Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 360 The Secret Chamber Has Been Opened

Even though it's right next to Black Lake, it's summer now and the weather is sunny, so how can there be such a thick fog?

"Do you know what's going on with this fog?" Murphy asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the mist of the spirit world," Grindelwald said.

"The mist of the spirit world?" Murphy was taken aback. He had heard Mrs. Yaga mention this term before.

The spirit world, also known as the other side, is believed by the shamans of the Su Kingdom to be the dwelling place of souls, the space where people reside before and after death.

It is said that there is a large lake in the spirit world, and the surface of the lake is covered with the mist of the spirit world.

The Virgin Mary seems to have used this fog during her attack on Al-Kaim. In addition to obscuring vision, it could also block long-distance communication. At that time, his mental network communication became intermittent because of this, and it also seemed to have a sedative effect.

"There's magic in this fog, everyone be careful," Dumbledore warned.

However, the fog alone was not enough to stop them.

Upon reaching the castle, Dumbledore raised his wand, and a halo of light, like the flickering of fireflies, spread out from his body, parting the mist and isolating an area with a radius of more than three meters.

They arrived at the gate, and Dumbledore gently pushed it open. A fog dozens of times denser than outside rushed in, instantly compressing Dumbledore's protective aura to just a small circle around him.

Fortunately, neither Grindelwald nor Murphy and Lucas were ordinary wizards. Grindelwald exhaled, creating a whirlwind that dispersed the thick fog in front of him, while Murphy erected a spherical shield to protect himself and Lucas in the center.

Suddenly, a noisy commotion came from the side, and a large group of students rushed out from both sides. They came from various colleges, but their school uniforms looked very old, and their bodies seemed to be ghosts, somewhere between transparent and opaque.

Murphy reached out and slipped his hand through the arm of a student standing nearby, but to his surprise, the student seemed to sense his touch and hugged his arm, rubbing it gently.

"What's wrong, Sirius?" he heard a voice say.

A tall, thin boy with messy hair looked at the wizard.

"Something just touched my arm." The translucent Sirius looked around, shrugged, and said, "Maybe it's some ghost. Come on, James, you said you found a new passage?"

"If it leads directly to Honeydukes, we won't have to wait until our third year to go to Hogsmeade..."

The young wizards walked away, and Murphy watched their retreating figures until they disappeared into the thick fog, lost in thought.

Was it merely an illusion? Or had I truly traveled through time?

"Professor, what was that just now..." Lucas asked hesitantly.

Murphy had never seen what Sirius and James looked like as children, but they did look somewhat familiar.

"Professor Dumbledore..." Murphy was about to ask Dumbledore's opinion, but when he looked up, he found that the headmaster and Grindelwald were gone.

"Professor Dumbledore?" Murphy called out, but his voice seemed to be blocked by a thick fog and could not be heard at all.

Murphy frowned, then looked around and found that he was no longer in front of the door. He didn't take a step, but somehow he had already arrived in the hall.

"Lucas," Murphy said, extending a hand, "take my hand."

The latter hesitated for a moment between Murphy's sleeve and his hand, and finally grabbed Murphy's cuff.

Murphy didn't seem to care. "Let's keep looking ahead."

"Tom Riddle, Slytherin!" Suddenly a boy sitting in a chair appeared before them.

He stood up with an air of self-importance, gracefully took off his hat and handed it to a professor next to him, then strode quickly into the thick fog.

Murphy stepped forward, about to pick up the hat, when suddenly the scenery in front of him disappeared.

"Lucas, did you see that just now?" Murphy confirmed.

"Yes, I saw myself as a child."

Therefore, these scenes are not being shown to me, and are most likely not mental illusions.

He pulled Lucas a few steps forward and suddenly saw a student squatting on the ground. Unlike the semi-transparent people he had seen before, this student was real.

Murphy stepped forward and helped the student up; it was a Gryffindor girl, and his face vaguely reminded him. "Katie Bell?"

"Ah, don't come any closer, don't come any closer, I'm not real, I'm not here, you didn't see me, don't kill me..." Katie Bell desperately tried to break free from Murphy's grasp, desperately trying to escape.

"Katie!" Murphy shouted. "Look closely, I'm Professor Murphy."

Katie seemed to realize she couldn't break free, and finally looked up at Murphy. "Professor Murphy, I'm not here, you can't see me, you're fake, and I'm fake too. I don't want to die, let me go, sob sob..."

The girl seemed to have been quite frightened, but her words still bothered Murphy. "What happened here, Katie?"

"Graham is dead, I saw it, he became someone else..." Katie said, "The Chamber of Secrets! The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, everyone is going to die, we're all going to die..."

"What?" Murphy was taken aback. "A locked room?"

Lucas was right beside him. Without Tom Riddle's guidance, who could open the secret room?

Murphy frowned, preparing to use Legilimency on Katie Bell, when suddenly two groups of professors' phantoms approached. "Professor McGonagall, Andrew Kirk has been missing for two days, Graham for one day, and now Jack Sparrow has also disappeared... Where is the headmaster? We need to report this; we need help."

"Headmaster Snape..." Professor McGonagall frowned, "I haven't seen him since the fog came down."

"Professor Flitwick, do you know what's going on with this fog?" Professor Sprout asked. "Why can't we find where the main door used to be?"

“There’s strong magic in the fog; the students are all hypnotized,” Professor Flitwick said. “But the fog doesn’t seem to be the same kind of magic that’s preventing us from leaving.”

"Can it be deactivated?"

"I'm researching this. I suspect it's a ritual, a very ancient ritual magic that exists in the castle. We need to find its source."

The professors left, but the content of their conversation left Murphy somewhat puzzled.

This "video" should have taken place not long ago, but judging from the time they mentioned the three missing classmates, the mystery has been shrouded in secrecy for at least three days.

But how could that be? Although he didn't ask the ravens at Hogwarts to report back at any time, he would have noticed if there was no news for three days.

Moreover, Murphy originally thought the mist was a trick of the Holy Mother, since she had used it before when attacking Alkaid, but it should have escaped into Hogwarts this afternoon.

It is highly unlikely that the fog was laid out three days ago.

Isn't what's happening at school the work of the Virgin Mary?

(End of this chapter)