Chapter 333 333. Christmas holiday ends
The next morning, Scott received a letter from Savannah.
After repeatedly checking that there was no mystery in the letter, Scott used Transfiguration to conjure a monkey to open the envelope far away from him.
After finally confirming that there was no danger in the letter, Scott took the letter from the monkey and read it.
[Scott, are you okay?
Sorry, sorry, sorry...]
Half of the parchment with messy handwriting and full of words was written with the word [sorry].
Scott glanced over these meaningless apologies and looked directly at Savannah's explanation behind.
[Sorry, I hid a lot from you.
It was also because of me that my brother Aaron found an opportunity to do something bad...]
In this letter, Savannah did not hide her identity as before, but told everything.
Scott also began to understand the ins and outs of the matter.
Savannah's Doherty family is located in Northern Ireland. This family has long adhered to the traditional Celtic beliefs and the Druid sect.
In other words, the members of the Doherty family are all the remaining druids in modern times.
And as time goes by, the druid spells they can inherit are getting weaker and weaker.
After Savanna's brother Aaron was born, their parents and elders found that Aaron's talent was not outstanding, and Aaron's performance after awakening and transforming into a druid was even more so.
[They think this is the fate of druids, and those former glories will be weakened from generation to generation until they disappear completely...]
Until Savanna's birth changed everything.
Savanna's talent is higher than that of previous generations.
She awakened her magic at the age of 5, completed the transformation of magic properties at the age of 7, and passed the initial test at the age of 9 to become a formal druid.
[From then on, Aaron changed.]
Perhaps out of reluctance and jealousy, the boy who once loved his sister very much took another path.
[Aaron once told me that he would shoulder all the responsibilities, and I just need to grow up happily.
After I became a druid, he was not happy for me. He just looked at me sadly and said that he might break his promise and everything would fall on my shoulders.
Perhaps unwillingly, he quietly left home and began to search for the relics left by the ancient druids. Later, he simply cut off contact with us, and no one knew what he had experienced...]
Seeing this, Scott smiled softly.
Unable to accept that the sister who originally needed his protection became stronger than himself?
In the next letter, Savanna introduced the dense oak forest that Scott had visited.
[That is the Sea of Oaks, where there are oaks cultivated by all druids of the Doherty family from ancient times to the present, and the oldest sacred tree.
The temple under the sacred tree is the place where druids are promoted to priests...]
I don't know when Aaron secretly returned to Northern Ireland and sneaked into the Sea of Oaks.
He started the ceremony of promotion to priest without anyone presiding, but failed.
[When I heard the result you calculated with arithmetic divination, I knew what happened.
The body is asleep, the consciousness is half asleep and half awake, and the spirit is active.
Such results show that he failed. Although not completely failed, his body, consciousness and spirit cannot be unified, and he can never complete the last step of promotion. ］
Sawanna wrote a letter to her elders about this matter.
In the summer vacation of 1993, Savannah and her parents and elders tried to awaken Aaron's consciousness, but they all failed.
[After I started school, my grandfather couldn't bear Aaron to sink like this, and finally spent a huge price to awaken his consciousness. ]
This incident caused Savannah's grandfather to fall from the level of a druid priest and become an ordinary druid.
[We need a priest, otherwise the power of the Oak Sea will slowly weaken.
My father and uncle do not have the talent to become priests.
At this time, only if I become a priest and guard the temple can I ensure the continuation of the druids. ]
Seeing this, Scott immediately understood that the Oak Sea is the reason why Savannah's druid family has continued to this day.
After all, even Ravenclaw was surprised that the druids were passed down to the modern era.
[After Aaron's consciousness awakened, in order to protect his safety, his grandfather put his consciousness and spirit into the holy tree.
Grandfather hoped that Aaron's consciousness and spirit could be combined with the help of the power of the holy tree, only then would he have a chance to return to his body. ]
At this point, several ink spots appeared on the parchment. It seemed that Savannah's hand began to tremble when she wrote here, and the following handwriting became more sloppy.
[I'm sorry, I shouldn't talk about you when I was talking to Aaron.
He learned a lot about you from me...]
Scott sped up and read this paragraph at a glance.
Aaron learned about Scott's basic situation from Savannah, so he had an evil idea-sacrifice.
As long as Scott, the genius in Savannah's mouth, was sacrificed, Aaron could get rid of his current predicament and complete the last step of promotion to become a druid priest.
In Scott's opinion, this method was very familiar, and it seemed to be exactly the same as the method used by Medea.
[We didn't expect that during his days of exploring the magic ruins, he didn't know where he got such an evil magic ritual.
When he knew you were a genius, he found a way to get you to the Sea of Oaks. If you walk into the temple, the sacrifice will start. ]
"Who is helping him? That kid only has consciousness now, and it is impossible for him to complete these things alone!" said Rimbaud, who was reading the letter with Scott.
"Just keep reading and you will know." Scott said.
"Oh! It's her cousin! Her uncle's daughter! Oh! Her cousin fell in love with his brother!" Rimbaud shouted while reading, "I remember this is not allowed among humans, of course, I mean those Muggles."
Scott nodded with disgust, "In order to ensure the purity of blood, same-sex marriage is not uncommon in pure-blood families, and the Gaunt family even has blood relatives."
Of course, Muggles used to have such things.
Only in the country where Scott lived in his previous life did there not exist same-sex marriage.
"Anyway, that cousin helped Aaron swap the gift that Savanna prepared for you." Rambo said as he read the letter, "And Aaron took the opportunity to steal some of the power of the sacred tree..."
"That's why he was able to prepare the sacrifice ceremony." Scott said calmly.
"That guy really had bad intentions, and he asked you to save his sister, and you were almost fooled by him!" Rambo chattered a little, "Fortunately you are really not Savanna's boyfriend, otherwise you would have been really fooled?"
"Is this the benefit of being single?" Scott was a little amused.
Anyway, he couldn't imagine what he would look like if he fell in love.
Would he let his guard down for a girl? Or would he be willing to take risks?
Scott shook his head and thought it was unlikely.
He continued to read the letter.
[I'm sorry, I need to apologize to you.
I'm really sorry, it's all my fault.
I will definitely try my best to make it up to you. ]
The back of the letter began to repeat [I'm sorry], so Scott didn't read it carefully again.
Rambo looked up and asked Scott, "Do you think that girl can return to Hogwarts?"
Scott shook his head, "She won't go back. If she succeeds in becoming a priest, she will have to guard the Oak Sea all the time. If she fails in being promoted, the result may not be better than Aaron."
"Then how will she compensate you?" Rambo was very curious.
"Who knows." Scott didn't take the so-called compensation to heart.
Rambo asked again, "Will you take revenge on Aaron?"
"Who knows."
Scott found the necklace that brought him to the Oak Sea and put it in the original wooden box, then smiled silently.
"Oh, you have bad intentions at first glance." Rambo laughed a few times.
Scott ignored it.
Whether to take revenge or not depends on whether the so-called compensation is sincere.
If he can get satisfactory compensation, Scott can put it aside for the time being.
The premise is that Aaron will never appear in front of him again.
If Aaron appears in front of him again, he will take revenge regardless of whether he gets satisfactory compensation or not.
After collecting the letter, Scott went downstairs and called his parents in Madrid.
"My dear son, are you home?"
Emilia was surprised to hear that Scott had returned to Hastings.
"I cleaned the house and started to tidy up the garden today." Scott said, "Maybe we should find a professional agency to help maintain the house."
Emilia agreed with his suggestion, "We left in a hurry and didn't think about these. Don't worry about it, I'll ask your father to call someone to help with this matter. Don't forget, there is an old house left by your grandfather there."
Scott agreed.
After a casual breakfast, he found some tools in the basement, changed into old clothes, and started to tidy up his own garden.
Although he could find an agency to help maintain it, he decided to tidy up the garden himself to a model that suited his own preferences.
Because the garden was really a bit dilapidated, Scott spent a whole day to barely finish it.
"I haven't worked like a Muggle for a long time."
In the evening, he said to Rimbaud while rubbing his sore shoulders.
Rimbaud said, "You can use magic secretly in the middle of the night."
"That would be meaningless." Scott said with a smile, "I just miss the days when I worked at home for pocket money when I was a child."
Rimaud did not understand his hypocrisy.
The next few days passed uneventfully, and Scott spent the rest of the holiday peacefully at his home in Hastings.
After the Christmas holiday, he arrived at King's Cross Station in London on time and boarded the express train to Hogwarts.
