Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts

Hogwarts' undetectable, dark underground

Les enters the secret room with a pig floating behind him.

It was a whole pig he had requested from the Hogwarts kitchens. Although the house elves were extremely confused, they still complied with his request and handed Les a large fat pig that was supposed to be cut up and served to the dinner table.

Les threw the pig to the ground and called to the Snake King.

After the snake king came out, he saw the fat pig on the ground and couldn't help but be overjoyed: This time he finally called me out to eat!

Too bad, every time the Snake King was called out before, whether it was Salazar Slytherin, a descendant of the Gaunt family, or Tom Riddle, they all used it as a free thug. It was rare that anyone called it out. For meals.

The basilisk stretched its neck suddenly and took the fat pig into its mouth. Then it opened its upper and lower jaws and sucked the pig's head into its mouth.

Then, the fat pig was swallowed bit by bit by the basilisk. Rice took advantage of the basilisk to enjoy its food, walked around behind it, snapped his fingers, and a stream of blood spurted out from the gaps in the scales on its back. come out.

After receiving two bottles of snake blood, Les stopped taking blood and very considerately applied some ointment to the basilisk's wound.

From beginning to end, the basilisk didn't even know he was being bled.

After coming out of the secret room, Les went straight to Rowena's office, and then met Helga in the office who was also full of success. She also held a small crystal bottle filled with blood. Considering that Fox is not as big as the Basilisk, it is quite a show of respect to be able to provide so much blood.

Different from the bottle of basilisk blood that glowed vaguely with green light in Les's hand, Phoenix Fox's blood felt warm just by looking at it. It was clean, pure, and even a little sacred at first glance.

"Use your basilisk blood first." Helga gave in. The main reason is that the blood of the basilisk is inexhaustible. If the experiment fails, it is not a waste. How much blood can Fox squeeze out? In terms of blood thickness, it has to be Salazar's basilisk. , Rowena’s dragon blood still costs money!

The calculating and thrifty Helga invited Les to her tree and watched as Salazar poured an entire bottle of basilisk blood into the roots of the fruit tree.

Within a few minutes, blood-red lines appeared on the bark of the tree.

"When the lines on the bark disappear, you can pour the next blood." Helga explained on the side.

Les nodded and stood in front of the potted plant in a daze.

About half an hour later, the fruits on the fruit trees changed: several fruits turned red with green spots like the basilisk blood.

The current fruit can already be called the Snake King Fruit.

"The basilisk blood has been sucked into the fruit. Do you want to take one and try it?"

Even if Helga hadn't said so, Les would have tried one.

He stretched out his hand to the potted plant and was about to pick off a king snake fruit when a magical scene happened: a king snake fruit fell from the branch and landed in the palm of Rice's hand.

"Salazar, this fruit is destined for you." Helga said with a smile. This was the compatibility she mentioned before. Obviously, the compatibility between Salazar and the basilisk fruit is extremely high, so high that the fruit will be actively attracted to him.

Les smiled when he heard this: Isn't that right? The snake kings who provide blood are all raised by him.

“What happens if the fit isn’t good enough?”

"The fruit is very difficult to pick. The harder you use, the more serious the backlash you will get from eating it, and you may even be in danger of your life."

Les nodded and swallowed the fruit he picked.

When the fruit enters the mouth, it turns into a ball of juice in an instant, and then turns into a magic power entrenched in Les's belly.

Les's facial features suddenly wrinkled together.

It's not that there are any serious side effects from eating this fruit, but it's so bitter that it feels like eating a whole snake gall raw.

"Come on, follow my actions." Seeing Salazar eat the fruit, Helga passed on the magic spell she had researched to him.

For those who understand the flow of magic power, they only need to use their own magic power to influence the magic power brought by the fruit to achieve transformation. But Helga also considered that most wizards did not understand the knowledge of magic flow, so she referred to the magic spells of modern wizards and came up with a set of gestures and spells to ensure that wizards who could not control magic could also complete the transformation. .

"The magic of turning into a snake king!" Along with the chants and gestures, Les felt the magic in his belly being driven to his limbs, and his skin became itchy.

A few seconds later, his body was covered with snake scales, and his eyes turned into snake pupils.

"Yes, the legs haven't changed much, so it won't have too big an impact." Under the influence of the snake king fruit, Les's legs became a lot thinner, but they did not merge into one and become a snake's tail. appearance.

"I wonder if this snake-turning magic can allow me to retain some of the snake king's power?" A thought flashed through Les's mind.

"You'll know once you try it." Helga was prepared, took out a white mouse from her arms, and threw it from behind Les in front of him.

Rice picked up the white rat, put it in front of him, and looked at it eye to eye.

The next moment, Les felt that the mouse in his hand stiffened and was unable to move. But it's not dead, it's just petrified, and a potion made from mandrake can wake it up.

Although he failed to inherit the basilisk's death-killing magic, Les was very satisfied.

In battle, there is no difference between petrification and immediate death. The disadvantages of the snake king still exist, and the snake magic still exists. As long as you don't look directly into the eyes, you won't be petrified.

Thinking of this, Les had another idea.

He asked Helga for a little white mouse again. This time he didn't look directly at it, but condensed a smooth ice shard and looked at the little white mouse through the ice shard.

This time, the little white mouse was only stiff for a moment and then recovered its vitality.

"The power of magic will decrease as the number of reflections increases, just as I expected." Les completed his experiment.

About three minutes later, Les turned back into human form.

"The time is a bit short." Les was slightly dissatisfied with the duration of the transformation magic.

Three minutes, if fighting alone, there is still enough time to decide the winner, but it is not enough for large-scale group battles.

Hearing Salazar's words, Helga couldn't help rolling her eyes: The old venomous snake said it lightly, but who knows the hardships behind the research and development?

How difficult is it to turn a living person into an animal, especially a top-level magical animal like a basilisk? Salazar's ability to hold on for three minutes was beyond Helga's expectations.

After Les's attempt was successful, Helga also poured phoenix blood on the roots. This time, there were a few more phoenix fruits on the small tree.

Unfortunately, both the phoenix fruit and the basilisk fruit have a poor compatibility with Helga.

"It's okay, there is still Rowena's fire dragon blood." Les comforted: "Maybe the dragon fruit will be very suitable for you by then?"

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