Chapter 416 The Raging Dark Tide

( ) "Roar - Hagar -"

A thunderous roar suddenly sounded in the Forbidden Forest, followed by heavy footsteps of "bang bang bang", two trees on the edge of the forest suddenly fell down.

Professor Sprout, who had just run onto the lawn, turned around together with Hermione, Luna, and Harry, only to see a huge figure rushing out of the Forbidden Forest.

That's Glop!

Under his armpit, Hagrid, who was covered in gray, was held tightly by him, and he followed him to the outside of the Forbidden Forest.

"Giant? How come?" Professor Sprout quickly raised the wand in his hand and shouted loudly, "Hurry up! Let go! Ruburt!"

"Wait—" Luna immediately stopped Sprout, "It's Hagrid's younger brother, and his name is Glop."

"what?"

Sprout, Hermione, and Harry looked at Luna at the same time, with indescribably complicated expressions on their faces.

"Hagrid's brother," Luna said softly, "Glop."

"Uh..." Professor Sprout was stunned for a moment, and then ran towards Hagrid and Gropp with a puzzled expression, "Anyway, let's go and see Ruburt—his appearance Not quite right."

However, Gropp obviously ignored their plan, and saw him running towards the gate on the other side. He still remembered that when Hagrid brought him to Hogwarts, he came in from there.

Of course, even if Glop wanted to stop and chat with them, they didn't have time to spare.

Just when Professor Sprout ran in the direction of Glop first, and Hermione and others followed immediately, there was another commotion on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Not only were the bushes rustling, but even the ground made a slight and chaotic vibration.

The next moment, a large group of horsemen rushed out of the woods, like medieval cavalry in formation, rushing towards the opposite side of the lawn without looking back.

And following behind them, there are countless scary monsters rushing out of the Forbidden Forest in a chaotic manner.

That's right!

In addition to "surge",

It is no longer possible to describe the terrifying quantity!

Those monsters are big and small, the biggest guy is no less than Glop lying down, and the smallest is probably only the size of a baby's fist.

They are all black in color, but under the sunlight, they can vaguely distinguish a deep, miserable green.

They have black burrs all over their bodies, especially on the legs; but some parts away from the joints are mostly covered with a layer of fine dark green scales.

They are exactly Maca's first great achievement in the study of blood transformation—the alienated acromantula!

"Turn back! Turn back immediately! Quick!"

Before Hermione and the others could take a closer look, Professor Sprout immediately yelled. She couldn't stop screaming, because she felt her skin tightening after only one more look.

Sprout immediately recalled the events of the year when the chamber of secrets was opened, and quickly reacted.

"Can't look at those spiders, they have the ability to petrify—"

While she was speaking, the last few centaurs seemed to be afraid of being caught up, and turned their heads inadvertently, but they happened to meet eyes with a certain acromantula.

Not long after, the movements of the centaur slowed down, and their bodies were gradually turning grayish white.

Maybe it's because of the distance. Although Hermione and the others looked there subconsciously, there were too many giant arachnids of different sizes. Shouts reminded.

"Professor!" Hermione screamed.

At a glance, she saw that Sprout's body was also covered with a layer of faint gray, and it was deepening little by little, and even his movements gradually became sluggish.

"do not come--"

With difficulty, Sprout took out a bottle of potion and poured it into his mouth. But in that little time, the centaur passed by her, followed by the acromantulas who quickly caught up with them.

After taking the potion, Sprout resolutely closed his eyes and sprinkled a handful of unknown seeds, then stretched out his wand and pointed to his feet. In that instant, those seeds immediately took root on the lawn, and they jumped up suddenly, and the thick and hard blue strange vines wrapped her whole body.

And the rest of the seeds also spread out, waving the spiked vines and whipping everything around, trying to stop those terrifying acromantulas from advancing.

"Run! Leave me alone! Run!" At the last moment, she still reminded Hermione loudly.

Those arm-thick tough vines are indeed very powerful, but there are too many acromantulas, they only block a small part of them, and more spiders don't hesitate to move where the vines can't reach. After passing, they chased after Hermione and the others.

"Go! There's nothing we can do, Harry! Let's go!"

Hermione pulled the hesitant Harry over and forced him to run back. Beside them, Luna took something out of the pocket of her robe while running.

"Hermione, we have to do something!" Harry was still running, but his face was full of unwillingness, "Professor Sprout is still behind, and Hogwarts is ahead of us— "

"We can't do anything!" Hermione frowned. "There are too many of them. We have to rely on the castle to defend. This is the best way..."

"But--"

Harry's heart was restless, he hated his uselessness, he couldn't forgive himself.

Some time ago, he managed to muster up the courage to raise his spirits, but his strength still limited him, making him unable to do what he wanted to do, and unable to protect the people he wanted to protect.

Although he ran back to the Forbidden Forest today, he couldn't do anything. He just stood aside, acting as a powerless bystander throughout the whole process.

He knew very well that Hermione was right and there was nothing he could do about it.

But he didn't want to give up thinking. He thought that even if he couldn't think of any ideas, even if he was still powerless in the end, he couldn't give up thinking.

Because once he gives up this time, I'm afraid he really won't be able to stand up again.

They ran forward hard, and the castle was constantly enlarged in their field of vision, as if they were within reach. But such a distance, which can be covered by taking a walk on weekdays, seems to be as difficult to reach as a distant horizon at this moment.

Behind them, the size of the giant eight-eyed spiders did not hinder their speed at all, and they were still running fast.

Even though Harry and the others ran with all their strength, their speed was still completely inferior to those giant spiders with eight hairy legs.

The clattering footsteps were obviously getting closer, and there was an unpleasant stench in their nostrils, and they didn't dare to look back.

Suddenly, Luna violently threw the thing tightly held in her left hand into the midair behind her, and then she intentionally avoided those big guys chasing in front, and her gaze fell as much as possible to the parabolic drop in the air. that gadget.

Under the sun, the thing had some reflections, so it was obviously not difficult to see clearly.

"Bones to pieces!"

Suddenly a spell flew from the tip of her wand, faithfully doing what she wanted, and blasting the thing whole.

It was at that moment that a dazzling bright blue flame exploded in mid-air, forming a small piece of violently burning fire rain behind Luna and the others, and falling profusely towards the crowd who were advancing forward. Octopus spiders.

It was the Vial of Fierceflame left by Maca, and Hermione, who had used it before, knew very well that the power of that thing was truly astonishing.

After blasting the Fiery Flask to pieces, Luna immediately turned around and continued to run. Behind her, those flowing scorching flames clinging to the contaminated Acromantula, burning with crackling noises.

"Oh--"

Hermione and Harry, who were running ahead, suddenly heard an exclamation from behind, and without any hesitation, Harry immediately stretched his wand into the air.

"Close your eyes, Hermione!" he yelled, "Lumos - maxed out!"

At nearly noon, Harry's wand suddenly lit up with an extremely dazzling light. That astonishingly bright ball of light was almost brighter than the sun overhead, and the intense light made all three of them close their eyes.

But even so, the dazzling light still penetrated through the eyelids, and one could see a piece of orange red even with the eyes closed.

The sun hanging high in the sky can be tolerated if you don't look at it, but if this bright light explodes in front of your eyes, it will be very scary-the acromantulas, who already like dark environments, suddenly went into a commotion.

"Sort—" Harry, who still had his eyes closed, opened his mouth again, he hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth again, "The Sorting Hat is coming!"

Before he finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly shot out from the window at the top of the main castle behind Harry, falling towards him at an extremely fast speed, and within a few seconds, it landed precisely on the window he stretched out. hands.

He extinguished the dazzling ball of light on the tip of the staff, immediately put his hand into the hat, and firmly grasped the cold sword hilt that appeared in it.

The Gryffindor sword was drawn out silently, and the mirror-like sterling silver blade reflected the sunlight, making it look extremely bright. And the huge ruby ​​inlaid on the hilt of the sword even faintly glowed like a flame.

Harry opened his eyes, and suddenly saw Luna who was thrown to the ground by the acromantula, and a huge silver-white eagle with spread wings guarding her.

Luna seemed to be trying to get up, and it seemed that she was indeed injured a little bit, but Harry's timely cast of the Luminous Charm and the Giant Eagle Patronus protected her almost at the same time.

"... Maca?"

Harry held the Gryffindor sword in his hand and rushed towards Luna decisively. From a distance, the bright sword body was shining on the lawn, drawing a bright band of light.