"What kind of mountain?"
Sean asked as he looked in the direction Sirius was pointing.
He had not sensed any magical fluctuations at all.
Sirius waved his wand, and faint smoke billowed from its tip.
The smoke formed a small mountain. It looked utterly ordinary, except for one strange detail: the mountain was narrow and extremely tall. Sirius's spell had recreated only half of it.
"It was not far in front of me, maybe four or five hundred meters away. But even when I looked up, I couldn't see the peak—it was strange. This mountain seemed to have only height, like... like..."
Sirius pondered for a while before suddenly realizing. "Right, it was like a wand!"
"A wand?" Sean frowned.
He studied it closely and found that Sirius was right. Although only half of it had been recreated, it could indeed be seen as half a wand.
Except this "wand" was covered in rock and magnified countless times.
Why had something like that suddenly appeared in the Realm of Illusion?
Was Herpo behind this again?
"Sirius, did you see anything else? People, perhaps, or buildings?"
Sirius frowned and shook his head. "It appeared too suddenly, and it only lasted about ten minutes. There wasn't time to see whether there was anything else on it—oh, there was something around the middle of the mountain. I have no idea what it was."
He waved his wand again. The smoke trembled, and then half of an object appeared along the mountainside.
"I only remember that thing being there, but it was too far away. I didn't dare go closer rashly. Even with the Eagle Eye Charm, I could only see that vague outline."
Sean's pupils contracted sharply.
Sirius had never seen it, so he could not recognize it. But Sean had...
That was...