NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 20: 20
Just then, a slight groan came from not far away, penetrating the deathly silence and interrupting Ivan's steps.
It was a soul-stirring moan that suppressed desire.
? ? There is such a sound in Hogwarts? ?
Ivan felt his breathing stagnate, and his lower body reacted unconsciously.
[Ding, Mission Objective: Explore the Library
Current progress: 46/100
Mission introduction: There are always strange noises coming from the library late at night. Even in Hogwarts, where ghosts are everywhere, no ghost dares to go and explore. Please explore and understand them. When the exploration progress reaches a certain level, a certain degree of reward will be given according to performance. ]
Reward: Application Points × 92
Although he was confused, looking at the application points of over 100, Ivan immediately exchanged for an unexpected card. Sure enough, the unexpected card was activated immediately after the exchange.
"Haha, I knew it," Ivan was delighted. Although he didn't know what triggered it, this was indeed how the card was used.
Moreover, according to the progress, this task should be different from Professor McGonagall's task. It is a node-based task. Normal actions in the library will not increase the exploration progress and unlock strange things.
Ivan didn't want to encounter anything strange when collecting the reward.
Ivan hurriedly held up his magic wand and walked through the sea of books, with no intention of staying in the ordinary area. He blocked out the exciting voice and walked straight to the forbidden area.
"Advanced Transfiguration Guide"... "Ancient Runes"... "Legendary Thoughts - Peeping Into Your Mind"...
Ivan's eyes swept across the rows of bookshelves. The large number of banned books with high-end names made Ivan envious. There were even books related to Reflexology and Occlumency that he had always desired.
If possible, Ivan would like to use hundreds of academic experience cards to watch here for ten days or half a month, and then his strength will increase rapidly...
But in the end Ivan resisted the temptation, because he did not have so many academic points to exchange, and he had not forgotten what he came here for today.
Following the sign number in the restricted area, Ivan quickly found the twelfth column of the seventh row of bookshelves. However, there seemed to be nothing different here. A large number of magic books were neatly arranged, filling the bookshelf without leaving any space.
Ivan tried unwillingly to find some mechanism or secret passage, but found nothing. Instead, he accidentally dropped a book on black magic to the ground.
The book turned automatically without wind, as if it had its own consciousness, page by page. After turning a few pages, black mist poured out from the pages. A man's head could be vaguely seen with his mouth wide open, as if he was screaming loudly!
What frightened Ivan was that, although he clearly did not hear any sound, his eardrums began to swell and his brain gradually became dizzy, as if someone really was shouting in front of him.
The black fog gathered more and more, and for a moment it seemed as if the head was about to burst out of the book...
Pah~
Ivan slammed the book shut, flattening the black head on the pages. As the book was closed, the black fog disappeared.
"It's just a book. Are you making such a fuss about it?" Ivan rubbed his ears and said through gritted teeth.
It took Ivan a long while before he dared to pick it up. The cover of the book read "Deciphering the Cutting-Edge Black Magic". The feel of the cover was obviously different from that of other books, a bit like touching the skin.
Could it be human skin?
A thought flashed through Ivan's mind, and he suddenly felt a chill. Thinking of the painful look on the man's head just now, this was really possible.
Ivan took a look at the reward task in the system and found no change, which meant that it had nothing to do with the reward, so he really had accidentally gotten it.
Ivan had no choice but to stuff "Advanced Black Magic Deciphered" back in frustration. He was about to look for the mechanism he had missed when he suddenly realized that the bookshelf in front of him seemed a little different from before.
One...two...three...four...five...six?
Every bookshelf in the restricted area is exactly the same. Books are divided by type, with six rows and seven columns in each row. However, Ivan keenly noticed that there was obviously one cabinet missing on the twelfth bookshelf.
What made Ivan feel a little awkward was that although a cabinet was missing, the entire row of bookshelves was still neat and tidy, as if the space here was distorted.
"Someone used a Confounding Charm here? And hid one of the cabinets."
Ivan narrowed his eyes. He had checked this bookshelf carefully many times just now. The only possibility was that someone had cast a Confusion Spell here, which affected his judgment, and then the scream just now happened to break the Confusion Spell.
Even though he knew where the anomaly was, Ivan was still a little at a loss. Having read "Detailed Explanation of Basic Spell Principles", he could roughly determine that this was a spell to hide items, but he knew too few magic skills and none of them could be used.
Ivan had no choice but to use his brain to try to recall the books he had read, and accidentally remembered a magic that Snape had used in the original book.
"Aparecium!" Ivan tried to put his wand against the bookshelf and whispered the spell of the Apparition spell.
The entire bookshelf began to shake slightly, and a crack appeared in the middle of the twelfth row of bookshelves. After a moment, it suddenly expanded, and a new bookcase appeared in front of Ivan.
The hidden bookcase looked no different from the others, all filled with thick books. Ivan stretched out his hand and swept over the books one by one. When he touched the last one, the system prompt sounded as expected.
[Ding, the reward has been issued. ]
Ivan's mouth twitched, but he was already complaining madly in his heart.
Is this how the rewards are distributed? If he hadn't been lucky and smart, who knows how long it would have taken him to find it!
This broken system is not considerate at all!
Ivan couldn't help but feel sad when he thought about other people's considerate systems that had everything they wanted. As a host, it was really too difficult for him...
Although thinking so, Ivan still excitedly pulled the book out from the bookshelf. The cover of the book was a little rough, with a few words "Bloodline Origin" printed on it. The pages were slightly yellowed. As a magic book that could be preserved for a long time, it was obvious that it was very old.
Ivan discovered that this was another magic book that was not mentioned in the original book. Since it was a reward given by the system, Ivan started to read it directly.
After looking at a few pictures, Ivan was somewhat disappointed to find that "Blood Origin" was not the magic book that he had imagined, which recorded powerful spells. Instead, it was a bit like a history book, recording the history before the Wizard War.
Wizards at that time did not dominate the entire magical world like they do now. They could not even enslave house-elves, magical creatures that had extremely strong spellcasting abilities when they grew up.
On the contrary, compared to these magical creatures that are born with powerful powers, human wizards are really pitifully weak. They can only rely on the advantage of numbers to occupy a place in the magical world.
Fortunately, humans have always been creatures that refuse to give up.
Some wizards choose to specialize in magic and create more powerful spells to improve their strength, while others focus on some quick methods... such as seizing the power of those powerful magical creatures!
Some wizards achieved success and their strength increased dramatically. What's even more terrifying is that the power of this bloodline can be passed on, allowing the descendants of these wizards to gain power as well.
Although the power of the bloodline may gradually weaken due to iterations, this discovery is enough to make more wizards crazy!
However, the risk of blood fusion is extremely high. Except for a few successful ones, most wizards died miserably during the experiment and fusion process. Some lucky failures survived by chance, but as a price they were deformed into monsters and cursed for generations, such as werewolves, vampires, etc.
Some wizards even choose to breed more powerful magical creatures that are more compatible with themselves, to conduct blood fusion experiments in order to enhance their own power.
This made Ivan think of the basilisk sleeping in the secret room and the eight-eyed giant spider in the forbidden forest...
The most outrageous thing is that some wizards try to establish super-friendly relationships with magical creatures that don't look so unacceptable, hoping that their offspring can continue the other's bloodline...