Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

"Here, let me test you. How do you think the stone statue opposite detects whether the visitor has permission to enter?" Les originally wanted to destroy the sensing devices of the two kobold statues at once, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to put this question Leave it to Daphne and Astoria to figure it out.

After listening to Rice's question, the two of them immediately focused their magic power on their eyes and observed the flow of magic power in the stone statue.

"Eye!"

"floor!"

The two shouted at the same time, but in different parts.

"How come you can't see the obvious flow of magic power in the eyes?" Daphne asked.

"But there are them on the floor too. If you don't believe me, look at it -" Astoria pointed to the floor between the two kobold stone statues. Sure enough, there was faint magic flowing on it.

"You want to say that, there is magic flowing on the door, but this is the floor and the door, what does it have to do with the statue?"

The two had a dispute.

"Is it possible that the floor, the door, and the kobold's eyes are all part of the sensing device?" Les reminded them.

Ok?

Daphne and Astoria immediately observed it carefully again, and found that, as Les said, the magic power of the eyes of the kobold stone statue, the floor and the stone door were flowing to each other, that is, It is said that these three parts all play a role in detecting permissions: the stone statue checks the area between the floor and the ceiling, the floor detects people who touch the floor, and the gate detects whether the person pushing the door has permission. Three layers of protection, if any problem occurs in one layer, the stone sculpture will be awakened.

"Then we should-?"

"Destroying these three magic formations at the same time can turn the stone statue into a 'blind man'." Rice gave the method of breaking the formation and also raised a second question: "The designer can definitely do it once these three magic formations are destroyed." If the signal is interrupted anywhere in the place, the stone statues will be awakened to attack, but why didn't they do this?"

Les' question made both Daphne and Astoria think.

"Because this place used to be a palace, and people come in and out every day. If there is a malfunction in any of the magic circles, the awakened stone statues will definitely cause a lot of turmoil, right?" Astoria came up with this after thinking for a moment. Answer.

"Nice reasoning!" Les gave her a thumbs up, "Now we can destroy those magic circles."

The three of them drew out their wands and fired three attack spells at the same time, blowing up the eyes, floor tiles and door panels of the kobold statue at the same time.

After destroying the three sensing devices, Les brought Daphne and Astoria to the stone door. Two stone sculptures of kobolds stood quietly on both sides of the gate, showing no intention of moving.

Les had a hunch: Hufflepuff was very close to him, and maybe he could get the answer by opening this door.

He put his hand on the door and pushed it gently, and the door automatically slid inwards.

The space behind the door is very open, with dozens of columns supporting the ceiling. Each column is carved with some reliefs, which may tell the story of the palace owner's great achievements, or they may be ancient Egyptian myths. But the strange thing is that except for these pillars, there is nothing in the hall, just a thick layer of sand.

"It's a dead end." Daphne stood behind Les, looked around the structure of the hall, and found that this was the end of the passage they entered.

Before the palace was abandoned, there might have been countless gold and silver treasures or papyrus books piled here, but now there is nothing here, only sand on the ground.

Perhaps thousands of years ago, people were the first to reach this place.

A little unwillingly, Les squatted on the ground, grabbed a handful of sand, and let it slip from his palm.

The clues that were finally found were broken here - a thousand years ago, Helga came here, fought with the palace guards, and then left, leaving behind a wave of magic power that would haunt her thousands of years later. A meal for an old friend.

"Alas..." Les sighed.

However, he always felt that something seemed not quite right, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was.

Les frowned and thought for a while, and a question flashed in his mind: The aftermath of the battle can still be observed thousands of years later, so why is this hall still so intact, and even the stone carvings on the pillars have not been destroyed?

Thinking of this, he stood up suddenly, startling Daphne and Astoria, but before they could ask questions, a figure appeared in the corner of the hall out of sight of the three of them. It raised its hand and spoke with a A bright light flashed out from in front of it and headed straight for Les.

However, due to positioning issues, Daphne became the target of this spell instead of Les.

The incident happened so suddenly that neither Daphne nor Astoria could react, and the same happened to Les. It took less than half a second from the time the figure appeared to when Daphne was attacked. He just subconsciously released a defensive magic, but the defensive power of this hastily released magic was worrying.

The bright light instantly broke through Les's defensive magic and rushed in front of Daphne. The girl couldn't even open her eyes due to the magic power that was powerful enough to tear her into pieces in an instant. But at this moment, the necklace hanging on Daphne's chest broke, and a thick light curtain appeared in front of her, swallowing the strong light.

The next moment, a ray of the same light reflected back from in front of Daphne, blasting a one-foot-wide hole in the wall of the hall.

The total time from Daphne's surprise to the rebound of the spell was less than one second. Daphne didn't even know why her necklace suddenly broke. Without this necklace, she wouldn't even know when she died.

"Be careful!" Les yelled, turned around quickly, waved his hand at Daphne and Astoria, and pulled them behind him. At the same time, magic power was swayed around as if it was free of charge. Build your own field at the fastest speed.

Astoria was the first to react and quickly cast defensive magic. Daphne also woke up from a dream and subconsciously wanted to activate the magic spell in the necklace, but when she reached out to her chest, she found nothing.

Only then did she realize that her necklace had just exploded into pieces.

"You two, get out first, right away!" Les said seriously, without any room for bargaining in his tone.

Daphne opened her mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Astoria tugging on her sleeve.

The three of them walked slowly toward the door together. Les tensed up his nerves to the extreme, always on guard for the next round of attacks. The figure disappeared when the spell rebounded, but Les would not feel it being rebounded. The spell is gone.

He knew that the thing was hidden in the palace, always ready for another fatal sneak attack on them.

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The second update is here. The next update will be at midnight~