Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 107 The Centaur Tribe and the Old Man

In the silent and dark depths of the Forbidden Forest, Toby sat on a raised rock. He stroked his long hair behind his head, revealing the scar on his cheek from the arrow blade, and then tightly grasped the inset with his right hand. The end of a sharp arrow that penetrates flesh and blood.

"Hoo hoo hiss—"

Toby gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow, throwing it aside.

"Al, give me the white essence."

"ah."

Toby silently treated the wound on his body, and poured the white essence on the wound bit by bit. In a few seconds, the wound began to heal slowly, leaving a small scar.

He put Bai Xian back into Al's belly pocket, and kicked Bain aside who was seriously injured at his feet.The unconscious Bain grunted in pain, but he still didn't wake up.

The witch robe flew over and automatically put on Toby's body, covering the dense magic circle, and the dark aura disappeared immediately.

The black devil turned back into an ordinary professor of ancient magic. Almost no one knew how many traces there were under the clothes, and how much unimaginable and painful price Toby paid.

Toby looked around - except for Bane who received extra "preferential treatment", all the centaurs were piled together to form a sizeable pyramid - the leader Margaret was sitting at the top of the tower, he And the only one who can stay awake.

"I can't let you"

A spell flashed and hit Margaret, and the world finally became clean.

Instead, in the ancient ruins in the past, whenever Toby had to fight like this, he would start the process of searching for the ruins.

And this time, Toby didn't want to be an exception.

He suddenly felt that protecting the Philosopher's Stone didn't seem so important. This was a godsend opportunity—he had explored many places in the Forbidden Forest this semester, but there was always one place that he couldn't forget, which he had never been able to touch. place.

Even the only time he wandered around the edge was discovered by the irascible Bane, and as a result, he forged a grudge with Al, which also led to the duel in the last confinement.

Al, who was sitting on the flying carpet, put his treasures back into his belly pocket, and it flew back to Toby's head, tilted its neck and called out: "Yeah?"

"No, there is no need to rush back to the castle for the time being."

Toby said calmly, "Let's go."

"It's time to visit the real centaur tribe."

At this moment, not only is the Sorcerer's Stone no longer important, but even Dumbledore's instructions were forgotten by Toby - nothing can compare to archaeology - the centaur lived in the Forbidden Forest Nearly a thousand years old, they qualify as ancient magic.

Toby bypassed the horse men who could no longer stop him, walked through a dense hazel forest, walked with Al by a narrow stream, and detoured through several woods again.

Finally, they stopped before a wall formed by branches.

From inside the walls came a flurry of voices, talking to each other, and playing romps—the female centaurs and centaurs cubs lived inside, waiting for the return of the male centaurs.

The magic ball flew out of Toby's pocket and melted to form a silent magic circle, covering both of them, dimming their figures little by little until they were completely transparent.

Compared with wizards, centaurs prefer to be close to nature and interpret nature.In this tribe, green houses made of plants can be seen everywhere.Next to each house is a piece of reclaimed land, planted with herbs such as sage and sweet mallow, which are specially used for the special divination methods of the centaurs.

A young pony lit the herbs. He carefully observed the shape and signs of the smoke, and suddenly cried out in shock: "A stranger broke in!"

His divination was immediately ridiculed by his companions.

"Oh, come on, you said the same thing last time, but what happened? We still haven't found anything."

"Yeah, that time we all went to find Granny Liya, she is the most powerful prophet in the tribe, but nothing happened."

The pony man suddenly became aggrieved: "But the result of my divination is clearly like this, and the method is not wrong."

He turned his gaze to a corner of the tribe, where there was also a house made of plants. The only difference was that there was a silver linden tree with a diameter of more than ten feet growing next to the house, which showed the extraordinary identity of the owner.

Crafted from the silver linden tree, silver linden wands are beautiful in appearance and possess properties suitable for seers and legilimators, the mystical nature of these two roles entitles the bearer of the silver linden wand to considerable stature.

At the same time, Toby also walked to the door of this special room.

Almost the moment he arrived, there was an old voice calling from the house: "Please come in, guest from afar."

Al suddenly became vigilant. Toby waved his wand and pushed the door open without touching the door with his hands.

He went in.

All the decorations in the house are also made of fresh plants, except for the old man lying on the soft grass, she is also a centaur, but she looks very old, probably older than Dumbledore's Even older.

Toby withdrew from the invisible state. He stood in front of the old man and said condescendingly, "I thought Margery was your leader."

"He is indeed." The old man said calmly, not surprised at Toby's arrival: "The centaur need a leader strong enough to protect themselves, and Margery is the best."

Toby declined to comment.

"Then who are you?" he asked.

"If this makes it easier for you to understand." The old man explained: "You can regard me as the priest in the tribe, and I have a higher status in the entire tribe."

"Compared to the leader?" Toby asked curiously.

The old man showed a slight smile: "I watched Margaret grow up. He is willing to listen to me, and he will never make things difficult for you again. I can guarantee this."

Unfortunately, this promise was worthless to Toby.He is more interested in the noble old man in front of him. Even in his many years of archaeological work, a complete centaur tribe is rarely seen.

"Who was the last stranger who sneaked in?" Toby asked bluntly.

The old man pondered for a while.

"It's the man who can't even tell the name." The old man finally answered: "He appeared in the forest for a short time, and he also found the centaur tribe. In order to prevent him from harming the cubs in the tribe, we Had to make some exchanges with him."

Seeing that Toby's eyes became more and more dangerous, the old man still replied calmly: "If you want to know - Dumbledore already knew about this, the last time you sent the castle's young After the cub was brought into the forest, he came to deal with the problems you caused."

The old man didn't say the word "threat", but Toby already understood what was going on.

"This is the fate of the centaurs." The old man continued: "Before Dumbledore gave us the statue of House, we didn't know about this ancestor, only the legacy he left—no matter what we Whatever happens in the divination, don’t take the initiative to reveal it. Because the continuation of the centaur bloodline is more important than anything else, once this is violated, the wizards may regard us as enemies.”

"—This will lead to the destruction of the centaurs—you should know the history, what happened to the giants, and the goblins. There are only a small number of them left, and they are lingering. The reasons for this are very complicated."

"And the only reason I can tell you is that magic is not eternal. I know your idea, and part of your guess is right. The level of magic power that wizards in the entire wizarding world can use has indeed decreased—the real reason is still You need to find it yourself, it is shrouded in the mist of divination level, and even most of the horse people can't detect it."

Similar to the way he came, Toby also left the centaur tribe silently.

Until this time, the female horsemen quietly gathered around the old man's house gradually dispersed.

This actually made Toby an interesting discovery. The social structure of the centaurs is biased towards a matriarchal society, and those female centaurs are the main force that really maintains the continuation of the blood of the centaurs.

"No wonder the centaurs have been able to live in the Forbidden Forest for so long."

On the way back to the castle, Toby explained to Al: "It is estimated that even the previous headmasters of Hogwarts did not know the secret of the female centaur."

"They are the most powerful centaurs, and they will only show up when threatened with genocide."

Al blinked suspiciously: "Huh?"

"Are you talking about me?" Toby said indifferently, "It's probably because of something in their divination. It seems that there are still people who can understand what it means to be more Slytherin than Slytherin."

"In other words, even they don't want to be one of the real relics."

(End of this chapter)