Leaving the Chamber

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Ethan returned to Salazar's lounge, moved away from the decayed bed, and probed the stone floor tiles under the bed individually with his hands. Soon, Ethan found a unique floor tile that was different from other floor tiles.

Gently pressing the gap between the floor tiles with his fingers, Ethan quickly picked them up, revealing a secret storage space under them. And he also discovered the magic circle painted on the side to protect the items. Still, unfortunately, because the time was too long, the magic circle had already decayed.

There is an exquisite wooden box in the middle of the storage space. Surprisingly, even after thousands of years, the wooden box was still well preserved, and the top is still glowing with the luster of high-quality wood. There is no doubt that this wooden box was protected by powerful magic.

Ethan stroked the surface of the wooden box lightly with his fingers, and with a crisp sound, the wooden box was opened.

In the wooden box lay a thick parchment with a black cover. In the center of the parchment was a picture of a snake biting its tail. The snake's body is twisted like the number 8 lying down. Salazar Slytherin was written in the lower right corner of the cover.

There was a ring in the shape of a snake under the parchment book, with two translucent emeralds in the snake's eyes. Ethan didn't act rashly. He could remember the horror of Dumbledore when he put on the resurrection stone ring.

Ethan first took out his wand and fiddled with the ring repeatedly. After seeing that he found no abnormality, he used several detection spells on the ring but still found nothing abnormal. Ethan carefully pinched the ring and carefully observed.

The green snake's eyes radiated green light, suddenly causing Ethan to put the ring in his hand.

When he put on Ethan, he secretly said it was not good. Even the resurrection stone trap designed by Voldemort could make Dumbledore lose his mind, and Salazar Slytherin must be much brighter than Voldemort. (T/N - You Dunderhead)

This ring is probably under some vicious curse that even detection magic can't detect.

And he slammed into the trap so recklessly. After waiting for a long time, Ethan didn't find any discomfort. Ethan then checked his whole body with the fastest speed, and nothing was abnormal.

However, Ethan suddenly felt inexplicably familiar with this secret room, and the whole private room instantly seemed to become a part of his body.

At this time, Ethan realized that the ring was attached to the management of the secret room. The original Hogwarts castle was owned by Salazar Slytherin, who also had the highest management of the castle.

After Godric, Helga, and Rowena expelled Salazar, he may have been stripped of stewardship of the castle. Using this ring, he managed to preserve the stewardship of this hidden chamber.

Now that the ring was in Ethan's hands, the management of the secret room also naturally belonged to Ethan.

In the dark room, Ethan flipped through the notes left by Salazar, in which Ethan accidentally discovered Salazar's experiments on the fusion of magical animal bloodlines and witchers.

However, the dark environment was unsuitable for studying notes, so Ethan immediately put the notes in his bag.

Ethan was afraid that something would accidentally damage Salazar Slytherin's last note. If it were destroyed, the loss would be immeasurable.

Putting away Salazar's notes, Ethan began to pick up Salazar's skeleton again.

Then he went to the laboratory, gathered the dead bones of the Muggles in the cell and the dead bones on the test bench, used the Igni Sign to summon fire, and burned their dead bones into ashes. After thousands of years, they quickly burned as soon as the dead bone touched the flame.

It soon turned into a gray pile of ashes. Ethan took out an exquisite clay pot, knelt, and gently held up these human bones, which had been trapped here for thousands of years, with both hands and put them in the pottery. Ethan should have made a point of separating everyone's bones in the jar.

These corpses have lived together in this dark room for thousands of years, so they probably don't care to continue living together after returning to the underground.

After sealing the pot, he put it in the bag.

Ethan began to think of the bones in the glass chambers again and quickly found the it's valve. With a slight twist of Ethan, the green liquid in the petri dish slowly descended and flowed into the sewer.

Only then did Ethan see the actual complete picture of these corpses. When he saw these corpses, Ethan was shocked. It was different from the dry bones outside. Because of those green liquids, these corpses remained intact even after a thousand years, keeping their original appearance.

He discovered that these corpses were half-human and half-beast forms. Some corpses' limbs had become deformed animal claws, and some bodies had been covered with dragon scales. Ethan saw a female corpse. It was even covered with phoenix feathers.

Ethan carefully observed these corpses, and it was obvious that these deformed humans were the products of Salazar's experiments.

The "strengthening" of the witcher in Salazar's memory was not that simple.

Ethan also used Igni to incinerate them and put them into another clay pot. Then Ethan picked up the sackcloth that wrapped the bones of Salazar and Lilia and prepared to leave the secret room.

Re-stepped on the narrow stairs to leave the secret room. Ethan took little time to reach the private room's exit.

Ethan climbed out of Slytherin's open mouth and waved his hand lightly, and the stone sculpture of Salazar Slytherin closed its mouth and returned to its previous appearance.

Dumbledore thoughtfully arranged for Phoenix Fox to wait for Ethan at the tunnel exit. After Fox waited a long time, Ethan impatiently tidied himself.

Now that Ethan was finally here, Fox uttered an excited cry and flew in front of Ethan, flew around Ethan a few times, and stood on Ethan's shoulder.

Ethan felt the warm heat on Fox's body. He helped Fox scratch the feathers on his back, and Fox narrowed his eyes comfortably.

Fox finally remembered his mission. It stretched its foot towards Ethan and motioned for Ethan to hold it.

Ethan cooperatively held Fox's foot; Fox uttered an excited cry and flapped his wings to take Ethan into the air.

With a whimper, Ethan flew up. Fox flew very fast, and the cold wind whistled past Ethan's ear. It didn't take long for Fox to bring Ethan to the surface.

Ethan needed more time to track down Myrtle's whereabouts. He held the two corpses wrapped in sackcloth and walked along the corridor towards the Black Lake.

On the way, several little wizards wanted to talk to Ethan; after all, Ethan was now a school star.

But after seeing Ethan's gloomy and frightening face, these little wizards shrank their necks and hurried away.

Everyone can see that Professor Eason is in a terrible mood right now, and no one wants to touch this trouble.