Harry Potter, the savior of Night City

"The basilisk's power is about to return to its peak."

Riddle controlled Serena as she walked towards the girls' restroom on the second floor. The basilisk's growing strength and the power granted by the god he worshipped made him increasingly arrogant. He now believed that no one in Hogwarts could rival him except Dumbledore. Previously, he had been cautious, looking back every few steps when entering the Chamber of Secrets, but now he swaggered towards it without a care in the world.

"Hiss, could this be a trap?" Harry followed behind him. Riddle was unusually easy to track today. He didn't beat around the bush or try to find his way back; he just walked straight in one direction.

Harry pulled his invisibility cloak tighter around himself, making sure Riddle wouldn't notice, and slowed his pace to follow behind him.

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"The girls' restroom?"

Harry watched Riddle walk into the bathroom and immediately followed. Before he could even peek in, he heard a strange hissing sound coming from Riddle's mouth. He could understand the sound, but he couldn't say it no matter what he tried. Even with his prosthetic vocal cords, he couldn't make that sound. It was as if a piece of his soul was missing.

He slowly peeked into the washroom. There was no one inside, only a row of sinks standing quietly. As for Serena, she was long gone.

"What's going on?"

Harry cautiously entered the bathroom, worried that Riddle might be lying in wait. Although he was confident that Riddle hadn't seen him, who knew if that cunning old fox might turn around and try to catch him?

He conjured a magic wand in his hand and used magic to probe everything in the bathroom. Kijiro was also probing the magic circuits, but none of his worries came true; all the magic he probed disappeared without a trace.

"Looks like I was overthinking it."

Harry slowly straightened up. The secret chamber was right here, without a doubt. The challenge now was how to find it. Since it was the room of one of the founders of Hogwarts, the security measures must have been extremely sophisticated. Riddle must have mastered some special technique to get in.

As he thought this, the tip of his wand emitted a red light, and he slowly reached forward, carefully exploring the entire bathroom.

Meanwhile, in the secret chamber, Riddle was practically ecstatic as he looked at the 40-meter-long giant snake before him. This guy's strength was no longer something the professors could contend with. Now, only Dumbledore posed a slight threat; the others were nothing to fear.

"My basilisk, lower your head."

He hissed again, and the basilisk obediently lowered its body, its irregular eyes closing one by one, several spikes slowly retracting, and several tentacles intertwining to form a saddle-like structure. Riddle stepped on the basilisk's head, sat on the tentacle saddle, and then slapped the basilisk's back.

"Go, hunt your final target."

The basilisk roared to the sky, emitting a sound that was neither snake nor serpentine, and its huge body twisted rapidly, charging forward at full speed like a high-speed train.

In the bathroom, Harry was still using magical fluctuations to search for traces of the Chamber of Secrets when he felt the floor beneath his feet shaking violently, like an earthquake. Then, the washbasins arranged in a circle shattered instantly, sending ceramic shards flying everywhere.

"There!"

Harry suddenly realized how close the Chamber of Secrets was to him, but he didn't have time to think about it anymore. He activated Sianwistan, which, after being upgraded by an unknown entity, could slow down the flow of time in his eyes by 95%. He finally saw clearly what had smashed the sink.

"A snake?" Harry looked at the thing that was slowly emerging from the ground under Swannstein's influence. It had a mouth like flower petals, its body covered with bone spurs, closed eyes irregularly arranged on its body, and tentacles dripping with mucus, all chaotically distributed on this snake-like creature. Its huge body also emitted a stench, a stench that seeped into the soul.

Harry used S. Ahn'Qiraj to keep his distance from the giant snake, but kept his eyes fixed on its body, hoping to get some useful information. Unfortunately, what information could he get from a monster? Helpless, Harry could only use the Crossroads to record the appearance of the giant snake and give it to Dumbledore to study later.

"what!"

Harry suddenly screamed and fell to the ground. Swannstein was instantly deactivated, and the giant snake rushed out of the door in the blink of an eye and disappeared without even noticing Harry, who was wrapped in the invisibility cloak.

"Damn it, how can it be like this!" Harry covered his right eye, sparks flying from the cryptic pupil. The originally set green pupil had lost its luster and turned into a damaged black.

Harry hadn't expected that the basilisk couldn't be photographed. He only managed to snap a picture of one of the basilisk's eyes, which wasn't fully open, and his right eye was instantly ruined. Not only did he fail to get a photo, but he also lost an eye.

"Where is it going?"

Harry pulled out a suppressant from his pocket and injected it into his temple. The cool sensation brought a refreshing feeling to his brain, and the burning sensation in his prosthetic eye, which was sparking, subsided.

"Restored to its original state."

Harry pointed his wand at his damaged prosthetic eye and used a repair charm. Although repair charms are not supposed to be used on the human body, a prosthetic body shouldn't be considered part of the human body.

Just as Harry had expected, the burned prosthetic eye slowly recovered, but once it could see again, it could no longer be repaired, as if something was blocking it from being fully restored.

"Either the monster has magic on its body, or the healing spell can't repair anything too complicated."

Harry shook his head, activated Sionwiss, and sprinted toward the headmaster's office. Running around the school looking for food with such a large creature was no joke.

He climbed up the tower again with the mantis knife, and without caring whether the window was open or not, he kicked Dumbledore's window open and rolled in from the outside, startling Dumbledore who had just returned.

"Harry, what's wrong...?"

"Voldemort rode out of the Chamber of Secrets on a giant snake and is now running rampant in your school." Harry threw out a bombshell, leaving Dumbledore, who had just vented his emotions and was feeling quite refreshed, completely stunned.

"What!?"

Dumbledore's composed expression crumbled. He had never imagined Voldemort would dare to wreak havoc in the school. Harry's description described it as a basilisk, but Voldemort wouldn't be so foolish as to think he could challenge the school just because of a basilisk, unless...

Dumbledore considered a very bad possibility.

Without a word, he turned and walked to his desk, where a strange magical rune was engraved. He placed his hand on it, and magical circuits filled the entire rune. Then, the entire Hogwarts sounded an alarm. This thing was made by Nick, and it worked on the same principle as Muggle alarms, the only difference being that it was magically powered.

All the school gates were sealed off, and alarms sounded from every corner of Hogwarts Castle. Students in their third year and below were gradually evacuated, while students in their fourth year and above, along with the professors, formed a defensive line. Although they did not know who the enemy was, their numerous combat training exercises had taught them never to underestimate any foe.

Meanwhile, Riddle also heard the alarm, but he paid no attention and continued to rely on the basilisk's sense of smell to find food in the school.

"An alarm? This will show you that even if you know there's an attack, there's nothing you can do."