Hogwarts, where the stars shine

The ground covered with fallen leaves was now densely covered with spiders, and milky white spider webs appeared among the dense trees.These spiders don't look like they're out for a walk.

Mesa and Lilia ran all the way, looking back to check whether the spiders were catching up.

The moonlight shines through the gaps between the branches, casting spots of silvery light.With this faint light, the Mesa duo saw a scene so terrifying that it could give them nightmares.

Spider, a huge spider, at least as big as a cart horse!

They have eight bright black eyes, eight black and hairy legs, and a pair of large claws on their ugly heads.

Smaller spiders surrounded their larger companions, and each spider was moving its large claws excitedly, making a creepy clicking sound.

"Strangers! Strangers! Get them! Get them!"

The eight-eyed giant spider said while waving its giant claws.Although its pronunciation was unclear, Mesa and Lilia, who were running around, understood its meaning.

Although it is said that "the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds", but it is really an exaggeration that these spiders, which are as big as horses, can actually talk.

No wonder students had to enter the Forbidden Forest. It turned out that there were such ferocious and terrifying spiders here. They didn't look like they had vegetarian stomachs.

Mesa threw the lantern behind him, intending to stop the spider chasing him.The lantern fell to the ground in an instant, making the sound of shattering glass.

The lamp oil spread all over the ground, soaking into the thick fallen leaves covering the ground. The flying sparks ignited the fallen leaves, forming a wall of fire.

But compared to the number of spiders, this fragile fire wall is simply not enough to stop the progress of the spiders.At the cost of the lives of some of their companions, the spiders quickly extinguished the blazing flames and continued to chase the prey that entered the forbidden forest.

The huge spider jumped over the burned corpse of its companion, moving its eight legs with all its strength, its giant claws glowing coldly in the moonlight.But the smaller spiders stayed behind, and they brutally devoured the bodies of their companions, making a continuous sound of gnawing.

The clicking sound of the giant claws makes people's bones stand on end. The sound of gnawing at the corpses of their companions and the sight of cannibalism are even more frightening.

Although he was being chased by a group of spiders, Mesa didn't just think about escaping.These giant, human-speaking spiders are dangerous, but with danger comes opportunity.

Mesa slowed down slightly, allowing Lilia to run ahead, while he turned sideways and raised his wand.

The enemy-repelling spell and the obstacle spell were shot out from the tip of the wand one after another. The spell emitted a dazzling light and hit the leading spider in an instant.The huge force directly lifted the spider away, and then fell heavily to the ground.

The impact of falling from mid-air, coupled with the huge weight of the giant spider, instantly crushed a group of smaller spiders to death.The gnawing sound became more harsh, and the big spider was quickly devoured by the companions that came up.

Seeing the magic attack taking effect, Mesa and Lilia waved their magic wands one after another, and the magic spells exploded among the spiders one after another, greatly slowing down the spiders' progress.

But a man with two legs still couldn't outrun a spider with eight legs.

A huge spider bypassed the densely falling spells and chose to outflank the forest on both sides of the forest path.

This giant spider waved its claws one after another to remove the obstacles blocking its way forward. Not long after, it appeared in front of Mesa and Lilia, blocking their way to the outside of the Forbidden Forest.

The ferocious spider raised its big claws high, and the big claws shone with a cold light, and smashed down like a giant axe.

"Smashed to pieces!"

"Fractured!"

Mesa and Lilia shouted the magic spell almost at the same time. Before their giant axe-like pincers could fall, they were blown to pieces by Lilia's crushing spell. A cloud of blood mist mixed with broken limb fragments spread all over the ground.

At the same time that the huge spider let out a scream, Mesa's curse also hit the spider's ugly head, and the cutting curse cut it in half from the middle.

Although the giant spider blocking the road was cleared, the spider successfully delayed the Mesa duo's escape.

The clicking sounds became louder, and the rustling sounds became denser. The spiders took advantage of this gap to gather around, surrounding Lilia and Mesa.

The spiders formed a solid, towering iron wall, with many pairs of eyes shining on those ugly black heads.

The dragnet-like encirclement made the spiders no longer anxious, and they slowly moved towards Mesa and Lilia inch by inch.It seems like they want to tease their prey before feasting.

Mesa and Lilia stood back to back, thinking about ways to escape.There are too many spiders, and ordinary magic spells will not help. If you want to break out of the spiders, you must deal with a large-scale AOE damage.

Fortunately, Mesa is not only pursuing the ultimate single-target attack, but also has a special liking for large-scale damage magic.

Between a bullet and a missile, Mesa would prefer the latter.If there were enough 107 on hand, Mesa would dare to plow this forbidden forest into flat ground.

Mesa raised his wand again. He planned to teach these spiders what surprise was.I can't defeat the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and I can't kill a bunch of spiders?

But at this moment, among the rustling movement of spiders, there was suddenly the sound of horse hooves.

Then, the circle of spiders was disrupted, and dozens of feather arrows fell one after another, accurately hitting the huge spider.For a moment, countless long legs danced in the air, then huddled together and stopped moving.

The dense rain of arrows tore open the encirclement, and the exit was right in front of them!

Mesa and Lilia also saw the opportunity and took action together.Lilia was responsible for covering and fighting off the rushing spiders, while Mesa was responsible for attacking the gap to prevent the spiders from re-closing the encirclement.

There are arrows falling like rain outside, and there is magic suppression like a tide inside. Even the ferocious giant spiders can't resist the joint efforts of the inside and outside, and the spider group begins to retreat.

The encirclement gradually fell apart. After leaving corpses on the ground, the black spiders disappeared into the dense forest.

Lilia, who was dripping with sweat, was panting heavily, lowering the wand in her hand and looking in the direction where the arrow rain was coming.Mesa also lowered his wand, but he did not relax.

After a while, there was movement behind a bush, and several centaurs walked towards Mesa and Lilia.

Centaurs are not half-man, half-animal, but an entirely separate species.Despite being as intelligent as humans, centaurs asked the Ministry of Magic to classify them as "beasts" because they did not wish to share their human identity with creatures such as hags and vampires.

The centaur who came over first had shiny brown hair from the waist down, carrying a long bow and a barrel of arrows.There are two other centaurs, one with black hair and the other with platinum hair.

Three centaurs came over. The brown-red and black centaurs did not speak. They looked at the night sky through the gaps in the woods.The centaur with platinum hair and silver mane spoke first.

"We heard the commotion of the spider swarm, so we came over to take a look, but we didn't expect that they were actually hunting humans."

The centaur with platinum hair and a pair of sapphire-like eyes continued: "My name is Firenze. Why didn't you see Hagrid? Aren't you supposed to be with him?"

Mesa and Lilia looked at each other, not intending to lie.

Centaurs are a proud race, they don't like to be offended, and those who cheat them are likely to be shot into hedgehogs.

Having just avoided being eaten by a spider, it would be somewhat unfeasible to offend a highly skilled centaur.Furthermore, Mesa and Lilia were able to easily deal with the spider swarm, thanks to the help of the centaurs.

"We didn't come to the Forbidden Forest to accept punishment, so we weren't with Hagrid," Mesa said.

The centaur Firenze didn't look too surprised. It seemed that there were quite a few students who sneaked into the Forbidden Forest. They had long been used to it.However, Mesa and Lilia are relatively rare.

When they were lucky, they saw a beautiful and holy unicorn; when they were not lucky, they encountered swarms of giant spiders.

"Isn't this an obvious thing?" said the black-haired centaur. "If Hagrid were here, these spiders from a foreign land would not attack them."

The brown-red centaur said: "You two, leave here quickly and don't come back again. Wizards are not welcome in the Forbidden Forest."

Except for Firenze, the remaining two centaurs were not friendly. After speaking, they ignored Mesa and Lilia and turned to collect the scattered arrows.

"Leave and don't come back again." Firenze said, "The Forbidden Forest is not peaceful recently, and Mars has become particularly bright."

"That's enough, Firenze!" the black-haired centaur said angrily, "We have sworn that we will never disobey God's will, nor will we arbitrarily reveal the omens shown by the movement of the planets!"

Looking at the arguing centaurs, Mesa did not leave. Not only did he not intend to leave, he also wanted to take something back from here.