Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 302 The hunt is over, the source of the wand core

When disease seeds and mental plague seeds broke out at the same time, the aura on the snake's body weakened suddenly, and its condition became worse and worse visibly to the naked eye.

Although it is not known whether this snake-like creature living in the spiritual world has lungs like a snake,

But it is obvious that the shadow of the Black Death has completely enveloped it and is constantly eroding its body——

At this time, blood was slowly flowing from the corners of the big snake's mouth, and it was unable to roar anymore. Instead, it opened its mouth wide, but could not spit out any sound.

The outbreak of spiritual plague has aggravated the collapse of its rationality and the trauma to its soul.

Harley was now like a professional artist, sculpting the snake's body bit by bit, destroying its body and spirit, and turning it into the shape she wanted.

Finally, seeing that the big snake seemed to be visibly weakened and no longer struggling, Harley chose to increase the level of the attack-to attack remotely.

"Mirror Jump!" "Ice Spear!" "Black Flame Missile!"

In order to prevent this big snake from having any back-ups, Harley did not directly expose her position and body shape.

She just controls the magic mirror in her hand, constantly injecting power and extraordinary abilities into it.

Sharp ice spears and burning black flame missiles continued to emerge, flying out through the mirrors previously arranged around, bombarding the giant snake.

The giant snake was in mental pain and suddenly suffered such an attack, and seemed a little overwhelmed.

It reluctantly mobilized the power of the Death Realm in an attempt to block these attacks, but with little success.

As time continued to pass, the giant snake's struggle became stronger and stronger, but its breath became weaker and weaker.

Everything seems to be just a flashback before death.

Harley remained cautious and struck the final blow:

"Psychic storm!" "Psychic breath!"

When the two strongest psychic attack abilities on the control glasses are used, a stream of breath aimed at the soul spurts out from the magic mirror.

The power of extremely deep night and death suddenly emerged from the giant snake's body, and at the same time, its breath of life became much stronger than before in an instant.

"You actually know how to lower my vigilance by pretending to be dead? It's a pity it's useless!"

The power of night and death is not compatible with the power of the audience, and cannot be perfectly prevented.

In addition, Harley continued to use various methods of the witch to consume, so the attack in the spiritual realm finally successfully bombarded the giant snake's head.

Mentally and rationally, the giant snake had almost reached its limit and had little ability to resist, and was quickly eroded.

This big snake originally had a chance to escape. As long as it escapes from the scope of the Law of All Laws, it can easily remove the "criminal" mark on its body and stabilize its mental state.

But it didn't do that, instead thinking of completing the hunt by pretending to be dead.

Too bad it didn't work out, and it couldn't escape.

The snake's rationality has completely disappeared, and its soul is about to dissipate.

Harley took a half-step to the side and got into a magic mirror.

When she reappeared, she was already suspended above the giant snake's head.

A long ice knife burning with black flames appeared and pierced the giant snake's head.

At the same time, there was a large amount of black and dark green light on the ice sword, which was spreading around the giant snake, firmly locking its body and spirituality in this body.

Harley felt the life breath of the creature beneath her gradually disappearing, and nodded with satisfaction.

"The hunt is over, let's go all the way."

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After finishing the hunt, Harry did not immediately explore the connection between the giant snake and the core of his wand.

She methodically sealed the spirit body of the giant snake, which was already very weak and was about to dissipate, but was forcibly imprisoned in the body by her own black magic, into the magic mirror.

The long ice knife also gradually melted into a medium-length boning knife in Harley's hand.

Harley began to dissect the giant snake bit by bit, dividing various materials on its body.

There are quite a lot of extraordinary materials on this giant snake, especially the pair of snake eyes, which contain a lot of extraordinary materials from the dark night path.

After Harry carefully took it off, he solemnly covered it with layers of rituals and black magic, and finally stored it in the deepest part of his pocket.

With these snake eyes, plus some other items from the Night Path or similar fields, Harley can prepare the potion and bring out the extraordinary characteristics of the Sequence Three Fear Bishop in her body.

As for other extraordinary materials, Harry didn't pay much attention to them at first, but he was a little surprised when he saw some special parts.

Part of the body of this big snake is almost homologous to the spirit world. If it is directly taken out of the spirit world, not only will the spirit be lost, but the entire material will be directly dissipated.

This kind of phenomenon, Harley has only seen similar cases in some extremely special creatures of the spirit world, so Harry now has some guesses about the origin of the big snake.

She patiently rearranged the ceremony and carefully preserved these materials. After all, these were excellent materials for practicing alchemy.

After dealing with all these, a piece of ice appeared out of thin air on the sole of Harry's feet.

Then, she disappeared without a trace, and the ice in the place quickly melted, turning into magic power and dissipating in the spiritual world.

On the mirrors surrounding the battle field, Harley's figure continued to appear, and she used spider silk to directly retract other nearby magic mirrors and wands.

In the end, Harley continued to use the ability to travel through the mirror, quickly returned along the way she came, and returned to the Forbidden Forest at the starting point.

It was already three o'clock in the morning.

The previous battle seemed simple and fast, but if you include the time for traveling, setting up the battlefield, and cleaning the battlefield, it actually lasted nearly five hours.

Although the Forbidden Forest was full of life at night, with the chirping of magical animals one after another, and it was a good time for hunting, Harley did not stay long.

She quietly passed through the Forbidden Forest, passed by other schools' campuses, and finally showed off her superb skills of climbing the castle wall with bare hands before successfully returning to her dormitory.

In Gryffindor Tower, a light flashed slightly on the bed in a girl's dormitory.

The figure lying on the bed twisted for a while, and when it finally stabilized again, it seemed that there was no change at all.

However, what was lying on the bed at this time was no longer the clone of Sequence 6, but the original body of the Witch of Despair of Sequence 4.

After returning to Hogwarts safely, Harley took out the magic mirror and began to study the channeling of the big snake and its identity.

The true identity of this big snake is similar to what Harley guessed. It is not actually a snake, but a semi-spiritual creature——

The corpse of a snake accidentally fell into the spirit world, and it happened to be eroded by the extraordinary characteristics of the two paths of death and night, plus the mixture of the power of the spirit world itself, and finally formed this strange extraordinary creature.

And in this process, it happened to start collecting high-level extraordinary characteristics scattered in every corner of the world.

More and more powerful wizards or magical animals have fallen, while the new generation is getting weaker and weaker.

And this big snake happened to seize this opportunity, and without any enemies, it wantonly devoured the extraordinary characteristics in the spiritual world that were not taken away initially, or absorbed the power of the spiritual world, almost monopolizing the spiritual world.

But the exclusive use of the spiritual world is not without cost, and its power composition also makes this big snake unable to leave the spiritual world.

As for the core of the wand in Harry's hand, it comes from another creature similar to this big snake.

However, this has nothing to do with the snakes that the previous owner of the wand core and Ollivander's grandfather considered, and it is not even considered to be a snake.

The two had a fight in the spirit world, and the serpent finally won.

But although it paid a heavy price and achieved victory, it ultimately gained nothing.

Because its opponent's body fell out of the spirit world, part of it quickly dissipated due to leaving the spirit world, and the other part fell into the snake's nest.

This is why Ollivander's grandfather thought it was the nerve of a snake. After all, when he was collecting materials, the snakes gathered around this nerve, eager to try, but they didn't dare to get close.

What happened next was very simple. Ollivander's grandfather used this nerve and top-grade snakewood to carefully make a wand.

But because he got too close to the material that barely reached the level of a demigod, he eventually fell into madness.

He didn't lose control or die directly, it can only be said that he was lucky and fateful.

When the giant snake was severely injured, its rationality was close to collapse, and it just wandered in the spiritual world, constantly devouring various low-level extraordinary characteristics.

After recovering from its injuries, some of its rationality finally returned, and it remembered the body of its old rival.

Although the body of the old rival could not be found, it still found the head of the wand maker Ollivander's grandfather based on the breath left by the old rival.

It was precisely because of the erosion of the power of the spiritual world that Ollivander's grandfather was able to briefly regain consciousness, but he died directly afterwards.

Unfortunately, although the big snake used its little sense to lay a trap, its nest attracted not ordinary fish, but a terrifying witch.

"I never expected that you would be such a precious and extraordinary material."

After Harry exited the magic mirror, he took out the wand.

The wand was slender and strong. Although it had never been wiped, there was no dust on it.

Harry's eyes suddenly opened wide, and the green light shone brightly, quickly eroding the wand.

Although I have been using it very smoothly, I should still be cautious when holding such an extraordinary material that is barely at the same level as myself.

After completing all this, Harley, who had a busy day, quickly fell into a deep sleep.

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December brings squally winds and heavy rain to Hogwarts, mixed with snow.

Fleur always liked to complain when complaining about the weather at Hogwarts. If she were to fight the fire dragon now, she would definitely be able to subdue it more easily——

After all, there is no need to use the weather spell yourself, God has already provided the most suitable climate.

And soon, instead of complaining about the weather at Hogwarts, Fleur began to fear.

Because she and Hermione finally teamed up to crack the secret of the golden egg in mid-December.

To this end, Hermione spent a lot of time looking for the ghosts in various colleges, and focused on asking the nearly headless Nico, while Fleur also wrote to Louis XVI of Beauxbatons.

However, the former said that the sounds made by the ghosts who played music at the dinner party on the anniversary of his death had no meaning at all and were just improvisations.

Louis XVI believed that this sound was more likely to be the sound made by the guillotine when it completed its task.

He also attempted to imitate Furong Amway's latest guillotine, thinking that if he tried it himself, he would be able to decipher the secret inside the golden egg.

And even if it is not cracked, it is not a loss. At least after death, you can join the Headless Knights and tour the world for the ghosts. You will not be trapped in Hogwarts like the almost headless Nick.

The two were forced to change their targets and began to look for various creatures that could make ear-piercing screams, such as female ghosts and banshees.

Finally, it was the second Friday in December. When the three of them stayed in the Room of Requirement and looked up information, Hermione wanted to relax after exhausting the information in the restricted area.

The way she relaxes is to read a very old tome - "Comparison of Magical Animals of the Same Group and Different Environments".

At first, Hermione did not specifically consider the direction of mermaids. She just continued to collect information and inquire about magical animals and magical plants.

But that just excludes mermaids.

Although many creatures such as mermaids and centaurs do not accept this view, because this is an insult to them by the wizard, the proud wizard does not care so much.

Therefore, these humanoid creatures belong to the category of "human beings" according to the laws of the Ministry of Magic in various countries.

In order to comply with legal regulations, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" did not include it, and other sources Hermione consulted also followed this rule.

Only this book is too old, so mermaids are still in the category of fish.

Hermione found various kinds of mermaids in this book, and found out that mermaids living in cold freshwater lakes are ugly and their songs appear as harsh screams in the air, but when they reach the water, they appear as songs.

This also surprised Hermione, because according to the information she had read, the mermaid's singing voice was very beautiful.

The explanation is given in the second half of this chapter - the mermaids living in the warm ocean are beautiful, and their voices still appear as beautiful songs in the air.

This is also the source of the story of Ulysses in the Muggle Homeric epic.

The song of the siren he heard was actually the song of the mermaids in the warm waters of the ocean.

The mermaid recorded in the ancient Eastern magical animal book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" that Muggles can also read is actually this kind of beautiful mermaid.

As for why mermaids in cold fresh water are not recorded by Muggles... Yes, who do you think the so-called water ghosts are?

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(Thanks to "Nine-tailed Yanhu", "Bread Man Who Loves Salted Fish", and "Abyss Great Salty Man" for their rewards!)