Chapter 530 [2-in-1] Vulcan opens the way!
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He Dian Bai Kai Shui
Looking at the ship that could only accommodate one person standing, Harry hesitated.
"Professor...this ship...doesn't seem like it can carry all of us..."
"That's true." Dumbledore nodded, bending slightly to observe the boat carefully.
"Furthermore, can this boat avoid attacks from those guys in the lake?" Harry looked a little pale as he recalled the menacing Inferi just now and the boat that was pressed into the water and transformed using the transfiguration spell.
"I think it's safe enough. Riddle needs a way to cross the lake smoothly if he needs to visit or take away his Horcrux."
Dumbledore straightened up. "It is obvious that this ship can only bear one wizard."
"Then what do we do?" Harry asked.
"We have a better way." Dumbledore smiled mysteriously and looked at Sirius, "This will trouble our Mr. Black."
Sirius had a confused look on his face.
Su Er understood it.
"You mean, Jean Kreacher..."
"Yes, if my guess is correct, this house elf can take us to the island in the middle of the lake."
Dumbledore smiled slightly, "Originally, I thought I could ignore these arrangements by Riddle, but it seems that my student has grown beyond my imagination in some aspects."
"Understood." Sirius nodded. As the only direct male heir of the Black family currently alive, he naturally inherited the identity of Kreacher's master and automatically became the only male and only patriarch of the Black family.
Even if this house elf is indeed not so obedient sometimes...
"Kreacher," he called into the air.
There was a 'pop' sound, and Kreacher, who was far away at No. 12 of Klimo Square, arrived here in an instant while the call was still echoing in the cave.
The first rule of house elves is to obey their master's orders.
The first thing Kreacher did after arriving here was to take stock of the surrounding environment. He also saw the small island in the center of the lake, shrouded in hazy green light. Strange yet familiar memories came to his mind, and he immediately reacted. , where is this.
Then, I saw the kind-hearted Dumbledore.
It realizes what's coming next.
"Mr. Dumbledore, Mr. Bones." Kreacher bowed with a trembling voice, ignoring the real owner, "What can I do?"
"It seems that my guess is not wrong." Dumbledore smiled and nodded to Kreacher, then turned to explain to everyone,
"Although my student has arranged a lot of means to prevent wizards from discovering this place, he is so proud and conceited that he obviously forgot that the anti-Apparition here is useless to house elves."
Then, he looked at Kreacher, who was still bending over, and spoke softly.
"Excuse me, please take us with you and apparate to the island in the center of the lake."
"No problem, Mr. Dumbledore." Kreacher raised his head, his eyes flashing, "Please... sir, catch Kreacher."
There was an explosion, and the next second, a group of five people appeared on the island in the middle of the lake.
The green light became brighter. The island was about the same size as an office. Five people and an elf standing in the center had made it slightly crowded.
A large black stone slab is in the center of the island, and there is nothing else there.
Oh, of course, this other object does not include the light source on the stone slab that is emitting green light---a stone basin similar to a pensieve.
It is full of emerald green liquid with green phosphorescence.
Before Dumbledore could speak, Snape took the lead and approached the stone basin. He observed it cautiously for a while, then stretched out his hand and touched the surface of the liquid with his fingertips.
No one stopped him, because there was a discussion about potions, and Snape walked away from everyone.
The fingertips paused when they touched the surface of the liquid. He seemed unable to continue exploring downward. After several experiments, he retracted his hand expressionlessly, took out the wand and hovered on the surface of the liquid, muttering something silently.
After a while, nothing happened, but it seemed that the green light in the liquid became more vivid.
"How? Severus." Dumbledore asked softly.
Snape withdrew his wand, frowned, and replied, "This is a potion, but it is not a potion. It is a combination of black magic and potions. You cannot reach in because there is a powerful isolation magic on the surface." Curse, to prevent it from evaporating and leaving the stone basin."
"The disappearance spell is invalid, and it cannot be removed with magic. It is even less possible to use magic to deform it or change its properties in other ways."
Dumbledore nodded, "So, there is only one possibility--"
"Yes, primitive but absolutely effective." Snape raised his wand again and waved it silently, and a translucent goblet appeared.
"Drinking it completely is the only way." Snape shook the cup gently, curved the corners of his mouth slightly, then put it to his lips and took a sip.
It was so wild. Soul couldn't help but smacked his lips. Wasn't Snape worried that this cup of green liquid could poison him?
Although he already knew from the 'prophet' ability that the potion here was not fatal.
Snape's brows furrowed visibly, and a flash of pain flashed in his eyes, but he regained his composure after more than ten seconds.
The voice continued to sound with a hint of trembling.
"It won't have any impact on the body, but it will bring mental torture to the user, reminding them of the most painful memories." Snape's relaxed brows frowned again, and his eyes seemed to be looking at Sirius casually. At a glance,
"My guess is correct. This is a combination of potions and black magic. After surviving the initial torture, there will be a burning sensation, which will give people the illusion of extreme thirst."
Dumbledore frowned slightly and reached out to take the crystal cup from Snape's hand. Amidst Harry's short exclamation, Dumbledore drank it in one gulp.
Old Bee's blue eyes closed, and he maintained his natural drooping movement after drinking water. He remained still, his face was calm, and he didn't even frown.
Not long after.
"Ahem..." Dumbledore opened his eyes and coughed slightly.
"Are you okay, Professor?" Harry asked worriedly.
"It's okay." Dumbledore shook his head slightly, put the cup aside gently, and said with emotion, "I remembered a lot of memories that I thought I had forgotten."
"Severus, if it were you, could you make such a potion?"
Snape thought for a few seconds, then shook his head slightly.
"It seems that my student's growth in black magic has exceeded my imagination..."
"If you want to defeat him completely...you have to make some changes...no, maybe there is only one..."
Dumbledore muttered something, but Harry couldn't hear it clearly and looked at Dumbledore in confusion.
"what did you say?"
"Nothing, Harry, it's just that a question that has puzzled me for a long time has been slightly answered." Dumbledore smiled slightly, and in Harry's blank eyes, he pulled out the Elder Wand.
"Next, it's time to get down to business."
"Get ready, Sirius, and Kreacher. You only have one chance. I can't guarantee that you will get what you want, because I don't know how many Inferi are inside."
"Harry." Dumbledore looked at the Destiny Child, "I hope you can stand beside Severus and never leave."
Harry subconsciously looked at Snape, and Snape also looked over.
No one knew what kind of communication the two people looked at each other, but Harry seemed to have no other choice.
"Sul, please do me a favor." Dumbledore saw Snape grabbing the back of Harry's neck like a chicken, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at Sol.
Su Er's eyes lit up, oh, are we going to start?That mind-blowing magic.
That magic that represents the peak of the friendship between Emperor Ge and Emperor Deng?
"what can I do?"
"It's very simple, lure those guys out of the lake and hope we are lucky enough."
"It's easy, Professor." Sule had read about the Inferi in a book. This kind of soulless, self-aware walking dead can be easily seduced.
The easiest task, bar none.
Dumbledore shook the Elder Wand slightly.
"Then let's get started."
Soul nodded, raised his wand, pointed it at the edge of the lake, and silently recited the spell.
A fawn appeared silently on the shore of the lake, approaching the lake with brisk steps and lowering its head gracefully.
The lake water surged up the moment the deer came into contact with the water, like a person who had been sleeping for a long time being awakened. One after another, pale hands stretched out from the water and grabbed the deer.
Soul was well prepared. He raised his wand slightly, and the deer stepped back, narrowly avoiding the hands grabbing its body.
"Crash, crash..." came the sound of water breaking, and one after another, with ferocious faces and completely retaining the ferocious posture before death, the Inferi crawled out of the water.
Soon, densely packed Inferi surrounded the five people.
At the same time, Dumbledore whispered the spell.
"Ring of Fire..."
With the five people in the center, a line of fire spurted out from the tip of the Elder Wand, and quickly formed a circle around the people, just like the diamond circle drawn by Sun Wukong for Tang Monk.
The hot breath filled the dark and cold island.
The Inferi retreated in panic like small animals seeing their natural enemies.
But another ring of fire spurted out from the Elder Wand blocked their retreat.
"You can go in. Pay attention to safety, Sirius. The same trick can only be performed once. If there is no Regulus here, we can only give up." Dumbledore said softly.
Sirius nodded solemnly, pulled out his wand and stepped into the ring of fire.
Kreacher was one step ahead of him, and when it came to missing Regulus, no one could compare to him.
The Inferi were surrounded by a ring of fire in the center. They were unable to move forward or retreat. With the intrusion of Sirius and Kreacher, the scene suddenly became commotion.
Chaotic footsteps and unconscious whooshing sounds echoed in the empty cave.
Soul had nothing to do, and he didn't know Regulus, so he couldn't intervene. Dumbledore maintained the ring of fire, watching Sirius and the house elf Kreacher walking back and forth among the underworld, protecting them. .
The claws of the Inferi are poisonous and are much more troublesome to deal with than ordinary wounds.
Harry didn't know this, but he stared at Sirius outside the ring with the same concern, his eyes following his body.
It is much more difficult to find the desired corpse among the densely packed Inferi than to completely destroy them, and it takes a lot of time.
About 10 minutes passed, or maybe 10 minutes.
Sirius ran into the ring first, with a tired look on his face, and his clothes were in pieces due to the attack of the Inferi. He shook his head under Dumbledore's questioning eyes.
He failed.
But there is one hope, Kreacher.
In fact, the probability of finding Regulus is quite high. The Inferi are unconscious and unconscious dead things, and naturally they will not have any desire to eat that belongs to life. If Regulus was dragged into the bottom of the lake at that time, There is a high probability that it is around this isolated island.
The premise is that in the lake, the Inferi will not move unless something forces them to leave their position, such as light or heat, or someone enters here.
"Bang!" A loud explosion sounded from where Kreacher was, and Dumbledore's eyes moved.
"Oh, it seems that it has found Regulus."
Dumbledore's ring of fire had an extremely restraining effect on the Inferi. In order to prevent Regulus' body from being burned when passing through the ring of fire, he shook his wand slightly, and the ring of fire silently opened a hole, like a swimming snake. Just as quickly, he got into the group of Yin zombies.
The inner ring and the outer ring were connected, and a few unlucky Inferi were caught in the flames and burned quickly, leaving only white ashes.
Kreacher anxiously grabbed an inferi, with tears in his eyes, and shouted---
"Master, this is Kreacher. Kreacher is here to take you home, Master."
But how could Regulus, who had become a member of the Inferi, respond to it? He just opened his mouth wide and took one step to the left and one to the right like a zombie.
Sirius quickly passed through Soul.
Not long after, Regulus was brought back, being mummified by ropes and twisting like a caterpillar.
Kreacher followed closely behind, muttering all the time - 'Master Regulus, Kreacher will take you home. '
Oh, the scene of the reunion between master and servant is touching.
"Okay, Kreacher, when I get back, I will hold a funeral for Regulus." Sirius said in a serious tone.
Dumbledore raised his wand lightly, and the two rings of fire quickly closed in. The Inferi fell to the ground without resistance, completely dead, and the dark stone surface of the island was quickly covered with a thick layer of ashes.
"Get ready, Kreacher."
Dumbledore's words were full of magic, bringing Kreacher back to reality, "After I release the next magic, take us out of here and back to Grimmauld Place."
"Yes, Mr. Dumbledore." Kreacher wiped away his tears, looking more respectful than ever before.
Snape held Harry's neck and came over. Soul grabbed the corner of Kreacher's tattered clothes. Sirius held the rope and put his free hand on Soul's shoulder.
The ring of fire disappeared, and there was no obstacle to the Inferi in the lake. Once one of these creatures was activated, the rest would become active, and they began to approach the island.
A large area of white things was surging under the dark lake.
Dumbledore looked calmly at the white hands or feet climbing up from the shore. He raised his wand high, and after a short period of energy accumulation, he chanted the spell clearly and powerfully.
"Vulcan clears the way!"
A bright, dazzling golden-red fire ring jumped out from the tip of the Elder Wand, quickly spinning around the five people, expanding outwards firmly and powerfully.
The stone basin and platform were the first to be engulfed in flames.
Then it's the Inferi's turn, and they can't avoid it.
Next, there is the lake. The flame created by this magic does not seem to be extinguished by the lake, but it is not as violent as Li Huo.
It obeyed the command and quickly expanded until everything in its sight was filled with golden red.
The wind brought by the spinning flames fluttered Dumbledore's beard, and the wizard's robes swayed.
At this moment, he stood in the center with his magic wand held high like a god!
"Professor...this ship...doesn't seem like it can carry all of us..."
"That's true." Dumbledore nodded, bending slightly to observe the boat carefully.
"Furthermore, can this boat avoid attacks from those guys in the lake?" Harry looked a little pale as he recalled the menacing Inferi just now and the boat that was pressed into the water and transformed using the transfiguration spell.
"I think it's safe enough. Riddle needs a way to cross the lake smoothly if he needs to visit or take away his Horcrux."
Dumbledore straightened up. "It is obvious that this ship can only bear one wizard."
"Then what do we do?" Harry asked.
"We have a better way." Dumbledore smiled mysteriously and looked at Sirius, "This will trouble our Mr. Black."
Sirius had a confused look on his face.
Su Er understood it.
"You mean, Jean Kreacher..."
"Yes, if my guess is correct, this house elf can take us to the island in the middle of the lake."
Dumbledore smiled slightly, "Originally, I thought I could ignore these arrangements by Riddle, but it seems that my student has grown beyond my imagination in some aspects."
"Understood." Sirius nodded. As the only direct male heir of the Black family currently alive, he naturally inherited the identity of Kreacher's master and automatically became the only male and only patriarch of the Black family.
Even if this house elf is indeed not so obedient sometimes...
"Kreacher," he called into the air.
There was a 'pop' sound, and Kreacher, who was far away at No. 12 of Klimo Square, arrived here in an instant while the call was still echoing in the cave.
The first rule of house elves is to obey their master's orders.
The first thing Kreacher did after arriving here was to take stock of the surrounding environment. He also saw the small island in the center of the lake, shrouded in hazy green light. Strange yet familiar memories came to his mind, and he immediately reacted. , where is this.
Then, I saw the kind-hearted Dumbledore.
It realizes what's coming next.
"Mr. Dumbledore, Mr. Bones." Kreacher bowed with a trembling voice, ignoring the real owner, "What can I do?"
"It seems that my guess is not wrong." Dumbledore smiled and nodded to Kreacher, then turned to explain to everyone,
"Although my student has arranged a lot of means to prevent wizards from discovering this place, he is so proud and conceited that he obviously forgot that the anti-Apparition here is useless to house elves."
Then, he looked at Kreacher, who was still bending over, and spoke softly.
"Excuse me, please take us with you and apparate to the island in the center of the lake."
"No problem, Mr. Dumbledore." Kreacher raised his head, his eyes flashing, "Please... sir, catch Kreacher."
There was an explosion, and the next second, a group of five people appeared on the island in the middle of the lake.
The green light became brighter. The island was about the same size as an office. Five people and an elf standing in the center had made it slightly crowded.
A large black stone slab is in the center of the island, and there is nothing else there.
Oh, of course, this other object does not include the light source on the stone slab that is emitting green light---a stone basin similar to a pensieve.
It is full of emerald green liquid with green phosphorescence.
Before Dumbledore could speak, Snape took the lead and approached the stone basin. He observed it cautiously for a while, then stretched out his hand and touched the surface of the liquid with his fingertips.
No one stopped him, because there was a discussion about potions, and Snape walked away from everyone.
The fingertips paused when they touched the surface of the liquid. He seemed unable to continue exploring downward. After several experiments, he retracted his hand expressionlessly, took out the wand and hovered on the surface of the liquid, muttering something silently.
After a while, nothing happened, but it seemed that the green light in the liquid became more vivid.
"How? Severus." Dumbledore asked softly.
Snape withdrew his wand, frowned, and replied, "This is a potion, but it is not a potion. It is a combination of black magic and potions. You cannot reach in because there is a powerful isolation magic on the surface." Curse, to prevent it from evaporating and leaving the stone basin."
"The disappearance spell is invalid, and it cannot be removed with magic. It is even less possible to use magic to deform it or change its properties in other ways."
Dumbledore nodded, "So, there is only one possibility--"
"Yes, primitive but absolutely effective." Snape raised his wand again and waved it silently, and a translucent goblet appeared.
"Drinking it completely is the only way." Snape shook the cup gently, curved the corners of his mouth slightly, then put it to his lips and took a sip.
It was so wild. Soul couldn't help but smacked his lips. Wasn't Snape worried that this cup of green liquid could poison him?
Although he already knew from the 'prophet' ability that the potion here was not fatal.
Snape's brows furrowed visibly, and a flash of pain flashed in his eyes, but he regained his composure after more than ten seconds.
The voice continued to sound with a hint of trembling.
"It won't have any impact on the body, but it will bring mental torture to the user, reminding them of the most painful memories." Snape's relaxed brows frowned again, and his eyes seemed to be looking at Sirius casually. At a glance,
"My guess is correct. This is a combination of potions and black magic. After surviving the initial torture, there will be a burning sensation, which will give people the illusion of extreme thirst."
Dumbledore frowned slightly and reached out to take the crystal cup from Snape's hand. Amidst Harry's short exclamation, Dumbledore drank it in one gulp.
Old Bee's blue eyes closed, and he maintained his natural drooping movement after drinking water. He remained still, his face was calm, and he didn't even frown.
Not long after.
"Ahem..." Dumbledore opened his eyes and coughed slightly.
"Are you okay, Professor?" Harry asked worriedly.
"It's okay." Dumbledore shook his head slightly, put the cup aside gently, and said with emotion, "I remembered a lot of memories that I thought I had forgotten."
"Severus, if it were you, could you make such a potion?"
Snape thought for a few seconds, then shook his head slightly.
"It seems that my student's growth in black magic has exceeded my imagination..."
"If you want to defeat him completely...you have to make some changes...no, maybe there is only one..."
Dumbledore muttered something, but Harry couldn't hear it clearly and looked at Dumbledore in confusion.
"what did you say?"
"Nothing, Harry, it's just that a question that has puzzled me for a long time has been slightly answered." Dumbledore smiled slightly, and in Harry's blank eyes, he pulled out the Elder Wand.
"Next, it's time to get down to business."
"Get ready, Sirius, and Kreacher. You only have one chance. I can't guarantee that you will get what you want, because I don't know how many Inferi are inside."
"Harry." Dumbledore looked at the Destiny Child, "I hope you can stand beside Severus and never leave."
Harry subconsciously looked at Snape, and Snape also looked over.
No one knew what kind of communication the two people looked at each other, but Harry seemed to have no other choice.
"Sul, please do me a favor." Dumbledore saw Snape grabbing the back of Harry's neck like a chicken, nodded with satisfaction, and then looked at Sol.
Su Er's eyes lit up, oh, are we going to start?That mind-blowing magic.
That magic that represents the peak of the friendship between Emperor Ge and Emperor Deng?
"what can I do?"
"It's very simple, lure those guys out of the lake and hope we are lucky enough."
"It's easy, Professor." Sule had read about the Inferi in a book. This kind of soulless, self-aware walking dead can be easily seduced.
The easiest task, bar none.
Dumbledore shook the Elder Wand slightly.
"Then let's get started."
Soul nodded, raised his wand, pointed it at the edge of the lake, and silently recited the spell.
A fawn appeared silently on the shore of the lake, approaching the lake with brisk steps and lowering its head gracefully.
The lake water surged up the moment the deer came into contact with the water, like a person who had been sleeping for a long time being awakened. One after another, pale hands stretched out from the water and grabbed the deer.
Soul was well prepared. He raised his wand slightly, and the deer stepped back, narrowly avoiding the hands grabbing its body.
"Crash, crash..." came the sound of water breaking, and one after another, with ferocious faces and completely retaining the ferocious posture before death, the Inferi crawled out of the water.
Soon, densely packed Inferi surrounded the five people.
At the same time, Dumbledore whispered the spell.
"Ring of Fire..."
With the five people in the center, a line of fire spurted out from the tip of the Elder Wand, and quickly formed a circle around the people, just like the diamond circle drawn by Sun Wukong for Tang Monk.
The hot breath filled the dark and cold island.
The Inferi retreated in panic like small animals seeing their natural enemies.
But another ring of fire spurted out from the Elder Wand blocked their retreat.
"You can go in. Pay attention to safety, Sirius. The same trick can only be performed once. If there is no Regulus here, we can only give up." Dumbledore said softly.
Sirius nodded solemnly, pulled out his wand and stepped into the ring of fire.
Kreacher was one step ahead of him, and when it came to missing Regulus, no one could compare to him.
The Inferi were surrounded by a ring of fire in the center. They were unable to move forward or retreat. With the intrusion of Sirius and Kreacher, the scene suddenly became commotion.
Chaotic footsteps and unconscious whooshing sounds echoed in the empty cave.
Soul had nothing to do, and he didn't know Regulus, so he couldn't intervene. Dumbledore maintained the ring of fire, watching Sirius and the house elf Kreacher walking back and forth among the underworld, protecting them. .
The claws of the Inferi are poisonous and are much more troublesome to deal with than ordinary wounds.
Harry didn't know this, but he stared at Sirius outside the ring with the same concern, his eyes following his body.
It is much more difficult to find the desired corpse among the densely packed Inferi than to completely destroy them, and it takes a lot of time.
About 10 minutes passed, or maybe 10 minutes.
Sirius ran into the ring first, with a tired look on his face, and his clothes were in pieces due to the attack of the Inferi. He shook his head under Dumbledore's questioning eyes.
He failed.
But there is one hope, Kreacher.
In fact, the probability of finding Regulus is quite high. The Inferi are unconscious and unconscious dead things, and naturally they will not have any desire to eat that belongs to life. If Regulus was dragged into the bottom of the lake at that time, There is a high probability that it is around this isolated island.
The premise is that in the lake, the Inferi will not move unless something forces them to leave their position, such as light or heat, or someone enters here.
"Bang!" A loud explosion sounded from where Kreacher was, and Dumbledore's eyes moved.
"Oh, it seems that it has found Regulus."
Dumbledore's ring of fire had an extremely restraining effect on the Inferi. In order to prevent Regulus' body from being burned when passing through the ring of fire, he shook his wand slightly, and the ring of fire silently opened a hole, like a swimming snake. Just as quickly, he got into the group of Yin zombies.
The inner ring and the outer ring were connected, and a few unlucky Inferi were caught in the flames and burned quickly, leaving only white ashes.
Kreacher anxiously grabbed an inferi, with tears in his eyes, and shouted---
"Master, this is Kreacher. Kreacher is here to take you home, Master."
But how could Regulus, who had become a member of the Inferi, respond to it? He just opened his mouth wide and took one step to the left and one to the right like a zombie.
Sirius quickly passed through Soul.
Not long after, Regulus was brought back, being mummified by ropes and twisting like a caterpillar.
Kreacher followed closely behind, muttering all the time - 'Master Regulus, Kreacher will take you home. '
Oh, the scene of the reunion between master and servant is touching.
"Okay, Kreacher, when I get back, I will hold a funeral for Regulus." Sirius said in a serious tone.
Dumbledore raised his wand lightly, and the two rings of fire quickly closed in. The Inferi fell to the ground without resistance, completely dead, and the dark stone surface of the island was quickly covered with a thick layer of ashes.
"Get ready, Kreacher."
Dumbledore's words were full of magic, bringing Kreacher back to reality, "After I release the next magic, take us out of here and back to Grimmauld Place."
"Yes, Mr. Dumbledore." Kreacher wiped away his tears, looking more respectful than ever before.
Snape held Harry's neck and came over. Soul grabbed the corner of Kreacher's tattered clothes. Sirius held the rope and put his free hand on Soul's shoulder.
The ring of fire disappeared, and there was no obstacle to the Inferi in the lake. Once one of these creatures was activated, the rest would become active, and they began to approach the island.
A large area of white things was surging under the dark lake.
Dumbledore looked calmly at the white hands or feet climbing up from the shore. He raised his wand high, and after a short period of energy accumulation, he chanted the spell clearly and powerfully.
"Vulcan clears the way!"
A bright, dazzling golden-red fire ring jumped out from the tip of the Elder Wand, quickly spinning around the five people, expanding outwards firmly and powerfully.
The stone basin and platform were the first to be engulfed in flames.
Then it's the Inferi's turn, and they can't avoid it.
Next, there is the lake. The flame created by this magic does not seem to be extinguished by the lake, but it is not as violent as Li Huo.
It obeyed the command and quickly expanded until everything in its sight was filled with golden red.
The wind brought by the spinning flames fluttered Dumbledore's beard, and the wizard's robes swayed.
At this moment, he stood in the center with his magic wand held high like a god!
