At the same time, Elwyn was full of doubts.
He was not surprised that he could find a hidden secret passage. In the Hogwarts Castle, there were many such secret places.
For example, Slytherin's secret chamber, the secret treasure of the Big Four in the huge statue, the Room of Absolute Answer, the tunnel where he followed the snake monster when he was a freshman, the blue room found somewhere in the Ravenclaw Tower, and many other secret passages.
Even after thousands of years, there were still many unknown secrets in the castle waiting to be discovered by future generations.
If one was lucky enough, they could find some rare magic items or magic books left behind by their ancestors in these secret chambers.
If they were unlucky enough to enter Slytherin's secret chamber, they would have to be prepared to become the snake monster's food.
Of course, most of these secret chambers had nothing in them, or they had long collapsed into ruins.
Regardless of the purpose, the wizards who built these secret places were once part of the Hogwarts. Most of them were kind or neutral, and they would not leave dangerous traps, magical animals, or curses like hidden treasures or tombs.
However, the secret space that Elwyn found under the kitchen was particularly different.
At the entrance, there was a shelf full of the heads of the persecuted house-elves, set up a trap.
Along the way, Elwyn also found many similar traces of black magic, but because of the long time, these spells had lost their effectiveness.
Fortunately, they had lost their effectiveness. Otherwise, Elwyn did not know how many times he would have been attacked by now.
This evil style of darkness was completely different from the style of the other secret chambers in the school.
One could imagine that the wizard who built this place was a Dark Wizard, with a twisted and dangerous personality.
He probably lived in the early days of the Hogwarts hundreds of years ago, and built this secret passage deep under the school for some dark purpose.
Because he did not want to be discovered, he left a lot of black magic and curses inside and outside the secret passage.
To be honest, Elwyn did not want to know what a Dark Sorcerer from hundreds of years ago was planning to do, nor did he want to get himself into new trouble. He was just wondering if this had anything to do with the secret treasure key left behind by Hufflepuff.
He had already obtained the Sorcerer's Stone left by Gryffindor, and he had also made some progress on Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
If the merfolk and vampires continued to follow these two routes, sooner or later, there would be results.
Only Hufflepuff had no clue. Although he had speculated that Hufflepuff had given the key to the treasure to the house-elf for safekeeping, it was not of much use. The house-elf, which had a gap in the inheritance of civilization, did not pass down this important secret.
The domestic elves of today and the domestic elves of ancient times were completely different species.
It was almost impossible to find any useful clues from them, so he could only rely on himself.
Under the current circumstances, Elwyn was unwilling to give up on anything that might be related to Hufflepuff.
He was ready to take a look at the end of this secret passage to see what was down there.
The temperature in the passage was very low. Elwyn and Dobby walked for more than ten minutes, and the winding staircase seemed to have no end.
Now, everything around them had been completely frozen, and under the light of the magic wand, everything was sparkling.
The ground was covered with thick ice, and the thick layer of ice was strangely shaped. There were not many places to step on.
Elwyn walked with difficulty, constantly waving his magic wand to create a foothold for himself.
This ice was not white like ordinary snow and ice, but a strange color that was filled with a greenish blue halo.
That was because of the magic contained in it. This ice was not formed naturally, but was created by magic.
The magic in the air was also rich, and this was a very strange magic rhythm that Elwyn had never encountered before.
He felt a little uneasy, but he did not find any actual danger.
This strong magic reaction made him involuntarily think of the sorcerer's stone, but he felt that something was not right.
Regarding the power of the sorcerer's stone, Elwyn had seen it in the Moon Temple of the Centaur tribe, the ruins of the fallen centaur city, the underground gold cave in the mountains around Bubbarton, and the silent temple in the swamp. The scenes at each of them were much more shocking than this one.
If this ice magic was really using the sorcerer's stone as the source of magic, the power should not be so weak.
Even if the entire Hogwarts were frozen, Elwyn would not find it strange, but would feel that it was normal.
But if it was not the sorcerer's stone, then what was the source of the magic?
As everyone knew, without a stable source of magic, as time passed, no matter how strong the magic incantation was, it would gradually lose its effectiveness.
The stronger Magi would try to extend this process as much as possible, but it would never take as long as a few hundred years.
The black magic that Elwyn saw along the way that had lost its effectiveness was enough to prove this point. The Dark Magus who built this place did not have the ability to maintain his magic for such a long time, and even if he could, the power of the magic he left behind would be so weak that it could not even be mentioned, and would not be as strong as it was now.
With many questions, Elwyn and Dobby went down to the lowest level, and at the end of the passage was an ice wall.
"Young Master Elwyn." Dobby said worriedly, looking at the thick ice wall in front of him at a loss.
What worried him was the thing inside the ice wall. He could faintly see a circular altar shaped building.
There was a statue placed in front of the building, and the area in the middle would occasionally emit blue light and complicated magic runes.
Elwyn did not act rashly to break the ice wall. He leaned on the ice wall and looked inside for a while, and the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong.
From the information he obtained from the magic book, the thing inside the ice wall could be a demonic altar!
Following this train of thought, Elwyn suddenly understood everything.
Why was there still such a strong magic reaction after such a long time had passed?
The Dark Magus who built this place had planned to summon demons under Hogwarts, and from the many traces in the surroundings, he had already succeeded once.
The magic that made Elwyn feel unfamiliar and uneasy was all the power of demons.
A demonic altar, this was very, very evil black magic, and should definitely be banned.
As everyone knew, demonic magic was the strongest branch of black magic, and it had once been popular during the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages before that.
In the end, because this kind of magic was too evil and profound, it gradually disappeared from the world of magic.
In the book "Top Black Magic Revealed", there were two simple methods to summon demons.
Starting from those two spells, Elwyn had done research in this area, and had flipped through many magic books.
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