In This Hogwarts Without a Savior

Fine ice shards floated up from the ground, making irregular movements in mid-air, just as the basilisk locked its body and then suddenly rushed out.

Jon's whole body suddenly rolled to the left!

Immediately afterwards, a loud sound of heavy objects hitting each other sounded in the narrow passage. Jon pressed against the cold ice wall. After stabilizing his body, he read out towards the place where the ice chips were evacuated. Spell!

"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"

The invisible sharp blade appeared in the air almost the next second after he cast the spell, and the cold air seemed to have been cut by a huge blade!

Soon, there was a sharp weapon entering the flesh and a roaring sound!

The smelly blood splashed out like trampled mud from a mud pit. A lot of the viscous liquid even splashed on Jon's face, but the unbearable stench did not stop him. The next moment's dodge action.

The basilisk, with a large gash on its soft belly, twisted its body crazily, and its steel-like tail left clear traces on the surrounding ice.

The floating ice shards gave Jon a sense of the surrounding things more directly than seeing them with his eyes.

So at the moment when the basilisk went crazy, Jon's body was as nimble as a monkey's and he dodged in a few jumps.

Then he pointed in the direction where he was just now and raised the wand again without hesitation!

"Avada Kedavra!"

The miserable green color filled with deathly silence instantly illuminated the entire dark space, and the beam of light representing death shot out from the tip of the chestnut wand!

The basilisk clearly felt the coming breath of death. It roared even more crazily, trying to twist its body and attach its whole body to the ice on the far right in order to avoid this life-killing curse.

However, the severe pain caused by the wound on the abdomen seriously slowed down its reaction nerves!

When the command to dodge came from its mind and the second half of its body had successfully deflected to the right, the life-killing curse spanned a distance of less than ten meters in an instant and hit the basilisk's huge thigh. Snake head!

After the fatal earth-brown snake eyes were hit by the killing curse, all signs and emotions representing the existence of life were lost. Then, a "rumbling" sound sounded, and the huge body fell powerlessly on the ice. Leaving a mess on the ground.

Jon was breathing heavily, but he did not act rashly. Instead, he continued to use the floating spell and controlled more ice shards to float around to help him clearly perceive the situation in front of him that he could not see.

No matter where he looked, even if some of the ice shards fell on the heart of the basilisk, he didn't get any feedback. Then Jon breathed a sigh of relief and took off the black cloth strips that blindfolded his eyes.

Now he could finally see the true face of this basilisk.

Its body is the same as the one at Hogwarts. It is also extremely large, as long as thirty or forty feet. The scales on its body are also bright emerald green. Its abdomen is as long as half an adult and the wound is still sticking out. The smelly blood stopped flowing.

This snake is not malnourished at all, or has any strange mutations, and it looks like it can withstand the cold.

Such a discovery makes Jon's doubts even more difficult to explain, so why is there a basilisk in this maze in the Arctic? Did Voldemort or someone else put this snake in?

But of course he didn't have the extra energy to think hard about this problem at this time. After calling out Gabriel who was hiding in the ice above, they began to look for Nick on the ground full of broken ice and blood.

Soon Gabrielle made a discovery around a corner.

Nick's whole body seemed to be frozen, and his face still maintained the frightened expression after seeing the basilisk. His originally illusory body was as hard as a sculpture. No matter how much Gabrielle called him, he could not do anything. respond.

The little girl cried sadly.

"Jon! Nick, he's dead!"

Jon followed her voice and came over and patted her head.

"He was already dead and cannot die again. Don't worry, his current state is only temporary. It won't be long before we go out and ask the professors to prepare an antidote using mandrake, and he will be back to his original state."

Jon did not lie to Gabrielle. It is indeed impossible for the ghost to be killed by anything again. Even if the instant death is as strong as the eyes of the basilisk, it will only make him fall into a petrified state. As for how long it will take for them to leave here, let Nick To get out of this situation, this was not something Jon could have anticipated in advance.

Of course, they wouldn't just leave Nick here.

It is estimated that no one in the entire magical world can tell what item the petrified ghost belongs to, but the floating spell Jon used on Nick had an effect.

His originally stiff body was lightened a lot, and then with the help of Gabrielle, Jon tied Nick to his back.

This doesn't put much pressure on him, it just prevents him from being as flexible in action as before.

After that, Jon did not leave immediately. Even though the battle just caused a lot of noise and no one knew whether there were any Death Eaters attracted to the maze, he still started to collect his trophies from the basilisk.

Is there any reason why you can't pick up the equipment after killing the monster?

He couldn't take away anything that was too big, and he didn't let go of anything he could take away.

He found two more snake teeth that looked pretty good. Following the opening made by Shen Feng Wuying, Jon took out one as big as a fist from the snake's belly, which looked like snake gallbladder. thing. Then he dug out the two eyes of the basilisk, but its eyes were too big. He tried all the pockets on his body, but there was no suitable entrance to put the two football-like eyeballs in.

Since he couldn't take it away, Jon didn't want to leave this thing to the Death Eaters. He simply used the crushing spell to blow up the eyeballs and everything else he couldn't take away, and directly destroyed the snake corpse that was still intact. Chopped into minced meat.

Naturally, he didn't let Gabrielle see such a bloody process. After everything was settled, Jon carried the petrified Nick on his back and took Gabrielle forward.

Without Nick's advance exploration, Jon moved forward more cautiously.

After passing an intersection, they encountered a new fork in the road, and it was still up to Gabriel to make the choice. Jon left a faint mark on the ice on one side before leaving.

After walking along the path chosen by Gabri for about ten minutes, they encountered another intersection that was exactly the same as the previous one, and next to this intersection was obviously the mark that Jon had left just now.

This discovery made Jon frown slightly.

But he didn't say anything more. He just took Gabrielle to another road and continued forward together toward the road in the middle of the three-way road. However, after walking for more than ten minutes, they returned to that intersection again. forward.

Gabri's face was full of surprise.

"Are we at a dead end?"

Jon's brows furrowed even more tightly. He didn't answer Gabrielle's words, but led her down the last road that hadn't been walked yet.

But the result remained the same, it was still ten minutes away, and in the end they returned to this fork in the road.

Now there is no way for them to try again.

Gabri's face was full of surprise. She floated around the ice formations up and down this fork in the road, but found nothing.

Jon walked back a few steps thoughtfully, turned a corner, and saw the puddle of minced meat still scattered on the ground.

The road where he had just killed the basilisk was connected to the forked road they were on now, which meant that if they wanted to walk to this forked road, they would inevitably pass by the body of the basilisk.

But just now they walked back along three different roads, but they didn't see the body of the basilisk. Instead, they saw it when they returned from here.

This made Jon suspicious.

He grabbed Gabrielle's hand and stopped her from trying to cross the ice further into the fork, and then started tapping around the fork with the wand.

Finally, Jon discovered some clues on the two ice walls separating the three forked roads.

When his wand struck the ice, some inconspicuous bright golden light spots burst out at the moment when the tip of his wand came into contact with the ice.

These light spots were very subtle, and if Jon hadn't observed them carefully enough, he might have ignored them.

After seeing the problem, he asked Gabrielle to try to pass through the two ice walls, but nothing unusual happened. After Gabrielle floated through one side, she floated out from the other side.

However, Jon did not give up trying. Instead of using the wand, he put on a ring and used a universal unspelling spell on himself.

After that, he stretched out his left hand and carefully touched the ice wall.

In his imagination, the cold and hard touch that should have been there did not come. Jon's hand actually went directly through the wall, but did not reach out from another section of the wall like Gabrielle did.

Instead, it seemed as if it had disappeared, just disappeared.

This made Gabrielle's eyes widen, and Jon's face showed an unexpected expression.

He originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect that he actually succeeded!

Not only did Jon not feel any coldness in the disappeared hand, but he felt warm instead.

He took a deep breath, grabbed Gabrielle's arm with his right hand, held her in his arms, shrouded her in the spell, and then walked through the ice wall.

As if he was walking forward normally without encountering any obstacles, the next moment Jon disappeared into the ice and appeared in a long, narrow and warm corridor.

There are no ice blocks in all directions. On the left is a wall that is obviously made of bricks. On the right is a long corridor composed of four or five rooms. Above the head is a sealed ceiling with several kerosene lamps hanging from it. , the blue flame lit up in the lamp, illuminating the space.

Gabrielle looked around curiously, and Jon was also attracted by the obvious marks left by the paddling of some reptile on the ground.

He finally understood why creatures like basilisks could live in this area of ​​the Arctic.

It didn't stay in the maze carved out of ice at all. It should have lived on this corridor most of the time!

Jon had the answer at this time, but he did not stop, but walked towards the room closest to him where the door was always open.

There were a lot of things inside, but they were all destroyed. Torn papers, tables, chairs and benches crushed by heavy objects, broken pieces of teapots, rotten clothes and other things were scattered everywhere. All.

Jon walked into the room and tried to pick up a few pieces of paper covered with mud from the ground, trying to learn some valuable information from them.

But not only were the writing on these parchments blurry, they were not written in English. Jon had no way of identifying the words that looked a bit like Russian to him.

After circling this small room, he continued to walk towards the next room after confirming that there was nothing valuable to discover.

This is also an opened door. To say it is open is actually a bit far-fetched, because through the broken wood, it is obvious that this door was originally locked, but half of it was forcibly destroyed. Only the upper part is still intact. There are rusty hinges connecting the door frame.

Jon hunched over and got inside, a fishy smell hit his face. The room was very spacious, and there were a bunch of things that were originally like clothes collected in a mess.

There are many huge emerald green snake skins scattered around!

After seeing these snake skins, Jon concluded in his heart that the basilisk he killed must not have been brought here by Voldemort.

This amount of skin peeling could not be completed in hundreds of years. This basilisk must have lived here for a long time, and it also regarded this room as its own nest.

Enduring the stench, Jon also searched here, but still found nothing of value.

Without stopping, he continued to the next room.

The situation in the third room is even more concise and clear. This is a broken house. The wall facing the door has collapsed in half, exposing a large layer of ice. Among these solid ice, there are many Animals frozen in it.

Many are bears and wolves, as well as some strange-looking creatures, which are obviously extinct animals in the current world.

Most of this ice has been violently cut open. These are of course the results of the basilisk. The room is filled with various bones. It is obvious that it relies on the animal carcasses in the ice as food. If it survives, this room is its canteen.

After getting this information, Jon immediately went to the last room on this corridor.

The door of this room was not damaged and was locked, but before he entered, Jon saw the nameplate hanging on the door and was stunned.

【Adrian Fox's Laboratory】