Completing the Soul

Room of Requirement, the Grey Lady retrieved the Diadem she had left behind.

Then, her slender, marble-statue-like hands emerged with a bright light, constantly dancing in the air, incessantly engraving complex and indescribable runes on the Diadem, as if transforming it.

A continuous pattern gradually appeared on the Diadem. Xiwen could barely recognize some of the Runes characters, but he couldn't decipher their Runes in his haste.

"I need ten minutes to complete the transformation of the Diadem, so that it can grant Helena the ability to complete her soul," The Grey Lady said in a deep voice as she rapidly inscribed runes. "Helena, Xiwen, you must hold on until I am completely finished!"

After Helena saw the Diadem returned to its rightful owner, she was already surrounded by a soft white light. Her already transparent body became even more ethereal and indescribable, as if she might drift away at any moment.

A look of relief flashed across her eyes for a moment, but the next second it was replaced by a deep sense of longing.

She looked tenderly at her mother who was inscribing runes, then at Xiwen floating beside her.

"Would you stay for me?" Xiwen floated toward Helena, extended his hand to her, and asked softly.

"Yes!" Helena nodded heavily, handing her increasingly ethereal hand to Xiwen.

Their hands were clasped tightly together.

"It's a pity that the obsession that made me a ghost wasn't you. If only I had met you sooner." After taking Xiwen's hand, Helena seemed to feel at ease and said softly to him.

"After resolving the two obsessions that sustained my ghostly form, the power of death has been constantly trying to pull me away from this world."

"Mother never truly witnessed the dissipation of the ghost, so she misjudged the power of the Death Dimension." A deep longing flickered in her eyes as she gazed intently at Xiwen's face, smiling slightly. "I can sense that I can't hold on much longer."

To Xiwen's horror, he discovered that his and Helena's tightly clasped hands were gradually loosening.

"How could this happen?" Xiwen thought anxiously, instinctively clenching his fists.

However, his fingers passed right through Helena's palm, touching only empty air.

"I'm so glad to have met you after becoming a ghost." Helena raised her eyebrows and gave a serene smile.

Her eyebrows were curved, like a slender crescent moon. The silvery-white light emanating from her body grew even brighter, like the moonlight in the sky.

But looking at this beautiful scene, Xiwen felt flustered.

He glanced hastily at the Grey Lady and saw her inscribing runes with increasing speed. But the Runes were still far from covering the entire Diadem, clearly indicating that it wouldn't be finished in time.

"Xiwen, think of something quickly!" Faced with this situation, even the Grey Lady could hardly remain calm; she urged anxiously. "What about the magic you learned in the other world? Is there any that can deal with this situation?"

Xiwen's brows furrowed deeply.

However, the more anxious he became, the blanker his mind became, and he could hardly think of any spells to deal with the situation.

In this critical moment, a hint of resentment rose in Xiwen's heart. Why did the ghost have to dissipate so quickly after the obsession was resolved? Clearly, only a few minutes were needed for the Ravenclaw's Diadem to be completely transformed...

"... Wait, time?" Xiwen suddenly widened his eyes.

The next moment, a golden halo suddenly appeared around Ghost Xiwen, and the figure of the Young Wizard Xiwen appeared from behind the halo.

As soon as he entered the Room of Requirement, the Young Wizard Xiwen activated the Eye of Agamotto that he was wearing on his chest, sending a green beam of light toward Helena, which stood in opposition to the silvery-white light surrounding her.

In an instant, Helena's figure was frozen in mid-air, no longer continuing to transform into illusion.

The power of death is intertwined with the energy of time.

Seeing this, both Xiwen and the Grey Lady breathed a long sigh of relief.

'Perhaps the true purpose of obtaining the Eye of Agamotto in this life was to help Helena complete her soul. Helping Nagini regain her human form was probably just a side quest that followed.'

Xiwen thought to himself.

"How long can your time spell last?" Ravenclaw asked.

While maintaining the operation of the Time Secret Art, the Young Wizard Xiwen observed the rate at which the time energy within the Eye of Agamotto was being consumed.

He discovered that when fighting against the dissipation of the ghost, or rather, against the pull of the death force, the rate at which time energy was consumed was much faster than when reversing Nagini's form.

"It can probably last for three minutes." Xiwen's expression became more serious as he slowly spoke.

Hearing this, the Grey Lady breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank goodness, it only takes me three minutes too."

"What a coincidence...?" Xiwen raised an eyebrow.

This seemingly random coincidence is hard to say whether it was fate or because the person who sent the Eye of Agamotto to Xiwen had already foreseen it all.

Xiwen had no idea.

Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

The Grey Lady inscribed the final Runes on the Diadem. Then, the runes covering the Diadem's surface merged together, emitting an extremely dazzling white light.

As the white light faded, the Diadem became transparent and ethereal, even passing through the slender hands of the Ravenclaw marble statue and falling straight to the ground.

Ghost Xiwen quickly floated over there, reaching out to catch it, only to find that a slender, transparent hand had already grabbed the Diadem's ribbon before he could.

To Xiwen's astonishment, a beautiful yet stern-faced witch with long black hair flowing down her back floated out from the white marble statue, holding Diadem.

"The Grey Lady?" Xiwen asked in utter astonishment. "You're not a complete Soul Body, are you?"

"Just some minor tricks." Ravenclaw chuckled and shook his head, then gracefully floated towards Helena. "Don't worry about it so much, we have more important tasks to do now."

At the same time, the green beam of light on the Young Wizard Xiwen's chest gradually faded, Helena's illusory body was once again enveloped in silvery-white light.

At the moment when the light was at its brightest, Ravenclaw came to Helena and gently placed the now -Helena transparent Diadem on her head.

The burst of silvery-white light suddenly froze, then gradually receded into Helena's body, finally making her transparent form no longer as ethereal as before.