Chapter 95: Hedwig

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Harry backed away as he shut his eyes tight and activated Mage Sight just in time to see a huge serpentine shape thick as an oak trunk with a poisonous green glow hit the chamber floor with a loud thud. Harry felt it shudder and watched as it uncoiled itself from Slytherin's mouth.

Then he heard Riddle's hissing voice, " Kill him. " And with that, the flickering glow of Riddle's illusion faded away and the serpent lunged.

Harry activated Unicorn Boost and rushed to the side, dodging the serpent's attack, feeling confident despite the fear that ran through him.

This he knew was going to happen. This he had a plan for. He immediately cast an Observe on the Beast.

Basilisk

Lv-95

HP:98400/98400

MP: 600/600

Str- 95

Vit- 81

Dex-38

Int-19

Wis-21

Luc-0

The Serpent of Slytherin is a female Basilisk placed by Salazar Slytherin inside the Chamber of Secrets and can only be controlled by his heir.

She is venomous, possesses incredible strength and durability, is resistant to majority of spells, and direct contact with her gaze results in death.

Kill to get- 15,000 Exp.

The Observe contained nothing that Harry hadn't already known, but it was good to have it confirmed.

The Basilisk, however, wasn't exactly foolish. While Harry had his attention divided, it turned and boxed him in with the wall with its body. It was when he closed the window, he realized his predicament.

Just as the giant snake lunged at Harry again, who was desperately looking for a way to dodge, he felt claws dig into his shoulder and he disappeared from the spot in a burst of flames, leaving the Basilisk to smash its face against the stone floor.

Harry reappeared on the other side of the hall.

"Thanks, Hedwig," Harry said as his avian friend puffed her chest up, "There's no point in wasting time, let's put the plan into action now."

Hedwig gave a sharp nod and rose into the air with a determined trill, before flying off with a burst of speed towards the Basilisk.

Harry wanted to make sure that she was alright, but dared not waste any time, instead speeding off towards the door with the snakes on it, through which he had entered the Chamber.

Turning off Mage Sight so that he could tell the door apart from the walls around it, Harry quickly hissed out, " Close "

Much like how the serpents had parted as the wall had cracked open, the halves reappeared, and smoothly slid shut with a thud.

Behind him, Hedwig was doing a fantastic job of distracting the Basilisk. Harry closed his eyes, turned Mage Sight back on and looked back into the chamber.

The Basilisk had moved to the center of the Chamber, where the enormous serpent had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars.

Hedwig was soaring around its head, and the basilisk was snapping furiously at her with fangs, long and thin as sabers.

Harry dipped into his inventory and pulled out a pencil nub that he had idly thrown in there once. Making sure that there was little to no graphite on the nub, Harry tossed it at the serpent. It landed on the floor near the spot where the Basilisk was tussling with Hedwig.

And it was time.

"Hedwig! It's time!" Harry called loudly. Taking the cue, Hedwig burst into flames and reappeared on Harry's shoulder.

"Listen, Hedwig. As soon as I cast the spell, get us out into the tunnel outside. FULGURIS! " Harry yelled, aiming at the pencil nub and pushing as much mana into the spell as he could.

As soon as the burst of lightning left his wand, Hedwig immediately flamed them out of there and into the tunnel outside.

Amongst all his training in the spell and using it to convert metal to metal, the one thing Nicholas had told Harry to never do was to overdo an Alchemical Transmutation.

Since alchemy worked by fiddling with the atom's structure itself, overdoing the spell risked setting off a nuclear reaction which, as any muggle worth his salt could tell you, is usually a dangerous thing.

Harry's aim struck true, and temperature of the pencil stub rose millionfold to the point that it was flash-heated to that of the surface of the sun.

The Carbon atoms in the nub structurally burst open into electrons protons and neutrons. The protons then interacted with the Hydrogen in the air around them to undergo one of the most common and powerful nuclear reactions in the known universe called the Proton-Carbon cycle.

In short, literal milliseconds after Harry and Hedwig teleported out, an explosion the size of a dozen hand grenades rocked the Chamber.

BOOM!

As soon as Harry reappeared outside the Chamber, he dropped to his knees and shielded himself and Hedwig as rocks and stones lodged in the roof of the tunnel that had gotten shaken loose and fell on them.

Finally, a minute later when the dust settled, Harry rose to his feet and dusted himself off. Hedwig shook herself, flapping her wings to shake the dust off them before trilling apprehensively at Harry.

"I don't want to go in too, Hedwig," said Harry, "But we have to help Lisa."

And turning to the entrance, he hissed, " Open " making the serpents part and the halves slide out of view.

Hedwig flew in, scoping out the situation as Harry gingerly stepped into the room with eyes closed and Mage Sight on.

"Are the snake's eyes closed?" he asked his phoenix, who flapped over to the now unmoving glowing green serpent to check before trilling out an affirmative.

Harry opened his eyes and shut down Mage Sight before taking in the sight of what he had done.

Three of the pillars had completely broken down, and a lot of the others had cracks on them. The floor was cracked as well, though whether that was from the basilisk or the explosion, Harry did not know.

Dust covered pretty much every surface, and Salazar Slytherin no longer had much of a lower body, since one of his legs, both his arms and much of his abdomen were now simply missing.

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