Wizardry System - Chapter 51

As soon as the king piece dropped its sword, Se-yeon ran towards Ron. She saw that he was breathing and heaved a sigh of relief.

“Ron is smart, but sometimes he acts just so dumb,” Se-yeon said.

“Hermione, Kristine, can you two head back to the top with Se-yeon to take Ron away?” Chris asked. “From here on, it’s going to get more dangerous and considering that we have not met with Snape’s or Quirrell’s test yet, one of them is definitely going to be really nasty,”

“No, if it’s going to be that dangerous then it’s better that we come with you,” Hermione said.

“Do you think that Se-yeon is enough to bring Ron up to safety? His safety is priority. Right now he might look like he’s alright on the surface, but what if he had a serious internal injury. She’s going to need help,” Chris said.

“But-”

“Hermione let’s go back,” Kristine said. “Like Chris said, Ron might be seriously injured and we’re going to need to help Se-yeon in every way that we can,”

“But he’s going to die Kristine. Do you think You-Know-Who will spare him after seeing that they’re trying to interrupt his plan?” Hermione asked angrily.

“It’s hard for me too!” Kristine shouted. ” Do you think I want to leave two of my friends to die to stall for what 20 minutes? But at the same time, I know this is for the best. Who knows maybe Chris and Harry together will be strong enough to stall You-Know-Who for much longer considering that You-Know-Who is greatly weakened. This is for the best Hermione. If we don’t let them do this, the entire school will be in trouble,”

“Yes,” Harry said. “Se-yeon, grab the brooms from the flying-keys room and take Ron to safety. Then please get Hedwig and contact Dumbledore. Regardless of who Voldemort is using, even if Chris and I together can’t defeat him, like Kristine said we can definitely stall him for a while. The things we learned in Dueling Club will definitely come in handy. And who knows, I survived him once. Maybe my luck will save both of us,”

“Alright,” Se-yeon said after a bit of hesitation. “Good luck to you two,”

Hermione was reluctant, but she still agreed to leave. She followed Kristine and Se-yeon as they tried to carry Ron and walk to the brooms in the chamber before.

“Alright Harry you ready?” Chris asked.

“Yeah. I mean I have to be don’t I?” Harry asked.

“Yep,” Chris said. “Well it’s time let’s finish up the tests for Quirrell and Snape,”

They soon reached another door and Chris opened it covering his nose instantly to not smell the foul odor of the troll that was on the ground unconscious due to an injury on its head.

“Let’s hurry and move to the next door,” Chris whispered. “I’m covering my nose and it still makes me want to throw up,”

“Yeah,” Harry said. “This is ridiculous. Why in the world did Quirrell even have a troll?”

They quickly moved to the door and opened it. The room was just as how Chris remembered it to be in the movies, a table with 7 very different bottles. While this part of the movie wasn’t action filled, it was one of the most memorable for Chris due to the riddle and the purple and black flames.

“Huh, for someone that nasty, Snape’s test isn’t all that bad,” Harry said as both of them entered the room.

Immediately, the purple and black flames appeared blocking the entrance and exit of the room.

“Oh I knew that something related to Snape wouldn’t be good,” Harry said.

“There’s a paper over there so let’s read it,” Chris said. He picked up the paper and read it together with Harry.

“Is this a riddle?” Harry asked.

“Yes,” Chris said. “Many great wizards are only able to churn out powerful spells, but can’t solve the simplest of riddles so this one can have many stuck,”

“So what do we do?” Harry asked. “Voldemort could be repairing his body any second,”

“I’ve solved it already. Just drink the smallest bottle,” Chris said.

‘Like Harry said, I don’t want to waste more time here. I’ll drink the new potion I just got,’ Chris thought.

Harry looked at the smallest bottle which had enough potion for only one person.

“Is there a potion for going back?” Harry asked.

“It’s the big bottle,” Chris said.

“Chris, you go back as well,” Harry said. “This is my business more than anything. Since there’s only enough for one person, I should be the one facing Voldemort,”

“Harry-,” Chris said before Harry interrupted him.

“Don’t try to convince me otherwise,” Harry said. “It’s better for me to go. You have a loving family and many friends that care for you. I only have the latter,”

Harry took the potion and quickly drank it. He then walked towards the black flame and hesitated, but shook his head.

“Goodbye Chris,” Harry said as he went through the black flame.

Chris was stunned at Harry’s action.

‘Wow he didn’t even try to hear me out,’ Chris thought. He then took out the Fire-Repelling Potion given to him by the System. However, before he could drink the potion, the System gave him a Quest.

[You have a new Quest. Defeat Quirrell and get the Philosopher’s Stone. The Stone has much more uses than making gold or giving life.]

Get the Stone 0/1

Reward: 20000 EXP, 5 Galleon, and 1 Ticket for Pet Roulette

Failure: A tortuous death

‘The price for failure is much bigger than I thought,’ Chris thought. ‘Then again, it is Voldemort so it is expected. However, considering that I have to defeat Quirrell, I suppose that the easy Harry win isn’t going to happen this time around. System let me buy 3 Invisibility Potions,’

[Thank you for your purchase. You now have 21 G 5 S and 0 K.]

Chris took out one of the Invisibility Potion and drank half of it.

After about a second, he drank the Fire-Repelling Potion. While it tasted like nothing, Chris felt that an extremely cold force was surging inside of his body as if trying to freeze him from the inside.

‘Well time to start this mission,’ Chris thought as he went inside the black flames.