A beam of magical light shot out from the tip of the wand once more. Boom! Accompanied by a violent explosion, the lower half of Salazar Slytherin's statue's face was blown to pieces by Lynn's Explosion Charm.
The passage hidden within the mouth of the Slytherin statue was revealed.
A large, pitch-black hole, perfectly sized for the Basilisk to move in and out of.
Lynn held her wand with a slightly trembling right hand, blood constantly trickling from her mouth and nose.
Having cast five Cruciatus Curses on herself in a row, her body had reached its absolute limit.
An ordinary person in such a situation would have likely fainted outright or even gone insane.
But that she could still persist in staying conscious and break into the Chamber of Secrets was already incredible.
The rustling sound of scales rubbing together rang out; its home had been blown up.
With that deafening explosion and the intense tremors, it would have been hard for the dormant Basilisk not to wake up.
Hearing the rustling friction grow louder, Lynn immediately closed her eyes.
At the same time, her brain, which felt like it was about to split open from the pain, instinctively began to integrate information and think.
When she encountered the Basilisk before, its attacks were clearly aimed at Ginny—or rather, at the version of Lord Voldemort possessing Ginny.
After all, Ginny didn't know the Basilisk at all, nor had she ever been in contact with it.
Furthermore, at the final moment when she used her own body to protect Ginny, the Basilisk had stopped attacking.
Lynn was basically certain that the one the Basilisk wanted to kill was likely Lord Voldemort.
However, judging from the fact that she was injured and Hermione was petrified by the Basilisk...
The Basilisk probably just wouldn't kill Hogwarts students, but it was a ferocious beast after all and could never be truly domesticated.
Therefore, it was very possible for it to injure students or even Professors.
Thus, the Basilisk still posed an immense threat to Hermione and everyone at Hogwarts.
Especially Hermione... it had already petrified her.
Though her brain was in pain, it was incredibly sharp; based on the sound of the Basilisk's scales rubbing against the ground, a model of the Chamber of Secrets including the Basilisk was rapidly generated in her mind.
Using the Levitation Charm to lift herself high into the air, Lynn, with her eyes closed, faced the Basilisk that had just crawled out of the statue.
The Basilisk raised its head high and looked at Lynn. "Hiss!"
In the next moment, it opened its bloody maw and let out a deafening roar at her.
A single one of its fangs was as large as Lynn's palm, and its massive body coiled on the ground was full of overwhelming pressure.
It was originally the final insurance Salazar Slytherin had left at Hogwarts.
To ensure that no traitors colluding with the outside world would arise at Hogwarts, and to ensure that if Hogwarts were ever conquered, the students would have a final means of counterattack.
But it was a Basilisk after all, and only Slytherin himself could control it; as for anyone else, the Basilisk didn't care and couldn't be bothered.
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