Chapter 168 Battle with the Cockatrice (Modified)

"Do you know what this monster is?" Allen asked quickly, wanting to get more information.

It is absolutely impossible to be a basilisk. There are no traces of a basilisk crawling in the Forbidden Forest, and it is impossible for a basilisk to release such a large amount of poisonous gas.

Otherwise, a large number of the young wizards at Hogwarts would have been poisoned.

All these signs told Allen that what Tina said was correct, and there was indeed another monster in the secret room.

And this monster should be particularly interested in birds, so it will go directly to the Forbidden Forest instead of staying in the castle.

There is also a possibility that the basilisk climbed out of the secret room through a pipe, and it also has its own passage that leads directly to the Forbidden Forest.

At this moment, Gaia suddenly looked behind Allen warily.

Allen quickly jumped to Gaia's side. He looked warily in the direction he was just now - he saw several animal stone sculptures on the road, and without exception, they all looked hideous, painful and lifelike.

When Allen and the others heard the rustling sound, the surrounding trees turned yellow-brown at a speed visible to the naked eye and were about to die; while the trees a little further away were not dead yet, but the black poisonous gas turned into Black lines wrapped around the entire tree trunk.

The grass rotted quickly, and the leaves turned from lush green to gray-white, then quickly withered and became brittle, shattering and turning into black ash at the slightest touch of the night breeze.

A disgusting smell of rusty metal gradually spread in the air.

The open space where Allen and the others were located turned into an extremely desolate doomsday scene.

In this silence and darkness, the fear of death hangs over the land.

"You can see this monster with your own eyes!" Gaia stared warily at the direction from which the strange sound came. "We should get out of here quickly!" Gaia suggested.

Allen believes that it is a wise move to temporarily avoid the edge when one does not know the strength of his opponent.

Allen climbed on Gaia's back, and Gaia spread her wings and flew high into the sky.

Soon, a strange creature appeared in the clearing.

Alan had to admit that this was the weirdest creature he had ever seen.

It's not big, only the size of a hen. Just looking at its size, you can hardly imagine that such a small animal can exhale poisonous gas that can kill flying birds.

This poisonous gas is extremely overbearing. Wherever this monster walks, no grass or shrubs can survive.

The Cockatrice has the body of a lizard, the head of a rooster, feathered bat wings, and a second head on its tail.

Its head is raised high, with small patterns like a crown of yellow and blue intertwined, which is also a bit like a rooster's comb.

Its eyes are shaped like a toad and its wings are red, yellow and blue.

It walks on four legs and is very majestic. The front feet are yellow and blue, like a rooster's paws. The hind feet are serrated and webbed, like a frog's feet.

"It is the monster in your castle - the Cockatrice." Gaia said in a deep voice.

Allen finally knew what kind of monster this was! The "Mysterious Animal Illustrated Book" he had read before had a few brief introductions to this monster.

It is said that an old rooster laid an egg, and a toad hatched the egg. The cockatrice came from this egg. This is very similar to the birth situation of the basilisk.

Regardless, this horrific hybrid is always the subject of horror stories.

Because cockatrices can kill people with their poisonous gas alone, and if they are bitten by cockatrices, people who are not strong enough to resist the poison will be turned directly into stone - and it will not be the paralysis effect like petrification. Instead, it truly turns into stone. Therefore, very few people have seen it. Even fewer people know exactly how to breed cockatrices.

But it is well documented that cockatrices were thought to be responsible for the plague that ravaged Rome in the 9th century.

In 1202, a cockatrice hidden in a well caused a plague in Vienna.

In 1474, in Basel, Switzerland, some Muggles saw a rooster laying an egg. However, before the egg hatched, the rooster was burned alive in front of thousands of people. Also thrown into the fire.

Because there were very few descriptions of cockatrices in the "Mysterious Animal Illustrated Book" and there were no patterns to draw from, Alan had not thought of it before.

"Gaia, let me down, maybe I can solve it!" Allen, who knew its origin, wanted to go down and meet this monster for a while.

"Alan, it's not just poisonous gas and venom! Any small animal that sees its gaze will die for no reason! It may even turn into stone if bitten by it!" Gaia disapproved of Alan's actions. Personal risk.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not a bird either..." Alan took out the unicorn horn that Gaia had given him before, crushed some powder with a file and drank it, "This should give me a better chance of winning."

Gaia saw that Alan's tone was firm and prepared, and that he was determined to deal with the cockatrice, so she had no choice but to land behind the cockatrice and let Alan climb off its back.

Gaia spread her wings and flew up again, hovering in the air, waiting for an opportunity to attack the little monster.

"Collapse!" Allen planned to take advantage of him and quickly cast a spell.

The spell successfully hit the Cockatrice. The Cockatrice turned around instantly, glared at Allen angrily, and let out a hiss that symbolized death.

The cockatrice's feathers and lizard scales give it considerable spell resistance.

The moment it turned around, Allen closed his eyes for caution.

"Petrify them all!" After hearing the argument, Allen once again cast a spell and shot it blindly.

The spell hit the Cockatrice's feet - and this time it was semi-successful in making its already agile movements stagger. The Cockatrice flapped its small wings angrily, flew a few feet away in the air, and stretched out Two sharp front claws rushed toward Allen's face.

The fishy wind blew into his nostrils. Allen, who had been trained for a long time, made a mistake with his foot and dodged the cockatrice's sharp blow.

At the same time, Allen waved his wand instantly, "Avada Kedavra!" Green light shot from the tip of Allen's wand - this was Allen's first real attempt to use a killing curse on other creatures, since Ordinary spells don't work. Allen hopes that this spell that directly affects the soul can penetrate the opponent's magic resistance - in fact, once this kind of spell is used on a person, he will be sentenced to Azkaban for any reason. After spending a lifetime in prison, if he hadn't happened to be in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, Allen would not have dared to use this spell. Although the target of his spell was a monster, it would not cause too many legal problems. UU Reading www ． uukanshu.net But after all, it was too detrimental to his reputation and Dumbledore's opinion that a second-year student could cast the Death Curse.

The green light successfully hit the Cockatrice, but at the moment when Allen's expression showed joy, Allen felt a pain in his hand, and the Cockatrice's neck suddenly lengthened, and it bit Allen hard. , and sprayed out venom at the same time.

Even after taking the unicorn horn, Allen felt a little dizzy for a moment. Fortunately, the petrification effect did not seem to have an effect on him.

Allen couldn't help but open his eyes. Blood was bleeding from the cockatrice's head, nose and mouth.

Allen knew that although his killing curse hit the opponent, he didn't know whether it was the opponent's magic resistance that played a role or whether it was Allen's own lack of intention to kill the opponent that caused the effect of this special curse that required emotions to produce a false effect. The effect Di said was just to make the opponent bleed a little - although looking at the Cockatrice vomiting blood, Allen guessed that the opponent had also suffered a lot of injuries, but after all, Allen was not able to kill it directly. monster.

Allen met its toad-like eyes - although nothing tragic happened,

Gaia mistakenly thought that Allen's daze was because he had lost his life. It neighed sadly, swooped down from the sky, and severely trampled down the cockatrice's lower body.

The Cockatrice instantly gave up attacking Allen and had to turn its head to bite Gaia.

Gaia completely ignored her own safety and kicked the Cockatrice like crazy. Her hoofs were like rain. The Cockatrice could not escape Gaia's attack range no matter what.

Seeing that it was seriously injured and unable to defeat the sudden unicorn, the Cockatrice was aroused and determined to die, biting Gaia's leg. Even if the lower body was kicked to pieces, it would not let go.