Chapter 38: illusionary trap of poisonous snakes in place of Merlin's wand
He only saw some book covers and did not know the content but from the names he read he knows that they are valuable. Then he came to the place that would lead to the head master's office. He wanted to go in but he did not have a password.
Without password the restriction would not be removed and there is no way to go. He wanted to use magic to fly but it did not work either. While thinking for a while it struck his mind suddenly and he said.
"Merlin's beard…" Dobby said.
"Grrrrr…." The restriction trembled and a passage way appeared. All the things required for entry were carefully distributed in to the normal world. Most probably Merlin kept this for himself or for his future descendents.
He kept the things but Dobby found them first. He entered into the head master's office. When he came the heard master's office is really clean and there are many strange things present. Some are really magical making the room look magical.
But there is only one thing that Dobby was concentrated on. It is the sparkling item that was standing upright with many curves and an eye like thing at its head between the handle and the shaft.
It is the Merlin's wand and looked very beautiful. Dobby was really attracted to it. But he snapped back when his wand trembled and gave him a sense of warmth from it. There is a distraction mechanism here.
He was almost got into the trap of Merlin just now. After understanding he directly sprayed the seeds he brought with him. Then he let them sprout and spread all over the place. The head master's room was filled with plants and vines.
Suddenly the image of the room changed from the previous magical situation to a gloomy situation. What Dobby saw as wand before is not the wand but some sort of cage with poisonous snake inside. If he were to touch that he would be bitten.
In another corner of the room there is a special box with crackling sound like a lightning is striking inside. It is where the lightning wand should be. But the box is locked and it should be opened to get the contents inside.
Dobby did not think much but let the plants explore the area. When the plants touched the snake they withered directly on the spot. The snake is completely venomous just touching it can lead to death. On the other hand the plants that touching the box actually burnt.
Dobby doesn't know how to remove the box. He is not lightning resistant. But he still brought some rubber gloves. He put those gloves on the plant vines to make it look like a hand and let it bring the box back.
This time the gloves are intact and nothing happened to them. Dobby was overjoyed and the box came in front of him. He removed the gloves and put them on. Then he touched the box just for a moment. He felt the trembling from the box.
The lightning is striking inside and it is quite violent. After all, the thing inside is the lightning core of the great weapon Vajra that is meant to kill the first dragon in existence. Unfortunately it almost succeeded but the blood fell all over the place.
Most creatures that touched this blood turned into mutation and many kinds of strange creatures are formed in this world. Think about it carefully most strange creatures are a combination of mixture of creatures but not an individual one.
The reason is that the blood of the dragon is highly reactive and it can mutate almost anything including humans and trees. The heart of the dragon was sealed by this lightning core. But Merlin was greedy and removed it for his own use.
The heart was consumed by Morgan le fey and she became the dragon. But her obsession of King Arthur is too great and she did not want to let him go. So it gave the way for Merlin to seal her.
But Merlin knew that one day the seal would break and the world would fall into the hands of the dragon. He is not a great person but still left few things for his descendents. Unfortunately he did not give clear enough instructions.
Still Dobby tried to open the box by force. It is of no use. He tried other means but still of no use. He sighed and finally decided to use the last means that is to let the vitality of the world tree wand break the box.
Yes the wand in his hand can grow and it has enough vitality to form a layer of lightning resistant cells. Dobby is going to get lightning resistance and do a special thing called the wand merging.
Lightning is pure energy and it can be turned completely into vitality or destruction based on the way you wanted it to be. Lightning can start the process of life and it can also destroy it including the very soul.
So, handling the lightning needs to be done carefully without causing backlashes. The box has a key hole and that is enough for him. But how can he break the key hole. It is using a seed with strong vitality and resistance to lightning.
There are really some herbs like that and he actually brought something with him. This tree is called Almendro or Tonka bean tree. It is not completely resistant but has some resistant. But as long as this resistance was amplified by vitality it can still work.
Dobby directly put the seed into the key hole and let the wand produce vitality into the seed to grow. Naturally the growth was obstructed but with strong vitality the lock was broken and the box opened up revealing the wand he saw in the illusion before.
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