Salazar's Spirit Must Be Awakened Underwater / Humans Cannot Merge with the Elements of Nature
"Damn it... Harry Potter, don't think you have it all figured out!" Voldemort roared menacingly at the Basilisk. "Get out of here now! Go and kill everyone at Hogwarts!!"
"Hiss!!"
Seeing that the Basilisk was at its last gasp, it let out a frantic roar and actually used brute force to throw off the three Fantastic Beasts that were attacking it. Then it charged wildly out of the Chamber and almost ran out of the Chamber in the blink of an eye!
Behind it, Norberta spewed flames to scorch it relentlessly, but the Basilisk seemed to have a sense of taste, never stopping for a moment!
"Zouwu, throw me over there! You stay here and protect Hermione and Luna Lovegood!"
"Woo!"
The Zouwu, which had just fallen to the ground, suddenly sprang to its feet, grabbed Harry, and hurled him at the Basilisk!
"Cushioning and Stopping Spell!" Just as the Basilisk left the Chamber, Harry, who had been thrown out, finally caught up and, after using a spell to slow it down, grabbed the Basilisk's tail tightly!
Although the Basilisk was afflicted by the Conjunctivitis Curse cast by itself and Hermione, and had also lost an eye to the Sword of Gryffindor, the curse's duration was limited. If it were to regain its sight and crawl back to Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom through the pipes, the entire Hogwarts would likely face further danger.
So Harry had to come along by himself. Fortunately, the Basilisk was now blind and seriously injured. Harry crawled towards its head by wedging himself through the gaps in its huge scales, while unleashing various spells to attack it, doing his best to hinder the Basilisk's movements.
"Hiss!"
The Basilisk seemed to have completely lost its mind due to the constant loss of life. It suddenly hissed and, with its swollen body, smashed through the wall of the passage, veering off course onto a path completely unknown to Harry!
After a dizzying, twisting and turning or something, the Basilisk, completely disoriented, led Harry into a huge pipe filled with a foul stench and covered in indescribable residue!
"Here... ugh!"
Harry realized where he was almost instantly, and quickly cast a Bubble-Head Charm on himself.
The Basilisk had already charged into the sewage ahead with him, and then, with brute force, smashed through the barrier gate in the water, heading straight into a pitch-black icy lake!
Because of the Basilisk's panicked and reckless behavior, Harry truly experienced the treatment that Myrtle received.
He was carried by the Basilisk and crashed directly into the Black Lake through the main sewers of Hogwarts!
"Hiss!!"
Once underwater, the Basilisk, which had been extremely listless, suddenly became unusually excited, as if it were experiencing a final burst of energy before death. It writhed and twisted in the water like a dragon, and almost threw Harry, who had already climbed up to its neck, to the bottom of the lake!
Harry also noticed that the Basilisk's previously closed eye was twitching, indicating that the Conjunctivitis Curse was about to wear off!
"Lumos Solem! The Sonorus!"
However, since they were in the Black Lake, Harry naturally had his own helper. He quickly lit his wand and drew clear lines in the already pitch-black lake water.
At the same time, he amplified his voice and roared out the Mermish that allows underwater communication!
"Hiss~"
A long, drawn-out neighing came from underwater. Seeing the signal, the Kelpie Kel was the first to rush to help. His powerful horse head slammed into the Basilisk's side, and as he took Harry away, he spun around and delivered a series of side kicks to the Basilisk's neck!
"Harry? We're coming right now to help!"
Merpeople leader Merkus also rushed over upon hearing the commotion. When she saw Harry fighting a giant snake, she and her people quickly grabbed their spears and charged forward!
"It's about to die! Attack from the side and rear! Don't look into its eyes, and don't get bitten by its fangs!" Harry, who had already moved to the back of the Kelpie, shouted a warning to the Merpeople, while urgently reaching out to the Merpeople leader, "Merkus, lend me your spear!"
"Take it!"
Without a second thought, Merkus handed his weapon to Harry. At the same time, the Basilisk, with its powerful impact, had already left the other Merpeople far behind.
However, this was its last bit of strength.
"Kel, catch up with it from above!"
"Hiss~"
As the warhorse charged at full speed underwater, Harry cast two spells in quick succession: Transfiguration and Engorgement Charm, transforming Merkus's simple spear into a huge and sharp conical lance!
"Hiss..."
At this moment, the Basilisk seemed to have sensed the approaching threat of death, but it was no longer able to escape!
The Kelpie rapidly approached from directly above, and as it raced alongside, it crashed vertically into your body!
"Holy Beast Spiral!!"
Using the momentum from the Kelpie and the power granted by the Unicorn, Harry aimed at the Basilisk's head and slammed the sharp spear down!
The dark lake water was instantly stained red with blood. The Basilisk's head was completely pierced from top to bottom by the lance. Its body, having lost its buoyancy, crashed heavily to the bottom of the lake under the enormous impact, eventually even causing a shaking that resembled an earthquake.
Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, a monster kept by Harry, was eventually nailed to the bottom of the Black Lake!
Chapter 174 The Salazar's Spirit needs to be activated underwater.
The dark red blood gradually stained the lake water. Looking at the Basilisk that had sunk to the bottom of the lake and was motionless, and whose size had even returned to normal, Harry finally relaxed completely.
The Basilisk, whose glare could kill anyone, was, in Harry's eyes, far more dangerous than Voldemort's spirit in his youth, but now he was finally free to worry about it.
"Harry, are you alright? Uh... what's with this monster?"
When Harry pulled the Sword of Gryffindor from the Basilisk's eye socket, the Merpeople Merkus arrived. Seeing the carcass of the hideous giant serpent before her, she still felt a lingering fear.
"I don't have time to explain the details. All I can say for now is that this Basilisk is the cause of your people's previous illness!" Harry urgently instructed Merkus. "Now that it's dead here, it could cause the lake to become even more diseased, so you'd better get ashore immediately..."
Before Harry could finish speaking, the entire Black Lake suddenly began to tremble violently. The heavy corpse of the Basilisk was thrown into the air, the silt at the bottom of the lake surged, and finally, a powerful column of pale blue water mysteriously spewed out!
"What is this... Ah!"
Merkus curiously stepped forward to investigate, but his body suddenly drifted away as if out of control, as if he had been sucked away!
"Merkus?!"
Harry turned around and tried to grab it but missed. When he looked closer, he was completely stunned by what he saw!
Water jets poured in continuously from beneath the Basilisk's body, but the entire Black Lake seemed to have turned into a giant whirlpool. All the creatures in the lake, as well as the waste and garbage that had accumulated at the bottom of the lake over the years, were not spared and were all swept up by the surging water and pulled into the center of the whirlpool!
"Is the suction coming from the Chamber...?"
Harry only had time to realize that the suction seemed to be coming from the Chamber before he and the Basilisk's corpse were involuntarily pulled towards the center of the vortex.
Another terrifying, dizzying spin ensued. Amidst the filth and chaos, Harry lost count of how many times he slammed into the wall or how many cuts he sustained.
His Bubble-Head Charm was completely shattered, and he could only try his best to hold his breath while gripping the Sword of Gryffindor tightly, drifting with the current in the darkness.
Finally, when he felt a void around him, as if he had been thrown out of the tube again, the terrifying suction force finally disappeared.
He guessed he had returned to the Chamber, but when he subconsciously opened his eyes a crack, he was immediately stung by the murky lake water.
Just then, he seemed to spot two faint blue-green lights high up ahead.
They resembled two sparkling gems, but more like a pair of eyes, gazing at everything in the water with a strange look.
Suddenly, the two beams of light intensified instantly, engulfing the entire body of water in a single moment.
Harry felt the stinging in his eyes had stopped, replaced by a comfortable coolness.
He opened his eyes wide, only to be greeted by an extremely fantastical scene.
The Chamber is now completely filled with lake water, but the water is not dirty; on the contrary, it is exceptionally clear. The giant snakes carved on the stone pillars of the Chamber all have their eyes lit up, like luminous pearls illuminating the underwater palace, making the originally dark Chamber look more fantastical and bizarre.
Many of the Black Lake's inhabitants, such as Merkus and Kel, are also here, suspended motionless in the water, seemingly unconscious.
Hermione and Luna Lovegood were not present; only Harry's suitcase was floating in the water. The two clever girls had obviously taken Harry's Fantastic Beasts companions and hid in the suitcase when the strange event occurred.
As for Lockhart... he's floating in the water with Ginny's wand; in such an emergency, no one would bother with him.
Deep inside the Chamber, Harry finally saw the true form of the two 'glowing gems' he had just seen—they were the two eyes of the Slytherin Statue!
At this moment, the statue, completely submerged in the lake, appeared even more lifelike than before... No!
It wasn't just lifelike, it was alive!
Harry clearly saw that the statue's hair and the hem of its clothes were swaying gently in the water, and that a smile that shouldn't have been on its lips was playing on its lips!
Could it be that this statue is actually the spirit left behind by Salazar Slytherin?!
Harry's guess was quickly confirmed.
"The entrance to Black Lake is blocked by silt... No wonder the water in the Chamber has dried up."
The statue's lips moved slightly, and it muttered to itself in Parseltongue.
"But now that the Chamber has been refilled with water, let's crystallize it again."
Harry looked from afar and saw that the statue had raised its hands to its front, and a strange vortex began to slowly form between the statue's palms.
The surrounding lake water quickly gathered into the whirlpool, and the gradually weakening buoyancy caused Merkus and the others to fall to the ground one after another. However, even after such an impact, they still failed to wake up.
Harry also fell to the ground, and he discovered that the floor of the Chamber was completely dry!
All the water was drawn into the palms of the Slytherin Statue, and through continuous aggregation and compression in the vortex, it finally transformed into a dazzling aquamarine gem!
The gemstone wasn't in any standard geometric shape; rather, it resembled an irregularly shaped crystal the size of a fist. It pulsated slightly in the statue's palm, like a vibrant heart.
Seeing this scene, Harry instinctively felt that this was not a place to stay.
The Slytherin statues have come to life. Harry doesn't know what this means, but he feels it's definitely not a good thing, at least not for him.
But before he could figure out how to get the briefcase and escape immediately, he felt as if his body was hooked by a thread, and then he was pulled like a fish out of water to the statue, before crashing down awkwardly next to Salazar Slytherin's Padfoot.
Harry had to admit the Book Spirit was right; even a wisp of its spirit could easily overpower a thousand-year-old monster like Slytherin.
"Hmm... an interesting young man, let me take a closer look." The statue lowered its head slightly to examine Harry, but its tone grew increasingly surprised. "You were sorted into Rowena's house, yet you're carrying Godric's weapon, and you're even raising a bunch of Helga's favorite reptiles... You really are a Parseltongue?"
"You're reading my memories?!" Harry exclaimed in shock, quickly lowering his head and closing his eyes to avoid Legilimency.
Unfortunately, it was all in vain, because the look of surprise in the statue's eyes was growing stronger, and its originally cold expression had suddenly turned into anger!
"You ungrateful Half-blood- breed! As a descendant of wizards and Mudblood, being allowed to study at Hogwarts is already a great favor; yet instead of being grateful, you've changed to a filthy Muggle surname—this is simply unforgivable!"
"No..."
"Hmph, what are you forbidding?" Seeing that Harry actually tried to struggle against his restraints, the statue's expression became more mocking.
"I said... you are not allowed to insult my surname!!!"
With a fierce roar, Harry used all his strength to break free for a moment, hurling the Sword of Gryffindor in his hand, which plunged straight into the body of the Salazar Slytherin Statue!
(P. S. Just to add, Salazar Slytherin, as portrayed by the Sanmiao, is not a kind and amiable character. This is related to the historical context in which he lived and the extreme veneration of Pure-blood.)
Chapter 175 Natural elements cannot be fused by humans.
"You... dare to defy the great Slytherin?"
Salazar's Spirit seemed to be shocked by Harry's actions. It was unimaginable for anyone that a second-year wizard would dare to defy one of the Four Founders of Hogwarts a thousand years ago.
However... Harry is definitely the exception.
Harry never compromised on his principles, whether facing the Aurorods or pure-blood families like the Malfoys, he always confronted them head-on.
So even Salazar Slytherin wouldn't be able to make him back down an inch!
Moreover, just by looking at the statue's attitude, it's clear that compromising is completely useless.
Salazar was an extreme Pure-blood advocate; he didn't even acknowledge that Harry, whose parents were both wizards, was Pure-blood. Moreover, he was suspected of possessing Legilimency, which was Dumbledore's, allowing him to invade Harry's mind without eye contact.
It can be said that from the moment Harry met Salazar's Spirit, he was placed on the opposite side!
What is Harry waiting for? Just do it!
No matter how powerful it is, it's just a spirit statue that can't be moved; at worst, it'll just explode on its own...
"I know you're an Obscurial, so I won't give you a chance to escape."
"Hmm..."
An immense pressure suddenly struck, making Harry feel as if he were under a tremendous burden, both physically and mentally. He couldn't even tremble, let alone unleash his Obscurus!