Chapter 500 Return to the Grave

The genius remembers the address of this site in a second: (Apex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! It has been several days since Maca left Hogwarts. Originally no one knew about his journey this time, where has he been these few days? What did you do again? No one knows.

But in fact, these days, he has been staying in the same place, never leaving a step.

This place is called the Tomb of the Vile Helbo.

In the deepest part of the underground palace where you can't reach your fingers, Maca is still sitting on the ground, a thick notebook is floating steadily in front of him, and he is writing quickly on the parchment page.

Beside him, a mass of soft light sinks and floats, fluttering up and down slightly, providing him with sufficient illumination.

It's just that this stone room is really too big, even this light ball can't completely illuminate it, and most of the rest of the space is still submerged in endless darkness.

Suddenly, Makana's right hand that was holding the pen stopped the movement of writing vigorously, and coughed twice. The sound was not loud, but the underground palace was so quiet and empty that the sound of his cough could be heard far away in an instant.

He shook his head slightly, then raised his eyes and looked ahead.

Located directly in front of his current position is a huge black stone tablet. The size of this stele is astonishingly large, even though the main tomb is wide enough, it occupies more than half of it.

At this time, most of the stele is still in the dark, so what is Maka looking at?

But he saw that he casually picked up the staff beside him, and lightly touched the top to a certain point on the ground. Immediately, a wave of magic power flowed from the wand to the top, and it was sent out continuously.

Immediately, several faint blue light spots lighted up silently, and quickly flowed into a line on the ground, spreading quickly from the point touched by the staff.

On the way, a large number of complicated branches appeared on those glowing blue fluorescent lines, and every time they passed through some branches, several strange symbols would light up. Soon, these lines and runes surrounded the black stone tablet, forming a large rune array that seemed to have no rules at all.

When the array that almost occupied most of the open space was lit up, the stone tablet that was not in the dark suddenly reacted—on the originally clean stone tablet, purple ones appeared quietly. black text.

Maca, who was sitting on the ground, seemed to be used to all of this, without showing any surprise. This is a matter of course... because he has seen this scene several times after finishing the formation two days ago.

Right now, taking advantage of the words on the stele to appear, Maca immediately compared them with the contents of his notes. At present, the magic power he can use is very limited, and the time he can use to activate the rune array is not long, so he has to hurry up every time.

Most of the characters in these scripts are actually not unusual, they are not magical in themselves, and seem to be simply a combination of ideograms.

It's just that these characters that seem to be simplified paintings look familiar. If you have to say something, they are actually somewhat similar to the early ancient Egyptian characters. But even a person like Maca who has a deep study of ancient text symbols doesn't remember seeing them from that ancient book or rubbings.

Therefore, he had to go through a series of interpretations and translations before he could transform the words on the stele into specific content that he could understand.

In fact, this kind of work of analyzing ancient texts is the most time-consuming and energy-consuming. Whether in the Muggle world or the wizarding world, those scholars often spend their entire lives on an unsolved text.

Fortunately, among the text symbols displayed on this black stone tablet, there is still a small part of the real rule runes.

Words with magic power have a natural advantage in conveying meaning, because they can make wizards feel their own meaning intuitively. so,

Even though Maca's understanding of rule runes is still very shallow, it has brought great convenience to his analysis and translation work.

There is no doubt that this kind of writing is actually a strange description system centered on regular runes, plus ordinary pictographs as auxiliary interpretations.

If more inscriptions like this can be found, it may in turn help him speed up the process of analyzing the rule runes.

At this moment, it was the last time he activated the rune array. And all he had to do was to compare the original text again to check whether there was any deviation in the text he originally copied.

As for the content of these texts...

...The half of the text below should be some kind of ritual in ancient times?

After comparing the original text and finding that there were no mistakes or omissions, Maca stopped the transmission of magic power, and turned his gaze back to the page of the notes.

In the inscription that appeared, some objects were described very straightforwardly. They were a long sword, a mirror, a dagger, a cup, and a box.

For the latter two, Maca has no clue yet, but the first three made him have a series of associations.

Of course, his purpose this time was not these dangerous and weird rituals or magic props, but one of the rule runes that appeared in these inscriptions.

This rule rune is located in the center of the stele, and it is larger than other text symbols. If the other content is to show an unclear ancient ceremony, then what is expressed around this rule rune is exactly the meaning represented by the rune.

Right now, Maca is translating the content of this inscription, and part of the content of this inscription is translating a rule rune. Although this was the purpose of Maca's trip, he never expected that the result would be manifested in this way.

Last time when he was just experimenting with mice, he inadvertently saw the fleetingness of this rule rune. He originally thought that this time he would definitely be smashing against that rune for a long time!

After re-reading its contents carefully, Maca finally closed the diary and packed up all the scattered things around him. Immediately afterwards, he walked directly to the side of the stone chamber.

Miss Shane, it's time to eat.

In a corner of the stone chamber of the underground palace, Helen was leaning against the rough wall with her eyes closed, looking quite haggard.

Seriously, Maca didn't abuse her. Not to mention abuse, even the three meals a day, even if Maca canceled the meal because she was too busy, she never let her miss a meal.

But in the final analysis, this Helen has never seemed to have any appetite, and even had to be forced by him to eat.

Hey, it's time to eat! Maca said without raising his head while taking out dry food and water, If you don't eat, I'm going to force it again?

Helen finally reacted when she heard the word stuck.

She pursed her lips lightly, then opened her eyes and sat up straight, silently reached out and picked up a piece of bread. Although there was a jar of delicious marmalade next to it, she just gnawed on it as if she didn't see it at all.

In fact, she had been silently refusing to eat for the first two days of being here. Maca, who didn't have much time to spend, simply used magic to mix bread and water together after several times of persuasion to no avail, and poured it down her throat all at once.

Although under the effect of magic, it basically felt like drinking a big sip of water, but the sticky taste made Helen retch for most of the day.

After that, she finally gave up her plan to go on a hunger strike. Obviously, Maca didn't want her to die, and Maca didn't let her die, she felt that she probably couldn't die.

The young wizard was amazingly strong, stronger than any wizard she had ever seen.

At least in the past mission experience, she still thinks that she can be said to be the natural enemy of wizards, and has a very strong resistance to most spells. But in Maca's hands, she was captured without even being able to resist a few times.

Miss Shane, actually, you don't need to be so vigilant all the time. After Maca put all the food on the blanket, he also sat next to him and grabbed a piece of bread, took a bite and said vaguely, Aren't you okay? Want to say something?

Helen naturally heard Maca's words, but she didn't want to respond at all. For her, the final outcome was already doomed if the task was not completed, and she didn't want to say anything now.

But Maca didn't care. If he had to say something, he had spent hundreds of days alone before, and talking to himself was simply a habit. Others might find it embarrassing to be cold, but he didn't feel it at all.

Okay! If I said, what you are going to do, I just temporarily stopped it... He looked at Helen and said, Can you give me a different reaction?

As soon as these words were finished, Helen's little hand holding the bread suddenly tightened, and the soft bread was deformed. She paused, and looked towards Maca, with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

……What's the meaning?

Probably because she hadn't spoken for several days, her originally clear voice became a little hoarse.

Isn't your mission to sneak into Hogwarts and break the Mirror of Erised? Maca smiled casually and said indifferently, Although I don't understand why you are so persistent, in fact, you still have The opportunity to complete your task. All I want is to let it come later.

Really? Helen asked hesitantly.

Of course, do I have to lie to you? What's the point? Maca said, swallowing the food in his mouth, and said very simply, Otherwise, I'll let you break it now, how about it?

When Maca said these words, Helen's expression changed several times in a row, obviously more puzzled and doubted by Maca's words.