Chapter 363 Katebourne
The Forbidden Forest was as eerie and silent as ever.
As soon as Xie Linfu entered the depths of the Forbidden Forest, Divine Peeping Amaterasu immediately activated in full force, and any disturbance within a few miles could not escape Xie Lin's perception.
Since most of the forces in the Forbidden Forest were unified by Yinya's wolf pack, those dangerous dark creatures seem to have become more peaceful. Xie Lin can hardly detect the presence of any red hats or vampire bear spirits, but there is a group of sika deer not far away. Food.
Xie Lin frowned slightly, feeling the breath of the wizard's magic.
He hid his figure with an invisible phantom spell, carefully explored his surroundings, and found something.
Taking the center of the Forbidden Forest as a point, monitors similar to Moody's Alchemy Eye are installed at the eight surrounding corners.
What a risk. If Xie Lin's invisibility magic hadn't been able to avoid the surveillance of this magic device, Xie Lin would have exposed himself.
Moody's Alchemy Eye is not a cheap thing. According to Schelling's knowledge, apart from the Ministry of Magic, only a few powerful pure-blood families in Great Britain can own one, and its price is not much more than that of a Firebolt. Let - this shows how much Dumbledore has done...
This is actually not surprising at all. With Dumbledore's character of always strategizing and controlling the overall situation, Hogwarts, as his base camp, would certainly not allow unexpected changes near Hogwarts.
Schelling secretly released a giant two-headed snake from the suitcase space and commanded it in snake language to hunt the deer.
The two-headed snake is a variant of the rune snake, a monster carefully bred in Schelling's dark laboratory. The loss of one head not only did not weaken the power of the rune snake, but instead made it more insidious and cunning.
The two-headed snake did not attack the deer recklessly. Instead, it turned the snake scales on its body into an earthy color that was close to the surrounding environment, and slowly approached the deer almost silently.
Approaching about three feet away from the feet of the deer, a few more alert male deer seemed to sense the danger approaching, showed vigilance, and began to look around constantly, but unfortunately they were unaware of it.
Soon enough, the two-headed snake flashed past like lightning, and its two heads killed two of the largest male deer at the same time.
The remaining deer herd suddenly panicked and rushed in all directions, turning the scene into chaos.
The two-headed snake seizes the opportunity, and like a phantom bubble, its figure keeps flashing around, and every time it flashes, it ruthlessly takes away the life of a deer.
"Stop - faint!" came an extremely angry roar, and the corners of Xie Lin's mouth rose slightly. He knew that the prey he was waiting for finally took the bait.
The person who came was none other than Sylvanus Kettleburn, the former Care of Magical Creatures professor specially invited by Dumbledore.
Although the two-headed snake is immersed in hunting, its characteristics of having two heads and two pairs of eyes allow it to be constantly distracted and alert to its surroundings.
The two-headed snake cleverly avoided the first stun spell that struck.
Although it was the first time for Kettleburn to see such a ferocious beast, he, who had extensive experience in dealing with magical animals, quickly realized that this ferocious beast was probably an artificially cultivated rune snake variant.
He calmly took out a bag from his pocket and threw it forward violently. The bag exploded in the air, spewing out a cloud of brown-yellow powder mist.
Xie Lin sniffed it gently and quickly recognized that it was a secret snake repellent powder, a secret recipe that only a few magical beast experts knew how to prepare.
Sure enough, the appearance of the yellow powder mist made the two-headed snake's reaction significantly slower, and its range of activities gradually narrowed because it had to avoid the powder mist.
Kettleburn did not relax his vigilance because of this. He first took out a bottle of potion from his pocket that could make the user immune to any snake venom and drank it. Then he took out a stick of ointment and carefully applied it on his neck and hands. , making the whole palm look shiny.
Schelling narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed that there was almost no one who could be a professor at Hogwarts, except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
The ointment smeared on the neck and hands is a hardening ointment, which can make the skin as hard as iron, and the sharp teeth of ordinary beasts cannot bite it.
Schelling would not doubt that the field-specific wizard robe worn by Professor Kettleburn would also have some kind of protective function for the wearer.
Professor Keltborn first used Swarm of Birds to interfere with the two-headed snake, and then slowly approached step by step.
He walked about seven or eight steps away from the two-headed snake. Just when he raised his wand to give the two-headed snake a critical blow, a black Bowtruckle suddenly appeared on his shoulder and pointed at it. A loud scream came from Schelling's direction.
Damn, what kind of magical Bowtruckle is this? It can actually sense the existence of Xie Lin!
Xie Lin couldn't help but feel extremely surprised. This surprise was more because his confident invisibility magic could actually be seen through, although he knew that this would not change anything - with his current strength, in the When Kettleburn appeared alone, the outcome was already decided.
The dark soul magic all over his body exploded in an instant, and a terrifying pressure suddenly descended on the field. A violent black shadow behind him disappeared and appeared, like a world-destroying demon god coming into the world.
The remaining deer let out a mournful cry and sat on their knees tremblingly on the ground. The two-headed snake also bent its neck and lowered its two proud heads.
Keltburn just saw a pair of crimson snake-shaped eyes and fell into a state of confusion for a moment.
The soul-controlling ring that Xielin had just put on his right ring finger emitted a dark green light. With the sound of "soul leaving the body", Keltborn's body became stiff. He did not even show any sign of resistance and fell directly into Xielin's control.
The reason why it was so smooth was not only because of Xielin's own strong magic power, but also because the soul-controlling ring's amplification of the Imperius Curse was beyond Xielin's expectation.
The casting of black magic requires evil thoughts as a basis, so a powerful black magic caster usually has different degrees of distortion in mind and soul.
Although Xielin had made in-depth theoretical research on black magic, in order to protect his mind and soul from being backfired by black magic, his attainments in black magic could not be said to be too deep.
Xielin originally thought that his Imperius Curse would still require a lot of effort, and finally relied on his great magician-level mental power to forcibly control Keltborn. Who knew that Keltborn did not even have the strength to resist his Imperius Curse.
No wonder in the original book, Yaxley, who possessed this ring, could become a master of the Imperius Curse and successfully controlled Pius Sinix, the then high-ranking official of the Ministry of Magic and the Director of the Department of Law Enforcement, with the Imperius Curse, which made other Death Eaters at the time amazed at his performance.
Now thinking about it, Yaxley's success was probably due to the important role played by this ring.