Hogwarts and the Holy Grail War

So Ethan recounted to Percival in detail everything that he had experienced in the past few days. As the saying goes, those who are involved in the matter are often confused, while those who are not involved can see things more clearly. However, his own thinking is likely to fall into a dead end. If he had someone else to discuss with him, he might be able to break the fixed thinking pattern and break the deadlock.

"From your description, I can sense that there are many problems here, but I'm afraid I can't help you solve them at the moment." Percival spread his hands, looking helpless:

"If I were still alive, I should be able to infer from field investigations and mutual probing with the enemy where the problem lies and how to solve it."

"But I am just a portrait now. I can only move between different portraits. I can't go to other places, let alone use magic to help."

"Although I'm sorry, I'm afraid that all I can do now is just to give you a verbal reminder. The rest of the matter will have to be handled by you, the junior."

"Don't worry, professor. Now that I know there is a problem, I can prepare myself for it. You don't have to be so hard on yourself." Ethan smiled confidently:

"Moreover, we should solve the problems of the living by ourselves. If I can't even solve such a small matter, then what qualifications do I have to let you trust me with the secrets you have guarded for hundreds of years?"

"It's a good thing to be confident. This is a bit like the recklessness we had when we were young." Percival smiled with relief, "But you must be careful next time. I can vaguely feel that the enemy this time is not an ordinary person. It seems that Professor Figo's concerns are not unreasonable. Even if it is to give you more self-protection ability, we must speed up the progress. I will lift the ban on the secret vault for you now."

As Percival finished his words, a white vortex that Ethan was very familiar with slowly emerged on the floor at the center of the tower.

"You must have seen a similar device before. Use your ability to resonate with it, and it will open the door to the secret vault. If their lair is really in the basement of this tower as you said, then it will only be a matter of time before they discover the secret vault hidden in my tower. So you must hurry up, otherwise something bad will happen."

"I'll do my best, Professor." Ethan nodded, stood above the vortex, pulled out his wand and waved it lightly from bottom to top. The constantly surging vortex turned into a silver-white energy stream and merged into the tip of Ethan's wand.

hum-

A blue light curtain appeared on a French window to the left of Percival's portrait. Behind the translucent light curtain, a short corridor was vaguely revealed, with a metal door at the end.

Percival watched as the light curtain was easily summoned by Ethan, nodded with satisfaction, and finally instructed Ethan:

"When you pass the trial in the secret vault, there will be a container of ancient magic waiting for you. That container is very important for what we will entrust to you later, so remember to bring it with you."

"I will, Professor."

"Okay, I'll wait for you in the map secret room." Percival nodded slightly, walked sideways out of the picture frame, and his voice echoed inside the tower through the picture frame.

Ethan took a deep breath and stepped over the light curtain.

Behind the metal door was an extremely magnificent square hall, which covered an area that was almost as large as the ruins Ethan had seen before.

However, the square hall was empty with nothing in it. No armored statues, no doors leading to other places, and not even any trace of a whirlpool that could be used to open the mechanism.

If this is the place where the trial is taking place, then what exactly does the trial here require him to do?

It can't be that the trial is to forcibly demolish this place, right?

When Ethan walked to the center of the square hall in deep thought, the metal walls around the square hall suddenly made a creaking sound. A part of the wall facing him rose above the ceiling, revealing a metal door. Three pairs of metal locks with mortise and tenon structures extended from each side of the door, tightly interlocking with each other.

"Do you want me to find a way to unlock it?"

Ethan reflexively used an unlocking spell, and the ancient magic patterns on the metal lock lit up the moment the spell was applied. A round hole slowly opened up in the floor of the square hall, and a metal platform more than one meter tall rose from it. On the platform, a metal cube with a length of about three meters was suspended, slowly rotating.

The six faces of the metal cube are each engraved with patterns of different colors, namely a red lion, a blue eagle, a yellow badger, a green snake, a white oriental dragon and a black fire dragon.

bass--

A white light lit up on the metal cube, dividing it evenly into 27 small cubes of equal size. Then these small cubes began to rapidly disrupt their positions according to a certain pattern, and the movement method seemed to Ethan like déjà vu.

Just like a Rubik's Cube.

"Well, that's interesting." Ethan chuckled.

By now, he had figured out that this test was to restore the metal Rubik's Cube to unlock the three mortise and tenon locks on the door. Simply restoring the Rubik's Cube was not difficult for him. Not to mention the most common three-order Rubik's Cube, he still remembered the formulas for restoring almost all types of Rubik's Cubes very clearly.

But how can I turn such a big Rubik's Cube?

Is it necessary to use magic? Ethan tried to use the flying spell to pull one edge of the metal Rubik's Cube, but the Rubik's Cube showed no sign of moving.

"Emm..." Ethan fell into deep thought again.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

Six armored statues as tall as a person fell from the sky. Without waiting for Ethan to react, they rushed towards Ethan with swords, spears, axes and hammers in their hands.

"Split into pieces!"

Ethan reflexively cast a cutting spell at one of the statues. The light blade caused by the spell directly split the greatsword in the statue's hand into several pieces, and left three deep knife marks on the statue's armor shell.

At the same time, the statue stopped moving as if frozen, and a green light shone from the gaps in its armor. This scene lasted only for a moment, and then the statue regained its ability to move.

crunch--

The side of the metal Rubik's Cube with the green snake pattern printed on it slowly rotated 90° clockwise.

Ethan looked at the slowly rotating metal Rubik's Cube, then looked at the armored statues, which were exactly six in number, and a flash of inspiration came to his mind.

So he first transformed into a stream of silver light and passed through the armored statues to another corner of the square hall, and then tried to fire a spell at another armored statue that did not deal much damage:

"The flames are blazing."

The red fire line burned a small hole on the back of the armored statue. Just like before, the statue's movement paused for a moment, and red light lit up from the gap in the armor. Then, the side of the metal Rubik's Cube with the red eagle pattern printed on it slowly rotated 90° clockwise.

Ethan suddenly felt relieved. It seemed that these armor statues were the mechanism used to turn the Rubik's Cube. He had to avoid the attacks of the armor statues while attacking them to restore the Rubik's Cube. This was the content of this trial.

If that's the case, then this trial will be easy for me to pass.

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Let’s change the heroine’s clothes tomorrow. What should we change to?

Chapter 216: The secret to winning against a wave is to have a louder voice than the opponent

"rise."

As Ethan gently raised the wand in his hand, the metal platform under his feet slowly rose like mercury and lifted him high into the air.

The armored statues' attack methods obviously couldn't reach me who was occupying the high ground, so I could only rage helplessly at the metal pillars supporting the round platform. Eighteen kinds of weapons kept slashing at the metal pillars supporting the round platform like felling wood, and soon there were many knife marks on them. Judging from this situation, it shouldn't take long to cut the pillars.

Of course, he didn't expect the temporary pillars he built to be very strong. He just needed to figure out the color of the Rubik's Cube corresponding to each armor statue.

Ethan squatted down, pulled out his wand and pointed it at the shoulder of another intact armored statue:

"The flames are blazing."

He didn't dare to use a spell that was too powerful to attack.

As his strength improved, the power of the same spell became stronger. For example, when he first learned the same fire spell, it could only produce a few sparks when it hit the armored statues. But now it can burn a large hole in the armor. Although I don't know if this is normal progress or the blessing of ancient magic, it is always a good thing to have higher firepower.

If I don't control my strength here, what if I break these armors before I restore the Rubik's Cube? Who can I cry to if I fail the trial?

This is also the reason why he still uses his own wand and recites the spell out loud even though he can cast spells without spells or wands, all in order to accurately control the power of the spell.

Moreover, he deliberately aimed at different parts of the body in order to use the scars to distinguish the differences between these almost identical armored statues.

Once you recognize the magic aspects these statues represent, things become simple.

Ethan: DRRB'U'BLLUFFB'RUR'F'BFFL'F'R'D'R

The first layer of the Rubik's Cube is completed.

The pieced-together white dragon pattern glowed, and the bottom one of the three mortise and tenon locks that locked the door loosened its interlocking teeth and slowly moved to both sides.

It seems that my idea is correct.

At this moment, the six scarred armored statues seemed to have completed their mission, and instantly lost their energy support and shattered to the ground. The fragments on the ground turned into a viscous fluid and gathered together, forming a swamp reflecting the brilliance of metal around the high platform where Ethan was.

The liquid surface of the swamp rolled like boiling water. Six two-man Highland armored giants broke through the water and slowly rose up. The Scottish broadswords in their hands slashed towards the platform built by Ethan.

wow-

The platform broke with a sound, and turned into liquid and sank into the ground. Ethan, who was on the platform, jumped up in time and stayed in the air. He pointed his wand at the wall on one side:

"Fly here!"

Ethan's body flew towards the wall under the reverse pull of the spell, and then he quickly waved his wand from left to right:

"Come!"

A metal pole as thick as an arm quickly extended from the wall. Ethan stretched out his hand and hooked it steadily, then suddenly flipped over and jumped onto the metal pole. He squatted on the top of the pole in the same posture as a man in an eagle-beak hood, looking at the armored colossi below.

Compared to the previous smaller statues, the armored colossus moves more slowly, but its attack power is also much greater. I killed the colossus before it could even fire a few strikes in the Forbidden Forest, so it seems that they are still quite strong.

But these are not the point. What is important now is how to restore the remaining part of the Rubik's Cube.

With his previous experience, Ethan quickly tried out the corresponding magic aspects of these colossi.

However, the combat IQ of these giants should be much higher than those small statues. When they saw someone attacking them from high in the sky, they did not immediately become furious like those statues, but circled around Ethan in mid-air, looking for the time and angle to attack.

One of the armored giants suddenly bent his knees slightly, and jumped directly to an altitude higher than Ethan's position. He raised the broadsword in his hand above his head and chopped down at his skull.

"Shock reduction to stop speed."

Ethan was afraid that he would smash the Colossus to pieces with one move, so he didn't dare to use any powerful moves, but simply froze the Colossus's movements.

"Wingardium Leviosa."

The levitation spell turned into an invisible giant hand that gently lifted the colossus and gently sent it back to the ground.

Ethan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and couldn't help but complain about his current predicament.

Others who pass this test may not use full firepower, fearing that their spells cannot break the opponent's defense. But I have to deliberately control my firepower and not kill the opponent, fearing that the opponent will be gone with one move.

No one else can play like this.

"All are frozen."

He casually pointed the magic wand downwards, and all the giants were fixed in place as if they had been acupunctured.

So that they won't move around anymore.

What happened next was the same as before. Under Ethan's gentle magic attack, less than two minutes later, the remaining five sides of the Rubik's Cube were all restored, and at the same time, they lit up with lights of different colors.

The mortise and tenon lock at the top also loosened its tightly clenched teeth and slowly retreated back into the wall.

But there is only one lock left and the Rubik's Cube has been put together. How can we open the lock now?

The six armored giants on the ground also regained their ability to move because the spell had failed. They jumped to the same height as Ethan and swung their broadswords towards Ethan.

"Get lost, don't get close to me!" Ethan was in the mood to get entangled with these giants while thinking. He raised his hand and a silver lightning flashed from the tip of the magic wand and hit the giants. The bodies of the giants lost their luster immediately, and before they could land on the ground, they turned into light spots and dissipated into nothingness.

click -

The last lock opened.

"That's okay..."

Ethan shrugged speechlessly, jumped back to the ground from the metal pole, raised his hand and pushed open the door that was locked with three locks.

Behind the gate is a natural underground cave. A fairly spacious metal round platform is quietly suspended in the air in the cave. It has no connection with the surrounding stone walls, so of course there is no way to get through.

Ethan hesitated for a moment, and just as he was about to force himself to fly over using a crude flying technique, he heard a loud noise coming from the bottom of the cave.

Several half-meter square metal cubes flew up and connected closely to form a three-meter-wide floating bridge, connecting the platform and the cave where Ethan was.

Although he didn't trust the stability of this road deep down, Ethan still tried to step on it. After all, there would be no worse consequences than falling down suddenly. As long as he was alert and ready to use flying skills to escape at any time, he would be fine.

As he walked, the cold block of metal seemed to float up and down according to his position consciously, like waves that kept rising one after another, and soon brought Ethan to the stage.

The moment Ethan put both feet on the platform, the metal blocks that made up the floating bridge sank again, completely cutting off his retreat.

At the same time, the center of the dome began to see ripples like the metal swamp before, and a giant metal statue that was much taller than any statue before slowly emerged from it. This giant statue did not hold any weapons in its hands, but even with its bare hands, the sense of oppression was no less than that of the previous enemies.

Ethan watched the statue gradually assume a fighting stance and couldn't help swallowing. He was only at the height of its knees, and such a huge size difference made his heart tighten.

The giant statue did not rush to approach Ethan, but stood still and slowly raised its arms to its chest. As it moved, a ball of energy slowly gathered in front of its chest, emitting a dazzling white light.

The statue gently pushed forward with its hands holding the ball of light, and the ball of light flew towards Ethan with overwhelming force.

Although no energy escaped from the ball of light, and even the high heat generated by the gathering of energy could not be perceived, Ethan could still roughly feel that it must have contained a very terrifying power.

Once you are hit by it, your fate will be extremely tragic.

So Ethan immediately turned into a stream of light and bypassed the trajectory of the light ball, passing under the feet of the statue and coming behind it.

BOOM!

At the place where he had just stood, the ball of light and the ground of the platform came into contact with each other, erupting with terrifying energy and causing a large mushroom cloud to rise. It seemed that its power was definitely greater than that of Hercules shooting a hundred heads.

Before Ethan could get into a fighting stance, the statue turned around with a flexibility that was inconsistent with its huge body, and another ball of light was already ready to be launched.

boom!

The ball of light shot out in a dazzling stream of light, directly engulfing the place where Ethan was.

Behind the statue again, Ethan emerged from a wisp of white smoke, patting his chest and breathing heavily with lingering fear.

If I hadn't reacted quickly enough and activated TP in time, I would have died young under that torrent of energy.