Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 62 Bourne: You don’t want to be a human being anymore? (Please order first!)
Bourne saves Kettlebourne.

Following the pony into the Forbidden Forest, he soon heard the crackling sound of a magic spell and the roar of a ferocious beast.

Although it was diluted by the rain, there was still a faint smell of blood in the air, and the smell was very fresh, unlike the cow blood they put here as bait during the day.

When he quietly approached the clearing where the Thestrals lived, he hid behind a privet tree and looked around, only to realize that the wizard who released the spell was Professor Kettleburn. At this time, he was having a fight with a very " "Plump" monsters are fighting.

The reason why I use the word "plump" to describe it is because although this monster has an extremely ferocious face and is naked, it doesn't look like a human being at all, but her bulging front and back are The body shape still shows obvious female biological characteristics.

However, this monster is definitely not a color-changing ghoul - the guess he made during the day has now been proven.

However, proof is proof, even Bourne couldn't recognize what this thing was?

Even if he searched through the memories in his mind, he couldn't figure out what kind of magical animal this monster was, or what kind of strange dark magical creature it was.

This guy, who was being besieged by Professor Kettleburn and the Thestrals, showed too many characteristics of different species in Burne's eyes.

She stands on a pair of hoof-shaped feet, but she is not a ponlock (a magical creature that likes to take care of the horses, but if the horses do not accept it, it may retaliate against the horses), because the head of the ponlock is generally It is in the shape of a horse or a donkey;
When she stands upright, she is over three meters tall. She has a hunched body and looks a bit like a werewolf, but she does not have the trademark thick hair on her body;

From time to time, she would open her mouth and spit out flames at Professor Kettleburn, like a fire dragon, but she was definitely not the ten kinds of pure blood recorded in "Monsters and Their Origins", the authoritative book on the classification of magical animals. Any kind of fire dragon.

"This seems like a platter, like a hodgepodge." Looking at the appearance of this female monster, Bourne couldn't help but have a suspicion that made him uneasy, uncomfortable and a little angry: "Could this guy be a human being?" Just like that kind of black magic creature like 'Five-legged Monster'.

Moreover, if she was a human before, she just abandoned the honor of being a human being and voluntarily became a monster in order to achieve certain goals..."

Under the Emperor's watchful eye, Born as an Astartes felt the need to usurp some of the responsibilities of the Inquisition.

He even came up with a reason at the speed of light: the sword has no eyes, and the machine soul of the chain sword suddenly became ill and killed someone on its own. How can it be said that it was his fault?
The plan goes through!
It is worth noting that even when inquisitors are performing tasks, necessary procedures must be in place: some cannot adhere to procedural justice and exercise too much subjective initiative - for example, they do not ask the high lord of Terra to sign an extermination order. Arrogantly dropping cyclone torpedoes or virus bombs...

Any judge who dares to do that will usually end up with a blackened file, or simply "no such person".

Therefore, Bourne felt that even if he could not find someone who could "apply for an extermination order," he would at least have to find some definite evidence.

And what happened next proved that when the Astartes, as an extension of the Emperor's will, do something right, they will most likely be guided and even favored by fate——

"Damn human!" the monster roared, and she received a "swoon" released by Kettleburn.

(Bern’s heartfelt evidence is here)
However, perhaps it is because Kettleburn's spell is not strong enough, or perhaps because this monster, like some magical animals, has skin with extremely high magic resistance, so after being cast by the spell, in addition to a cluster of particles erupting from the surface of the skin, Mars, she showed no signs of fainting.

Kettleburn pointed his wand at her and yelled: "Who are you? Why did you break into the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, and why did you attack these innocent Thestrals in a frenzy!"

The female monster did not answer his question - Madeleine has been suffering from blood addiction recently, but this does not mean that she has lost her brain - she and her companions spent a lot of effort to get in. Hogwarts Castle can't let all the hard work go to waste just because of a trivial matter.

Yes, this Madeleine is an accomplice of Compaore and the others, and she is also an Ouagadu graduate who became a vampire.

However, she has gone further than Compaore and the others - this woman not only invites the "expected" (yes, Quirrell is one of them) to her room to watch exciting programs, she is also a proficient The witch who transformed herself and used various African potions - the idea and the specific process of turning the group into vampires were all made by Madeleine.

The situation at that time was that, facing the encirclement and suppression by the French Ministry of Magic, their group was forced to hide in the sewers of Paris for three full months!

Someone asked, why not just disapparate and leave?
The answer is, they won't.

Wagadu's magic education is somewhat partial, and even wizards who have graduated normally have not received training in apparation. And if you want to participate in the special training courses offered by the French Ministry of Magic (the British Ministry of Magic also has such training courses), it is obviously even more impossible for Compaore and Madeleine to be criminals.

Under the pressure of survival, Madeleine relied on magic potions and the skills of Ouagadu's version of "Animagus" to turn herself and others into vampires.

The "transformation" she designed is somewhat similar to the "Animagus" that transforms into magical animals - but it is like the hyped room temperature superconductivity. Although it looks similar, the result is not the same at all - —And, just like the wizard who once experimented with the magical animal "Animagus", soon after escaping from the pursuit of the French Ministry of Magic, their group discovered the drawbacks of "transformation".

Yes, that's right, their vampire transformation seemed to be successful, but it turned out that this transformation had huge side effects.

A real vampire can meet his survival needs by drinking plasma once a week on average without feeling hungry.

And if blood with magic power is used as food, such as fire dragon blood and Riem ox blood, which are usually sold as potion ingredients, they can eat for months or even a whole year without feeling hungry.

But Madeleine and Compaore's gang, even if they drink magic blood (even the blood of a wizard), blood addiction will still plague them. If they don't drink the magical blood once a week, they will get sick every week.

Some people may ask, if they use that blood as food - or at most eat more frequently - aren't they just like normal vampires?
But the reality is that this problem is huge.

First of all, as mentioned above, the magic-rich blood available on the market is basically a potion material. Their price is very high. Four vampires drink five or six pounds of blood every week, even the cheaper fire dragon blood (this is also thanks to Dumbledore, who published "Dragon's Blood" when he was young. Twelve uses", which prompted the emergence of fire dragon sanctuaries and commercial dragon farms), which also requires about 200 Galleons.

For reference, the average salary of staff at the British Ministry of Magic is almost over 100 galleons. In this regard, it is still relying on those first-line Aurors who earn a slightly higher salary than the Minister of Magic to raise the average salary level of the Ministry of Magic.

It is conceivable that after escaping to that small country in Albania, even if they had saved some money through smuggling, they could not resist spending money like water. Otherwise, Madeleine would not have invited Quirrell to watch a show to generate extra income after seeing him.

Secondly, in addition to their wallet not being able to withstand such a torment, Madeleine and the others also discovered another big problem related to life and death.

As long as their nutrition keeps up, vampires can generally live for a long time. This is because as dark magic creatures, they have a metabolic rate that is much lower than that of normal creatures. They just need to drink some blood every week to stay full.

But Madeleine and the others are different from normal vampires. The reason why they feel hungry frequently is because their metabolic rate not only does not decrease, but also increases to a great extent. The consequences of this are not only the frequent episodes of blood addiction, but also the greater impact is reflected in the greatly shortened life span.

In order to survive, Madeleine had to start re-researching and trying to find a way to solve the side effects of transforming herself and others into vampires.

However, even though she made many attempts, the final results she obtained were not very satisfactory.

Even, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worse: just like when she was studying vampire transformation, Madeleine's research on solving side effects was still very bold and reckless, and she actually started trying to stack buffs on herself!

She used the blood of many magical animals she purchased, combined with self-transformation techniques, to begin trying to change her own bloodline.

This woman's thinking is very clear, and it cannot be said that it is completely unreasonable. But the problem is that she is completely unaware that she is just a student who was expelled from Wagadu - she is not a despicable Herbo or Slytherin - There is no magic research ability like those great wizards!
Therefore, every time she stacked a buff and happily announced the success of her research to other accomplices, she would soon find that a new problem arose.

Once, twice, three times... After repeated defeats and repeated defeats, Madeleine was finally completely disheartened.

She finally realized: Magic experiments might be just like the mathematics studied by Muggles. If it doesn't work, it really won't work.

Of course, this did not mean that she gave up completely. After being depressed for a period of time, she proposed a plan B to Compaore and others.

"Otherwise, let's steal Nico Flamel's magic stone?"

This time, her idea of ​​proposing the plan still made sense: since the side effects of becoming a vampire couldn't be eradicated, then they could just use the magic stone to extend their lives and make the side effects less fatal. However, with a new plan, a new question also arises: Where will they steal the magic stone?

The famous great alchemist Nick Flamel was quite different from these fringe members of the magic world. To put it bluntly but very realistically, they didn't even know where Nick Flamel lived... and they didn't even have a place to find out.

However, perhaps seeing that they were so unlucky, even God thought it was appropriate to give them a little hope.

Not long ago, "Gargoyle Roar", the most widely circulated newspaper in the French wizarding world, conducted an exclusive interview with Nick Flamel.

Only Madeleine and others found out that Nick Flamel had handed over the Philosopher's Stone to a "reliable person" for safekeeping.

Moreover, because they were not orthodox French, they did not rule out the correct option of "the reliable person is an English wizard" from the very beginning.

On the contrary, because Ouagadu Magic School is well-received by the society for its history of magic education, they immediately locked the identity of the "reliable person" in the person who once cooperated with Nick Flamel to prevent the previous generation of "Dark Lord" Grindelwald. Dumbledore burns Paris.

Although this was actually very unreasonable in the eyes of the French wizard, Madeleine and Compaore knew that their guess must be right.

Then, when they were planning how to sneak into Hogwarts Castle, the British Ministry of Magic gave them another wave of assistance: at the suggestion of Chief Secretary Umbridge, Minister Fudge publicly recruited a magical film screening team. Go to Hogwarts and show a movie to the little wizards...

Merlin's strawberry underwear!

They thought they might have been transported, so they rushed from Albania to the UK overnight. Then, after giving the chief secretary a kickback of almost a week's "meal expenses", they finally transformed into a (in Umbridge's words) "prestigious" professional projection team.

But just a week before she was about to go to Hogwarts Castle and embark on a thrilling treasure-stealing journey, Madeleine had a little problem.

Because of the kickbacks given to Umbridge, the quality of their meals has inevitably declined recently. Because Madeline had too many buffs, she had a greater need for blood than Compaore and the others, and eventually her blood addiction broke out a few days before the action.

There was no way that Compaore could bring a blood-addicted vampire into Hogwarts Castle. That would be no different from voluntarily surrendering.

They could only arrange Madeleine to Hogsmeade, a wizarding village near Hogwarts, and then let her go through the Forbidden Forest and lurk there as their support.

After entering the Forbidden Forest, Madeline had taken the initiative to hunt a few days ago to relieve her hunger. Later, in order to better hide herself from the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest and the Forbidden Forest guards of Hogwarts, she simply stopped hunting. Instead of hunting, they steal food belonging to the Thestrals to satisfy their hunger.

However, she had no idea that the Professor of Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts and the guards of the Forbidden Forest had such a high degree of control over the Forbidden Forest - not long after the Thestrals lost their food, they received the news - Then came up with effective coping methods.

Thousand-year-old vinegar ointment is very effective in dealing with discolored ghouls.

Coincidentally, Madeleine also tried magical animals like color-changing ghouls when she was stacking buffs, so she unfortunately fell for it.

(Ghouls in Harry Potter are magical animals. Although they have a human-like form, they are classified into the category of magical animals because their intelligence is too low. Moreover, ghouls are not undead. They are capable of reproducing, and they can even cross-species crossbreeds with invisible beasts to give birth to dangerous magical animals called invisible beasts.)
Moreover, not only did she lose the ability to change the color of her body like a color-changing ghoul, but after drinking the cow's blood soaked in vinegar paste, her whole body became itchy and burning.

To make matters worse, at this time, just like the three people in Compaoré, her dark mark also began to make trouble, making her uneasy.

It was precisely because of this that she frantically tore off her clothes, completely exposing her monster nature, and began to attack the surrounding Yeqi.

After the transformation, she relied on her minions and strength to fight against a group of Thestrals on her own. Several of the adult thestrals who were strong enough to compete with the rune horses were knocked to the ground by her, and blue blood oozed from the wounds scratched by her claws.

And this is Madeline's achievement based solely on her physical body - in a sense, although the side effects such as blood addiction are more serious, she is actually much stronger than her other three accomplices - and she encountered After encountering Professor Kettleburn and suffering several spells, the woman who had completely turned into a monster finally remembered that she was actually capable of magic.

"Confringo (Thunderbolt Explosion)!" x 2
As she opened her hands, two red fireballs shot out from her palms. This is the Explosive Curse, which is essentially a curse that summons an explosion.

The power of the explosion and the effects it exhibits will vary depending on the user's spellcasting level.

The thunderbolt explosion cast by Madeleine obviously has strong personal characteristics: first of all, it summons a fireball, rather than directly summoning an explosion on the target of the spell; secondly, the fireball it summons seems to The direction can be controlled, and the trajectory is erratic and unpredictable.

"Protego (Iron Armor)"

Professor Kettleburn hurriedly raised his wand to form an "I" in front of him and recited the Iron Armor Curse at the same time. The first fireball directly hit the invisible shield summoned by the spell and exploded into a beeping ball. of flame.

Immediately afterwards, a second fireball followed, but in the end Professor Kettleburn's iron armor shield withstood the test.

"You surrender!"

The old professor may have stayed in the ivory tower for a long time, so at this time, he actually wanted to persuade Madeleine to surrender.

"I go to Romania as a volunteer at the dragon farm every year. Your spell cannot break the iron armor spell I cast that has gone through the test of dragon breath..."

Suddenly, Professor Kettleburn's expression changed, "...how dare you do that, with iron armor to protect you!"

He once again cast the Iron Armor Curse, but this time, he released it for the leader of the Thestrals.

Realizing that her spell could not break through the iron armor spell of the old wizard in front of her, Madeleine was initially uneasy. When she heard that he said that she was volunteering at a dragon farm in Romania, she immediately realized that this old man was a Conservationist of Magical Creatures.

The Curse may not be as good as Kettleburn, the real professor, but in terms of understanding human nature, she is at least eight Diagon Alleys ahead of him.

Madeline very shamelessly adjusted the target of the explosive spell to a Thestral that was unable to take off from the ground because of an injured wing!
Sure enough, Kettleburn was fooled, and he applied the Iron Armor Curse that was supposed to be cast on himself to the Thestral.

Madeleine took the opportunity to cast an explosion spell on him again. Thanks to Professor Kettleburn's proficiency in using the armor spell, the armor shield she cast for the first time was able to block the spreading flames in front of him. .

"so close!"

Professor Kettleburn broke out in a cold sweat.

But at this moment, those red flames dispersed a little, and a big hand with sharp claws suddenly passed through the flames and the iron armor shield that had just been offset, and suddenly grabbed his only remaining one. arm.

Not only did Madeleine become a monster, she could also use magic spells - but the other way around is true - she could use magic spells, but she also had monster-like brute strength.

She dug her nails deep into the old wizard's shoulders, snatched away his wand, and then gave him a hard fist that broke his seven wrists when he still wanted to use his wandless spell-casting skills. Eight ribs.

If it weren't for the fact that he has been engaged in the protection of magical animals all year round, Professor Kettleburn would be passively exercising regularly, plus he is a wizard. If an old Muggle man had received this punch, he would most likely have died on the spot.

But even so, Kettleburn was punched and lost his ability to fight. Due to serious internal injuries, he also vomited a lot of blood in his mouth.

Madeleine didn't care at all about this, she just stared with scarlet eyes, opened her mouth with bulging canine teeth and was about to bite Kettleburn's neck.

(End of this chapter)