Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 224: Things Under the Slab
Perhaps he was judging others by his own standards.
But John knew very well that knowing everything about Voldemort would affect more than just him.
He could not be too cautious. At least before he saw what was under the slab, he had no way of being sure whether Sir Stoke would treat them the same way he did now .
Sir Stoke stayed by Jon's side for the entire afternoon of the rest of the day, watching him remove the magic from the slate without leaving.
But just as Jon expected, Sir Stoke no longer followed him early the next morning.
He greeted Jon and went to organize some information and star maps in the office under the top of the tower, so that Jon could call him at any time if he needed anything.
And this is the opportunity Jon has been waiting for.
Yesterday he deliberately slowed down, and only a quarter of the magic runes on the stone slab were absorbed. But starting from this morning, he did not hold back, and he eliminated half of the magic power of the magic runes in just one morning.
The originally light blue gem has turned noticeably red. Although it is not yet as blood red as the one it had just taken from the Hogwarts library, there is still a full half of the magic power left on the stone slab. If all of it is absorbed, the amount should be about the same as before.
The main reason is that the quality of magic power of the person who wrote these magic words is so high that it is even far higher than the magic power of the wizards who created those banned books in the library.
These huge magical powers not only filled the magic in the ring gem, but also made the forbidden books that had lost their magical support appear.
Before, when Jon was in the carriage, he relied on the magic of students below the fourth grade to find a banned book about the Shadowless God compiled by Snape. He did not get any other banned books.
But now the contents of these books all appeared in the gems, and he could read them at will, which was an unexpected surprise.
But what Jon values most is the stone slab itself.
After lunch, Sir Stoke asked Jon about the progress, and Jon did not hide anything about this.
He truthfully informed that half of the magic runes on the slate had been solved , but he did not say that in fact as long as half of them were solved, it would be basically done. Instead, he said that the results would be available as early as tomorrow morning.
Sir Stocker did not suspect this, as he did not seem to have a deep understanding of magic other than astronomy.
In fact, Neville and the others no longer had any tasks to do in the tower. Jon didn't let them return to the ship because he didn't want Sir Stoke to notice the problem and they also didn't want to leave Jon here alone, for fear that he would encounter another accident and have to bear the consequences alone.
"I am willing to accept your help, but you also have to promise me that if anything unexpected happens while I am away, you must return to the ship first, at least to let those of us who remain on the ship know what happened in the tower."
In response to Jon's serious warning, Neville made a promise.
In the overall situation, Neville is still the most reassuring. His personality now is not like that of a Gryffindor, but more like that of a Hufflepuff.
After returning to the top of the tower, he continued to work on the magic runes for more than an hour, and the stone slab finally showed signs of loosening.
Although some of the thousands of runes were still flickering with magical light, the connections between the runes had been completely severed. The blocking magic that should have been effective was now completely ineffective.
Jon relaxed his brows slightly, took a long breath, and then slowly took the stone slab off the wall.
Under the stone slab is a narrow hole, and inside the hole is a wooden box.
Jon didn't hesitate. He took the wooden box out of the hole. The box was not locked and could be opened directly.
The items hidden in the box were simple: a rolled-up, old piece of parchment and a paper tube that looked like a bottle was stuffed into it.
He first picked up the parchment, spread out the entire sheet of paper, and quickly scanned the contents on it.
However, all the words written on it were in French. John was not a multilingual genius, so he could not understand the contents at all. His eyes quickly moved downwards, and soon his gaze fixed on a name in the lower left corner of the parchment.
This should be some kind of contract with magical effect, and the signature of the signatory on the contract is in English that Jon can understand. Coincidentally, he is very familiar with this English name!
Tom Riddle
Jon subconsciously held his breath, he guessed right.
The thing hidden under the slate was indeed related to Voldemort. Although he couldn't see what was written on the parchment for the time being, John put it in his arms without hesitation.
His behavior can be said to be stealing, but even if it is stealing, he must make sure the above content is clear and then determine whether Sir Stock can be trusted.
Just as he hid the parchment and was about to pick up the paper tube to open it, he suddenly heard a sound of someone coming up the stairs behind him.
Jon's reaction was very calm and his hands moved quickly. He quickly opened the lid of the paper tube, took a look at what was inside, then immediately put it back in place, covered it with the stone slab, turned around and walked towards the stairs.
When he reached the stairs, Sir Stocker just climbed up.
"I was just about to come find you, sir. I have good news." Jon pretended to be calm and said, "More than half of the magic words on the stone slab have been cracked, and the sealing magic attached to it has become ineffective."
Sir Stocker's face showed obvious excitement, and he walked quickly towards the direction of the slab.
"So what are you waiting for? Let's see who hid what in my house!"
He couldn't wait to come to the stone slab, took out the wooden box in front of Jon, and then opened it.
Looking at the paper tube in the box, Sir Stocker showed a solemn expression on his face. He took out the paper tube, opened the lid and poured out the contents.
It was a glass bottle that looked like a test tube, containing a silver liquid.
Those things that were said to be liquids but more like smoke floated in the bottle like a dream.
"What is this? A potion?"
Jon had been paying attention to Sir Stoke's expression after he saw the bottle of potion-like substance, but he could only see confusion on the Sir's face and did not notice anything else unusual.
He narrowed his eyes and spoke softly.
"It does look like a magic potion."
