Inside the mysterious underground palace.
Ian found something bizarre. There was no runaway mother, gambling father, academically gifted younger brother, or her going into prostitution. Instead, there was a man who had come back from the dead!
"Ronnie. Professor Erich..."
The man lying on the ground looked so familiar that it felt unreal. As someone who had seen the man's corpse with his own eyes, Ian truly could not describe how he felt right now—his scalp was tingling, and his thoughts were even more chaotic than when he had learned he might be trapped in a Time Loop.
It was one thing for Slytherin's remnants to trap him in a Time Loop, but how could a professor who had died not long ago be resurrected in this inexplicable loop as well?
Did the school possess some method of retaining the souls of those who died here? Otherwise, Professor Ronnie Erich's soul should have gone to the Misty Illusion before the loop began—or set off for somewhere even more mysterious and distant than the Misty Illusion!
Ariana's previous lack of influence clearly proved that the methods Slytherin had left behind should not have been able to extend into the Misty Illusion.
More importantly, even if Slytherin's legacy within Hogwarts truly had the power to resurrect the dead, why had it resurrected an Acolyte who had only joined Hogwarts this term and had not even been in office for a day?
Questions upon questions.
Rose in Ian's heart.
"I don't get it! I really don't get it!" Ian did not believe Salazar Slytherin could have foreseen what would happen at Hogwarts a thousand years later and made preparations or left behind his handiwork.
Unless Slytherin was still alive and had always known what was happening at Hogwarts. Otherwise, the only reasonable explanation