The Bard at Hogwarts

The second day in Klin Town.

At the edge of the forest, mottled light and shadow cast everything here in a halo of semi-darkness.

Ino looked helplessly at the eager Brothers Grimm.

Just yesterday, after they rescued the little girl from the sludge monster, the mayor paid 15 gold coins to hire three people to solve the strange things in the town.

It was just a preliminary investigation, and they didn't even know where the tower was. As a result, the Brothers Grimm had to break into the forest early this morning.

The forest in front of me was filled with all kinds of weird trees, their branches twisted as if they had gone through countless painful struggles. The bark of the tree is covered with mottled cracks, as if it has been ruthlessly torn apart by the years, revealing the ferocious wood inside.

There was no chirping of birds, no chirping of insects, not even wind, and everything around was deathly silent.

Ino held the wand and looked cautiously at the weird deep forest.

"William, Jacob, are you sure you want to go in now? We don't even understand the direction!"

Hearing this, William also took out a sharp dagger from his boots and said helplessly:

"I know everything you said, but we have no choice. Emily doesn't know what happened 100 years ago, and others don't know either. We can't find anyone to ask."

Jacob nodded in agreement. Obviously this was not the first time these two brothers had encountered this kind of thing.

Seeing that the two of them were about to enter the deep forest, Ino took a deep breath: "You two wait for me here, I will go to the sky to determine the direction."

After saying that, he suddenly jumped up, and his whole body instantly transformed into an elegant and mysterious black swan.

The swan's wings are wide and black, reflecting a blue glow under the sunlight.

After flapping its wings vigorously twice in a row, when the Brothers Grimm came to their senses, the black swan had broken through the constraints of gravity and soared more than ten meters in the air.

…

In the sky, Ino looked down at the entire forest.

The area here was larger than he imagined. Without any clues, he flew as high as possible. The principle of standing high and seeing far does not change anywhere.

Continuously spiraling up, while increasing the height, everything around it also becomes smaller and smaller.

Finally, a different scene appeared in his sight.

To the southwest, a large area of ​​desolation appeared in the weird dense forest, as if a leaf had been bitten with a hole by insects.

Now that I discovered something different, I had to check it out no matter what.

After finding the right direction, he flapped his wings and flew with all his strength. It took about a quarter of an hour to reach the sky above the deserted open space.

This is a truly barren field, with gray-brown soil devoid of any plants.

In the center of the open space, stood a dilapidated tall tower. The spire had collapsed, but the main body of the tower was still there. Using the grotesque willow tree three to four meters high in the distance as a reference, this slender tower suddenly reached a height of one hundred meters.

Ino slowly lowered the altitude, and flying at a low altitude, the full view of the tower came into view.

The dilapidated tower body seemed to have been corroded by sulfuric acid, and the surface became pitted.

Its surface was covered with withered vines, and it looked like a rotten arm with dried blood vessels on it.

Everything around him exudes an ominous atmosphere like a cemetery.

And around the tower, twelve huge coffins neatly surround it.

These coffins are made of an unknown black material, with strange patterns carved on the surface.

The layout of these coffins is strikingly similar to the twelve time scales of a clock, and seems to indicate the law of time.

Broken tower, twelve sarcophagi.

Viewed from mid-air, it looks like a huge, abandoned clock face. The difference is that this clock only has the origin and scale, but no hour and minute hands.

Ino didn't wait long. After seeing the whole view of the tower, he quickly raised the height and returned the same way.

After all, the atmosphere here is really depressing.

And even when he was flying at low altitude just now, he could feel that there seemed to be a pair of invisible eyes peering in from the dark.

…

The edge of the deep forest.

William and Jacob were sitting on the floor, but the difference was that William was opening a thick notebook and writing something.

Jacob, on the other hand, was bored and cutting branches with the silver dagger in his hand.

After a while, as if he was tired of playing, he threw away the branch in his hand.

"Don't you think he is mysterious?"

"Have we encountered too many mysteries?" William asked, but he did not raise his head and was still recording something.

"Jacob, do you think he is an evil person?"

"How is that possible!" Jacob stood up from the ground in an instant, "Eno is a good person, and he has no ill intentions. I am sure of this, no one can deceive me."

After a moment, William closed the notebook, then chuckled:

"That's it! Why do you still care about his mystery? Everyone has their own secrets. As friends, we should respect him instead of exploring him."

Jacob was about to say something when he was interrupted by William:

"Okay! Our friend is back."

…

at the same time.

A black swan fell slowly in mid-air, and when it was three feet above the ground, it instantly transformed into a young man.

"We found the tower, southwest, but it's weird there..."

After finishing the Animagus transformation, Ino immediately told what he saw and heard, including his estimation of the distance of this journey.

"The missing girls in the town should be in the sarcophagus. We must reach the tower before dark."

While speaking, William had already taken out a small nautical compass from his pocket, adjusted the direction and walked into the forest first.

...

The three of them walked through the maze-like forest.

William walked in front with the compass, and Ino and Jacob followed behind.

I don't know if it was the effect of the compass or other reasons, but the journey was surprisingly smooth.

Two hours later.

The towering tower in the distance was already in sight.

"Stop!" William suddenly shouted, then he put away the compass and took a defensive posture.

The sky suddenly darkened, and hundreds of crows had gathered in the sky without knowing when.

They hovered in the air, making shrill and sharp cries.

"Someone wants to stop us from approaching the tower." Jacob raised the silver dagger in his hand high.

The white sword body exuded a dazzling light.

The crows seemed to have encountered a natural enemy. Although they did not want to swoop down and attack like before, they did not leave and still hovered in the air.

Taking advantage of the short gap, the three of them also came to the bottom of the tower.

Looking at the tower that was more than 100 meters high but had no stairs, William turned around and asked:

"Ino, do you have a way to send us up? The source of the curse has been found! Now we just need to let Jacob insert the dagger into the witch's heart to completely break the curse here!"

"As long as you are not afraid of the cold, there is a way!" Ino answered after looking around.

Although he was answering William's question, he was still a little uneasy in his heart, always feeling that this trip was a little too smooth.

It was like a fighting game. As soon as the player on his side came on stage, the opponent suddenly lay on the ring.

Even if the Grimm brothers were the protagonists of the story, but... it was not the way to play a fake match.

And this group of crows also came strangely.

They didn't seem to be blocking, but more like a reminder, silently saying: "Look! You found the right place!"

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