Chapter 327 Treasure Hunt in the Secret Room
Richard flew quickly through the sky with the flying magic carpet he had just made. He was going to measure the data of the flying magic carpet.

On the balcony of the headmaster's office, Dumbledore looked at the magic carpet in the sky with a hint of surprise. He originally thought that rune cloth was used to make wizard robes, but he didn't expect Richard to make a magic carpet.

After seeing the magic carpet, Dumbledore decided to make a magic carpet after he wove the rune cloth. Those merchants who made magic brooms never considered the body of an old wizard in his eighties or nineties.

With the magic carpet as a comfortable way to fly, there is no need for a flying broomstick or dog.

The sales of magic wands have plummeted in the wizarding world recently, while the sales of the newly-emerged magic rings have skyrocketed, and a large number of wizards have bought the magic rings. The appearance of the magic rings has greatly facilitated wizards, after all, wizards can wear rings 24 hours a day, but they cannot hold their wands 24 hours a day.

And there is another key factor - the magic of disarming is ineffective against the ring.

A magic wand is a weapon, while a magic ring is not a weapon but an accessory. Unless the magic world develops a spell to remove accessories, it will not be able to prevent other wizards from casting spells.

The flying magic carpet that Richard was experimenting with flew past quickly, and its speed soon reached subsonic speed, and its altitude reached tens of thousands of meters.

Although the flying magic carpet was moving very fast, it was very stable on top. Richard had the leisure to make tea while enjoying the scenery below.

The temperature of the flying magic carpet is constant, even if the outside temperature is frozen, it has no effect here. The flying magic carpet flies at subsonic speed, and it can even see planes flying under the magic carpet.

This is not its maximum speed. In fact, it can continue to accelerate and reach a maximum of about ten times the speed of sound. However, this speed consumes a lot of energy and lasts for a short time. Subsonic speed is the most economical and practical speed.

After Richard circled the blue star, the flying carpet had consumed about one-fifth of its energy. Richard returned to Hogwarts in a good mood.

During this period of time, Richard had almost finished reading all the books in the library, so he planned to go to the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts and prepare to capture the basilisk.

The magical creature Basilisk is quite good. It not only has the Eye of Death, but also has the ability to petrify. It is a perfect weapon for group battles. However, although the Basilisk is powerful, it is perfectly restrained by the Phoenix.

Its Death Eye and Petrification are ineffective against Phoenix.

Richard put away the magic carpet and started to wander around Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There were magical restrictions in many places in the school, and some of the restrictions were hidden behind secret rooms.

Some of the Chambers of Secrets have been completely abandoned, even Dumbledore is not aware of it, but some are still in use, and some are used as storage rooms.

Just as Richard was looking for the secret room, a Peeves came out from somewhere.

"Who are you? What are you looking for here?"

"Ahaha, I see, you're a thief!"

"Peeves!" Richard looked at the ghost with pointy ears in front of him. This ghost was Peeves, who loved to play pranks or laugh at others. His IQ was about that of a twelve-year-old, and it would basically not increase any more, so he would always be a hateful brat.

Therefore, this kind of ghost is called Peeves. Many young wizards have been fooled by this ghost. Peeves' spellcasting ability is not strong, but it has the ability to fly and pass through walls. It also has some simple illusion and light spells that are not very harmful, but very insulting.

Because of this ability, the little wizards can't do anything to them. In fact, the way to deal with this kind of ghost is very simple, just beat the naughty child.

"what!"

A miserable scream was heard, and before the Peeves in front of him could even start its prank, Richard picked up a stick and hit it, sending it flying.

The magic power of the stick directly made Peeves's ability ineffective, and he fell heavily on the wall, turning into a poster.
But Peeves was not convinced. He quickly found a stick and flew around Richard in circles, hoping to confuse Richard and launch a sneak attack.

"boom!"

A muffled sound was heard again.

Peeves' figure flew far away and stuck to the wall again.

Don’t be fooled by Peeves’ small size, he is still very tough.

After two consecutive heavy blows, its body was twisted in pain. Peeves was immediately beaten into obedience, and the look he gave Richard became full of fear.

"Will you obey me, or will I beat you up before you obey me?" Richard held the stick in one hand and tapped it rhythmically with the other.

"I'll be obedient, I'll be obedient, don't hit me anymore! Oh, oh, oh!" Peeves became very obedient.

"Okay, take me to the secret room here!" Richard said directly.

These Peeves have lived in Hogwarts for a long time, and since they have the ability to pass through walls, they know more about Hogwarts than Dumbledore.

Soon, under the guidance of Peeves, Richard began to enter these secret rooms to search. Soon he came to a secret room, which was filled with a lot of debris and looked messy.

The secret room was about 100 square meters in size, and was covered in dust. It looked like no one had been in there before. There were some sundries and some old magic books in the room.

Some of the magic books were even worm-eaten, so Richard took them out. Among these magic books, there were books introducing the history of the magic world, recording spells, and some were books that were not available in the library.

Richard used the repair technique to repair the magic books, then put them away and prepared to go back and look at them.

Next, Richard came to the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts. This secret room is said to be able to answer any request, but in fact it does not meet the conditions of answering any request. However, a jeweled crown is preserved in this room.

Ravenclaw's diadem.

Richard quickly found the crown in the room. The crown was made of a silver metal. Even after hundreds of years, it still looked as bright and clean as new. The entire crown looked like a bird with its wings spread out, with both wings bent downward. There were several silver metal strips connecting the wings.

In the middle of the crown is a gem the size of a quail egg, which looks very beautiful.

This Ravenclaw's golden crown was originally a magical crown left by Lady Rowena Ravenclaw. She cast a spell on the crown to increase the wisdom of the wearer.

And on the edge of the crown is engraved a line of words: 'Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind.'

However, this crown was later made into a Horcrux by Tom Marvolo Riddle, that is, Voldemort hid a part of his soul in this crown.

The result will be that the person wearing this crown will be influenced by Voldemort's soul or even replaced by Voldemort.

Of course, for others, this crown is very dangerous, but for Richard, the master who plays with souls, these soul fragments are just another dish for him.

When Richard picked up the crown, he immediately heard a voice in his ear. This voice was full of temptation, wanting him to wear the crown. The voice kept telling him that if he wore the crown, he would gain infinite knowledge and become the smartest person in the world.

Hearing this, Richard curled his lips.

"You said you have supreme wisdom and knowledge, so can you solve the Goldbach conjecture?" Voldemort:
"What can't you do? If you can't even solve the Goldbach conjecture, then what use is there for me?"

——【Soul extraction! 】

A ray of light instantly penetrated into the Ravenclaw's crown, and then a stream of soul energy was seen being extracted by magic.

——【Soul Binding Technique! 】

Another flash of light flashed, and the soul that was forcibly extracted was immediately bound by powerful magic. Soon all the soul power was extracted from Ravenclaw's golden crown.
A soul with a bald head, no nose and only two nostrils appeared before his eyes.

After seeing Richard, the soul struggled desperately, but under the influence of the soul-binding technique, it could not move at all.

——"Memory extraction!"

Richard shot out a ray of light, and the still struggling Voldemort's soul became sluggish for a moment. The next second, countless memories were extracted. Richard asked his system to record all of Voldemort's memories and then sort them out.

The memories of magic in Voldemort's memory were extracted, and the rest was preserved in a book for easy reference.

Then Richard waved his hand gently, and another ray of light flashed.

——【Soul shock! 】

Voldemort's soul was shattered in an instant, his consciousness was wiped out, and his soul turned into countless soul fragments, which were then fed by Richard to his personal assistance system.

Richard destroyed one of the seven Horcruxes prepared by Voldemort.

After devouring Voldemort's soul, Richard began to examine the Ravenclaw crown in his hand.

[Item: Ravenclaw's Golden Crown; Level: Legendary Level 1

Function: It stores all of Ravenclaw's knowledge and wisdom. Wearing this crown can gain her knowledge.

Attributes: Wisdom +5 (maximum 24 points) Perception +3 (maximum 18).

Wearing the crown can gain wisdom and quick thinking. 】

The effect of this crown is quite good. It is a legendary item that can be worn to increase wisdom. For a mage, this thing is very precious. However, for Richard, it is no longer useful. His wisdom has returned to the level of his previous life, reaching 43 points.

At this level of wisdom, there is basically no item that can increase his wisdom except for artifacts. He used the wishing spell many times to increase his wisdom. Just for this reason, he gave more than thirty legendary soul crystals to the elemental gods.

But it was worth it, as his extremely high intelligence greatly increased his speed in analyzing the laws.

Although this crown was of no use to him, he was going to re-enchant it to make it more powerful. If he didn't use it, he could give it to Madison, Anna, Cathway, and others.

This crown that increases wisdom is extremely convenient for learning magic.

After getting the Ravenclaw's crown, Richard left the Room of Requirement and headed for other chambers of secrets. Soon he found his target in one of the chambers of secrets.

Basilisk.

It is said that the basilisk is a magical creature cultivated by black wizards. According to the records of black magic, the basilisk is hatched by placing an egg under a toad. Richard has reservations about this statement.

Many black magic spells are recorded using various code words. The basilisk method mentioned above is very likely to be false. If you really want to cultivate a basilisk in this way, you will definitely fail in the end.

The basilisk species is highly toxic, and its eyes can release death gaze and petrification. Anyone who sees its eyes will be attacked by these two spells.

Of course, this ability is not irresistible. Death Gaze and Petrification are both uses of magic. As long as your spell resistance is high enough, there will be no problem even if you see their eyes.

This ability is always effective when used against creatures weaker than it, and can easily kill or petrify them. However, when used against creatures stronger than it, the spell will become ineffective.

The opponent's resistance is too high, causing the spell to lose its effect.

And this spell consumes magic power. The more people die, the more people are petrified, and the more magic power is consumed.

And there is a way to deal with this spell. Because both the death gaze and petrification ray require you to see the other person's eyes, you can use sunglasses to block the light.

After Richard opened the secret room, a basilisk over twelve feet long woke up from its slumber. This basilisk, which had lived for nearly a thousand years, was quite powerful. Its green body looked very strange, and its yellow eyes contained a strange power.

After seeing Richard, the thousand-year-old basilisk launched an attack.

Death Stare is activated immediately.

"Attacked by the instant-death spell [Death Gaze]! Magical counterattack activated!" The system's prompt sounded in my mind.

"Death Gaze Cancel!"

"Mind control activated!"

A ray of light instantly spread out from Richard's body, and the powerful mental power instantly hit the basilisk. The basilisk froze at this moment, and its body, mind, and even soul were unable to move at this moment.

The powerful soul force broke through the basilisk's defense, leaving Richard's secret mark on its soul.

After the secret mark was placed, the snake monster was forcibly controlled by Richard and became his pet.

The thousand-year-old basilisk immediately swam to Richard's side, then bowed down to him to show its submission.

Richard patted the basilisk's head gently and said, "Is there anything else in this secret room?"

The basilisk thought for a moment, then took Richard to the other side of the secret room, where there was a hidden bookshelf full of books. Richard flipped through them casually.

Most of these books were about black magic, and some seemed to be experimental diaries. Richard immediately put all of these books in his pocket.

Soon, Richard turned the entire secret room upside down. After finding nothing else, Richard took the basilisk away.

(End of this chapter)