Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Chapter 310 The Dying Aragog

"Where is Malfoy?" Ivan shouted.

He raised his wand warily, watching Aragog carefully.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and he looks much weaker than before, as if he is seriously ill, and all the gray hairs on his body are drooping.

It lay quietly in the middle of the spider web, lifeless.

Above its ugly head, the sharp black pincers had begun to take on an unhealthy gray-white color to match the white haze covering each eye.Unlike the huge mutated female spider that he saw just now, Aragog has not only not become stronger, but is even older, looking as if he is about to die.

"Are you afraid of me, Hagrid's friend?" Aragog said slowly, with a hint of teasing in his tone, "Afraid of a dying old spider?!"

"Where's Malfoy?"

Aiwen asked back, the light at the end of the wand became stronger and stronger, "Tell me, otherwise, I don't mind letting you experience what real death is."

Click, click, click...

"Useless threats, I'm not afraid of death. I've lived too long, and death is a kind of relief to me." Aragog said slowly, "Besides, you can't save me if you kill me." Your companion..."

"Then we can try it." A red light came out of Ivan's wand, and flew over Aragog's body, "I forgot to tell you, I don't really care about Malfoy's life or death. I came to The purpose here is mainly to kill you and save him by the way. So, don't think that you can threaten me by taking him."

Aragog stepped back a little, and his eight pairs of white eyes turned towards Ivan.

They confronted each other, neither of them spoke, testing each other's determination.

Seeming to feel Ivan's determination and the powerful magic power being gathered, Aragog soon couldn't hold on.

"I'll ask one last time, where is Malfoy?" Ivan shouted.

"The human boy is down there..." Aragog said weakly. "You're right, I can't die, at least not yet."

"You said Malfoy is below here?!" Ivan asked puzzled.

Through the spider webs under his feet, he looked down into the dark cavern.

Nothing to see but endless darkness.

The next second, a ball of light emitted from the end of his wand passed through the gap between the spider webs and fell straight down. The ball of light fell for a long time, and finally disappeared into the darkness.According to Aiwen's observation, the cave is bottomless, and he doesn't know where it leads.

He couldn't help but think of the underground vault under Gringotts, that special area composed of underground lava and small islands, tens of thousands of feet deep from the ground.

If the cave was the same as there, how did Malfoy get down here?

There is no track built by goblins here, falling from here will definitely be smashed to pieces.

Or is it that Aragog is just talking nonsense, it is lying to itself? !

Thinking of this, Aiwen raised his head and carefully observed the surrounding walls, but found nothing. This is already the deepest part of the lair, and there is no way to move on.

"What's going on?" Ivan clenched the wand in his hand, "I don't have time to guess riddles with you, Aragog, you should know that my patience is limited."

"Don't worry about the human boy, he's still alive!" Click, click, Aragog slowly danced his pincers, "It won't kill it, I know it. Believe me, we still have time, the human boy's The soul has an extraordinarily important meaning to it, and it has been waiting for this day for a long, long time..."

This sentence sounds really unpleasant.

Ivan tried not to think about the use of Malfoy's soul.

Also, who is it that Aragog said, and why does it need Malfoy's soul? !

"Don't play tricks, Aragog!" Ivan pointed his wand at the other party, "Who is it, why does it need Malfoy's soul, and what is it going to be used for?"

"I'll tell you, Hagrid's friend!" Aragog said slowly, "It's a long story, and I'll tell you everything I know..."

"Then you'd better hurry up and don't try to play any tricks." Ivan interrupted it directly.

"As you can see, I'm extremely weak now, I can't even move, and I can't pose a threat to you at all." Click click, Aragog continued, "But I can't die yet, at least I can finish that thing I can't fall before, or my children and grandchildren will be enslaved forever. I need your help, friend of Hagrid! You are brave and have great strength. Most importantly, you are the same as Hagrid Your kindness, I have never seen a human like you, you will definitely help me, right?"

"Is there something you want to ask me?!" Ivan squinted his eyes and looked at the other party suspiciously.

He thought he heard it wrong. Aragog actually said that he was as kind as Hagrid. There was nothing wrong with this, but it depended on who he was addressing.

It is really a complete irony to be said by the giant eight-eyed spider.

You know, the last meeting between him and Aragog was definitely not a pleasant one.

Aragog and other acromantulas regarded Ivan as fresh food, and his last fire burned to death an unknown number of elite acromantulas.

Just now, he even killed Aragog, its spouse and descendants, and it is estimated that there are not many acromanders left in the entire Forbidden Forest.

It can be said that Ai Wen single-handedly caused heavy losses to the Acromantus group in the entire Forbidden Forest, and now they are facing a crisis of imminent extinction.

In this case, it was strange enough that the other party didn't ask him to do his best, but he still wanted to ask himself for something? !

Ivan looked at Aragog carefully, whether the old spider was confused, or it was planning other conspiracies.

However, this doesn't seem like it, because it does look too weak and in a near-death state now.

"Yes, I have something to ask you, please believe me!" Click click, Aragog moved forward, getting closer to Aiwen, "What's more, if you want to take away that human Boy, have to get my help too."

Aiwen didn't speak, and shook his wand to signal the other party to continue talking.Believe in Aragog, believe in a dark creature acromantula, he once did such a stupid thing, and the end result was that he was hunted down by hundreds of acromantula in the forbidden forest in the middle of the night.

If it weren't for Mr. Weasley's car, he would be dead now.

He wouldn't be stupid enough to make that mistake a second time, but it didn't matter if he heard what Malfoy was trying to say before he settled on Malfoy's position.

What's more, Ivan is very curious about the it that Aragog said.

Chapter 311 Aragog's Story

"Believe me, friend of Hagrid, this is the last request of a dying old spider. I sincerely ask for your help, to help me and my descendants." Aragog said slowly, "At least in front of you." When it comes to it, our interests are aligned."

"It depends on whether the information you provide is valuable." The wand in Aiwen's hand remained motionless, pointing steadily at Aragog, "Who is it?"

"I don't know, I've only heard its voice, but I haven't seen it." Click click, Aragog said, "For a long time, as long as I come to the deepest part of this cave, I can hear it calling me." Whispers, it tells me it is the Grim Reaper, who rules death and immortality..."

Hearing this, Ai Wen almost laughed out loud.

This evil creature hiding in the depths of the ground actually calls itself the god of death, which is really arrogant to the extreme.

Hearing this, he already knew that the guy Aragog mentioned, the guy who took Malfoy away, was the owner of the voice that had been whispering in his mind before.

He doesn't know what the other party is, but he can be sure that it is definitely not a god.

Although the goal has been clarified, Ivan still has too many questions.My heart is in a mess and I have no clue, I don't know where to start to sort it out.

He closed his eyes, and couldn't help but see the weird mural carved on the rock wall that he saw just now, the extremely evil black magic on it.

In the last picture, countless souls were poured into the mysterious spherical creature.

This guy hiding deep in the ground must be related to this magic, maybe it is the powerful dark creature that was finally created.

And the dark wizard who cast this spell kept Ivan distracted.

No matter how powerful this evil creature is, it was also made by humans. The black wizard who made it is undoubtedly even more evil. What is his purpose? !

"That voice has been whispering in my ear, telling me that it can help me and my descendants gain great strength." Aragog continued slowly, "But I don't believe it, I have been Wary of it."

"Go on, how did you find it?" Ivan asked.

"About 50 years ago, because the natural enemies of the acromantia appeared in the castle, I escaped from the city cupboard and came to this forest." Click click, Aragog recalled, "Although I got Freedom, but at that time, I was still very weak. Hagrid was wronged and murdered, and he never came to me. I was very scared and could only wander around the edge of the woods until I came to this cave..."

"Then it started talking to you?"

Ivan squinted his eyes, which sounded similar to his own experience.

When he came to Aragog's lair a few months ago, he was unknowingly targeted by this evil creature deep underground.

"No, at the very beginning, everything was normal here." Aragog shook his big pincers, and said slowly, "I hid in this cave and used it as my lair. We like a dark environment .As time went by, I slowly got stronger, Hagrid came back, he made a home outside the Forbidden Forest, fed me regularly, everything went back to the good old days, and he even helped me find I got my first mate, a beautiful female spider, physically..."

"Speak to the point!" Ivan interrupted the other party hastily, and a few sparks appeared at the end of the wand.

He had no interest in wasting time listening to an acromantula talk about its furry mate and their first copulation.

This picture, just thinking about it, is disgusting enough.

"My children and I live in this cave. As the number increased, we began to dig deeper into the ground." Click, click, Aragog continued, "I don't know what's down there, just instinctively. I feel a magical power attracting me, that is the power that acromantula likes, we cannot refuse."

The magical power that the dark creature Acromantula likes, needless to say, must be pure dark power, the magical power possessed by that evil creature deep underground.

"In order to find the source of this power, we have been digging deep into the ground. It has been about 20 years since then, until we dug here." There was another click, and Aragog continued to speak slowly. Telling his own story, "We were surprised to find that this place is actually a relic left by human wizards. There are statues and weird murals everywhere, and we didn't find anything related to that power..."

"What statue?!" Ivan asked hurriedly, "When I just came in, I didn't see any statue."

The information revealed on those evil murals is too vague. If there are clear statues, Ivan may be able to deduce from them who built the ruins around Hogwarts, and maybe all the mysteries can be revealed.

"It was a crazy day. In order to find powerful power, we destroyed a lot of things, including those statues." Aragog said to Ivan, "Those statues are all human wizards, if you want to see , you can look for it below here, I remember there is still a huge stone statue left there."

Ai Wen glanced at the huge bottomless pit in front of him again, and there was a whirring sound coming from gusts of wind.

He couldn't help but take half a step back, how crazy it was to go deep into it.

Besides, even if he wanted to go on, there was nothing he could do.

There are no flying broomsticks or hippogriffs here, so it is impossible for him to jump directly.

"Think about it carefully, what do those statues look like, and are there any marks on them?" Ivan sighed and added, "This is very important, and it may help us figure out what we are facing. "

"The appearance of human beings is similar to me. It's been too long, and I can't remember it." Click, click, Aragog said slowly, "I only remember that there are small green snakes on those statues. It was the shrunken form of our natural enemy, I cannot say the name. There is nothing wrong with it, I remember it very well, and it is for this reason that we completely destroyed these statues in our fury."

"Little green snake!" Ivan repeated, could this be...

"Acromantulas hate snakes. They are our natural enemies. Those statues and the stone gates and pillars in the hall below are all signs of this kind." Aragog said violently, "There is also a strangely curved snake. The sign, which looks like..."

"It looks like this, doesn't it?!"

Ivan raised his wand, braving bright golden sparks, and drew Slytherin's unique uppercase S-shaped family crest in the air.

It wasn't until he finished writing that he realized that he was so excited that he had forgotten the fact that Aragog was blind, and he couldn't see anything now.

Golden sparks shone in the air, and soon disappeared, which also represented Ivan's mood.

"I can't see what you're doing, but I once asked Hagrid with that sign." Click, click, Aragog said, "He told me that it was not a snake, nor our natural enemy, but something created by you humans. Come out and use it to write the spelling letter S!"

Chapter 312 The Ins and Outs

The curved capital letter S, the unique emblem of the Slytherin family.In the history of magic for thousands of years, this ancient family of pure-blood wizards had a profound impact on the progress and development of the magic world, and the most famous figure among them was Salazar Slytherin.

Undoubtedly, he was a great wizard, but also the craziest.

"Damn it, I should have thought earlier that it was that old lunatic Salazar Slytherin. Who else would have left such a dangerous thing near Hogwarts besides him."

Ivan suddenly thought about the past experiences of Salazar Slytherin...

Since he was able to leave a basilisk in the secret room of the castle, it is not impossible for him to hide other strange dark creatures in the Forbidden Forest.

Although Ivan believes that Salazar himself has no malice towards Hogwarts.

However, his dark personality, and his obsession and research on black magic, this matter itself is extremely dangerous.

"Ten years later, we finally destroyed all the statues in the cave!" Click click, after describing the statues in detail, Aragog said slowly, "I still remember that in the last The night after the statue was destroyed, there was a big earthquake in the lair, like the end of the world, everything was shaking, the rock walls began to shatter, the ground sank, and spring water gushed out from the ground, and finally formed the deep pit in front of you ..."

Ivan clutched his forehead weakly, Salazar Slytherin and the unknown dark creature were enough to cause headaches, and these acromantia were also worrying.Those statues were obviously magic arranged by Salazar, and their function was probably to seal this unknown evil creature deep underground, hiding it from being discovered by outsiders.

And these giant eight-eyed spiders actually spent ten years destroying the foundation of this sealing magic in the most primitive and rude way...

If Salazar knew that the spell he was proud of was actually cracked by a group of low-level non-human magical creatures in this way, he would definitely come to them to settle accounts with anger.

"Since then, as long as I fall asleep here, I can hear a voice whispering to me. It tells me that it is the god in charge of death and eternal life. Only by believing in it and dedicating my soul can I Get redemption." Click click, Aragog's weird voice echoed in the dark cave, "I don't believe it, unlike you humans, acromantula does not need redemption. But I was already very old at that time, Calculated by the life of the acromantula, I may die at any time. I began to fall into a deep sleep more and more frequently. In my sleep, the voice promised to make me stronger and even escape death. This is a deal ..."

"Since it's a transaction, what does it need you to do?" Ivan asked.

"It needs sacrifices, many sacrifices, and it needs the souls of creatures to restore its strength." Aragog said, "I order my children to bring back the captured prey and throw them into this pit. They are desperate I died alone in the darkness, and my soul was devoured by it. In return, it instilled power in me in my sleep, which is the dark power that acromantula likes, and can help me continue my life and continue to live. I don’t want to die, it Helped me get my wish. I never told anyone about it, not even Hagrid, who thought I lived so long under his care..."

Aragog seemed to be tired and said nothing for a long time.

Ivan didn't urge him either, he could imagine such a picture.

Year after year, day after day, in order to continue Aragog's life, the acromantulas dragged the animals they captured from the Forbidden Forest to the depths of the ground and here.

The prey thought they could escape the fate of being killed and devoured, but the reality was even more cruel.

Trapped in this place, they gradually fell into despair in the endless darkness.

There is no food, no light, and no hope here.

As long as they fell asleep, the low whispers kept echoing in their ears, driving them crazy.

They woke up, panicked and tried to run away, but there was nowhere to go.

They resisted not going to sleep, but their spirits became more depressed and distorted.