Retirement from Hogwarts

"I don't know." Hermione recalled with a slight frown. "Athena seems to have disappeared since entering the treasure house just now. But why didn't I notice it at all?"

"It's really strange. I didn't notice it at all just now." Jack said, rubbing his temples. "This Gryffindor Chamber of Secrets is really weird. Let's make adequate preparations before moving forward. With Bahamut's overprotective attitude towards her, I guess nothing will happen to her here. of."

As Jack spoke, he put on the star robe that he had customized from the alchemist master in the Ravenclaw Mutual Aid Association, and equipped the robe with various defensive magic accessories and spell scrolls.After he finished equipping it, he handed Hermione a set of robes and accessories of the same style and helped her put them on.

"Pfft~ You really look like a nouveau riche now." Hermione couldn't help laughing as she looked at Jack who was wearing gold and silver in front of her. "I didn't see you dressed like this even in the bloody battle between black and white."

"Where is the trial space? No one will die for sure. That's not necessarily the case here. God knows what kind of damn defense devices that brave man from Gryffindor put in this corridor." Jack said At this point I couldn't help but sigh. "You said it's a secret room, but it's not his inheritance. Why does Gryffindor want to do so many tests? Wouldn't it be better to give it a simple test like Ms. Ravenclaw?"

After hearing Jack's words, Hermione's eyes couldn't help but light up: "Maybe there really is Gryffindor's inheritance in it? And Ms. Ravenclaw's test is not simple at all. You can pass it simply because of your ability." The ability to cheat.”

"I don't think it's possible. As a legacy, the test here is too simple. Besides, I didn't cheat. Do you think so, Horus?" Jack knocked on the Book of All Laws hanging on his waist and said.

The Book of All Laws seemed to tremble in protest, which resulted in a more violent beating from Jack.

"Okay, that's it." Jack said after helping Hermione put on the last necklace in her equipment. "Let's go."

"Wait." Hermione called to Jack who was about to walk deeper into the corridor.Help him rearrange the front of his robe.After finishing, Hermione looked at Jack in front of her and nodded with satisfaction.She smiled and said: "Let's go and see what tricks Gryffindor is playing."

"Kala~kala~kala~boom!"

"Cough~cough~cough~cough~Hermione, which number is this?" The smoke and dust that filled the corridor gradually dissipated, revealing Jack who was pressed under the giant crane axe. "Why does Gryffindor still choose such an ancient mechanism when it's already the age of the universe?"

"If it weren't for this ancient mechanism, with the number of magic items on your body, I'm afraid other mechanisms wouldn't be able to cause you any trouble at all." Hermione said with a smile as she looked at Jack who was struggling to climb out while carrying the hanging axe.

"Crap~ bang." Jack climbed out and smacked his lips in disdain, then threw the crane ax he was carrying on the ground next to him.Then he quickly climbed up along the hanging arm of the hanging axe, like a dexterous ape.

"It's such a waste to make this hanging axe out of such good materials. Gryffindor is really rich." Jack smiled and packed the dismantled hanging ax into his king's treasure.

"Who just said that Gryffindor's institutions are old-fashioned?" Hermione looked at Jack who was smiling broadly and couldn't help but curled her lips.

"It seems that the one just now was the last mechanism." Jack said looking at the arch that appeared at the end of the corridor.

"I think we'd better be careful." Hermione said, grabbing Jack who was about to move on. "There are too many scenes in TV series where the mechanism is set up in front of the final gate."

"Don't worry, it won't happen. I believe that a legendary mage like Gryffindor won't be so old-fashioned. Even if there is a mechanism to hold it to death, it will just be another hanging axe, and it will not come out..."

"Ping~squeak~~~"

"Pfft~" Looking at Jack and Hermione wrapped in various twisted spears, she couldn't help laughing. "Just now~~~Who said nothing would happen."

"Cough~cough~" After hearing Hermione's words, Jack couldn't help but blush. "Stop it Hermione, come and help."

After the two of them were busy, Jack finally crawled out of the egg-shaped space where the shield was held up by the spear array.

"This Gryffindor is really... a pain in the ass." Jack gritted his teeth as he looked at the intertwined spear array in front of the arch at the end of the corridor.

"I see it's obvious that you weren't careful enough," Hermione said, pointing to a piece of ground where Jack had stepped with the Gryffindor emblem on it. "I really want to know how you manage to step on it every time."

"Is that so?" Jack said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. "I always thought the mechanism here was triggered by magic. I didn't expect it to be purely mechanical."

. . . . . .

"Squeak~"

Jack and Hermione, who had been wasting a long time cleaning up the remains of the last mechanism, finally pushed open the archway behind the mechanism.

"Here... it seems we have been here before?" Hermione said doubtfully as she looked at the tower that appeared behind the door.

"Should...come here." Jack said, also unsure.

"Welcome back, two brave men."

"Darian! Is your tower the secret room of Gryffindor?" Hermione asked in surprise as she looked at Darien standing on the high platform, holding up his skirt and saluting to herself and Jack.

"That's right, this is actually Gryffindor's secret room." Dallion said with a smile. "But those who have not passed the Gryffindor test have no right to use the facilities in the Chamber of Secrets."

After Dallion finished speaking, he walked down from the high platform and circled around Jack and Hermione to look at them.Then, she walked up to Hermione as if she had made up her mind.

"Sure enough, I still can't recognize the inheritor of Ravenclaw." After Dallion said this, he took out a key from his skirt and handed it to Hermione.

"This is..."

"Say it, the word of the contract. If you are qualified to be the holder of the key, just read it, the word of the contract."

"The word of the contract?" Hermione muttered to herself while holding the key.

"I ask you, are you a human being?" Hermione asked Dallion with dull eyes.

"No. I am the sky, the sky in the pot." A slightly hoarse mature female voice replied.

As the female voice fell, the bookshelves in the entire tower began to move rapidly.The giant lock on Dallion's chest was opened by the key in Hermione's hand at some point, and a dark hole appeared in her chest.With the movement of the bookshelf, countless books on the bookshelf flew into the hollow of Dallion's chest as if they had wings.

The moment all the books disappeared into Dallion's chest, the entire tower space seemed to have been flattened by someone in an instant, and the height dropped crazily.As the height decreases, the space rapidly expands horizontally.Countless mysterious magic instruments began to appear in new rooms as the space expanded.

"This is..." Looking at the magic instruments placed in the space that expanded out of thin air, Jack was so surprised that he could hardly speak.

"This is the real Gryffindor Chamber of Secrets. How do you like it? Not bad, right?" Dallion asked happily, looking at Jack who was shocked and speechless for a long time by the secret chamber in front of him.