Chapter 36: The Grey Serpent

Time flies by for gossip, and when dinner is about to end, Helena still does not forget to emphasize that she should not leak what she said, otherwise she will inflict a cruel and extreme punishment on the person who leaked the secret, and this terrible threat combined with her knife-like eyebrows is extraordinarily convincing.

At night, Hugo and Will nestled in the corner of the common room, Will was leveling up and disarming the spell, and was working a dry pot, while Hugo was looking at the blackface book carefully, and remembered all the common simple spell casting postures.

By the next day, Helena's private leak had not been leaked, but the fact that Hugo had a 'cheating artifact' in his hand spread widely, as if overnight the entire first-year group knew that he had a magical manual that could quickly master how to cast magic, and the first-year wizard who asked him for the news would not have enough hands for both hands!

But fortunately, the book is full of basic gestures, not many in total, and Hugo has memorized them almost, so whenever anyone wants to borrow them, he doesn't refuse, but emphasizes that he should return the book to Mr. Bagman before the basic charms class next Monday.

In the class of herb cultivation, Mrs. Payne introduced to the little wizards a plant called two-eared grass, which is very widely distributed and can be found all over the world, because the shape of the leaves looks like willow leaves, and it can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine after the stems and leaves are dried, and the decoction can also be used as an anthelmintic medicine for jaundice and roundworms, or it can also be used as a diuretic, which is a useful plant with a wide range of applications and simple sources.

Of course, the biggest role of this plant is as one of the ingredients of the compound decoction, although it does not play a decisive and irreplaceable role in it, but due to the extensive quantitative base and cost considerations, it must be used in every compound decoction.

To be honest, this plant looks very ordinary, there are no highlights at all, what really makes Hugo more concerned is that it is one of the ingredients of the compound decoction, if it were not for this reason, I am afraid that Mrs. Pell would not have introduced this plant at all.

In contrast, the afternoon class is much more expected, because the afternoon is a magical creature identification class, and the good impression left by the first class is still lingering in the hearts of the young wizards, who are actually very much looking forward to whether the second class will bring them a surprise.

The identification of magical creatures was still carried out outside of class, and it was still Mr. Green, who was tall and thin, and this time he had built a bonfire surrounded by stones in the shadow of the small two-story building at the edge of the playground, and he lit the bonfire first, then gathered everyone around the flames, and then took out a small bag from his robe, which contained some powdery things that had no apparent purpose.

"The magical creature I'm going to introduce to you today is called the fire ash snake, one day in the future, if you go out to spend the night in the wild, there will be a chance to encounter this creature, as long as you are careful not to let it go, these cute little guys are actually not dangerous, but their way of existence is more peculiar, if you don't have a correct understanding of them, it is easy to cause fires and other accidents"

Mr. Green sprinkled the powder in his hand into the burning fire, and the flame immediately changed ferociously, from the original red to blue at once, burning faintly in the shadows of the house, looking like a ghost fire.

"These powders are magical substances, after adding them to the burning flame, it will make the original flame transform into a magic fire, and if this magic fire burns uncontrollably for a long time, the fire ash snake will be created in this flame, now all we have to do is wait, wait for the magic fire to fully burn and produce changes." Teacher Green stood leisurely next to the magic fire, holding the wand in his hand at will, looking very calm, this feeling of relaxation, let the surrounding little wizards see the tension caused by the blue flame slowly disappeared, and the rest is more and more curiosity!

As the bonfire continued to burn, the magical aura transmitted in this pale blue flame became more and more obvious, and slowly Hugo seemed to be able to see a little strange figure in the twisted flames, and soon the other little wizards also noticed this change, and began to talk to each other, the atmosphere slowly became warm, and all kinds of speculations were put forward in a big brain hole.

"Did you see it, Hugo!, something seems to be moving in the fire!" Will glared at a pair of big eyes, propped up his ears, and grabbed Hugo's wizarding robe with excitement and shook it violently.

Something really seemed to be slowly condensing into a solid body in the flames, and it slowly showed a thin gray-white inconspicuous line in the pale blue flames, like an earthworm that had been put on a frying pan to dry, writhing back and forth, like a child with ADHD.

Soon the 'earthworm' began to grow, absorbing the power of magic in the flames, slowly growing, and began to hover in the center of the flames, turning into a snake with a gray-white body and a red glow in its eyes!

This is the culprit who often causes fires, the elf born in the demonic fire, the fire gray snake!

It formed a small snake formation in the pale blue flames, raised its head high, swept the surroundings, and then, with the exclamation of the little wizard, turned and crawled towards the shadow of the two-story building, leaving a long gray-white trail on the grass behind it, like the ashes left behind by the hay.

After the fire ash snake crawled to the shadows, like a little dog sniffing around, it was coiled there in a place that it thought was most suitable, Hugo stared at it tightly, and was surprised to find that the fire ash snake laid an egg in the original, this egg was very dazzling, like a small piece of red-burned iron ball, emitting a blazing light, this egg was close to the corner of the two-story building, as it continued to release amazing heat, the corner of the small building seemed to be roasted!

At this time, I saw that Mr. Green, who was originally very leisurely, took out a magic wand like lightning, and released a magic similar to a large piece of frost at the egg of the fire gray snake, and immediately froze the egg on one side, but you can still see the gray-black traces left on the corner of the room that have been roasted.

The fiery snake had already died when it laid its eggs, its body had become dry and hard, shattered by the touch of frost and mist, and finally turned into dust on the ground, spread on the verdant grass, and only survived for a short time.