บท 198: Character Keys and Clues
บรรณาธิการ: Atlas Studios
Ivan rolled his eyes. He didn't understand how beautiful Luna's dirigible was, but she obviously didn't get it for that, and expecting her to return it would be a dream…
However, he was now an owl and could not use the Flying Charm or help Luna.
[Ding, Ravenclaw female dormitory discovered…]
The system's voice sounded in Ivan's head, and he paused, indicating that he should go.
"Thanks for showing me around, I guess I'll have to leave now," Ivan complained as he flapped his wings and flew into the air.
"Why did you leave?" Luna asked, looking at him curiously, making Ivan uncomfortable.
Ivan was wondering if he had been exposed when he heard the little witch speak in her ethereal voice.
"That won't do. You haven't delivered the letter yet, have you?"
'Delivery?'
Ivan rolled his eyes, remembering that he had told Luna that he was delivering the letter in place of her father's owl…
To her surprise, Luna always remembered, but Ivan didn't have the luxury of being a messenger owl.
Yvonne was debating how to refuse when a grey-and-white owl waddled in through the open window.
Ivan's face fell, and he felt strangely guilty, because it was the same one he had knocked out.
The grey-white owl shuddered violently when it saw Ivan and nearly fell out of the sky.
It was only when he saw Luna that he flapped his wings and flew towards her, calling out to her.
"Like that? The owl that looks like you stole your letter and knocked you out cold?" Luna looked surprised, but when she turned around, Ivan was nowhere to be seen.
Going to the window, Luna looked out and saw that the strange owl had flown away …
Ivan, soaring high in the sky, turned to see Luna standing outside the window, along with the owl, which was squawking in protest.
"Thank God I slipped away fast!" Ivan muttered to himself as he changed direction and flew away. He still had to go to the boys' dormitory…
During the night, Ivan used his Animagus form to explore Hogwarts, including the Slytherin and Hufflepuff Lounges.
[Ding! Explored to Hufflepuff Lounge, Hogwarts progress 71%. Do you wish to claim your reward?]
After another stroll, Ivan finally completed the quest he had been longing for.
"Receive your reward!" Ivan said.
The next moment, a series of strange symbols appeared in Ivan's mind.
The characters were extremely strange and did not appear to be written in any of the languages he knew, nor did they appear to be written in an ancient magical script.
"The character is the key!" Ivan muttered, reciting the information the system was feeding him.
Even then Ivan had no idea, the hints were too few,
What the hell does that mean?
How can a string of characters be a key?
Where was the "door" if it had a key?
Ivan was very upset. With a thought, he suddenly remembered the mission, Bloodline Mystery. When he opened the system column, he found that the mission progress had changed.
[Mission: Blood Mystery
Objective: Find a way to fuse multiple bloodlines
Current Task Progress: 15%
Task Reward: Legendary Points*1
…
"Progress increased by ten percent?" Ivan was stunned. It seemed that his previous guess was correct. Completing the exploration mission was indeed a breakthrough.
If he could understand the meaning of these characters, he might be able to find a way to fuse many bloodlines.
With that in mind, Ivan went to the library to look up books on writing and see if he could decipher the characters.
As for pushing the mission to Hogwarts to 100% to get more information?
Ivan had no such idea. Hogwarts was too big and too mysterious. He had explored all the places he could go, but even so, he had only managed to push the mission to seventy-one percent.
Yvonne felt that even if she stayed for seven years, she might not be able to see the whole castle.
…
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
While Ivan was in the library, looking up the meaning of the characters, Wood restarted his Quidditch training, summoning the team to the Quidditch pitch in the evening.
Given the potential for school and legend points, Ivan had to take some time off to continue practicing his flying skills.
After an afternoon of training, Ivan was about to head back to his room to shower when he was stopped by a sneaky George and Fred.
"What's wrong?" Yvonne asked, looking at them curiously.
"Do you remember when we asked you to be our special advisor last term?" George said mysteriously.
"Of course," Yvonne said, and then seemed to think of something and asked, "Is your Wizard Wheezes officially open?"
"Yes!" George and Fred said in unison.
"We found the right place to use as our base," George said happily, and Fred went on.
"That's why we wanted to invite you to see—"
They found the Room of Requirement? thought Ivan at first, but when he followed them to the so-called secret base, he discovered that this was not the case.
It was a storeroom that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time. It was the size of a classroom and was filled with many items needed to make magic tools…
George proudly showed Ivan around the place as he explained.
"Fred and I found this place by accident. We've been watching it for a long time, and it hasn't been visited in a long time, so we tidied it up and used it as a temporary proving ground and station for the Magickery!"
"It looks good," said Ivan, nodding at the half-completed merchandise on the table.
Fred excitedly pointed to two of the new props and introduced them to Ivan.
"It's a decoy bomb. Once thrown, it goes everywhere. Perfect for causing chaos!"
"That's Sou-Bing Fireworks, one of our masterpieces!"
"Thanks to the ideas you gave us over the summer, and two hundred Galleons for research funding, we're able to come up with so many interesting things," Fred said with a smile.
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