"Statues?!" Markus seemed to be surprised as well, as if he had just noticed the statues because of Elwyn's reminder.
He looked at the monster statues in the garden doubtfully and fell into deep thought.
Elwyn frowned as he observed the expression on his face. He had a strange feeling.
Markus seemed to have just noticed the statues. It was the same when Elwyn mentioned the black magic that the Black Witch was casting. This ghost did not see the green magic light that shot into the sky. Instead, he only noticed these obvious things after Elwyn's reminder. It was really strange.
This feeling …
It was as if something, some kind of magic, was blocking Markus's vision, making him blind to the things in front of him and the things that were happening. What he saw was different from what Elwyn saw. When Elwyn reminded him, the magic was immediately dispelled, and he saw what Elwyn was talking about.
Considering that Markus's existence was also a type of magic, this possibility was very high. What he saw was a scene left behind by the spellcaster. Otherwise, Markus was pretending not to see it so that Elwyn would not notice these things. However, it was like this just now, and it was like this now. Whether it was the traces of the Black Witch's spell or the statues in the garden below, they were all obvious things. If Markus hoped that Elwyn did not see them and just ignored them, it would be too unreasonable.
"Those statues …" The pride in Markus's voice was gone. He said dryly, "Those statues have always been there."
"But you didn't see them just now?"
"I didn't notice, Master." Markus said, "I didn't expect you to be interested in them. These scary statues have been there for a long time, so long that people easily ignore them. In fact, I can't remember when they were placed there, but it must be that person who did it. He likes to play with strange things and surprise people when they are not paying attention. Old Master has always been very tolerant of his strange behavior. It must be him who … "
"Wait, Markus, who is that person you're talking about?" Elwyn asked.
"That person …" The expression on Markus's face became dull again. He seemed to have fallen into a long memory. After a long time, he said, "It's Young Master Darian. Master, please forgive me for not remembering his name for a while. Young Master Darian is the youngest son of the old master, a strange guy with no sense of existence. As you can see, he is always playing wicked pranks, which he seems to think are very amusing, but which in fact give everybody a headache. No one in the castle liked him. Young Master Darian was not as talented as his siblings, nor did he inherit the gifts of the Ravenclaw family. In fact, he has nothing. He's a squib. "
"A squib?" said Elwyn, thinking of Filch, the Hogwarts gatekeeper, who had been a squib.
A Squib referred to a person born into a Wizard family but unable to use magic. In other words, a Muggle born as a Wizard.
Generally speaking, Muggles would be looked down upon by some Wizards, thinking that they were second-class citizens in the magic world.
Especially in those Pureblood Wizard families who believed in Pureblood Doctrine, this discrimination would become particularly obvious. Many Pureblood Wizards would think that it was a shame to have a Muggle in the family, and they would remove the Muggle members from the family tree. For example, the Malfoy family or the Blake family had done this.
Even a Wizard family like the Weasley family, which was friendly to the Muggle and did not believe in the supremacy of Pureblood Wizards, found it difficult to accept a Muggle in their family. As far as Elwyn knew, Ron had an uncle who was a Muggle accountant, but his existence was almost a taboo topic in the Weasley family, and it was basically not talked about.
In the era of a thousand years ago, the status and circumstances of Muggles were much worse than they were now.
They were existences that were not easily talked about in the Wizard families; they were the forgotten ones.
Very few Pureblood Wizard families that valued bloodline above all else would even directly kill the Muggles within the family to prevent others from knowing.
"Yes, Young Master Darian is a Muggle. He has never shown any spellcasting ability since he was a child." Markus paused for a while before continuing, "He is a disgrace to the Ravenclaw family. People rarely talk about him, and usually pretend that he doesn't exist. The old master is too kind and didn't expel him from the family. But it's really strange. It must have been too long. My memory of Young Master Darian is always intermittent, as if I've forgotten a lot of things. But it's nothing, right? You can completely ignore him, master. Young Master Darian has done nothing except do some strange things to destroy the castle. "
How could he ignore him? This Darian was too suspicious.
Was it really just a coincidence that he was able to carve these statues that seemed to be created by evil gods?
And Markus, this old ghost's strange reaction and him forgetting a lot of things about Darian, was it also a coincidence?
"Did Darian carve these statues below himself?" Elwyn asked softly.
"Should be."
"Then did he come up with the images of these monsters himself?"
"Yes, he must have intended to scare everyone, so he deliberately carved these terrible things." Markus said, "There are no such monsters in the world. These are all his own imagination. Even if he told others that these monsters were wandering around the castle …"
"Wait, Darian said that the monsters in the statues below were wandering around the castle?"
"It's a prank, master. No one but him has seen these monsters. They don't exist at all." Markus continued, "It's not surprising that he can say that. Young Master Darian always does such despicable pranks, such as painting some patterns on the castle walls that no one can understand, or whispering there alone, pretending that someone is beside him, and so on. He probably wants to attract other people's attention in this way, but it only makes everyone hate him more. "
"Okay!" Elwyn thought for a moment and asked, "What happened to this Darian in the end?"
"When Death came, everyone in this land died, and I don't think he was an exception." Markus replied, "But he wasn't qualified to go to the Gates of Death to witness the opening ceremony, so he should still be in the castle, but I didn't see him. His soul may have dissipated. After all, he's just a squib without any magic …"
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