Online Games: Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 2 Hogwarts
"Miss in front, please wait a moment!" The female player of this race, who was obviously a ghost, said in a rather lively tone.

"Huh? She's calling me?"

Rossi looked around for a while, and after making sure that there were no other women around, she turned her gaze to the female ghost whose feet were floating above the ground and was quickly approaching her.

The curly eyelashes fluttered slightly, and Rossi asked the other party with some doubts: "What's the matter?"

Seeing Rossi stop, the ghostly female player in a delicate dress with a light blue cloth bag next to the wand bag on the left waist also slowed down her pace.

She asked in a clear voice: "Hello, little sister, my name is Irene, and I am a therapist. Are you an agent by profession?"

Irene's sweet appearance and clean voice immediately attracted Rossi a little bit of affection, so she nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, but I'm just a trainee agent now, what do you want me to do?"

"A trainee agent?" Irene couldn't help showing a bit of disappointment when she heard the answer, "Miss, wait a moment."

After all, Irene turned her head to look at her companion behind her.

Because the distance between them was not too far, her companion also heard the conversation between her and Rossi.

Almost at the same time as Irene turned her head, the explorer had already stepped forward and said without any expectations:
"Then your footprints show that you have learned the third level of this skill?"

In this game, in addition to the magic learned through the spell skill points, there are also identity skills designed for different identity occupations that need to be learned by using identity skill points, and "footprint appearance" is the unique identity skill of the agent identity one.

Rossi looked at the other party in surprise, and while speculating on the purpose of the other party asking this question, he asked with a little hesitation:

"Is there a problem?"

At this time, I heard the hunter player say impatiently:
"When the skill level is up, we will take you to the dungeon. If you don't learn it, forget it. There is no hesitation!"

"Old Ke!" The explorer glared at the hunter Lao Ke, then turned his head and explained to Rossi, "Miss sister, don't be surprised, we found a small copy, and now we only need an explorer who has learned the third level or above from footprints to show up." The driver can drive smoothly, I wonder if Miss Sister is interested in making a copy with us?"

After a pause, the explorer, who was worried about Rossi's thoughts, continued to explain:
"Don't worry, our output is enough, and we don't need you to resist damage, so it doesn't matter much if your level is low. It's also because the agents of our fixed team are not online today, so I asked if you can temporarily form a team ?”

After listening to his words, Rossi already knew that the explorer had used the professional skill of advanced detection to find out his level information.

Glancing at Hogwarts, which was close at hand, Rossi shook his head, and refused calmly:

"Sorry, I don't have time to download the dungeon now, and my footprints show that this skill has only learned one level."

"Oh, wasting time." Hearing this, the hunter named Lao Ke muttered impatiently, then turned around and summoned the owl messenger from the messenger space, and let it fly out.

Hearing Lao Ke complaining, the explorer gave him a helpless look, and did not look at the owl that flew away and disappeared in that instant. He turned to Rossi and asked:
"Miss, is there something wrong with going to Hogwarts? Could it be that you have received a mission about Hogwarts? Do I need to share a map with you?"

As we all know, although Hogwarts has a good reputation in the game "Harry Potter: The Age of Magic", since the game was launched, no player has ever heard of a Hogwarts mission.

For this reason, most players in the game generally believe that Hogwarts is either just an existence as a background board of the game, or that its quests or plots have not been updated and opened.

"No, I'm just going there to try my luck. After all, Hogwarts is also a famous landmark in this world. I think there should be some tasks." Rossi politely refused the other party's sharing.

Although it was rejected, the explorer did not show any displeasure, he just laughed dryly a few times, and then enthusiastically explained:
"Actually, apart from a few NPCs with repeated dialogues, there is nothing worth exploring in this map. Miss Sister, if you have spare time, it's not as useful as the book and leveling."

"The fun of playing games is not limited to leveling in dungeons. And it's all here, and I always have to go in and look for it." Rossi pursed her lips, with expectations that only she herself could understand and dazed.

"Miss Sister is right, in fact, sometimes it is nice to look at the scenery and relax!" Irene on the side smiled and echoed, "I also wandered around Hogwarts for several days before!"

Hearing what his companion said, the explorer smiled and said:

"Yes, everyone will feel that they are special. When I first discovered this place, I didn't waste time here."

Seeing that the two successfully diverted the topic, Rossi smiled lightly and shook his head. After exchanging pleasantries with the two, he said goodbye, then turned and continued to walk up.

Following a wide tunnel paved with gravel, she soon arrived at a vast platform with an area of ​​almost ten thousand square meters in front of the castle.

At this time, the wind and snow had stopped, and flocks of chickadees gathered around the platform for food, adding a little vitality to the cold and icy world.

Rossi didn't linger on this vast platform, and slowly walked up the last stone steps. After a while, he came to a huge oak gate.

Here is the gate of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

From the description about Hogwarts in the game forum, Rossi clearly grasped the method of opening this door.

She clenched her fist with her right hand and knocked heavily on the circular pattern of the oak door seven times in a row.

As she stopped knocking on the door, there was a creaking sound, and the next second, the heavy oak door opened by itself in an instant.

At this time, Rosie, who was standing outside the gate of Hogwarts, couldn't help feeling a little nervous. She wasn't sure if she could find the answer she wanted here.

A little hesitant, she closed her eyes slightly, raised her nose and took a deep breath, following the cool air inhaled into her lungs, the cold feeling instantly dispelled the hesitation in her heart.

After sweeping away the flying thoughts, Rosie stepped into the courtyard.

I saw an old man with white hair and black wizard robe standing quietly behind the door.Seeing Rossi walking in, he said without raising his eyelids: "Welcome to Hogwarts, I am the administrator Pringle."

"Hi, old Mr. Pringle, I'm Rosie..."

"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am Pringle, the administrator."

"Uh... hello?"

"Welcome to Hogwarts, I am Pringle, the administrator."

After getting a few repeated welcome replies, Rossi finally gave up the idea of ​​talking to the other party: "Well, the NPC in this place is indeed the same as the one mentioned in the forum."

She sighed, glanced at the name that appeared above the NPC's head after talking with herself, and then walked past him quickly.

After passing through the wide hall, Rosie finally entered the interior of Hogwarts Castle.

After lightly stepping on the luxurious marble stairs and entering the corridor on the first floor, she was the first to arrive at a wooden door with exquisite carvings, which was the entrance to the Hogwarts auditorium.

Slowly pushing open the door of the auditorium, and just glanced inside, Rossi stood there in a daze.

It wasn't because of the exact same layout in the auditorium as she had seen in the "Harry Potter" movie before traveling, but because of a middle-aged professor who was sitting right in front of the auditorium at the guest chair.

"Albus Dumbledore." Rosie couldn't help whispering. Although he looked much younger, the professor looked like the one in the "Harry Potter" movie. Dumbledore, the greatest wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts.

"The appearance of the two virtual characters can be exactly the same. How could it be a coincidence? If this game is made by a fellow from the earth, why can't there be any trace of him in reality? But if there are no other traversers, So what's going on with this game?!"

Rossi said to himself in some confusion: "No matter what, I must find the connection and the truth inside!"

As if hearing her whisper, the NPC with the name Albus Dumbledore floating above his head when she called out his name looked up at Rosie.

Different from other NPCs, his azure eyes are wise and energetic, and there is even a silver light shining in them.The moment the two looked at each other, Dumbledore suddenly smiled, and slowly said: "The truth, this is a beautiful and terrifying thing, and it needs to be treated with extreme caution! Only by improving yourself can you touch the truth." Time is not devoured by the truth..."

Ok?
Hearing Dumbledore's words, Rosie couldn't help being a little surprised. She remembered clearly that in the game forum's sharing post about Hogwarts, there was no mention of Dumbledore's lines like this.

So she asked excitedly:
"Professor Dumbledore? Do you know anything?" She didn't notice that the light in Dumbledore's eyes faded instantly after he finished speaking.

For Rossi's questioning, the NPC named Dumbledore did not respond, but said solemnly:
"What kind of person you want to be can determine your future more than what kind of qualities you have. I am Dumbledore, an ordinary professor at Hogwarts."

This is a line of dialogue that has been made public in the forum.

"Professor Dumbledore?"

"Albus Dumbledore?"

"Please answer me!"

……

Rosie walked up to Dumbledore eagerly and asked.

However, Dumbledore just repeated his self-introduction several times, and then stopped talking.

"'Truth, this is a beautiful and terrifying thing that needs to be treated with extreme caution! Only by improving yourself can you not be swallowed by the truth when you touch the truth.' What does this sentence mean? I unlocked a new dialogue ? Or is he prompting me to upgrade the game level first? 'Don't be swallowed by the truth'? What exactly is the truth he refers to?"

Rossi pondered inexplicably, and after a long while, he came back from his thoughts.

"Maybe, maybe there's another message hidden in Hogwarts."

Thinking of this, her eyes swept across the four long tables in the auditorium, and saw that there were no other items on the long tables except for the silver utensils filled with them.

Glancing at Dumbledore again, Rosie sighed and saw that Dumbledore still had the mechanized appearance before, and hurried out of the auditorium.

Although she didn't know what she wanted to find and what she could find, she still couldn't suppress the strong impulse in her heart and explored every corner of Hogwarts inch by inch.

From the ground floor to the tower on the top floor, from indoors to outdoors, from the library to the Forbidden Forest, Rosie spent the whole afternoon checking almost all places in Hogwarts.

However, apart from getting to know a group of professors and staff at Hogwarts; hearing countless repeated dialogues; and seeing moving stairs that connect different floors according to certain rules and under certain circumstances, she has gained nothing.

As the night gradually deepened, Rossi sat on the battlement wall at the top of the tower, feeling the snowflakes drifting between the sky and the earth again with the raging cold wind in winter, and sighed helplessly.

"It seems that there is really nothing to be found in Hogwarts."

"Maybe it was just a hidden mechanism triggered on Dumbledore before. If you want to know what he said, it seems that you can only improve yourself first."

Thinking of this, Rossi made a point, and took out a can of high-grade Floo powder from his backpack, preparing to teleport it to the fireplace in Godric's Hollow.

Different from ordinary Floo powder, advanced Floo powder can be connected to the Floo network for teleportation anytime and anywhere in the non-combat state, unlike Floo powder, which needs to be teleported at the fireplace.

Just as Rossi grabbed a handful of powder and was about to sprinkle it, she saw an NPC wrapped in a black robe suddenly push open the door of the tower, and walked to the battlement wall not far away under her surprised gaze.

"Who is this NPC?" Rossi looked at the mysterious man wrapped in a black robe, and muttered inwardly, "It has never been mentioned in the forum that there is such an NPC in Hogwarts, could it be that I triggered it?" What's the plot..."

"Dumbledore, I... will definitely make you pay for your choice today!" the man in black growled hoarsely.

Although the man in black was vague when he said his name, what he said made Rossi suddenly have a guess.

Slowly approaching the other party, Rossi carefully initiated a dialogue with this NPC:

"who are you?"

The man in black growled mechanically again and repeated: "Dumbledore, I... Reed... will definitely make you pay for your choice today!"

As the man in black's voice fell, the name "Mr. Reed" appeared above his head.

Although the name of this NPC shows Mr. Reed, Rossi, who vaguely saw his appearance, didn't think it was his real name.

"Did the system give an incorrect name because the name in the dialogue was ambiguous?" Rossi thought to himself, "Unexpectedly, this game has such a hidden mechanism."

"Looking at his appearance, if my memory is correct, he should be Voldemort in his youth!"

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