Chapter 77: Salazar Slytherin’s Legacy
The doorway stood before them.
It was no longer erased. No longer forgotten.
The stone frame was ancient, but unlike the rest of the chamber, untouched by time.
Faint, twisting patterns slithered across its surface, dark green veins pulsing as if the stone itself was alive.
At its center, a carved serpent coiled around an open eye, its pupil slit and watchful.
Lilith exhaled, still reeling from the effort it had taken to restore this place.
Her mind swam with the strange sensation of reversing Oblivion, of making the chamber remember what it had been forced to forget.
Nero, his Raven Eyes still active, examined the doorway with silent scrutiny.
His silver-irised gaze flickered as he analyzed the flow of magic.
He could see how the stone shimmered with layered enchantments, ancient protections woven so deeply into the door that even time itself had struggled to erode them."
Lilith stepped closer.