Awakening

Am I... dead...?

It hurts... it hurts so much...

Inside the Stone Chamber, Sean struggled to open his eyes. He felt as if his brain had been violently ripped apart with a razor blade, and excruciating pain, almost as if his skull were being ripped open, assaulted his heavy head again and again.

Sean's limbs were stiff like Scabbers gears, and he couldn't even move his fingers. He tried to move his head, but his cervical spine was as if it had been petrified.

Not only that, he could also feel a scab on his face after the liquid had dried, which made it difficult for Sean to even move his face.

Am I dead... or have I become a zombie or a ghost...?

Sean, still dazed, didn't even understand what was going on until a strong feeling of hunger hit his stomach.

Ha... you're still alive...

Fortunately, the rewards from the system didn't require any complicated steps to use— Sean directly summoned the Unicorn's Favor.

A silvery-white, illusory little Unicorn appeared in mid-air and then began to run around Sean's stiff, powerless body.

A refreshing coolness began to spread down from the top of Sean's head.

"Dave... are you still there..." Sean called out weakly in his mind.

"Master, you didn't turn into a corpse?!" An extremely excited thought instantly came through.

Sean's eyes, which had slowly opened because of the Unicorn's Favor, were instantly shrouded in a large shadow.

Dave's gaping maw came into Sean's view. Its white, bony head was covered in dark red blood, and its scarlet, round pupils were trembling.

"Not dead... What about that Basilisk..."

"It's lying outside...it looks apologetic...I wanted to kill it, but it didn't fight back..." Dave's wisdom was growing, and the meaning he conveyed through his thoughts was clear and easy to understand.

Sean's first thought upon waking was to quickly regain some mobility and then use the tail feather given to him by Dumbledore to summon Phoenix to take him away from there.

However, after Dave relayed everything that had happened during that time, Sean felt a strange sensation, even though his head was still throbbing.

That day, he did see the Basilisk's eyes. After the Basilisk crawled out of the hole leading to the bottom of the lake, it saw Sean at first glance.

Ordinary snakes do not have eyelids, but the Basilisk is different. This terrifying and Magical Creatures has eyelids, and it also possesses the talents of snakes, using its tongue and frenulum to sense the size and location of its prey.

In other words, it can move entirely without relying on its eyes.

According to Dave, neither Sean nor the Basilisk had time to close their eyes—so Sean was affected.

Of course, Dave didn't consider this at the time, and launched a near-mad attack—but the Basilisk did not fight back.

"It seems to be very intelligent..." This is what Dave concluded afterward.

Among the Magical Creatures, different species cannot communicate, but they rely on their animal instincts to communicate.

The Basilisk withstood Dave's attack with its enormous body and kept conveying its message—it could save Sean.

Mad Dave completely ignored him. In the end, the Basilisk dragged its battered body back to the Black Lake and brought something with it.

With a little strength finally available, Sean managed to turn his head to the side and saw a head lying next to him.

It was a strange white skeletal skull, which must have belonged to some kind of canine animal. Its entire body had a faint fluorescent white color, and dark red flames surged inside its sharp fangs.

"After that thing was placed next to you, a flame slowly lit up, and then it entered your body. I felt that your breathing was much more stable than before, so I stopped biting it..." Dave explained.

This doesn't make sense... Basilisk's direct gaze would instantly kill its victim; how could anyone possibly survive... let alone be healed...?

"You didn't die... After that giant snake left, I could smell your faint scent..." Dave explained.

He survived being glared at by the Basilisk? How is that possible...?

Suddenly, he thought of someone.

Stephanie.

Her pupils also possess special abilities, but apart from almost falling for her the first time they met, his resistance to her has only increased since then.

Sean gasped for breath; he was still unable to move and could only stare at Dave's drooling mouth.

Could it be that I have a resistance to all kinds of eye-type magic? Is it because ' Pride ' resides within my body?

After Dumbledore told him about the Prophecy, Sean went to look through some books and found that various medieval Bard [Note 1] had mentioned the legends circulating in the world in various tones.

Wizards also believe in the existence of Deities, but the various rumors about the manifestation and origin of these Deities differ from those of Muggle.

Wizards worship nature, or rather, they worship the great power that originates from heaven and earth.

At that time, all kinds of myths and legends always led to the same conclusion, whether it was Divine Miracle, sins, punishments, changes, and so on.

The Sin has been mentioned several times in various legends.

Sean thought of one of the descriptions of ' Pride ' in the Seven Deadly Sins, which is also the root of its first Sin —looking directly at Deities.

The sin of Pride stems from looking down on everything; He looks down on all things...

So that's why he wasn't stared to death by the Basilisk... Sean managed a weak smile.

Ha, so that's why...

However, why would the Basilisk think it was still alive and even try to save itself? Sean didn't quite understand.

First, he never imagined that Hogwarts had another Basilisk. Second, how would the Basilisk know about items that could save those killed by its gaze—after all, whoever the Basilisk looks at dies.

Finally, why was another Stone Chamber containing treasure also guarded by Basilisk, and why didn't Slytherin tell his descendants about it?

Yes, Sean still doesn't believe Gormlaith deceived him, because there's no need to.

Sean suspected that Gormlaith hadn't received the correct information either, and that he, being greedy, had become the unlucky one who fell into the trap.

Furthermore, according to Dave, this Basilisk seems to be highly intelligent...

Just as Sean was recovering, he heard the sound of water.

"That guy's here again..." Dave thought to himself.

Sean instinctively wanted to throw a Avada Kedavra at him, but he couldn't muster any strength in his body, and he couldn't even use his Obscurus ability— the Unicorn's Favor seemed to think that his head injury was more serious, and the healing magic was concentrated on the top of Sean's head.

This greatly reduced the excruciating pain in his head, and he was also able to move his neck a little.

"Hiss..." A muffled hissing sound came from the other side of the Stone Chamber.

Dave thought to himself, "It has closed its eyes."