Chapter 686: Hogwarts Learning Panel Chapter 292

Dumbledore continued,

"If you are willing to go with me, then I must warn you in advance that this will be extraordinarily dangerous."

"I understand, Headmaster."

Sean was still calm.

"Very well, then listen. I will take you on one condition: you must obey any of my orders immediately without question.

You must understand, Sean. I mean you must even obey orders like 'run,' 'hide,' or 'go back.' Do you promise?"

Dumbledore straightened his back.

"..."

Sean didn't answer.

Dumbledore appeared somewhat distressed.

"If I tell you to hide, will you?"

"Perhaps..."

"If I tell you to run away, will you obey?"

"Perhaps..."

"If I tell you to leave me and save yourself, will you do as I say?"

"No—"

"Sean Green!"

Dumbledore's voice was a bit louder.

They stared at each other for a while.

"Being willing to resist authority is always good, but..."

Dumbledore was somewhat discouraged.

"There won't be any problems."

Sean still couldn't help but add a sentence.

"Oh? What did you perceive from the night sky of the Boundary?"

Dumbledore asked with slight curiosity.

Sean didn't speak.

"Hopefully, perhaps people who are not confused about the future all look the same."

Dumbledore looked somewhat dazed.

"Do you need to bring anything?"

Dumbledore finally agreed.

He knew that regardless of whether he agreed or not, he would eventually see the young wizard in one place.

Of course, this was also something he had anticipated.

"No, Headmaster."

Sean said.

The night sky was filled with stars. The air was filled with the warm scent of grass and the smell of the lake.

The old wizard and the young wizard had set off.

The method was still Apparition, which Sean was familiar with.

He drank the potion with a gulp; even though he thought he might have adapted to Apparition, when going to the vault, he would still see such potions placed there quietly, neither increasing nor decreasing for a long time.

Sometimes he would feel that it wasn't his vault, but more like a shared vault.

Although the other two guests never took anything.

Sean's vision began to twist after touching Dumbledore's hand...

After not knowing how long, Sean smelled the scent of the sea and heard the roaring sound of the waves.

He looked at the sea under the moonlight and the starry night sky in the distance, and a cold breeze blew through his hair.

He stood on a high black rock exposed above the sea, the waves rolling under his feet, foaming.

He turned his head to look back.

Behind him stood a cliff, the steep rock wall falling straight down, dark and indistinguishable.

Several large rocks, like the one Sean and Dumbledore were standing on, seemed to have fallen from the front of the cliff at some point in the past. All around was bare and desolate; except for the vast sea and rocks, not a single tree could be seen, nor was there any grass or beach.

"What do you think?"

Dumbledore asked. Listening to his tone, it was as if he were asking Sean if this was an ideal picnic spot.

"He brought the children from the orphanage here?"

Sean asked, holding his glowing wand; Dumbledore knew the anger in those eyes.

"To be precise, not here."

Dumbledore said,

"Halfway up the cliffs behind us, there is a place that can barely be called a village.

I believe they brought the orphans there to let them breathe the sea air and see the waves.

But I think only Tang Mu Riddle and those few children he bullied had ever been to this place.

Let's go..."

Dumbledore ended the topic.

They were now going down into a cave, but the entrance to the cave was in the seawater.

Looking at Dumbledore, he intended to swim down.

"Are you afraid of water?"

Dumbledore asked kindly.

"No."

Sean felt he was eager to try.

But he still opened the Wizard's Book, and Butler Pukey walked out immediately—under Dumbledore's interested gaze.

With the help of Pukey's Apparition, they easily entered the cave.

Then, gazing at the door that trapped them.

"This is just the vestibule, the entrance hall,"

Dumbledore said after a moment,

"We need to go inside... what is blocking us now is the mechanism set by Tang Mu Riddle, not an obstacle set by nature..."

Before he finished speaking, Sean had already cut his arm, and bright red blood flowed out.

At the same time, he felt weaker than ever before.

But it was okay; he had spent a long time feeling weaker than this.

"Ah... does it hurt."

Dumbledore was silent for a moment.

"It's okay."

Sean said.

This door indeed had no other way to open; it had to weaken a wizard's power.

The door opened, and they stood on the shore of a black lake; the lake was incomparably wide, boundless, but one couldn't see the opposite shore in the distance.

The cave they were in was very high; looking up, one couldn't see the cave ceiling. Far away, as if in the center of the lake, a hazy, greenish light flickered, reflected in the dead, silent lake water below.

"Alright, it seems we need a boat?"

Dumbledore stared straight at Sean this time, as if he were about to do something without question.

And Sean just followed the old wizard quietly, just like when they first met.

"I must tell you, Sean. Please stand back, against the rock wall; I have found the place."

He said, and closed his hand, grabbing something in the air that Sean couldn't see.

Dumbledore moved slowly toward the lake, and a small boat appeared just like that.

And they, too, were to ride the small boat to the other shore. ===== CHAPTER 687 =====