Chapter 98 Basilisk

The welcome dinner is over,

Raven begins his daily night outing for the new school year.

Raven knew the location of the Slytherin pool, but he did not open it.

Salazar Slytherin had a falling out with several other founders and left.

So the secret room he built is not within the Hogwarts system.

Of course, there are also chambers of secrets within the Hogwarts system.

Excluding the secret classroom that Ominis Gaunt knew,

The old guy also has a secret laboratory in the Slytherin common room.

Those who are not descendants of Slytherin cannot enter.

Even a descendant of Slytherin would have to use a heartbreaking blow to unlock the door.

It can only be said that the old Slytherin is really a little crazy.

But this laboratory has long been vacated by Raven and Sebastian Saru.

Voldemort should be unable to benefit from this secret laboratory.

All he had access to was the basilisk chamber.

That basilisk chamber requires Parseltongue as the key to open it.

It's a pity that Ominis guy doesn't know how.

Then Raven wouldn't be able to just dig up the ancestral inheritance from her good friend's house, right?

So the matter of the secret room was dropped.

The basilisk in the secret room would occasionally come out to hunt for prey. When Raven first entered school, he could still find the remains of an Acromantula in the Forbidden Forest.

But I have never faced this basilisk directly, I only deduced it based on the traces.

At that time, there were Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts.

Now that I think about it, Slytherin should be the one raising and feeding the snakes.

Just like Pappy will also raise some "Doubia" as a ration for her lizards.

But it seems...maybe...those Acromantulas were destroyed by Raven, which is embarrassing.

This snake must have been sleeping because of lack of food until it was awakened by Voldemort.

not sure,

Anyway, this basilisk is quite picky and has no habit of eating people.

Myrtle was not eaten by this snake.

Perhaps until Aragog's descendants multiply in the Forbidden Forest and inherit the territory and nests of the previous Acromantulas, this big snake can have a full meal.

Raven's mind wandered so far that she came to the Slytherin pool.

This time he came prepared.

This is a girls' washroom, and few people actually use it because a ghost, the ghost of a student, haunts it.

She died here and refused to leave for a long time.

Cries came from the old wooden back door.

Eerie, of course, to the uninformed.

Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, that was the ghost's full name,

Long, straight hair and thick glasses.

Just a very ordinary student.

But not that ordinary.

Raven looked through the memories of classmate Xiaofu,

It was discovered that this person was actually the first person Voldemort killed.

It was also because of this murder that fifth grader Tom Marvolo Riddle successfully created the first Horcrux.

On the road to stealing death.

He also officially embraced the dream name Lord Voldemort.

I wonder if Myrtle would be happy if she knew that she actually had the opportunity to leave her name in the history of magic.

Raven took out the crystal ball that recorded Harry's Parseltongue and played the part

"Open"

The hissing sound of snakes spitting messages played from inside the crystal ball.

The ceiling of the pool rose into the air, and the sink landed, revealing a black hole.

This movement alarmed Myrtle, who was hiding in the back door of the partition and crying.

She looked out through the wooden planks, but she didn't expect to see a phoenix.

Animagus - magical beast - phoenix form.

Who knows how high the visual lethality level of the basilisk is, but Raven just needs to be careful first and turn into a phoenix.

Ignore the ghost,

Raven landed along the pipe, which extended downwards.

The direction is towards the Black Lake.

Originally, the Slytherin common room was under the Black Lake.

Now it seems that this bad old man has built the secret room further down.

A hole was dug out almost directly under the Black Lake.

It wasn't until he saw a pile of snake sloughs that Raven stopped flapping his wings and turned into a human form.

The basilisk can live for about nine hundred years, and Hogwarts was founded around 990 AD, so the basilisk tamed by Salazar Slytherin has already entered its old age.

This is also supported by the large number of snake sloughs around 50 feet long.

Raven continued to take out the recording and opened the door.

This is an underground space,

The road that can accommodate two carriages running parallel is the main body here.

On both sides of the road are rows of snake head sculptures.

At the end of the room was the huge sculpture of Slytherin's old face, which Raven recognized immediately.

The relationship between Raven and Salazar Slytherin can be said to be very bad, and the two people often had conflicts.

But considering the purpose of his trip, Raven had to play another recording.

Harry's Parseltongue voice came out.

"Slytherin--the greatest of the Big Four"

Slytherin's sculpture opens its mouth, revealing the pipes inside

Raven transformed into her phoenix form and flew into the air, waiting for her prey to take the bait.

There was a crawling sound, and a 50-foot-long snake crawled out.

It has dazzling green snake scales, yellow eyes like car headlights, and no bright red feathers on its forehead.

The basilisk climbed out and looked around, but could not find the person who summoned it. It was obvious that it had heard the Parselmouth.

It wanted to see which reckless wizard dared to disturb it.

As a basilisk bred by Slytherin, this big snake can only be controlled by the Parseltongue directly from Slytherin, instead of being able to recognize any Parseltongue like an ordinary basilisk.

Unfortunately, it looked around and saw no one, only the crystal ball on the ground that was playing repeatedly.

Realizing that he had been tricked, the basilisk smashed the crystal ball to pieces with its tail.

When the opportunity came, Rui Wen's phoenix swooped down,

Raven, who rode on top of the basilisk, no longer had to worry about the basilisk's eyes, and returned to his wizard form.

Use the deformation technique to control the gravel on the ground, turn it into vines, and wrap the basilisk's head.

The basilisk's body twisted wildly, trying to untie the snake's head.

This way he has fangs and snake eyes for resistance.

The basilisk heard the laughter of its unknown enemy.

Basilisks are completely different from snakes in structure. They can hear Parseltongue and hear roosters crow, so they naturally have an auditory system.

Raven smiled happily because he found this secret room very good,

Open and airtight, the echo can be heard clearly.

Just use that trick!

He put on earmuffs and took out a flower pot from his greenhouse.

This is Mandrake.

Raven grabbed the blade part and pulled hard.

"sa!!!"

Sound waves visible to the naked eye spread from the mouth of Mandrake Root.

The surrounding walls also reflected the sound waves very well, allowing the noise waves to continuously overlap and spread.

Assail the basilisk's head,

quickly,

The basilisk's body froze and stopped struggling.