Chapter 215: Hunting Dementors
After Wolf pointed out that the notebook smelled of werewolves, Hermione seemed to be shocked by Wolf's words and didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until Ryan shook her that she reacted and said, "I got it from the new Defence Against the Dark Arts class professor Lupin, because I was worried that I didn't learn some knowledge from his class in the first half of the school year, so I asked him questions after class, and then he lent me this notebook." ”
"Defence Against the Dark Arts class?" Wolf nodded. "It's a profession that requires a lot of dark creatures to deal with a lot, and it's normal to encounter werewolves. Maybe he got some werewolf smell on his notebook. ”
Under normal circumstances, no one with a big brain would have imagined that Dumbledore would invite a werewolf to the school to be a professor. So Hermione nodded in agreement after listening to Wolfe's judgment.
Anyway, Lupin is not the kind of villain werewolf who likes to bite people indiscriminately, as long as he pays attention when the moon is full. So Ryan didn't care about it, and besides, Lupin's coming to the school as a professor was also approved by Dumbledore, in this case, as long as you don't want to tear your face with old Deng, it's useless to know that Lupin is a werewolf.
Soon they ignored the topic of werewolves, and continued to talk about what they had seen on this trip, until it was almost time to say goodbye to the reluctant Wolf.
Because of Sirius' prison break this year, the Dementors also left their old nest of Azkaban for Hogwarts as guards. Ryan has always had a strong curiosity about this creature, especially after mastering the magic of life, and is eager to study this strange creature. And this time the Dementors came to Hogwarts to give him just that opportunity.
Three nights later, after curfew, Ryan quietly got out of bed, and under the protection of the Phantom Charm, he touched the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
According to the information Ryan gathered from the twins, the Dementors guarding the entrance to the school were the focus of attention, and there were dozens of Dementor hedgehogs in a group, making it difficult to solve the problem silently. Ryan just wanted to catch a Dementor and go back to research, not to make a difference. So he chose the Dementors who patrolled the Forbidden Forest at night.
There was another reason why the Dementors patrolling the Forbidden Forest were chosen as targets: several classmates whose family members worked at the Ministry of Magic said in the common room that one or two Dementors patrolling the Forbidden Forest occasionally disappeared, and the Ministry suspected that they might have been killed by some powerful creatures in the Forbidden Forest. If that's the case, it means that even if Ryan catches a few Dementors, he won't attract anyone's attention.
Because the place where the Dementors walked would absorb the life force around them, this also made the patrol path in the Forbidden Forest that exuded the aura of death very clear in the vision of the Hawkeye, the demon modification that Ryan activated with life magic. After using life magic to rein in his breath, Ryan quietly climbed to a tree at the edge of the patrol path and waited for the Dementors to arrive.
After a while, two Dementors floated in a group from a distance. According to a well-informed classmate, the Ministry of Magic discovered that there were only two Dementors in a team that entered the Forbidden Forest after losing them many times, and that if they exceeded this number, they could easily be besieged by creatures in the Forbidden Forest. That's why the Dementor squads patrolling here now are two in one.
Of course, this also gives Ryan enough chances, after all, if there are too many groups, he can guarantee that he can beat them, but basically he can't catch them alive.
As the two Dementors floated under the tree, Ryan could feel the temperature around him suddenly turn cold, and a psychic attack attacked his soul. But under the protection of the orthodox Taoist mind, this soul attack had no effect on him.
He seized the opportunity to leap from a two-story tree branch and unleash palm thunder at the two Dementors with a yellow paper talisman in each hand.
After a standard assassination move, Ryan landed on the snow and rolled to the side to avoid a possible attack. But when he drew his wand and pointed it in the direction of the Dementors, he found that the two Dementors had dissolved most of them, and were hurrying away to escape elsewhere.
"Damn, you can't let them report it. Thinking of this, Ryan subconsciously took out a paper talisman from the space bag on his waist and strung it on his wand, then waved his wand and drew a spell out of thin air, and after drawing, he pointed to the back of the dementor and shouted: "Thunder!"
As soon as the voice fell, a little white flame appeared on the rune paper out of thin air, and soon burned the rune paper completely.
Then a bolt of silvery-white lightning fell from the sky, splitting into two strands at the treetops and slashing at the two fleeing Dementors.
With two screams like fingernails scratching a blackboard, and two waves of negative energy, both Dementors were split into black smoke. Ryan could also feel that the two energy clusters full of negative energy that were within the detection range of his life magic suddenly disappeared.
It was the same thing he had thought before, that Refa was indeed very restrained from this filthy creature. But the problem now is that this restraint represents too much lethality, and in practice it will directly destroy the Dementors instead of incapacitating them.
It seemed that there was only a backup plan, and Ryan thought of this and quickly left the first ambush point, jumped on the branches and ran towards the second ambush point.
The second ambush was closer to the periphery of the Forbidden Forest, and Ryan judged that if the first ambush failed. The remaining Dementors would then retreat from the Forbidden Forest as quickly as possible, and the second ambush point he had chosen would be just right to cut the path from the first ambush point to the retreat of another group of Dementors.
Sure enough, when Ryan rushed to the tree at the second ambush site out of breath, he saw two Dementors hurrying over from a distance. This is one of the characteristics of the Dementors: with the exception of a few leaders, most of the Dementors act on instinct, and if they are a group, they are fine, but a few Dementors can only act according to habit when acting alone, lacking sufficient improvisation.
Therefore, when the two Dementors retreated, they would only stupidly retreat according to the patrol route, which also gave Ryan the opportunity to ambush.
When the two Dementors floated under the tree, a large red net came down. Soon the Dementors were trapped in a large net and could not move. Ryan then jumped off the tree, picked up the net, and threw it into the Ten Thousand Worlds grocery store.
After throwing the two dementors into the grocery store, Ryan didn't hear the sound of the grocery store deducting the offset point, which meant that his previous conjecture was partly correct, and ordinary Dementors were just monsters that acted on instinct and didn't have enough intelligence.
After harvesting two Dementors as trophies, Ryan immediately returned to the castle. After all, his goal had been achieved, and the disappearance of four Dementors at a time estimated that after a while, the Dementors would be searched on a large scale. Ryan didn't want to run into a horde of monsters. What's more, he's in a hurry to get back to the safety of the castle and study the Dementors.