Chapter 378 Time Backlash
Southern England, Kent.
The figures of Xie Lin, Salif and Shining appeared outside the door of an abandoned old house in the suburbs. Looking around, there was no one around for a hundred miles.
According to the guidance on the scroll, the Selwyn family's biggest secret is hidden here.
The dilapidated door of the old house was open. The few people did not find any magic traps, so they stepped into the house. The few people briefly searched, but found nothing.
"Is it hidden by the Loyalty Curse?" Salif asked.
"Probably not," Schelling replied with certainty: "If it is something as important as the Loyalty Curse, there is no way I would miss this part when browsing Selwyn's memories."
"Although this is the core inheritance of the Selwyn family, Selwyn doesn't seem to put much thought into running this place. Instead, he is more interested in accumulating connections and expanding influence in the Ministry of Magic." Shearing paused. Then he said: "The reason for this may be that he was instigated and influenced by his wife, which is related to his wife's identity as a spy of the Shadow of the Dragon."
"Don't take it lightly. Although his thoughts are not here, as a pure-blood family with ancient heritage, it is impossible for such an important secret stronghold to have no hidden magic or defensive magic." Xie Lin said seriously.
Twinkle pointed to an old-fashioned dial phone with a yellowish shell hanging on the wall and said, "What is that?"
Xie Lin frowned. Although this old house looked no different from an ordinary Muggle house on the outside, the structure, decoration, and arrangement of things inside were clearly in the wizarding style.
Finding a dial telephone in a wizard's residence is certainly a very strange occurrence.
Xie Lin looked at the phone with the missing receiver and no wiring for a while, and said: "This is a Muggle... phone. Its function is similar to our two-way mirror, but it cannot cross space anytime and anywhere like a two-way mirror." Instead of connecting to the ground, it needs to be connected to a network system through a line. Weird——"
"Is there anything strange?" Salif sniffed gently with her nose, "I don't feel any magic power on this thing."
"Well, it's true. I can't feel any traces of magic power..." Xie Lin said softly, "But I saw subtle alchemy scratches at the bottom of it. If you don't pay attention, you will easily think that it is a scratch. traces of damage.”
"Are you sure?" Salif said suspiciously, "If it's alchemy, why doesn't it have any magic power attached to it?"
"There is a possibility," Schelling said solemnly, "This thing is still not activated. The way to activate it is to use this dial to enter the correct password."
"Ah... this..." Salif looked a little at a loss. There were a total of 10 numbers on the dial, and there were countless passwords that could be combined. If they wanted to try them one by one, they didn't know how much money they would have to spend here. After a while, she said angrily: "Can we kill the Selwyn family directly, control them all with the Imperius Curse, and force them to reveal the password?"
"Salf," Sherrin smiled, "When you encounter problems, don't always think of using the Imperius Curse to solve the problem in a crude way. We are wizards and should try to use our brains to solve the problem."
Salif turned her head and snorted in dissatisfaction, but chose to remain silent, secretly thinking in her heart, the only way I can think of is to use the Imperius Curse to figure out the password.
Schelling raised the phone and said, "Hey, look here, the first few numbers are obviously frequently used. The dial of the phone is also made of brass, and the number grooves 0, 1, 2, and 3 are The patina is much less than the other figures.”
Xie Lin said word by word: "This shows that the password is among these four numbers."
"Then shall we try the combinations of these four numbers one by one now?" Salif frowned.
"How is that possible?" Xie Lin laughed and said, "Let's go! Maybe as we walk, clues will come out."
Seeing the dilapidated appearance of the house, Xie Lin changed his initial guess——
He originally guessed that Mr. Selwyn only knew about this place, but did not have the key to enter the inheritance place. This was not unprecedented among pure-blood families. Some ancient big families wanted to avoid the emergence of a fatuous heir to the family head. To lead to decline or even destruction, some preventive measures should be taken, such as separating some important inheritances and handing them over to the family elders association to restrict the power of the family head.
Now, he felt that this was not the case at all. Judging from the state of the dial phone, it seems that it has not been used for a long time - this can only mean that no one in the entire Selwyn family has entered the inheritance place for a long time, which means -
This inheritance has actually been lost.
This dilapidated old house in disrepair is obviously the residence of a wizard, and the wizard living here is likely to be the last secret keeper who holds the key.
In this case, the clues to the password are likely to be in this dilapidated old house!
"Aquila! Aslan!" Xie Lin shouted coldly, and the shadows of two summoned beasts immediately appeared around Xie Lin.
"I want to cast a time-tracing spell, and I need your help!" Xie Lin said.
"Xie Lin, time magic is a very advanced and taboo field. Although Lord Ravenclaw is proficient in space magic, he is still taboo about time magic." Aquila said.
"It's the same here," Aslan said loudly: "Although Lord Gryffindor is proficient in illusion magic, it is always just an illusory scene, not a true journey through time and space. As far as I know, there is no real wizard in history. Dare to touch the forbidden realm of time magic."
"Actually..." Xie Lin's eyes shone with a strange light, and he said solemnly: "I have a time turner in my hand. What I really want to know is, is there any way you can avoid the consequences of using a time turner? The backlash.”
Currently, the time-turner usage is limited to rewinding time by up to five hours. Because the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic once conducted an experiment in 1899, sending the mute Eloise Mintambore back to 1402. When the Ministry of Magic used a time turner to forcibly recall her, her physiological state was unexpectedly... He was five centuries old and died after being admitted to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies.
Aquila and Aslan were silent for a long time. Time and cause and effect should not be manipulated. Even though they had followed the four most powerful wizards in the tenth century, they did not have much interaction with time magic.
"Theoretically, it is impossible to avoid the backlash of the power of time on a normal wizard..." Aquila said slowly: "But you are not a normal wizard..."
"First of all, you have spiritual power that ordinary wizards do not have, and you have broken the mental shackles and reached the level of spiritual power. Your body has also been transformed by Lord Hufflepuff's source of life, and is filled with vitality that far exceeds that of ordinary people. ....." Aquila said, "On these two points alone, you are already standing at a higher starting point than the four founders of Hogwarts..."
"Aquila," Schelling said, "You may not know that I later obtained the pure blood of Slytherin and the brave heart of Gryffindor, although I don't yet know the impact of these two new powers. What benefits I have at the moment, but obviously they won’t be meaningless.”
In Xie Lin's view, among the inheritance powers left to him by the four founders, the most important ones are the Crystal of Wisdom and the Source of Life. These two greatly enhanced Xie Lin's mental power and vitality, and the pure blood currently He couldn't see the slightest use, and the brave heart simply allowed him to master a secret.
"Hoho -" Aslan said: "Don't underestimate these two forces. Although the four founders have not directly fought against each other, Lord Gryffindor once mentioned to me that he is confident that he can fight in actual combat. He defeated the two adults, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, and Slytherin is his most feared opponent."
"I agree with what this stupid lion said," Aquila said: "According to the character of the old man in Slytherin, pure blood should be used to stimulate the power of blood, but since you have already activated your own blood on your own It has reached a very rare level, so the power of the pure blood cannot make you feel more benefits in a short period of time. In my opinion, you may need to use some external stimulation to accelerate the release of the pure blood."
Xie Lin nodded, indicating that he understood, and then asked: "What about the heart of bravery? Does it exist simply as a prerequisite for the profound fighting spirit to rise to the sky?"