Chapter Sixty-Eight: Promise and Spider Riding Face

As the two of them slowly went deeper into the Forbidden Forest, the trees became denser and denser. The light around them was getting darker and darker, and the already faint moonlight was finally shattered by the layers of branches and leaves, and they began to lose sight of what they saw.

Padma finally reached out to stop Brandy, who was still going forward, she said a few strange syllables, and then shook her wand slightly—but it was not a fluorescent charm, and Brandi saw that the head of her wand emitted a miserable green light, like the light source in the horror movie she occasionally watched when she practiced her courage at home, and after only two or three seconds, the light slowly disappeared again.

The surroundings fell into darkness and dead silence again.

………… That's it? And then what?

Brandi scratched her scalp, about to ask her what the inexplicable spell was for, when Padma suddenly turned around, and he was shocked to find that her eyes were glowing green like a cat's eyes.

"Night Vision."

Padma put it succinctly, "You can temporarily gain feline-like night vision...... The spell developed by my father is currently only circulated in the Petyr family, and it is strictly forbidden to be released to the public. ”

"Wow, that's amazing!" Brandi looked enviously at the pair of dark green eyes, and he almost immediately sensed the effect that the spell could have in battle. You know, if you are fighting at night when you can't see your fingers, a wizard with a fluorescent spell and a wizard hidden in the dark can play a completely different role. Open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, that's what I said......

"Your father must have been a great wizard, Padma, who changed the way wizards fought each other at night with fluorescent spells! No wonder you have this spell tightly controlled in your family...... If it is accidentally spread, it may cause turmoil in the entire wizarding world! ”

"Great?" In the face of Brandi's flattery, Padma's shoulders suddenly shook.

"Are you wrong...... He's just a bastard, a bastard through and through. ”

She turned around, the green light in her pupils seemed to pierce Brandi's body, and she looked at the jungle behind her, and he couldn't help but shiver. Brandi didn't see in her eyes even the slightest hint of respect for her father—only indifference, and a hint of inexplicable sadness hidden in it.

So, the crux of their family is her father? Brandi vaguely remembered that Sister Petyr was a half-blood wizard, and according to Padma, her father was strong enough to create spells on his own...... It was clear, then, that Muggles would naturally be their mothers - what had happened to their parents?

Brandi thought to himself, he had already made a decision, after this secret room incident, to investigate the family situation of the Pettier sisters' family a little.

"I'm the only one who can see things and slow us down." She was silent for a moment, then suddenly threw out an astonishing statement. "Do you want to learn, I can teach you this spell, the composition of the spell is not difficult, the main reason is that the syllables are more obscure."

"What are you talking about! Teach me? This shocked Brandy, that is, it was too dark to see the expression on his face, otherwise Padma would have noticed that Brandy's eyes could be so wide, "But isn't this- your family won't let you do this?" If they find out, you'll be punished! ”

"So, we need to make an agreement." Padma said.

"Do you want me to swear not to spread the word?" Brandi immediately understood, "There must be nothing wrong with this, I'm very tight-lipped!" ”

Unexpectedly, in the dark, Padma actually shook her head slightly.

"No, you can do whatever you want with this spell, and I don't care if you hand it over to the British Ministry of Magic for a Merlin Medal - all I need is a promise." The green eyes were fixed on him, giving Brandi a sense of restraint that there was nowhere to escape. "If one day, I ask you for help, no matter how excessive and bizarre my request may be, you must do it immediately, okay?"

…… Brandi hadn't expected it to be such a demanding request, and he almost thought Padma was just playing a bad joke. So he grinned awkwardly and said dryly.

"Even if I die?"

"Even if you die......," Padma replied without even the slightest hesitation. But before Brandi could respond, she added a rare sentence. "But I probably won't do it yet, as much as I hate you—but my sister will be even more unhappy if you die."

…… Hey, obviously she has the same face, and this sister is really not polite at all when she speaks. Brandi's face instantly fell, and he now missed the silly girl who was going around making trouble all day, and it seemed that only Parvati was there that Padma would behave more like a normal person.

………………

Two men walk through the gloomy forest. The effect of the night vision spell is really strange, and everything Brandi sees now is dyed green, similar to the scenery in the movie when the special forces put on the night vision goggles. At first he could barely distinguish between the leaves and the vines on the ground, and stumbled several times, but now he was able to wander in the jungle.

Brandi didn't know how long he had been walking, only that the paths in the woods had been gone for a long time. The murmurs of animals began to appear in the woods, and they would occasionally see some vague black shadows hovering around them - but I don't know if it was because of the green glow in their eyes, the things just swirled around the periphery and then slowly disappeared from sight.

Further on, they had to slow down, and the ground began to pour down—they looked to be on a downhill slope, full of thick stumps and roots, and unnamed thorn vines and thorns growing in large patches, completely blocking the path ahead.

"What now?" Brandi stared at Padma. "We're probably going to have to break down this barrier if we want to move forward...... The bright light and sound produced by the spell might draw some bad stuff to you - do you really insist on continuing with me? ”

"I can't go back alone now." Padma said she looked up and tried to find the moon through the gaps in the leaves, but she found nothing. "I couldn't see the sky, but we had been walking for at least half an hour. It is too risky for one person to return. ”

"Okay...... Since you say so. Brandi sighed, and he raised his wand and pointed at the thorn bush in front of him.

"Super Devil - the house collapsed!"

With a low thud, the thorn-strewn ground suddenly began to shake violently, as if a piece had been dug from a large cake, and the whole earthwork jumped up, revealing a hole nearly three feet deep below. The dirt, the roots, or the thorns of the main plant, fell like a bowl tumbling in the air, and they snapped upside down on the original hollow—with a loud bang, and the things that were holding them back were buried in the dirt, only the occasional peeking rhizome reminded them that there was a bush here.

"That's it, we can move on." Brandi looked at his results with satisfaction and greeted Padma. "The spider we just tracked was probably crushed to death, but that's okay, spiders aren't a rare thing in this place, and we'll find them again soon."

He took two steps forward, only to find no movement behind him. So he turned back in confusion.

"Padma?"

Behind her, Padma didn't speak, she didn't move, her wand held high in the direction of Brandy, her eyes full of solemnity.

"Hey, you're not going to chant a spell on me, are you...... It's not funny at all. Brandi waved his hand in a panic.

"You're right, Brandy." Padma said coldly, "Spiders aren't a rare thing in this place......

Brandi was stunned for a moment, and he subconsciously tilted his head - there was a loud click, and something the size of a washbasin was rapidly filling his vision. With a huge impact, he was pounced on by the thing, and he was crushed to the ground. The monster seemed to have many legs, and they trampled on Brandy's chest or the ground. The eight eyes were so close that they all turned to him, and Brandy could almost smell the stench coming from the thing's mouthparts.

"Padma!" He cried out in horror.

The silver-white spell shot out with his scream, and the monster on his body shuddered violently, then stiffened and froze.

Brandy, who had survived, almost didn't pee out in fright, he quickly shook the thing off himself, rolled over and climbed up, his eyes were red with fright...... It wasn't like a serious fight, he wasn't so panicked even in the face of Voldemort - it wasn't the same thing at all, and suddenly being caught in the face by a monster with hairy legs and eight compound eyes was defenseless, and Brandi couldn't think calmly, let alone organize an effective resistance.

"W-What the hell is this!"

He stammered with a sharp voice.

"No doubt it's what you're looking for......" Padma was expressionless, her wand still held steadily, vigilantly watching the movements. It seems, there are quite a few of these guys, and there are a lot of variety. ”

Brandi's heart tightened, he subconsciously raised his wand and looked around—at some point, there were suddenly a lot of shadowy things around, all of them the size of horses, eight eyes, eight legs, black and hairy, and in his pale green vision, he panicked to realize that there were at least hundreds of eyes staring at them - not counting the basin-sized face-hugging spiders hanging upside down along the spider silk on the branches above his head!

Oh my God, where are we here?