Who am I, and where am I?"

"Did I see this tree just now?"

"The forest path that was said to be good, why is it gone when you walk?!"

Elena stared blankly at the dense forest around her, except that the ground seemed to be slightly sloping downward, the trees were still as lush as before, and there was no tendency to leave the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest in the slightest.

That's right, she got lost again.

In the face of this familiar feeling, Elena's heart was unwavering, and even a little ......

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

Now in this situation of dying of starvation, who can laugh out loud!

At first, she did chase in the direction where the two unicorns had disappeared.

However, after only a little chase for a minute or two, Elena instantly realized a problem, it was still a little unrealistic to chase down the lively [Scottish Unicorn Aries] in the dense forest with her little short legs.

Thankfully, just as she was about to return the way she came, she saw a vague forest path.

Recall a hint from Hogwarts Hunting Ground guard Rubeus Hagrid:

"When you're walking in the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, it's usually hard to get lost and not in danger as long as you don't stray from the path. ”

Therefore, Elena decisively gave up the unicorn plan and chose [Plan B] - follow the elder's teachings and find the way automatically.

But all the paths that people take always have a beginning and an end.

It's a big deal to walk a little in both directions, and you can always successfully return to the entrance to the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest, and if you are lucky, you will succeed once, and if you are unlucky, you will try one more time at most.

However, the premise of this is ......

This path must be the path of human beings......

Looking at the poop of unknown magical animals in front of her, as well as the scattered footprints, the corners of Elena's mouth twitched.

It was only then that she suddenly realized an important problem - judging by the frequency of human wizards' activities in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, most of the vague forest paths in the Forbidden Forest are usually not the footprints left by human activities.

"Don't panic, it's not a big problem, just go back the way you came. ”

Elena exhaled calmly, narrowing her eyes slightly, trying to make out her footprints on the wand-illuminated ground, but with her current size and weight, there was no visible trace in this dense primeval jungle.

As she stopped and spun around a few times, she couldn't even tell which way she was coming.

"I'm so hungry→ I'm ↘ so hungry ↗, I'm really hungry↓......"

Elena hummed softly, gradually calming down and thinking carefully.

The Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is home to a variety of magical beasts, most of which have a certain level of intelligence, and if they encounter any of them, most of them can find a way to communicate and let them help lead the way.

She may not be able to see the legendary Thestrals, but in addition to this, there are unicorns, trolls, and hippogriffs that can communicate, and the ideal of them is of course the Centaur tribe with a complete social system.

At that moment, Elena suddenly heard a strange rustling sound on her left, about ten feet above the ground, as if some creature was touching the branches of the forest, accompanied by a clicking sound.

In fact, these sounds are not obvious, and most of them are mixed with the wind of the Forbidden Forest.

However, for some reason, it sounded particularly abrupt to Elena's ears, as if it was a ripple that suddenly bloomed on the calm water, and she even roughly sketched the size of the other party in her mind for the first time.

"Hi and good evening. ”

Before the other party could pounce from the sky, Elena turned around first, raised her wand and smiled.

"My dear...... Mr. Spider. ”

It was a giant spider the size of a horse pulling a cart, with eight long, bizarre, thick-haired legs, and a pair of shiny black claws on the front legs, which made a faint clicking sound between opening and closing.

There is no doubt that this is a specialty of the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest, the Eight-Eyed Spider Tribe.

Facing the wand that was close at hand, the spider that had been silently lurking to the upper left of Elena, ready to pounce, suddenly froze, and a trace of jealousy flashed in its eight terrifying black eyes.

As a magical creature that lives around Hogwarts Castle, it is well aware of the power of these human wizards - even if it is a human cub, when her wand is aimed at it, it is quite terrifyingly threatening.

The most important thing is that it can vaguely feel the malice hidden in the little thing in front of it.

"Hello, do you know how to get to Hogwarts ......Castle?"

Elena's eyes were firmly fixed on the big furry spider in front of her, and there was no trace of fear, but any seasoned hunter knew that when facing unknown creatures in the jungle, turning around and running away was always the worst option.

When you have a firearm in your hand, calmly locking on to the opponent is the right option.

For wizards, wands have the same effect - powerful impact and lethality, will repel all unknown beasts in the first place, and humans walking upright are behemoths in the perspective of most animals.

In fact, if the other party is a creature that has never eaten a human, the result of such a confrontation is usually ......

"Hey, don't run, petrify!"

Elena shouted a little anxiously, and took a quick step to chase after the big spider that had escaped, and the wand in her hand sent out a series of spells from time to time, trying to leave the eight-eyed giant spider behind to ask for directions.

She had already lost a unicorn, and if she missed the big spider she had encountered so hard in front of her, she didn't know when she would be lucky enough to meet a live magical beast again, after all, the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest was too big.

Compared to the previous failed chase, this time the chase process was significantly easier.

Although the big spider still effortlessly shook Elena away with the advantage of its eight long legs, the gradient environment around her became the most striking signpost, guiding Elena to continue forward.

As the girl progressed, the ground was gradually sloping downward, and the surrounding trees were becoming more and more sparse, and many of the trunks took on an unhealthy gray, as if they had been eroded by some pest, and the branches and leaves were covered with white cobwebs.

After about five or six minutes of chase, Elena came to the edge of a wide hollow.

The trees that had been in the hollow had been cleared, and a few spiders crawled on the ground covered with thick fallen leaves, stepping on it had the feeling of walking on the thick carpet of the common room, and in the center of the hollow under the starlight was a terrible sight that would terrify most people.

Spider.

Not like the usual small spiders that crawl away in a hurry, but each one seems to be the size of a domestic pig, with eight eyes, eight legs, black, hairy, waving black claws and making a clicking sound.

What a huge race......

Elena narrowed her eyes and shook her head in a sigh as she swept around the giant spiders in the hollow.

Biological invasion, even in the wizarding world, is indeed a problem that cannot be ignored.

According to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Eight-Eyed Spider is a large, ferocious spider with a high-risk carnivorous creature with its legs stretched out to the sides and spanning up to fifteen feet.

The most important thing is that the female eight-eyed spider can lay up to 100 eggs at a time, and the hatching time is less than three months - the eight-eyed spider population in the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest has lived for nearly fifty years, and if it were replaced by ordinary primeval jungle, there might be only giant spiders left in the forest now.

The giant spider that had escaped from Elena was a little below the steep slope, next to a misty hemispherical web in the middle of the hollow, and its companions surrounded it, making a clicking sound with each other, as if whispering something to each other.

With the "whining" of the giant spiders (Elena guessed), one after another the eight-eyed spiders turned, and the eight fierce black compound eyes looked up and down at the little human witch who appeared on the edge of the hollow, exuding an increasingly unsettling atmosphere, and the only reason to stop them from pounced was ......

"People! Aragog!

Elena vaguely heard this from the noisy claws opening and closing not far away.

Obviously, as a community of magical animals with a strict hierarchy, it is indeed up to the elders to make decisions in the face of such an unexpected situation, and this is exactly what Elena wants, she is only here to find a guide.

Soon, out of the misty hemispherical web, a giant eight-eyed spider the size of a small elephant emerged, its body and legs black and gray, and each eye on its ugly head with large claws covered with a layer of white puffs.

There is no doubt that this is the pet that Hagrid kept [Aragog], which is blind.

"What's going on?" said Aragog, the two large claws moving rapidly.

Compared to the ordinary eight-eyed giant spiders, its voice is much clearer and deeper than those small spiders.

"People! Aragog!

The spiders gathered around Aragog waved their claws excitedly, making a clicking sound and pointed at the little silver-haired witch who was standing on the edge of the hollow in a daze.

"Is that Hagrid?" Aragog shook his claws in confusion, and his eight milky eyes stared blankly.

"No, it's a stranger. ”

"Then kill him!" the giant eight-eyed spider said impatiently.

"Don't bother me with this kind of thing, I'm sleeping......"

However, before Aragog could finish speaking, a crisp incantation suddenly came to mind at the edge of the hollow.

“Ex...... plosion！”

Rumble!

With a deafening roar, several trees around Elena were uprooted, and debris was thrown around, and the shock wave formed by the explosion swept across the entire depression, causing all the eight-eyed giant spiders to subconsciously stop the sound of moving claws.

"I'm a friend of Hagrid, don't be afraid, I'm here with kindness and peace. ”

Elena looked at the mute effect brought by the spell, and nodded with great satisfaction - bullying the weak and fearing the hard, this is the characteristic of most creatures, and it is the best way to communicate by showing strength properly before reasoning.

Click, click, click......

After a brief moment of surprise, a series of spider claws opened and closed in the hollow, and it was obvious that this attack alone could not make these creatures who were not very intelligent understand Elena's meaning.

In that case......

Elena glanced at Aragog, who had fallen into hesitation and had not continued to speak for the time being, and the corners of her mouth rose.

“Explosion Maxium！”

“Explosion Maxium！”

“Explosion Maxium！”

Boom! Boom!

Art is always the best way to settle disputes, and if one time is not enough, then it is good to increase the equivalent a few more times.

In less than a few seconds, with Elena as the center, almost all the surrounding trees fell, and the dirt was opened by the power of the spell, and the whole depression was filled with a faint smell of earth.

And just as Elena had expected, the spiders around her finally quieted down.

Elena wasn't naïve enough to think that the Eight-Eyed Spider was such a friendly and harmless creature that it could get them to get them out of the Forbidden Forest just by just communicating with them - Ron and Harry, who almost fed the spider in the books, made a classic mistake about this.

"That's enough! Human cubs, what the hell are you going to do!"

Aragog waved his claws angrily and let out a low growl.

"As you can see, I'm lost. ”

Elena spread her hands and smiled.

"So I hope that a good and reliable creature will send me out of the Forbidden Forest and back to Hogwarts Castle for Halloween dinner - that's all, you know, I'm dying of hunger right now. ”

"Lost, So, Hagrid didn't send you......"

Aragog clicked and danced his claws and said slowly.

"So actually, can I understand that you are an uninvited guest who voluntarily intruded into our territory...... You should know that this is the territory of the Eight-Eyed Spider group. ”

Well?!

Elena narrowed her eyes slightly, why didn't this old spider react at all?!

Logically speaking, after witnessing the destructive power she displayed, Aragog, with his near-human intelligence, should not make an unwise choice for the sake of a little flesh, unless he ......

"Do you think...... Just a little loud noise can force the Eight-Eyed Spider Race to succumb to the fresh human flesh that has been sent to the door, and even serve you wizards like slaves, right?"

It's just that...... Loud noise?!

Elena's cheeks twitched as she looked around at the ground that looked almost like the site of the bombing.

Isn't this old guy a blind man?!

Wouldn't this level of magic make it see reality clearly?!

While thinking this, Elena's gaze slowly fell on the old spider's white eyes......

Emmmmm......

Damn it!

I almost forgot that the old spider was blind now!

"Sorry, poor human cub, you can't go anywhere......"

Not far away, Aragog said slowly, the claws making a dangerous click.

"Wizards are indeed scary, but this is not Hogwarts Castle, you can deal with one or two by yourself, but you will never be able to resist my hundreds of children, stay here and be our holiday gift......"

With Aragog's voice, the surrounding clicks gradually sounded again.

The sound of rustling became more and more intense, and countless spiders seemed to be surrounding from all corners.

Elena sighed lightly, suddenly realizing the failure of this communication.

At Aragog's instigation, the eight-eyed spiders gathered from all directions, slowly moving towards her inch by inch, and a few steps behind her, the spiders formed a solid, towering wall of copper.

Countless black claws opened and closed back and forth, clicking and clicking, hundreds of pairs of vicious eyes gleaming on those ugly black heads, and each spider's gaze flashed with excitement and bloodlust.

Looking at the spider's barbed, hard black fluff, Elena, who was getting more and more hungry, felt a wave of irritability and nausea.

“Explosion！”

Elena's face turned cold, and she waved her wand without hesitation.

Rumble!

The powerful explosion spell effortlessly blasted the "Spider Wall" in Elena's way to pieces, and the spider's green, viscous blood splattered everywhere.

Plop, plop.

The remains of several mangled spider corpses fell heavily to the ground.

Compared to most high-risk magical creatures, the danger of the eight-eyed giant spider is more reflected in its venom, as well as its strong reproductive ability and intelligence, but it does not have any advantages in pure physical and magical resistance.

After all, they're just a large arthropod after all.

In order to gain extraordinary perception abilities, they even sacrificed their outer carapace, only covering their shells with a thick layer of black fluff, which was even more vulnerable in defense than many ordinary animals with rough skin and thick flesh.

However, in the face of the good effect of the spell, Elena's face became more and more solemn.

Strictly speaking, this is the first time she has faced a dangerous magical animal alone.

And after witnessing the eight-eyed giant spider with her own eyes, Elena finally realized why Newt Scamander defined them as five-star dangerous magical beasts in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

Although the moment their bodies were torn apart by the spell, those eight-eyed giant spiders were already dead.

But their palpitating claws were still frantically biting at the empty air with all their might, as if they had pounced on Elena...... It's a terrifying social carnivorous creature.

Compared to most magical beasts, spiders are creatures that don't have much hand-to-hand combat ability.

However, the toxicity of their fangs is still a danger that cannot be ignored.

The Eight-Eyed Spider's rapid onset of poison would allow most wizards to take her to another world before they could get any effective medical treatment - be cautious, there would be no problem after all.

Without any hesitation, Elena took the initiative to inspire the Deathly Hallows pendant that Grindelwald had given her.

The iron armor spell from the original Dark Lord emerged, enveloping Elena's body, and it was actually quite difficult to break through this layer of magical protection with the physical attacks of those big spiders alone.

But there is no doubt that the old blind spider was right.

The Wizard's Damage Spell alone is not as effective against the sheer population of Eight-Eyed Spiders as it is against other magical animals—there are so many of them.

Even if a gap was just blown up, in less than five or six seconds, the black pressure spider swarm in the rear filled up again, and the endless spider swarm didn't care about one or two unlucky spiders who died.

"When you get back, you'll have to learn a few large-scale attack spells. ”

After killing dozens of spiders with the Explosion Charm in a row, Elena sighed and lowered her wand.

In such a situation, the charms taught in the lower grades of Hogwarts were almost not very effective.

This is no longer a situation that a junior wizard can handle.

But fortunately, in addition to being a wizard, she has another profession......

The corners of Elena's mouth were raised, and she silently took out the metal cross necklace that Father Benitez had given her on her birthday not long ago, and her eyes flashed with eagerness.

As a trainee nun, she has another option when magic can't eradicate evil.

Transcend the undead with a cross!

"It's getting bigger. ”

Elena's wand tapped the metal cross necklace in her hand and whispered.

As the incantation was pronounced, Elena felt the magic in her body quickly surging towards the metal necklace in her hand.

The next moment, she saw a giant metal cross half a head taller than her appeared in the glade.

And the originally slender necklace has now become a metal chain as thick as the girl's forearm, wrapped around Elena's arm, shining with a layer of cold metallic luster under the starlight of the Forbidden Forest.

“Rua！Rua！Rua！Rua！Ruaaaaaa......”

Elena moved her wrist and looked around at the dense eight-eyed giant spiders around her, a touch of extremely dangerous pleasure appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she pulled up the metal chain in her hand, making a series of nice sounds of metal rubbing.

"No matter how many weak people come, they are just miscellaneous fish...... Now, it's time for the main character to appear. ”

Click!

An eight-eyed spider swayed its long legs and wielded its huge chelica, while leaning forward and aiming its deadly mouthparts at the silver-haired little witch who had stopped the spell to fight back.

"Alas——!"

Elena sighed and waved her arm with ease.

The giant metal cross rose into the air, and with a whistling sound, it smashed the claws that stretched out in front of the spider to attack, and smashed the eight-eyed giant spider into a puddle of flesh.

[360 degree attack without dead ends] - Someone once used this word to describe the movements of spiders.

At this time, however, this phrase may be more appropriate to describe Elena.

"Boom !!"

With an unstoppable momentum, the giant metal cross slammed into the ground with the bodies of several eight-eyed giant spiders, smashing out deep pits and breaking several arthropods from more spiders around it.

Between the rubble and the dirt, Elena tugged hard at the chain in her hand, her eyes froze, and the cross rose again and swept a half-arc, smashing the heads of the dozen or so eight-eyed spiders on the left who were about to escape.

Boom!

Countless shells shattered, followed by viscous spider bodily fluids spilling.

The entire eight-eyed spider hollow is now almost a spider graveyard, countless half-dead spiders huddle in various corners, and the spider barrier that surrounded Elena has long since collapsed, turning into wreckage all over the ground.

The blunt weapon is always the top life harvesting tool in the primitive hand-to-hand combat battlefield.

Click-click-click......

Click-and-click......

In the face of absolute power, even wild beasts can feel fear, let alone the eight-eyed giant spider that already has some wisdom, and in the face of this one-sided, unfettered slaughter, the eight-eyed giant spider swarm began to retreat and flee.

"Now you want to run, let's see if you're lucky...... Hah-"

Elena glanced at Aragog, who had retreated into the depths of the cobweb, put the chain in her hand to the longest length, took a deep breath, and used all her strength to whizz through the hollow with the massive metal cross.

The taut iron chain was like a sharp blade, cutting off the bodies of most of the fleeing eight-eyed giant spiders, and the eight-eyed giant spiders who were directly hit by the end of the cross directly turned into a puddle of black flesh, convulsed and fell to the spot.

"Whew, Whew......"

Elena gasped for breath and looked around at the area that had suddenly quieted down, a look of relief on her face.

After such a long battle, even she was quite tired.

The Iron Armor Charm given to her by Grindelwald had long since failed, so in the course of the later battle, her clothes were inevitably scratched by the claws or arthropods of some spiders, revealing large areas of snow-white skin.

But fortunately, since she learned to heal the demon text [UR], this simple trauma has not much to do with her at all except for a little pain - as long as she is not killed on the spot, she can heal herself by magic.

This is also the reason why she has the confidence to wander around the Forbidden Forest alone.

Compared to Elena, whose health bar is never limited as long as the blue bar is not empty, almost all creatures in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts are almost not far from death as long as they are seriously attacked by her.

This ......

It's finally over......

Well, there is one last goal left......

Elena dragged the giant cross, stained with spider bodily fluids, and walked unhurriedly towards a misty hemispherical giant spider web in the center of the hollow, the sound of metal chains cutting across the ground as cold as the scythe of death.

Aragog was only blind, but his sense of hearing and smell had not been lost, and the killing feast of ten minutes was enough for him to understand what a terrible demon king he was facing.

It had the impression that even the being known as the "Dark Lord" more than a decade ago was less terrifying than the little witch in front of it - this one-sided slaughter was even more chilling than dying of strange magic.

"Respect, esteemed human wizard, wait a minute! I'm a friend of Hagrid. ”

Click, click, the old spider said anxiously, and Elena felt that she seemed to hear a little helplessness and trembling from the big click.

Hearing such a comic reversal of the lines, she couldn't help but feel a little emotional-isn't it good to be like this earlier?

Elena shook her head and whispered leisurely.

"But that doesn't hide the fact that you're eating people, right?"

"No! Absolutely not! You're the first! Hagrid is a good friend of mine! Benefactor! Although I have an instinct to attack people, out of respect for Hagrid, we haven't hurt anyone in the years. ”

"Oh, yes......"

For this big spider who can't speak, Elena actually doesn't know what to do.

In the decades, there has never been a case at Hogwarts where a student has died in the Forbidden Forest.

If the spiders did eat people, Albus Dumbledore and many of the professors at the school would have uprooted them long ago.

So strictly speaking, it did live up to its oath and didn't actively harm humans - but this, like the oath imprinted on the back of her hand, had too many holes in it.

Although in the original plot, these eight-eyed spiders eventually joined Voldemort's camp and attacked Hogwarts together, but that also happened after Aragog's death.

Of course, the most important thing is that if he really kills this old spider, Hagrid will definitely become a red name in an instant, right?

After all, it's one thing to defend yourself and fight back, it's another thing to break into a house and kill spiders.

"What you said seems to have some sense......

Elena stopped, looked around at the spider corpses around her, and nodded thoughtfully, the price seemed to be quite profound.

Hearing Elena's footsteps stop, the old spider hiding behind the cobweb mist breathed a little calmer, and the sound of the big claw waving was not as rapid as before.

"As you can see, I'm already an old spider who can't move. ”

Aragog hesitated for a few seconds, then replied cautiously, "It's all I can do to keep my sons and daughters from attacking Hagrid." It's hard for me to ...... more in the face of younger and more powerful offspring."

"Rest assured, I'm a reasonable person. ”

Elena smiled slightly, and drew her wand to restore the giant metal cross in her hand to its original size, and by the way, cleaned up the spider slime on it.

"As you can see, I'm just defending myself...... Although the method may be a little excessive, but it is also because I am hungry and want to go back quickly, so I start a little harder. ”

"No problem! I'll send you back to Hogwarts!" Aragog said with a fierce click, "If you're worried, I'll send you myself." ”

"There is no rush for the time being. ”

Elena touched her hungry lower abdomen, looked around at the spider graveyard around her, and shook her head meaningfully.

"What I need right now is some dry firewood, can you ask your children to help collect some of it......

"Dry firewood?" Aragog replied, somewhat confused, "no problem, are you a little cold......

"Cold is only one aspect. ”

The half-breed little Meiwa shook her head and licked her lips lightly, revealing a demonic smile.

"More importantly, after strenuous activity, I was a little hungry......

———

———

8,000 words!

Write this plot in one go, no broken chapters, I hope you like it~

"Bookmark for easy reading"