I'm the King of Curry at Hogwarts

Chapter 199 Underground Prison

Napoleon, who had begun the wizarding tradition, was like a child weighing only a hundred pounds. At this moment, he had forgotten the humiliations France had suffered over the years, and this minor unpleasantness had been put to the back of his mind.

Lewis taught him a few spells briefly and then handed him over to Dumbledore.

In his own words, we need to find something for the French emperor to do, lest he get sick from staying here.

Looking at the French Emperor, who was a contemporary of Principal Armando Dippet, Dumbledore fell into deep thought.

That Louis kid really knows how to get things done...

Napoleon was temporarily relieved of his teaching duties and was assigned to the first-year class as a transfer student, studying alongside a group of young wizards.

The young wizards looked at this older student and began to doubt themselves.

Dumbledore was a tight-lipped man and did not reveal that Lewis could turn Squibs into wizards, so this secret was known only to him, Lewis, Catherine, and Vitalis.

After dealing with Napoleon, Louis finally had time to do his mission.

After a brief greeting to Catherine, Louis set off and teleported to the underground prison in Irithyll.

After the familiar darkness, Louis arrived in a shattered world. Emerging from the castle, he found himself facing a rugged and steep cliff face. A castle had become one with the cliff, with only a narrow path leading forward. To the left was a steep cliff face, and to the right was a bottomless abyss.

After walking a few steps, Louis saw a small door open not far away. It was dark inside and looked quite scary.

Fortunately, torches were burning on both sides of the dark path, which barely illuminated the way forward.

Following the steps down the path, a bright campfire came into view. After lighting the fire, Louis continued onward, intending to explore further.

Fortunately, he knew the way, which was the most crucial thing.

He set up an automatic lighting spell to follow him and continued walking. On either side were empty cells, which looked eerily strange under the ghostly blue magical light. Especially since the cells were extremely quiet, the rustling sound of Louis's footsteps was amplified in the silent space.

"Clang."

The sound of the jar breaking startled Louis.

It was his own carelessness; he didn't pay attention to what was under his feet and stepped on it.

"It was just a jar..." Louis breathed a sigh of relief; this was just too nerve-wracking...

Isn't this just plain irritating and irritating?

After cursing Miyazaki under his breath, he continued walking forward.

Not far away was a small door, and just as Louis approached, a jailer floated past him.

It was quite frightening. The jailer wore a metal mask, carried a lantern in his right hand, and a long branding iron in his left. The tip of the iron was red-hot. If that thing were burned on the skin, it would definitely smell amazing.

The jailer had an extremely keen sense of smell; he spotted Louis almost instantly. However, instead of rushing forward, he leaned back and let out a strange laugh.

Louis didn't give him a chance to perform a full set of calisthenics; a chain of lightning bolts turned him to ashes.

They also took a passing jailer with them.

After burning the jailer's remains to ashes with fire, Louis stepped out of the small door. As soon as he turned right, a sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart. Louis quickly stopped. Sure enough, a zombie rushed out of a cell on the right and shoved at the air in front of it.

If Louis hadn't stopped, he probably would have pushed him off...

Upon realizing that it hadn't pushed anything down, the zombie raised its arm and scratched its head, seemingly wondering why it hadn't pushed anything down.

Louis wasn't about to let him get away with it. He shot out like lightning, easily turning the zombie to ashes.

Continuing forward, to the left was a bridge connecting the two prisons. Louis crossed the small bridge, turned right and went downstairs. Directly in front of him was a metal cage containing several undead. Seeing Louis come down, the cage jumped up and down as if dancing, staggering towards him.

It's scary enough, but this thing isn't very powerful to begin with.

Not far away, a series of mournful wails came from the passageway.

Louis shuddered and trudged forward.

As he reached the doorway, he casually used shapeshifting to create a fake version of himself, controlling it to continue forward. The instant he stepped out, a sharp sword pierced through the shapeshifter's chest.

Following the direction of the sharp sword, Louis couldn't help but think to himself, "This little peculiar thing is actually quite something..."

It was an infant's head magnified several times, as big as a watermelon, with two half-open, swollen eyes radiating a ghostly blue light. Its body was withered and emaciated, completely disproportionate to its enormous head, looking extremely incongruous.

"You beast," Louis muttered, sending him to his death with a thunderous explosion.

"I hope you'll be a prettier creature in your next life, like a pilgrimage butterfly or something."

Behind this giant-headed doll was an extremely disgusting creature—or perhaps it wasn't a creature at all, but rather a collection of fat, white maggots. It looked utterly repulsive, and Louis didn't even want to look at it, instantly burning it to ashes with a blazing fire.

A strange fragrance wafted through the cramped space, and Louis gagged. This was absolutely disgusting…

At the end of the road was a door controlled by a mechanism. Logically, it should have required taking another route to open, but Louis X Arajou didn't need to worry about that and easily opened the door wide.

Descending the elevator, you'll find yourself in a breathtaking view. Ahead lies a bottomless abyss, while in the distance, a magnificent and imposing city wall sits atop a snow-capped mountain, shrouded in mist, creating a scene reminiscent of a fairyland.

Nearby sat many dead knights and dragonmen, their heads bowed and hands forming hand seals, seemingly shouting from the bottom of their hearts like German boys.

I mean it from the bottom of my heart!

After glancing at them briefly, Louis continued walking forward.

Following the steps through the small door, and turning a corner, a bright and open space suddenly appeared before us, revealing a castle hall.

There were about a dozen prison guards standing in front of me, densely packed, each holding a branding iron, which looked extremely frightening.

Noticing Louis approaching, the jailers all leaned back in unison, and Louis used this opportunity to unleash a series of lightning bolts, sending the jailers into the arms of the Lords of Cinder.

After clearing out the cells on both sides one by one, Louis finally found the witch's location.

"Alohomora! (Open the Cave of Alohomora!)"

The iron gate swung open with a thud, and Louis slipped through, only to meet the witch's astonished eyes.

"What kind of spell is this?" The witch was clearly very interested, but then she felt that this might not be appropriate, so she introduced herself: "Hello, I am the witch Karula. Are you Ash?"

"I am a human being," Louis said succinctly.

"Oh, I think you're feeling lost, aren't you? As the saying goes, only those who have a path to follow can get lost. That's proof of your heroism," Carula said, seemingly out of nowhere.

“I’m not confused,” Louis shrugged. “Are you going to stay here, or come with me and become a teacher?”

"Teacher?" Carula was taken aback, not understanding what Louis meant. "You mean, you want me to be your teacher?"

"You can understand it this way..." Louis didn't say much more: "I study at a magic academy, where there are many young wizards younger than me. I think you can teach them some spells."

"But I'm a dark witch," Carla laughed self-deprecatingly. "Why would anyone learn dark magic?"

"Don't worry, I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts." Louis smirked, revealing a rather amiable smile. "Of course, the choice is yours. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry does not exclude witches who study Dark Arts."

"Alright." Karula nodded and stood up. "Please give me a Return Bone Fragment."

"No need for that trouble, just go into my space and stay for a while."

The witch Karula was just a minor incident. For Louis, exploring this world was nothing like the adventures the young wizards had repeated, where there were treasure chests to collect.

Besides, he doesn't have any obsession with collecting everything; finishing the mission is the most important thing.

At the end of the hall was a wide archway, but there was no door, so there was no need to spend two points of mana to open it with Arahurth.

At the end of the stone steps lies a stone arch bridge. On both sides stand dilapidated stone pillars, some crooked, some upside down, some slanted, some upright, and so on.

They look old and dilapidated; two of them are almost completely weathered.

As soon as Louis stepped onto the stone bridge, he had only taken a few steps when he heard a whistling wind and a strange flapping sound. Louis looked in the direction of the sound and saw a huge gargoyle flapping its stone wings as it flew toward him.

With a loud crash, the gargoyle landed on the bridge, causing the entire stone bridge to shake violently.

If it weren't for the good quality of this stone bridge, it would probably have collapsed right now.

The gargoyle was enormous, unlike the not-so-large bat in World of Warcraft. This gargoyle was at least four or five meters tall, with wings like two giant fans, its wingspan totaling at least ten meters. Its head wasn't that of a ferocious bat, but rather made of pure stone, making its facial features difficult to discern. However, its outline did resemble that of the future French football star Kylian Mbappé. It held a huge, flaming spear in both hands, and if its feet were also on fire, it might be suitable for cosplaying Nezha.

Nezha: Are you being polite?

Of course, its hooves don't have flames; they're just like its body, with a dark green, stone-like texture.

As an electric mage, Louis naturally started with a lightning spell.

But common sense tells us that stones are immune to lightning, so three lightning spells hitting them are like tickling a gargoyle.

The reactance is fully utilized.

The gargoyle, untouched by Louis's influence, naturally wouldn't stand by and watch him electrocute it. It flapped its wings, raised its massive, flaming spear, and aimed straight for Louis's chest.

Even with the protection of the energy shield, Louis dared not be careless. There were bottomless abysses on both sides of the bridge. What if he was knocked away by the gargoyle and fell down?

I've been killed by this kind of terrain before when I played Dark Souls.

Louis quickly rolled away to avoid the gargoyle's attack, then threw several thunderbolts, blasting the gargoyle into a stagger.

Gargoyles have high magic resistance, making it difficult for spells to inflict effective damage on them.

What? You mean gargoyles are still vulnerable to magic in the game? Please, that's just gameplay mechanics. If gargoyles were made to have such high magic resistance, would mage players even be able to play? You think you can only play against them? You're kidding me...

Seeing that the spell was not working, Louis waved his hand and summoned three giant swords, which hung above his head.

Kalia Magic - Giant Sword Formation.

This magic isn't just magical damage; each of the two-meter-long giant swords also deals a ridiculous amount of physical damage.

The giant sword formation worked as expected; the flying giant swords pierced through the gargoyle's wings, creating three huge holes.

Louis breathed a sigh of relief. With such a large hole in its wing, it probably couldn't fly anymore. He would just have to slowly grind it down.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the gargoyle flapped its wings and strangely took flight. With a powerful gust of wind, it launched another flying attack at Louis.

Louis casually tossed out an armor-protecting spell and turned to run. There's an old saying in Seris: "A wise man knows when to yield." Running away when you can't win is his traditional virtue.

A loud bang came from behind, accompanied by a violent tremor. Louis knew that the gargoyle had missed its target.

He used the same trick again, adding nine more giant swords to himself. This time, the gargoyle dared not be careless. It tried to dodge, but found that the giant swords had a tracking function. Helpless, it had to use its weapon to meet the attack, but it could not stop the nine giant swords and its skull was pierced by one after another.

The gargoyle's enormous body swayed and then crashed to the ground in resentment.

Where the gargoyle's body disappeared, a white ball of light appeared.

Louis walked over, and a system notification sounded.

Congratulations on obtaining the perfect diamond!

Congratulations on obtaining the Rune: Hel

*Perfect Diamond: Can be set into items with grooves; the added attributes vary depending on the item.

Weapon: +250 accuracy

Clothing: +5 Illumination Range

Shield: +19 All Resistances

* Rune: Hel: A mysterious rune that can have unexpected effects when inlaid on items.

Louis pocketed his spoils; the diamond was enormous, almost as big as the one on his aunt's crown. As for the Rune Helium, he remembered using it to cleanse his rune-encrusted equipment when playing games in his past life.

It should be useful, if I remember correctly, the runeword "Death Breath" requires the rune "Hay".

Overall, it is still quite useful.

(End of this chapter)