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"What is that red ball of light?" Hermione asked.
"Without a doubt, it's a magic item left behind by Gryffindor," Sirius replied. "It's the secret treasure key you've been talking about."
"How is this possible?!" Ron's eyes widened in disbelief. "That place is almost a thousand feet above the ground. How are we going to get up there?"
Under the blowing of the night wind, a large mass of thick dark clouds slowly floated over from afar.
A few seconds later, the platform at the top of the temple fell into complete darkness. The light of the stars was blocked by the clouds, and even the moon was nowhere to be seen.
In the darkness, only the soft red light above the temple and the unusually bright Mars in the distant night sky could still emit some light, bringing a trace of light to the world.
No one spoke. The atmosphere was tense and oppressive.
Harry's heart was beating fast. Looking at the red light, he suddenly thought of the monsters hidden in the temple.
It was as though he could hear them, calling for flesh.
When the dark cloud drifted away and the starlight reappeared, everyone secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
"The height at which Gryffindor left this item." Harry tried hard to calm himself down. He stretched out his hand and measured it before continuing, "If I use a flying broom, I can fly up there. It shouldn't be a problem."
"That is if the centaurs allow us to do so." Hermione was still looking at Elwyn. "This is the centaur tribe, not the Hogwarts."
"If I don't use a flying broom, how do I get up there?" Harry asked. "Or, I can ride a hippogriff, a winged beast, Buckbeak, and fly there."
"Everything you've said is impossible," Yang Kai said.
Sirius pointed at the red light in the clouds and explained, "No flying magic or flying creatures are allowed above this temple. There are only two ways to reach that place. Either you pass the final test left by Gryffindor and be teleported up, or you climb up the stairs below."
Looking at the vague outline of the huge statue in the distance, Harry secretly clicked his tongue.
Climbing up the exposed stairs into the clouds was definitely a nightmarish difficulty. It was simply impossible.
No matter how he looked at it, the only way to obtain that item was to pass the final test.
Elwyn followed Maegor forward slowly. Under the starry sky, he felt as though he had arrived in a fairytale world.
He had never seen a place more beautiful than this before.
Everything was like a dream. Under the contrast of the countless twinkling stars, the light emitted by the torch in Maegor's hand fluctuated between strong and weak. It was easy for people to overlook it.
Elwyn keenly captured the traces of magic as a weak magic slid past. He concentrated and found that the energy released by the stars was being absorbed by the magic array carved on the platform of the temple. Through the complicated patterns, all the energy was gathered at the center.
In front of Elwyn was the silhouette of a gigantic statue that towered into the clouds.
Following the weak magic forward, Elwyn noticed that it was all gathered into a ball of light with a red halo at the top.
Unsurprisingly, that was the secret treasure key left behind by Gryffindor.
There, he felt a powerful magic that he had never felt before.
Elwyn stopped abruptly. This power was too powerful, it completely exceeded his imagination. He had only felt such magic from Dumbledore.
This was the treasure key left behind by Gryffindor, the power of a legendary magic item!
He continued forward excitedly. The statue that was originally hazy in the night became clearer and clearer. Elwyn thought that it was a part of the temple, but the reality was not like that.
This was the statue of a centaur warrior. Its tall body extended all the way to the clouds.
He held a bow and arrows in his hands. On his body hung many strange ornaments that looked like planets. It looked extremely strange.
Even though it was strange, it was barely understandable.
The centaurs valued the prophecy from the stars. Maybe they wanted to use an exaggerated method to express that the planets revolved around them.
What Elwyn was unable to accept was that the statue had split open from the middle. It seemed to be a natural crack.
But the crack was not smooth at all. There seemed to be something hidden inside that was about to crawl out from the centaur's body.
There were other monsters inside the centaur's body. Would he see those terrifying monsters below?!
This was too terrifying. Elwyn did not look at the Gryffindor's treasure key that was emitting a red halo at the top of the statue. Instead, he stared at the crack.
Over there, he could faintly see a huge purple tentacle.
"What is that?" Elwyn could not help but ask. The uneasiness was getting stronger and stronger.
"A thousand years ago, this was the centaur's most sacred temple. It enshrined the tribe's wisest elder and strongest warrior."
As if replying to Elwyn's question, an aged voice slowly resounded. "A few centuries ago, this place became an evil place to worship the evil god. The centaur ancestors and countless stars were obtained by the evil god. He called himself the god of the forest and spoke to us from the void."
An extremely aged centaur slowly walked out from the darkness below the statue. He had a long beard that extended to the ground. His face was filled with deep wrinkles.
"Right now, this statue is just a stone without a soul. It has no meaning."
He walked to Elwyn with Magary's support. He softly said. "That evil god defiled the centaur's most sacred place. Even though he and his followers were ultimately defeated by our ancestors, we tried all sorts of methods but were unable to destroy his statue. We could only change its appearance."
Hearing till here, Elwyn finally understood why he felt that this statue was so strange.
As it turns out, they had constructed a centaur statue outside of the evil god. However, there was no change in its essence.
"Human, you defeated the eight-eyed spider and obtained the centaur's recognition and friendship." The centaur elder slowly said. "According to the ancient agreement, you can attempt to challenge the final challenge left behind by the founder of the castle. If you pass, you can take away the item he left behind."
Elwyn nodded his head. He already knew of this matter.
"Unlike humans, the centaurs have their own unique way of doing things."
The centaur elder struggled to turn around, looking at the red halo above him. "This powerful magic artifact is actually not complete. It was destroyed by the followers of the evil god and a portion of it was taken away. If you are the chosen one shown in the stars, then we will dispatch our strongest warriors to help you retrieve that item."
Elwyn's lips curled into a bitter smile. He did not know how to reply.
Logically speaking, he should thank the other party for their assistance. But when he thought of facing that evil god, he could not feel happy at all.
Just like what Sirius had said, this was entirely the centaur's fault.
Now because of Gryffindor's secret treasure key, the blame was completely shifted to him.
Compared to the extremely dangerous and unknown evil god, what use was a few strong centaurs?!
But Elwyn had no way of rejecting. If he wanted to obtain Gryffindor's secret treasure key, he had to complete this challenge.
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