The Gates of Hell

After the Lady of the Lake was driven away, Hermione was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Women are most sensitive about age... Being told they look old, especially by men, is a double blow.

Hermione hadn't expected William to speak so harshly.

Will that old conman who calls himself Vivian be furious?

She was still secretly happy, but her joy turned to sorrow when she stumbled and fell.

Hermione, standing on the edge of the pyramid, staggered, raised her arms, and with a cry of "Ah!" fell downwards.

William quickly embraced the girl's soft waist, spun her around, and placed her feet on the solid surface of the pyramid.

Feeling embarrassed, Hermione blushed and turned her head slightly away, avoiding eye contact with William's smiling eyes.

The boy reached out his finger and gently flicked her forehead.

Hermione gave a haughty snort.

William released Hermione and looked at Arya, who was lying naked in the coffin, bound by bandages.

Hermione leaned closer, resting her head on his arm, and tilted her chin up, asking, "What about her?"

Killing her is definitely out of the question; otherwise, Vivian would get what she wants.

We can't stay here and wait for Egypt's Beautiful Queen to rise again.

William gently twirled Hermione's fluffy hair with two fingers of his right hand, inhaling a delicate fragrance, and chuckled softly:

"Pack her up and take her into the River Styx. Then wake her up and interrogate her slowly."

That old woman Vivian might even have a fake identity; if half of what she says is true, that would be quite remarkable.

The only way to extract information is to try and get it from this so-called Egypt's Beautiful Queen and Arya.

Anyway, the journey to the Underworld is a long and lonely one, so having something to do is good.

William intends to devote all his energy to Arya and Egypt's Beautiful Queen.

Let them experience firsthand what a professional interrogation master is like.

(Tactical lean back!)

Hermione closed the coffin lid for Arya, while William walked toward the marked golden coffin in Ravenclaw.

He wasn't lying; the "Book of Two Ways" was indeed inscribed inside the golden coffin.

More accurately, it is the inscription on the golden coffin, while the Book of Two Ways is only a small part of its contents.

The inscription begins by recounting the origin of the four golden coffins.

This matter is related to the ancient Egypt sorcerers Osiris and Set.

At that time, Osiris was the Pharaoh of Egypt, ruling over the most fertile region of this land.

His brother Set, a more powerful wizard, could only possess the barren desert region and became known as the god of the desert among Muggle.

Driven by jealousy, he plotted to kill his Osiris and become the new pharaoh.

He had a coffin custom-made to Osiris's size, and it was adorned with various precious stones.

At the banquet, Set declared that whoever could lie perfectly in the coffin would receive it.

Osiris, eager to try, lay down inside, and Set seized the opportunity to nail the coffin shut and lock it in place with boiling metal, then threw Osiris and the coffin into the Nile River.

After Osiris died, his wife Isis found his body, hid it in the swamp, and prepared to use Prehistoric Mysteries to resurrect her husband.

After Set discovered Osiris's body, he cut it into fourteen pieces and hid them in various parts of Egypt.

This could be considered the earliest known murder and dismemberment maniac.

Afterwards, Isis spent many more years searching for these fragments, but only found thirteen.

The genital part of the fourteenth piece was eaten by the fish.

Anubis mixed the scraps of Osiris's flesh together, wrapped them in cloth, added spices, sprinkled salt, and coated them with olive oil...

Of course, he wasn't making human flesh char siu buns; rather, Anubis used a special magic to turn Osiris into a mummy.

Osiris became the world's first mummy and was successfully resurrected.

After his resurrection, he did not seek revenge on his brother Set, but instead spent time with his wife, whom he had not seen for many years.

After a night of labor, Osiris died again, while his wife Isis gave birth to a son.

That is, the famous Horus.

As for Osiris, who didn't have any special organs, how was he able to have children?

It's definitely not NTR.

Isis, a powerful Alchemy, carved a more magnificent and durable lifelike object from olive wood and fitted it onto Osiris.

This was probably the earliest human organ transplant surgery, right?

In short, this ancient battle of wizards took place a very long time ago.

Since Ravenclaw's name is engraved on the golden coffin, the story is probably true.

The evidence is that Gryffindor wandered for seven years before finally finding the coffin that killed Osiris.

Ravenclaw used this coffin to create the new Deathly Hallows, the Four Small Golden Coffins.

After the three entered the Underworld, they placed the golden coffin in the River Styx and let it float downstream so that Hufflepuff could obtain it.

By riding in this special coffin, the living can sneak into the Underworld without being noticed by the Death.

Now that we have the map and the boat, we can set off.

How can the living see the River Styx? Hufflepuff also left behind magic.

William had set up the wooden altar he had made on the ground, surrounding a shrine with three pillars, and the Eternal Fire flickered on the altar.

He held the flames in his hands and slowly paced around the square altar, chanting hymns to himself.

Thick white smoke rose into the sky.

The smoke seemed to follow a beam of light, rising upwards and transforming into a path leading to the heavens.

A wind from the underworld blew past William and Hermione.

The breeze not only brought an indescribable chill, but also carried an aura of death...

William suddenly felt a ghostly curtain about to envelop him, as if the long fingernails of an invisible hand were reaching out from the ground and scratching his skin.

The groans of the dead echoed in the temple.

The soul's sobs were like weeping and lamenting.

The Sacred Lake finally disappeared, replaced by a wide river with water as black, still, and calm as glass.

Records about this river are abundant, both in the realms of magic and hemp, and in the East and West.

In ancient Egypt it was called the River Styx, in the Celestial Empire it was called the Nai River, in Japan it was called the Sanzu River, in Greece it was called the River Lethe, also known as the River Lethe, and in Christ it was written Acheron...

The dead all enter the River Styx, but some are trapped in Limbo, unable to go to the Underworld or return to the human world, becoming ghosts.

The living must not touch the river water, so William and Hermione immediately lay down in the golden coffin.

Four golden coffins drifted downstream.

William looked up slightly and saw a huge pyramid-shaped building standing on the shore.

The sloping walls converge upwards, gathering at the roof, which has no pointed top.

A group of spirits ascended the steps toward the imposing bronze gate... William saw the Goblin and the wizard who had died not long ago.

Beside the Sphinx, the Patronus, stood a man wearing a black hood, holding a scale in his hands that gleamed faintly in the darkness.

The dead would take out their hearts and place them on a scale, while on the other side, feathers would be placed...

The golden coffin drifted downstream, and it seemed that no one saw William and Hermione.

As William passed the hooded man, he heard him sing a song that sounded like an aria:

"Enter the city of endless suffering through me."

Through me, enter the abyss of eternal misery.

Through me, you enter the ranks of the hopelessly doomed...

Those who enter this gate must sever all hope!

As the prayer ended... the golden coffin floated by, disappearing into endless darkness.

William and Hermione disappeared from the world.

PS1 In Chinese mythology, it's called the Nai River, hence the Naihe Bridge. However, the term "Wangchuan" (meaning "River of Oblivion") never appears in ancient texts; it's a modern term, so don't be misled. It generally refers to the river in Greece mythology.

The term "Acheron" for Christ comes from Dante's * the Divine Comedy *.

PS2, the stone coffin inscription and the Book of Two Ways are also real. There is a cedar coffin in the British Museum with these things engraved on it.

During the New Kingdom period, it was replaced by a more concise and compact collection of spells, which is the present-day Book of the Dead.