Other than that there wasn't really any presents worth mentioning and the rest of the day was fairly quiet as well minus the small snowball fight the twins started. Nick didn't take part in it but watched from the sidelines while under a shield charm. Not for lack of effort on the twins part to be fair as they kept "accidentally" hitting the shield from different angles in search of a weakness. Nick was not foolish enough to leave such a thing however and merely smirked as he sipped his Mexican hot chocolate.-
Something about the added red pepper really elevated the drink in his opinion and Dotty was always happy to make stuff like this for him if he asked. Ron was also a huge fan of the drink after trying some and had his own mug next to Nick. There was nothing really special about it but it was nice to just sit around and chat with friends without studying or worrying about the upcoming mana recovery and returning gods. Still all good things come to an end and the day soon waned away before a new one started.-
'There is six days left before the holidays end so I should probably visit that place in Iceland Slytherin mentioned to see if my theory holds.' Nick thought the morning after christmas as he was deciding what to do for the remaining time he had left before the classes started up again. From what he could tell Slytherin was at the third tier when he visited that place so Nick figured he would have no issue after going there himself. The country was only a bit over five hundred miles north-westish so while flying high into the air at about mach one should get him there in a bit under an hour.-
Donning his armor Nick placed a disillusionment charm on himself before leaving the castle through the courtyard. Once outside he willed himself up and instantly shot upwards like an arrow released from a bow. After reaching the clouds he stopped to allow the armor to adjust to the environment as he determined the direction he needed to go before shooting off into the distance. Only Dumbledore seemed to notice his departure but merely shrugged and went back to his paperwork. This was not the first time Nick had shot past the wards through the sky after all and the old wizard doubted it would be the last as well.-
The armors inbuilt shields covered the head and shoulders of the armor as he flew which increased it's aerodynamics greatly. This allowed Nick to bust through the sound barrier and enter the soundless state that existed beyond it. This wasn't to say that he wasn't making sound merely that he was moving faster than it was so he himself could not hear it. Luckily he quickly reached the ocean so those that heard the sound of his travel were few and far between.-
Nick didn't pay much attention to his surroundings as he flew as the only things he needed to watch were in front of him in the form of birds. If his eyesight wasn't extremely good and his reaction speed being superhuman he might not have been able to dodge the few he came across that were cruising at this altitude. After about forty five minutes he spotted his destination ahead of him and started to slow down which brought back a disorienting amount of noise. Still he safely arrived on the south eastern part of the country and began his search for the spot Slytherin described.-
This was slightly tricky as there was quite a lot of volcanic activity in the southern part of the country that threw off his magical senses slightly from the earth fire there. After about two hours of careful searching however Nick finally got a magical return that didn't belong to the earth fire. In his senses it felt like something that was trying to go unnoticed which was ironically what gave it away to him. If he was going off of sight or something like that then Slytherins ward would have worked perfectly as his notice would have slipped right over it but in his magical senses something telling him not to notice it tended to do the opposite.-
Moving the large amount of rock covering the entrance Nick entered the crevice cautiously after dismantling the ward and replacing it behind him. Like he had expected the crevice was very hot but thanks to both his natural resistance to high temperatures and the armor that adapted and protected him from it he was perfectly fine. Eventually he found his first traces of the metal guardians that Slytherin spoke of in the form of broken pieces of a whole that Nick figured the founders team had left behind.
Nick picked up the pieces and observed them but frowned as he couldn't identify it. At first glance it appeared to be bronze but it was far too sturdy to actually be it and there was no corrosion at all despite the enchantments on the metal being destroyed for over a thousand years. Using the system Nick analyzed the pieces and smiled at what it told him. The metal was called olympium and was an alloy created by Hephaestus that the forge god used for most of their intricate works. Even more surprisingly was that the pieces belonged to a magical drone created out of the metal.
This raised Nicks hopes greatly that this was indeed the location that Hephaestus was sealed but the possibility that it was just the tomb of a powerful wizard that found the alloy also existed. Knowing this Nick collected as much pieces as he could and continued on his way further into the crevice. The walls got smoother and wider the deeper he went while more and more pieces of drones showed up and Nick had even started to find some more whole constructs.-
The general body shape he could see for the majority of these drones was vaguely arachnid like except they had clamps on their front for manipulating things. Nick couldn't quite put his finger on it but something about their shape bothered him , like he should know what they were but at the same time he shouldn't as well. It was a weird sort of deja vu rather than anything actually paradoxical in nature and it was driving him crazy. In the end he could only continue collecting the drones as he went deeper into the stone structure underground.-
'What is this place? There is almost no magic at all besides these drones and even then most of them have long since lost all power or been destroyed. If anything this place seems almost entirely mechanical in nature.' Nick thought in confusion the more the stone started to look as if it had been carved long ago and inlaid with metal pipes and plating. Even stranger was that he could hear steam moving through the pipes to somewhere further in. There was plenty of traps along the way but again none were magical and most had even been disabled prior to his arrival.-
Nick pushed open a large set of metal doors that stood in his way further in and for the first time since entering this place found a working drone. This one was different then the others however as it looked almost humanoid if it wasn't for the strange rolling wheels it used to move about and weapon hands. The right hand was a mechanical blade while the left appeared to be a sort of crossbow without a string. Again Nick had a horrible sense that he should know what this was but couldn't for the life of him figure out why.-
The drone also spotted him and steam rose from the side of it's head and it turned violent and raised it's crossbow arm to fire a bolt at him. Nick waved his wand creating a shield that stopped the bolt before immediately pointing at the drone "Immobulus!" he spoke and the spell appeared in a flash of blue causing the drone to stiffen in place as it was magically paralyzed. Nick walked over to it at this point and began examining the enchantments on it carefully. They were horribly complex actually as there was a sort of primitive A.I that detected race and dictated the actions of the drone as a result as well as a set of tasks that it would need to perform in various scenarios.-
'These enchantments are some else entirely. It's like a form of mechanical life with that last step not being taken to truly make it alive. Even stranger is that it seems to be intentional as well.' Nick thought with a deep frown as once again a part of his being was screaming at him that he should know what this is and what made it. "Disrumpere!" Nick said with a flick of his wrist and the drone lost it's enchantment before falling to the ground in perfectly intact pieces that Nick collected to put together again later.-
Looking around the room Nick saw three other door that went in three different directions so he on a whim chose to take the one to his left. Behind that door was what appeared to be a bed room to his surprise and had a metal mechanically locked chest , a stone bed , a table with stone chairs and a bookshelf with what looked to be the remains of books on it. The books were sadly reduced to fragments and Nick felt like maybe the repair charm might hopefully fix them.
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