From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 204: The Room of Requirement?
Although Ivy completed the permanence of the private chamber, there were actually no visible changes in the entire room.

Perhaps it was due to psychological effects, but Ivy always felt that this already familiar space became more reassuring.

Back at the artifact manufacturing table, Ivy prepared to give the runescote a comprehensive physical examination.

However, he only realized at this time that the runespoor snake that he had ordered in Parseltongue to stay on the platform had disappeared.

"Runescape Serpent flies here!" Ivy took out his wand and cast a flying spell.

However, it was of no use.

After staring at the little dragon Norbeta and its adoptive mother Xiaoyan for a while, Ivy began to wonder if these two guys had eaten the shrunken runes as a snack while he was not paying attention.

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense. Although Ivy cast a shrinking spell on the runes, it doesn't mean that it will always maintain that miniature size.

If it was swallowed by the little dragon, the magic on the Runespoor Snake would obviously become ineffective because the main body had lost its life. In this case, the Runespoor Snake's huge body would have burst it long ago.

Since it couldn't have been eaten by the little dragon or Howling Flame, where else could the Runespoor have gone?
Return to the Room of Requirement?

But under the spell of Mordenkainen's private chamber, it is impossible for the Runespoor to leave here through teleportation or similar spell effects...

But there is only one truth. If you eliminate all impossible results, no matter how absurd the remaining possibilities are, they must have their rationality.

Assuming that the Runespoor really returned to the Room of Requirement, in which case would the inference be valid?

After thinking it over, Ivy thought there was only one possibility.

That is, the passage for the Runespoor to return to the Room of Requirement is in this space.

Mordenkainen's Private Chamber This spell looks like it can prevent teleportation spells from happening, but in fact, its effect is to prevent teleportation magic from teleporting the target to or from the target.

That is, teleportation within the region is possible.

If the entrance to the Room of Requirement from a hundred years ago was here, or in other words, when Ivy first cast the spell of Mordenkainen's Private Chamber, it had already included the area where the Room of Requirement was located, which resulted in the entire Room of Requirement being considered as part of the Chamber of Secrets by the spell. Therefore, teleportation between the two would be possible.

Only in this way can we explain why the runes disappeared for no reason.

The hypothesis was established, and Ivey began his own verification.

A golden mist spurted out of his wand, and a giant golden dragon leaped out.

Ivy's Shining Golden Dragon Guardian has a physical body and is very large. When looking for this invisible portal, you only need to let it scan the entire space and observe where it disappears.

The golden dragon quickly circled the field and soon found clues on the wall.

The picture frames that originally belonged to the four guardians were now empty, but the golden dragon suddenly disappeared when it swept past one of them.

Then Ivy realized that the picture frame with a lot of messy things piled underneath was the entrance he was looking for.

Placing his hand on the blank picture frame, Ivy felt his head spinning.

When he stood firm, he found himself in the place that was once most familiar to him - the Room of Requirement from a hundred years ago.

This magical house has been carefully decorated by Ivy, and it exudes a magical atmosphere everywhere.

There was a fresh but not intoxicating aroma in the air, several magic books with fluttering pages were soaring in the hall, and silver armor stood on both sides of the porch, guarding this miraculous room.

Ivy remembered that he almost used this place as a dormitory. He spent a lot of time on the Room of Requirement, collecting all kinds of exquisite furniture and then placing them according to his own wishes.

Stepping onto the steps leading to the hall, Ivy took a deep breath.

The hall is a very regular two-story structure, with four different magical animal farms arranged in it. Each farm has a different environment and is prepared for magical animals with different habits.

Thestrals and toads prefer dark swamps, most birds and unicorns prefer the idyllic plains and jungles, hippogriffs and phoenixes like platforms between high cliffs, and the purple-horned beast, nicknamed the King of the Sea, loves the caves on the shore where the sound of the tide is always heard.

"...Lord Doom?"

Ivy turned around and saw an old house-elf wearing a torn sack standing there. It was Dicko. He had helped clean up the house and taken care of the magical animals while Ivy was away.

Phoenix Spark sang a sweet song and flew out from the glass house on the second floor that was emitting light. It circled in the air for a while and then landed on Ivy's shoulder.

"Is it really you?" Dicko's voice trembled. "Dico thought you would never come back... Dicko tried everything, but couldn't leave here... Fortunately, you had a lot of feed left... Otherwise, we would all starve to death... But we can't hold on any longer. We have been eating pumpkin recently, and Dicko smells like pumpkin everywhere..."

Although the Room of Requirement is said to be able to answer any request, it cannot actually produce food. This is based on the five exceptions to Gamp's basic laws of transfiguration. However, there is sunlight and water in the pasture, so plants can grow. Dicko also tried to grow many vegetables and fruits. Although life was difficult, it was at least bearable, and no magical animals starved to death.

Perhaps this is all due to Ivy's laziness. It is very troublesome to always buy food for your pets, not to mention that Ivy has a lot of pets, and there are several huge ones. In addition to the food stolen from the Fire Ash Snakes, Ivy also ordered enough food from the pet store in Diagon Alley to feed all the magical animals for a whole year.

"Oh, Dicko," Ivy consoled him, "I'm so sorry I came back so late... I've been asleep for over a hundred years..."

“More than a hundred years?” Dicko’s already large eyes grew even larger, tears gathering in them and flowing down his wrinkled face. “But… Dicko has only been here for more than a year?”

"This is what I want to tell you. The world outside has changed a lot. All the people you are familiar with are gone." Ivy said slowly, "Principal Black has become a portrait in the principal's office. Professor Weasley has passed away. My friends have left no trace... However, the Weasley family still exists, and Hogwarts is still in the same place."

"Dico...Dico doesn't understand!" The house elf covered his forehead and shook his head, his two big ears clacking. "You know my magic, Dicko, ancient magic." Ivy came to Dicko and squatted down, "In the battle with the goblin Lanlock, I succeeded, but I also failed. The ancient magic power buried in the secret vault under Hogwarts went out of control, not only sealing me in the crystal, but even you in the Room of Requirement were not spared. I don't understand what state the Room of Requirement is in now, but I know that I can't keep you here anymore."

Dicko stopped sobbing and looked at Ivy in a trance: "Lord Doom... I, I miss my master..."

"Professor Weasley has passed away, but if you want, you can go back to the Weasley family. Their lives are very difficult now..."

Before Ivy could finish his words, Dicko interrupted him anxiously: "But...but if I leave you, who will take care of the magical animals here?"

Ivy was silent for a moment, then said, "Perhaps we could find another house-elf? A young house-elf without an owner?"

Dicko belonged to Professor Matilda Weasley over a hundred years ago and belonged to the Weasley family. Although Professor Weasley has passed away for a long time, the magic contract on Dicko will not expire.

Ivy knew very well that the house-elf in front of him did not belong to him. So it was necessary to find a house-elf without an owner. It happened that Ivy had a similar idea last year, and he wrote a letter to Nott, the director of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, hoping that he could help find an ownerless house-elf at the House-Elf Placement Office.

But half a year has passed, and there is still no movement. It seems that house-elves are indeed very popular. Those pure-blood nobles who are too picky want to get a house-elf of their own.

After a brief hesitation, Dicko agreed to Ivy's suggestion: "Dicko will help you find a house-elf! Dicko will personally teach him the job! Dicko will make sure your magical creatures are safe!"

"Very good." Ivy was very happy. Today he found the entrance to the Room of Requirement, got Dicko's promise, and could reunite with the magical animals from more than a hundred years ago. It was really a lot of good things happening at the same time.

After checking the four ranches, Ivy prepared to leave with Sparks and Dicko. After all, Voldemort's soul was waiting for him.

Standing at the door, Ivy fell into deep thought. He didn't know where this door led to.

Was it one year after the Battle of Hogwarts more than a hundred years ago, or was it the beginning of 1993?

In theory, both situations are possible. Because Ivy spent more than a hundred years in the crystal and came to the 1990s. But Dicko, who was in the Room of Requirement, only spent one year, so it is very likely that it is still the late 19th century outside, when poachers frequently appeared in the Forbidden Forest.

Time is a scary topic. If Ivy really went back to the end of the 19th century, any little bit of the butterfly effect would cause a drastic change in reality. So unless it is absolutely necessary, it is better not to travel through time.

If you don't turn the door handle, no one knows what's behind the door.

Ivy took a breath and pushed open the door to the Room of Requirement.

The suction from outside the door made him stagger. When he stood up again, he found himself standing in a dark space.

The phoenix on his shoulder and the house elf behind him all disappeared. Ivy's dark vision could not see anything, as if he was in a void.

"Luminescent flashes." Ivy raised his wand and found circles of water ripples under his feet.

This space seemed familiar, just like when Ivy first gained the power of ancient magic.

I remember it was a similar place back then, but the ground was more like some kind of solid crystal, and behind the crystal was a stone sculpture wearing armor.

There was a rumbling sound of footsteps in the darkness.

Ivy scattered the fluorescent balls in the space around him and prepared for battle.

A gust of evil wind blew, and Ivy jumped to the side nimbly.

Looking back, I saw an unexpectedly large stone sword.

Some wizard magics are particularly useful, such as the super-sensory spell that Ivy just silently cast. It can help the user expand the range of senses. Ivy relied on it to detect the long sword attacking from behind.

The fluorescent ball surrounding him moved closer, and it was indeed a statue in armor, just as he had imagined.

The statue seemed to be carved out of marble, and was estimated to be three times as tall as Ivy. Although the sword in its hand was unbladed and could only be considered a stone bar, its power should not be underestimated.

Ivy's eyes flashed, and a huge fireball flew out of his pupils. This was the application of the eye spell. Ivy stored a fireball spell in his eyes in advance.

The rapidly moving fireball illuminated the entire space, and there were several other statues standing on the rippling ground.

As soon as Ivy thought about it, the color of the fireball changed immediately, from a blazing red fire to a deep red with thunder.

This is the effect of the Awakening Grimoire. Ivy changed the damage type of Fireball from fire damage to force damage. Against these rock structures, force damage that can ignore resistance is obviously more suitable.

It was just as Ivy expected.

The crimson ball of light hit the stone statue like a hammer hitting an egg, instantly smashing it into pieces. Afterwards, the explosion of the fireball affected the other statues beside it, some of which lost half of their bodies, some were covered with spider-web-like cracks, and some were completely unable to stand up again, and could only spin on the ground waving their broken arms.

It would be a very troublesome situation for an ordinary wizard to encounter these giant stone statues.

Even for Ivy himself, the only wizard magic that can effectively cause damage to them is "Thunder Explosion" and "Ancient Magic Throwing".

However, now that he had the noble force-field damage fireball spell, a few stone structures were certainly no problem for him.

Therefore, after a while, no new statues appeared in the endless darkness. Ivy raised his wand and was alert, fearing that some tough enemy would jump out of the darkness. He had few spell slots left today. If there was another fierce battle, he could only invest the saved experience points into the profession of the Dazzler to obtain new spell slots.

Fortunately, what Ivy was worried about did not happen. In just a blink of an eye, he returned to the secret room on the map. The phoenix on his shoulder and the house elf behind him were still there. Only the few remaining spell slots told Ivy that the previous battle was not a dream.

(End of this chapter)