HP: Embrace the Darkness

"Are you sure it's here? I feel something is wrong." Ases pushed aside the twisted branches, swung his knife to chop off the poisonous snake that was entangled on the branch and spitting out its tongue, and said without turning his head.

Snape frowned, and as he walked, he checked the map in his hand and gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, it is here."

"Well, it seems that we are lucky, but we may have to spend the night here. The magic power here is scarce, and we can't Apparate. It will be too late to go back and it will be very dangerous."

Ases looked around and swung the obstacle clearing knife in his hand continuously, clearing away the branches blocking the way and the threats hidden in the dark one by one.

Hearing this, Snape lowered his head and looked on the map. "There is an open space about 200 meters away at the ten o'clock direction. There is no water source around."

As we all know, when choosing a place to stay in a forest where large wild animals roam, you should avoid water sources.

"Okay, let's go there."

Ases changed direction and cleared a path for travel.

Soon, they came to a clearing.

But there was an uninvited guest lying in the middle of the open space.

A majestic lion.

"How could there be a lion in the forest?" Snape lowered his voice, his tone confused.

The corner of Ases' mouth twitched. He couldn't understand why a lion would appear in such a deserted forest.

This is obviously inconsistent with common sense.

However, no matter how unreasonable it is, it does not affect the ownership of the vacant land.

A cold light flashed in Ases' eyes. He turned his wrist, pointed the knife at himself, and handed the handle to Snape. "I'll go drive it away."

Snape took the knife and drew his wand just in case, "Be safe."

"Okay, I will." Ases half squatted down, silently turned into a white tiger, lowered his body, and slowly moved over.

The tiger's hunting skills are among the best among top predators. The sleeping lion had no idea that there was a pair of eyes staring at it from behind.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew from behind Ases unfortunately.

A strange smell wafted into the lion's nose, and the lion opened his eyes silently. His muscles tensed and a dull roar came from his throat.

Seeing that he was exposed, Ases no longer concealed his whereabouts. He pounced forward and slapped the lion's eyes.

The lion immediately opened its mouth and roared loudly, trying to intimidate the strange beast, while at the same time raising one paw and attacking indiscriminately.

It was quite a coincidence that it opened its mouth just in time to receive Ases' fierce slap, perfectly protecting its eyes, but leaving a few bloody marks on its face. With one successful move, Ases stood up, with his center of gravity forward, and slapped the lion on the head one after another, without missing a single blow.

No one knew what the lion was thinking. It just kept howling with its mouth open, not trying to dodge and taking every attack head-on.

At some point in the fight, Ases was too embarrassed to continue. It was really not challenging to fight the lion. The lion's hind legs were too weak to stand up, so it could only passively face his slaps. If he had not been unable to overcome the psychological barrier, the lion would have been bitten to death by him.

After all, the tiger's slap attack is only auxiliary, and the real killing move is to lock the throat and then bite off the opponent's throat.

Unfortunately, Ases, whose soul is still human, can't do it, so the lion gets the advantage.

Athis shook his head, slapped the lion away, crouched down and roared.

Although the beasts spoke different languages, the lion still understood the threat in Athis's roar and slowly retreated.

It had been fanned for too long and its mind was a little confused. It didn't even look at the direction it was retreating in and bumped into the tree trunk. The tree actually fell down crookedly.

The lion looked back and saw the tree had fallen, and human fear appeared in his eyes. He didn't even care about Ases. He turned his back to him, and ran away with his limbs madly.

This unusual scene fell into the eyes of Arthas and Snape. Arthas recovered from his Animagus form and walked a few steps to Snape. The two of them were extremely alert and looked around carefully.

The woods were unexpectedly quiet.

"It's so quiet."

Snape looked unhappy.

Just now they could hear the chirping of insects and the swaying of leaves, but now there was silence all around and they could hear nothing.

Athis also noticed it, made a gesture to Snape, and turned back into a white tiger.

Snape rolled over and sat up.

After making sure Snape was sitting firmly, Athis ran in the direction the lion left.

The scene in the eyes of the man and the tiger kept regressing. The branches that were annoying to humans were nothing to the white tiger. Ases quickly ran a hundred meters away and vaguely saw the lion running at high speed.

Just as he was about to speed up, a leaf fell quietly to the ground behind him, and a white light flashed on the ground, without the man and the tiger paying attention.

White light enveloped the entire forest.

The man and the tiger who were closest to them naturally had no way to escape. They were enveloped by the white light. Seeing this, the lion in front ran even faster.

The white light did not last long and disappeared in less than a few seconds. The running white tiger and Snape sitting on the back of the white tiger also disappeared, as if they had never appeared.

The forest returned to its previous bustle, with insects chirping one after another. The lion poked his head out from between the rocks, but when he didn't see Ases, who posed a great threat to him, he happily returned to his previous position and continued to sleep soundly.

Ases had a very long dream. In the dream, he came to another world and became a movie star that everyone admired. He seemed to be on his way to attend an event, sitting in a car, and discussing something with the man next to him.

wrong!

This is not the real world.

He is not an actor, but a wizard!

There was a moment of clarity in the confused consciousness, and Ases seized the moment of clarity and broke free from the false illusion.

Almost at the same time, Snape woke up from his stupor.

"Oh my, why are they all awake? Did I not use enough strength? This won't do. The game hasn't even started yet, how can it end? Hmm... maybe I should use a little more strength..."

A distant voice came from all directions. The owner of the voice seemed to be a chatterbox who could talk nonstop.

This was a pity for the two people who had just regained consciousness. They only felt a sharp pain in their eardrums and their vision went dark.

Athis could still tolerate it, but Snape couldn't. He was grumpy when he woke up in the morning, and it was a very serious problem. Usually Athis didn't dare to wake him up directly, and usually woke him up by kissing him, but he would still be scolded.

At this moment, the voice was still chattering, and Snape's pent-up anger suddenly burst out. He rubbed his eyebrows and shouted irritably: "Shut up!"

The voice was strangely quiet, and after a while it whispered, "But I have something I want to tell you."

Snape controlled his anger in the few seconds of silence and looked around quickly.

This was an extremely strange place. Except for the place where he was standing which was white, the rest of the ground was as black as ink.

Not finding Aces, Snape's expression quickly turned cold, but he did not ask directly. Instead, he followed the voice's meaning and asked: "What do you want to tell us?"

He emphasized the word "we" neither too lightly nor too heavily, guiding the other party subtly.

Just now, he recalled what the voice had said to itself and found a point that could be used as a breakthrough point - the owner of the voice did not seem to be mentally mature.

The voice said with joy: "Of course I'm playing games with you!"

Snape continued to guide: "Oh? Play games with us? But I'm the only one here. The us you mentioned..."

The voice was fooled and raised its voice in excitement.

"It's you and Arces. He is right here, but you can't see each other. This is a secret. I only told you."

Knowing that Athis was fine, Snape loosened his clenched fists.

On the other side, Ases stood on the only black spot in the white world, also trying to answer the voice's questions.

Based on the content of the conversation, he quickly figured out the current situation.

First, he and Sif were standing in the same position, but they couldn't see or touch each other.

Secondly, the owner of the voice seemed very childish. He brought them all the way here just to play a time-travel game with them. Only if they successfully passed the game could he and Sif meet and get a mysterious reward.

Feeling the empty magic power in his body, Athis's eyes sank slightly, and he accepted the game without hesitation.

At the same time and in the same place, Snape also agreed to this game.

The game...begins.

"Mr. Si, this is the information you requested. Who is in it? Mr. Si?"

Snape hadn't even opened his eyes when a female voice gave him a headache. He frowned subconsciously. This was a sign that the Potions Master was about to curse. At this moment, the female voice suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a mechanical and indifferent voice.

"Severus Snape, your mission is to regain the love of Athis von Cavendish. Please note! The target of the mission will appear with a different face and lose all memories. Any illogical behavior will be considered a foul. Once discovered, the game will fail."

Face change, memory loss.

Snape's heart sank.

After an unknown amount of time, the female voice sounded again, with a little caution: "Boss Si, we are here."

arrive?

Where to?

Snape opened his eyes, frowned, and looked at the woman who had just spoken calmly.

The woman looked to be in her twenties, wearing clothes he didn't recognize, holding something that looked like a book in her hand, and looking at him with the awe and nervousness he was familiar with.

His brain ached, memories flooded out like a tide, a large number of beliefs emerged, and Snape finally knew who the woman in front of him was.

Lin Xiao, the junior sister of this body, has high IQ and strong abilities. Her only shortcoming is that her character is not strong enough, and she can even be said to be cowardly. She was taken by the original body to train and is currently serving as the original body's assistant.

"Bring the information."

This was the original body instructing Lin Xiao to investigate the information of a certain little star. Perhaps because it was not the real person, Snape had no impression of that star, but he did not want to miss any opportunity to find Ases.

"You're mistaken. It's me. We can't occupy someone else's body without reason. You and Cavendish are both using our own bodies, but his memory is blocked and his appearance has changed, while yours hasn't."

It was still the same mechanical voice, but this time it was more lively.

Snape remained calm, as if he didn't hear the people talking in his mind, and raised his hand to signal his assistant to hand over the information.

When I opened the information, the first thing that caught my eye was a photo. The boy in the photo was not very old, probably in his early twenties. He had a pair of clear almond eyes. He seemed to have seen something interesting. He stared at the camera with his eyes curved with a smile.

Not Asseth.

Snape lowered his eyes and closed the document. The atmosphere in the car suddenly dropped to the lowest point.

Lin Xiao was so frightened that he even slowed down his breathing.

This senior of hers was known for his sharp tongue. During her doctoral studies, she often heard that someone in a certain laboratory was scolded and cried, or someone else broke down and cried and shouted that they wanted to change majors. It can be said that the longer she studied for her doctorate, she heard about this senior's cruel reputation. As a result, after she entered the company, she was always cautious, fearing that she would be the one crying one day.

But the information was sent out through her hands, so no matter how timid Lin Xiao was, she had to solve the problem.

She asked with gritted teeth: "Mr. Si, is there any problem with this information?"

"No problem." Snape didn't want to say more. He opened the car door and was about to get out.

As a result, just as he stepped out of the car and had not yet seen the outside world clearly, a heavily made-up woman fell towards him very casually.

Snape sat back down with a dark face, closed the car door, blocked the woman, turned around, and glanced at Lin Xiao's slender arm with dissatisfaction, "You don't have to follow the schedule these days, let Li Ran and Wang Jingguo come over instead, and you go to the entertainment industry to find someone for me."

Li Ran and Wang Jingguo are his secretaries and bodyguards, responsible for his personal safety.

Lin Xiao glanced at the woman who had not left outside for a long time, and instantly understood why her senior had made a temporary replacement.

However, she didn't expect that the rumors in the school were true. The senior actually didn't like women. So, is the senior planning to compromise with his family in this relationship?

Wuwuwu, no!

Senior's waist and legs are just perfect...

Lin Xiao's thoughts diverged.

"What are you standing there for? Send him away." Snape interrupted Lin Xiao's daze with a cold voice.

Lin Xiao quickly got out of the car to communicate, and the staff of the program group also found that someone outside had stopped the car and was bringing a group of people over.

Seeing someone coming to help, Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and joined the staff to persuade the woman to leave.

After finishing her work, she communicated with the staff about some details of the show before going to the car to report to Snape.

Snape didn't want to waste time on a show. Just as he was about to refuse, he heard Lin Xiao sigh with longing: "Just now the staff said that they would come out because of the reminder of Emperor Shu. He was able to pay attention to the situation outside from such a distance. He is really... I am crying!"

Hearing this, Snape looked at Lin Xiao strangely, trying to find any trace of crying on her silly face.

Lin Xiao was completely unaware and continued, "And I think Actor Shu agrees with your description just now. In his ten years of debut, Actor Shu has never had a bad face and is always gentle to everyone."

"Just half a year ago, a prop crew I don't even want to talk about used the wrong props and burned him, but he just laughed it off and went to the hospital alone afterwards. This news was dug up by paparazzi some time ago to dig up dirt on him."