It was a week later when I was once again in the chambers. The previous week has been good enough for me to enjoy. Now it is again time that I take on a new project to focus on, runes would go on side with this and the training with Dumbledore is also going well enough. We have long since moved on to another exercise, in this I have to fire of spells at the shield conjured by Dumbledore, so just the reverse of the earlier exercise but it did help as far as I have been able to notice. Spells come more naturally to me than before, the brief hesitation period in which the spell is cast is also less and less with every session. All in all my other ventures are coming along well, well enough that I could take one more and not strain myself.
There have been many things I could do like focus on potions for a bit, I could also focus on transfiguration or charms, I get enough practice as it is in DADA to give it any more time, so it came down to potions, charms or transfiguration, each of them is extensive, so much so that I could practice in on aspect of any of them and still have many other of them left in the chosen subject. For example in potions I could focus health related potions and have many subclasses in these two chose from. All this could thought of later for now I have arrived at my destination, the chamber of secrets, after a bit of sliding and hissing that is.
I strode towards the mouth of Salazar, and in the end of the chamber, there was a dip inside. The passage was not quite unlike the slide from bathroom, probably to give easy movement for the Basilisk. I slid down to wherever this thing led to, it was a corridor kind of area. Along the length of corridor there were some doors to each side of it. The corridor itself was not that long just enough to be considered 10 foot long, at the end of it there was one more door and till that there were 6 doors. In Total this meant 7 rooms.
I first Opened the closest door on the left to me, in there was a hall that looked like a training area, curious thing was that this was the exact same hall the ROR would generate if I wanted to train in any kind of magic. Getting out from there I Opened the door on right, this one held a garden area with a artificial light source mimicking the sun and if my guess about this being herbology hall is correct then the light would cycle between sun and moon. The next room was a potions lab, it held everything one would need in making potions except the ingredients. The next room held a observatory which allowed the perfect vision of outside sky, magic knows how this was possible but the absurdities aside this one was also in a good condition just like the others before it, the function of this room was also clear as a astronomy room. The next room was a ritual room, which I knew because of the similarities between this one and the one provided by the ROR. The next room was a simple bed room. Now for the single room at the end of the corridor I opened the door and stepped inside.
Inside was a study with the typical desk and chair at the opposite to the door, at one side a bookshelf filled to brim with mint condition books, these books looked old even with there Stellar condition. On the other side of the room was a couch with a table infront of it. That area could be used as a reading area. I went to the desk upon which there was a empty basin and a knife besides it. There was also a slip of parchment in which there was something written in a weird script, surprisingly I could reed it, and as I did it became clear what was the language used to write it out, it was parsel tongue indicated by the hissing that came out of my mouth as I read it out aloud.
'To whomever this may concern,
My name is Salazar Slytherin, I am one of the founder of Hogwarts, I also am the 343rd head of Slytherin family. If you are reading this, it means that you have my blood or the gift of parsel tongue.
I care not for what you opinions on myself are and I definitely not care for what the history has painted me to be. I care for only and only this Institution of Hogwarts, the numerous students in it and I care more for those with the gift of serpent tongue. This letter landed in your hands because you were kill the Basilisk that stood guard between this area and whoever chose to Challenge the chamber. The Basilisk was meant as a test for those who would enter, if the person entering could convince the Basilisk to let it live for something in return them they would never be able to enter the chamber, the real one and of course if the challenger died while fighting the Basilisk they would not be able to enter the Chamber for they would be dead. Only those with enough strength to kill the Basilisk and with enough wisdom to not use that dark beast would be able to enter the chamber.
The chamber is separate from Hogwarts, therefore the wards on it are different, you the successful challenger have the right to hold those wards for as long as you choose to live. To take control of them you just have to deposit 7 drops of your blood in the basin which after taking it will disappear and the control of the wards will shift to you. It is however has to be said that you should be 13 to take control of these wards as there are restrictions by mother magic herself about the age of the person who should be able to hold the chamber wards. I myself was surprised by this as magic, as sentient as it is, rarely interferes in the Wizards Life and work. I see this as a blessing that I was able to have such a thing happen in my life.
May magic bless you to have whatever that is you desire and more my dear successor.
Your predecessor,
Salazar Slytherin.'
I placed the letter back at the desk and took a few moments to calm my self, it was all a bit surprising. I looked at the time after a quick tempus, and it showed 12:47AM well past the midnight. I would have to return for now to my dormitory and think this through. I would return tomorrow in the evening to sort this chamber thing out, but for now I went back the way I came. After climbing the ladder which was now present at the entry point of the real chamber I went back out of the outer chamber. From there I disillusioned myself and was inside my dorm room in no time to retire for the day and go back the realm of Morpheus.