What kind of cursed place was this? There was nothing like this in the original story!
Now that he had located Slytherin, Wade did not dare waste any more time.
No matter how many questions he had, there would still be time to think about them after escaping... first, he had to rescue that old man!
With that thought, Wade fully drove the Obscurus and surged forward violently!
Previously, because he could not see the path ahead clearly, Wade had been exploring very slowly.
But now that he had effectively activated x-ray vision, what was there left to wait for?
The Obscurus's speed instantly rose to its maximum!
Wade clearly sensed another wave of astonishment coming from within the tomb...
And then, rage!
The consciousness had originally wanted to probe Wade further, but now it finally realized that Wade had played it for a fool!
An incomparably dense black mist immediately rushed toward Wade's direction!
Damn it! Could this bizarre ancient tomb actually be alive!?
Sensing the changes in the tomb's magic, Wade became even less willing to stop.
He had to escape before this thing fully reacted and figured out what was going on!
Whoosh!
The Obscurus took only ten seconds to arrive in front of Slytherin!
"Bloody hell!"
Slytherin was startled by the Obscurus suddenly appearing before him.
"You... you are..."
"It's me! No time to explain, get in!"
Wade directly controlled the Obscurus to absorb Slytherin's entire ghostly form into its body!
Then it instantly shot backward!
The moment the Obscurus disappeared, a dense and bizarre mist instantly flooded the place where it had just been!
Slytherin in his ghost state was actually very similar to Wade's consciousness form, so Slytherin's consciousness quickly merged with Wade's inside the Obscurus.
"Forget everything else! Just tell me how to get out of here!" Wade urgently asked while constantly dodging the black mist that kept attacking from nowhere.
After part of Wade's consciousness had entered the tomb while controlling the Obscurus, it had already lost contact with his real body.
And the path they had entered from had completely vanished. He had to get the escape method from Slytherin as quickly as possible!
Just as Wade and Slytherin rapidly exchanged information, another stream of mist joined the pursuit of the Obscurus!
And within Wade's vision, he could see even more mist surging out from the depths of the ancient tomb in the distance!
"Ignore everything you see and head toward the areas where the magic is weakest! Hurry! The places with weak magic shift very quickly! If you're too slow, you'll miss them! From what I learned back then, the areas with the weakest magic are the direction of the exit! They're constantly changing!" Slytherin rapidly conveyed the information.
Communication between consciousnesses was incredibly fast. From the moment Wade picked up Slytherin to the completion of their exchange, only five seconds had passed!
And two more streams of mist had joined the chase!
Tracking the areas with the weakest magic would be extremely difficult for an ordinary wizard. Even Wade himself would struggle to detect them here.
But right now, this was Wade's consciousness form! And Nightmare Magic was helping him see through everything like x-ray vision.
So within the ancient tomb, amid the dense and bizarre magical power, Wade quickly found the weakest point of magic!
Whoosh!
The Obscurus immediately surged toward it at high speed!
But the moment they arrived at the weak point, it disappeared again and reappeared in another direction!
Without hesitating, Wade controlled the Obscurus and rushed after it!
The facts proved that Slytherin's judgment had been correct!
Although the pursuing mist was gradually increasing in number, not a single strand ever appeared from the weak points of magic!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
After several sharp turns, Slytherin's voice rang out again. "It looks like we're constantly turning, but we're actually moving in a straight line! A straight line toward the exit! Don't hesitate!"
Naturally, Wade understood this and kept the Obscurus moving without pause!
He had no idea what those strange black mists pursuing them actually were, but instinctively, Wade felt that if they were caught, the consequences would be disastrous!
Even if this was only a fragment of his consciousness, it might still harm his real body!
Under immense pressure, Wade pushed the Obscurus's magic to its absolute limit! He even stacked an additional Flying Charm on top of the Obscurus's innate flight magic!
Whoosh!
At last, Wade saw a trace of starlight! It seemed to be the place where he had first entered!
However, the weak point of magic suddenly shifted again!
Without the slightest hesitation, Wade ignored the exit that was right in front of him and directly turned back in the opposite direction!
Even Slytherin was dumbfounded by that move.
Yet in the next second, the trace of starlight vanished, replaced by a strand of eerie mist!
Slytherin was speechless. It had actually been a trap set by the ancient tomb!
Fortunately, Wade had not fallen for it!
Finally, after another abrupt turn, Wade suddenly felt the space before him brighten! The dense magical power surrounding them, so thick it was almost tangible, abruptly disappeared!
And the consciousness inside Wade's Obscurus finally saw his real body and Andrews!
That fragment of consciousness also reconnected with his main consciousness at last!
The instant the connection was restored, Wade's real body immediately received everything that fragment of consciousness had experienced!
"Run!"
With a wave of his hand, Wade stored the Obscurus and the Slytherin inside it back into the goblin metal container!
Then he grabbed the utterly bewildered Andrews and ran!
Andrews was completely confused, but he still followed Wade and started fleeing.
At that moment, the half-open stone door was violently blasted open!
Clusters of bizarre black mist surged out. As the mist touched the ground, it transformed into blurry black shadows.
And every one of those shadows turned to look at Wade and Andrews.
In the next second, dozens of spells shot toward the two of them at once!
Crack!
Wade Disapparated instantly.
Andrews was a split second slower and was directly caught up by more than ten spells!
Just as he was about to be hit, his wristwatch suddenly burst with light. Three metal plates rapidly flew out and instantly blocked all the spells!
That brief pause bought Andrews the crucial moment he needed.
Crack!
Andrews also disappeared from the spot!
Boom!
Countless spells slammed into the ground where they had been standing, and the massive explosion startled flocks of birds into the air...
Those bizarre shadows continued chasing after them, but once they reached a point roughly one hundred meters away from the hill where the ancient tomb stood, they all abruptly stopped.
The hollow gazes of the shadows collectively stared in the direction Wade and Andrews had escaped. After a long while, they gradually turned back into mist and drifted back into the ancient tomb...
And the stone door that had originally been forced completely open slowly returned to its half-open state once more, like an exposed trap...
On a distant cliff, Wade quietly watched the ancient tomb return to normal, a chill creeping down his spine.
Meanwhile, Andrews lay on a nearby rock, panting heavily. Even now, he still had not fully recovered from what had just happened...
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