Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 100 Catching the Basilisk Alive (5K)

After Lockhart was hospitalized, the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was temporarily replaced by Professor Snape.

Compared to Lockhart who only brags about himself and has no real talent at all.

Not only did Snape have a very high achievement in defense against the dark arts, but also the opponent was powerful, and every black magic creature he brought was submissive under Snape's hands, and he didn't dare to make mistakes in the slightest.

With such an obvious contrast, more and more little wizards who didn't doubt Lockhart's ability before began to realize that Lockhart may not be as powerful as he wrote in his book, and he is actually an idiot.

If Lockhart knew that because he was hospitalized, being replaced by someone further deepened everyone's doubts about his ability, he wondered if he would be so depressed that he vomited blood.

And I don't know if it's because of the good luck brought by Lockhart. After that, John felt that his bloodline growth seemed to have reached a bottleneck again, just like the feeling he felt when he awakened a new bloodline skill last time.

Sure enough, after studying and researching one day, casting [Wake Up Bloodlines] before falling asleep, and consuming magic power to speed up the growth of bloodlines in the body.

When John woke up the next day, he found that he had a lot of fighting knowledge in his mind, and this knowledge seemed to be reflected in himself, like some kind of instinct, as if he was born to be able to display this knowledge.

Just like now, in the Room of Requirement, John is waving the half-handed sword he found in the Room of Requirement smoothly as if dancing. From a distance, the shadow of the sword looks like a giant dragon flickering around.

John had never studied swordsmanship before, but now he is like a swordsman who has practiced swordsmanship for many years.

With the last move, the long sword in his hand slashed out, a red light flashed across the blade, and the air suddenly became scorching hot and dry.

A half-moon-shaped crimson chopping wave flew out from the blade, heading straight for the human-shaped target in front of it.

Like a hot knife cutting butter, chopping cut the human-shaped target in half without any reduction, and hit the wall behind, leaving a deep sword mark before disappearing.

Also because of the high temperature contained in the chopping waves, the severed human-shaped target was seen burning, and the blade of the hand and half sword in John's hand was also melted by this high temperature, turning into molten iron and dripping on the ground.

Throwing away the scrapped two-handed sword in his hand, even though he swung the half-handed sword with such high intensity just now, John was still blushing and breathless, as if nothing had happened.

John found a chair, sat down, and opened the system panel that he hadn't checked for a long time.

Name: John Williams

Occupation: Magister, Sorcerer, Wizard

Constitution: 60.0
Power: 55.0
Agility: 54.0
Magic Scale: 699.0/700.0
Bloodline: Red Dragon (young and growing)

Bloodline Talent: Dragon Language, Dragon Flame, Dragon Skin, Longwei, Dragon Vision, Dragon Fighting Skill
Recorded Skills: Classical & Modern Alchemy, Wand Spells, Imperial War Spells, Magic Device Making, Fizeley's Encyclopedia of Magic
Items that have been recorded: Ellen Mum Type [-], Imperial Flying Magic Device Type V, Black Star, Raven Staff, Red Dragon Staff, Williams Philosopher's Stone, Ring of Nick LeMay

World Recorded: Howl's Moving Castle

Looking at the extra bloodline talent dragon fighting skill, the last chopping wave just now should be the magical part of this dragon fighting skill.

"System, let me introduce the effect of this dragon fighting technique"

[Dragon Fighting Skills: The fighting skills passed down in the inherited memory of giant dragons are suitable for human form, and different fighting skills will be awakened according to the characteristics of each giant dragon; the awakened fighting skills will be changed according to the skills learned by the master, forever Keep it in the most suitable state for the owner]

[Awakening Fighting Skills: Dragon Fighting Sword, Dragon Fighting Fist]

According to the information displayed by the system, the chopping wave that John made at the end just now was some kind of explosive move of Dragon Fighting Sword.

It is a move that uses the trajectory of the swaying blade to construct a certain kind of magic power connection, attracts the magic power in the body, and gathers it on the blade to slash.

So after this day, John added two hours of fighting skills training every day, except for the time spent in the research institute. For this reason, he also specially built a training ground in the space.

At the same time, John also took the time to alchemically transform a hand and half sword found in the Room of Requirement, turning it into an alchemy hand and half sword.

The purpose is to enhance the high-temperature resistance of the sword body. It is impossible for John to change a sword every time he performs a chopping wave.

Of course, this is just an expedient measure. The higher the growth of John's bloodline, the stronger the burning attribute of his magic power.

This is a weapon made of ordinary metal. Even after alchemy transformation, it will reach the limit one day and cannot bear John's magic power.

But John is not in a hurry, not to mention that John can travel to other worlds, maybe this problem can be solved in a certain world, maybe in the future he can directly use magic to make weapons, and then he will not have to worry about the problem of weapon wear and tear.

Soon time disappeared from John's routine and Lockhart was released from St. Mungo's Hospital.

But Lockhart, who had just returned to school after being discharged from the hospital, surprised everyone.

At that time, Lockhart was not only pale and disheveled, but even his hair was simply taken care of. It was not as soft and tidy as before, and his overall appearance was much thinner than before.

I just don’t know if it’s John’s delusion. He found that there seemed to be some changes in Lockhart. The current Lockhart gave him a very familiar feeling, but John couldn’t remember where this feeling came from for a while. Come.

But a few days later, Lockhart returned to his previous glamorous appearance, with his iconic smile still on his face, the only difference was that his thin figure would not recover for a while.

However, John will not let down his vigilance because the other party has returned to his previous state. To be safe, John has deployed a complete surveillance network against Lockhart.

One must know how Lockhart, who cared about his image, could return to school in that manner. Something must have happened that caused him to return to Hogwarts in a hurry before he had time to tidy up his appearance.

John guessed that the change he felt in Lockhart must have something to do with it.

One day after John had spied on Lockhart, Harry suddenly found him while he was in the library.

At that time, Harry pulled him to the corner of the library, and after confirming that there was no one around, Harry said hurriedly: "John, I heard a certain sound in Lockhart's office. The sound was very close to me at the time, like It's just a wall."

"The voice was choppy and it sounded creepy to me," said Harry, panic gradually appearing on his face. "The voice was saying 'Come... come here...let me tear you...rip you...kill you...' "

Harry imitated the voice he heard, speaking intermittently.

"You mean you heard it in Lockhart's office?" John seemed to realize something, and asked directly.

Harry nodded, and said, "At that time, Lockhart asked me to help him write a reply to the letters he had accumulated during this period."

"Was Lockhart there when the voice was heard?"

"No, at that time Lockhart seemed to have something urgent to leave the office."

When John heard this, he said directly to Harry: "Harry, go and inform Principal Dumbledore now, and tell him that there is a basilisk in the school, and the students must be evacuated as soon as possible!"

Hearing John's words, Harry froze for a moment. He could see the seriousness on John's face, and Harry realized that something bad had happened.

After John finished speaking, Harry turned around and left the library quickly, regardless of Harry.

After hearing the voice of Harry saying what he heard, and repeating the content of the voice, he realized that the chamber of secrets had been opened and the basilisk inside was released.

And John guessed that it was Lockhart who released the basilisk, and the other party most likely met Voldemort's main soul while he was hospitalized in St. Mungo's Hospital.

Because the only one in the school who knows the location of the Chamber of Secrets, apart from Voldemort, is John.

I just don't know whether Lockhart is now occupied by Voldemort's main soul like Quirrell, or is controlled by the Imperius Curse to do all this.

While walking quickly in the corridor, John sprinkled out a large number of insect-type vibration sensors. These small things can sense extremely subtle vibrations.

Under John's instructions and settings, these insect-type vibration sensors began to crawl in all directions.

Soon, with the vibration of the receiver in his arms, as the tablet lights up, these insect-shaped vibration sensors construct a special three-dimensional image of the entire castle with the help of vibrations.

In the picture at this moment, in the huge pipeline of the castle, a black shadow about [-] feet long is crawling in it.

John quickly approached the location of the black shadow, and at the first moment, John put on the Elenum Ninety-two Form, and took out the wand and the half-sword of the alchemy hand.

At some point, there was an extra layer of water under my feet.

The stagnant water exudes an unpleasant smell, and it is obvious that it has flowed back from the sewer. Thanks to the stagnant water, there is no one else in this area except John.

As he got closer to the shadow, John found that he had arrived near the women's bathroom on the second floor at some point.

At this moment, John clearly saw Mrs. Norris standing at the door of the bathroom in a petrified posture.

It seems that because the Animagus awakened John's wildness, he could clearly feel that the basilisk that caused all this hadn't left, but was entrenched in the bathroom waiting for the next prey to arrive.

Relying on the accumulated water on the ground, John could vaguely see a group of green shadows, and at this moment, he seemed to be aware of John's sight.

In the next second, a bright yellow mass appeared in the reflection, accompanied by a broken sound, John quickly averted his sight, not looking at the yellow.

The yellow color is the reflection of the basilisk's eyes. The basilisk's eyes have powerful magical power. If you look at them, you will usher in death. Even the reflection has the power of petrification.

There was a broken sound on John's body just now, which was made by the complete destruction of the amulet in order to counteract the effect of petrification.

John took out a pair of magic mirrors, which were specially made by John to deal with basilisks. They borrowed the echolocation function of bats, and emitted some kind of magic waves through this pair of alchemy glasses. Special visual images, avoid direct eye contact with the basilisk.

With the magic power injected into the sunglasses, everything displayed by the sunglasses is outlined in gray and white.

John clearly saw that in the picture, a long gray streak came out of the bathroom and came towards him.

Without hesitation, John stepped back, the tip of the wand flashed a flash of light, and the Explosive Curse shot straight out.

"Thunderbolt explosion!"

The flame bombarded the basilisk's face, but it didn't slow down its attack speed at all.

John retreated again, and with a roar, the basilisk slammed into the wall behind where John was just now, almost collapsing the wall.

The crimson light climbed onto the long sword in his hand, John stopped his retreating figure, and rushed towards the basilisk that had not fully adjusted its posture.

The physical fitness beyond ordinary people allowed John to instantly close the distance between him and the basilisk. With the arc of the long sword, the clear feeling of cutting through the flesh and blood came from the blade.

The stench of blood gushed out instantly, and the blood spattered in the corridor, and a painful howl sounded, and this pain aroused the ferocity of the basilisk.

John felt a gust of wind coming, and without hesitation, he rolled over short and avoided the blow.

The basilisk's tail whipped against the wall, leaving a deep gash.

"Smashed to pieces!"

The white magic hit the body of the basilisk, and the huge impact shattered a large number of scales.

The basilisk let out an angry roar, and rushed straight to where John was.

Without hesitation, John dodged to avoid the attack of the basilisk again, waved his wand again and hit the basilisk with a crushing spell, breaking some of the scales again.

John kept avoiding the attack of the basilisk, and released magic to attack the basilisk from time to time.

With the help of the impact caused by magic, John seized the opportunity, approached the basilisk again, waved the long sword in his hand, and the magic power was attached to it, leaving a wound on the basilisk again.

Dodging the falling basilisk tail, John swung his wand.

"Shadow Wolf Seeking Blood"

In an instant, the wolves sprang out from the shadows at John's feet, and attacked the basilisk.

Shadow wolves continued to die because of the gaze of the basilisk, but more of them continued to besiege the basilisk because of split attacks.

Using the shadow wolf to restrain the basilisk, I saw John jumping up, the dragon wings spread out behind him, and then I saw John swooping down and landing directly on top of the basilisk.

Relying on his strong physical fitness and transformed dragon claws, John fixed himself on top of the basilisk.

No matter how much the basilisk tried to throw John off its head, it couldn't do it.

Especially under the interference of the shadow wolf, the basilisk could not drive John away even if it wanted to hit the wall with its head.

John took out the prepared eye extractor from his pocket, and with the help of the blurred outline, he confirmed the position of the basilisk's eyes.

Without hesitation, John ruthlessly inserted the eye remover into the eye socket of the basilisk, and with the activation of the eye remover, it fixed the eyes of the basilisk.

With strength in his arm, John forcefully tore the basilisk's eyes out of their sockets.

The severe pain caused the basilisk to start rolling violently, but John didn't care at all. During this violent struggle, John took off the other eye of the basilisk just like before.

After putting away the two precious magic materials, the thousand-year-old basilisk eyes, John spread his dragon wings and left from the basilisk's head.

It was because of this that the basilisk lost its eyes, and the danger dropped rapidly. John took off his sunglasses directly, and only then could he see the whole picture of the thousand-year-old basilisk.

This huge basilisk is green all over, with the unique radiance of poisonous snakes, and its body is as thick as the trunk of an oak tree.

It stretched its upper body high into the air, shaking its flat head like a drunk, and howling in pain.

Where there should have been two huge yellow eyes like light bulbs, there were only two pitch-black cavities left at this moment, and black blood gushed out from inside, leaving traces on his face as if he was crying.

Just now, John's two deep slashes were entrenched in the belly of the basilisk, and the flesh turned out from the edge was scorched black due to the scorching heat of the magic power on the blade.

Seeing that the timing was almost up, John roared angrily, and then his whole body began to change drastically.

Dragon horns protruded from the forehead, fine red dragon scales appeared on the skin, the body began to swell and elongate, and soon a red dragon appeared in the corridor.

With a roar, John, transformed into a dragon, rushed towards the basilisk. One dragon claw firmly grabbed the basilisk's body, and the other dragon claw grabbed the basilisk's mouth.

The sharp claws pierced the basilisk's skin and penetrated into its flesh, and the huge force limited it in front of John.

John began to roar rhythmically, and the magic power began to pour out from John's body, forming a huge magic circle on the ground.

After obtaining the form of Animagus, John has been trying to use this form to cast magic, and finally he remembered what Mr. Fizeley said, language also has magical power.

So after many attempts, John finally successfully cast the magic, and I don't know if it's because of being in the dragon form. Many things that the human form can't do, this form can do.

Just like now, magic circles are used to build magic circles. If it is in human form, the magic circles must be depicted with media.

The crimson staff rotated slowly, as if sensing danger, the basilisk began to struggle violently, but unfortunately it was all in vain.

As John chanted the spell to the last step, he saw the magic circle flashing a dazzling red light, then rising from the ground and slowly shrinking, finally entering the basilisk's head.

When the magic circle entered the basilisk's head, the basilisk, which was still struggling violently, calmed down.

John let go of the dragon's claws holding the basilisk, and slowly changed back from the dragon form to a human.

The magic that John cast just now is actually a kind of puppet magic in Howl's world, which is specially used to control magical creatures.

A creature cast with this magic will have all its thoughts wiped out and become a living body under the control of the caster.

This kind of magic is not so easy to cast. Although it looks very simple, the prerequisite for casting this spell is that the magic creature cannot be restricted, and then the caster must have direct contact with the magic creature.

But how could the magical creature stand obediently in the center of the magic circle, with all its thoughts wiped out?Unless a magical creature does so willingly.

Such strange conditions led to the fact that although this kind of magic works very well, no one has ever learned it. John found it by accident in the library of the Howl World Academy of Magic.

With a thought, the basilisk began to shake its head and tail from time to time under John's control, and John nodded in satisfaction.

Then he put the basilisk into the space, where there will be a special alchemy doll to heal the basilisk.

After solving the basilisk, the next thing to deal with is to release the basilisk, Mr. Lockhart whose life and death are unknown.

John looked around to make sure that no one was there, stepped into the bathroom, found the faucet with the snake pattern engraved on it, and spoke the language of snakes.

When the hole was opened, John jumped into it without hesitation.

　There is only one chapter today, but five thousand words

　　The swollen wrist seemed to be stuffed with ping-pong balls. It was literally knocked out word by word, and the water was used to reduce inflammation and make people sleepy.

　　If only there was a potion for me to drink.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)