Chapter 185: The Blood-Stained Knight

"If you've made your decision, act quickly! The basilisk's condition is worsening." Yoder began urging Allen.

Though he felt as if Yoder was leading him by the nose, he was still the biggest beneficiary of this matter, so he didn't mind it so much.

Though his body still ached terribly, Allen still rallied his spirit, dispelling the transformation spells on the mithril spike sleeves covering the basilisk's wounds; those mithril spike sleeves turned into blocks of stone and were easily squeezed out by the basilisk's muscles, and the basilisk's wounds soon stopped bleeding...

Yoder hissed again, chatted with the basilisk for a while, then said to Allen: "Bring out the food and potions from your Poké Ball; the basilisk has lost too much blood and urgently needs to replenish some energy."

Though his heart ached a bit, Allen also knew the relative urgency of things; this counted as an investment, and this investment would eventually bring him rich returns.

After the basilisk ate the food and potions Allen brought out, its condition finally improved a little.

It was only then that Allen realized packing such a huge basilisk into a Poké Ball was also a difficult matter; in the end, he still cast several enlargement spells on the Poké Ball, making the Poké Ball very large, before he could seal the basilisk inside.

Having done all this, he felt a wave of dizziness again; after resting for a while, he felt a bit better. He looked at the watch on his wrist; the time had already reached eleven thirty. He had to hurry back.

At this moment, a tremendous boom suddenly came from the corner of the secret chamber. It turned out that a Shi Zhu that the basilisk had struck finally could not hold up and collapsed. Only then did Allen realize that the Shi Zhu in the secret chamber were now less than a quarter remaining; the rest had been destroyed by the basilisk in the recent battle.

And the pillar that had just collapsed seemed to have triggered a chain reaction; the secret chamber's roof, now without support, began to emit terrible sounds, with stones constantly falling.

Allen understood this was a sign that the secret chamber was about to collapse. He couldn't help but grow anxious; he didn't want to be buried like this so deep underground, with the only exit blocked by stones.

Disregarding his physical discomfort, he forced himself to fly up. He flew to the tunnel entrance leading into the secret chamber. Large and small stones blocked the tunnel, leaving only a narrow slit; he simply couldn't pass through, while the secret chamber behind him had already begun to collapse entirely...

"Hermione, aren't you going to sleep yet? It's the first time I've seen you so late without going back to sleep." Ron said, yawning.

"I'm not very sleepy today, besides tomorrow is Sunday." Hermione answered absentmindedly; she didn't understand why she had no sleepiness today.

"Then we'll go back to sleep first." Harry's spirits weren't very good either; he said to Hermione.

"Alright, good night!" Hermione said decisively.

At this moment, they felt the ground tremble slightly. A sound seemed to come from deep beneath the castle, but the sound quickly disappeared...

"What's going on?" Ron's sleepiness vanished instantly.

"It seems like an earthquake!" Harry woke up too.

This tremor came quickly and left quickly; the ground soon stopped shaking, and everything returned to normal. Only the ripples in the water cup on the table proved that they hadn't just been hallucinating.

For some reason, Hermione's heart became even more uneasy...

"Looks like it was just a small earthquake; it seems no one else was awakened." Ron shrugged.

"Allen hasn't come back yet. Ask him tomorrow if he felt this earthquake." Harry also said. "He always comes back very late every Saturday night."

Saying this, he and Ron returned to the boys' dormitory.

Only Hermione remained in the common room. She sat alone in the corner of the room, looking at a thick book, but she found that the knowledge on the book had lost its usual appeal. Not only could she not concentrate, she actually became irritable.

She simply closed the book, rested her chin on the desk, and watched the ripples in the water cup on the desk gradually disappear...

She suddenly understood the source of her inner unease.

Her sixth sense told her that the earthquake just now and Allen's late return were connected...

She also recalled Allen's every move today, finally freezing on the image of him saying that ambiguous "goodbye" when he left...

She suddenly became panicked; she now tasted more things from this emotion...

Under this emotion, she suddenly made a startling decision—she decided to go out and search for Allen.

Even if this was an act violating school rules, and getting caught would deduct many house points, Hermione felt she must do so...

She quickly made up her mind; this was the first time she had made a decision clearly violating regulations so quickly...

She quickly ran out of the Gryffindor common room. The Fat Lady was already gone, visiting somewhere.

The corridors of Hogwarts at midnight were empty; even the ghosts weren't wandering there. The entire Hogwarts had fallen into sleep. It seemed the recent micro-earthquake hadn't awakened everyone...

She didn't conceal her figure. She ran quickly through the empty corridors. Soon she arrived at the door of the Ravenclaw Head's office. She couldn't see any light inside through the crack in the office door. Unconvinced, she gently knocked on the door again, but there was no response.

She suddenly fell into confusion...

Allen said he went to find Professor Flitwick, and Professor Flitwick's office was also empty. She hadn't met him all the way here. So where exactly did Allen go? Hermione's heart began to panic again.

She wandered aimlessly through the castle corridors...

By the time she realized that wandering like this would easily get her caught by Filch, she found she had already walked to a familiar place...

Looking at the "Under Repair" sign hanging at the door, she fell into memories. In her first year, she had discovered Allen researching ancient runes here. Since then, they had researched ancient runes together, gradually becoming good friends...

She couldn't help but push open the door to this girls' bathroom. To her surprise, there was still light in this abandoned girls' bathroom...

She walked into the bathroom and suddenly saw a red figure in the corner of the bathroom, motionless, leaning against the wall...

She instinctively wanted to scream, but she quickly stopped this impulse. The more she looked at that figure, the more familiar it felt...

She waved her wand, summoning several light orbs. Under the illumination of the light orbs, she clearly saw the appearance of that red figure...

It should have been a knight wearing gold-red armor. Only that the armor on his body was covered in dust, and the surface of the armor was pitted and dented. Especially the chest plate was completely dented inward. There was a lot of blood on his armor; this blood had already dried. The blood clots on his war boots had dyed the puddles around him red...

She could feel that this knight, this knight, seemed to have already died...

Hermione didn't know how such a strange knight could appear in Hogwarts. She continued to approach this knight.

She saw that the knight wore a handsome helmet, but the helmet covered his face, until she saw the long plume on the knight's head...

She felt her heart sink as if filled with cold lead...

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