Chapter 370

The Soul Anchor pierced Slytherin, and Voldemort was dragged away because of the hexagram array; this array was something Voldemort had set up to absorb Slytherin, deeply binding the two of them.

But the students were only providing energy for this array and only had a magical connection to the array.

As for the Chamber of Secrets itself, it was like the soil gripped by the "roots" of the students' magical network, dragged along with them.

Cutting off the magical connection could prevent the students from being dragged into the spirit world and could also stop this Chamber of Secrets from sliding deeper into the spirit world.

However, the array now contained the magical energy of hundreds of students. Slytherin seemed to have considered the possibility of uninvited guests when designing it, so this portion of magic, in addition to being used to establish and maintain the "passage" between this world and the spirit world to allow his resurrection, also possessed powerful defensive capabilities.

The force that had just repelled Murphy when he tried to approach the locket came from here.

Dumbledore tried several spells, but all were difficult to cut the magical ties.

Watching as the students' souls were about to be pulled away from their bodies, Dumbledore suddenly grabbed a magical channel.

In an instant, his magic was also merged into the ritual. However, unlike the unconscious students, he could still control his own magic. He spread his magic out, following the magical channel, turning it into a vast network that blocked the front of all the students, like a huge dam, attempting to block the force that was trying to tear their souls out.

However, this force was still too strong. The black ship could pull hundreds of people toward the spirit world; even if he blocked it desperately, he could only be dragged and pushed along with himself, falling toward the spirit world.

"Albus!"

Behind him, Grindelwald also grabbed his shoulder, similarly using his own magic as an anchor to wrestle with the black ship.

He might not care about those students, but he could not watch Dumbledore die here without doing anything.

But even the two of them could only barely slow down the fall.

"Use the Soul Anchor!" Suddenly, Grindelwald shouted.

Dumbledore was stunned, but did not hesitate much. He raised his wand, aimed it at himself and Grindelwald, "Soul Anchor!"

"Bang! Bang!" Several chains pierced through his and Grindelwald's chests, while the other ends were firmly stuck in the ground, using their souls as locking joints to forcibly hold back the souls of hundreds of students.

"Creak, creak..." The earth was shaking. The black ship was like a ship that had dropped its anchor at the dock; the chain was pulled taut. Murphy even seemed to hear some kind of twisting and breaking sound, as if the nail that pinned the "Chamber of Secrets" to the spirit world and the material world was loosening.

But in the end, the black ship's pulling force was temporarily blocked, and the magical ties between the array and the students had been stretched to the limit.

"Murphy..." Dumbledore's magic was all used to maintain the "dam," and he was almost unable to speak, "Please..."

Murphy did not wait for him to finish.

At such a moment, he could no longer stand by and watch.

He raised his wand, and magic poured out, being converted into a high-level magic of the same frequency as the Mother's magic.

This magic was roughly condensed into a large blade by him, and then he leaped up and slashed at the taut magical tie.

"Clang!"

After a crisp sound of metal colliding, Murphy was suddenly bounced away by the huge counter-force; even for him, wanting to confront the magic of hundreds of people was still beyond his reach.

However, the next instant, as if reaching the stress limit, the magical tie suddenly snapped.

With a "Boom!", dazzling magical light shone, and the entire Chamber of Secrets shook violently. The students lost their connection to the array, and their souls were immediately pulled back by Dumbledore and Grindelwald, returning to their bodies one after another.

Meanwhile, having lost the students' pulling force, Voldemort could no longer support himself and was immediately dragged away by the chain, along with the soul fragments in the Horcrux, all pulled into the void passage and submerged into the black ship.

At this time, the Mother's photo, which had originally been in Slytherin's locket, seemed to be blown up by a gust of wind, falling from the locket and flying elsewhere.

Murphy was quick-witted and grabbed the photo in his hand, but before he could aim his wand at the photo, a chain shot out from the black ship again, but this time it actually charged directly at Murphy.

Murphy had no choice but to clench the photo in his hand and flash to the edge of the hall.

However, after the black ship appeared, this Chamber of Secrets seemed to have slid deeper into the spirit world, and Murphy could not find an exit to leave for a while.

The iron chain chased him like a python, while Murphy kept changing positions in the Chamber of Secrets to dodge.

At the same time, the black ship launched a third chain, but the other end of the chain submerged into the void, not knowing where it went.

"Murphy, this is Morgan's ship," Dumbledore leaned weakly on Grindelwald's shoulder and said to Murphy: "The ferry ship connecting the living world and the other shore world. Fairy Morgan is the helmsman of the ship. She guards the oath, and that oath may be the 'Fidelius Charm' that hides the existence of magic that we carry in our blood. She will take all oath-breakers back to the other shore world."

So, that's why this chain is coming for me?

But damn it, I at most only did some things that might lead to the expansion of the Fidelius Charm's scope; I didn't even gain more power because of it.

Why don't you go after the Mother if you want to hunt someone down?

Its power level is clearly off the charts, okay?!

Uh, speaking of the Mother... Murphy unfolded the small photo in his hand, and sure enough, it was already empty.

This guy ran away again.

However, Murphy suddenly had an idea.

The Mother had been extremely low-key after summoning the black ship, completely different from the feeling of holding a weapon of mass destruction. Is it possible that it was also afraid of the black ship?

So it hid in the locket, not just to deceive itself, but also to deceive the black ship?

Does that mean the Soul Anchor also works on it?

Looking at the blank photo in his hand, Murphy frowned.

Run?

It's just a portrait; if you run, can't I draw one myself?

In a flash, he drew a portrait of the Mother on the blank photo in his hand. At the same time, Murphy pulled out his specially made wand, aimed it at the portrait, and "enchanted" it using magic that mimicked the Mother's, "Portrait Activation!"

In an instant, a mysterious connection was established between the photo in his hand and the Mother, and Murphy even seemed to glimpse some scenes.

Canvas, old man, spell...

What is this?

But the black ship's Soul Anchor was already close at hand; there was no time to think carefully. Murphy enlarged the photo in his hand, turned around, and threw it at the incoming chain.

Portraits of the same person can be transferred to each other; the Mother used this trick to become slippery.

But in this way, the portraits should also be connected.

And this kind of connection channel is likely located in the spirit world.

Although it was difficult for Murphy to use this spirit world channel to attack the Mother through ordinary means, the Soul Anchor was powerful enough. Those students were almost uprooted just because their magic was connected to Voldemort, let alone the spirit world channel that already existed between the portraits?

Sure enough, the chain hit the photo, but did not pierce through it, instead submerging into it as if drilling into a cave.

Before long, Murphy seemed to hear a distant scream, followed by the chain pulling taut and retracting violently. A wailing figure was dragged out of the photo, struggling in vain, but was eventually pulled into the black ship.

At the same time, many Mother portraits around the world suddenly spontaneously combusted and burned to ashes.

The Mother was finally dead.

(End of chapter)