Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts

Les soon received Helga's letter.

Helga didn't say much in the letter. She could sum it up in one sentence: Hey, Salazar, save me!

Although the situation was not as critical as Helga described, she had gone to her own exclusive classroom to isolate the curse, so she did not exaggerate too much.

Helga was not afraid of the troubles caused by the curse. She was worried about injuring other people or causing irreversible damage to the castle.

More importantly, if you describe the situation more seriously, you can deceive Slytherin. Even if you can't solve the curse problem, you can still help her make some doll parts, right?

After seeing Helga's letter, Les naturally guessed this, but he still decided to go to Hogwarts. The reason is also very simple. Helga wrote in the letter "Only you can help me."

Now that she said so, Les no longer hesitated and set off directly for Hogwarts.

It might be a summer of hard work, but Les didn't care. Because your friends need your help, that's enough.

Moreover, he had an unexpected gain during this trip, that is, Helga granted him permission to enter Helga's dungeon.

That was Helga's exclusive classroom. Rice had never been in Hogwarts since its establishment, and he didn't even know where it was.

This was not Helga's prerogative, nor was his exclusive Slytherin classroom. The four of them have a tacit understanding that they will not inquire about the location of each other's exclusive classrooms, and everyone respects each other's privacy.

Everyone needs a little private space in which to indulge in their own little hobbies. Like when Les kept a basilisk in a secret room, no one else ever asked about it.

And now, in order to invite him to break the curse, Helga has gained the right to enter Helga's exclusive classroom and can enter Helga's dungeon to find out.

It’s hard not to be excited!

The Greengrass family's fireplace had direct access to Hogsmeade, so Les arrived at Hogwarts without much effort.

During the summer vacation, Hogwarts will enter a closed state and will not accept students to stay in school.

In fact, in the beginning, Hogwarts allowed students to live on campus all year round. At that time, there was no clear concept of vacation. They would only take a three-month break at a specific time so that the little wizards could return to their hometown to reunite with their relatives. Or fulfill the obligations as a lord's vassal - including paying tribute and participating in wars and guarding borders, etc.

Later, because Hogwarts' supervision over students would be much lax during the long holidays, resulting in these hot-blooded young people often causing trouble in the castle, Hogwarts banned students from staying in school.

But Rice was no ordinary student. Countless restrictions were as if they didn't exist in front of him. He walked straight into the campus and arrived at the Hufflepuff Common Room.

Following Hufflepuff's guidance, he entered Helga's exclusive classroom.

"Awesome!" Les exclaimed in admiration as soon as he entered Helga's dungeon.

Helga is indeed a legendary wizard with an earth domain. The size of her dungeon feels larger than the area of ​​​​Hogwarts Castle.

Such a vast space was bound by her space magic into a rather small space, resulting in a huge difference between the inner and outer spaces. Even Les was amazed by this extraordinary magic spell.

At the same time, he could also feel the rejection of him by this space.

Les warned himself silently in his heart, don't make Helga angry here, otherwise he would really be unable to eat and walk around.

Helga felt Les' presence the moment he entered. In fact, he was put in by Helga herself.

As soon as she thought, a clay figure appeared in front of Les.

"Salazar, you're finally here." The clay figurine's head twisted, and Helga's facial features appeared on it, and at the same time, her voice came out of the clay's mouth.

"Of course, I can't miss the opportunity to observe your exclusive classroom." Les replied while looking around Helga's dungeon.

"This place is really grand. In comparison, my private classroom is as simple as a bathroom, let alone Rowena's."

"Excellent." Helga was also quite happy to be praised by her old friend. It's not easy to get Salazar to recognize him so much.

"How's it going? Is the curse still bothering you now?" After a few casual chats, Les found that Helga was in good condition, so he cut to the chase and asked about the curse.

"I'm much better now. You don't know how unlucky I was before!" Helga poured out her bitterness to Les and told him her experience in detail, which made Les extremely shocked.

Is this curse too strong? How come even Helga was so strongly affected? If, as the legend says, the curse was caused by Voldemort, then this guy really impressed Les.

Les felt that the curse should be related to the strength of the cursed person, that is, when someone is strong, he becomes stronger. Otherwise, how could the former Defense Against the Dark Arts professors have survived the intensity Helga encountered all the time?

But Les noticed one detail: Once Helga entered her exclusive classroom, the power of the curse subsided. This is really interesting.

"It seems that although the curse is strong, it will not have any impact as long as it is protected by the domain." Les came to a conclusion and encouraged Helga to drive the domain to the ground and give it a try.

Helga felt that what Les said made sense. She opened the field directly and walked around it. In the end, she was really not affected at all.

"Look, the problem is solved. You just need to keep the domain open to resist the effect of the curse." Les said with a smile.

Helga: ...

She refused.

Although it is not impossible for her to keep the domain open, how can this be a solution to the problem? Does it mean that all future Defense Against the Dark Arts must have its own domain?

This behavior is as outrageous as the main road is blocked by boulders, and the person in charge does not want to clear the road, but instead says that you can take a small road to bypass the blockage.

After being rejected by Helga, Les was silent.

He actually has an idea, which is to let the current Defense Against the Dark Arts professor resign, and then change his name and re-apply for employment to see if he can bypass the restrictions of the curse.

Because according to his understanding, it is difficult for a curse to be powerful and wide-ranging at the same time.

This kind of curse that can even affect Helga is likely to have a long list of restrictions in front of it, and it is actually quite easy to bypass it.

Based on the currently known information, the triggering of the curse requires two conditions: one, it is a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and two, the professor's term of office is more than one year.

Then they seem to be able to circumvent the curse in two ways. One is to rename the course "Defense Against the Dark Arts" to "Dueling" or "Self-Defense", and the other is to change the professor every other year, and try to let the professor change his name to see if the restrictions of the curse can be avoided.

You want to curse Smith White, what does it have to do with me, White Smith?

But now these two methods seem to be unworkable, because Helga obviously wants to eradicate the curse once and for all.

After thinking seriously for a while, Rice felt that he should support Helga's idea.

How could Salazar Slytherin and Helga Hufflepuff retreat in the face of a small curse? If it gets out, he will even be accused of "Voldemort's curse, which even Slytherin and Hufflepuff can't break together", which he can't accept.

"My intuition tells me that this curse is not simple."

Helga rolled her eyes: Anyone knows it's not simple.

"Can you feel where the spell came from?" Les decided to use the process of elimination to explore the state of the curse on Helga.

Salazar's question stumped Helga. She carefully recalled her experience, and then said with certainty that she did not feel any traces of the spell or the flow of magic power.

"I guess so. I'll prepare a bottle of exorcism potion for you." After excluding the possibility of the spell, Les decided to try to exorcise Helga and remove the negative state on her body.

"Okay." Helga's eyes flashed with a hint of joy.

The steps for making this exorcism potion are quite cumbersome and it takes several weeks to make it. It is estimated that no one in the world can do it except Salazar.

Since Salazar is asked for help, Helga naturally has to prepare good enough conditions for him.

So she directly mobilized the power of the exclusive classroom and built a spacious and comfortable hut for Les.

Les lived in the hut and began to make potions for Helga.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

Rice handed the carefully crafted exorcism potion to Helga, and he also prepared a bottle of transfer potion for her - not as magical as the felicity potion, but it can also dispel bad luck.

"Thank you." Helga took the two bottles of potion, drank them all, and then left her dungeon directly.

Not long after, Helga came back in disgrace.

"No, it has no effect at all. I will still be unlucky." Helga looked a little depressed.

She did not doubt the quality of Salazar's potion, because he was the world's top potion master. If even he couldn't make a potion, then don't expect others to do it.

"Then it's probably not your own fault." Rice's eyes became quite deep.

Come to think of it, who is Helga? How could Voldemort cast a curse on her without her noticing?

Moreover, Voldemort has been down for a long time...

"Then there is only one possibility." Helga understood what Salazar meant.

"Law." Rice said solemnly.

Laws are the laws of how things work, and they are natural rules. Just like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, things fall from high to low, these are all laws, and they are very advanced concepts.

The "curse" Helga encountered is a power at the level of laws.

The reason why the domain can isolate the curse is because the domain has its own laws. In the domain, in addition to the basic natural laws, wizards have the highest authority, and the laws imposed by the curse are excluded.

"Drink this, it can greatly enhance your perception." Les took out a small bottle of potion again and handed it to Helga.

He had considered this possibility long before he started to prepare the transfer potion and the exorcism potion, so he naturally made the third preparation.

Voldemort obviously couldn't comprehend the power of the law. If he had that ability, why didn't he just kill Dumbledore or curse Dumbledore? So he probably hid something similar to the God's Remains in Hogwarts Castle. Use the laws emitted by that thing to curse the teaching position of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Then they just need to find it.

After taking his special potion, Helga's perception will be dramatically enhanced. She must find the source of that strange law as soon as possible.

Only he or Helga can do this. Because their souls are strong enough to look directly at the laws. If other people take this potion rashly, it is no different from suicide. At the least, they will become mentally ill, and at the worst, they will die on the spot.

"I understand." Helga took the potion and walked out of the dungeon under the cover of the field.

Les was not very reassured about her, so he followed her out.

Helga walked to the door of the auditorium and drank the potion.

The next second, the blood vessels on her forehead bulged, her eyeballs rolled up, leaving only the whites of her eyes exposed.

A few seconds later, Helga's body began to tremble. Les understood that she was trying to sort out the ubiquitous and complex laws in the environment at this moment, and trying to find the abnormal law from them.

Helga soon made a discovery.

Her hand passed over her body, as if she had picked up a thread.

Helga raised her head directly, with only the whites of her eyes staring straight at the top of the castle.

She locked the location of the abnormal law.

Helga flew out of the window without any hesitation, and rushed to the eighth floor of the castle under the drive of magic, and then landed in front of a tapestry.

In an instant, the tapestry changed, and a very smooth door appeared on it.

Helga twisted the door open and rushed in.

Behind the door was a room filled with all kinds of debris. Les, who followed closely behind Helga, did not put too much energy into these debris.

He just glanced at it quickly and followed Helga's footsteps to run deep into the debris pile.

Helga's face was flushed, and her strong perception brought her great pressure, but fortunately, all this was about to end.

After bypassing one garbage mountain after another, Helga finally stopped in front of a pile of abandoned desks.

As soon as she raised her hand, a box with an ancient shape floated out of the desk.

Seeing that Helga had found the source of the curse, Les hurriedly poured the potion that shielded perception into her mouth.

After the potion was taken, Helga sat down on the ground, with beads of sweat on her forehead.

The dust settled.

Les looked at the box in front of him, and after confirming that there was no defensive spell on the surface of the box, he took the box in his hand.

Before he could further study the box, a voice came from the box.

"Lucky man, make a contract with me, I can fulfill one of your wishes."

'It's ancient Greek. ' Les recognized the language used by the voice.

"Who are you? Why are you locked in the box? What is the origin of this box?" Les replied in ancient Greek.

"I am Moros, and I am temporarily living in Pandora's Box now." The voice in the box answered honestly.

Les: ...

Good guy! Since it is a combination of these two guys, it is not surprising that they can curse a wizard of Helga's level at the law level.

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Update is here, good night~