Chapter 270
Slowdown Curse
Chapter 270 Slowdown Curse
The phoenix raised its head, flapped its wings, and its chest puffed up. To Wade, it felt like a proud child.
It did not stop, but just stood on Dumbledore's shoulder for a moment, and then flew out immediately, and its wings flapped Dumbledore's hood.
"boom--"
Amid the explosion, a stone wall suddenly broke open and a ferocious snake head rushed out from it. Its flat head was covered with black and red blood, and its eyes had been pecked blind.
Fox flew out with a whoosh and passed over the basilisk's head. Its sharp claws scratched the basilisk's wound without any mercy, and black blood gushed out immediately.
The basilisk was almost mad. It chased Fox and tried to bite him. Its huge body looked extremely terrifying to any human, but it was helpless against the small and nimble Fox.
"Even without help, Fox can handle the basilisk on his own," Vader said.
"But we can't deprive the children of their enjoyment," said Dumbledore. "And we can't let it collapse the tunnel."
Indeed, there was already rubble falling from the top of the tunnel next to it.
Wade didn't know what spell the headmaster used. He only saw him wave his wand. The basilisk seemed to be attracted by something. Its head suddenly tilted, and after a moment of silence, its huge body quickly crawled inside.
Wade and Dumbledore followed, always keeping a safe distance from the basilisk.
They all used silencing magic to prevent their footsteps from attracting the basilisk's attention.
In front of him was a very spacious space with a higher ceiling than the castle's auditorium. There were many stone pillars around it, carved with coiled snakes, and in the front, there was a tall statue.
This room was damaged in many places due to the chaos caused by the basilisk and Fawkes. There were rubble all over the floor and even one of the statue's hands was knocked off.
At this moment, Fox stopped at the folds of the statue's clothes, looking triumphantly at the basilisk walking among the stone pillars below.
The pain of having its eyes pecked out tortured this huge guy. Sometimes it listened quietly, as if trying to find the enemy's location; sometimes it suddenly became furious, and hit and slapped hard, using this method to relieve the pain.
Suddenly, the basilisk raised its body, tilted its head slightly, and stood quietly in a posture that would usually be considered cute.
Wade and the other man also vaguely heard footsteps coming from the tunnel.
The basilisk suddenly calmed down. It lowered its body with only its head slightly raised, as if its eyes were completely normal. It wandered around the ground between the stone pillars, approaching the direction where the sound came from.
The scales rubbed against the ground, making a faint rustling sound.
The basilisk opened its mouth slightly and made a long sound like a human snoring.
"Hiss...ha..."
The sound was completely drowned out by the sounds of students talking and walking.
They may have just learned that the basilisk is a very dangerous creature, but subconsciously they still have the mentality of participating in a challenge -
There is some nervousness, but also some excitement.
"Merlin, that thing just now really scared me!" Someone said fearfully, "Let's back out, okay? This basilisk must be more than twenty feet tall!"
"Don't talk nonsense! If you want to be a coward, just leave!" Another person said stubbornly: "I don't believe that the school will let us participate in a challenge that will lead to death!"
"Why did you come down here without knowing anything?" Another student said, "I just asked the professor... He said that Headmaster Dumbledore will make sure that the basilisk's gaze cannot kill people!"
When everyone heard this, they immediately relaxed.
"Ha! In that case, then isn't the basilisk just an enlarged version of a ball python?"
"Since we succeeded last time, we can definitely do it this time! There are so many of us working together!"
"Be careful, its fangs are also deadly, don't get bitten..."
The students' voices were getting louder and louder, gradually approaching the door.
Although the basilisk could not be seen, it hid in the shadows skillfully and opened its mouth as wide as possible. Its long and thin fangs looked very sharp. The students walked in without knowing anything. Perhaps because there were so many people, the first few students were not very vigilant.
"Dealing with a thousand-year-old basilisk... This is the best graduation ceremony I've ever seen! Much more interesting than that 'Analyzing Several Reasons for the Goblin Rebellion'..."
The boy who was speaking walked into the room while smiling. His smile was still frozen on his face, and his eyes had turned into extreme fear!
The huge mouth pounced towards him!
The boy was so frightened that his mind went blank, his body stiffened and he couldn't move. He watched helplessly as the mouth that was big enough to swallow him in one bite fell on his head.
He just felt that time seemed to be infinitely stretched... He could even clearly see the soft pink flesh inside the basilisk's mouth and the retracted snake tongue.
Suddenly, a man pushed him away, pointed his wand at the basilisk and shouted, "Thunder Explosion!"
"boom--"
Amid the screams of the students, the battle between them and the basilisk finally began.
……
Wade naturally did not participate.
The basilisk is scary to most people, but since it can't deal with Fox, it certainly can't deal with Vader's alchemical creature, the firebird Michal.
He turned to look at Dumbledore and asked, "What kind of magic was that just now?"
When the basilisk was about to swallow the students, Dumbledore suddenly used a silent magic to slow down the basilisk's movements, giving the people nearby a chance to rescue them.
"The Slowing Charm." Dumbledore asked with a smile, "Would you like to learn it?"
Vader immediately said, "Of course!"
Dumbledore told him the spell while paying attention to the students. Wade used his knowledge of ancient magic runes to decipher it and found it very familiar.
"--slowing spell?"
This was the spell they had learned in first grade.
"Yes, it can be said to be an enhanced version of the deceleration spell."
Dumbledore said with a smile: "When I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I discovered that combining the ancient magic runes with the slowing spell would produce a very magical effect..."
"It looks useful," Vader said.
"That's not always the case... You have to know that the effectiveness of this spell will be greatly reduced against opponents whose magic power is similar to or stronger than yours," Dumbledore reminded.
"I see."
As Wade spoke, he swung the wand in his hand and muttered something to practice the new spell he had learned.
So Dumbledore kept an eye on the students while looking at Wade.
This was not difficult for him because Professor McGonagall and others also entered the Chamber of Secrets to help protect the students and take away the injured.
Dumbledore saw that the wand in Wade's hand quickly went from imitation to fluency in just a few minutes.
The flow of magic power was awkward and tentative at first, but in just a blink of an eye, it revealed an amazing appearance.
The basilisk that had just knocked a student away suddenly paused, and the student in front of it took the opportunity to shoot it with a "shattered" attack.
The basilisk naturally did not break into pieces, only a few scales flew out.
Dumbledore looked at Wade, who had quickly learned the Slowing Spell, with an expression of great appreciation, admiration, and a hint of complexity, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
(End of this chapter)