Chapter 264 This Palace Is Not Simple

Lying on the ground, Rice felt pain in every joint of his body.

He turned his head and looked at the puppet lying beside him.

The puppet left by Hufflepuff had been completely eroded by Rice's magic. The reason why the puppet could still maintain its human form at this moment was entirely because Rice was supporting it with magic. If Rice dispersed all the magic, it would instantly turn into a ball of mud.

Rice was silent for a long time, and then smiled bitterly: This is really like the scene a thousand years ago...

At that time, he had a falling out with several old friends and fought each other, but they were all proficient in their fields and had no way to deal with each other. In the end, they could only throw down their wands and beat their old friends.

But even after a thousand years, Rice still didn't think he was wrong.

Muggle-born students should be monitored to a certain extent, isn't it? He once tried to trust those children from Muggle families, but they betrayed Hogwarts and failed everyone's trust in them.

After that, he still acquiesced to his friends to recruit students from Muggle families, which was already a great concession. Unfortunately, his concession did not win the forgiveness of his friends, but planted a bigger root of trouble.

But that's all for later.

Les silently mobilized the magic power in the field to heal himself. When the place where he was beaten was not so painful, he stood up, looked down at the puppet on the ground for a moment, and then dispersed his magic power, letting the puppet turn into a ball of mud.

After all, the puppet is a puppet, and it can't replace the position of the real person in his heart.

After doing all this, Les strode out of the hall with his head held high - to his surprise, when he walked out of the door of the hall, he was greeted by two dog-headed stone statues instead of his two disciples.

Outside the ruins, Astoria and Daphne were breathing heavily.

The desperate run just now can be regarded as exhausting them, but fortunately they escaped safely.

The two did not return to the town as Les ordered, but chose to wait silently outside the ruins.

While waiting for Les, the two people had different thoughts.

Daphne was still upset about her necklace, while Astoria recalled the reaction of her sister's necklace when she was attacked. Obviously, a spell to save her life was attached to her sister's necklace.

Thinking of this, Astoria couldn't help but look at her bracelet.

Was she wondering if there was such a spell attached to her bracelet? She was not sure, because it was a life! The value of these two alchemical tools would be very different depending on whether they had this function. Why did she accept such a valuable gift out of thin air? Les Ken treated her illness, which made her bear a debt of gratitude.

Maybe only her sister's necklace has this function? She thought so, because Les seemed to care more about her sister.

If Les knew what Astoria was thinking, he would definitely make a pot of strong tea, and then ask in a vicissitudes of life: Isn't it normal for stupid students to involve more energy of teachers?

"It's Les! He's out!" As Astoria was thinking about it, Daphne stood up and shouted.

After getting rid of the two dog-headed stone statues, Les passed through the narrow passage and returned to the desert again, he breathed a sigh of relief. He looked up at the sun and found that it was still hanging high in the sky.

Les felt that something was wrong, but Daphne had already rushed to him.

"You are worthy of it. You solved the monster in a few seconds. It's amazing! So what is that thing?" Daphne asked like a string of cannons.

Daphne's praise did not make Les feel refreshed, but made him feel more strange.

In the end, he realized a problem: the position of the sun did not seem to have changed too obviously, but the battle between him and the puppet was a long-lasting battle.

"Daphne, how long have you been waiting outside?" Les threw out the question he was most concerned about.

Daphne was stunned for a moment, her mouth slightly open, a little at a loss: she didn't understand why Les asked such a question, and she didn't pay much attention to it - she didn't pay much attention to it just now.

"I... I'm not sure, it shouldn't take long, right?"

Astoria also rushed over, and after hearing Les's question, she told him very confidently that the two of them didn't wait too long, and Les came out about five or six minutes later.

Les narrowed his eyes: This is not right, he fought with the puppet in the ruins for much longer than five or six minutes.

He felt that he had fought for at least an hour, or even longer.

"We need to do a few experiments." Les finally made a decision - he had too many questions in his mind, and at the same time, he had a similar number of conjectures, which needed to be verified through experiments.

"Let me ask you a question first, when you walked out of the hall, were the two dog-headed sculptures restored?"

After getting a positive answer, Les felt that his conjecture was one step closer to verification.

"You two stand here and don't move. Remember to count the time." Les motioned the two to stand on the sand dune opposite the ruins. From there, they could just see the entrance to the ruins, but they couldn't see the situation inside the passage.

Although Daphne and Astoria had thousands of doubts in their hearts, they still obeyed Les's instructions obediently.

They watched Les walk to the entrance of the ruins and then stand at the edge of the passage for a quarter of an hour.

Daphne, Astoria: ? ? ?

Les's behavior made them extremely confused.

A quarter of an hour later, Les returned to the two.

"How long have I been in the ruins?" Les asked. After learning that he had stood stupidly at the entrance of the ruins for a quarter of an hour, Les didn't say anything, but asked the two to continue standing on the sand dune to count for him, and he himself entered the palace ruins again.

The difference this time was that he walked into the depths of the passage, and Daphne and Astoria couldn't see him. But this time he came out very quickly, as if he had done a round trip inside.

"Les, what on earth are you doing?" Daphne was confused, her heart was about to explode with questions.

"Tell me first, how long have I been in the ruins?"

"You walked in and walked out immediately!" Daphne complained about Les's weird behavior.

"Interesting, very interesting." Les's mouth curled up: "If I tell you that I was in a daze in the passage for several hours, would you believe it?"

Daphne, Astoria: !!!

The two of them exclaimed at the same time: How is this possible? !

"This is not a simple palace." Les looked at the ruins not far away, feeling extremely excited.

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