Chapter 462 The Wisdom of Three People

Les strode out of the Potions classroom. His footsteps were like the wind, and his target was Rowena's office.

Before rushing into Rowena's office, he braked suddenly, stopped his steps, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.

Just breaking in like this, even if he made a scene in her office and smashed her broken manor, it would not resolve his current embarrassing situation. So he had to use his brain to find a way out for himself.

In just a few seconds, countless thoughts flashed through Les' mind. Finally, after he made up his mind, he knocked on the door of Rowena's office.

"Huh? Why are you here?" After the door swung open automatically, Rowena, who was repairing the mini manor in the office, felt a little strange when she saw Les, because Salazar rarely came here, he preferred to run to Helga.

Could it be about the dance? Rowena felt that she had guessed Salazar's intention. But what Salazar said next proved that her guess was wrong.

"I need your help, Rowena." There was not even a stool in the office, so Les turned a locker into an armchair and sat on it.

Then he told Rowena all the difficulties he had encountered these days.

Rowena frowned.

She also turned into a stool, sat opposite Les, and helped him analyze.

Rowena and Les were very familiar with the current scene, because they were in this state a thousand years ago. Whenever they encountered a difficult problem that could not be overcome, the two would sit down and discuss and find a solution together.

When Rowena learned that Salazar came to find her to solve the problem, she forgot about the Christmas ball.

"First of all, I don't think you need to worry too much about the experiments you left in the alchemy world. As far as I know, any infectious disease tends to be less and less lethal. The reason is also very simple, if the toxicity is too strong, it can't spread."

Les nodded, and then shook his head.

His potion had this consideration when it was first designed, so it has a long incubation period.

After listening to Les's words, Rowena couldn't help smacking her lips: "What's the point of your experiment? The interval is so long, and by the time you go in, the medicinal properties must have become unrecognizable to you."

Les sighed: Isn't it the speed of time?

"Just give each student a few evil-removing fruits. If you are worried, match them with a few corresponding potions." Rowena gave her own suggestions. She thought Salazar's targeted development of antidotes was really funny.

Even if he cracked his potion and made a special medicine, would this special medicine really work against a plague that has mutated for hundreds of years? It would be better to improve the immunity of the contestants, or let them quickly remove the toxins after being infected.

Listening to Rowena's words, Rice fell into deep thought.

After a moment, he had to admit that what Rowena said made sense. In this way, the task was much easier.

"As for the development of the transformation magic you mentioned, I feel it is necessary to call Helga over and study it with her." Rowena simply listened and understood that Salazar's idea was a bit too grand, and this was something that required collective wisdom. It would be great to bring Helga in and provide some wisdom.

"Okay!" Rice naturally would not object. If Dumbledore's relationship with them was not as close as that between the four of them, and if ancient magic was his shortcoming, Rice would have invited Dumbledore as well.

Rowena waved her hand, and conjured a raven, which flew out of the window. Not long after, Helga came in.

Rowena briefly told her about her and Salazar's ideas, and then invited her to go into the manor with them to plan in detail.

"Yeah!" After listening to Rowena's description, Helga couldn't help but get excited. With her knowledge, she naturally understood the benefits of this kind of magic to the magic world.

This is magic that can quickly increase the combat effectiveness of a wizard.

After entering the manor, Rowena did not take the two to the garden this time, but took them into her mansion.

Rowena's mansion has a total of seven floors, but to Rice's surprise, except for the top floor and the first floor lobby, the other five floors are all sealed and inaccessible.

There is not even a staircase leading to the second floor in the first floor lobby! If you want to go to the top floor, you can only take a device similar to a Muggle elevator.

Why did Rowena seal all the second to sixth floors? A trace of confusion flashed through Rice's mind, and then he thought of an answer.

"Royena, is this where you use the time converter?" After figuring this out, Rice asked immediately.

"Yes." This time, Rowena was particularly frank and admitted it directly.

Anyway, she didn't continue to study time magic these days, and her heart was open and she was not afraid of Salazar and others' strict investigation.

Seeing Rowena admit it, Rice didn't say anything, but just frowned slightly.

Although he opposed Rowena's study of time magic, he also admitted that Rowena was the most proficient wizard in this field. She also used the time converter in the most correct way.

The biggest taboo when using the time converter for time travel is to let yourself in different timelines meet each other, which will cause unpredictable crises. I guess Rowena also completely blocked the road to the second floor for this reason.

"Follow me." Rowena led Les and Helga to an oil painting in the hall.

The content of the painting is very simple, just a spiral staircase. The moment he saw the painting, Les understood.

Rowena didn't say much, just pulled out her wand and poked the surface of the painting, and the stairs in the painting began to extend continuously until it broke through the boundaries of the painting and extended outside the painting.

"Follow me." Rowena motioned to her two old friends to follow her steps, and the three of them walked into the painting along the stairs.

After climbing a few rounds of stairs, the three of them emerged from a painting with a similar scenery and arrived at the second floor of the castle, which was generally inaccessible.

Unlike the magnificent lobby on the first floor, the decoration on the second floor looks more like the accommodation area above the Leaky Cauldron. Coming out of the painting, there is a winding corridor in front of you, with doors scattered on both sides of the corridor.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, but when you come out of any door, you can't see the situation of other rooms, and there is only an empty corridor in front of you.

"This is the secret room I designed for using the time converter. We just need to use these rooms in order. If we don't wander around, we will never meet ourselves in other rooms." Rowena took Les and Helga into the guest room closest to the staircase painting, and then proudly showed off her ingenuity to her old friends.

"There are thirteen rooms on one floor, which can allow us to use the time converter thirteen times. There are five floors like this."

Les and Helga were silent: Rowena's abuse of the time converter was crazier than they thought.

"The time converter's retracing time is limited, but we can make good use of it through artificial design."

Listening to Rowena's words, Les understood why she aged quickly.

Such repeated time retracing consumes several times the life span of ordinary people.

However, Rowena obviously didn't care much about this "small" disadvantage, and went straight to today's topic: the development of transformation magic.

Rice did not join in the discussion between the two. He just handed over the method he got from Jack and the experience he gained from his own comprehension to the two, and then began to prepare the evil-removing fruit potion.

Rowena and Helga, who were sitting on the side, did not disturb him.

Christmas is approaching, and the second stage of the competition is not far away. It is normal for Salazar to feel pressure.

He must prepare the antidote potion before the game starts.

Looking at Salazar who was in deep thought, Helga whispered: "Wait until his antidote is prepared, and then we will give it to the players?"

Rowena shook her head. She was very disgusted with this kind of unearned gift.

She must prepare a test for the players, and those who fail the test will not think about going to the alchemy world.

With Rowena's intervention, the second stage of the championship was split into two parts. The players must obtain the antidote potion in the first section, and then enter the main competition of the alchemy world.

After chatting with her good friend about the competition plan, Helga also began to study the dragon transformation magic and enlightenment experience given to her by Salazar.

Time passed quickly, and the three of them spent most of December in seclusion in this mansion. Everything in the outside world was left to the puppets that transformed into their own appearance.

After time travel again and again, the research of the three people gradually became clear.

While Rice and the other two were doing scientific research in the mansion, the atmosphere in Hogwarts Castle was unusually hot.

Whether it was the students of Hogwarts or the students of other magic schools, their attention was attracted by the upcoming Christmas ball.

In previous years, only a few students stayed in school during Christmas. Christmas is a day for family reunion, and few students would choose to stay in school, but this year is different. Students in the fourth grade and above basically have to stay.

The young wizards were all very excited about the upcoming dance - especially the girls. The girls giggled and whispered in the corridors, and whenever a boy walked by, especially those who were good-looking, they would laugh shrilly. The girls excitedly exchanged opinions and talked about what to wear on Christmas Eve.

The boys were no exception. They looked at every witch who passed by like hunters, studying who could be their dance partner. Everyone wanted their dance partner to be the most beautiful one in the college or even the school, but beauty meant fierce competition.

Who wouldn't want to be a dance partner with girls like Daphne, Astoria, Fleur Delacour, and Qiu Zhang? But you have to have some self-knowledge.

Those who were rejected fiercely in public like Malfoy were the opposite.

Daphne's "get out" really made him depressed for a long time, and he was less interested in making trouble for Harry in recent days.

But Daphne herself was not feeling well. After the potions class that day, she never saw Les again. Next, Les Lint appeared in front of everyone. Others couldn't see him, but she and Astoria could see clearly that he was a puppet.

After seeing the puppet's true identity, the two were nervous for a while, fearing that someone would ask Les to be his dance partner during this period, and then the brainless puppet would agree.

Fortunately, the two soon found out that Les should have arranged it in advance, and the puppet refused all the invitations to the dance.

This made the two feel relieved.

As Christmas approached, Daphne and Astoria gradually became annoyed because they could not see Les' true self.

"Sister, do you know where he went?" Astoria and Daphne followed the puppet Les and walked into the hall. Looking at the puppet walking in front of them, Astoria felt a little irritated.

These days, she has turned down many invitations. If the real Les comes back and chooses her sister as a dance partner, she will be in big trouble!

Where can she find a dance partner in a hurry? She doesn't look down on ordinary people at all, and Cedric, who is barely acceptable, has been booked long ago.

Daphne was as worried as Astoria. But when she saw that her sister was the same as herself, she was not so anxious.

"Sister, you might as well find a girl in advance and settle with her, so as not to be confused when the time comes - I heard that Miss Granger hasn't decided on a dance partner yet."

"In that case, sister, why don't you go to Miss Granger?" Astoria immediately saw her sister's bad intentions and directly retorted.

Daphne spread her hands and shrugged her shoulders.

She really cared about her sister. She was very confident about Les's choice of dance partner, and her sister would definitely not be her opponent.

At this time, Harry and Ron from Gryffindor College, as well as Ron's sister, walked by the two of them, and a conversation floated into their ears.

"I don't think I've heard from Fred and George for a long time. Are they okay?"

"I don't know. Not only them, I haven't heard from Percy for a long time. I don't know what they are busy with."

"Look, the Weasley family's little sister is actually quite good-" Daphne poked Astoria's shoulder and pointed at Ginny's back.

Astoria ignored her and walked straight to the long table of Slytherin College.

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In Rowena's mansion

"It's done!" Les shook his wand and placed hundreds of small bottles on the table, together with the pile of evil-removing fruits like a small mountain.

Rowena, who was standing in the corner of the room, writing and drawing on a writing board, looked up at Les and said that she would contact Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic to insert these things into the second stage of the competition.

Les nodded and began to pack up the crucible and other equipment used to brew potions.

At this time, Helga also clapped her hands and shouted, "I thought of how to do that transformation magic!"

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