Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

A flicker of light opened up a ray of light.

Lockhart, who was unknowingly manipulated by Tom Riddle, strode into the entrance of the [Final Storage Room] and walked down the steps for a long time before finally stepping onto the ground again.

"We're finally here." He couldn't help but let out a heavy breath, and he could finally let go of his hanging heart. "The stairs are too uneven."

The road leading to the [Final Storage Room] was really difficult, and Lockhart himself couldn't use even the simplest lighting spell, so he almost fell into a rolling gourd on the steep steps several times.

To be honest, this made Tom Riddle feel a little speechless.

Although this young version of the Dark Lord knew that this guy was a loser, he didn't expect that a wizard could be defeated to such an extent!
There is no corresponding incantation on the string of plug-ins made of bird and snake eggs, and Lockhart really can't think of the simplest "Lomus". He could only temporarily pick a candle made of beeswax mixed with butter from the wall, and rely on it, combined with other light sources on the wall, to illuminate the path he wanted to take.

In order to avoid giving himself a new experience of "landing on his face", Tom Riddle had to relax his control over Lockhart and let the guy walk into the [Final Storage Room] underground in Hogwarts by himself.

It wasn't until his feet hit the ground that the young Dark Lord quickly landed on the ship and regained control of Lockhart.

Although there was an element of impatience in it, Tom did this mostly because he was worried that Lockhart would mess up many things later.

After all, a storage room that can be named "Final" and guarded by a portrait of the principal is not so easy to enter.

Tom Riddle had explored this place decades before, so he knew exactly what was coming.

What he didn't know was that every move he made at this time was being watched by another little wizard.

Bourne followed Lockhart. Thanks to Tom Riddle, who couldn't stand Lockhart's incompetence and went offline.

Otherwise, on a steep staircase with little cover, even if the Disillusionment Charm is cast, it would be difficult to track a wizard with strong magical intuition (or spiritual sense) without being discovered.

"You're here, just wait a moment." Bourne patted the deformed lizard's wallet and calmed the surging machine spirit in the chain sword.

However, both the wand and the Ring of the Fire Dragon are in Bourne's hands, but only the chain sword is still hidden in the "sheath" - it can't hold it in anymore - it wants to find some heretics or aliens to hack at. Already up.

Compared to Bourne, who was sneaking and appeasing the machine spirit at the same time, "Lockhart" was much more single-minded in doing things and seemed orderly.

Or to be more precise, as expected of having entered the [Final Storage Room] before, Tom Riddle was quite familiar with some of the processes inside.

He inserted the candle into the crevice in the floor in the southwest corner, then let it burn and walked toward the center of the blind cave.

“Accio Expeco Coffin…”

"Lockhart" recited a series of spells in one breath, all of which were used to summon him. His long-term training and long-tested words came in handy at this time.

And when he finished reciting the incantation, the incantation buried under the ground was also stimulated, and the sound of "crunching" mechanical rotation was heard, and "Lockhart" quickly took several steps back.

Just like layers of cakes suddenly appeared from the table, several layers of round tables with successively smaller diameters rose up on the floor, and on top of the many round tables was an upright crate.

One thing is that under the dim candlelight, the box looked very much like a coffin.

When Bourne, who was hiding and observing from the distance of the stairs, saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel a little bit of violation.

When did Voldemort change his career?

Does this guy want to move mountains and touch blond hills, or does he want to cosplay as a necromancer?

Bourne wondered: Isn’t Harry Potter a fairy tale? There seems to be something like this in it.

However, after summoning this very unlucky thing, Lockhart, who was controlled by Tom Riddle, neither took out the dragon-seeking ruler nor said anything about "one entanglement is one level". Just took out his wand and waved it.

The crate then fell apart, revealing a sculpture inside.

Yes, it is a sculpture: physically, it is a man carved out of stone, wearing a beak-shaped helmet on his head, his upper body is naked and his muscles are bulging, and his lower body is only wrapped with a circle of cloth. It stood steadily leaning on two pairs of large feet, which were at least 50 yards long; its hands held together a huge knight's sword without a blade, and the sword's blade was pointed downwards on the ground, forming a more stable relationship with the sculpture's feet. triangular structure.

As soon as it appeared, Bourne, who was observing in secret, lowered his head thoughtfully and glanced at the Fire Dragon Ring on his finger.

This Fire Dragon Ring was a Christmas gift given to him by the great alchemist Nick Flamel last year.

The reason why Nick Flamel wanted to give him this gift was firstly to thank Horace for his full assistance during that time, and secondly to reward Bourne for his "life-saving grace."

Originally, after living for more than six hundred years, Nick Flamel and his wife were so bored that they were ready to start a new adventure.

But when Horace and Bourne attended his birthday party, by chance, he and Bourne, the little wizard, met the strange alchemical creature of the Rookwood family that feeds on emotions.

In order to study the alchemical fire dragon defeated by Bourne and completely understand the knowledge it contained, Nick Flamel prepared to live for a few more years.

Therefore, the great alchemist gave Bourne such a weapon last Christmas, which not only used some new knowledge explored from the "Rookwood Alchemy Fire Dragon", but also combined it with his superb alchemy skills. Ring of the Fire Dragon.

After wearing this dragon-shaped ring for nearly a year, although he cannot say that he knows all aspects of it, at least he has some insights into its two basic functions: how to use emotions as energy and how to use emotions to materialize material entities. of. Therefore, when he first saw the sculpture unsealed by "Lockhart", he immediately felt a sense of familiarity.

Immediately afterwards, Bourne made a judgment in his mind: "This is another alchemical product powered by emotions."

Somewhat similar to Bourne - even more so - Tom Riddle's heart became excited when he saw this familiar sculpture again.

Due to its influence, "Lockhart's" hands began to tremble involuntarily.

The simultaneous appearance of the excited heart and trembling hands seemed to reach a certain condition, so the sculpture began to move.

Two dots of red light appeared in the beak helmet, like two red eyeballs; both arms were raised with force, and the giant knight's sword was completely pulled out from the ground with a "clang"; the red magic energy was revealed. , like blood vessels, covered with the sculpture’s muscular and stubborn body.

The next second, this muscular sculpture wearing a helmet jumped down from the platform, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, and gave "Lockhart" its most warm and simple welcome - the kind of heart-to-heart .

Although there is no blade on the knight's long sword, Tom Riddle has no doubt that as long as he is poked by this long sword, the possessed Lockhart will immediately be skewered into candied haws.

He knew that the trial of the [Final Storage Room] had begun.

"All petrified!"

"Lockhart" raised his hand and cast a spell. The invisible magic covered the sculpture's body, temporarily suffocating him from raising his sword to stab.

Of course, the petrification curse cannot petrify a pile of stones, but it can also act as a slight hindrance.

Tom Riddle controlled Lockhart, greased the soles of his feet, and quickly broke away from the stone sculpture that had escaped the curse.

After closing the distance, he quickly chanted several magic spells at the sculpture he wanted to chase: "Slow down and absorb shock, fly sand and rocks, thunder and explosion..."

If it was like the time he himself was tested, Tom Riddle could definitely increase his intensity and rely on more powerful spells to attack the stone sculpture.

Unfortunately……

The past was before and the present is now.

Even if the plug-in is turned on, all Lockhart can do is to accurately release some predetermined spells, but he cannot increase the intensity of the spells at will.

Therefore, at this time, he could only keep going around in circles, trying to complete the trial of the [Final Storage Room] by "flying a kite".

"What a crappy wizard. If you hadn't mastered the special attack on humans, it's hard to imagine how you could have impersonated those long-famous wizards."

Since Tom Riddle was able to successfully attach himself to Lockhart, it was natural that he already knew this guy's life history.

To be honest, if we only look at the "thickness" of magic power, Lockhart is actually qualified, and is even slightly stronger than the dead Death Eater Yaxley.

But the problem is that he specializes in memory spells, and he is also good at the "Forgetting Curse" alone. Lockhart can use other spells in theory, but in practice, they will most likely fail.

"Also, in this trial, why do you feel that the stone warrior's attack is so persistent and powerful? Compared with the last time, it behaves like a giant monster that has taken an invigorating potion."

Originally, Tom was still thinking about letting Lockhart rely on plug-ins to get through this trial bit by bit.

But he didn't know that a young wizard (Bourne) also followed him and Lockhart into the [Final Storage Room] - even though he had predicted that the difficulty of the trial would increase if he and Lockhart came in together. A little, but now three people actually entered at the same time - thus, the difficulty of this trial was suddenly raised to another level.

"I have no choice but to do something cruel. I didn't want to do that..."

Regardless of Lockhart's feelings, he rolled on the spot to avoid another friendly "face-to-face communication" from the stone warrior. He got up from the ground and raised his wand resolutely.

"Avada Kedavra!"

A bird-snake egg on the wand flickered, and the eggshell suddenly broke open, spurting out a stream of rotten egg-like pus, and a "hairy egg"-style bird-snake embryo also fell to the ground.

A bolt of green lightning shot out from the top of the wand and hit the stone warrior solidly. Not only did it push him away, but it also exploded into a pile of large and small rubble.

Voldemort, even the younger version, how could the Death Curse be missing from his "spell list"?
And who stipulates that this spell can only be effective on living creatures? For alchemical lifeforms, the Death Curse can actually also obliterate its virtual soul.

However, perhaps because the effect of the Unforgivable Curse is too overbearing, or perhaps because he subconsciously understands the punishment methods of various countries for wizards who dare to use this curse, so after "himself" threw an Avada Kedavra, Luo Hart was so shocked that he briefly exited the manipulated state.

In order to retake the body, Tom Riddle could only keep reassuring Lockhart: "It's okay, it's normal to do this here, it's no big deal in this [Final Storage Room].

You may not know that this place was originally a classroom created by the great Slytherin for the purpose of allowing students to learn and practice dark magic.

Using black magic here will not be known to outsiders at all, let alone punished..." (End of Chapter)