Elwyn waved his wand, and with a low creaking sound, the stone door opened, revealing the darkness behind it.
"Be careful!" Sirius said, and walked in first.
The door was a tunnel that sloped downwards. It was very spacious, built completely according to the size of the cyclops.
Elwyn and Sirius adjusted the fluorescence at the end of their wands to the lowest, and could only vaguely illuminate the path in front of them.
The air was cold and damp, but there was no stale smell.
They walked down the tunnel in silence. The tunnel was perfectly straight, without any twists and turns.
With the level of construction of the cyclops and giants, this was incredible.
They did not look like meticulous creatures, they did not have that kind of patience …
But just like the cyclops statue, this tunnel showed great craftsmanship, and the further they went, the wider it got.
Elwyn and Sirius walked down for more than two hours, they were already very deep underground, and the temperature was gradually rising.
When they reached the end of the tunnel, they saw a huge cave that shone with red light.
Elwyn took a deep breath, he expected that this would lead to the depths of the rock core, but the scene in front of him shocked him.
The scorching heat hit them head-on, the inside of the cave was a sea of flames, and there was red magma everywhere.
It flowed slowly, falling from a high place, gushing out of the rock core, and converging into a river.
This place was similar to the underground of Gringotts, but not exactly the same.
All the magma was not enclosed in a fixed space, the river they converged into was moving forward, and there were no islands on it.
Elwyn did not know where it flowed to, there was no end to it as far as the eye could see.
There was a simple stone path next to the river of magma. The walls and ceiling were inlaid with clear, shiny, pale yellow crystals. The bright red light from the magma shone on them, making the topaz look like it was glowing on its own.
Even though Elwyn knew it was just an illusion, but the beauty and grandeur of this series of natural creations was too beautiful to behold.
"These topaz have very strong magic, it's the power of nature!" Elwyn said softly.
He touched a piece of exposed topaz on the rock wall beside him and felt the strange magic in it.
The next second, the turquoise owl pendant on his left wrist glowed green, as if it was absorbing the magic power of the crystal.
This was a kind of magic reaction. The power inside the pendant was stimulated by the magic emitted by the crystal. They were all natural forces.
"It is indeed very powerful magic, but what I am more concerned about are the marks on the ground!" Sirius said, squatting on the ground to examine carefully. "Someone was here not long ago. We'd better be careful."
"It should be a dark Magus from Raven's Claw!" Elwyn said.
From the information obtained from Gryffindor's consciousness, in the past thousand years, besides Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Elwyn and Sirius, the dark Magus from Raven's Claw was the only human who had been to this place.
"It's hard to say. Look at what it is, it looks like the skeleton of a house-elf!"
Following the direction of Sirius's finger, Elwyn saw a small skeleton in front of a huge topaz in the corner, about the size of a house-elf.
Beside it, there was a broken pickaxe.
"A house-elf?!" Elwyn looked at the skeleton with a serious expression. "It seems to be trying to excavate these crystals."
"Exactly. These topaz have very strong magic power. Maybe those dark Magi are going to use them for something!" Sirius extinguished the light at the end of his wand and continued, "Take out the Invisibility Cloak, Elwyn, we have to be more careful!"
Elwyn took out the Invisibility Cloak that Dumbledore gave him and covered himself and Sirius.
Their bodies disappeared from the spot, and the two of them continued to move forward, holding their wands tightly under the cloak.
The lava next to them emitted a bright red light, and the flames flowed quietly in the river of lava, dispelling the darkness in the cave.
The temperature gradually increased, but they could not use magic to lower the surface temperature of their bodies.
This was a difficult test. Elwyn saw that Sirius's skin was glowing with a strange red light.
He knew it was the same for him. He could feel his body's thirst, and even his breath was hot.
All the water in his body was evaporating quickly, like dry wood, he could burn at any time …
Elwyn told himself that he had to be patient. He could not use magic, and he could not let the enemy feel any abnormal magic reaction.
He could already hear many clanking sounds of metal colliding with the rock wall. Something was nearby.
They had to be careful, they were very close to the location of the dark Magi of "Raven's Claw".
Elwyn did not know much about this mysterious heretical organization. He had only read about it in books.
He knew that they were searching for ancient energy relics all over the world, looking for the so-called remnants of the ancient gods and lost magic knowledge.
They hoped to destroy this world and let the ancient gods return to their former ruling position.
This was undoubtedly a crazy Magi organization. Different from the cults in the Muggle World, they did not spread the apocalypse and take the opportunity to recruit believers. Instead, they were preparing to bring the Judgement Day to this world and summon the ancient gods back.
According to Elwyn's understanding, the ancient gods of Raven's Claw were terrifying evil gods.
He did not know what clues they found from Ravenclaw's relics, but they were certain that the evil gods would return to this world.
Gryffindor's mind told Elwyn that they were planning to use the power of the cyclops to summon an evil that did not exist in this world. What kind of scary monster was it?! What did it have to do with the lighthouse outside the town being controlled?!
There were too many secrets in the sea around here. Did Ravenclaw find what she needed in the ancient ruins in the Great Whirlpool of Charybdis? And what Gryffindor said, there was the ghost ship controlled by the dead and the magic city at the bottom of the sea.
The frequent appearance of the ancient magic relics gave Elwyn a bad feeling. Something big was about to happen …
Along the lava river, he and Sirius turned a corner and stopped.
Elwyn could see that at the end, there was another huge stone door. Behind it was a sealed space surrounded by rock walls.
The stone door was open, and lava slowly flowed out. That was the source of the lava river.
Behind the stone door, Elwyn saw the huge body of the cyclops submerged in the deep lava pool.
Half of its body was submerged in the hot lava, leaving only its head and shoulders exposed.
Just like what Elwyn saw in his dream, this was their destination.
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