Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

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At night, it uses electricity to emit a bright light to guide passing ships.

Rumored lights have been treated with special magic. While guiding the direction, they can protect ships from being harmed by the magical imagination on the Strait of Messina, such as Kraken, Maelstrom, and terrifying ghost ships.

After the Dark Wizard of Raven's Claw extinguished the Lighthouse, these ancient magical imaginations resurfaced...

Sirius pushed open the iron door with a poignant creak.

The same rusty system stairs spiral upwards, and the gaps between the relic stairs on both sides are hollowed out.

For someone with a fear of heights like Ivan, walking on it is a tough challenge.

With the sound of waves crashing against the rocks, he and Sirius walked into the lighthouse with wands in hand, straight up.

Even though he had stepped lightly, the impact of the shoe uppers on the stairs still reverberated horribly.

Ai Wen had a feeling that this decaying lighthouse seemed to be transformed by a terrible monster. The two of them were walking into its mouth, and the stairs under their feet were not so reassuring, as if they would collapse later.

The only good news is that they did not encounter the dark wizard of Raven's Claw, and there was no one in the lighthouse.

But this is not good news. If there are no clues here, then they don't know where the calamity messenger is going.

Before it was accurate, it was impossible for Aiwen to encounter the ghost ship in the sea, and then board it regardless.

When they climbed to the top of the lighthouse, the sky gradually dimmed.

This is a place similar to a castle tower. Inside is a square room, which is pitch black.

With the light of the wand, Ivan touched the power switch, but there was no response.

Sirius opened the door leading to the outside, and you can see the stars hanging in the evening sky, and the volcano still erupting in the distance, the smoke column mixed with volcanic ash continues to rise, and the red magma flows down the hillside flowing.

"Nobody's there, those guys might..." said Sirius, his voice breaking off abruptly.

Disappearing with the sound was the light at the end of the wands of the two men, and an unsettling darkness engulfed them.

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Darkness gathered from all directions, compressing the light at the end of the wand into two small spots of light.

The weird fluctuations of magic power flashed by, and Ivan heard something crawling across the ground and making an unpleasant friction sound.

Crash, clatter, some kind of monster squirmed and approached in the dark, getting closer and closer to them...

"Sirius!" Ivan shouted, but got no response.

In this endless darkness, sound seems to have lost its effect.

The erupting volcano outside the lighthouse and the stars in the sky also lost their brilliance, and the sense of uneasy pressure became stronger and stronger.

Ivan tried to grab Sirius' arm, but nothing happened, and Sirius disappeared!

His eyes blurred for a while, and his surroundings became misty, and the wet black mist with a fishy smell surrounded him.

In this darkness, he heard a voice talking to himself, not the voice of Sirius, but a deep man's voice, hoarse and shrill, it told Ivan that it was watching him, and... …

Aiwen concentrated his attention and heard what it was saying, but there were more and more voices around him, and it became more and more complicated.

They are all calling Aiwen's name, and certain emotions in their bodies seem to be sucked away by each other, leaving only endless space and a lonely soul in Aiwen's body, floating in this lonely dark lighthouse, waiting for the end to come.

Memories of the past flashed through Ivan's mind like a slideshow, from far to near.

Things from my childhood, and the little things from when I first went to Hogwarts school were clearly found out, and there was also the Christmas ball not long ago, where I danced with Hermione who was dressed up, and then went on a date in the dark garden...

Without exception, these memories are all black and white, like old yellowed photos, which makes people feel a little sad.

In the pervasive black mist, Aiwen saw a pair of eyes suddenly open, and then another pair, more and more...

They seem to be some kind of monsters with many eyes, all looking at Ivan and speaking crazy words.

Ai Wen is very familiar with this feeling. He had experienced something similar in the Centaur Temple a year ago.

They are terrifying creations of evil gods, and they are in this room.

Ivan knew what to do, he raised his wand high, and shouted, "Call God to protect you!"

The silver-white amulet bursts from the end of the wand, bringing light to this dark time.

It quickly rotated around the room, and Ivan looked at his patron saint, and felt that something had changed in it, and it was no longer simply the appearance of a kitten before, but his attention quickly shifted, making it even more impressive Something astonishing appeared in front of my eyes.

The light at the end of the wand lit up again, and Ivan saw that there was no black mist around him at all.

Sirius was also standing beside him with a confused look on his face. On his shoulder was something like a black tentacle.

Following the tentacles, a shadow crouched behind Sirius.

No, it's a monster!

This monster has no body, its body is a translucent shadow.

It looks a bit like some kind of indescribable ooze monster, with a big bloody mouth in front, and two thick tentacles below the mouth.

It was lying on Sirius' back, and some silvery light that seemed to be memory was sucked out of him.

Around them, more monsters like this are approaching, and they are the eyes that Ivan sees in the dark.

The silver-white patron saint charged, and the white magic barrier spread outward.

The movements of the monsters became noticeably sluggish, they retreated slowly, and stared at Ivan in disgust.

They want to retreat into the shadow of the lighthouse and hide again.

But under the power of the patron saint, they were all wiped out quickly, turning into shadows and dissipating in the air...

The unpleasant feeling in the air and the strong fishy smell also disappeared.

"What happened just now?" Sirius said, breathing in the colder sea breeze, the expression on his face gradually recovered, "Just now, I seem to have returned to the dark days in Azkaban, Saw a lot of scary things..."

"It's a monster created by some kind of evil god. It looks like a shadow monster. It's a type I haven't seen before, but they, like dementors, can evoke unpleasant memories and suck something from their bodies." Ivan After describing what he saw, the ancient gods believed by Raven's Claw gradually overlapped with the new evil gods.

No wonder the Muggles who came in to fix the circuit ended up going mad, it was these monsters who were behind it, sucking their sanity away.

"That's crazy enough!" muttered Sirius. "Bad memories, bad feelings!"

Because of his past, he was easily influenced by dark monsters like dementors.

Ivan let Sirius recover in place, and he walked to the electric box in the corner and tried to push the switch.

In the next second, the light was turned on, and the lighthouse that was extinguished regained its light.

Under the bright light, Aiwen finally saw the whole picture of the room at the top of the lighthouse.

It was filled with all kinds of sundries, most of which were used by Muggles.

There is a table next to the door leading to the outer room, on which is a large chart marked with a pen.

After recovering, Sirius also noticed the huge chart, and walked over to look at it.

"Aiwen, come and have a look!" he said, drawing his index finger across the chart, "This is the Strait of Messina, but it doesn't look the same as what we saw, I'm not sure there are so many monsters living in it This sea area."

Ivan walked to Sirius, and the yellowed sea chart in front of them was obviously very old.It was full of symbols he could not understand, marking latitude and longitude, wind direction, ocean current changes, sea depth, etc., and every reef was recorded in detail.

But as Sirius said, the most astonishing thing on the entire chart is the various monsters. The sea monsters alone are divided into three types, and they live on small islands and reefs near the Strait of Messina. Skylar, who Wen knew had a scary dog's head on his waist, was just one of them.

At the upper left of the map, near the Apennine Peninsula, is a huge vortex, the Maelstrom of Charybdis.

Next to the maelstrom, there is a row of small characters written in red pen, describing the ruins below.

The dark wizard of Raven's Claw seems to think that the ruins inside are very important, hiding some vital clues, and Rowena Ravenclaw has been there, and told the Goddess of War to Ravenclaw The gift of the Law family stays there forever.

As for what is in the ruins, they don't know, because like the wizards of the Ministry of Magic, they can't get in at all.

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Combining this chart, Aiwen connected the clues he got before, and things became very clear.

The dark wizard of Raven's Claw has no way to enter the ruins, but an ancient creature in the nearby city of the sea is willing to help them, as long as the calamity bringer releases it, using seven power stones full of Cyclops' power to summon It, it can help Raven's Claw, and help them open the seal of the ruins in the maelstrom.

Immediately, Ivan's eyes fell on a row of dotted lines surrounding the bottom of the maelstrom, which was the trajectory of the ghost ship.

Ravenclaw and Gryffindor have said that the ship of the dead is the only way to enter the sunken city.

It circles around Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Strait of Messina is a section that it must pass through during its voyage.

From the marks and information on the chart, it can be seen that it is not so easy to encounter this ghost ship.

It is protected by strange magic, and neither Muggles nor wizards can see it under normal circumstances, and can only encounter it under extremely accidental circumstances.

This sea area is very large, and it is impossible to float aimlessly on it to find a ghost ship full of dead people.

The black wizards of Raven's Claw seem to have found a way. Through hundreds of years of observation, they found that every six months, the ghost ship will be attracted by the singing of the Siren Sira, and will be on a piece of land called "The Siren's Rock". A short stay near the reef.

Even though they have been dead for thousands of years, the sailors are still bewildered by the siren's singing, but they will never die again.

Aiwen gestured on the chart with his hands, and quickly measured the distance. The Siren's Rock was located in the sea directly opposite the lighthouse.

Grosso, the siren breeder, said that only when the lights of the lighthouse were turned off would the sirens come out to sing and confuse passing ships.

This is also the main reason why Raven's Claw extinguished the lighthouse. They wanted to use the siren's song to attract the ghost ship.

Immediately afterwards, Ivan thought that since the calamity messenger left the earth's core and set off for that city, the ghost ship's stay time might be today!

It's no wonder that there are no dark wizards from the Raven Claw in the tower. Their goal has been achieved, and they waited until the ghost ship.

As for others, they may have been sent to the depths of the earth's core to verify the unexpected situation that occurred there after seeing the eruption of the volcano...

Thinking of this, Aiwen rushed out to the outside of the lighthouse, and by the light of the magma spewing out from the volcano in the distance, he saw a huge black rock standing on the sea, and beside the rock stood a ship glowing with green light. huge sailing ship.

"We must hurry, Sirius, and get to that place. Hurry up, Apparate!"

A few seconds later, Alvin and Sirius apparated, ready to manifest directly onto the ghost ship.

But they didn't reach the sailboat, and halfway they materialized and fell into the icy water.

Strange magical powers stopped them, prevented the wizard from approaching the ship by Apparating!

Ai Wen floated on the water with his hands, and the cold wind ruthlessly blew his hair, and he couldn't help shivering.

Around him was a thick fog, which appeared abruptly, with strange fluctuations of magic power, isolating everything.

Restlessness and anxiety followed, with less than three feet of visibility nearby and a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere.

The mist has a weird characteristic, and Ivan feels that the magic power in his body is restricted, and part of the magic has lost its effect.

"Lumos!" he yelled, taking out his wand and waving it around, but nothing happened.

Immediately afterwards, he changed another spell, and the end of the wand emitted a green light, which was amazingly powerful.

"This fog..." Ivan looked suspiciously at the green light that disappeared into the fog. It was a black magic.

At this moment, Sirius also got out of the sea water and looked around.

"I was on the lighthouse just now, and I didn't see such a thick fog." He said doubtfully, then frowned, and felt the restriction of the fog on magic. "Something is wrong, our magic seems to have lost its effect."

"It's the magic on the ghost ship. It's a very special wave of magic power that creates a realm belonging to the dead. It prevents apparition and other positive or neutral spells, but it promotes black magic. We ..."

Aiwen stopped, and in the mist, there was a burst of beautiful and moving girls' singing intermittently, like the sound of nature, but it was mixed with the suppressed dog barking and panting, which made everything weird , Like a dream.

This is the voice of Sira, the siren, which Ivan heard in Ravenclaw's memory before.

"Be careful of those sea monsters, they are very close here, I heard that there are hundreds of them nearby." Ivan said, holding his wand tightly.

When he thought of the terrifying creature whose upper body was the image of a human seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, and whose lower body had the tail fin of a mermaid and a ferocious dog's head, his scalp became numb. unambiguous.

Mr. Grosso told Ivan before that the Krakens like little boys his age the most, and they catch them and raise them in their lairs.

"What should we do now, just swim to the side of the big ship?" said Sirius.

"It's best not to, that's too risky. I tried it just now. The illusion spell doesn't work, and the invisibility cloak can't be used. In the sea, the two of us can't be the opponents of those sea monsters." Ivan said.

Immediately, he looked down at the gleaming owl pendant on his wrist, Shuklia's redemption.

In this mist, the shaman's magic works as well as the black magic, and can be used.

"The power of this pendant..." Ivan looked at Sirius, and his body kept changing into a ghostly owl. "I'll go over to check the situation first. You go back to the lighthouse and wait for me. I'll be back in a while."

Ivan circled above Sirius and flew into the deeper fog.

Because of the ghost ship, this neighborhood belongs to the domain of the dead, and the effect of black magic has been enhanced.

The shaman power on the pendant is a kind of soul magic, and it has been improved accordingly.

Compared with the previous owl fortress, Ivan feels that his current owl state is stronger.

He swept forward quickly, and soon, he saw a large black reef appearing in front of him.