Chapter 206 There are always people who want to harm me
Click!
As the key was inserted into the central keyhole on the wall, a large door slowly opened.
Aaron stood rooted to the spot for a while before hesitantly walking in.
But the first thing he saw was not some extreme environment, but a large empty space, and he couldn't help but sneer slightly, "Is that all?"
Gines shrugged, "The first time the patriarch came here, he reacted the same way you are now."
"What about after that?!"
Gines thought of something, his expression changing slightly, "I'm sorry, I can't say."
"I am the young master, you are the butler. Think carefully before you speak."
"Young Master." Gines said with a bitter face, "You're making things difficult for me!"
"Did my father explicitly tell you not to tell me?"
"Uh... he didn't, but..."
"No buts." Aaron winked and laughed, "Besides Abe, there are only two of us here. Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know, I know. I promise I won't tell anyone."
Gines was still a little hesitant, but not as firm as he was at first.
Aaron struck while the iron was hot. You've piqued my interest, I can't just suppress it now!
"Uncle Gines, I must remind you, this is an order from the Gaius heir."
"Alright!"
"The patriarch entered this Chamber of Secrets when he was sixteen. He was full of confidence at first."
"But the first time he came out, he was trembling, his face even devoid of color, just clutching the old patriarch's leg and screaming for help."
"Fortunately, the family had specially prepared a secret medicine for this kind of situation, otherwise, the patriarch probably wouldn't have recovered for ten days to half a month."
Hearing this, Aaron's expression changed slightly, and he slowly retreated.
Vicko was extraordinarily reliable in his mind; if he could be scared like that at sixteen, this Chamber of Secrets was probably much more dangerous than he thought.
But just as he was about to retreat to the door, the door of the Chamber of Secrets suddenly closed and disappeared from Aaron's sight.
"Young Master, don't even think about escaping." Gines said with a hint of schadenfreude, "The patriarch specifically emphasized that I should bring you to this Chamber of Secrets every morning for a thrilling experience."
As Gines spoke, a square floor appeared beneath his feet, lifting him into the air.
And as he left, the floor turned reddish-brown, the ground tilted slightly, and the temperature rose sharply.
In just a few seconds, Aaron went from an open space to a mountainside. Rolling black smoke billowed from the summit, and even the mountain itself was constantly shaking.
"Holy moly!"
Aaron was greatly alarmed, looking at the figure in the sky and shouting, "I am the young master, you can't do this, let me out quickly."
"I'm sorry, but this is the patriarch's order." Gines shook his head slightly, "This volcano will erupt in two minutes. You are currently on the mountainside, you need to find a way to survive."
"Survive?" Aaron murmured, a terrifying guess surfacing in his mind, "What does 'survive' mean?"
"Literally." Gines explained in a deep voice, "There is no real death within this Chamber of Secrets, but one can experience real pain.
More than sixty percent of the successive heirs of the Gaius family have stumbled in this Chamber of Secrets. I hope Young Master, you will not be on that list.
Oh, and a friendly reminder, the finish line is at the foot of the mountain."
Hearing this, Aaron was dumbfounded, but the rumbling sound brought his attention back.
Looking up, a fiery red pillar of fire erupted from the crater, and countless large and small pieces of lava shot out in all directions at an extremely fast speed. Leaving aside the temperature, their power was probably no less than that of artillery shells.
The falling lava would also roll down like rocks from a high mountain. In addition, there was scalding magma and thick volcanic ash sweeping down.
Holy crab!
Aaron gasped, feeling the world's naked malice towards him.
At this point, he couldn't care less about anything else. He turned around and ran, bursting out with unprecedented speed.
From Gines's perspective, Aaron turned into a black shadow, engaging in a speed contest with the fiery rain of meteors and the red-black tide behind him.
"The young master's speed is quite fast, he actually managed to outrun the magma by a large margin.
Indeed, if people don't push themselves, they never know how excellent they are." Gines said with a relieved smile, then changed the subject, "However, if he thinks he'll be safe this way, he's too naive."
Aaron, who was running wildly, still thought he could safely escape this calamity when red cracks suddenly appeared ahead, and steam overflowed from the cracks, almost spraying Aaron in the face.
"Damn it, this is trying to kill me!"
Aaron cursed inwardly, but during that brief pause, the magma and lava caught up again, forcing him to continue his frantic run.
Although the path ahead was extremely dangerous, where one wrong step meant doom, the path behind symbolized absolute destruction. He didn't think his small body could withstand the impact of such extreme high temperatures.
But after only a short while, Aaron was panting, covered in sweat.
Aaron looked back at the increasingly close magma; the scorching heat was like the Grim Reaper's scythe against his neck, but the growing number of red cracks ahead and the magma spewing from them also made him hesitate.
This is definitely not an ordinary volcano; it's tailor-made for me.
Aaron thought of this and couldn't help but clench his fists.
Unless he exposed his Apparition ability, his chances of survival wouldn't be very high if he continued like this.
But after glancing at Gines, who was calmly floating in mid-air, he abandoned the idea. It was better to keep such a trump card hidden until the last moment.
"It's a pity I left my magic carpet at Hogwarts, otherwise, flying directly would have been less troublesome." Aaron said with some regret, preparing to find a path with fewer cracks to evacuate.
But then a white figure appeared in Aaron's mind. Looking at Abe next to Gines, his eyes instantly lit up, and he let out an obscure, difficult-to-understand sound: Come and save me quickly!
He couldn't fly, and he didn't have any flying tools, but he had a pet that could fly!
Abe's ears twitched, and he spread his wings and flew over.
Gines noticed, but did not stop him, just smiled without speaking.
Bang!
Abe crashed into an invisible wall, the entire dragon feeling dizzy, sliding straight down and making a sound like cat claws scratching glass.
"Young Master, don't try any clever tricks." Gines said, stifling a laugh, "This is prepared for you alone; outside help can't assist you."
Aaron was dumbfounded, then glared at him fiercely, "You just wait."
This time, he no longer thought about just running away. Those cracks wouldn't spare him just because he looked good, and the magma wouldn't defy the laws of physics and stop in place just because he was kind.
If he couldn't avoid it, then he would carve a way out.
With this thought, Aaron decisively pulled out his wand.
He first cast a Shield Charm on himself, then took a deep breath and waved his wand at the front.
Invisible fluctuations were released from the tip of his wand, and the cracks within a few meters ahead miraculously restored themselves. However, the scattered magma did not flow back into the cracks but formed large and small lava pools on the volcano.
Clap! Clap! Clap!
The sound of applause rang out, and Gines praised with a smile, "Young Master's Reparo Charm is very skillful, but the liquid spilled from the container cannot be returned to the container with this charm, and..."
Before he finished speaking, a rumbling sound came from behind, and the increasingly fast magma pressed down. What was even more fatal was that the ground Aaron had just repaired showed signs of cracking again.
Damn it! There are always treacherous people trying to harm me.
Aaron's eyes widened. While choosing a suitable route and running frantically, he continuously cast the Reparo Charm, making the path under his feet as safe as possible.
After running continuously for more than twenty minutes, the rapid loss of physical and magical power made him dizzy, and the constantly approaching scorching magma kept increasing his psychological pressure.
Gines, standing high in the sky, also had a tense face, his expression no longer as relaxed as before.
Seeing Aaron's disheveled appearance at this moment, he couldn't bear it. After all, he was the young master he had raised, and no one wished more than him for Aaron to escape to safety.
As for Abe, he continuously crashed into the transparent barrier in the Chamber of Secrets, but his giant body couldn't shake it, and even his dragon's breath couldn't leave even a trace.
Gines sighed deeply. He was well aware of the barrier's defensive capabilities; even he would find it difficult to break, let alone a young dragon.
Moreover, this hurdle was one that every heir had to overcome. He couldn't interfere, nor did he have any reason to interfere.
"Young Master, listen to my advice, if you can't hold on, then give up!" Gines said with some hesitation, "You are only thirteen years old, it's normal not to be able to endure.
Some people older than you couldn't hold on, no one will laugh at you."
"Shut up, I'd rather die than let Vicko succeed." Aaron said coldly.
He knew his father too well. If he really failed here, Vicko would probably immediately drop what he was doing and rush back with sparks and lightning to mock him.
He definitely got drenched in the rain himself, and then for his son's generation, he thoughtfully dismantled the umbrella.
After a simple adjustment of his state, Aaron looked at the magma behind him, "Two minutes? Maybe even less than two minutes, a huge challenge!"
The next moment, he raised his wand, drew a brown rune in front of him, and with it as the core, he concentrated on drawing magic circles, array diagrams, basic spells, and starbursts.
The proportion of dense earth elements in the air continuously increased. As the outer circular outline was drawn, the inner pentagram released an intense light.
A giant earth wall rose from the ground, forming a large reservoir with the volcanic slope, blocking the magma that was about to engulf Aaron.
"Is this... ultimate?" Gines exclaimed in surprise, but a moment later, he noticed something unusual, "No, if it were an ultimate magic array, the commotion wouldn't be this small.
Above advanced, below ultimate?
To achieve this in a few minutes, the young master truly lives up to being the most outstanding of the Gaius family in a hundred years."
"I won't die for now." Aaron breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't think this wall would buy him much time.
The reservoir would overflow sooner or later, and the volcano was still erupting, who knew what would happen next.
He glanced at Gines in mid-air, then turned his gaze to the magma-spewing cracks ahead, steadying himself slightly.
Since he had already exposed his abilities in magic arrays, what came next didn't matter.
He gave Gines a provocative middle finger and once again began to run at high speed.
However, this time he was multitasking, repairing the cracks on the mountainside while simultaneously using his mental power to engrave ice-blue magic arrays to cool down his next foothold.