Hogwarts Card System Chapter 179

Chapter 179: Ice and Snow

Senior Tom was truly a genius. At such a young age, he was already exploring the existence of cutting-edge dark magic. Although he couldn’t see, he still silently used perception spells. While he didn’t find the enemy, he did discover the basilisk dancing enthusiastically.

He was instantly furious!

What in the world was going on? This was completely different from what he had imagined.

This wasn’t right!

Why was it that besides Parseltongue, this strange flute music could also affect the basilisk?!

Senior Tom immediately investigated the source of the sound, but his opponent was cunning. The person wasn’t at the source of the sound, or perhaps the sound source’s origin was masked.

However, fortunately, the basilisk had already been awakened by Tom’s Parseltongue. It was now uneasily coiled up, wondering what had just happened to itself.

“You think this is enough, do you? Hiding in the darkness?! Swarm of Bats!” Senior Tom no longer worried that expending magic would delay his resurrection and directly used an offensive spell.

Through his goggles, Ted saw a ball of magic fly from the tip of Tom’s wand, transforming into countless palm-sized bats that began to scatter in all directions at an extremely fast speed.

What a quick reaction!

He hadn’t expected that even the youthful version of Voldemort would have such quick reactions and such a deep reserve of spells. He had managed to think of summoning a large number of bats to explore the space and force out the enemy’s position in such a short time.

“Swarm of Bees!”

“Flock of Birds!”

Hermione used her擅长summoning spells.

Summoning spells were considered a branch of Transfiguration, such as the Summoning Charm that remotely summoned an object, or spells that used magic to transform into various items.

Hermione had worked hard for a semester and had made great progress in Transfiguration.

Now, in Professor McGonagall’s eyes, she was the favorite student.

Countless hornets buzzed forth, and large flocks of birds flew back and forth in the ceiling, distracting sight and sound.

At the same time, Ron and Jerry raised their wands together: “Multi-Blast!”

Dozens, even hundreds, of small stones flew out, shooting towards the扑过来的bats.

For a moment, the entire scene turned into a hail of bullets, with bats, birds, hornets, and projectiles, all mixed into a chaotic mess.

Various creatures fell down with loud thuds, but these magically created things didn’t last very long, disappearing after only twenty or thirty seconds.

“Hahahaha! I should have guessed, you always move as one. Are you all here? And where’s Ted?”

Because he had spent time with Ron and Neville twice, Senior Tom knew the six-person group very well, especially Ted, who was admired by Ron and highly praised by Neville. Senior Tom actually held him in disdain.

Now knowing that he had been tricked by these six young wizards, Senior Tom, however, laughed in anger.

“It’s perfect to catch you all in one go!” He slightly bared his teeth, a cruel smile on his face.

“Go! Kill them!” (Parseltongue)

Under the command of Parseltongue, although the basilisk couldn’t find Ted and his companions’ positions, it still moved quickly, its head held high, flicking its tongue, and its huge tail began to sweep wildly!

A snake tail as thick as a water tank, like a flying steamroller, smashed a stone snake statue next to the passage with a “boom” sound. The碎石flew out like cannonballs in all directions.

In the darkness, the basilisk couldn’t sense the enemy, so it began to wreak havoc indiscriminately over a large area!

Jerry and Hermione quickly hid behind the huge supporting pillars nearby, hearing the sound of碎石clattering against the ground and the stone pillars behind them, their hearts pounding with fright.

Even without its terrifying ability to kill with a gaze, this basilisk was troublesome enough with its sheer brute force.

Even if a fire dragon landed on the ground, it probably wouldn’t be a match for this basilisk.

However, Ted had already thought of a solution.

In their mental communication, Ted said: “Begin!”

Ted silently cast a modified version of the Silencing Charm—the Soundproof Barrier.

Within the magical range, the小伙伴began to cast Freezing Charms together.

And at Ted’s feet, a pale chill began to spread—a new way to use Frost Nova.

Ted began to continuously pour out a large amount of ice from a textbook-sized small box behind him.

The box was enchanted with an Undetectable Extension Charm, making its interior vast, and was worth 32 Galleons.

The ice was free, taken from the house-elves’ ice storage in the school kitchen.

Ted had stuffed almost seven or eight refrigerators worth of ice into it and was now silently pouring it out…

In just thirty or forty seconds, this already cold underground space began to cool down.

And because the dark domain created by Ansu was still active, nothing could be seen clearly. Senior Tom had no sense of touch and didn’t feel the cold, so he didn’t notice.

The basilisk swung its tail wildly in the surroundings, smashing and sweeping everywhere. Nothing was spared except the Slytherin statue behind it.

But after more than a minute, it clearly felt something was wrong—hiss~ a little cold?

This feeling was a bit unfamiliar to the basilisk.

Although Hogwarts was located in the Scottish Highlands, winters were very cold there.

But ever since it was created by Slytherin, it hadn’t really experienced winter. It always hibernated during winter.

Especially after Slytherin experimented on it, slowing down its metabolism. It ate less, slept more, and basically never moved during winter.

Only last winter, Senior Tom controlled Ron to open the Chamber of Secrets and ordered the basilisk to come out a few times, but that was just to let it roam around the castle.

This kind of cold was truly unfamiliar.

This abnormality made the basilisk cautious. It stopped its indiscriminate destruction and coiled up, waiting to see what would happen.

However, the longer it waited, the colder it got. Why did its body feel a bit numb? And a little sleepy!

Although the basilisk’s magic resistance was already very high, so high that even if the professors came, they wouldn’t know what to do for a while. But it was still a snake, still a cold-blooded animal.

As Ted created a cold storage in the Chamber, the temperature rapidly dropped, and the exposed skin of the小伙伴already had goosebumps.

Hermione cast warming charms on the other小伙伴within the silencing barrier, but it could only prevent them from trembling. This showed how low the temperature already was.

And at this moment, fine water droplets even began to condense on the basilisk’s scales!

No matter how high its magic resistance, it still couldn’t escape physiological effects.

It felt very bad and began to hiss.

Neville immediately translated: “It says it’s cold, very cold, and wants to go back to sleep!”

Senior Tom finally realized something was wrong: “Merlin’s beard, these little brats are playing dirty with me!”

“Don’t just stand there! Move! This space isn’t big, crush every inch of it!” Senior Tom urged the basilisk to move using Parseltongue.

Parseltongue had extremely strong control over snakes. The basilisk was very unwilling in the low temperature, but it still had to obey, uncoiling its body and moving on the icy cold stone floor. Its body temperature dropped even faster, and its movements became much slower.

However, this move was effective.

Although the underground space was about half the size of a football field, this basilisk, stretched out, was over 20 meters long. If it really rolled over like this, Ted and his companions would have nowhere to hide.

Just then, Ansu, who had done nothing since spreading the dark domain, finally moved, silently sliding towards the basilisk.

And Ted, meanwhile, used the already prepared card [Promotion (Red)] on it…

(End of this chapter)