It was a good thing that Helena had a spatial anchor point placed on her beforehand, so Victor quickly found his little pet.
Afterward, Victor brought the unconscious Basilisk back to the guild's headquarters and created a cage out of rock magic in a corner before putting the Basilisk inside. Naturally, everyone in the guild ran over to watch with curiosity. They had all been in seclusion practicing their magic during lunchtime, and Kururu had cooked lunch for them, so they had no idea what had happened outside.
"Is that a Basilisk? It's so huge! Did it really attack Filch and Mrs. Norris last night?!" Harry, who had just finished listening to Victor's explanation of the events, stared at the massive body of the Basilisk in shock, feeling a bit scared to approach it.
"Victor, are you sure it's okay to keep the Basilisk here?" Hermione looked at the newly built rock cage with some concern. "If it gets out, none of us can stop it!"
"Don't worry, not only is this cage strong enough to hold a Basilisk, but even if a dragon were to come, it wouldn't be able to break through it with ten times the strength!" Victor said with confidence, then added a warning, "However, you all should be careful. I restored the Basilisk's eyes while I was healing it! Its power is mostly sealed now, but if you stare into its eyes for too long, you might still pass out. And the Basilisk's venom is no joke!"
With that, he walked directly into the cage, and everyone else cautiously followed behind him. Only Luna, who had run over to the Basilisk's side at some point, was curiously stroking its icy-cold scales. Apart from Victor, she was the only one in the entire guild who could get so close to the Basilisk without changing her expression. Even the Weasley twins, those troublemakers, felt a shiver run down their spines from the cold aura emanating from the Basilisk.
"Luna, do you like it?" Victor walked over to Luna's side and asked with curiosity.
"It feels nice to touch, so cold…" Luna smiled and turned her head. Her gray eyes revealed a sense of joy and relaxation that was different from ordinary people.
"Do you want me to help you make a contract with it?"
"No… I was just thinking, if only I could talk to it."
"Then you can find that person!" Victor pointed to Harry not far away. "He can speak Parseltongue, you can ask him to teach you!"
"Me?!" Harry pointed to himself, with a question mark and an exclamation mark popping up over his head.
"Yes, you. Why else do you think you could hear the Basilisk talking last night? You can teach Luna when you have time. This language for communicating with snakes can be taught."
"Oh… okay!" Harry didn't dare to refuse. The entire guild knew that Victor doted on Luna immensely, treating her like a precious treasure and granting her wishes whenever possible, which often led to a lot of jealousy in the guild…
Victor walked over to the Basilisk, used magic to pry its mouth open, revealing its sharp venomous fangs. Just then, the huge fishy smell emanating from the Basilisk's mouth caused everyone behind Victor to take a few steps back, and they all gagged a little.
"A few of you lads, come here and help me squeeze its venom glands. I need to collect some of the Basilisk's venom!" Victor took out two 500 ml glass vials and pointed to the area above the snake's fangs. But after waiting for a few seconds, no one dared to step forward.
Victor's head instantly showed a few hashtags, and he cursed, "A bunch of grown men are worse than a girl like Luna! Cedric, you're the Vice Master, you set an example!"
Cedric's face changed when he heard the guild master's command. With a bitter expression, he dragged the terrified Justin with him. "Fred, George, you two come over too!"
There was no way around it, so the Weasley twins also had to hold back their disgust and slowly walk forward.
The four of them came to the Basilisk's head, and the intense fishy smell that they could smell even through their pinched noses made their faces turn purple.
"I'll say 'go,' and you all press down on the Basilisk's venom glands at the same time, to force out the venom!" Victor pointed to the location of the venom glands again, then put the glass vials under the Basilisk's fangs.
"1, 2, 3, go!"
As soon as Victor finished speaking, the four of them held their breath and used all their strength to press down on the Basilisk's venom glands. A thin stream of water… no, venom… squirted out of the Basilisk's fangs.
"Master, are you done yet?!" Justin asked with a pained expression.
"Not yet, it will take at least a few minutes to fill up!"
This answer plunged the four people who were pressing down on the venom glands into deep despair. No matter how much they held their breath, they couldn't go without breathing for several minutes!
But just then, one of the older witches in the guild saved them. Four water bubbles suddenly appeared over the heads of the four boys, allowing them to breathe without being affected by the Basilisk's fishy smell.
"Penelope, thank you so much!"
"You're an angel!"
Fred and George said in an emotional voice one after another. How had they not thought of using the Bubble-Head Charm?! So, with Penelope's reminder, everyone in the Fairy Tail Guild put on a Bubble-Head Charm.
A few minutes later, the glass vials were finally full. Victor looked at the orange-yellow liquid and a smile appeared on his face.
"Master, what are you going to do with the Basilisk's venom?" Harry walked over and asked curiously.
"You should read more books, or you wouldn't be asking such a question!" Victor rolled his eyes at him, then said, "Neville, you explain it to him."
"The venom of every magical creature has many uses in potion-making. Is the Guild Master collecting the Basilisk's venom to study it for potions?" Neville asked with a curious expression.
"I'm not studying it. My potion-making skills aren't at that level yet!" Victor put the two large vials of venom away and replied, "This is actually for Snape. With a Potions Master like him, it would be a waste not to use such a resource!"
"Now you can do whatever you want, but don't forget to study your magic circles!" With that, he instantly disappeared.
After leaving the guild headquarters, Victor returned to the Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets. In the afternoon, to catch the Basilisk, he hadn't had time to properly explore this mysterious chamber.
To be honest, he didn't believe that Salazar Slytherin would only leave a Basilisk in the chamber. He guessed that there must be other relics or items here. So, Victor subconsciously first turned his attention to the stone statue of Slytherin.
He activated his "X-Ray Vision" eye magic, but all he saw was a normal pipe and a large chamber filled with the bones of small animals. It must have been the place where the Basilisk rested and ate.
This made Victor a little disappointed, as the entire chamber wasn't that big, and it seemed that besides the statue, there was no other place to hide anything. So he turned his attention to the snake head statues behind him, wanting to see if there were any hidden mechanisms inside. But unfortunately, they were all solid!
Victor sighed in frustration, thinking that it was fine if there was nothing. He had returned here with a "just in case" attitude anyway. He turned to leave the Chamber of Secrets.
But just as Victor was about to use spatial magic to leave, the sound of a water drop suddenly piqued his interest.
Drip! Drop!
The rock wall above his head was constantly dripping water. Hearing this tiny sound, Victor suddenly remembered that the symbol of Slytherin House was water. Both the Slytherin common room and the chamber in front of him were built in dark and damp places. So, without a doubt, water has always been closely related to Slytherin.
The water flows downward, so could it be…
With that thought, Victor activated his "X-Ray Vision" again and looked at the ground. Sure enough, about ten meters below the chamber floor, there was a secret pool. He could also see that in the middle of the pool, there seemed to be a cylindrical stone platform that wasn't naturally formed.
This instantly excited Victor, but he looked around and couldn't find any passage to go down.
So, he once again cast "Crush" on the ground: "Decompose!" The white light shone again, and a large, dark hole appeared in the floor of the chamber. Victor then jumped down.
The secret pool underground was pitch black, so dark that he couldn't see his own hand. So, Victor immediately released a few large light orbs, illuminating the entire underground pool as if it were daytime.
He saw white, jade-like stalactites sparkling and constantly dripping water, creating ripples on the surface of the pool. At the same time, the cylindrical stone platform not far away also revealed its true appearance. Seven ferocious-looking snakes intertwined and coiled upward from the base, with their heads converging in the center of the platform to form a stand.
Victor hovered over the surface of the pool and observed his surroundings. It seemed that besides the snake-patterned stone platform in the middle of the pool, there was nothing else of value. So he slowly flew forward and saw a snake-patterned ring inlaid with a black gemstone on the stand.
Even in such a dark and damp place, there were no signs of corrosion from time on the ring, only some water stains.
Victor picked up the ring and examined it. The surface seemed to be engraved with alchemical runes, so he tried to inject magic into it, but unfortunately, there was no reaction.
He thought for a moment, recalling the legend of Slytherin's emphasis on bloodline, so he squeezed a drop of his own blood from his finger and let it fall onto the ring. It remained calm. Sure enough, the gemstone on the ring reacted slightly this time, but it only flashed a red light before returning to its calm state.
It seemed that the red light on the ring was checking for bloodlines.
This ring might only reveal its secrets with the blood of a Slytherin descendant. In fact, it was not difficult to obtain the blood of a so-called descendant. It didn't have to be Voldemort's blood. After all, after more than a thousand years, which wizarding family's ancestry isn't connected to another?
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