Chapter 392: Rice: I Would Like to Call It the Strongest

Hermione was startled, but immediately remembered what Les said. This was her domain, her territory.

In her domain, she was the strongest, and she had no reason to be afraid!

So she bravely asked loudly: "Who?"

The figure ignored her and just sat there silently flipping through the book. Hermione frowned, held the wand and took two steps forward, and then saw the face of the figure clearly.

"Les, why are you here?" Hermione asked in surprise.

The figure sitting there quietly reading a book was Les, and no one knew how he got in.

"Les" did not respond to Hermione's question, he just sat there and stared at the book in his hand intently.

Hermione narrowed her eyes and looked at the book in Les's hand. Sure enough, it was the "Encyclopedia Britannica". Les seemed to be particularly obsessed with this set of books recently, and he carried it wherever he went.

"Huh?" An illustration on the book attracted Hermione's attention. She had an impression of this picture because Les had asked her questions with this picture before.

Hermione had a slight understanding in her mind. She stood aside and waited silently for two minutes.

"Rice" suddenly spread out the book in his hand and pushed it forward, as if asking someone a question.

Hermione reached out and pressed the spread book, and then her hand pressed directly on the cold table through the pages.

Now Hermione completely understood that the Rice in front of her was the "shadow" left by Rice here before, or it could be said to be a mark.

"Interesting." Hermione kept looking at the phantom of Rice, thinking that the phantom was so realistic that she couldn't see it even when she was so close.

"It's good to have such a shadow to accompany me, at least this library is not so deserted." Hermione lowered her head and muttered to herself.

Her field is good in everything, but it's too quiet, and it's a bit creepy to be empty. Now putting a "Rice" here to improve the atmosphere is not bad.

Hermione regarded the phantom of Rice as a decoration.

At this moment, "Les" glanced at where Hermione was standing, but the girl didn't notice, and "Les" continued to read the book in his hand.

'Les's shadow appears here because he stayed here for a while...' Hermione reasoned by analogy and concluded that other people can also leave shadows after entering her field to study.

'What will happen to the phantom here when Les enters here again? Will his shadow appear again? Will his new round of actions cover the previous phantom? ' A series of questions emerged in Hermione's mind.

These questions can't be answered except to let Les come in again.

So Hermione hurriedly closed the field, left the dormitory and went outside to look for Les. But Les was in Helga's office at this time, how could Hermione find him in a hurry?

So she could only use a stupid method, sneaking straight to the dungeon area and waiting for the snake.

Hermione's idea was to wait for a Slytherin student to appear and ask them to go into the lounge to help her find Les. But to her surprise, several Slytherin junior students had already entered the dungeon, but when they saw her from a distance, they turned around and left without hesitation, not giving her a chance to talk.

Hermione:?

She didn't quite understand the brain circuits of these Slytherins.

At this moment, the wall beside her twisted, and a magnificent serpentine arch appeared. Astoria walked out from inside. When she saw Hermione standing at the entrance of the college lounge, she was stunned.

Astoria:? ? ?

Why is Hermione here? Is she here to challenge? Astoria couldn't help thinking so.

It's no wonder that Astoria and other Slytherin students thought so, because Hermione's position was too coincidental, just standing in front of the entrance of the Slytherin College Lounge, just like looking for trouble.

"Miss Granger, why are you here?" She secretly raised her vigilance and questioned Hermione.

"Astoria? It just so happens that I have something to do with Les. Is he in there?" Hermione didn't think too much. Seeing a familiar face, she immediately reported her purpose.

"Looking for Les?" Astoria narrowed her eyes slightly, "Can I ask what you want to do with him?"

"I have something to discuss with him." Hermione said vaguely - she couldn't say that she wanted to discuss the field with Les, right?

"He's not in the lounge." Astoria suppressed the curiosity in her heart and told Hermione politely that she didn't know where Les was. Maybe he ran to Hogsmeade Village.

"I'll be there soon." Les' voice came from behind them.

Hermione and Astoria turned around at the same time and found that Les was standing at the end of the corridor staring at the two of them.

He had just discussed the content of the final test with Helga, but when he returned to the door of the lounge, he saw Hermione and Astoria.

"Les," Hermione waved happily, "I have something to talk to you about!"

Astoria's eyes became deeper: What exactly did Granger come to Les for?

Les had roughly guessed her purpose.

"Why don't we go in and talk?" He planned to invite Hermione to the lounge to talk in detail.

Astoria:!

"Isn't this inappropriate?" She subconsciously said to stop him.

"Why is this inappropriate? We are not like Hufflepuff House, which does not welcome outsiders to enter. Come on." Les walked into the lounge first.

Hermione hesitated for two seconds and followed him into the mysterious lounge.

Seeing that Les insisted on doing so, Astoria had no choice but to acquiesce to Les's "nonsense". In fact, in this era, the four major colleges rarely visit the lounge, and everyone keeps their distance. It is even more impossible for a student like Hermione from a Muggle family to enter the Slytherin College lounge to make trouble for herself.

"I know you don't visit the lounge very often, but the colleges in Hogwarts used to be so estranged. It was normal for students to spend the night in the lounges of other colleges - the girls' lounge passage of Gryffindor College is forbidden to boys for this reason." Les's eyes passed over Astoria's face secretly.

Hermione nodded absent-mindedly, while looking around at the layout of the lounge.

Her eyes soon fell on the French window, and outside the window was the view of the bottom of the Black Lake of Hogwarts.

"I've heard that the Slytherin College lounge is at the bottom of Lake Hahei before, but I didn't expect it to be true." Hermione walked to the window and marveled.

"This was the work of Lord Salazar Slytherin. The powerful protective spell has been effective for thousands of years." Astoria proudly raised her head and responded.

Rice was also very happy to be praised by Astoria.

Hermione touched the French window with reverence, and then realized a problem: Isn't this place always in a state of not seeing the sun? The Black Lake blocks the natural light of the sun!

Astoria:...

Hermione's words made her speechless.

Rice rubbed his chin, and a trace of curiosity flashed through his heart: Looking at Astoria's appearance, could it be that none of these future students knew that the ceiling of the college lounge has a built-in weather spell? He thought everyone liked a dim environment so they didn't do this...

It turned out that no one knew the setting of the ceiling? !

"If you want natural sunlight, you can use the weather spell." Rice pulled out his wand and pointed it at the ceiling.

Suddenly, the ceiling changed. The original stone bricks gradually disappeared and were replaced by a blue sky and white clouds. The bright sunlight made the Slytherin common room, which was originally illuminated by chandeliers and candles, bright.

Astoria: !!!

Does the ceiling of the college have this function? !

Although she was a little uncomfortable with the bright environment, the sunlight can always make people feel cheerful.

Looking at Astoria's expression, Les felt a breath of difficulty: these people really didn't know that the ceiling here has this function! ! !

Did Hogwarts experience a generation gap? How come so many things have been lost?

After a while, Les calmed down.

He speculated that it was very likely that the weather spell on the ceiling had a problem or was tampered with one day, switching to a storm mode that would not have appeared. Unfortunately, the senior students who knew how to turn off and adjust the weather spell were not there, and the lounge was flooded.

Hiss...

Les felt horrible just thinking about that scene.

It is estimated that after that, the students of Slytherin College permanently turned off the weather spell on the ceiling, so that the later students did not even know that their ceiling could be switched to sunlight mode.

Thinking of this, Les silently turned off the weather spell on the ceiling, and the lounge returned to its dim appearance.

He was really worried about these Slytherin kids.

"Let's go, let's sit down and talk." Seeing that Hermione had almost finished her visit, Les directly invited her to sit down and talk in detail.

"Well..." Hermione was a little entangled.

Is this something that can be said?

Les glanced at Astoria, who seemed to be completely in the dark, and decided to let Hermione give her a little stimulation.

"Tell me, there are no outsiders here."

When Astoria was still secretly happy about the statement "no outsiders", Hermione's words stunned her.

"Okay... Les, I just saw your phantom in my domain."

Astoria: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

"What did you say? Domain?!" She couldn't help but interrupt Hermione's words, her voice full of shock and uncertainty.

"It's like this, Miss Granger has awakened a very interesting domain."

Astoria was silent: It seems that she is the only heir who has not awakened the domain?

At this moment, a sense of crisis gradually overwhelmed her.

Will they confiscate my status as an heir just because I haven't awakened the domain? Such an absurd thought even flashed through her mind.

"Continue." Rice ignored Astoria, who was shocked, and asked Hermione to tell him about her shadow in detail.

After listening to Hermione's description, Rice felt that this seemed to be a new ability of Hermione's domain that had not yet been developed by them.

"Open your domain again, and take Astoria with you this time." Rice felt that if he wanted to find out the specific situation of this ability, he should enter her domain again to find out.

"Okay." Hermione did not hesitate and directly opened the domain, covering both Rice and Astoria.

After entering the domain again, Hermione found that Rice's phantom had disappeared.

"Will it be covered by you who came in this time?"

Faced with Hermione's speculation, Rice shook his head.

"Nothing can be concluded yet, let's read some books here first." Les directly exposed his "real purpose".

He found a seat and sat down, and took out a Britannica from his arms.

Looking at Les who was not shy at all, Hermione was speechless for a while, but she also carried reading materials with her, so she would not waste time.

Astoria was in trouble.

Why did you two carry these things with you? She felt very complicated.

"There are books on the bookshelves around, you can pick a few to read, but I recommend you to read these encyclopedias with me." Les's voice sounded in Astoria's ears.

Les really hopes that Astoria has a deeper understanding of Muggles, because she carries more of his expectations.

"Encyclopedia?" Astoria asked in confusion.

She knew that Les seemed to be fascinated by a set of books compiled by Muggles recently, but he had never let her read these things before.

"Well, through them you can better understand Muggles." Les took out an encyclopedia index and handed it to Astoria.

Astoria vaguely understood Les's intention, so she took the book and started reading.

When she spread out the book, Les whispered in her ear: "Don't take the domain too seriously. This kind of thing can't be forced. When the fate comes, the domain will naturally awaken - I was like this back then, and I think you are the same."

Les' words made Astoria feel a little relieved, but her desire for the domain did not diminish in the slightest.

Time passed quickly. Because Astoria was brought along this time, and the rest time before was not long enough, Hermione persisted for a shorter time.

Two hours later, the three returned to the Slytherin common room.

"Do you have any spare energy?" Les looked at Hermione, and a bottle of energy potion was already on the table.

"Yes." Hermione was not polite, and drank the energy potion directly, and opened the domain again after a short rest.

This time when she entered the domain, she saw the phantom of Les again, and with Les' phantom, there was also the figure of Astoria.

"Sure enough."

Everything was as Hermione expected.

But at this moment, Les' phantom suddenly turned his head and nodded gently to Hermione.

Hermione:!

What's going on? ! Did the phantom just say hello to her?

But after that, Les' phantom returned to the appearance of being immersed in the world of the book, as if what had just happened was just Hermione's illusion.

Hermione closed her domain with extremely complicated feelings.

Looking at Les who reappeared in front of her, Hermione took a deep breath and told Les everything she had just seen and heard.

After listening to Hermione's words, Les widened his eyes.

What's going on? ! Can it be like this?

He had a bold guess in his heart. If that was the case, Hermione's domain would be the strongest without a doubt.

"Hermione, remember to take me with you when you open the realm next time." Les reminded him seriously.

"Of course." Even if Les didn't say it, Hermione would take him with her.

Astoria blinked her eyes, as if she couldn't keep up with the two people's thoughts.

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I wrote it! Good night everyone~