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46.65% HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error. / Chapter 194: An Accident.

Chapter 194: An Accident.

"I would like to know what I can do to find out more information about Gehrman Sparrow. This person." A girl in her late teens said placing a wanted poster in front of Loki on the table.

Loki immediately raised his eyebrows and his eyes widened as he heard the request of the girl sitting opposite him and she caught onto this.

"You can't do this? I thought you removed the poster about the information you needed because you found some." The girl asked with a soft *sigh* as if she'd just wasted her time.

"Although I shouldn't do it, madam…" Loki said with a slight pause and then continued to speak just as the girl was about to get up and leave, "...but what you're thinking off is probably not the reason for the shock. I'm just surprised that someone else has asked me about it."

"Someone else!?" the girl asked with annoyance a frown grew on her face as she heard those words.

'Guess she's realised she was only sent here to verify the story someone else gave the boss.' 

"Yes and although I can't tell you who asked me about this earlier, I can tell you the information I have about this Gehrman Sparrow."

"You know him?" The girl asked with her eyebrows raised.

"No, I don't exactly know him, but due to some 'work' I've come across this name in my field. It is quite popular, he's been nicknamed the 'Anti-divination master.'"

"Oh…?" the girl leaned in, interested.

"Would you like to hear the information?" Loki asked like he was making sure the girl was going to get into deep trouble if she heard this.

"Yes." the girl nodded calmly.

"Well, the name Gehrman Sparrow is the alias of an agent of the Amon Family."

"Amon family?" the girl asked confused expecting Loki to elaborate further.

But Loki disappointed her.

"Sorry, I don't know anything about them. Not even divination can pry out their secrets. But I can tell they exist because they can interfere with divinations about them." Loki said while shaking his head as if he were helpless to do anything about the matter.

"Thank you." The girl said as she stood up and nodded to Loki before leaving the room at a swift pace, but before she could leave Loki spoke.

"Miss Mary Jackson…"

"Yes?" the girl asked after turning around with an annoyed expression.

"I don't do this for free you know…"

The girl frowned but then tossed a galleon Loki's way before walking away.

"Tsk. She didn't even pay me the real price for the information, how cheap." Loki complained after the girl went out of the room.

But then a smile sprouted up on Loki's face.

'Haha…how easy it is to swindle such people.'

'But unfortunately…none of the spies that I don't know about have arrived here yet.'

'Do they really not have any spies other than the ones they hired in their gathering?'

'Probably not…I'm sure I need to shake things up a little for them to come out of their burrows.'

'But what should I do?'

Later during the day, miles away from Hogwarts, a man sitting in a dark room closed his eyes and murmured, talking to himself.

"Amon? Are they one of the families that vanished in the fourth epoch?" The man mumbled.

Not long after he picked up the quartz pendulum that was lying on the table and held it above a piece of parchment he'd received recently from the girl he'd sent to verify the previous information.

"This…true."

"This…true."

"This…true."

"This…true."

He then opened his eyes and looked at the pendulum that was spinning anti-clockwise in front of him.

"False? Or is it Anti-Divination?" The figure mumbled while looking at the pendulum, but then he did something else.

"What…source…information?"

"What…source…information?"

"What…source…information?"

"What…source…information?"

Closing his eyes as if he was going to fall asleep, the man tilted his head and allowed his spirit to be carried into the spirit world where he had a vision.

A girl came into view sitting across from a young boy in a decently sized room.

"I would like to know what I can do to find out more information about Gehrman Sparrow. This person." The girl said and slid over a picture the man recognised as the one he'd given to all the participants of his mission.

His attention however shifted to the boy who was relaying her all the information about Gehrman Sparrow.

"How did he know?" Mr. X wondered but his attention was soon diverted from Loki to the detail he had shared.

"Amon family…"

The man broke out of his dream divination and used his pendulum to perform another divination.

"Is Amon family real?"

"Is Amon family real?"

"Is Amon family real?"

"Is Amon family real?"

The man opened his eyes and to his annoyance, the pendulum was spinning anti-clockwise.

'Is this a lie?' The man pondered but then in his annoyance he remembered the boy's words, 'They can interfere with divinations.'

'But, how did he learn of their interference? He seems like a low sequence Beyonder of the Mystery Pryer pathway.'

'Is he really special?'

'If the cat witch has allowed him to practice acting so openly…there surely must be something special about him.'

'Is it the accuracy of his divination?'

'What was this mission of his that led him to discover about the Amon family? If it is even real.'

The man's frown deepened but there wasn't anyone else in the dark lightless room to see it.

Annoyed the man *scratched* his neck continuously until it began to bleed. The man did not flinch however and brought his bloody finger closer to his lips.

*Slurp* *Slurp* *Slurp*

"Ahh~."

Meanwhile, Loki wandered through the castle corridors in the dead of the night and explored his ideas about the riddle that Salazar Slytherin had left him.

'Is my solution wrong? Or is there something missing and I'm on the right track?'

The fresh cold autumn air kept Loki feeling fresh and comfortable even though he was quite tired from attending classes.

Loki looked down at the Marauder's map and saw Peter Pettigrew still hadn't returned to the Gryffindor Dormitory and was missing, yet he felt a little disgusted.

'A forty-year-old man sleeping in a boy's dormitory for so long. Eww. I don't even want to think of such a thing. I did promise Sirius that I'd capture him but I still don't have a detailed plan of what I'd do to reveal his secret.'

'I could ask Professor Snape? I'm sure he'll help me. He'll probably think I'm crazy but he trusts me enough to at least look at the situation before dismissing it completely.'

'I could ask the Basilisk to secretly gobble him up too.'

'But I better not catch Peter until I've solved the threat of whatever Aurora Order is going to do this year. I don't want Sirius to go babbling about Gehrman Sparrow to everyone else. God forbid 'Adam' learns about it somehow.'

*Meow!* *HISSS~*

An angry hiss surprised Loki as he stared at the end of the corridor where he found Miss Norris standing with her tail erect as if he'd stepped on it.

Loki quickly used his illusions to shroud himself with shadows and darkness as he rushed away from the scene, bolting up random staircases that took him higher and higher.

He eventually stopped when he checked the Marauder's map and found Miss Norris in a different tower along with Finch as they chased after peeves, giving Loki time to breathe.

'Where am I?'

'The seventh floor?' Loki thought as he looked out the window at the Black Lake.

'Damn…I've developed a slight annoyance of the floors three, five and seven. Just standing here reminds me that I haven't figured Salazar's riddle yet.'

Loki casually strolled towards the window and leaning on its edge he thought about the puzzle that Salazar had set up for him.

'What else could it be?'

'Perhaps my method to activate the magic is wrong?'

'Is there something I've missed in the parchment? Perhaps it is the key to activate the magic?'

Deep in thought about the riddle, Loki began to pace around the corridor, walking from one end to the other, circling around, trying to figure out what was wrong with his solution.

But that was when he heard a small muffled *clink* like the sound concrete blocks make when stacked together on top of each other.

Loki looked in the direction, worried if Miss Norris and Finch had arrived at the seventh floor, but what he saw shocked him.

In the darkness, on a wall, that Loki had already examined and walked past several times, were intricate carvings that slowly sprouted into fruition, bricks folding away and retreating into themselves only to leave behind a golden door in the middle of it all.

'What?'

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Chapter 195: Crystals.

With a shocked expression, Loki walked right up to the door.

'What just happened?'

Loki slowly began to recall all the events that led to this moment and then he suddenly realised it all.

'Ah! Magical floor, the seventh floor.'

''Every Positive Circle you make' just meant walking in a clockwise direction.'

'And since I was thinking about the riddle while making the positive circles the door appeared?'

'What's inside it all?' Loki questioned and then thought about the third line of the riddle which he mumbled out loud, "Will lead you to me to wake."

'Is Salazar Slytherin inside there?'

The door was weird. It had all sorts of engravings but Loki couldn't see them clearly since they all blended with each other so well.

Loki placed his hand on the golden door and was about to push it open when some sense knocked into his mind.

'Not good! Not good! I should divine if I can enter the place safely and come out alive after I do so before I enter.'

Going into the Sefirah Castle after entering a broom closet nearby Loki pulled out his trusty pendulum and murmured the words, "It is safe to enter the room that has appeared on the seventh floor."

He murmured it seven times before opening his eyes.

Because of his excitement, Loki's eyes buzzed around for a few moments before landing on the pendulum.

'Clockwise.'

'Alright, that means it's safe. But I better still take precautions in case something goes wrong or is capable of interfering with my divination.'

Loki quickly performed a bestowal ritual and summoned all the items he'd crafted over the summer and put them all over his body to protect himself. He wanted to be sure he wouldn't die immediately on arrival or worse.

While concentrating on Salazar Slytherin's concealment rune in his mind to make himself mentally invisible Loki *gulped* audibly and finally placed his hand on the door.

'Alright. I'll push in….three…two…one…and push!'

'...'

'Huh?'

Loki pushed with all his might but the door didn't budge.

"Ah! What if-"

Loki poured in a little bit of his spirituality into the door and it immediately sprang to life.

The gold shimmered and a blue phosphorescent liquid began to emerge in the gaps between the engravings causing it to reveal its beauty.

Dragons, Griffons, Snakes and all assortments of other animals along with plants appeared on the door, all outlined by a glowing liquid that shimmered all around the door.

The blue liquid slowly filled the hollow eyes and the capillaries of the plants and the veins of the animals making it seem like the liquid was the key to all their lives.

Slowly everything on the door under Loki's shocked gaze began to move around. Each animal woke up with a yawn as if they had just been woken up from a long slumber while the flowers of the plants bloomed as they happily swayed in the wind?

Loki was mesmerised by it all when suddenly they all jumped away from the centre and rushed to the sides as a clean and straight crack appeared through the centre.

The blue liquid shimmered and throbbed like a heart as Loki heard a faint drum beating from inside the door.

'It feels like an ancient giant is about to wake up.'

Loki was afraid that all the light show and the noise would wake up and attract the attention of someone in the castle who wasn't yet sleeping.

Excess gold seemed to melt off the door and Loki saw it drip down and freeze in the air, forming a royal handle that was attached to it.

Slowly the light and sound works died down and Loki was left with a golden door that had engravings of live animals and plants who all had blue eyes and veins.

Loki was dumbfounded.

But snapping out of it when cool wind blew into the corridor through the windows, Loki mustered up the courage to open the door.

He placed his hand on the handle and pushed.

'Ah…it's light.'

The door moved so easily that Loki felt it was his intention to open the door that moved it and not his hands.

Opening the door a crack, Loki stepped in and to his surprise, the inside was dark as if there were no lights, the only light coming inside was from the door itself.

But all of a sudden, before Loki could react, the door closed behind him soundlessly and left him trapped in a dark lightless room.

Yet, Loki remained calm, he trusted his divination.

The darkness was peculiar since he couldn't see much, but-

Loki's night vision helped him outline the objects inside the room as he made out a large shelf on his left, four large crystals the size of a door in front of him and a large table and chair on his right.

'Is this a study room?' Loki thought.

Loki made his way to the table to examine it first and found a small parchment on it on which were lines of text he was confused to read.

'Am I reading this right?'

He pulled out his wand and cast a 'Lumos' charm to give himself some light, but the words he read left him dumbfounded.

'Stop shielding your mind.'

Loki frowned.

But reluctantly, very reluctantly, he slowly stopped focusing on the concealment rune.

As soon as he did, Loki saw an immediate change.

Blue lights like fireflies swooped into the room and gave it a cosy winter glow, a fire brewed in the fireplace near Loki and the chair that was previously just sitting in its place, knocked into his knees and forced him to sit.

A teapot brewed tea in front of his eyes and poured a cup of milk tea into a porcelain cup for him which he grabbed from the air.

Loki was surprised by the aliveness the room displayed all of a sudden and became absorbed in studying all the masterful craftsmanship of the room that was hidden earlier.

Several chandeliers hung from the ceilings, rows and rows of books lined the shelves on the walls and several murals were painted on the walls representing stories that Loki found absorbing.

But that was when Loki's eyes gravitated to the four blue crystals at the centre of the room. Loki was shocked. The shock was so great that Loki forgot to breathe for a second and dropped his teacup.

The cup didn't break, it hovered beside him as if whoever had charmed it knew what would happen to it.

Loki immediately got up and rushed toward the crystals and the tea cup followed behind him, not letting any tea spill.

'What is this!?'

Loki asked himself, pinching to see if he was dreaming, but the pain seemed real.

In the four crystals, that appeared as though they had sprouted out of the ground in four different directions, were people trapped inside.

'Who are they!?' Loki wondered with surprise as he saw the bodies of the people in them. 

'Why do only two crystals contain people in them? What happened to the other two?'

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