#827 - Room of Requests

After dealing with Voldemort's affairs and concluding the research on the Deathly Hallows, Anduin was finally able to free up time to handle some trivial matters.

Of course, these so-called trivial matters were also related to Voldemort and Herpo.

Firstly, in dealing with Herpo's affairs, Anduin, based on the known clues, judged that the other party's possible location should be in northern Russia, on a small island close to or already deep within the Arctic Circle.

To this end, Anduin hired a group of bounty hunters located in Europe, asking them to carry fear sensors and go to the corresponding area for reconnaissance.

After all, there were too many islands in that area. Anduin specifically searched Lockhart's memories for his memories of that witch.

However, Anduin didn't gain much useful information from that memory, only able to determine a general range.

It would be too difficult for Anduin to personally search that area, so after weighing the pros and cons, he chose to hire people.

Although it was a bit unkind to put those bounty hunters in danger, Anduin specifically stated the dangers involved before issuing the task, and deliberately increased the reward.

Judging from the employment results, there were still many desperadoes in Europe. Anduin's task was issued only a few days ago, and more than a dozen wizards had accepted the appointment.

To this, Anduin could only silently wish them all the best.

In addition to following up on Herpo's clues, Anduin's main focus during this period was to find the remaining Horcruxes.

First of all, he set his sights on [Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem], which was kept in Hogwarts.

According to the information in Voldemort's memory, Anduin came to the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle, to the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed by trolls.

Opposite the tapestry was only a bare stone wall. Anduin specifically used magic to sense it, but still couldn't detect anything unusual, as if it was just an ordinary wall.

"Interesting, if I hadn't seen it in Voldemort's memory, I probably wouldn't believe that there was a room hidden here. How many secrets are hidden in Hogwarts?"

After Anduin sighed with emotion, he concentrated his attention and silently recited in his heart, "I want a room to store junk," and walked past that wall three times.

Just as he passed by the wall for the third time, a very smooth door appeared on the wall.

"It's quite useful, can it help people realize whatever kind of room they want? In comparison, the research value of this room may be higher than the Horcrux. @Essence\\/Book Pavilion*First Release Update~~"

Anduin observed it with great interest, and then leisurely pushed the door open and entered.

The space inside the room was unusually large, and it was filled with objects piled up like countless small mountains, most of which were old furniture and sundries, which made people dizzy.

At the same time, there were broken wands and illegal products made by young wizards everywhere. It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack if you wanted to find an unknown item in such a place.

"Ravenclaw's Diadem, come to me!" Anduin mobilized his magic power and used a summoning charm, trying to summon the diadem.

However, whether it was because of the diadem's own special nature or because it was a Horcrux, it did not react to the summoning charm.

"It really doesn't work?" Anduin wasn't surprised by this. "In Voldemort's memory, he seemed to have placed the diadem on the head of an ugly old wizard's bust."

Having clues is much more efficient than searching blindly.

Before long, Anduin came to the bust in his memory, on whose head was covered a dusty old wig and a rusty diadem.

"Did he specially age it? He's really cautious enough."

Anduin chuckled secretly, and simply took off the diadem. While picking it up, he also mobilized his magic power and gently swept over the diadem's entire body.

Suddenly, the dark rust on the diadem was swept away, revealing the glittering crown inlaid with gems below.

"Legend has it that wearing Ravenclaw's Diadem can increase the wearer's wisdom. I wonder if it's true."

Anduin stared intently at the diadem in his hand, and then frowned slightly, "You still want to interfere with my thoughts at this time? You're really incorrigible."

Just now, an impulse to put on the diadem arose in his mind.

This was obviously the Horcrux trying to interfere with his mind, otherwise, with his caution, how could he have such an idea?

After discovering that the previous sneak attack had no effect, the Voldemort fragment soul in the diadem immediately launched a frontal attack, constantly emitting filthy spiritual energy, trying to contaminate Anduin's thoughts.

Anduin sneered when he saw this, "As expected of a Horcrux made in the later stages, its strength is obviously one level higher than other Horcruxes, but it's still useless to me."

He mobilized his Occlumency, protecting his thoughts tightly, and soon the seductive whispers disappeared from his ears.

"However, this Voldemort fragment soul reminded me that this diadem is, after all, a relic of the legendary Ravenclaw, and perhaps it shouldn't be destroyed just like that."

"But destroying the soul inside without destroying the Horcrux is not easy. I don't know if it will work."

"Let's try it. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work. If I'm not mistaken, this diadem is made entirely of 'refined mithril'. Even if I accidentally break it at that time, I can at least harvest a wave of high-level materials."

After secretly calculating in his heart, Anduin made up his mind without a care. Although he was curious about the so-called "wisdom" in the legend, he was not as enthusiastic as he imagined.

In his opinion, the so-called "increasing the wearer's wisdom" is probably related to wizarding qualities such as magical sensitivity or magical perception. @Essence\\/Book Pavilion*First Release Update~~

Maybe this is an alchemical item that can improve casting ability.

After complaining secretly, Anduin put the diadem away again, but he didn't rush to leave the Room of Requirement, but continued to wander around in this room.

It took him more than ten minutes to walk around the entire room. Anduin found that the area here was larger than he imagined, almost as large as Newt's magical animal warehouse.

The magic power and magical materials needed to expand such a large space are exaggerated just thinking about it.

Moreover, the Room of Requirement is more than just this one room.

Thinking of this, Anduin exited the room and repeatedly passed by the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed by trolls, trying to meet various needs in his heart.

"A luxurious bedroom."

"A laboratory for making potions."

"A potion laboratory with a luxurious bedroom."

"A luxurious bathroom filled with hot water."

"A luxurious bathroom with a bedroom and a potion laboratory, with dragon sculptures all over the ceiling."

In the beginning, after Anduin silently recited the room he wanted in his heart, the Room of Requirement could fulfill his needs perfectly.

Afterwards, he gradually increased his demands, and even made some strange requests, such as the specific decorations in the room, or integrating several room functions into one.

Surprisingly, the Room of Requirement could actually achieve it. Of course, the way it achieved it was also very rigid. For example, the last request he made was a "luxurious bathroom with a bedroom and a potion laboratory, with dragon sculptures all over the ceiling."

The Room of Requirement just put the three rooms together abruptly, and there was not even a gap between each area, and all kinds of decorations he requested in the room were available.

This discovery made Anduin more and more interested in the Room of Requirement. Where did these appliances in this room come from? Is it really omnipotent in terms of area and function?

Thinking of this, Anduin began the limit test.

"A full-sized indoor Quidditch pitch!"

"A luxurious movie theater!"

"A shooting range equipped with a full set of Glock series firearms!"

"A garage containing a Tiger tank!"

"A large restaurant filled with ten thousand bottles of butterbeer!"

After another round of testing, Anduin discovered the limitations of the Room of Requirement.

Obviously, when the requirements he made were too outrageous, the Room of Requirement would not fulfill the corresponding requests, at least not completely.

For example, he wanted a full-sized indoor Quidditch pitch, and the Room of Requirement did fulfill this need. The area did meet the standard, but the height was shorter than a real pitch.

Obviously, the Room of Requirement has certain limits in space.

In addition, when he made some requests that the Room of Requirement could not understand, the things that appeared in the room would also be somewhat different.

For example, he wanted a movie theater, but the Room of Requirement gave him a theater. Obviously, the Room of Requirement could not understand what a "movie theater" was like.

Even some things that were too beyond the wizarding world's knowledge, the Room of Requirement would not even be able to materialize.

Like the shooting range with guns and the garage with tanks that he wanted, the Room of Requirement simply didn't react at all and just gave him a wall.

When he needed a restaurant with a large number of drinks, the Room of Requirement did give him a restaurant with a large area, but the drinks did not appear.

Afterwards, Anduin tried the need for animals or other food in the room, and the Room of Requirement also failed to fulfill his wish.

Obviously, although the Room of Requirement was alive, it still obeyed Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration and could not conjure food or animals out of thin air.

"It's not completely beyond my understanding, but the existing performance is already very exaggerated. What is the principle of the Room of Requirement? Is it some kind of Transfiguration? Or is there really magic that can fulfill wishes?"

Anduin stood outside the Room of Requirement, stroking his chin and thinking silently. He always felt that there must be other secrets hidden in the Room of Requirement. First release update@

"Never mind, no matter what kind of magical creation it is, it must be composed of runes and incantations."

After thinking about it, Anduin walked into the Room of Requirement again. He had to study this room thoroughly.

After re-entering the room, he ignored the various furniture and decorations that had been conjured up next to him, and very skillfully took out a small silver hammer.

His harmless hammer has made great contributions in exploring unknown magical creations. Now this small hammer has been upgraded more than a dozen times. No magical item will not reveal its runes after being hammered a few times.

So after taking out the harmless hammer, Anduin didn't even think about it and started smashing the floor. Suddenly, the sound of clanging echoed in the room.

However, to Anduin's surprise, this Room of Requirement did not reveal the incantations that constructed it after this smashing as he had imagined.

On the contrary, after smashing for a full 5 minutes, the entire room remained as stable as ever, and no anomalies appeared at all.

"Is the structure so stable?"

Anduin would not think that the Room of Requirement was not composed of incantations because of such a result. On the contrary, this could only prove that the Room of Requirement was more stable than he imagined.

"If it was before, I really couldn't do anything to you except violently destroy part of the room's structure, but now..."

Anduin smiled slightly, and then exited the room.

After leaving the Room of Requirement, Anduin went straight back to his office. When he returned again, he was already wearing the Ethereal Armor.

"Let me see your true face!"

Anduin, who entered the Room of Requirement again, looked stern, and then launched the Ethereal Form without hesitation, and then pressed his palm hard to the ground.

As Anduin entered the Ethereal Form, the ethereal energy also slowly spread along his palm to the floor of the Room of Requirement.

However, the structure of the Room of Requirement was much more stable than Anduin imagined. Although he had used all his strength and pushed the output magic power to the peak, the area of ethereal transformation was only maintained at a few square meters, as if this room was also resisting his behavior.

But even if only a few square meters of space were transformed into the Ethereal Form, it was enough for Anduin to peek into the secrets of the Room of Requirement.

Under the semi-transparent floor, incantations were indeed drawn, and they were extremely complex and precise incantations. The naked eye could see them dazzlingly.

The dense rune nodes and countless magic power conducting wires would probably scare a person with trypophobia to death on the spot if they took a look.

"Damn..."

After peeking for a few minutes, Anduin, who had withdrawn from the Ethereal Form, couldn't help but swear.

"Did you have to make it so complicated? This damn place is definitely not as simple as just the Room of Requirement!"

Although it was only a few minutes of peeking.

But Anduin could still see a lot of clues. The incantations hidden behind the Room of Requirement were much more complicated than he imagined, and the functions in them were even more diverse.

At least after carefully identifying them based on experience, Anduin discovered a large number of incantation types related to energy storage, magic power absorption, protection, and anti-apparition, which were not related to the Room of Requirement at all.

This was obviously different from what he had imagined.

"Could it be? Is this actually the magic power center of Hogwarts? Is it the school's alchemy room?"

Counting the various familiar, complex, and layered rune structures he saw, Anduin soon thought of this.