The Death Knell

Things like light rings should actually be regarded as alien technology and have little to do with magic, but they have a certain degree of compatibility.

Because they are powered by emotions, which are one of countless kinds of thoughts, and using thoughts to drive energy to change the world is the essence of magic.

Putting ten light rings on Hermione at once, including green lights, black lights and ultraviolet lights, was a bit risky, but Su Ming believed that as the protagonist of the story in the current universe, this small thing should be done Can bear it.

She did endure it. Although for a moment, her expression seemed to be uncomfortable, but soon she returned to her normal state with breath.

But unlike the death knell, among her ten light rings, the purple light is the brightest, not the yellow light.

Of course, now is not the time to care about the minutiae. Su Ming wiped the sweat from her forehead, rubbed her hair, and said:

"Now try using the light ring to see if you can sense the energy? Any one will do."

This is the basic function of the lamp rings, which are to sense the existence of various energies and quantify them. It is a bit like the combat power detector in "Dragon Ball", except that Su Ming usually does not use such a rigid tool.

Because numbers are dead, people are alive, and you have to use your brain when fighting.

A target may have a very high energy level, but once he takes action, he will be a weakling. For example, the spokespersons of the Lord of Order series are more mentally retarded than the last.

There are also people who have no energy readings at all, but are invincible after a fight. This is Batman.

The witch glanced at the professor and nodded slightly. The oath of the ten lanterns was still echoing in her mind, but she tried her best to control it and did not let herself recite it loudly.

On the contrary, she immediately mastered the use of the light ring, hid the other nine rings, leaving only the most beautiful purple light ring, and then let it scan and mark nearby energy sources.

The lantern ring cast a purple glow, marking all the things with energy around them, and also marked a Milky Way-like earth vein under the two people's feet, which was the trace of the flow of ancient magic.

"I saw it, this is ancient magic."

Hermione smiled and expressed her gratitude to the professor, and nuzzled his arm with her head, hoping to get praise.

"Very good. Plan A has been successful." Su Ming smiled slightly and put his hand on top of her head: "Originally, I thought this would not work and I had to come up with a backup plan. This saves a lot of trouble."

The so-called backup plan is not that complicated.

Didn't Su Ming kill the symbiote god Nar a few days ago and capture countless symbiotes on the symbiote planet?

The backup plan was to select a new symbiote from among the many cryopreserved captives and make Hermione its host.

Then, relying on the phagocytosis ability commonly possessed by symbionts, he takes the girl to dig up the graves of Professor Rackham or Yin Sidora, drags their bones out of the coffins and eats them, thereby obtaining their talents, which can be regarded as complete in one step.

They all died from Avada's Kedavra, not the Fire Curse or other destructive magic, so their bones should be quite intact.

Judging from the current human archaeological technology, DNA fragments can be read from bone fossils half a million years ago, and the phagocytosis ability of symbionts is stronger than this.

Fortunately, cremation is not popular in Europe and the United States. If you want to acquire abilities rather than read memories, bones are enough.

Not gifted with ancient magic? It doesn't matter, you have it, as long as I eat you, this ability will be mine in the next second!

This is the horror of the Devouring Method. For people with insufficient character, becoming the host of the symbiote will only be harmful.

Of course, because of the subtle relationship between symbiotes, Strangler may not be able to accept the presence of another symbiote host next to the host, because other symbiotes can be regarded as coquettish bitches, or in other words, its enemies.

"嘤嘤嘤!"

After being silent for a while, Strangler expressed his opinion, saying that he was actually not that stingy. Other symbiotes could still smell the scent of their hosts, but forget about direct contact at close range!

"Ahem! I don't know how this happened, but Madam Minister, you meet the standards for learning ancient magic."

Professor Rackham in the oil painting couldn't understand what the lamp ring was, but he was greatly shocked, because in his field of vision, the ancient magic veins like a galaxy were sprinkled with a thick layer of purple light, like It's like French fries covered in jam, and now even a wizard can see it:

"The notes recording my understanding of ancient magic are placed in the corner of the Hogwarts library, inside the globe. You can get them yourself. I cannot use the Flying Curse in my current state."

As a character in an oil painting, no matter how powerful a mage he was in life, he is now unable to cast spells and has degenerated into a master of theory.

But having theory is enough. With Hermione's learning ability, she might be able to figure out something by herself, let alone the notes of her seniors.

The witch waved her finger, and something wrapped in oilcloth flew out of the elevator and landed in her hand.

After opening it and flipping through a few pages, she nodded and smiled:

"Thank you, Professor Rackham. Your notes have been of great help to me. I will make some practical applications as soon as possible to verify the knowledge contained therein."

"In this case, I can feel relieved. In fact, this knowledge should have been handed over to the Ministry of Magic a long time ago. Alas." The professor sighed, which was both a relief and a regret: "Because the ancient magic was too powerful, maybe if the world changes, For a moment, I always thought that this power should not be made public, so even after Yin Sidora fell, I wanted to rely on our Hogwarts to solve the problem, but..."

"It turns out you were wrong."

Seeing that the purpose of this trip was half achieved, Su Ming joined the topic with satisfaction:

"Three of the four of you were killed by Yin Sidora. This is the consequence of covering up the lid. In fact, if you had chosen to ask the Ministry of Magic for help and asked them to send Aurors, hundreds of people would have besieged Yin Sidora. La, it’s definitely much easier than a group fight with ten professors at Hogwarts, and no one will even die. If you keep it secret, but in the end you can’t even save your own life, is it really worth keeping it a secret?”

Deathstroke's concept is different from theirs, believing that secrets should be used to protect oneself or destroy enemies. It is understandable from a standpoint that you keep a secret just to prevent others from knowing it. You are worried about the country and the people, and you are worried that the secret will fall into the wrong hands and cause big trouble.

Wanting to rely on limited insiders to solve a huge crisis is indeed full of romantic style, but it is also so unrealistic that they give up their reason and can obviously beat the crowd.

In fact, Yin Sidora was a serial killer that everyone in the magic world wanted to hunt down. Even if they did not reveal the secrets of ancient magic, the old professors could use this reason to gain huge support from the magic world, whether it was manpower or not. Or material resources.

But they didn't. Instead, they wanted to cover the lid and digest the problem inside Hogwarts. As a result, almost all of it entered the digestive tract of the witch.

Their behavior is generally called martyrs, who sacrifice themselves for their ideals, and people like Su Ming who work for profit are naturally not on the same path.