalled the dozens of paintings he had seen before meeting the alluring Ah Shui, and combined with Kadogan's words, he immediately understood that this other world was the world within the paintings.

"Oh, you stumbled in by chance, Cadogan, can you take me out of this painted world?"

"You big idiot, I can't even get out of here myself, how could I possibly take you out?"

Trelawney once said that if you're trapped in a dark prison, finding water means you've found a way out.

But it's pitch black all around, how are we going to find water?

Wait, no, it's not completely dark around us, there's still light, like the candle in Cadogan's hand.

"Could I borrow a candle for a moment?"

Kadogan raised his chin and said arrogantly, "You have to say please."

"Sir Cadogan, may I borrow your candle?"

"Of course, here you go!"

Robin took the crystal glass and placed it on the ground. He noticed a radiating white line in the halo of candlelight on the ground.

He spun the crystal glass, but the white line remained, and its position hadn't changed. He touched the dark floor, but couldn't feel the white line; it seemed no different from the rest of the floor.

Robin stood up, holding the crystal glass. "Sir Cadogan, please give me a ride."

"No problem, my little steed is very obedient here."

Robin gripped the horse's back, did a pull-up, and straddled Cadogan. He pointed to the left, "Please come this way."

"Excellent cavalrymen, join me on this journey!"

Kadogan kicked the gray horse's belly with the heel of his shoe and pulled on the reins to steer it to the left.

Ta-da~

(Sound of galloping hooves)

Robin turned his head and saw a white light shining on the ground behind him. The gray horse ran forward, and the white light followed.

The light meant there was hope, but after the gray horse ran for about a kilometer, the light suddenly stopped extending forward, and Robin quickly asked Cardogan to stop.

Robin dismounted and strode toward the light, placing the crystal cup at the point where the light was cut off, carefully observing the halo of candlelight cast on the ground.

Sure enough, just as he had guessed, the 'white line' in the halo changed direction.

"Sir Cadogan, please take me this way."

Luo Bin pointed to the direction in which the 'white line' extended and said.

"Okay, come on up quickly."

The gray horse carried the two men and galloped a thousand meters to the right before stopping, because Robin noticed that the light extended a thousand meters to the right and then stopped extending forward.

He dismounted, repeated his previous actions, and after confirming that the 'white line' turned to the left and forward, he mounted the horse again.

Running - stopping - marking the line - turning and running, repeating this process more than ten times, until a large, linear object resembling a shiny fingerprint appeared in the dark space.

The "big guy" slowly rose into the air, flipped 90 degrees, and then crashed to the ground with a thud. Then, the lines contracted inward, and the "big guy" turned into a glowing archway.

"Sir Cadogan, please take me to that door."

"Hold on tight, my cavalry!"

Tap tap! Tap tap!

A few minutes later, the two men and their horse arrived at the door. Robin and Cadogan jumped off their horses, and through the halo of light, they could both see that there was a long corridor outside the door.

Neigh~

The gray horse tried to rush out of the portal of light, but Cadogan held on tightly to the reins, preventing it from moving forward.

"Aren't you going out to take a look?"

Cadogan shook his head. "I'm an adventurer. Every painting is an adventure for me. Once I leave the world inside the painting and try to leave Hogwarts to explore other places, it's a very troublesome thing."

After saying that, he mounted his horse, kicked its belly with both feet, and soon the figures of the man and the horse disappeared into the darkness.

Soon after, the clanging and clattering sounds disappeared.

Luo Bin gazed at the portal, his heart surging with excitement.

He is ready for the next challenge; who knows what kind of scare Dumbledore will have in store for him next?

But he believed that with friends, the Rubik's Cube, and Nagini, all the fear would turn into surprise.

(End of this chapter)