Chapter 512: Hogwarts Learning Panel Chapter 216

With a faint sound, the two snakes separated, and the stone wall also cracked from the middle, slowly sliding to both sides and disappearing.

Xiang Xien held his glowing wand in his left hand and the Sword of Gryffindor in his right, and walked in.

Now, he seemed to overlap with a certain melee mage in his memory.

Behind the stone wall was a long, dimly lit room.

There were many stone pillars carved with coiled snakes, towering to support the ceiling that dissolved into the darkness above, casting long, eerie black shadows across the entire room filled with mysterious green mist.

Xiang Xien was slightly nervous; he scanned every place, and the Alchemical Toads were not far ahead.

These small alchemical creations had been monitoring the Basilisk for a long time, waiting for him to come and deal with it.

Xiang Xien followed the guidance of the plan map and walked until he was parallel with the last pair of stone pillars, when a statue as tall as the room itself appeared in front of him, clinging to the pitch-black wall behind.

The statue was naturally the statue of Slytherin:

He had an old, monkey-like face and a sparse long beard.

Beneath the statue was that huge Basilisk, its body glowing with the gorgeous luster unique to venomous snakes, as thick as the trunk of an oak tree.

It had been sleeping,

Now,

It was awake.

The Alchemical Toad hopped onto Xiang Xien's arm, and Xiang Xien's wand emitted a fierce light, illuminating the Sword of Gryffindor in his right hand, which looked exceptionally sharp.

First-floor corridor.

"I heard it! 'Kill... kill the one who sees...'"

Harry's face turned pale instantly; he lay on the ground, hearing the extremely faint hissing sound; there was no doubt it was Parseltongue.

The night was quiet, and Harry could only hear that extremely faint sound and his own heartbeat.

"Think about it, what in Hogwarts is a snake... and very dangerous..."

Hermione was eager, but didn't dare to move, afraid of disturbing Harry.

"We have to go tell Headmaster Dumbledore..."

She spoke subconsciously.

"Hermione, every snake is dangerous... also, if Xiang Xien didn't say..."

Luo En said, trembling.

The corridor was dim, and about twenty spiders were scurrying in a panic, seemingly eager to squeeze out through a small crack in the glass.

A long silver thread hung down like a rope; it looked like they had hurried up through this thread, intending to escape out the window.

"Have you ever seen spiders like this?"

While waiting for Harry to listen, Hermione asked.

Luo En was already standing far behind, seemingly trying to suppress the urge to run away.

"What are you doing?"

Hermione asked again.

"I—don't—don't like—spiders."

Luo En said nervously.

"I haven't heard of that,"

Hermione said, looking at Luo En in surprise,

"You've used spiders so many times in Potions class..."

"Dead spiders I don't care about,"

Luo En said, carefully avoiding looking at the window,

"I just don't like the way they crawl..."

Hermione laughed.

"What's so funny,"

Luo En said angrily,

"You have to know, when I was three, Fred turned my—my teddy bear into an ugly big spider because I broke his toy broom.

If you had my experience, you wouldn't like them either; if you were holding your teddy bear, and suddenly it sprouted many legs, and..."

He shuddered and couldn't go on.

Hermione's expression suddenly turned serious, and she shouted:

"Go to the library quickly, I think I've heard of this kind of snake!"

So Harry, who was lying on the ground, was dragged away too.

Library.

It had closed early, and a book suddenly fell from the shelf that should have been empty.

It didn't seem to have fallen; it was taken down by an invisible hand.

"Did you find it? Hermione?"

Harry asked in a low voice.

At this time, Hermione was already standing there in a daze, not speaking.

"Hermione?"

Luo En called out urgently.

Hermione still didn't react.

They finally managed to pry Hermione's fingers open and take down that very old library book.

Harry couldn't wait to unfold it, and Luo En leaned in too; the two read together:

【In our country, many terrible beasts and monsters roam, among which the most bizarre and lethal is the Basilisk, also known as the King of Serpents.

This snake can grow to a huge size, usually living for several hundred years; it is hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad.

The Basilisk's way of killing is astonishing; besides its lethal venomous fangs, its gaze can also cause death. Anyone who is stared at by its gaze will die immediately.

Spiders flee when they see a Basilisk, because the Basilisk is the mortal enemy of spiders...】

"Could it be, there's a Basilisk in Hogwarts? The danger Dobby spoke of is it... the voice I heard is it too..."

Harry was scared by his own thoughts, and Luo En wasn't much better; he tried his best to hold his mouth shut so he wouldn't scream.

"Where did it come from? What is the 'open' Xiang Xien spoke of? How can we help?"

Harry was like a headless fly, his mind blank as he asked many questions.

But no one here could answer his doubts.

"Harry, listen to me, if Xiang Xien discovered the Basilisk, he would never ignore it; he always likes to face danger alone,"

Hermione's voice trembled, even with a hint of crying,

"We have to go tell the Headmaster—"

Basilisk.

Also known as the King of Serpents.

Its ability to petrify a wizard's eyes, its venomous fangs, and its huge body all indicated its danger.

And Xiang Xien just stared at it calmly; his wand went out, but the six Alchemical Toads lurking in the Chamber of Secrets shone brightly.

The Basilisk seemed to be enraged; its heavy body slid slowly across the dusty ground, and then it stood up.

But before it could fully stand up, it was a head shorter—the terrain beneath it had been changed.

【You practiced Material Transfiguration once with the standard of the Master realm's skilled level, Master-level proficiency +10】

This made it even more enraged; its body lunged forward, then paused for a moment.

Because two huge dogs were biting its body.

Two dogs, six heads, and wearing glasses; no matter how you looked at it, it was very strange.

The Basilisk twisted its body, and earth-shaking sounds came from its head.

Xiang Xien stared at the rocks above; they gradually showed cracks.

Huge boulders fell onto the Basilisk's head with gravity; it twisted its body frantically, but was still knocked dizzy.

Xiang Xien didn't stop at all; the moment the boulders landed, he had already arrived at the Basilisk's side, holding the sword.

The Sword of Gryffindor was spotless, shining with a sharp silver light.

At this time, the Basilisk finally regained consciousness; it was much larger than the three-headed dog, so it wasn't strange that it shook off Bai Yi and Tila.

Xiang Xien stepped back silently; the 【Skilled】 level Transfiguration was guided quickly.

The Basilisk's counterattack was interrupted again, because the ground supporting its body sank again.

Xiang Xien was already struggling; he waved his wand, and the stone ground slowly climbed onto the Basilisk's body, locking part of its body within it.

The wand drew a downward arc in the air, the two three-headed dogs pounced, and some cone-shaped stone prisms fell onto the Basilisk's head.

"Have to use Dark Magic..."

Xiang Xien's eyes changed slightly.

"Impedimenta!"

The Basilisk's resistance weakened a lot; its body, bloody from the stones and stone prisms, also slowed down significantly.

Only its head narrowly avoided the sharp stone prisms.

"Petrificus Totalus!"

"Petrificus Totalus!"

Both spells were cast instantly, and combined with Transfiguration, the Basilisk stopped moving completely.

Letting the three-headed dogs pounce on it and tear at it.

Xiang Xien was already exhausted; three Master-level Transfigurations had long since drained his stamina, and now his hand holding the sword was trembling.

"Still a bit strained..."

Xiang Xien walked to the front of the Basilisk; through the magical refraction mirror, he could see its strange gaze.

Even wearing glasses, Xiang Xien would still be stunned for a moment when he met its gaze.

The Sword of Gryffindor slashed its body mercilessly, but didn't kill it immediately.

Xiang Xien put away the sword, gulped down a potion, and suddenly heard the panel chime.

【You have gained the closeness of the magical creature Basilisk with the standard of a Master, closeness +300】

Xiang Xien: "..."

He originally thought he could only determine the ritual by observing the Basilisk, but didn't expect an unexpected joy.

The Sword of Gryffindor seemed to possess some magical power; after the Basilisk's tail was slashed, the whole snake became weak.

Xiang Xien cast several Stupefy spells on it in a row, and incidentally had Bai Yi, who had transformed into a rooster, stand on its head, only then relaxing a bit.

Killing the Basilisk was simple, but taming...

Wasn't difficult either.

In the time when Voldemort was weakened to a certain extent by the soul Horcrux, Xiang Xien had urgent time to develop Basilisk biscuits.

The only thing he found strange was that after he defeated the Basilisk, the closeness seemed to have increased too quickly.

Xiang Xien had never seen such fast closeness.

He once suspected whether he had spoken Parseltongue.