Chapter 42: Chapter 42

It was almost dark.

Surrounded by the forest, the mottled sky above the dense forest showed a strange red color. A gust of wind blew by, and a few dry leaves floated up with the wind, rolled a few times, and stuck to Hoffa's trousers.

He raised his head and turned around in the wind, only to find that there were hundreds of thorn balls hanging densely in the canopy of the tree.

Just when the two were shocked, a fruit slowly opened on the crown of the tree. It spread its green wings, revealing the blue and purple body hidden inside.

hiss!

It stuck out its long tongue and spit out a letter to Hoffa.

It turned out to be it! !

Hoffa immediately understood why it looked familiar to him.

Winged Demon, Schmidt Lutrov's pet, a dangerous creature that feeds on brain fluid, why is this creature here?

It's here, can Schmidt be far behind?

Joey: "What's going on? Why is this 4X level dangerous creature here!"

"Remember the last attack on Hogsmeade?"

Hoffa's face was pale, and his voice trembled slightly.

"Attack... what? That dark wizard carrying dangerous creatures actually hid in the Forbidden Forest? Are you sure? Who told you?"

Joey asked a lot, but Hoffa didn't answer any of them, and he couldn't stop backing away.

Hiss!

On the canopy, several Winged Demons spread their wings, and pairs of green hungry eyes lit up in the darkness.

Thinking of that letter, Hoffa gritted his teeth.

Damn, this is a trap!

A deliberate trap!

Hoffa looked at Joey, and Joey also looked bewildered and shocked. He bent his bow and shot an arrow, and said, "You take that girl first, and I'll be in the rear."

Without hesitation, Hoffa rushed over and pulled Aglaia up. Aglaia was still reading beside the stone, not knowing what was there.

After being interrupted by Hoffa, she said angrily: "What, you know how important what I'm reading...?"

"Shut up, Holmes."

Hoffa cut her off mercilessly. He dragged Aglaia towards the horses, he didn't know where Schmidt was, but he had to get out of here before the dark wizard showed up.

But just as he walked to the horse's position, he found that the horse Aglaia was riding was dangling in place, as if drunk.

Aglaia was very worried, and she immediately wanted to go up and check what happened to the horses.

But Hoffa keenly saw a wagging tail at the back of the horse's head, his expression changed, and he immediately grabbed Aglaia's wrist.

At this moment, a blood-covered Winged Demon directly broke through the horse's skull, and shot out with the horse's brain.

"ah!"

Aglea screamed loudly and covered her head.

Duh!

A sharp arrow arrived in an instant, nailing the flying Winged Demon to the tree trunk.

The poor horse's brain was completely knocked out, and it crashed to the ground, convulsing and dying.

Joey: "Leave it alone and ride the other one."

Aglaia had never seen such a scene before, her face was pale and trembling all over for a while.

Much calmer, Hoffa pulled Aglea to the side of the other horse. He drew out his wand and said, "Get on the horse."

Aglaia climbed on the horse's back, stepped on it several times but failed to step on it.

Hoffa could only hug and push the trembling Aglaia onto the horse, and after helping her, Hoffa flew onto the horse.

At this moment, in the dark forest, hissing and flapping sounds can be heard endlessly.

Hoffa turned his horse's head and galloped back and forth quickly, he had to get out of here quickly.

He didn't turn his back on Joey, because he knew that if he was indecisive, he would only make trouble for the other party. He is an adult wizard and has been a gamekeeper for so many years, self-protection is definitely not a problem.

Sure enough, Joey shot arrows continuously behind Hoffa, and he shot and killed one by one Winged Demon in the air.

The blue-purple blood rain splashed down.

However, more and more Winged Demons appeared from the woods in all directions, and the bows and arrows gradually became stretched.

Joey noticed this, he took out a magic glass ball from his pocket, and threw it into the air.

boom!

There was a loud bang.

The glass ball touched the Winged Demon and exploded in the sky.

Hoffa on horseback heard a violent explosion behind him, and the flames soaring into the sky.

He glanced sideways, and the entire forest behind him turned into a sea of ​​flames. The tree trunk at the center of the explosion instantly turned into dust. The shock wave engulfed the leaves and soil and hit Hoffa's face with pain.

It was too late to worry about Joey. Under the push of the shock wave, Hoffa saw several crouching demons roll and hit the tree trunk in front of him.

These creatures had extremely strong vitality. After they fell to the ground and shook a few times, they stumbled up again and flew towards Hoffa.

Hoffa didn't dare to look back, he only hoped to rush out of the Forbidden Forest and return to school.

But just as he was galloping on the horse, the two winged demons grabbed Aglaia's collar by the shoulders and pulled her off the horse. The creature was not big in size, but its strength was surprisingly great.

"Bach!"

Aglaia only had time to stretch out her hand and scream, and in the blink of an eye, she was pulled by the Winged Demon and flew a distance of more than ten meters in the air.

Depend on!

Hoffa didn't have time to grab the opponent.

He quickly turned the horse's head.

Pull out the wand.

Pointing at Aglaia and shouting, "All petrified!"

A red light flashed from the wand, and Aglaia and the two Winged Demons were petrified in the sky at the same time.

However, things didn't get better. After being petrified, the Winged Demon and Aglaia fell rapidly from the sky nearly ten meters high at the same time.

The ground is a dense forest of thorns!

If you fall down, you will be disabled if you don't die.

what to do?

"Wingardim Leviosa!" Hoffa was in a hurry, and he used the levitating spell.

However, the Levitation Charm didn't work on living objects. The white light hit Aglaia, and she kept falling.

Damn it!

Hoffa's brain was spinning fast, think about it, think about it!

Suddenly, a curse pierced through the fog and appeared in his mind.

Hoffa raised his wand and swung it sharply.

"Fuchsia!"

A golden light flashed.

The spell of the Half-Blood Prince is really the same as that described in the original book, simple and reliable.

Aglaia was caught off guard and was pulled upside down by his ankles, hanging upside down in mid-air. The underpants and student stockings of the school uniform were all exposed, and the robe covered her entire upper body.

Hoffa wasn't in the mood to enjoy the scene.

Two petrified Winged Demons fell to the ground. These creatures were highly resistant to magic, and within a short while they fell on the thorns, they struggled desperately and bounced up.

Hoffa jumped off his horse and ran quickly to where Aglea was upside down. Kicked away a few of the sharpest thorns, and trampled to death the two struggling Winged Demons by the way.

"The golden clock hits the ground."

Hoffa waved his wand again, and after reading the spell, he reached out to catch the falling Aglaia.

The impact of the whole person's fall made Hoffa's arm sink, and he and Aglaia rolled into a ball, and her obstructive robe entangled Hoffa's whole body and the thorns.

"The spell stops immediately."

Hoffa lifted the petrification spell.

As soon as the curse was lifted, Aglaia strangled Hoffa's neck directly in the school robe.

"I'm going to kill you, Hoffa Bach, what kind of spells are you doing!!!"

She let out a scream that pierced her eardrums.

Hoffa didn't expect that after all his hard work to save her, she immediately turned her face and refused to recognize anyone.

He pushed the other person away furiously: "If you think dignity is more important than life, don't fuck me into the water."

Aglaia stopped talking, her face was flushed to the neck, and she was gnashing her teeth with anger.

Hoffa didn't want to comfort her at all, he didn't care about anything else, he tore off the school robe, and jumped up somersaulted.

It was pitch black and the light was extremely weak.

Hoffa pulled the angry Aglaia and tried to run back to the horse's position.

However, the little black horse who had been with him for a month seemed to sense something, looked around in horror, and ran away on his own.

"Depend on!"

Hoffa cursed angrily, and suddenly, his feet slipped, and he had to hold on to the tree trunk to stand still. He stepped on something sticky.

A smell of blood filled his nostrils.

He bent down subconsciously to look, and there were traces of winding red slowly flowing on the ground. Can't see clearly.

"Luminescence flickering."

Hoffa lit his wand.

Blood was everywhere, and had already pooled into a small stream.

He swallowed his saliva, kept Aglaia behind him and kept retreating, but the further he retreated, the more intense the pungent smell of blood became.

Backing away through a row of pine trees, Aglea elbowed Hoffa hard. He was annoyed at first, then when he turned around.

The scene in front of him made Hoffa feel cold from the head to the soles of his feet.

Following Aglaia's trembling fingers, I saw the forest, under the bleak newborn moon.

Rows of horsemen stood on the ground like stone sculptures.

They held their heads up, looking at the sky, and there were at least a dozen of them.

They vary in color and have smooth but dull fur. Their posture looks arrogant, but their hands are drooping weakly.

Drops of blood flowed from their foreheads, flowed through their long and strong bodies, and slowly dripped to the ground.

The breeze blew over their manes, causing their shadows to sway slightly on the ground, interweaving together to form a strange and tragic picture.

A dozen centaurs were all dead.

They knew the future, but in the end they still failed to escape the catastrophe. On each of their high heads, there were several curled-winged demons sucking brains.

There was a palpitating sound of eating in the air.

Hoffa took a step back and bumped into Aglaia, who grabbed Hoffa's arm so tightly that she couldn't stand still.

Centaurs are magical beings, but they are as intelligent as humans, and in some ways even more so.

It can make so many horsemen die without the ability to resist. There is no doubt that only a powerful dark wizard can do this.

Schmidt Rutloff must be nearby.

"Don't make a sound, and get out of here with me."

Hoffa said in a very low voice.

Aglaia nodded, before the shadow of death, she completely ignored the gap with Hoffa.

The two held their wands and slowly retreated in opposite directions.

At this moment, the darkness in front of him suddenly separated.

A tall figure slowly stood up from the woods behind the centaur, and came under the moonlight in the forest.

He didn't wear a hood this time, and he had a long Germanic face without any fluctuations in expression. He walked slowly and said softly:

"I thought how important these mules were, but now it seems that I think too much. No one cares about this group of inferior species."

He walked to the middle of the clearing, and several winged demons got out of the centaur's head and landed on his shoulders.

Schmidt tilted his head and said flatly: "We meet again, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

That look is no different from meeting and greeting neighbors.

But Hoffa fell into an ice cellar.

There is no doubt that he fell into a trap.

Schmidt Lutrov has been waiting for work and has been waiting here for a long time.

Hoffa retreated to the edge of the open space and said, "Isn't it good to just leave England quietly like this? Why do you still come to a dangerous place like Hogwarts?"

Schmidt said softly: "I really want to leave too, but I still have a lot of important work to do, besides, little boy, you haven't returned the things you took from me."

Hoffa hadn't had time to react.

Aglaia exclaimed.

"careful!"

The sense of crisis instantly occupied Hoffa's brain, and he saw inexplicable lights on the left and right at the same time.

The curse strikes!

The moment Schmidt distracted him, both of his partners attacked Hoffa at the same time.