Chapter 44: The Moonlit Night Sacrifice
Daphany went to Gjeon's classes a few times. Compared to Professor Sybil Trelawney, who has an excellent pedigree and is actually talented, but is a sinkhole, in terms of teaching level, Gjeen is definitely one street above Sybil Trelawney, and it has to be a Champs-Avenue!
Divination classes have become a big hit for electives! Countless students have gone to class, and many have even made the decision to take a divination course next semester.
Devhanie was noncommittal, only she knew that Professor Ggerjne, who was beloved by the students, was as short-lived as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. I'm running away next semester!
The changes in the divination class are huge, but compared to one other thing, the changes seem to be nothing!
Neville, whose parents have awakened and replaced his wand with a new wand, has revealed an amazing talent for magic! He even surpassed many of his seniors in his use of magic, and now he's catching up with Angelina, Harry, and Fred! And George, who is relatively not good at fighting in the twins, can already fight back and forth! Of course, if it is with Daphany, and Hermione, who has been trained by Daphany for a semester, the gap is still a little obvious.
But even so, it has already shocked almost everyone who knows him well!
Tuesday of the third week after the start of school is Valentine's Day, and as early as the weekend of the previous week, the college announced that Valentine's Day would be a day off.
This is something that Daphany didn't expect before, Valentine's Day holiday! School! Hogwarts can do it this time! As a single dog, Daphany hadn't been to the holidays, but of course she couldn't stay in the castle honestly, so Daphany, who had never taken school rules very seriously, was ready to go to the Forbidden Forest to find Hagrid's younger brother by the way.
By this time, Hagrid had already brought back his pure-blooded giant's brother and hid him in the Forbidden Forest!
With today's strength, Daphany naturally doesn't have to worry about the dangers of the Forbidden Forest at all. Although there is a nest of five-and-a-half-dangerous two-headed wyverns in the center of the forest, if you can't beat them, there is still no problem if you want to protect yourself.
Daphine's movements went well, and she found a giant on the side of the Forbidden Forest Hunting Grounds, not far inside. However, the giant was not as tall as Daphany would have liked, less than five meters in size. According to Hagrid, an adult giant is twenty feet, or about six meters, and Hagrid's younger brother is very short among giants!
In fact, this trip to the Forbidden Forest was originally planned to be carried out earlier in this school year. But before the start of school started, I went to the United States. So at this time, Daphine is planning to take a good look at what is in the depths of the Forbidden Forest!
Between the fluttering flight and the canopy, towards the depths of the forest.
In the territory of the eight-eyed giant spider, several eight-eyed giant spiders dragged a corpse that was wrapped in layers of silk and crawled towards a depression surrounded by shrubs. That's obviously going to be fed to Aragog!
"This group of wreckage, turn around and destroy you all!" Daphany sneered, but instead of making a rash move, she continued to fly towards the depths of the Forbidden Forest, the purpose of the day was to explore the Black Forest, not to fight.
A little further inside, Daphany spotted several moon wolves hunting a deer. I don't know why an island country like Britain has such a big deer~
Continuing inside, there are more high-level demonic creatures. Thestrals, Motra rats, Tebo warthogs, bird-like maneats, unicorns. There are even two poisonhorns! Well, Hagrid had used them as teaching aids before and got Cedric directly into the medical room.
Well, and a griffin. It was Daphany who gave Hagrid. Like Daphne, this griffin is also a single dog, alone~
It's about the same area, and it's still the territory of the centaurs. There were so many of them that Daphany imagined! Originally, Daphne thought it was just a small group of fifty or sixty, but it turned out to be a large tribe of hundreds!
A little further from the centaur tribe is the heart of the Black Forest, where the two-headed wyvern inhabited. Daphine had been here once a few years ago, and when she saw a two-headed wyvern, she turned around and ran away. This time there is no need, Daphne, who has already mastered the advanced confusion charm, as long as she keeps a certain distance, even a two-headed wyvern with keen perception will not be able to detect her!
Farther away, I saw nothing out of the ordinary, except for a very large rune snake in a small lake on the other side, which startled Daphany.
But when I was about to go back, I found something interesting.
The Forbidden Forest is big enough! Daphany also turned more carefully. So when she returned, it was already dark. Fog rises in the Forbidden Forest at night, floating in the canopy of trees, obscuring the sky. It makes the Forbidden Forest even darker.
Fortunately, Daphne is proficient in eagle eyesight, and can easily see even in the dark.
When Daphany returned, she was over the centaur tribe again. Marvelously spotted the horses seem to be performing some kind of sacrificial ritual.
Centaurs have the highest IQ among subhuman creatures that do not have a fully humanoid form, even surpassing that of mermaids! Daphany was intrigued by their rituals. So he quietly lurked in.
The tribe of the centaurs covers a large area, but in the entire forbidden forest comparable to a large city, it can only be said to be a small piece! However, they cut down this piece of timber and used it to build houses. So here are one of the few places where you can see the starry sky. Considering that centaurs are all astrological masters, it makes sense!
Due to their size, their houses are much larger than those of humans or wizards, and in Daphne's opinion, it is enough for giants! At least Hagrid's brother had enough for Ken! Nature
However, in terms of architectural level, centaurs are much worse than humans or wizards. The house was even rougher than Hagrid's little shack! In Daphany's opinion, there is only a limit to being better than a thatched house~
However, in the middle of this thatched hut, which was not as dilapidated, there was another stone altar, a very delicate altar!
The base of the altar has three layers and is hexagonal in shape. There are steps between each floor. Daphine counted it, and the steps in each volume were thirteen. Daphne frowned, thirteen? That's a familiar number! But after thinking about it carefully, Daphany couldn't remember seeing anything like this from somewhere, and only thought it was her own delusion. Didn't pay much attention to it.
Each layer of the altar was covered with a large number of inscriptions, and after looking at it for a while, Daphany could tell that some of the characters were in ancient runes. But the content is incomprehensible. As for the other symbols, Daphany vaguely remembers reading them in some books, but they are very old things, and Daphne has not dabbled in them at all.
On the uppermost level of the altar, there is a group of stone statues in the center. The main body is a tall horseman, and next to him is a bearded man. The man wore a long sword at his waist and a book in his arms.
Around this time, the horses are gathered around the altar. Most of them had stone spears in their hands, and they were praying in a language that Daphany didn't understand.
Daphine listened for a moment, but had no clue. The language of the centaurs is not the same as that of wizards or humans! And after listening carefully for a while, I found that they actually read the same sentence over and over again.
Apparently it was a prayer of a specific meaning. Daphany was bored and ready to leave.
Suddenly, a soft light fell from the sky and was projected right above the altar.
Daphany looked up suddenly, and sure enough, a soft silver light was projected from the moon's face! Tonight, it's a full moon!
In the distance, a few wolf howls faintly came, it was the moon wolf in the forbidden forest.
The moon is in the sky!
If Lupin or Jacob were here, they would perform a live performance and transform into a giant wolf! But they weren't there, and Lupin was probably at home to Tonks as a beast, and Jacob should have changed yesterday due to the jet lag!
Is it a customary sacrifice for the full moon? Daphne pondered. But I saw three extraordinarily tall, but very young, centaurs slowly walking up to the altar that shone with a glow from the moonlight.
The horse's hooves were not as difficult as Daphine had imagined. The three centaurs came to the altar and shouted something in the centaur language.
As they shouted, the silver light on the altar gradually converged and concentrated on the statue in the center of the altar. After a few moments, the rest of the altar was left with a faint glow, but the statue was as bright as the moon in the sky.
Then, one of the three centaurs was particularly strong, and the brown body and hair of the centaur gradually began to glow silver, as if it had been infected by the altar!
The other two unchanged centaurs left the altar and went to the bottom of the altar, where they continued to chant the prayer aloud with the other centaurs. The centaur on the altar stopped chanting, his body trembling slightly, and Daphany changed his angle to find that his expression was extremely distorted, apparently suffering greatly.
At the same time, his hair began to change faintly. The horse's hair and underneath the hair are faintly silver. After a few breaths, it began to slowly extend outward.
Daphne's eyes blessed by the Eagle Eye Technique are very useful, and she can clearly see that it is the root of the centaur's hair, which is actually beginning to turn silver!
What the hell is this, what the hell is this?
Daphany was stunned, moonlight dyed her hair?
However, just as the silver was half-dyed, the centaur suddenly gave up on all fours and collapsed to the ground. His whole body twitched violently and foamed at the mouth. And the silver on the hair was instantly retracted, and the centaur who had already turned half of his hair into silver was instantly beaten back to its original shape!
The centaurs stopped chanting, and a few of the older centaurs of the tribe with silver hair quickly ascended to the altar and helped the twitching centaur down. A silver-skinned centaur with a silver body and silver hair shook his head and sighed.
"This month, failed again, it's been eleven months since a centaur could gain magic!" The old centaur sighed. This time it was human language, and Daphany understood.
Gain mana? That ritual just made the centaurs magical? Thinking about it this way, when the first grade faced Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort's remnant soul, the centaur at that time, what was his name, was indeed showing the power of the elements! And that centaur is indeed silver!
It seems that this altar can give centaurs access to elemental power on full moon nights with the help of a specific consciousness. And the hair of the centaur who has gained the elemental power will turn silver! However, it doesn't look like the success rate of this ceremony is high!
"It's fun!" Daphine raised an eyebrow, waited for a moment, and realized that the centaurs had not continued the ritual, and turned away. Check back next month if the timing is okay! Maybe you'll get something! Daphine thought.