Harry Potter: The Atypical Alchemist

"The Karnak Temple was built more than 3900 years ago. There are more than 20 temples, 134 giant stone pillars, a sphinx and a ram statue in the temple..."

Following the tour guide's explanation, Stone and others entered the Karnak Temple.

To be honest, if you don’t do some planning and understanding in advance, given the size of Karnak Temple, you might really get lost in it for the first time.

"This is the multi-column hall. It was originally covered and a dark place, but due to the erosion of wind and rain..."

The multi-column hall, as its name suggests, is made up of one hundred and thirty-four thick pillars. Although it is now open-air, the thick and towering stone pillars squeeze out most of the activity space and block most of the sunlight. Being among them, Stone couldn't help but feel the insignificance of a human being.

Walking out of the stone pillars, you can hear the tourists around you breathing a sigh of relief.

It seems that everyone has the same feeling. Those stone pillars are too tall, as if they were really prepared for the gods. Human beings who stray into them really look like ants.

Then, under the guidance of the tour guide, they passed through the tower doors and finally entered the sacrificial hall.

The sacrificial hall is a dark place, with little sunlight even in broad daylight.

During the free visit, Stone walked around the sacrificial hall, trying to discover something.

"Don't look for it."

I don’t know when, Memphis followed Stone:

"There's nothing. I've looked for it countless times."

"Where's your tracking cat? Didn't find anything?"

"No." Memphis shook his head, "It stopped here and kept meowing, but I didn't find anything."

"...meow?"

"Yeah~" Memphis blinked, "I'll show it to you later in the evening."

"Hey, hey, hey!" Stone quickly glanced at Hermione and Axel who were following behind, "Don't say such ambiguous words!"

"Hey - coward."

"Yes yes yes~"

No one is pinching your waist, so of course you are bolder.

Stone complained silently.

At this time, the sound from the tour guide's loudspeaker saved him.

"Gather, we are going to the Luxor Temple!"

Feeling the pain in his waist lessen, Stone breathed a sigh of relief and asked Memphis:

"Shall we go? Or hide now."

The Luxor Temple and the Karnak Temple are not far apart and are connected by a long open-air corridor.

This was where the tracking cats in Memphis were pointing, and there seemed no need to go to Luxor...but it was still early, just after noon.

Sure enough, Memphis nodded:

"Let's go, it's still early, just treat it as a tourist... Maybe there are clues in Luxor that I haven't noticed?"

"it is good."

Holding Hermione's hand to prevent her from 'attacking' him again, Stone followed the tour guide's pace.

The road connecting the two temples is called Sphinx Avenue. As the tour guide explained, Hermione slowly frowned.

"Sphinx? No, isn't it? I remember which book said that the Sphinx has the body of a sphinx. Although the stone statue here... has a body of a sphinx, it is not a human face, but a lion. Sheep’s head.”

Upon hearing her question, Stone wanted to say that this was a Muggle building, and it was normal to have deviations.

However, before he could express his opinion, Memphis spoke first:

"They are also sphinxes, but they can't be found now and have been declared extinct, so the only sphinx left in the textbooks is the sphinx."

"Oh -" Hermione suddenly realized, with the joy of learning new knowledge in her eyes.

Stone, on the other hand, lowered his head with his eyes wandering.

What a risk, I almost exposed my ignorance.

The Sphinx Avenue was three kilometers long, and halfway through, Hermione had climbed onto Stone's back.

Several people felt a little regretful.

Their plan was to hide and come out to explore Karnak Temple at night, which meant... they would have to turn back later.

Ugh!

Sure enough, don’t think about traveling when you’re working, as it’s easy to get nothing.

Their physical strength was pretty good, and even with Hermione on his back, Stone didn't feel tired at all.

But the other tourists who were traveling with them could not. It took them about an hour to enter the Luxor Temple.

The same giant stone statues, gate towers, and arrays of stone pillars.

Of course, history is different from story, so it’s interesting to learn about it.

After lunch and some free time, a few people separated and investigated carefully.

As a result, they found nothing but the structure of the temple.

Also, Memphis, which has been explored many times with a tracking cat, has found nothing. Those of them who came here for the first time...right?

This visit lasted an afternoon.

The starting point of the guided tour is at the Karnak Temple, but the waiting bus is outside the Luxor Temple.

"We won't go back to Cairo." Memphis found the tour guide, "We want to visit nearby cities."

When signing up for a group tour, Memphis, who is very experienced, did not choose a "package ticket", which means it is a one-time trip, starting in the morning and going back at night, and only visiting temples. This is normal in places with many architectural attractions. choose.

Facing her request, the tour guide frowned slightly:

"cost......"

"No retreat."

"That's no problem."

The frown was smoothed away, and the tour guide left without looking back.

"...It's so realistic." Ron, who is very sensitive about money, complained.

"But it's convenient," Nyx concluded.

Then, they returned to Karnak Temple along the Sphinx Avenue.

The sun's rays slowly turned golden, and there were fewer and fewer tourists around. It was time to hide.

We are all wizards, so there is no problem playing hide and seek with Muggles.

After they separated two by two and lowered their attention, when no Muggles were watching, the six of them took out their wands.

"Illusion."

"Illusion."

Stone and Hermione hid behind a stone pillar, blending in with the surrounding environment.

Memphis and Axel behind the stone pillar on the opposite side also slowly disappeared.

At this time, you can see Ron behind the stone pillar showing an embarrassed look.

"I do not know."

"..." Nyx rolled his eyes and waved his wand, "Drop the enemy trap."

A barrier formed around them.

Time passed by, and when the horizon swallowed up the last ray of sunlight, the guards of the temple also completed their last round of inspection.

After waiting for another half hour, when the bright silver moon rose into the sky, several people took off their disguises.