Hearing Rudolphus's scolding, the spell dispellers who were taking care of their disabled colleagues on the high platform trembled. They did not dare to delay any longer and quickly ran down the platform. Under their magic wands, the Dementors in front of the door all disintegrated, and their rotting cloaks fell to the ground.
The spell dispellers began to cast the dispelling spells on the door. However, even after using several different types of spells, the door still did not budge. The spell dispellers turned around and stole a glance at Lord Voldemort on the high platform. Their eyes met with the sharp and ferocious gaze of the Lord Voldemort. Cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the spell dispellers. It was as if the inhuman gaze of the Lord Voldemort was really lethal.
In a panic, the spell dispellers impatiently cast a dispelling spell on the door. However, there was no reaction. They made up their minds and shouted, "Open Sesame!"
This was an ancient lock-picking spell that existed before the invention of Araho. It was not as subtle as Araho's spell. Its function was to directly tear the door from its hinges and chop it into pieces of wood or neat pieces. However, because it was too noisy, it was not liked by wizards and bandits. Therefore, it was gradually phased out. However, in terms of effect, it was far more powerful than the 'Open Door' spell that only smashed the door lock and left a smoking hole, and the newest 'Araho' spell that only opened the door lock.
However, it was precisely because Open Sesame was not as gentle as the previous dispelling spells. Instead, it was full of offensive power. This spell was treated as an attack by the unknown magical power and triggered the counterattack condition. In just an instant, the 'Open Sesame' spell was absorbed by the stone door and twisted back out. It hit the spell dispellers who originally cast it. The spell dispellers were instantly torn into small pieces by the dispelling spell. The pieces fell to the ground and mixed with the blood and flesh. The blood and flesh began to flow along the lines on the ground towards the altar.
When the remaining spell dispellers saw this scene, they trembled all over. It seemed that they could not support themselves anymore. The worst of them even fell to the ground.
"Get out of the way!" Lord Voldemort scolded coldly, his eyes flashing with uncontrollable anger. He simply floated from the high platform to the door, raised his wand, and pointed it at the door.
For a moment, the Dark Lord's dispelling of the curse was much louder than the previous dispellers. All kinds of curses he knew were cast on the door, and the counterattack made by the door was ineffective against the Lord Voldemort, who was prepared for it. It was not enough to hurt him.
However, the Lord Voldemort's curse did not work on the stone door either. Finally, with a loud bang, a thunderbolt shot out and hit the door. A lot of dust fell down, but the door still stood under such a violent attack, firmly guarding the room behind it.
The terrified spell dispellers stared at the Lord Voldemort with trepidation, fearing that the Dark Lord, who could not open the door, would kill them to vent his anger. Lucius, Alecto, and the others also lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound to anger the anxious Dark Lord at this time.
"Master … I am worried that this stone door and wall not only have anti-unlock curses … but also self-destruct settings if it is opened by force …" Rudolphus looked at the Dark Lord's gaze from the door to the stone wall next to it, and he had to remind him. If there was any damage, the responsibility and the anger of the Dark Lord would fall on the excavation team.
With a cold snort, the Lord Voldemort twirled his wand between the withered fingers of his prosthetic arm. He suddenly turned around and walked to the front of the high altar, carefully observing it with his snake-like eye that was still intact.
The black altar was a circular building surrounded by an ionic colonnade on the upper level, and under the colonnade was a platform about seven meters high. On the upper part of the platform, there was a huge strip of high relief engraved with engraved stone slabs about three meters wide connected.
The relief engraved on the high altar depicted many people holding wands with broken hands and gouged out eyes kneeling on the high altar. Their expressions were painful, and their mouths were wide open as if they were wailing. On the altar, the broken hands, feet, and eyeballs rolled everywhere on the ground, and the blood flowing out of their bodies gathered on the mark in the middle of the altar, and the door at the end of the room was opened.
The relief engraved with a strong and intense atmosphere, and the whole scene of the sacrifice was extremely realistic … and below these relief engravings were indecipherable runes. The Lord Voldemort moved closer, trying to deduce the meaning of the runes.
After a long time, the Dark Lord hissed in a dangerous tone, "Sacrifice. This time, it's not the dirty Muggle. It has to be magic. It has to be wizards."
Ever since Penello's new curriculum was implemented in Hogwarts, the entire classroom was silent when the professors and teaching assistants walked in. Unlike the usual silence, no one was giving orders to the young wizards, but they were still staring straight ahead, maintaining the sitting posture that Penello had emphasized and trained them in during the last class.
They were asked to form small groups, with the ones with good grades helping the ones with bad grades. They were asked to stand up and look at each other. The young wizards went from laughing shyly to looking at each other with firm eyes. The wizards stood up and walked in place until they were all in step. The footsteps were rustling at each other at first, but slowly became more and more orderly, and finally became sonorous and powerful.
This was the power of teamwork. Originally, the little wizards were just a little shy, playful, or bored. Under the effect of discipline and unity, they inexplicably gained a sense of holiness and power, and under Penello's request, they took the initiative to express themselves.
When greeting each other, Penello emphasized that it should be different from before. She requested that in her class, in addition to calling out reports when speaking to the teaching assistants and professors, the students themselves should perform a wizard's salute when greeting each other or during class. They should also call out "Hogwarts" after the salute to show that they were Hogwarts and enhance the collective sense of honor.
This change had also affected the performance of these little wizards under other professors' tutelage. Seeing the students in this class as a whole, the timid Ravenclaw, the noisy Gryffindor, and Neville, who were not very bright, began to try to express themselves enthusiastically.
In the past few days, this new way of greeting each other had spread throughout the Hogwarts. Under the guidance of Owen's TV station, the Hogwarts students could easily see their parents and go out during the semester. This new way of greeting each other began to spread from the senior class to the entire floating city.
The previous sanctions and trade embargoes had been resolved. After cooperating with Muggle, the problem of supplies had been solved. They had obtained new stable jobs. Various new products were constantly produced, improving their quality of life. In addition, the Hogwarts used tough methods to solve these disputes. These wizards living on the floating city had a sense of pride in their hearts. Now, the new way of greeting each other, which could distinguish between Hogwarts and non- Hogwarts, gave them a channel to vent, allowing them to distinguish themselves from the ordinary wizards living on the ground.
Especially in the past few days, after a large number of wizard disappearances broke out in central and eastern Europe, it almost reached a climax. Unlike Muggle's disappearance, the Mystery Man did not let the ordinary wizards know what kind of madness he was up to this time. He directly targeted the wizards themselves. Many families in Germany had not solved the problem of their savings being robbed in Gringotte. More or less, their friends and distant relatives had gone missing.
This caused a new wave of migration on a much larger scale than the previous incident. Many European wizards had begun to lose confidence in their country's Ministry of Magic's control over the magic world. After the safety of their wealth was not guaranteed, they now found that their Ministry of Magic could not even maintain their basic safety. This caused many wizards to choose to live in the Hogwarts, which had a lot of favorable immigration policies, or in France, which was sheltered by the Hogwarts. Even if they could understand that the British Magic World was essentially robbing the wizards of the wizarding world, as long as their personal safety and property were protected, these ordinary wizards lacked the determination of their country's ruling class to fight against Harris. They chose to obey.
In order to quickly integrate into the floating city, these immigrants also accepted the idea of emphasizing the Hogwarts and weakening the concept and understanding of the British wizarding world. Just like how Allen said that he did not care about the bloodline or the origin of the mixed-blood Muggle, but whether or not he was a wizard, these immigrants, regardless of their original nationality, began to call themselves Hogwarts. They began to advocate that it did not matter which country you came from, but which country you lived in now.
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