Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

After the ruins were exposed, Lester suddenly felt a familiar magic. After careful identification, he determined that these were the traces left by his old friend who loved food.

Helga had definitely been here, left something here, or had a battle with something here.

Seeing Les standing there with his eyes closed and not speaking, Daphne did not dare to disturb him, but stood quietly beside him observing the ruins of the palace.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the ruins of the palace that were just exposed from under the sand dunes, giving it a brilliant golden color. The palace has strong ancient Egyptian architectural features. It is made of cubic stones with a side length of one meter. The stones are painted with something to make them look silvery white. Judging from where the plating has peeled off, the stones should be limestone.

On the outermost side of the palace are four thick and large stone pillars. They support the roof of the palace and are carved into human figures. Giant stone statues up to fifty meters high stand outside the palace in different postures. The sensation of standing at their feet and looking up at them is profound—they are no taller than the toes of the statues.

Daphne couldn't help but think of the Slytherin statue in the Chamber of Secrets, and at the same time began to wonder if there might be a few basilisks hidden in these statues? However, considering how long the ruins had been there, she felt that even if there were basilisks, they would have starved to death.

A natural passageway into the palace is formed between the statues. Looking inside, the scene inside is so dark that it is difficult to see clearly. Daphne didn't dare to act rashly and hurriedly walked over to check.

There are definitely many traps in such ruins, and recklessness and carelessness will only lead to death.

Just when Daphne and Astoria were getting a little bored waiting, Les opened his eyes.

"You can go in."

After confirming that this ruins was really related to Helga, Les was in a great mood and wished he could fly in now. However, before entering the ruins, he still had a few things to tell Daphne and Astoria, two young girls who had no experience in exploring ruins.

"First of all, you must follow me obediently and never do anything unnecessary, even stepping on the floor tiles that I stepped on; secondly, if you observe any abnormal phenomena, you must inform me. Finally, when you are Try not to use magic in there, just hold the wand in your hand and be ready - can you do that?"

He had to explain these things to the two little girls before entering the ruins to prevent them from causing trouble.

Both of them nodded repeatedly, promising to do it. Seeing that both of them had very upright attitudes, Les nodded with satisfaction. He was afraid that because he had not made it clear in advance, the two little girls would not realize the seriousness of exploring the ruins and would treat the ruins as their own secret room.

Although the mechanisms existing in the ruins have most likely been destroyed by Helga who entered before, they are only those hidden mechanisms that are blocking the way. Helga will definitely find a way to avoid triggering them.

"You can also observe the flow of magic power, which will help you find traps and dark rooms in the ruins." Rice reminded the two of them. Although they cannot act rashly, they still have the right to observe carefully.

Otherwise, you can't follow yourself like a blind man, right? What can be learned from that?

After saying this, Les walked towards the palace.

Four stone sculptures form three entrances to the passage, making it difficult to choose. You won't know where this passage leads until you actually walk in.

But for Rice, this is not a multiple-choice question. He walked directly to the rightmost passage and walked in first - behind the passage, Hufflepuff's magic remained the most.

After entering the passage, the giant stone sculptures on both sides completely blocked their view, and the surrounding environment suddenly became bleak. There was an indescribable power emanating from the stone sculptures on both sides, making the surrounding atmosphere subtle. Daphne couldn't help but shiver, Astoria's face turned pale, and they even had the urge to kneel on the ground and crawl forward.

"Don't be nervous," Les's voice sounded in front of the two of them: "It's just a little psychological hint."

Rice's words made the two of them startled. When they looked up at the stone sculptures again, the previous depression in their hearts had disappeared without a trace.

"In ancient palaces, they just like to do these fascinating things. Just get used to it." Les said with a smile. As for why he is resistant to this kind of psychological suggestion, it has to do with the fact that he personally built many palaces of false gods.

Despite their bright appearance, after destroying the defensive magic, they will still turn into ruins if set on fire.

As they went deeper into the passage, the ambient light around them became increasingly dim, and the entrance to the passage turned into a small bright block the size of a palm. Fortunately, the air was still fresh and did not feel polluted.

Les directly conjured several flames to serve as lighting tools. Under the light of the flames, the scenes on both sides of the passage were also revealed. There were a bunch of reliefs on the stone walls. Daphne and Astoria couldn't see why, they just thought the scene above was quite lively.

After observing the flow of magic power for a moment as instructed by Les, Astoria discovered that the stone sculptures on both sides of the passage were ordinary stones and had no mechanisms.

After walking dozens of steps further, she finally discovered something strange.

"Les——"

"There should be a dark room or a hidden passage, and the mechanism above has been cracked." Rice said without looking back.

Nothing good will be left behind after the mechanism has been cracked, not to mention that Les is very clear about the purpose of his trip.

Rice led the two of them quickly deep into the ruins, occasionally stopping to explain to them the characteristics of these defensive mechanisms and how to crack them. For this kind of ancient Egyptian ruins, Rice had cracked some ancient Egyptian ruins, so he also accumulated a lot of experience. Less experience.

Soon, they entered the depths of the palace. Judging from the location, this part of the ruins is already located under the yellow sand.

"Stop." Les stopped and motioned to Daphne and the others to look ahead.

A few dozen meters away, there stood two stone statues of kobolds nearly ten meters high. Behind the stone statue are two doors closed together.

"This is a triggered defensive magic. When we get close to them, if it is detected that we don't have any authorized items like 'access control' on us, they will come alive and attack us." Les introduced very experiencedly.

"Then what should we do? Preemptively destroy those two statues?" Daphne asked.

"Yes, but this is risky - what if the first round of attacks fails to destroy them? There is a smarter way - we can just destroy their sensing devices."

For Les, there is no difference between the two cracking methods, but for the little wizard who does not have enough attack power, the difference is still very big.

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Ah, it's a little late... I'm writing the next update, I'll update it as soon as possible.