In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 293: Map (2 in 1)

Adrian Fawkes.

This name has only appeared in his memory two or three short times, but these two or three times has deeply rooted in Jon's mind.

Not because of anything else, but just because his biggest reliance now, whether it is a variant of the levitation charm or the general counter-spell, the ring and the gems on the ring that is necessary to use it are all created by the wizard with this name!

This person was once a close friend of Slughorn, but after creating the ring and several gems, he left the world without even having the chance to see whether the work he had completed actually realised the desired effect or not.

How could Jon have expected that he could actually find the laboratory he left behind in this underground labyrinth at the North Pole!

"What happened? Jon."

Gabrielle, who was floating above his head and still confused, asked suspiciously.

She certainly did not know anything about Adrien Fawkes and did not understand what this name represented to Jon.

Jon also came back to his senses at this time, and he took a deep breath and said softly.

"I am fine."

Then he reached out his hand to the door and tried to push it open.

However, the plain-looking wooden door didn't budge, as if it was locked, and there was no way to just open it directly like that.

Contrary to the doors of the other three rooms that were destroyed by the basilisk, the door to this laboratory is still so well-preserved, and it is certainly unlikely that the basilisk has shown mercy, the biggest possibility is that the laboratory itself has retained part of the protective features.

After trying to push open the door directly but without success, Jon then waved his wand at the door handle and used the unlocking charm, but it still failed to yield any results.

He then took off the ring that he had been wearing around his neck and put it on his right index finger, and finally used the hand that was wearing the ring to push the door.

This time he did not encounter any resistance, and easily pushed the door open!

Jon displayed a look of genuine surprise, while Gabrielle looked at the ring Jon put on his finger with wonder which Jon had never taken out before, even if he used it.

"Who gave you this ring? Have you been proposed to by some girl already?"

Jon didn't feel like giving her anything to bounce around in her brain and create some story.

"It was given to me by one of my professors, at that time you haven't come to Hogwarts yet. At a young age, what's going on inside your head."

Gabrielle held her head with an unhappy look and followed behind Jon into that lab.

This place is obviously not broken into and damaged like the other three rooms, the various pieces of furniture inside are still neatly placed around.

There is a not-so-huge bookcase in the corner, but in addition to a few empty containers, there are no other books, and at the corner between the two walls there is a single bed, the bed is covered with a mattress sheet and a quilt.

A table and chairs were placed directly opposite the door, and some old parchment was left on top.

Jon first looked at the bookshelves, in addition to the few empty containers that were found as soon as he entered there was nothing else there, then he came to the table and began to open the parchment that was lying around.

These are obviously some notes on experiments, but the content is very fragmented, Jon looked at it for a good while, and it can be determined that Adrian had come to the North Pole to search for more gemstones that can be embedded in the ring and used for casting spells on themselves.

The importance of gemstones for the ring is similar to the wand core of a wand, but compared to the majority of materials that can be used as a wand core as long as they belong to a magical creature, the requirements for ring gemstones are exceptionally demanding.

Adrien studied for a lifetime but only found one gem on Mount Olympus that could conduct the magic of the wizard's body, but the mass of that stone only allowed him to divide up to three stones, which was far worse than the double-digit number of stones he had envisioned at the beginning.

Yes, at the beginning he was planning to design the gems to be more finely divided, embedding such gems on the ring, can make the magic that the ring can cast out more diverse, but unfortunately, it is limited by the wizard itself as part of the reason, plus the raw materials are limited, so only five gems can be made out.

Adrien, who came to the North Pole, had used up the gem that he had got from Mount Olympus, then started going out to look for suitable materials, and finally made a discovery under the labyrinth in the North Pole.

Jon rummaged through the scattered materials on the table and could only roughly see that Adrien finally did succeed in finding and processing a gem in this labyrinth, but for some reason unknown to him, it seemed like Adrian didn't take the gem with him when he left.

Because of incomplete faded information on the materials, Jon did not find out the reason, but it can be determined that there is indeed a gem left here.

This caused Jon to be incomparably cheered up, since Slughorn gave him this ring, Jon knows better than anyone else how great the ring has brought him an enhancement.

If it were not for the ability to cast spells on himself, the dangers he experienced alone would have caused normal wizards to die hundreds of times over.

And each additional gemstone represents a newly advanced spell for Jon, he can rely on this gemstone to research new magic that can boost himself, so it represents another leap of strength for him.

But the information Adrien left here is too little, the scattered information is more like a pile of useless scrap, in addition to letting Jon know the purpose and results of his arrival here, there is no more information to provide.

After going through all the information on the table, Jon pulled open a drawer on the table, and in the drawer, he made a new discovery!

An extremely valuable discovery!

"Look at this!"

His voice drew Gabrielle's attention who was wandering around the room, trying to figure out exactly where in the labyrinth this long corridor they are in is located.

She drifted over to Jon's side and looked at the parchment that he had found in the drawer together with him.

It is a map!

A map that depicted most of the paths throughout this labyrinth.

Adrien had obviously lived in this labyrinth under the ice only for a short period of time, and it was not clear how he got along with the basilisk here, but it seemed that no conflict had broken out between the two sides.

That is, using that time, he not only found the right gemstone under the ice to make a suitable gem for the ring but also mapped out a map for most of the paths in the labyrinth.

This map, although the drawing is a little rudimentary, it's not some ordinary map, it was enchanted with a special magic, although it is not as magical as the Marauder's Map at Hogwarts, you can rely on this map to continue to locate the paths in the labyrinth accurately.

Their current location is in the northwest corner of the entire map, and the area of the labyrinth depicted on the map is incomparably large.

From the entrance to the location where they are now, Jon has spent nearly half a day, compared to the entire labyrinth it is only about a tenth of the size.

This map also marked out two or three targets, there is no other explanation as to what these markers represent, what is certain is that one of these markers is definitely the gem that Adrien did not take away from here!

This is not only equal to giving Jon a travel guide in the labyrinth but also giving him an exact target.

Even after entering the labyrinth, Jon actually hadn't figured out exactly why Grindelwald had asked him to make this trip, but now with the information of one of the ring gems, he at least had an accurate direction.

It can be said that this map, is his biggest gain after entering the labyrinth.

Afterwards, Jon carefully checked all the things in the whole room again, to make sure that there is no more valuable discovery, he also did not want to immediately leave from here.

At present, this secret corridor is safe for the time being; Jon did not rest during the day, rushing all day, after that in the evening he fought with a group of Death Eaters and then entered the labyrinth and ran off for several hours with tense physical activity, only to meet a basilisk and kill it.

This has made Jon's body feel exhausted, it happens that this laboratory has a bed with a quilt, he used a cleaning spell on the bed and laid down in peace, and then "hired" child labour, letting Gabrielle who does not need to rest to keep guard in the corridor outside the door, and thus slept peacefully.

Jon was indeed very tired; when he woke up from sleep and looked at the time with a pocket watch, it was close to ten hours later.

Gabrielle during this time turned from panic to leisure, when Jon came out of the laboratory to find her, she was squatting in the room that originally was the basilisk's canteen to observe the bears and wolfs in the ice.

"Do you want to taste what the White Two tastes like?"

Jon's enticing voice rang in Gabrielle's ears, which made Gabrielle freeze, and a crystal clear saliva showed at the corner of her mouth subconsciously.

But then, she struggled and shook her head and said.

"Don't want to!"

"These bears in the ice are supposed to be dead, so if we dig one out and cut its paws off to taste a little bit, it's fine."

But even if Jon said so, Gabrielle still can't accept eating a kind of creature that was her friend before.

Even after listening to Jon, about how delicious it would be to put the bear's paw on the fire and sprinkle it with a little cumin, salt and chilli powder, she once again failed to fight the "sad" saliva slipping from the corners of her mouth, but in the end, she still insisted on not being overwhelmed by the instinct to eat.

Jon could only regretfully pull out the dry food that Eric had prepared for him from his pocket and gave some of it to Gabrielle.

In the ghost state, Gabrielle certainly will not have any hunger, but after all, she is not a real ghost, so after she discovered that she can taste she has been using her sense of taste to taste everything a bit, which will always make her state better afterwards.

After eating and drinking, they got ready to go again, Jon carried Nick, who still looked frightened, and took the map in his hand and left in the exact opposite direction they entered this secret corridor.

After arriving at the end of the corridor, Jon used the general counter-spell on himself as he had done when he entered here, and then took Gabrielle with him to leave here.

When they re-entered the cold labyrinth, this time they did not have to turn around like headless flies when they encountered a fork in the path, instead they could follow the directions on the map towards the nearest marker.

"Why does Nick continue to maintain this expression, can I help him change it?"

Gabrielle, who was floating behind Jon, tried to have some fun with Nick.

"If you can find a way to change his expression, of course, you can do it."

"He's hard as a rock, I sure as hell we can't squeeze his face to change his expression! Jon, could you hand me a quill, please?"

Hearing Gabrielle's request, Jon shook his head decisively.

"You can get it yourself if you want. If I give it to you, and you scribble on Nick's face, then he will surely reprimand me loudly when he recovers."

"He certainly won't know about it now, as long as I don't say anything, and you don't say anything, no one will know."

Gabrielle floated around Jon, she had been wanting to draw a bird on Nick's face for a long time.

But as Nick's loyal friend, Jon still sternly refused her (in fact, he knew that although Nick was petrified, his perception of the outside world is still there.) And protectively put Nick, who was originally on his back, in front of his body to prevent Gabrielle from secretly messing with him.

Just when Gabrielle was constantly pleading with Jon, and they just walked over to a fork in the path, Jon's heart suddenly rose up with a very bad feeling!

This premonition came inexplicably, like a sudden burst of panic, but clearly, there was nothing around!

He did not take this burst of panic as a matter of course, this intuition-like perception has been verified many times its accuracy, Grindelwald also stressed to him, this intuition is actually a manifestation of his prophetic talent.

All at once he stopped his playfulness with Gabrielle, paused with a serious expression to stop Gabrielle and also stopped himself.

Gabrielle from Jon's expression can feel the seriousness of the situation, she immediately shut up, and honestly grabbed the corner of Jon's coat, clinging to his side.

After a cursory glance around, Jon did not find anything unusual, but he still did not continue to move forward, as he remained looking in front of him, holding his wand in his hand, he carefully began to step backwards.

Just as he took his second step backwards, a strange change occurred!

On the ice walls to the left and right, and directly in front of him, there was a distortion in the air, and three figures suddenly appeared!

At the same time as they appeared, an incantation sounded together!

"Avada Kedavra!"

A ghastly green light instantly illuminated the entire labyrinth's passage, and the three killing curses that nearly blocked all of Jon's retreats tore through the icy air like violent vipers!

Jon, who was consistently enchanted by the levitation charm, began to distance and position himself to the extreme at the moment his brain reacted with a speed that no normal person could do.

But even then he could only narrowly avoid the two killing curses, and the killing curse that shot out from the left side still hit his body precisely.

Hit him in front where the petrified Nick is tied!

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