Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil

Chapter 110: No way… you're serious!

“Turn off the voice chat? Why would I turn off the voice chat! If I turned it off, how would you know I'm cursing you? Secretly cursing someone without them hearing it is pointless…,”

Tom whispered his dissatisfaction and jealousy.

Some people are born in Rome, yet they don't appreciate it!

Tom felt that his and Leved's current situation was like participating in a race together.

Leved's starting line was already closer to the finish line than his.

But this guy insisted on running back to his side, saying it's only fair to start together…

Tom originally believed that Leved was just a little faster than him.

Now that they were on the same starting line, he wasn't without a chance to catch up…

However… when the race officially started, Tom realized… everyone else was running on foot, but this guy was riding a horse!

Fair? What is fair? Tell me, what the hell is fair!?

Fair is you riding a horse, complaining that I'm walking too slow, and then mocking me for needing to practice more if I'm bad!

“Tom… you've been getting a little cocky lately. You don't even try to hide it when you curse me?” Leved looked at Tom in surprise.

Before, Tom would only badmouth him behind his back, but now… he couldn't even be bothered to pretend, and started cursing him to his face!

“Then go ahead and kill me?” Tom replied expressionlessly.

Leved didn't know that his casual remark had made Tom's resentment heavier than a ghost who died unjustly a dozen years ago…

“Killing you is a bit much, a few beatings will do.”

“Then beat me to death!” Tom retorted, glaring angrily.

“Alright… Tom, since you insist so strongly, what reason do I have to refuse… Do you have any last words?”

“Hiss… No way! You're serious? I… I admit I was a little loud just now…”

When his life was at stake, Tom instantly sobered up.

Someone else's ability, no matter how envious he was, belonged to them, but his own life… that truly belonged to him!

Just then, Annie finally stopped.

“It seems to be ahead,” she said, looking at the map in her hand.

About fifty meters ahead of the three of them was a ruin.

“This is the first time I've learned that people once lived in the Forbidden Forest,” Tom frowned, examining the distant ruins.

“Hogwarts has been around for thousands of years. It's normal to have some abandoned buildings around. Times change, and former towns become forests…” Leved said casually.

Annie suddenly said, “But… there's only one building's ruin. Not a town or anything. If… I mean, if these locations you deduced are all ruins like this… do you think there might be some connection?”

Leved pondered, “Hmm, that's a good question. There's definitely something fishy about this. If these magical powers are all hidden in these ruins… perhaps the buildings themselves are related to these powers.”

“I wonder… were these buildings originally for people to live in, or did they have other uses…”

Speaking of which, Leved seemed to fall into thought.

Leved was outwardly talking about Morgana's magical power, but inwardly thinking about ancient magic.

He hadn't thought about it carefully before.

Now, as he recalled, he realized that the locations of those ancient magic hotspots were all in ruins!

Annie looked at the ruin and pretended to go forward to explore.

She had actually seen this place many times, and there was nothing there, but she couldn't do nothing.

After all, she should be "visiting" here for the "first time"!

Leved approached the ruin and carefully examined it, seemingly trying to find some iconic architectural features in the ruins.

So that he could find out who built these buildings in the future… and why ancient magic hotspots were formed.

In this way, maybe he could truly understand the source of these ancient magic and what other places, besides the surroundings of Hogwarts, might have these ancient magic hotspots!

Annie also frowned, “These ruins seem to be at least several hundred years old, which means that when Professor Morgana was alive, these places were already ruins. But why did she hide these magical powers in these ruins? It's too conspicuous! Couldn't she have hidden them anywhere else…”

“Maybe it's related to the formation or storage of this magical power…” Tom guessed. “Otherwise, I really can't think of any other reason to put something so precious in such an unprotected, broken place.”

Leved didn't speak, but focused on examining these ruins that he had always ignored.

After a while, he finally saw some clues.

These buildings have traces of ancient magic… just like his lighter.

Now, Leved had a bold guess.

That is, these buildings were originally built with ancient magic!

Therefore, after these buildings decayed, the ancient magic that originally maintained the buildings overflowed and re-condensed, thereby forming ancient magic hotspots…

Even these buildings have been weathered, but the ancient magic contained within them has not dissipated!

This shows the power of ancient magic...

It is also why Leivide can absorb these ancient magic powers so smoothly without being rejected!

The ancient magic power used by the predecessors to build houses now seems to have become a battery for Leivide to charge…

Of course, to prove whether this idea is correct is very simple, just a simple controlled experiment will do.

Ancient magic to build houses… Could it be that in the past, ancient magic was something very common?

Soon, Leivide shook his head, denying this arbitrary idea in his heart.

Just because someone used ancient magic to build a house does not prove that this power was common in the past.

If it really was common, it wouldn't be that there isn't even a word mentioned in the history of magic.

When Senior Sister awakened ancient magic, she only learned the specific information of ancient magic from the portraits of those professors in the past.

"There's nothing here," Annie said after a cursory inspection.

This place is no different from when she came to investigate before.

So, she doesn't need to investigate much, she knows there is nothing here.

"Let's look more carefully," Leivide said.

No one is wrong, one is the first, one is inside, one is content, one is in one look!

Saying that, he looked at Tom.

Tom nodded, then began to take out his wand and use the Revealing Charm to check every inch of the ruins.

Annie watched from the side, shaking her head in her heart.

She has checked the broken walls and ruins of this place many times, and found nothing.

Not only that, after she handed in her notebook, Grindelwald also let other W粹 Party members under his command come to check many times.

Among these W粹 Party members, there are many "professionals" who often conduct "ruin explorations".

In addition, everyone is holding the kind of instruments distributed by the goblins.

Logically speaking, if there really is that kind of magical power here, it should be impossible not to detect it.

The kind of magical power that should have existed here.

Either it didn't exist from the beginning, or it was taken away many years ago.

Therefore, the detection methods of Leivide and Tom, even if they are more professional and meticulous, are destined to be in vain.

Just as Annie was pretending to help search, while thinking in her heart about how to persuade Leivide and Tom to change places.

"There's something here," Tom suddenly said.

"Really? Let me take a look," Leivide walked over excitedly.

Annie widened her eyes, wouldn't it?

It has been checked so many times, and they haven't found it, and they just came and found a clue?

Thinking of this, Annie also quickly ran over.

I saw Leivide and Tom, studying something around a stone slab.

Annie looked at the stone slab and breathed a sigh of relief.

"This seems to be just a floor tile, what's so special about it?" Annie looked at the two boys like an idiot.

Although these two guys are very good in all aspects, so good that even Grindelwald asked people to keep an eye on them.

However, when it comes to things like wilderness exploration, compared to myself who has experienced more than ten Forbidden Forest explorations after the start of school, and has rich experience, I can still crush them!

However, Annie's words did not affect Leivide and Tom.

Not only did Leivide and Tom not put down the "floor tile" in their hands, but they also planned to lift it to an open ground together.

"What are you guys doing with this floor tile…" Annie sighed and asked.

"Come and help, please… Don't just stand there," Tom said unhappily.

Tom was also a little depressed, if this guy doesn't get close, how will the next scene be played…

"Okay…" Annie reluctantly pulled out her wand, intending to use the Levitation Charm.

However, Leivide stopped her, "It's useless, I just tried it. Magic has no reaction on this floor tile."

"Huh?" Annie stopped the Levitation Charm, looking at the floor tile with some suspicion.

A floor tile that can be immune to magic?

Hiss… Could it be that they really found something?

Annie and Leivide moved the stone slab to the ground next to them with some unease.

"What's so special about this floor tile?" Annie asked, digging to the bottom of the matter.

"Because the age of this stone slab does not match the buildings of this ruin. This proves that this stone slab is a latecomer," Tom replied, "And, it is immune to magic! To be honest, this is already the most special thing in this ruin."

Annie now also feels that Tom is saying something reasonable, but… how is that possible?

Perhaps the stone slab is just a bit special, but that kind of magical power cannot exist inside, otherwise, how could the goblins' instruments not detect it?

Just as Annie was thinking this way, Leivide very simply turned a branch on the ground into a hammer, and then slammed it hard on the stone slab!

"Crack!"

"Clang!"

A silver ball fell out of the broken stone slab, making a crisp metallic clanging sound!