Chapter 378 Time Backlash

Chapter 378 Time Backlash
Kent, southern England.

Xie Lin, Sha Erfu and Shan Shan appeared outside the door of an abandoned and dilapidated old house in the suburbs. Looking around, there was no one within a hundred miles around.

According to the instructions on the scroll, the greatest secret of the Selwyn family is hidden here.

The dilapidated door of the old house was open, and the few people did not find any magic traps, so they stepped into the house. They conducted a simple search but found nothing.

"Is it hidden by the Fidelius Curse?" asked Sharfu.

"Probably not," Sherin answered with certainty, "If the Fidelius Charm was something so important, I would not have missed this part when browsing Selwyn's memory."

"Although this is the core inheritance of the Selwyn family, Selwyn does not seem to have put too much thought into running this place. Instead, he is more keen on accumulating connections and expanding his influence in the Ministry of Magic." Sherin paused for a moment before saying, "The reason for this may be that he was instigated and influenced by his wife, and behind this is related to his wife's identity as a spy for the Shadow of the Dragon."

"Don't take it lightly. Although his mind is not here, as a pure-blood family with an ancient heritage, such an important secret base cannot be without any hidden magic or defensive magic." Xie Lin said seriously.

Shanshan pointed to an old-fashioned rotary telephone with a yellowed casing hanging on the wall and said, "What is that?"

Sherin frowned. Although the appearance of this old house looked no different from that of an ordinary Muggle residence, its structure, decoration, and arrangement of things were clearly in the wizarding style.

Finding a rotary phone in a wizard's house is undoubtedly a very strange thing.

Xie Ling looked at the phone with the receiver missing and no connection for a while, and said, "This is a Muggle...phone. Its function is similar to our two-way mirror, but unlike a two-way mirror, it can't connect across space at any time. Instead, it needs to be connected to a network system through a line. Strange-"

"What's so strange?" Sharfu sniffed it gently, "I don't feel any magic in it."

"Yes, that's true. I can't feel any traces of magic either..." Xie Lin said softly, "But I saw tiny alchemical marks on the bottom. If you don't pay attention, you can easily think that it is caused by scratches."

"Are you sure?" Sharfu asked suspiciously, "If it is alchemy, then why is there no magic attached to it?"

"There is a possibility," Xie Lin said solemnly, "this thing has not been activated yet. The way to activate it is to use this dial to enter the correct password."

"Ah... this..." Salfu looked a little overwhelmed. There were a total of 10 numbers on the dial, and there were countless possible combinations of passwords. If they were to try them one by one, it would take a long time. She said angrily, "Can we just kill the Selwyn family and control them all with the Imperius Curse to force them to tell us the password?"

"Sarfu," Xie Lin smiled, "When you encounter a problem, don't always think of using the brutal method of the Imperius Curse to solve it. We are wizards, and we should try to use our brains to solve the problem."

Sharfu turned her head and snorted in dissatisfaction, but chose to keep silent. She thought to herself, the only way I can think of is to use the Imperius Curse to get the password.

Sherin held up the phone and said, "Hey, look here. The first few numbers are obviously used frequently. The dial of the phone is also made of brass, and the patina in the grooves of the numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3 is much less than that of the other numbers."

Xie Ling said word by word: "This means that the password is in these four numbers."

"So are we going to try these four numbers one by one?" Sharfu frowned. "How is that possible?" Xie Lin laughed, "Let's go! Maybe we'll find some clues as we go along."

Looking at the dilapidated appearance of the house, Xie Ling changed his initial guess -

He originally guessed that Mr. Selwyn only knew about this place, but did not have the key to enter the place of inheritance. This was not without precedent in pure-blood families. In order to avoid the emergence of an incompetent heir who would lead the family to decline or even destruction, some ancient large families took some preventive measures. For example, some important inheritances were separated and handed over to the family elders to inherit, so as to restrict the power of the head of the family.

Now, he felt that this was not the case at all. Judging from the state of the dial phone, it had not been used for a long time - this could only mean that no one from the entire Selwyn family had entered the inheritance land for a long time, which meant -

This tradition has actually been lost.

This dilapidated old house that has been in disrepair for a long time is obviously the residence of a wizard, and the wizard living here is very likely the last secret keeper who holds the key.

In this case, the clue to the password is most likely in this dilapidated old house!
"Aquila! Aslan!" Xielin shouted coldly, and the shadows of the two summoned beasts immediately appeared around Xielin.

"I want to cast a time-traveling spell and need your help!" Xie Ling said.

"Sherin, time magic is a very advanced forbidden field. Although Lord Ravenclaw is proficient in space magic, he is still very cautious about time magic." Aquila said.

"It's the same here," Aslan said loudly, "Although Lord Gryffindor is proficient in illusion magic, it is still just an illusory scene, not a real journey through time and space. As far as I know, no wizard in history has ever dared to touch the forbidden area of ​​time magic."

"Actually..." Xie Ling's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he said in a deep voice: "I have a time converter in my hand. What I really want to know is whether you have any way to avoid the backlash caused by using the time converter."

Currently, the time-turner is limited to turning back time by a maximum of five hours. This is because the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic once conducted an experiment in 1899, sending Heloise Mintenberg back to 1402. When the Ministry of Magic used the time-turner to forcibly recall her, her physiological state turned out to be five centuries older, and she died after being sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

Aquila and Aslan were silent for a long time. Time and causality should not be manipulated. Even though they had followed the four most powerful wizards in the tenth century, they did not have much intersection with time magic.

"In theory, it is impossible to avoid the backlash of the power of time on a normal wizard..." Aquila said slowly: "But you can't be considered a normal wizard..."

"First of all, you have spiritual power that ordinary wizards don't have, and you have broken the spiritual shackles to reach the level of spiritual power. Your body has also been transformed by the source of life of Master Hufflepuff, and is filled with vitality far beyond that of ordinary people..." Aquila said, "Based on these two points alone, you are already standing at a higher starting point than the four founders of Hogwarts..."

"Aquila," Sherin said, "You may not know that I later gained the pure blood of Slytherin and the brave heart of Gryffindor. Although I don't know what benefits these two new powers will bring to me at present, it is obvious that their existence will not be meaningless."

In Xie Ling's opinion, among the inherited powers left to him by the four founders, the most important ones are the Crystal of Wisdom and the Source of Life. These two have greatly enhanced Xie Ling's mental strength and vitality. The Pure Blood currently has no apparent use, and the Heart of Courage simply allows him to master a secret.

“Roar, roar—” Aslan said, “Don’t underestimate these two forces. Although the four founders have never fought directly, Lord Gryffindor once told me that he is confident that he can defeat Lords Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw in actual combat. Lord Slytherin is the opponent he fears the most.”

"I agree with the stupid lion," Aquila said, "According to the old man Slytherin's character, pure blood should be used to stimulate blood power, but since you have activated your own blood to a very rare level by yourself, the power of pure blood cannot make you feel more benefits in a short period of time. In my opinion, you may need some external stimulation to accelerate the release of pure blood."

Xie Lin nodded to show that he understood, and then asked, "What about the courageous heart? Does it simply exist as a prerequisite for the ultimate fighting spirit?"