Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 364 I'll Show You Fireworks

As Voldemort spoke, the statue suddenly trembled and cracked open.

A huge crack began to spread from the center of the statue, and the rock that made up the statue was turned into fine powder by some force. It continued to collapse and split the statue in two in a short time.

Amidst the smoke and dust, something was revealed in the center of the stone statue's chest.

It was a ceramic coffin that looked like a mummy.

Suddenly, thick white fog spread outward from the pottery coffin at an extraordinary speed, as if space had no meaning in front of it, and in an instant it enveloped the entire underground space in fog.

Now there's no need to deliberately close your eyes, because even if you open them, you can't see where the basilisk is.

But then, something different appeared in the sky.

What appeared to be cocoons turned out to be hundreds of students floating in the thick fog. They were all unconscious, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep. Their bodies were tightly wrapped by long snakes and hung in the air, like pupae hanging upside down on tree branches.

No wonder there were so few students at the school; they'd all been brought here.

But why didn't I see these students just now?

"Albus, this seems to be a human sacrifice ritual," Grindelwald said, noticing the students. "Hogwarts actually has such a setup hidden inside?"

"Salazar Slytherin." Dumbledore frowned.

He kind of understood.

Legend has it that Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founding figures of the school, left the school after falling out with the others due to his dissatisfaction with the school's policy of teaching all students regardless of background. He also built a secret chamber to purge non-pure-blood students who were "unworthy of learning" from the school.

Dumbledore never really believed the legend.

Even after his own death, he still cares whether Hogwarts has been tainted by non-pure-bloods?

Slytherins have an excessively strong sense of responsibility.

However, if the so-called "purging of non-pure-bloods" is just a rumor, and Slytherin's real purpose is to use the lives of these students as sacrifices to resurrect themselves through a "human sacrifice" ritual, then it makes more sense.

However, Slytherin has been dead for a thousand years. What means did he leave behind to resurrect himself?

……

"The spirit world..." Murphy looked at the students and realized something. "They were pulled into the spirit world."

"The spirit world and the school have overlapped."

After passing through the Gate of Rebirth in Alkaim, Murphy arrived in the spirit world, and the feeling of seeing different scenes at every step was somewhat similar to his experiences at school.

The spacetime rules there seem to be different from those of the material world, so when they overlap with the real world, strange spacetime distortions occur.

These students were also taken to the spirit world before, and thus disappeared from the material world. Now that the secret room overlaps with the spirit world, they have reappeared.

At this moment, the Basilisk, Voldemort, Lucas, Dumbledore, and others were all isolated in the fog, their whereabouts unknown.

The mental connection with Lucas was also disrupted by the fog, remaining intermittent.

In the thick fog, he could only see the students hanging from the void, and the terracotta coffins somewhere below them.

The hissing sound could still be faintly heard; Voldemort seemed to be chanting some kind of spell.

The ceremony is not yet complete.

Murphy fired several spells at the terracotta coffin, but they were all deflected by the thick fog and disappeared into some unknown place.

But at that moment, a figure silently appeared behind him, followed by a beam of green light, "Avada Kedavra!"

Murphy moved aside, but when he turned around, he saw a figure fleeing into the mist.

Tom, around eighteen years old.

Based on Murphy's understanding of the timing of Voldemort's creation of Horcruxes, Tom should have been resurrected through either the Horcrux Cup or the Horcrux Pendant, as both of these Horcruxes were created around the time Tom was eighteen years old.

At that moment, a noise came from the mental network, followed by Lucas's painful scream.

Lucas, was she attacked?

Murphy was a little worried, so he immediately set up a defensive shield to keep the fog at a distance of ten meters, and then took a step forward.

Suddenly, a huge body blocked Murphy's path, its shield-sized scales covering its black body like a black wall.

Basilisk!

It was swimming, but it didn't notice Murphy.

The dense fog was not kind to it either, almost completely obscuring its sense of smell and sight. Due to its enormous size, it couldn't even see the back half of its own body.

Murphy hesitated for a moment and did not attack the basilisk. The creature had amazing defenses, and Murphy did not have a good way to deal with it for the time being.

He walked a few steps around the basilisk, and suddenly found himself next to Dumbledore. "Professor!"

The latter seemed very pleased to see him. "Murphy, we must unite. Voldemort is using the students' life force to resurrect Slytherin. We must stop him."

Murphy nodded and came to his side. "You're right, Professor, but what about Grindelwald?"

"We got separated just now..." Dumbledore said, when suddenly Murphy took a dark object out of his pocket and held it in his hand. "Murphy, what are you doing?"

"Oh, here's a fireworks display for you." With that, Murphy pulled the trigger of his shotgun.

"boom!"

Dumbledore used his armor charm to block the attack, glaring at Murphy. "How did you find out?"

In Murphy's magical vision, Dumbledore in front of him had the same magical color as the Voldemors before him, and his body was also covered with a layer of spell power.

"Such exquisite transformation ability, to achieve this level of disguise without using compound potions, is astonishing," Murphy said.

However, this transformation cannot replicate the other party's magical attributes, so it has nowhere to hide in his vision.

"Dumbledore" turned to run, but Murphy pounced on him, a fire axe suddenly appearing in his hand, and swung it in a wide arc, chopping down on him.

"Bang!" The axe struck the ground, but Dumbledore vanished, leaving only a pool of blood on the ground. He seemed to have been moved to another location.

Murphy frowned; this spatial disorder was truly troublesome.

He looked up at the pottery coffin in the air. He had moved several times, but the pottery coffin had remained suspended in the air, seemingly stationary.

However, if I want to go there, I don't know where I'll be moved to.

But since the light could be seen, it at least means that there was nothing between his eyes and the terracotta coffin that could block the light.

He thought for a moment, then his body transformed into lightning, and he suddenly rushed out. The next instant, he appeared in another space. The thick fog had disappeared, and he seemed to be standing on a transparent glass plate. Below him was a secret chamber filled with thick fog. He could even see the basilisk swimming in the fog below, but then the scene before him changed again.

This is a hall where a complex network of pipes on the floor outlines a six-pointed star magic circle. The students are fixed in snake-shaped containers on the walls, and magic is flowing into the magic circle through the pipes at the bottom of the containers.

Harry stood in the center of the magic circle. "Welcome to the real Chamber of Secrets, Professor."

(End of this chapter)