Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

Lying on the ground, Les felt that every joint in his body was in pain.

He turned and glanced at the doll lying beside him.

The doll left by Hufflepuff has been completely eroded by Rice's magic power. The reason why the doll can still maintain its human form at this moment is entirely because of Rice's magic power. If Les dissipates all the magic power, it will instantly turn into a ball of mud.

Les was silent for a long time, and then smiled bitterly: This is really similar to the scene a thousand years ago...

At that time, he had a falling out with several old friends, and they also fought violently. However, they were proficient in the field and could not do anything to each other. In the end, they could only throw down their wands and punch their former friends.

But even a thousand years later, Rice still doesn't think he was wrong.

Muggle-born students should be subject to a certain degree of surveillance, isn't it right? He had tried to trust those children from Muggle families, but they had betrayed Hogwarts and betrayed everyone's trust in them.

After that, he still acquiesced in allowing his friends to recruit students from Muggle families, which was already a huge concession. Unfortunately, his concession did not win the forgiveness of his friends, but instead laid the foundation for greater trouble.

But this is all for later.

Les silently mobilized the magic power in the field to heal himself. After the beaten area was no longer so painful, he stood up, lowered his head and looked at the puppet on the ground for a moment, then dissipated his magic power and allowed the puppet to turn into a ball of mud.

A doll is a doll after all, and cannot replace the real person's place in one's heart.

After doing this, Rice walked out of the hall with his head held high - to his surprise, when he walked out of the hall door, what greeted him was not his two disciples, but two stone statues of kobolds.

Outside the ruins, Astoria and Daphne were breathing heavily.

The desperate run just now made them exhausted, but fortunately they escaped without any danger.

The two did not return to the town as Les ordered, but chose to wait silently outside the ruins.

While waiting for Les, the two people had different thoughts.

Daphne was still worried about her necklace, while Astoria recalled the reaction of her sister's necklace when she was attacked. Apparently, a spell was added to my sister's necklace to save her life.

Thinking of this, Astoria couldn't help but look at her bracelet.

Was she thinking that there was such a spell attached to her bracelet? She was not sure, because it was a life! The value of these two alchemy items will be very different depending on whether they have this function or not. Why did I accept such an expensive gift out of thin air? By treating himself, Lesken had already burdened himself with an unrequited debt.

Maybe only my sister’s necklace has this function? She thought this because Les had always seemed more concerned about his sister.

If Les knew what Astoria was thinking, he would definitely make a pot of strong tea, and then ask in a vicissitudes of voice: Isn't it normal for dumber students to take more energy from the teacher?

"It's Les! He's out!" While Astoria was thinking wildly, Daphne stood up suddenly and shouted.

After getting rid of the two kobold stone statues, passing through the long and narrow passage, and returning to the desert again, Les breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced up at the sun and found that it was still high in the sky.

Les felt vaguely that something was not right, but at this time Daphne had already rushed in front of him.

"As expected of you, you defeated that monster in three strokes, five divisions, and two divisions. It's really amazing! So what is that thing?" Daphne kept asking questions like a barrage of questions.

Daphne's praise did not make Les feel refreshed, but instead made the strange feeling in his heart become more intense.

Finally, he realized a problem: the position of the sun did not seem to have changed significantly, but the battle between him and the puppet was a protracted battle for a long time.

"Daphne, how long have you been waiting outside?" Les asked the question he was most concerned about.

Daphne was stunned for a moment, her mouth opened slightly, and she was a little confused: she didn't understand why Les asked such a question, and she didn't pay much attention to it - her mind was not on it just now.

"I...I'm not sure. It shouldn't take long, right?"

Astoria also rushed over. After hearing Les's question, she told him with certainty that the two of them had not waited too long. Les came out after about five or six minutes.

Les narrowed his eyes: This is not right. The time he spent fighting the dolls in the ruins was far longer than five or six minutes.

It felt like he had been fighting for at least an hour, maybe even longer.

"We need to do a few experiments." Rice finally made a decision - he had too many questions in his mind, and at the same time, a similar number of various conjectures emerged, which needed to be verified through experiments.

"Let me ask you a question first. When you walked out of the hall, were the two kobold sculptures restored?"

After receiving a positive answer, Rice felt that his conjecture was one step closer to verification.

"You two stand here and don't move around. Remember to time it." Les motioned for the two of them to stand on the sand dune opposite the ruins. From there, they could just see the entrance to the ruins, but they couldn't see clearly what was inside the passage.

Although Daphne and Astoria had a lot of doubts in their hearts, they still obeyed Les's instructions.

They watched Les walk to the entrance of the ruins and then stood at the edge of the passage for a quarter of an hour.

Daphne, Astoria:? ? ?

Rice's behavior confused them.

A quarter of an hour later, Les returned to the two men.

"How long have I been in the ruins?" Les asked. After learning that he had been standing at the entrance of the ruins for a quarter of an hour, Les didn't say anything and just let the two of them continue to stand on the sand dunes. He timed it, and he himself entered the palace ruins again.

The difference this time was that he walked deep into the passage and neither Daphne nor Astoria could see him. But this time he came out very quickly, as if he had done a switchback run inside.

"Les, what are you doing?" Daphne was confused, and her heart was about to burst with questions.

"Tell me first, how long have I been in the ruins?"

"You walked in and walked out right away!" Daphne complained about Les's weird behavior.

"Interesting, very interesting." The corners of Les's lips curled up: "Would you believe it if I told you that I stayed in the passage for several hours?"

Daphne, Astoria:! ! !

Both of them exclaimed: How is this possible? !

"This is not a simple palace." Rice looked at the ruins not far away and was extremely excited.

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