Chapter 294 Map 292

Chapter 294 292. Map

Adrian Fox.

This name only appeared two or three times in his memory, but in these two or three times, Jon remembered it deeply in his mind.

Not because of anything else, but because his biggest reliance now, whether it is the levitation spell or the variant use of the universal spell, the necessary ring and the gems on the ring are all created by the wizard with this name!

This person was once a good friend of Slughorn, but after creating the ring and several gems, he passed away, and he didn't even have the opportunity to see whether his completed work really achieved its effect.

Jon never thought that he could find the laboratory he left behind in this underground maze in the Arctic!

"What's wrong? Jon."

Floating above his head, Gabrielle, who was still confused, asked puzzledly.

Of course, she didn't know Adrian Fox, and didn't understand what this name meant to Jon.

Jon also came back to his senses at this time. He took a deep breath and said softly.

"I'm fine."

Then he stretched out his hand towards the door and tried to push it open.

However, the ordinary-looking wooden door did not move, as if it was locked, and there was no way to open it directly.

While the other three rooms were destroyed by the basilisk, the entrance to this laboratory was still well preserved. It was unlikely that the basilisk would show mercy. The biggest possibility was that the laboratory itself had some protective capabilities.

After Jon tried to push the door open directly without success, he tried to wave his wand and use the unlocking spell on the door handle, but it still had no effect.

Then he took off the ring that he had always worn on his neck, put it back on the index finger of his right hand, and finally used the hand with the ring to push the door.

This time he did not encounter any resistance and pushed the door open easily!

Jon showed an expression of "as expected", and Gabrielle looked at the ring on Jon's hand with surprise. Even if Jon used it before, he had never taken it out.

"Who gave you this ring? Have you been proposed to by a girl?"

Jon flicked her head in annoyance.

"This was given to me by one of my teachers. You hadn't come to Hogwarts at that time. You were so young, what were you thinking about?"

Gabrielle followed Jon into the laboratory with her head in her arms, looking aggrieved.

This place was obviously not destroyed like the other three rooms, and the various furniture inside was neatly placed around.

There was a not-so-big bookcase in the corner, but there were no other books on it except for a few empty vases. There was also a single bed in the corner between the two walls, with a mattress, sheets, and a quilt on it.

There was a set of tables and chairs facing the door, with some old parchments on them.

Jon first wandered around the bookshelf. After not finding anything more except the vases, he came to the desk and began to flip through the messy parchments.

These are obviously some experimental notes, but the content is very scattered. It took Jon a long time to study them before he could see that he came to the North Pole to find more gems that can be embedded in the ring and used to cast spells on himself.

The importance of gems to rings is similar to the core of a magic wand, but compared to most materials that belong to magical creatures can be used as cores, the requirements for ring gems are extremely demanding.

Adrian has been studying for a lifetime, and he only found a gem on Mount Olympus that can transmit the magic power of the wizard's body, but the weight of that stone can only allow him to split it into three stones at most, which is far from the double-digit gems he envisioned at the beginning.

Yes, at first he planned to design the gems to be more fragmented, and embedding such stones on the ring would make the magic that the ring can cast more diverse, but unfortunately, it was ultimately limited by part of the wizard himself, and coupled with the limited raw materials, so only five gems could be made.

And Adrian, who came to the North Pole, started to go out to continue looking for suitable materials after using up the stone on Mount Olympus, and finally made a discovery under this maze in the North Pole.

Jon searched the scattered materials on the table and could only roughly see that Adrian did successfully make a gem in this maze, but for some reason, he could not take the gem away.

Because the information was incomplete, Jon did not find the reason, but he could confirm that there was indeed a gem left here.

This made Jon extremely excited. Since Slughorn gave him the ring, Jon knew better than anyone how much improvement the ring itself brought him.

If it were not for the ability to cast spells on himself, the dangers he experienced alone would have killed a normal wizard hundreds of times.

And every additional gem represents a new spell position for Jon. He can rely on this gem to research new magic that can improve himself, which means another leap in strength for him.

But Adrian left too little information here. Those scattered materials are more like a pile of useless scraps. In addition to letting Jon know the purpose and results of his coming here, there is no more information provided.

After Jon flipped through all the information on the table, he opened a drawer beside the table, and in the drawer, he made another new discovery!

A very valuable discovery!

"Look here!"

His voice attracted Gabrielle, who was wandering around the room, trying to find out where the corridor they were in was in the maze.

She floated to Jon's side and looked at the parchment found in the drawer with him.

It was a map!

A map that depicted most of the maze route.

Adrian had obviously lived in this ice maze for a long time, and it was unknown how he got along with the basilisk, but it seemed that there was no conflict between the two sides.

That is, during this time, he not only found a stone suitable for making a ring gem under the ice, but also drew a map along all the routes of the maze.

Although the map is a bit crude, it is not an ordinary drawing. It is cast with special magic. Although it is not as magical as the live map in Hogwarts, it can also be positioned on the map itself.

They are now in the northwest corner of the entire map, and the area of ​​the maze depicted on the map is extremely huge.

It took Jon and his friends nearly half a day to get from the entrance to the current location, which is only about one-tenth of the size of the entire maze.

There are also two or three targets marked on this map. There is no other explanation to see what these marks represent. It is certain that one of these marks must be the gem that Adrian did not take away from here!

With this, it is equivalent to providing Jon with a walking route in the maze, and also giving him a specific goal.

Even though he has entered the maze, Jon has not figured out why Grindelwald asked him to come here specifically, but now that he has the news of one of the ring gems, he at least has an accurate direction.

It can be said that this map is his biggest gain after entering the maze.

Afterwards, Jon carefully checked everything in the room again. After confirming that there were no other more valuable discoveries, he did not intend to leave immediately.

At present, this corridor is temporarily safe, and Jon did not rest during the day. He rushed all day, and then fought with a group of Death Eaters in the evening. After entering the maze, he ran and exercised for several hours, and just killed a basilisk.

This has made Jon's body exhausted. It happened that there was a bed and a quilt in this laboratory. He used a cleaning spell and lay down on the bed with peace of mind. Then he "hired" child laborers and asked Gabriel, who did not need to rest, to help guard the corridor outside the door, and slept peacefully.

Jon was really tired. When he woke up, he looked at the time on his pocket watch. It was nearly ten hours later.

Gabrielle was so idle during this period that she was panicking. When Jon came out of the laboratory to find her, she was squatting in the room that originally belonged to the basilisk canteen to observe the bears and wolves in the ice.

"Do you want to taste what Little White No. 2 tastes like?"

Jon's seductive voice sounded in Gabrielle's ears, which made Gabrielle startled and subconsciously revealed a crystal clear saliva at the corner of her mouth.

But then, she struggled and shook her head and said.

"No!"

"The bears in these ice cubes are dead. It's okay for us to dig out one and cut off its palm to taste it."

But even if Jon said so, Gabrielle still couldn't accept eating a creature that was her friend before.

Even after hearing Jon say that as long as the bear paw is roasted on the fire and sprinkled with cumin, salt and chili powder, it will be delicious, she once again slid "sad" saliva from the corner of her mouth, but in the end she still insisted on not being overwhelmed by the nature of delicious food.

Jon could only regretfully take out the dry food that Eric had prepared for them from his pocket and give some to Gabrielle.

Gabrielle, who was in a ghost state, certainly wouldn't feel hungry, but she was not a real ghost after all. It would always be good for her to use her sense of taste to taste some things.

After eating and drinking, they were ready to go again. Jon carried Nick, who was still terrified, on his back, holding a map in his hand and leaving in the opposite direction of the corridor they had entered.

When they reached the end of the corridor, Jon did the same as he did when he entered here, used the universal spell to remove himself, and then took Gabrielle away from here.

Back in the cold maze, this time they didn't have to turn around like headless flies when they encountered a fork in the road, but directly followed the instructions on the map to move towards the nearest mark point.

"Why does Nick always have this expression? Can I help him change it?"

Gabrielle, floating behind Jon, tried to find some fun from Nick.

"If you can find a way to move his face, you can do it at will."

"He's as hard as a rock, I can't move it! Give me a quill, okay? Jon."

Hearing Gabrielle's request, Jon shook his head decisively.

"If you want it, you can take it yourself. If I give it to you and you draw on Nick's face, he will definitely scold me loudly after he recovers."

"He definitely won't know now. As long as I don't say it and you don't say it, no one will know."

Gabrielle floated around Jon. She had been wanting to draw a turtle on Nick's face for a long time.

But as Nick's loyal friend, Jon still rejected her sternly (in fact, he knew that although Nick was petrified, he still had the perception of the outside world.), and protectively placed Nick, who was originally on his back, horizontally in front of him to prevent Gabrielle from secretly making trouble.

Just as Gabrielle kept begging Jon, and they just walked through a fork in the road, Jon suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart!

This premonition came inexplicably, like a sudden panic, but there was nothing around!

He did not take this panic seriously. This kind of intuition-like perception has verified its accuracy many times. Grindelwald also emphasized to him that this intuition is actually a manifestation of his prophetic talent.

So Yien immediately stopped playing with Gabriel, stopped Gabriel with a serious face, and stopped her steps.

Gabriel could sense the seriousness of the matter from Jon's expression, so she immediately shut up, honestly grabbed the corner of Jon's clothes, and followed him closely.

After a rough glance around, Jon didn't find anything unusual, but he didn't continue to move forward. Instead, he still looked in front of him, holding the magic wand in his hand, and began to step back carefully.

Just as he took the second step back, something strange happened!

On the ice walls on both sides and in front of him, there was a distortion of the air, and suddenly three figures appeared!

At the same time they appeared, the sound of the spell also sounded!

"Avada Kedavra!"

The pale green light instantly illuminated the passage of the entire maze, and three killing spells that almost blocked Jon's retreat route tore through the cold air like a venomous snake!

Jon, who was always under the spell of floating, began to increase the distance and position at the speed that normal people could not do at all the moment his brain reacted.

But even so, he narrowly avoided two killing curses, and the death curse shot from the left still accurately hit his body.

The petrified Nick in front of him!