Hogwarts Summoning Guide

No matter how it's explained, the collapse of King Unas's Pyramid is entirely blamed on the French Ministry of Magic. Blanco is now completely implicated and his life is probably over.

However, as a minor official, Blanco was released back to France by the Egyptian authorities to be investigated by the International Philosopher's Stone Federation. Elia and others, Bai Lin, and Zobi, who finally escaped from the mirror, were detained by Egypt, had their wands confiscated, and were imprisoned.

Sitting in the gloomy and dimly lit dungeon of Cairo, surrounded by a variety of pungent odors, Bai Lin was utterly speechless. "I had to surrender because I lost my magical powers. Couldn't you have just used your door key to get out of there as soon as you got to the surface?"

Unfortunately, according to relevant laws, the Aurors had no choice but to surrender to the Egyptian authorities, otherwise it would be a more serious diplomatic incident.

Bai Lin felt that the Egyptian authorities must have deliberately disgusted them. Otherwise, even if they were locked up in a Muggle prison, why would they have inexplicably ended up in a dungeon? The Auror who was "specializing in archaeology" touched the dungeon wall bricks and said seriously, "This dungeon is four or five hundred years old..."

Bai Lin rolled his eyes. Did he think this place was some kind of free historical site to visit? It's been four or five hundred years, and who knows how many wandering ghosts it has imprisoned? Bai Lin felt like his backside wasn't entirely clean, and there might be some things he didn't want to know that happened here.

What Zhuo Bi found even more unbearable was that when he emerged from the mirror, he was surrounded by three or four wands and five or six guns pointed at him, and he jumped from one bowl into another. The difference was that he wasn't hungry in the mirror, but now he was starving.

"Boss, why don't you summon Phineas and have him take us away?" Zhuo Bi suggested.

Before Bai Lin could speak, Elijah chimed in, "Escape is easy, but clearing our names is difficult. I dare say we'll be international fugitives the moment we leave. If the old man at the Ministry of Magic, under diplomatic pressure, confesses on our behalf, our lives will be over! What are you called in the East again?"

"Even if I jumped into the Yellow River, I couldn't clear my name," Bai Lin said. Nevertheless, he summoned Phineas. About ten minutes later, a magical fluctuation rippled through the dungeon, and the house-elf Phineas appeared beside Bai Lin. He was still wearing a chef's hat and holding a shovel.

"Um, esteemed master...you've come to Egypt again?...I'm making fried chicken cutlets, would you like to try some?" Phineas magically produced a plate of fragrant chicken cutlets.

"Thank God! There's food!" Zobi quickly took the plate of chicken cutlets. Finnis was clearly happy to see Zobi too: "Ah, Zobi, my friend, the master has found you!"

Bai Lin pushed away Zhuo Bi, who was stuffing himself with chicken cutlets, and asked, "Does the Explorers' family have connections in Egypt? Can you ask Kaka or Lulu to get me out of the dungeon?"

Phineas then realized they were in a gloomy dungeon. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Perhaps you could ask Elder Moritz for help. Would you like me to send you a message?"

"I should contact Lulu..." Bai Lin looked at his dwindling mana; he didn't want his uncle Moritz, whose intentions were unclear, to know he was now a Muggle. "Also, get some food; we're all starving..."

Finnis readily agreed, and before leaving, he added, "My friend Zhuobi, I hope you'll be back at work soon; the convenience store can't do without you!"

With Finnis's "delivery," everyone's happiness index in prison life skyrocketed. Finnis also brought some news: Lulu went to America and couldn't be contacted for the time being. However, it was said that Fudge already knew about Bai Lin's situation and was asking the British Embassy to help get him out. Britain still has a lot of influence in Egypt. However, this incident is quite big. Even if Egypt releases him, Bai Lin will probably have to go to a hearing when he returns.

Bai Lin shrugged. He was really unlucky this time. He thought he was doing Blanco a favor, but who knew that the Spellbreakers had outmaneuvered him. Bai Lin knew without a doubt that the French Ministry of Magic must be in chaos right now. The Auror Office would probably be useless for a while. He hoped that Blanco could go back and prove the threat of the Spellbreakers to the higher-ups and come up with countermeasures for possible attacks.

Although the period of weakness was only 48 hours, every second was extremely difficult for Bai Lin. He felt that the feeling of having magic power was too addictive. No wonder many dark wizards tried every means to increase their magic power, even at the cost of committing heinous crimes.

With nothing else to do, Bai Lin took out the characters he had memorized at the Secret Script Workshop to study. He wasn't a language expert, and the logic of these characters wasn't that strong either. In ancient times, due to the difficulty of recording, they were generally as concise as classical Chinese in the East, and the grammar might also be different.

Bai Lin looked for a long time but still couldn't come up with a solution. However, he did have two people in mind who could help. The first was Hermione. This young girl was quite knowledgeable despite her young age, and she had a spirit of inquiry. Even if she didn't understand the meaning of these runes, she should still be able to offer constructive opinions. The second was Edison, the magical craftsman who made equipment for Bai Lin. This old blacksmith could make magical equipment, so he might be able to figure out these runes. Speaking of which, he hadn't had a chance to pick up the equipment he had ordered. If he could return to Hogwarts, he would definitely find this old craftsman as soon as possible and get to know him better.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. With Bai Lin feeling quite uneasy, the Summoning Encyclopedia responded to him again: Please confirm whether you want to reactivate the Magic Conversion Assist System.

What else is there to say? Bai Lin confirmed it decisively. Then, a warm, comforting aura seemed to be injected into Bai Lin's body before disappearing. Bai Lin then checked his attribute values: Strength 25, Magic 67 (Kid, you're still a long way from making a name for yourself!)

Then, the long-absent system comment reappeared; perhaps this was a message from the Sun God.

Just as Bai Lin was feeling happy that his magic had returned to his body, visitors arrived in the dungeon. From afar, he could hear the jailers opening the iron bars that had come down from the ground, followed by the opening of layer after layer of iron doors. Bai Lin had noticed when he came in that the dungeon was huge, with at least a dozen cells, but it must have been abandoned for a long time. Their cell was the only one in the entire dungeon that was occupied, so the visitors must have come to see them.

Elijah walked to the iron gate and looked through the small window in the gate to see who was coming, but he only saw a dark figure slowly walking over.

"It must be the Ministry of Magic that's here to bail us out!" Elijah whispered.

The other Aurors also became agitated. Most of them had families, and none of them wanted to suffer such an injustice and go to jail. They firmly believed that the Ministry of Magic would come back to save them.

The shadowy figure approached the door. Elia was taken aback. The figure was an elderly man in his sixties or seventies with white hair, dressed in a yellow bishop's robe.