Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 77 Troll’s Beard
Little Khan ran very fast, and all four little paws turned into hot wheels.

As it ran, it turned back, fearing that the big fools behind it wouldn't be able to catch up.

"Waaagh!!!"

Khan roared wildly, 100% restoring Newt's voice, and woke up the entire Hogwarts.

And just as it was sitting firmly on the handrail of the stairs, sliding down quickly, an accident suddenly happened——

Among the giant monsters chasing it, one rarely used its brain and threw out the big stick in its hand.

With the blessing of strange power, the big stick shot out like a cannonball and hit the handrail of the stairs at once.

After all, the school's annual funds are limited, and good steel is used on the cutting edge. No principal has time to strengthen the stair handrails (besides, even if a naughty little wizard blows it up with a magic spell, there is probably no way to blow up the stone handrails).

No one would have thought that these handrails would suffer such a disaster today: they were hit by big sticks thrown by trolls, and the stone handrails were blown into pieces in an instant as if they had been hit by cannonballs. .

Khan was also thrown away, and seven or eight pieces of gravel, which looked heavy to the eye, were about to hit its body.

Khan is in danger!

At the critical moment, a rescuer finally arrived in time, jumped in the air and caught the Khan who spread his limbs - he lied to himself that he was a flying squirrel - and then fell back to the ground ahead of the rubble.

The professors originally wanted to use a levitating spell on the gravel, but when they saw the change in Bourne, everyone except Principal Dumbledore was extremely surprised.

Snape: How come his Magus form is taller than the "half-blood giant" he transformed into when he was a child?
McGonagall: No wonder Bourne has an outstanding talent for transformation. It turns out that like Tonks, he is also a rare natural Magus.

Flitwick: What did this kid eat to grow so tall? I'll have to ask his grandpa later to help my kids get up too.

Sprout: This body is suitable for farming at first glance. It's a pity that he was not assigned to our Hufflepuff house.

Hagrid: Let’s talk about why little Bourne, like me, has a unique appreciation of food. It turns out that he also has giant blood.

Quirrell: What the hell is this...

The broken staircase handrail hit his head. Bourne just shook his head, and then shook off the stone fragments stuck in his hair.

Following Newt's example, he put the frightened Khan on his shoulders and returned to the door of the banquet hall in one stride.

At this moment, the group of giant monsters also walked down the stairs with a bang and stood together in the hall on the first floor of the castle.

They all roared -

"Waaagh!!!"

The target of their roar was Bourne who did not enter the banquet hall but just threw Khan to his friends.

Facing the challenge and arranging his pets, Bourne turned around and said lightly: "Noisy."

However, his calmness only lasted less than a second.

"Slughorn, hurry up and sit down in the banquet hall."

Professor McGonagall walked anxiously to Bourne and ordered with a serious face.

"We, the professors, are responsible for dealing with the trolls here and protecting Hogwarts. It's not the turn of a little wizard yet."

Newt, the old wizard, also came over quickly. He was holding a small doll in his hand and didn't know what to do.

"That's right, kid. Hurry back to the banquet hall and just stay with your friends and watch the fun." Then he looked at the vice-principal again: "Professor McGonagall, leave the rest to me. Bar."

After saying that, the newly appointed acting professor threw the doll in his hand far away to the group of menacing trolls.

He cast a shapeshifting spell on the doll.

When it fell to the ground, the doll had transformed into a large, four-legged magical creature with a bulging back, several rows of sharp short horns on its head, and thorns like octopus tentacles around its mouth.

The doll transforms into a horned beast.

The horned beast is a magical animal that was once widely distributed in many parts of Europe. However, because of their aggressive nature (almost impossible to raise in captivity) and because their horns are extremely valuable potion materials, the number of horned beasts still living in the wild has become very rare.

There is a special bond between trolls, especially mountain trolls, and horned beasts.

Among the mountain trolls, there is an ancient test: a troll who wants to be the "boss" must not only defeat other trolls, but also subdue a horned camel beast as a mount.

In the past, large amounts of scar tissue were found on the inner thighs of many adult male mountain trolls. These are the scars left by the horned camel's bulging back and horns on its head when they tried to subdue a horned camel (but nine times out of ten they would fail).

Only the strongest mountain giants can tame adult horned camel beasts, and only such mountain giants will be recognized by other giants as the "most orthodox" boss.

However, as the number of horned camel beasts became increasingly rare, the trial of mountain trolls gradually became impossible to continue.

But this does not mean that they have forgotten the horned camel. In fact, after seeing the Horned Camel, the trolls will naturally have the urge to tame this magical animal. This is a traditional custom rooted in their bloodline.

A giant monster with a decent build directly pulled his companions to the side, raised his thighs and was about to step on the back of the horned camel beast that Newt had made out of a doll.

However, at this moment, a big stick suddenly hit the guy's head with a bang. One of the largest giant monsters walked out of the group of mountain monsters, and it was he who had just done evil to his companions.

What kind of little shrimp is actually dreaming about riding a horned camel?

The giant monster boss walked towards the horned camel excitedly. He wanted to prove to all the giant monsters that he was the truly qualified boss.

At this moment, the horned camel suddenly moved and started running towards the castle gate.

The troll boss immediately chased after him, and the other trolls followed closely behind.

"Just now I tried to use a 'challenge' method to lure the giant monsters out of the castle, but unfortunately I failed. Now I can only use the 'horned camel trick' to fool these giant monsters."

Newt explained to the professors around him.

"Although this method does not have the same insurance as before, it cannot ensure that the giant monsters are reintroduced into the depths of the Forbidden Forest, but if nothing else happens, the transformation technique I applied should still be able to persist until they are introduced into the Forbidden Forest."

However, he probably shouldn't say "no surprises", because such words will always lead to some bad results.

But before Professor Scamander finished speaking, as expected, the accident happened. Realizing that his two legs could not outrun the horned camel's four legs, the giant monster let out a strange roar, and then threw the big stick in his hand.

It originally wanted to hit the Horned Camel, but unfortunately it seemed that there was something wrong with its aim. The big stick whirled and hit a brass Merlin statue standing at the entrance of the hall.

Merlin's beard was smashed off.

Not only that, the statue was so smashed that it fell off the base, accidentally hitting the horned camel beast that was running wildly.

Because it was severely injured, this magical animal transformed by the transfiguration spell canceled the spell's effect with a pop and turned back into its original doll.

Dumbledore turned his head slightly and glanced at Quirrell who was hurriedly wiping the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves. The old wizard had just felt a vague spell fluctuation, but Quirrell didn't seem to be using his wand to cast a spell.

Seeing the Horned Camel disappear, the "smart" troll boss couldn't figure out the specific reason, but he instinctively knew that it had something to do with the little shrimps present!
Because they had seen it with their own eyes not long ago. One of those little shrimps (Qi Luo) took a small stick (magic wand) and poked it in the air once or twice, and some ropes suddenly appeared and tied them up. Solid. Their joints were twisted backwards, causing pain all over their body. It was difficult to even move their wrists.

It's these little shrimps who are causing trouble again!
The troll boss became angry immediately. Instead of picking up the big stick on the ground, it directly lifted the Merlin statue that fell on the ground.

Like throwing a shot put, it spun in a circle and used the strength of its waist and abdomen to throw the solid brass statue, which was more than two meters high, towards the professors standing at the door of the banquet hall.

"Armor protection!" Dumbledore waved the Elder Wand, summoning a transparent spell shield to block the flying brass statue.

When the statue and the spell shield collided, an eardrum-swelling "bang" sound inevitably erupted.

The statue was blocked, but the giant monsters did not stop moving.

They either raised their big sticks or simply raised their fists, howling and charging towards the banquet hall.

Many of the little wizards sitting in the banquet hall, waiting for the Halloween dinner, were so frightened that they screamed. It is obvious that some of them have little understanding of the strength of professors and principals, nor do they know the allusion of "the big body and the weak body".

However, Khan, who had just been thrown into the banquet hall by Bourne, somehow slipped out again. It quickly climbed onto Bourne's clothes, climbed onto the little wizard's shoulders, pulled his neck, and said "Waaagh" again to the crazy trolls.

This war cry that sounded like a challenge once again aroused the anger of the troll "boss". It pushed down the two running companions beside it, and faced Bourne - he automatically ignored the other little shrimps - and hit his chest with a big stick "bang bang bang".

This is the troll's invitation to a duel.

"Let me kill it..."

Snape couldn't stand it anymore, so he raised his wand and walked towards the giant monster, intending to cut the monster into pieces with the Shadowless Blade.

However, Bourne accepted the challenge one step faster than him, and in the blink of an eye he pounced on the giant monster leader from where he was.

"Bourne!"

"Slughorn!"

"Little wizard, don't be impulsive!"

Several professors spoke one after another, wanting to call him out. It's just that Bourne moves too fast, even now he looks taller than the average troll.

Moreover, as he rushed out, Khan was gently flicked towards the professors with his raised hand. In the end, it was Newt, an old wizard with quick hands and eyes, who skillfully caught the little guy.

After being hugged, it secretly made an international gesture to the Twoleg owner who ran away from him.

Khan's heart: Obviously you just asked me to shout, but then you threw me aside after the work was done. Is there any example of a scumbag?

It turned out that when Bourne threw Khan into the banquet hall for the first time, he stuffed a small note into his arms. He cast a small spell on the note that revealed writing - a "professional skill" learned by Mrs. Pince when Byrne was an assistant librarian - and Khan read the text. .

The reason why Bourne did this was because he remembered that the troll had a material he needed, and he had to get it with his own hands.

Trolls, such magical animals, actually have almost no magical materials that can be used.

However, except for their beards.

In addition to being used as an inert agent in some unorthodox potions, the troll's beard can also be used to make wands!

They serve as the core of a wand.

The only drawback is that wands made from troll beards can usually only cast one or two kinds of magic spells - just like the magical animals like trolls, they have all kinds of strange powers, but they are very clumsy in their actions.

However, it is worth mentioning that the effects of spells released with the Troll Beard Wand are often very powerful.

Bourne had read in a book before: In ancient times, when wizards did not restrict other magical intelligent races from using wands, wizards from some giant races would also use logs and giant monster beards to make very special magic wands. Rough "magic wand".

Moreover, when those giant wizards use "magic wands" to cast spells, they release the same spell, which is much stronger than the spells released by human wizards using wands also made of giant beards.

The reason for this is certainly not because giants are better at making "magic wands" than human wandmakers.

At the same time, it is unlikely that the giant wizard's will is stronger than that of a human wizard (will does not change with changes in height and weight).

Then, there is only one reasonable explanation left: the giant wizards used brute force to subdue the trolls, and the beards they "voluntarily" donated were more suitable for making wands than the troll beards obtained by human wizards using magic spells. .

"Voluntary" donation is a very important restriction in many magics related to sacrifice.

However, because there are no giant wizards anymore, the truth of this rumor has not been verified for many years.

After all, there has never been a wizard who can defeat trolls without using magic spells before today.

"Praise the Emperor!"

When the battle began, Bourne, who had habitually expressed heartfelt praise to the Emperor in his heart, suddenly felt confidence and strength filling his body.

With just one hand, he grasped the wrist of the hand holding the big stick of the troll leader, and then squeezed it tightly.

The troll's eyes widened in surprise.

I'm thinking, you little shrimp must have tampered with my smart head, otherwise how would I feel...

Its wrist was broken.

(End of this chapter)