harry potter book of crimes

"...cough cough cough...cough..."

As the eye-shaped carvings on the back of the stone chair suddenly flashed with ice-blue brilliance for a moment, several sudden coughs sounded from the front of the stone chair, breaking the silence of this huge palace.

Although this sudden sound was slight, it was real, and it immediately frightened Xiao Ensi and caused him to tremble all over.

"Who...who? Who's there?"

During a period of panic, he couldn't help but ask a question in a slightly trembling voice. While pursuing the answer to the question, perhaps it was more of a subconscious behavior to embolden himself.

However, the other party did not respond to his trembling question, but instead continued to cough several times.

The coughing sound accompanied by wheezing sounded a bit old and somewhat weak, as if it was some kind of moan before death, which made people's scalp numb.

Although the voice clearly came from in front of the stone seat, and even judging from the distance, it was very likely that he was sitting on the stone seat. But Enns could only force himself to hold his breath and concentrate, not even daring to move, for fear of the other party.

Found myself.

But just as he stood there and hesitated secretly for a moment, the voice suddenly stopped coughing.

"Since you inspired this mark I left, it means that my blood is flowing in your body. My child, maybe you don't have the patience to listen to the old man's words, but for the sake of the bond of blood between you and me,

Please listen to me tell this story slowly..."

The vicissitudes of the voice spoke slowly in front of him, using a language that Xiao Ens had never heard before. But even though he couldn't understand a word, the continuous words still echoed leisurely in his ears.

Then, the meaning between the sentences was poured into his mind without any hesitation.

To be honest, this feeling is quite weird. But the content of the story told by the voice has a special charm, which makes Xiao Ensi quickly ignore the awkward feeling and listen carefully...

This story begins with a young man's journey.

One day, after the young man had passed the coming-of-age ceremony with many tribesmen in the tribe, he followed the tribe's rules and embarked on a long journey alone.

According to the birth status of each tribe, their respective journeys to adulthood are different in distance. The more children bear the honor of their fathers, the longer and more dangerous their journey to adulthood is. This is their natural right.

significant obligations and responsibilities.

And this young man's goal was set by his father, the clan leader, in the deep cold land of the far north where he had to cross a large ocean.

The young man has many brothers and sisters, and not only one of the brothers who traveled far away as an adult before him has yet to return, the eldest one has left the tribe for nearly ten years. It can be seen that this clan rule represents more than just

It is the ultimate glory after returning, but also the ultimate danger of dying in a foreign country.

Fortunately, this young man has had high hopes since he was sensible. He is a descendant of the tribe with amazing talents. With his extraordinary wisdom and amazing talent, he mastered the lightning rule talisman that only the ancestors of the tribe could know a few years ago.

arts.

In the eyes of the tribesmen, he is the future and hope of the entire tribe, and he is also the only candidate to inherit the position of patriarch.

However, this young man has never wanted to gain any prestige. What he yearns for is to fight all the lives in this world, to explore all the mysteries of this world, to break through the boundaries between life and death like his ancestors, to give up

The body embarks on another brand new journey.

"In that case, let's start from the deep cold place in the far north!"

In fact, the power he possessed as a young man was indeed rare in the world at that time. Before crossing the ocean, he encountered many strange creatures and many humans like himself. However, whenever he needed to fight, he would fight.

Never lost once.

But when he finally flew across the endless ocean and arrived at a huge island, he finally found a group of terrifying opponents-frost giants.

In that glacier land covered with snowstorms all year round, he fought a protracted battle with those huge giants. The energy of those giants seemed to be endless, and their warlike and bloodthirsty characters seemed more like they were born for killing.

Even if one of the warriors was no match for the young man, they attacked in groups without scruples, which made even this talented young man tired of dealing with them.

Finally, he couldn't bear the dual mental and physical exhaustion and chose to retreat.

The young man who evacuated the land flew across the ocean and landed on a small island to rest and treat the injuries all over his body. It took a long time after that for him to fully recover.

The young man who had returned to his peak condition did not immediately go back to challenge the giants, because his wisdom told him that even if he went again, the result would probably be the same. Therefore, he devoted himself to practicing magic on that island for several years.

Then he set off again.

This time the battle was more intense and lasted longer than the first one. Having further mastered the power of the rules, he fought and advanced all the way, gradually breaking into a huge building located in the heart of the giant tribe.

In the cave.

Blocked by a large number of giants in the cave, his progress could not help but slow down a lot. But the power of the rules was astonishing. Ordinary giants had no hope of defeating him until he stepped into the deepest part of the cave.

He finally stopped at the palace he was in.

This was not because he wanted to stop there, but because two big men who were nearly twice the size of the other giants firmly blocked him.

Even the terrifying destructive power of the regular light beam condensed with lightning rules could only cause the two giants to suffer minor injuries and paralyze them for a short time. But he only had one person, but the opponent had two.

!

When, after a tense battle, he discovered that there was an even larger giant king sitting on the throne deep in the palace, the young man finally felt like retreating again.

But at this moment, the king among giants spoke.

"Human, you have great strength and equally excellent fighting instincts. If you are willing to surrender to me, I will grant you the identity of the new king... and the qualification to challenge my giant king, Bulli."

The giant king's words were rumbling, and in the young man's ears it was like the roar of a mountain falling apart. Even the ground shook as he spoke. What shocked the young man even more was that there seemed to be something hidden in the giant.

This magical power of rules is more mysterious than his lightning rules, and he can't even understand even one of them.

At this moment, the young man suddenly understood that this king of giants was a completely different existence from everything he saw along the way, including himself. And his so-called ambition of "exploring all the mysteries of the world" was basically

It's just arrogance born of ignorance.

But this realization, which was close to despair, did not stop him, who was born with the desire to explore.

"I know that I am definitely no match for you now." He said, "But if I defeat you one day, then everything you have will belong to me!"

Not surprisingly, even though the Giant King agreed to the young man's request, the Giant Palace, which originally had only three thrones, also added a small and brand-new throne on this day.

Since that day, the young people's fighting has not stopped. The giant family's desire for battle is unparalleled in the world. Neither life nor death will hinder the giants from fighting. Except for the eternal king of giants, Bulli, this giant

Battles are taking place on the island all the time, and blood and death dye the ice and snow red over and over again.

More than ten years have passed, and the young man is approaching middle age. The two giant giants who once joined forces to fight him are no longer his opponents, but the battle between him and the giant king has never happened even once. Because

The more obvious his strength increases, the more he realizes that the gap between the two is like a chasm, which is not something he can easily cross at the moment.

He originally thought that his whole life would be spent in this giant country full of battles and blood.

But one day, a human being with symbols engraved on his skin landed in this deep and cold land in the far north just like he did back then, and did something very similar to what he did back then - fight.

It's just that the opposite of him is that that man's fighting style is extremely brutal and rough. Rather than being a human being, he is more like an extremely reduced version of a giant warrior.

After three years and dozens of attempts, this man finally broke through the melee with the giant clan through pure hand-to-hand combat and penetrated deep into the palace where he was. And predictably, this man was also beaten by that man.

Two giant giants blocked their progress.

The same action, the same development, and the almost unchanged words of the Giant King left the man here. The only difference is probably the order of the challenge - before the battle with the Giant King Bulli, the man

It is not only the two giants who need to be challenged, but also the human being of the same race who is now nearly middle-aged.

However, as things are said to be impermanent, these two geniuses among human beings did not wait until the opportunity to challenge Giant King Bulli came. As the two of them got older, their strength was about to reach the level of Giant King Bulli.

At that time, a massacre that was unbelievable to the two people just happened!

Not to mention that all the giants were killed and injured, the giant king Bulli, who they had always thought was unreachable throughout their lives, also died amidst the roar, and the root cause of all this was just one man and one sword of unknown origin.

When the two of them were seriously injured and collapsed on the ground, the killer with red eyes suddenly lost the blood in his eyes and looked calmly towards the two of them.

"None of this has anything to do with you. I came here just to avenge the giants." The man said slowly, "It's only strange that you attacked me first."