Chapter 265: Possible Encounter with Hufflepuff

If I guessed correctly, the time in this palace was stagnant when it was not observed by outsiders.

When I, Daphne and Astoria entered the palace for the first time, the three of us entered together.

Before they walked out of the palace, due to the lack of "observers", they did not realize that the time in the palace was stagnant, or Les noticed something strange through some details.

Les also noticed that it was the time of the "palace" that was stagnant, not the time of the people who entered the palace, so after Daphne and Astoria came out, Daphne's necklace was still destroyed, and the number of spells in Astoria's bracelet was not restored.

When I entered the palace for the second time, because Les was observed by Daphne and Astoria, the flow of time was normal. The third time I entered, there was no observer, and the time difference appeared again.

The same is true for the two dog-headed stone statues. After the door of the hall was closed, the observer disappeared, and they returned to their original recorded appearance.

Les felt that now that they entered the ruins again, everything was probably restored, even the doll was probably restored to its original state.

Practice makes perfect, and Les decided to enter the ruins again to find out.

When Les revealed all the mysteries, Daphne and Astoria were still in the dark.

"How did the ancient Egyptians do it?"

"Does it mean that the flow of time inside and outside the ruins is different?"

After hearing Les' words, the two were extremely shocked, because this is time magic.

If a certain field of spells must be given the title of "the jewel in the crown of magic", time magic must be a strong contender for this title.

Most wizards will never come into contact with time magic in their lifetime, and only a small number of people have the opportunity to have a certain connection with time magic. For example, the Silent Man of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, their research projects include time magic - they even keep a batch of time converters that can reverse time, but only a very small number of wizards know the existence of these converters.

As a result, you told me that the entire palace in front of me is a creation of time magic? !

Daphne and Astoria felt that their worldview collapsed.

"That's right. Ancient Egypt was a civilization thousands of years ago. At that time, various resources were still abundant, so naturally these luxurious wonders could be built." Les said with envy.

Compared with their "younger generations", the raw materials available to magicians in ancient Egypt were much more abundant than theirs.

But Les and his friends were lucky, at least they caught up with the tail. Daphne and her generation were miserable. After thousands of years of "mining", there was really nothing left for them.

"Can we give this palace to..." Daphne came up with a bold idea.

Les: ...

He carefully evaluated the possibility and felt that it was unlikely to work, because the spell was cast on the entire palace. Only "deducting" a part of the palace would not have any effect. It was just an ordinary stone.

"I want to go in again." Les said softly.

Daphne and Astoria raised their heads at the same time. It can be seen that they really want to follow in, but this is doomed to be impossible. Les would not bring two little wizards who could not withstand the sudden attack of the Hufflepuff dolls into the ruins, especially when Daphne's necklace was still damaged.

Les, who entered the ruins alone, noticed something strange when he went deep into the palace: outside the deepest gate, he saw two stone statues of dog-headed people that were blown into pieces - this was his masterpiece just now.

This surprised Les very much. In his expectation, this place should have been restored.

He gently pushed open the door, and a strong water vapor immediately floated out from behind the door, which made Les frown: the hall behind the door also remained the same as when he left.

Bathed in the water vapor, Les fell into thinking, and then further updated his hypothesis.

If the person who entered the palace caused a major change to the palace, exceeding the upper limit of the palace's recovery, then the changes in the palace would be "recorded" at the moment he left, becoming the new form of the palace.

He turned the palace into a wetland swamp and blew the stone statue guarding the gate into pieces. This change made the palace unable to recover on its own, so his changes were remembered and became the scene that the adventurers who stepped into the ruins next had to face.

When Helga entered the palace before, she probably had a great impact on the palace, so the changes she caused were also recorded. After her, no adventurer could leave their own traces on the palace until he came in.

So this palace is more like a huge camera? It preserves all the traces of the characters in the long river of history?

Thinking of the camera, Les had a flash of inspiration: Is the time segment recorded in the palace a point or a period of time? If the current segment is recorded, will the past segment be overwritten? His intuition told him that the answer to this question should be obtained in the other two passages.

Thinking of this, Les did not delay any more and walked straight out of the palace.

After confirming that the time outside had hardly changed, Rice felt that he was one step closer to the truth. He did not waste any more time and entered the ruins directly from the entrance in the middle of the palace.

There were more traps on the road this time, but Rice finally arrived at the end of the passage without any danger. The palace at the end of the passage seemed to have not been broken into by anyone. There were some sundries inside, and it still retained its appearance thousands of years ago.

But none of this mattered. The most eye-catching thing was a half-man-high compass-shaped object placed in the hall. From the position, it was located at the end of the central axis of the palace and was the core of the palace.

The structure of the compass was not complicated. It consisted of two layers, the outer compass had ten grids, and the inner compass had no grids, but there was a raised needle in the center, and a bunch of moons changing from full moon to crescent were painted on the edge, which looked quite like a sundial. The projection of the needle fell exactly on the position of the crescent.

Rice narrowed his eyes, and another guess came to his mind: Does each grid in the outer circle refer to a certain period of time that was recorded? The inner layer...

Could it be a tool to adjust the recorded time fragments?

After this thought came up, Rice keenly realized that this seemed to be an opportunity for him and Hufflepuff to meet again after a thousand years, but everything was still his guess and needed to be verified.

Rice reached out to the inner circle compass and turned it to the position of the full moon.

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